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  Posted 18 June 2009 - 09:15 PM

Las Vegas calls

I'll be out there for a while working the BCA trade show and doing other gigs in the area. I won't be back in the office until after the 4th of July.

I check in daily, but I won't be very active on the site while I am out on the road. You all keep it going for me while I am in sin city, trying to see how much sin I can run up in my book of life or notches on my gun. God I love that place. All the bad she-yit I do, is legal there. If hell is like that, book me into it first class.

Any one who might be in the area during that time, send me an email and we can match up.

fastlarrypool@bellsouth.net

Or you can catch me at the pool at the Bellagio or at their fontana bar, Binion's at the crap table at night, either one works for me.

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Warning, any one new who registers, wont be reviewed and approved until I return, so go ahead and register, but realize it will be a while until I can check you out.

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  Posted 19 June 2009 - 10:46 PM

I've got a mustang convertible rented, top down going down Las Vegas Blvd with my shades on, hello sweet thing, Yo, hop in my love mobile, in my best low voice....
Don't go changin, you stay in those short shorts. I'll take you, just the way you are.

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I have been all banged up and damn near crippled for weeks. I got in a new tour burner with a x shaft and in the first 10 balls, I smoked my right arm. I dunno what the hell happened, I pulled a muscle I never did before. I can put my right hand on my right tit and try and raise my elbow up, chicken wing, and it hurts like hell. A curl does not. I was trying hard to cross over real fast and something tore. I gave it the 6 weeks to heal and its almost home. Thank God I am taking off for Vegas, I have a copy of the driver that won the world long distance championship coming in, 47" long, 9 degree deep face, strong shaft, I am sure I would run right out and put my ass in the intensive care ward with it. This is one of those big gorilla clubs a long drive champion is making for me.

By the time I get my hands on it and get home after the 4th, my arm should be totally healed.
I had all kinds of small stuff go bad at once, tooth got infected, root canal, which went bad, been in 3 times on it. My left thumb caught several cactus splinters, that got down in beside the nail and put my left hand out of action, and I carved and carved and the more I carved, the worse it got. I will get out an exact o knife and go to work on my self. It took 2 weeks for it to clear up. I tripped on a vine working in the yard, took a real bad forward fall and landed on my right hand and had several fingers strained where I could not move them. I got out the chain saw and went berserk on all that GD Wisteria that has got out of hand. That took weeks to heal. I had trouble even typing. All Golf and pool has ended for some time. Hell I could not even blop me Willie.

Ah, but that's now all behind me, I am now healthy as a buck sewer rat and headed to sin city.
It's good to have all that little she-yit finally heal up.

click the pic that's black to see the pic of the guy who made me the gorilla driver.

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  Posted 19 June 2009 - 10:52 PM

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Posted 20 June 2009 - 07:52 AM

Have fun in Sin City.
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  Posted 20 June 2009 - 09:23 AM

View PostCocoboloCowboy, on Jun 20 2009, 08:52 AM, said:

Have fun in Sin City.



Finding sin, is something I do well. They don't call it the entertainment capital of the world, for nuttin?

Oh how its changed, I miss the 99cent shrimp cocktails, the cheap beers, the 1.99 breakfast, the 25.00 rooms, drive up to your room in your down and out in the small motel, when it was a more simple place. You could go out there, on the cheap.

Then they turned the joint into this fookin adult Disney fantasy land with $250 rooms and $35 buffets and $100 shows. They kept building the billion dollar joints and I kept saying, this can't go on, this can't keep expanding, it's all gonna go bust and blow bigger than krac ka tow A.

They said, look, the streets are full, you can't even find a place to walk, and the hotels are full, the suckers and marks keep coming and the more we charge, the better they like it. They said I was wrong. I said, that's the same fools talk they were doing in 1929 when they all went off the cliff together.

