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I'm with Bryan. You don't really know about something until you try it. Even if you think it's totally messed up afterwards, you could meet some really cool people there, or maybe even get involved. I think we should laud people who, possibly being desk grunts at some messed up corporation, shun their boring working lives and make a new life, if only for a couple hours. That's the draw of video games, isn't it? Except in LARP and SCA, you actually get to learn how to fight with medieval weaponry

yeah, we have 12 packs of bottles here in USA too, no big deal.



shit, we have 36 packs.



but budlight sucks, just saying.

No offense, but in that case I wouldn't want to drink with you guys either then. I wouldn't mind hanging out at a bar and grabbing a drink or two (I don't do that, but can imagine trying it out with some people), but watching other people get that drunk isn't very fun, and getting drunk kind of scares me. Less control, possible loss of memory, sickness - I doubt the fun would be worth it.

Renegade_Turner wrote:This SCA thing looks ridiculous too. That 12-bottle pack doesn't look like an excessive amount of beer for one night, to be quite honest...

I agree.
What's the big deal about big packs anyway? Several smaller ones. Easier to carry when on foot.
26*33 is good enough

Jacktheawesome wrote:Except in LARP and SCA, you actually get to learn how to fight with medieval weaponry .

I actually know a few people who play such things, and at least in France/Belgium Germany, they do not. They do fantasy-stuff things, so they don't really care about how knights fought.
This is for a different kind of people, who work on their costumes and weaponry to look and act as people did in, say, the middle of the XIIIth century; they're very thourough about that. You wanna know who's a larper and who's involving in reconstitution: ask them about a random medieval war.

Jacktheawesome wrote:... I think we should laud people who, possibly being desk grunts at some messed up corporation, shun their boring working lives and make a new life, if only for a couple hours ...

I take offense considering I'm striving to be a desk grunt.

There is no reason why a desk job cant be fun, if its not fun, you're doing the wrong thing. Of course since I'm an engineering student, a lot of the desk job work I do after college will have very real results that I can see in front of me. It's not as if I'm pushing digital money around all the time.

Endoperez wrote:No offense, but in that case I wouldn't want to drink with you guys either then. I wouldn't mind hanging out at a bar and grabbing a drink or two (I don't do that, but can imagine trying it out with some people), but watching other people get that drunk isn't very fun, and getting drunk kind of scares me. Less control, possible loss of memory, sickness - I doubt the fun would be worth it.

Getting drunk doesn't necessarily mean losing control. That's kinda what I thought the first time I tried drinking.

I thought I would turn into some drunken prick who hits on girls excessively and then the next morning I would wake up ashamed of what I had done.

but it turns out I don't turn into a prick at all. Apparently, I just sit or stand smugly talking with my friends, go home, do a bunch of chores and wake up the next morning with my living room cleaned.

Honestly, I had a sense of disappointment once I realized not all my inhibitions were breakable with alcohol.

Oh, I guess I did go to a strip club once ... but that was a bachelor's party and to be honest my lack of arousal was also disappointing. I spent the entire night wondering where the hell the stripper got boots like this:


and how she managed to not twist her ankle
It's not that she wasn't pretty ... It's just that her flirting with us, really wasn't very real to me so it was hard to get into it ... you know ...

Morki wrote:I actually know a few people who play such things, and at least in France/Belgium Germany, they do not. They do fantasy-stuff things, so they don't really care about how knights fought.

All Larps don't even have weapons, and those that do usually emphasize safety above realism. In fact the safety rules often end up making the weapons look totally ridiculous. It's not a bad thing, though, and it can be very fun.

I understand SCA has some really weird rules about combat as well, and while their weapons might not look quite as ridiculous as some larp boffers, official SCA combat shares more with larp combats than with historical swordsmanship.

Of course larpers and SCAdians are more likely to be interested in the real historical swordsmanship (if there's a group near them) than random people on the street, but the ones training seriously with real weapons are the exception, not the rule. It's a pity, though, since those guys have some funny stories to tell. "Mugger enters gas station office with knife out. Sees large man in chain sharpening full-length broadsword. Mugger looks at knife, at sword, at knife, at sword, puts knife away and leaves." and so on.

Assaultman67 wrote: Oh, I guess I did go to a strip club once ... but that was a bachelor's party and to be honest my lack of arousal was also disappointing. I spent the entire night wondering where the hell the stripper got boots like this:

--hoof boots--
and how she managed to not twist her ankle
It's not that she wasn't pretty ... It's just that her flirting with us, really wasn't very real to me so it was hard to get into it ... you know ...

those boots are weird man, and how they manage to not twist their ankle is a SKILL that only skanky ass hoes like them have. i can totally identify with how you couldn't get into it, because it isn't genuine at all. they just say cheezy things and compliment you on everything. they act like their your friend, and then you pay them to rub their snatch in your face. they will probably queef on you for funnies, and once you run out of money they will go onto the next guy.

this is why i usually just go to booby/bikini bars if i'm ever in the mood for that kind of thing. girls don't hassel you too much, mostly they just do their dances. meanwhile you can just kick back drink your beer and enjoy the show. drinking. with friends. with boobs.

underthedeep wrote:... those boots are weird man, and how they manage to not twist their ankle is a SKILL that only skanky ass hoes like them have. i can totally identify with how you couldn't get into it, because it isn't genuine at all. they just say cheezy things and compliment you on everything...

Well, when I went there, my friends didn't get it why i wasn't in it at all ...

They kept paying her to try to arouse me

Renegade_Turner wrote:Not all people who work in strip clubs are skanky ass hoes. I've a friend who does, and actually enjoys it. But she just sees it as a job, like any other one I guess. Paying bills.

thanks for saying that ... I wanted to say something along those lines too, but I wasn't sure if I was the only one who felt that way and I didn't really have any evidence to support that conclusion.

That is, "strippers aren't all skanky ass hoes"

I think the problem is more the kinds of people most inclined to go to strip clubs, as opposed to the strippers themselves. by which I mean that I don't understand the inclination and am therefore judgmental of those who feel it.

Count Roland wrote:I think the problem is more the kinds of people most inclined to go to strip clubs, as opposed to the strippers themselves. by which I mean that I don't understand the inclination and am therefore judgmental of those who feel it.

I completely understand that.

My friend's (the bachelor) father in law tagged along with us to the strip club. (Apparently him and his wife were divorced.) At first it seemed kinda awkward until I realized the bachelor wasn't even phased by it.

Anywho, the dude basically ranted all night about how the military has gotten more strict since the 80's as well as how him and his friends used to snort cocaine all the time when he was our age.

This is the same guy who paid for a lap dance for the bachelor ... yes ... his daughter's fiance.

The guy was apparently a regular because people recognized him in the club

I don't think my parents would ever approve of marrying into a family like that

Ah.
Some of us are late bloomers.
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