For Fuck's Sake - WHY!?!?!? (annoyed)

[FreddyKnuckles]

apparently all the gaywads round here are freaking their shit about snowpocalypse pt 2. I forgot and just tried to go to the grocery store.  Good lord.  I have never seen such a thing in my life.

[slow west vultures]

the nephew noise level reaches damn near intolerable at times, although i'm in a lot of pain to begin with.  not trying to be the grouchy uncle, but damn kids enough with the screaming already

[clare]

FUCK LARRIKIN RECORDS. Fuck them. They bought the rights to the song with the express pupose of pursuing this court case.

[DCDave]

I left my cellphone charger in LGA.

[C of heartbreak]

apparently all the gaywads round here are freaking their shit about snowpocalypse pt 2. I forgot and just tried to go to the grocery store.  Good lord.  I have never seen such a thing in my life.

I went to Giant around 6 this morning, not because of snowpocalypse but because I usually pick up some OJ on the way home from work. There were lines stretching about halfway across the store, it was nuts.

[FreddyKnuckles]

I'm going to magruders to buy a bunch of beer soon.  hope its not crazy town. 

[elpollodiablo]

Man I wish we'd get like two feet of snow this weekend. That would be kind of awesome.

[jm]

Me too.  The winter over the last five or so years has been extremely fucking disappointing.  FUCKING SAC UP AND DROP SOME FAT FLAKEZ.

[diesel_powered]

Yeah, I'm hoping for some epic fucking snow.

[Good Intentions]

So, I got strip-searched by Norwegian customs in Oslo.

[Good Intentions]

Oh yeah, I don't know where I'm sleeping tonight, either. But they didn't deport me! That's a start.

[coldforge]

I bet Heathcote could hook you up, bro. He loves Scandinavia.

[Good Intentions]

Well, I'm at Trondheim airport, and I'm going to show up on the doorstep of a backpackers and try my luck. I tried to make a booking, but it's all very short notice and nobody's replied to me.

The kicker is that there's a furnished room waiting for me at the student village, but there's nobody there to give me the key. So it's dorm rooms for me till Monday.

[morgan]

Maybe someone on couchsurfing.com would put you up?

[andronicus]

Isn't couchsurfing.com pretty much 90% creepy middle aged dudes trying to get 20 something waifs to sleep in their apartments.

[Greg Nog]

are you saying GI isn't waifish enough?

[andronicus]

I'm just making sure we tease out all the threads here.  Perhaps we ought to set GI up a profile with that picture of him in the tights that I liked.

[Good Intentions]

Hey, landing in a strange city in a foreign country is a thing for me, and I'm set up in a nice, clean hostel/YMCA type place. Considering the long, shitty day I've had (I think I left my phone at the train station), I shelled out for a room of my own.

[cold before sunrise]

Isn't couchsurfing.com pretty much 90% creepy middle aged dudes trying to get 20 something waifs to sleep in their apartments.

This was the first thought that came to mind when my own Mother suggested it for my trip to NYC and I was like, "Is that safe?" because I firstly imagined the worst: predatory aging creepers and fleabag French freeloaders but have found that to be almost entirely not the case. The site, couchsurfing.org, has namely put me in touch with young budget-conscious jetsetters - it does help that you can see photos, interests and references on most profiles. My folks offered up their guest room in Hawaii and got responses from interesting visitors from around the globe, you can pick and choose who to selectively host or meet for drinks. I got invited to a killer surf party with live bands while visiting, to play beer pong, where an offer of free surf lessons from a friendly local gal was hard to refuse - all of the people I met can expect to appreciate similar courtesy when roaming my neck of woods. The member list is well over a million and makes the world a better place, brave people helping each other live the dream. It's a better way to travel and get familiar with the local spirit of anywhere you go, if only to have drink dates lined up pre-arrival! Trust and develop your intuition but I wouldn't rule this out as an option without seeing who has a couch free where ever you end up next.

[morgan]

I've definitely used the site before, and we've had probably three or four different sets of people stay here with us, all of them lovely. Only good experiences thus far.

[Thermofusion]

young budget-conscious jetsetters

I don't know why this phrase made me laugh uncontrollably, but it did

[Good Intentions]

Seriously, guys, the largest problem I faced yesterday wasn't the possible abuse by a hypothetical host, but the very real fact that I spent a part of my day in a bare concrete room with a Norwegian customs official who ordered me, garmet by garment, to strip naked and take a variety of poses so he can better inspect me.

[Thermofusion]

Nothing says "Welcome to My Country" quite like a strip search

[Good Intentions]

The joke is that Norway is one of the nice countries. I very much don't want to have the counterpart of that experience somewhere where the police are not nice.

Of course I had no drugs, no whiff of drugs, no drugs-related paraphernalia, nothing of the sort. Except if you count long hair and bloodshot eyes as sure signs of marijuana use. I did appear nervous to the customs official. Of course I'm nervous. I've suffered a lot of fits of blue flu in my time, and distinctly dislike the attention of the authorities. This experience isn't going to make it any better!

[cold before sunrise]

Haha... 'blue flu,' that's great. Our little mountain village is in basically a military state stationed with 3 large barracks complete with all the green war vehicles and fields of trailers, plus police from as far away as NYC behind you everywhere you go, congesting the roads with 'disco taxis.' Rumour is there's a yacht off the coast staffed with 1200 additional officers waiting to flood in during games time. An annoyed columnist for the local rag put an ad in the classifieds as a joke, listing a guide fluent in Arabic and Islamic offering back country ski-ins.