Having been in business for a very long time, the one thing I have learned, is any thing that goes up, eventually will come down, and every boon, has its bust. The trick is knowing how to get out before the bust. I view everything, including what I sell, in 3 parts, like a box, the A up side, where you make the money fast, B, the top, where everyone jumps in, your profit sucks up and sales back up, C, the down slope, where everything goes to she-yit, the chinks jump in and trash it all.
The Venetian is giving away free rooms to high income people and they are sending out offers to doctors and lawyers, professional people. The tip jar on the counter of the burger king is empty. The streets are no longer packed and Osama bama said, you all don't go to Vegas and gamble away your money, you stay home and save it. That made him a lot of new friends out there when he said that. Any time that jerk gets off his teleprompter and prepared speeches, you see the real jerk and dumb she-yit in action.
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Posted 23 June 2009 - 10:01 PM

What is you favorite thing to do in Vegas.
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Posted 24 June 2009 - 06:46 PM

Last time I was there it was 1974.

I loved playing keno. Twenty five cent bet every six minutes and they bring you booze all day long.

They tell me it has changed, a bit, since I was there last. . .

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Posted 25 June 2009 - 06:43 AM

View PostFASTLARRY, on Jun 24 2009, 03:01 AM, said:

What is you favorite thing to do in Vegas.


People watch.
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Posted 27 June 2009 - 09:28 PM

Been several times. Like to gamble - why else go to Vegas. Did enjoy the helicopter tour of the Grand Canyon and seeing Blue Man Group.

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Posted 01 July 2009 - 07:25 AM

View PostPelican, on Jun 27 2009, 10:28 PM, said:

Been several times. Like to gamble - why else go to Vegas. Did enjoy the helicopter tour of the Grand Canyon and seeing Blue Man Group.

Pel



That was the way we used to think, but that's changed. If you want to gamble, you can drive over to Mississippi, what, it's an hour away or less. In fact, 90% of our population now lives within 1 to 2 hours of a casino. Every injun reservation has one, the rivers are full of them. When times get though, people drive to their local one to gamble rather than spend money flying to Vegas.
With this competition now, Vegas realized people would no longer come out there just to gamble if they could do it at home. So they built this new Disneyland fantasy land of billion dollar hotels. Now they have something your riverboat does not have. The big shows, and a lot more. To go out there and not see a big show is a waste. You must at least do one. And to miss the Grand Canyon is a sin. Its one of the top 10 things to see in this country. I never miss it and I've seen it a zillion times for 50 years. This time, like Pel, I flew over it. Driving down there from Vegas is a long 5 hr trip and back and if you do it in a day, it wears you out. It's best to hang out there for a couple days, and take the mule trip down in, or raft the river on the bottom. That is a once in a life time thing to do. Do it while your young, that is not one for old people. You hit hoover dam on the way down there. What a view that one is.

I prefer the North rim my self, but most do the south.

There are others like it to see, cooper canyon in Mexico, and the one in Kauai are also very impressive.

I saw this trip: http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/
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Posted 02 July 2009 - 11:52 AM

The first 3 days were greeeee rate, low 90's and it rained several times each day, which is rare for the desert. If it rains a lot, then it caused flooding and I have seen cars floating down Las Vegas blvd. I have seen some really extreme weather out there in the 50 years I have been hanging out in this place. It can get real cold in the desert in the winter, and most hotels have no heat. I have seen it snow there? Anything goes.

Then it kicked up to 100, that is no biggie, in fact it is rather nice, a dry heat and I would take it over 92 and high humidity in Atlanta. When it kicked up to 108, I got the hell out of there. It then becomes total BS. It's living in a sauna. You cant go outside during the day. Have to be off the golf course by 10am, which causes you to wake up at 5am, and be cutting the grass at 6am or on the tee to play. As I don't do mornings, this I hate. It's a great place to be in the winter, but it's dumb to live there in the summer. It's like Florida, When mid June hits, you head to the mountains and don't come back until September when the temps chill out. Then you have best of both worlds, which is how I play it.

It was so nice driving around in my Mustang convertible with the top down and getting a real amigo tan. The steering was tight, but Yo Sarah's 4 cylinder gook mobile Kia I bet would take it out in a race to 60 mph. The gas mileage sucked, especially running the ac on high with the top down. It also has one hell of a bad blind spot over each shoulder in the back with the top up, easy to change lanes and run into somebody driving in your blind spot. Rent one OK< own one of these ford fix or repair daily pos, no way jose.

The top down is so nice driving down LV blvd, especially at night, where you can now see everything. But you are exposed, out in the open and some body could jump you. I always ship my rod out FedEx and have it by my side just to be sure no body messes with me. The town is filled with homeless, druggies and criminals. You need to be armed and very careful where you go and who is around you. Never let anyone walk behind you, never. They might club and mug you.

I pull into a convience store, the rental car has l/4 tank plus, so I know a 20 wont fill it, and 40 is too much, so I go inside, hand the black lady two 20's, said, please turn on pump 7, here is $40, I'll be back for change. I fill up and it's $21, I go in, ask for a receipt, get it, ask for my change and the bitch say, you gave me a 20 and a 1. I said, no way, how could I know, it would pump 21? She put the 20 in her pocket. Welcome to Vegas, some black crack head ripping customers off trying to make her daily fix. You cant call the cops, they won't respond to these kind of calls. The next day, another black in McDonald's did the same thing to a customer, nailed him for a 10, and he got pissed and called 911, they refused to come out, he called 3 times trying to report the robbery, they then came out and arrested him for harassing them. Welcome to Vegas.

I reported my thief to their HQ, but it took me 3 days and 7 phone calls to get someone to talk to on it. That is how they get by with it, nobody gives a she-yit or will talk to you. They have 150 stores, they fire one crack head, the one they rehire, is just like the one they fired? Nobody but some total loser will work in these places anyway. Your chances of getting plugged are real high.
Never fill up and give a big bill, a 50 or C note, a 100. If you give 40 like I did, ask for a receipt before you go fill up, then come back for change.
The drivers out there are also rude and butt holes, and the cabbies were all kamikaze fliers in a former life, they are the biggest she-yit heads on the planet. Pit bosses come in a close 2nd.
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Posted 02 July 2009 - 11:56 AM

FL heads over to the world series of Poker, at the Rio.

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I gamble off the strip like the locals. You cant find a $5 blackjack table on the strip, they are all 15 and 25. I like a 5 table, so if I get on a bad roll, and can bet 5 and reduce my losses. When I get on a good roll and the deck is flush, I might bet 25, 50, 100, so I go up and down. That is the only way you can win. Make the same minimum bet every time, you lose every time, the house odds takes you out. That is why they won't comp you she-yit until you play 8 hours a day. Few can survive that long. And the comps they give you are she-yit any way. I like the Orleans, good 5 tables, but the $17 buffet sucks, not as good as the golden corral here for $8.

The Rio is always a locals favorite and it always had one of the best buffets featuring seafood. It was low 30's, then the Wynn begins charging $41 and they matched it. So their buffet which is nice, tops, aint worth 41. I can get about the same stuff at planet Hollywood for 10 less.

The Wynn has the best buffet, for $41, that sucker is worth it, clearly the best one on the planet.
The main thing that pisses me off so much, is they fookin make you walk a mile thru these giant casinos to get to anything thinking you will stop and gamble. They all do it. Man, you need to practice walking for several days before you come out and wear good tennis shoes with soft white socks. I still got a blister on my toe.

I could not believe the walk from the self park at the Rio to the convention center where they had the world series of poker. It felt like 2 miles, it went on forever. The old downtown Binion's was so simple and such a short walk up to the 2nd floor. This thing has got so big they had to move to a larger facility. When you arrive you are shocked to find it's all non smoking, so they are running out the doors to puff away. There were thousands of players, hard to believe. 4 huge convention rooms, full, packed with full tables of players. I kinda wanted to get in it later that week when the main event kicked off. I had the 10K cash on me, and that's one hell of a fat carbuncle and another 30K sitting in a checking account as backup. I felt I was well healed and good to go.

For a week, its all non stop cash games. There is this non stop din and noise and hundreds of players rolling chips in their hands. I played, but soon found out I lacked a whole lot of things, patience, endurance, physical and mental, and skills, all these guys had a lot more experience than me.

But there is the luck factor, you can get hot, not know she-yit and walk away with a quarter mil, I've seen that. And, you can do all the right things, not make a mistake and some punk draws inside to you and wipes you clean. I was also surprised to see most of the players were very young, in their early and mid 20's, all wanting to be somebody. There was no spectators there, during the cash games, it was all players. You can see much anyway because you cant see their hole cards, so its a guessing game like the players go through. The main event pulls some outsiders, but its mostly the players watching that have been knocked out and busted.

I got up, then milked that a while, most just toss every hand in until they wire and then they go and pray somebody is not better than them. When I finally broke back to even where I was when I came in, I pulled up and left. Breaking even, felt like a victory there.

I figured I was so outclassed, if I paid the 10K to get in, I would just blow 10K, and I could have a lot of fun on the strip with 10K.

I lost at roulette for the first time ever, still have not figured that one out. I even lost at blackjack, but the last day I began to win and again, finished up the week, dead even. I did not spend a lot of time at the tables, as I knew I was as cold as ice. Oh well, lucky in love, unlucky at cards, what can I tell ya.
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  Posted 02 July 2009 - 05:20 PM

Airlines, every time I fly, I hate them more, when I used to love to fly once before they fooked it all up beyond repair. They took a beautiful thing and ruined it. But to fly from the east coast to Vegas or LA it is cheaper to fly than drive by 50% less at least. Plus, you are out there in 4 hours instead of 4 days of back breaking boring drives. My basic rule now is anything within 500 to 600 miles, I drive. Out of that circle I fly.

If you plan far enough ahead your rates will be lower and you will be able to choose decent arrival and departure times. I like to avoid when the businessmen go and come, Monday and Friday. I like to fly out around 11am to noon and return home around 5 to 6pm, and then I don’t have to bust my butt getting up before the chickens and race to the airport. This is really a problem now with this entire security making you arrive 2 hours early. I used to get there 15 or 20 minutes early and run to the gate and make it, OJ style. That one is long gone. Coast to Coast there is a jet lag you must deal with. I generally just rest out at the pool on that afternoon when I arrive and do nothing. I go on their time immediately.

I wear loose cool clothes to fly and change when I get to my room. Never wear shorts. A silk Hawaiian shirt. I choose long pants with deep pockets so my money won’t fall out. I have on white socks with black moccasins which are soft with rubber soles. When I get to the security line I slip out of them fast and once I clear, I bring out tennis shoes and put them on and lace them up since most of my walking will now be towards the gate. The moccasins go back in the bag and I use them in my room a lot.

When I return, I hang around the house and rest for a day when I return. I never try to do anything stressful like go right into another show or performance.
Choose your aircraft wisely, the newer models are better and safer than some 30 year old 737, plus some of the older aircraft can’t be hooked up to AC on the ground and you die of the heat waiting to take off.

If you board late, or get on the back of the line, you have a problem because all of them in front of you will totally fill up the overheads and by the time you get to your seat, no space. It can get divided which is not good, or they may make you check it which is even worse. They usually board by section, first class, then on back with the rear last. I always jump up and pull some con to get on first, I have a disability, they never question that, or I am sick and have to get on board right now and into the head, they are being pushed by a line behind you and won’t argue. So I go on with first class and the gimps, then I have all the time in the world to pack my overhead and settle into my seat. Don’t give me that aint fair BS, up there, fair, civility is long gone, its dog eat dog. Up there, its life a knife fight, there aint no rules. I only care about taking care of me, fook U.

Having a good book, or some portable music is smart. A sleep mask is a must. On a red eye, which I rarely use, a muscle relaxer, flexeroil and a lunesta knocks me out cold on top of 3 or 4 scotches. I carry on a pillow that curves around my neck and a thin blanket. Sometimes it gets cold and in a crash a fireball will come down the aisle and a blanket can save your face and arms.

You want to be as close to first class as you can get, I go for the bulkhead and usually have to pull some disability BS on them to get it. You get extra room there, and no ass hole can drop his seat back on you. I had a friend get both legs broke with some 350 lb porker flopped his seat back and it broke and crushed his legs. The problems with the bulkheads are they don’t want to give them out. They save them for the employees and give them to mothers with babies at the last minute. If I pull a screaming baby, I’ll move to the back of the bus, or put in my ear plugs. You also carry a face mask you use to cut grass with, and a surgical mask, and if somebody is sick and coughing, I put both on.

It used to be any savvy flyer sat on the aisles and the bozos were in the window seats. Now the airlines are charging you $40 to check two bags, $75 for an over sized one or one over 50 lbs. That has caused everyone to lug all they can on board packing the overheads tight with way too much weight and luggage. In 6-09, a flight made a hard landing in Tampa, blew out some tires, and all the overhead bins came open and all that luggage came flying out. People have died from head impacts from bags. On board, always keep your seat belt on but loose. Many stews that are always on their feet, have been severely injured or killed by hitting air pockets and their heads are slammed into the cabin ceiling.

The same thing will happen in a real crash. If you are now sitting on the aisle, those 40 to 50 lb bags, and my metal luggage carrier is coming down on top of your head, which may injure or kill you. Knowing this, I am on the window seat now where it can’t get to me. If I want out, you have to move and let me out. If the plane crashes, I will crawl over the top of you, or the seat in front of me. I will not wait for you to move.

You can’t bring on water, and that’s the only thing they do give you free. I bring on my own food and booze in the little 1.5 oz bottles. I am so pissed at these ass holes, I won’t spend a dime with them. They are so cheap they now squeak, and I can play that same game. Buy one set of ear phones, keep them, which are legal, and reuse them on future flights when they show movies you plug in for free. I have a zip up small bag, which I take to my seat, which has all my stuff in it.

What they have now is what I call a greyhound bus with wings, and all the people who used to be on the greyhound on the ground, are now up in the air.
They have you packed in like sardines, hell if you drop something on the floor, you can’t bend down and pick it up because the seat in front of you is in your face and almost on your chest. They have figured out how to fill up every flight and you never get a break on am empty seat next to you. No pillow, no blanket, all you get now is a hard time from the old grannies who have bad attitudes and have been up there way to long. The isles are so narrow you can't walk down them with a bag.

Your rights up there are zero. If there are delays, they will hold you on the plane out on the tarmac for 6 to 8 hours, so you can’t get off and use some other way to get there. In short, they no longer care or give a flyin fook about you. Its how many bodies can we pack in this tube and they could care less about your comfort.

They don't give you squat, they now charge you for everything, $7 for a drink of booze, no food, no nuttin unless you fork out moola. Geeze, coast to coast flights used to have a lavish dinner and they went all out. Cloth napkins, metal silver ware, steak dinner, wine, champagne, the works, especially in first class. Singapore airlines had gourmet meals. And the one that pisses me off the most is $40 to check two bags, so its an extra $80 round trip. The stews are ugly grannies pushing 60 with one bald headed fag, what a joke when the stews were young and hot.

Flying sucks royal dick. Excuse my fran say.
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  Posted 02 July 2009 - 07:15 PM

THE BCA TRADE SHOW 2009 AT THE SANDS CONVENTION CENTER.

FL and his good friends, Mike Massey, Stefano Pelinga, Karen Koor, my mustang convertable, a casino, the BCA show room, the stratosphere tower.

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Posted 02 July 2009 - 08:57 PM

The western office of fle has a new address and telephone number.

FLE LV

1101 E Tropicana Ave

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Las Vegas, Nevada 89119

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Posted 02 July 2009 - 09:07 PM

The BCA trade show was another disaster. Every year, it gets worse. Hell next year they could hold it at the holiday inn.

They were 600 booths, then 300, this year, 105, which is hardly even a show. People who had 60 booths, this year had 6, those who had 6, had 1 or 2, so that shrunk it even more. 90% of the Chinese did not show up. Few room owners, half of them are gone, and 40% of the distributors like me, have gone out of business. There was nothing new. The 2nd day, at show opening, there were 15 people waiting to go in. You could shoot off a cannon down the aisles and kill no one. This show is cooked, after this fiasco, nobody will come next year and it will be another 100 booth show of die hards.
They also cut out almost all the pro entertainment, the ladies there were ewa, allison, Koor. I played 2 of them, won one, lost one.
The trick shot people there were me, Massey, Rossman, Stefano. Lillis, Pearson. The other 10 that usually showed were not booked. The 10 male 9 ball pros that usually come, were not booked.
I have been showing at it since 1993, and its decline began 3 years ago, and each year, it falls off double. It's depressing news, but BD mag will tell you how great it was but all they sell you is BS, they would not know the truth if it hit them in the ass. I saw pool die in the late 50's, its doing it again.
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  Posted 02 July 2009 - 09:16 PM

A really nice golf course to play is the TPC at summerlin, just behind the Marriott resort. All the TPC courses are first class. You will spend a C note, more if you tee off early, and you can rent a first class bag of clubs for $55. I liked it a lot. This time of year, you have to be off the course by 10am or you will burn up. Your high temp usually happens around 5pm, so its early or nothing at all.


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  Posted 02 July 2009 - 09:33 PM

A real fun trip to take, only about 30 miles north west of Vegas is red rock canyon. Cool red rocks, mountains, desert, a few wild burros, most go out there to hike or bike. You have a nice 13 miles one way road that goes in and out, rangers, very safe place. Lots of off roads and trails to go deep back in.


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Posted 02 July 2009 - 09:43 PM

View PostFASTLARRY, on Jul 2 2009, 04:20 PM, said:

Airlines, every time I fly, I hate them more, when I used to love to fly once before they fooked it all up beyond repair. They took a beautiful thing and ruined it. But to fly from the east coast to Vegas or LA it is cheaper to fly than drive by 50% less at least. Plus, you are out there in 4 hours instead of 4 days of back breaking boring drives. My basic rule now is anything within 500 to 600 miles, I drive. Out of that circle I fly.

If you plan far enough ahead your rates will be lower and you will be able to choose decent arrival and departure times. I like to avoid when the businessmen go and come, Monday and Friday. I like to fly out around 11am to noon and return home around 5 to 6pm, and then I don’t have to bust my butt getting up before the chickens and race to the airport. This is really a problem now with this entire security making you arrive 2 hours early. I used to get there 15 or 20 minutes early and run to the gate and make it, OJ style. That one is long gone. Coast to Coast there is a jet lag you must deal with. I generally just rest out at the pool on that afternoon when I arrive and do nothing. I go on their time immediately.

I wear loose cool clothes to fly and change when I get to my room. Never wear shorts. A silk Hawaiian shirt. I choose long pants with deep pockets so my money won’t fall out. I have on white socks with black moccasins which are soft with rubber soles. When I get to the security line I slip out of them fast and once I clear, I bring out tennis shoes and put them on and lace them up since most of my walking will now be towards the gate. The moccasins go back in the bag and I use them in my room a lot.

When I return, I hang around the house and rest for a day when I return. I never try to do anything stressful like go right into another show or performance.
Choose your aircraft wisely, the newer models are better and safer than some 30 year old 737, plus some of the older aircraft can’t be hooked up to AC on the ground and you die of the heat waiting to take off.

If you board late, or get on the back of the line, you have a problem because all of them in front of you will totally fill up the overheads and by the time you get to your seat, no space. It can get divided which is not good, or they may make you check it which is even worse. They usually board by section, first class, then on back with the rear last. I always jump up and pull some con to get on first, I have a disability, they never question that, or I am sick and have to get on board right now and into the head, they are being pushed by a line behind you and won’t argue. So I go on with first class and the gimps, then I have all the time in the world to pack my overhead and settle into my seat. Don’t give me that aint fair BS, up there, fair, civility is long gone, its dog eat dog. Up there, its life a knife fight, there aint no rules. I only care about taking care of me, fook U.

Having a good book, or some portable music is smart. A sleep mask is a must. On a red eye, which I rarely use, a muscle relaxer, flexeroil and a lunesta knocks me out cold on top of 3 or 4 scotches. I carry on a pillow that curves around my neck and a thin blanket. Sometimes it gets cold and in a crash a fireball will come down the aisle and a blanket can save your face and arms.

You want to be as close to first class as you can get, I go for the bulkhead and usually have to pull some disability BS on them to get it. You get extra room there, and no ass hole can drop his seat back on you. I had a friend get both legs broke with some 350 lb porker flopped his seat back and it broke and crushed his legs. The problems with the bulkheads are they don’t want to give them out. They save them for the employees and give them to mothers with babies at the last minute. If I pull a screaming baby, I’ll move to the back of the bus, or put in my ear plugs. You also carry a face mask you use to cut grass with, and a surgical mask, and if somebody is sick and coughing, I put both on.

It used to be any savvy flyer sat on the aisles and the bozos were in the window seats. Now the airlines are charging you $40 to check two bags, $75 for an over sized one or one over 50 lbs. That has caused everyone to lug all they can on board packing the overheads tight with way too much weight and luggage. In 6-09, a flight made a hard landing in Tampa, blew out some tires, and all the overhead bins came open and all that luggage came flying out. People have died from head impacts from bags. On board, always keep your seat belt on but loose. Many stews that are always on their feet, have been severely injured or killed by hitting air pockets and their heads are slammed into the cabin ceiling.

The same thing will happen in a real crash. If you are now sitting on the aisle, those 40 to 50 lb bags, and my metal luggage carrier is coming down on top of your head, which may injure or kill you. Knowing this, I am on the window seat now where it can’t get to me. If I want out, you have to move and let me out. If the plane crashes, I will crawl over the top of you, or the seat in front of me. I will not wait for you to move.

You can’t bring on water, and that’s the only thing they do give you free. I bring on my own food and booze in the little 1.5 oz bottles. I am so pissed at these ass holes, I won’t spend a dime with them. They are so cheap they now squeak, and I can play that same game. Buy one set of ear phones, keep them, which are legal, and reuse them on future flights when they show movies you plug in for free. I have a zip up small bag, which I take to my seat, which has all my stuff in it.

What they have now is what I call a greyhound bus with wings, and all the people who used to be on the greyhound on the ground, are now up in the air.
They have you packed in like sardines, hell if you drop something on the floor, you can’t bend down and pick it up because the seat in front of you is in your face and almost on your chest. They have figured out how to fill up every flight and you never get a break on am empty seat next to you. No pillow, no blanket, all you get now is a hard time from the old grannies who have bad attitudes and have been up there way to long. The isles are so narrow you can't walk down them with a bag.

Your rights up there are zero. If there are delays, they will hold you on the plane out on the tarmac for 6 to 8 hours, so you can’t get off and use some other way to get there. In short, they no longer care or give a flyin fook about you. Its how many bodies can we pack in this tube and they could care less about your comfort.

They don't give you squat, they now charge you for everything, $7 for a drink of booze, no food, no nuttin unless you fork out moola. Geeze, coast to coast flights used to have a lavish dinner and they went all out. Cloth napkins, metal silver ware, steak dinner, wine, champagne, the works, especially in first class. Singapore airlines had gourmet meals. And the one that pisses me off the most is $40 to check two bags, so its an extra $80 round trip. The stews are ugly grannies pushing 60 with one bald headed ######, what a joke when the stews were young and hot.

Flying sucks royal dick. Excuse my fran say.

Larry, I hate to say it, but those old grannies are many times the same hotties you used to fly with. They got old like the rest of us! Look at how much attitude you have. Imagine waiting on ass holes at 30,000 feet for the last 30 years. That would give you a real pissy attitude for sure. I think Delta has the worst flight attendants of all. At least they did 12 years ago when I flew Delta a lot.
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Posted 02 July 2009 - 10:05 PM

Down town Vegas, Fremont street put a canopy over the street, and they run a light show on it at night with music that is very cool. It also keeps the heat down during the day. A trip down there is a must. My hangout, Jillian's, where they let me play pool free, closed. So long down town. The streets used to be packed, Vegas is dead, everyone is broke and staying at home. Reminds me of the old days, the way it used to be, before all the butt holes arrived.
click the pics to enlarge them. So it collapses, great, lower prices, cheaper rooms, less bull shit. Fook this Disneyland bs. Bring it back the way it was.

I always like to shoot crap in Binion's, but with Jillian's gone, my days in Downtown are over. There is a pic of me standing in front of the golden nugget. I have been thrown out of there, and carried out the front door feet first, twice. DUDE, IF YOU have never been thrown out of a casino, you need to lighten up, live a little more on the wild side. U R A pussay. You need to be a little more baddddddd to da bone.

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