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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I grew up in the Northeast and have ridden all their train-based public transportations. In 2014 I went to Toronto for the first time in my life and decided to ride their subway to a bar. I was standing on the platform and I noticed something... a little off. What was it?? There was no smell of piss! None whatsoever!! It was freaking me out I was like hyperventilating through my nostrils. The poor gentle Torontonians around me must have thought I was having an infarction. Long story short I had a lot of overpriced whiskey and beer that night and I never saw a rat. What the gently caress, Toronto?? On the flip side as a Torontonian the first time I visited NYC and rode the MTA I was horrified by all the piss. My prior subway experiences were confined to Toronto, Montreal, and Stockholm so yeah, hell of a shock. For real though after that experience it's become hilarious hearing people complain about the TTC being "dirty".
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Zetsubou-san posted:
I'm pretty sure that if you win, you get to leave Bendigo forever and go to Ballarat.
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:On the flip side as a Torontonian the first time I visited NYC and rode the MTA I was horrified by all the piss. My prior subway experiences were confined to Toronto, Montreal, and Stockholm so yeah, hell of a shock. I never understood this. Toronto is one of the cleanest cities imaginable, and the TTC is miles ahead of their closest neighbors like Montreal and especially NYC. I remember when they rolled out the new subway cars for their lines back in 2012(?) and practically blew me away at how spacious everything was. When I left in late '14 of those cars were still running that new-car glean, you could practically eat off some of those floors if you're ballsy enough. Canadians love to bitch about Toronto in general even though their entire country's infrastructure runs through there, it's absurd.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:and I never saw a rat. What the gently caress, Toronto?? you think ontario is impressive? Alberta is 100% rat free. They decided they didn't want rats, and got rid of them all.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I'm pretty sure that if you win, you get to leave Bendigo forever and go to Ballarat. out of the heroin pan and into the meth fire
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Jul 20, 2020 08:58
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Rozzbot posted:Trying to catch the red line in Philadelphia was like walking into a piss sauna Same in Chicago
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Zetsubou-san posted:edit: I spent a lot of my childhood in Bendigo and would prefer not to be reminded of it so I would have appreciated a trigger warning on this post 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I spent a lot of my childhood in Bendigo and would prefer not to be reminded of it so I would have appreciated a trigger warning on this post Golden Square or Flora Hill?
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Memento posted:Golden Square or Flora Hill? Eaglehawk, right across from the blue-green algae infested lake
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Eaglehawk, right across from the blue-green algae infested lake Didn't realise we had royalty in this thread.
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Lobok posted:They must be part of the sole group. I own this comic book! It's ok. That's my story.
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Ah poo poo, if either of you guys grew up in Bendigo there's a chance that we might be cousins, I had quite a bit of family up there
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Manhattan is hot garbage with occasional piss, as it’s always been. It’s a distinct odor. Providence is piss, weird booze stank and occasionally “this came out of a once living creature”. I’ve seen more than three people take public dumps like it was NBD. Boston - piss Sydney was more just a summer stank with occasional fruity alkie breath Stockholm is moist grandparents basement in subways and overall piss wafts depending on where you are. Nothing beats going to work and walking by a passing train and getting a nice blast of piss scented steamy air. The trains themselves aren’t too pissy but they have a stank. London is a urinal San Francisco was a seaside piss blend, salty? Anyway for content 
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Pick posted:"fish" is simply not a cladistic category, it's a functional one. that's fine. sharks are fish. You're a fish 
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Beachcomber posted:This is the least surprising board game tie in. I had the European version of this (Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Power Game), which appears to be slightly different with way better art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxKflgHrPgc  I was massively into TMNT as a kid and loved it Veib has a new favorite as of 11:29 on Jul 20, 2020 |
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  I have these two games. For some reason, I can't convince people to play them with me (pre-pandemic).
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Veib posted:I had the European version of this (Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Power Game), which appears to be slightly different with way better art: Going to have to disagree on which art is better.
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Zetsubou-san posted:featuring the cartoon art of Andrew Fyfe   "I'm sorry, but dogs are not allowed in the cabin." "It's not a dog, it's the Phantom."  "An evil-doer's worst horror is seeing the Phantom in the night!" "That's right!" "Nooo..."  "Saddle Hero, it's time to go to work." "Finger-Chem" "Poison / Poison"  "He who sees the Phantom's face without a mask, will die a horrible death!" [Old-timey currently illegal instrument of lighting, representing the idea of an idea] "So that's what the guy looks like!"  "Here's the Phantom, a man who needs no introduction!" "Allow me to show you around our research facility a bit." 
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Magical Ponies posted:
K2 isn't a terrible game. I feel there's a flip side to these terrible TV show tie in game and it's the super dry euro-style boardgames. Ever thought about running a postal system in 18C Bavaria? You're in luck!  How about a subsistence farmer?  I've picked out Agricola here but there are literally dozens of boardgame about being a peasant farmer. And then there's a whole subgenre of games dedicated to buying stocks and shares in Train Companies (1830 pictured here) 
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Rozzbot posted:Trying to catch the red line in Philadelphia was like walking into a piss sauna That's because the red line is a Patco line, it funnels directly into Jersey. (the rest of them smell like piss too)
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Beachcomber posted:This is the least surprising board game tie in. It was actually pretty fun, believe it or not. The die-roller gimmick was clunky (you had to put the die on one end of a see-saw and hit the other end hard enough to get it into another slot on the see-saw, but not so hard you catapulted it across the room) but it was only for combat. The goal, if I remember correctly, was to win fights against three random villains from the cartoon.
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The spirit is willing, but the body is spongy and bruised!
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I thought Paris's metro smelled like poo. On that trip I read Dune for the first time, and started of thinking of metro stations as sietches - warm communal subterranean lairs that reek of poo poo. (Yes, that's in the book).
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Ah poo poo, if either of you guys grew up in Bendigo there's a chance that we might be cousins, I had quite a bit of family up there I started seeing a girl from Bendigo before current stage 3 restrictions... I hope it's not your mums.
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dialhforhero posted:The spirit is willing, but the body is spongy and bruised! Too much rye whiskey.
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https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/EdTyQikWAAUiSXZ.mp4
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 When I was a kid we had the Mr. T boardgame at our cottage. Gameplay consisted of exciting tasks like returning books to the library or picking up your friend at the airport. It was so powerfully lame.
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Thermos posted:
So lame that it's... cool?
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Not even a little. You could even say I feel remorse for the imbecile that bought this game.
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Thermos posted:Not even a little. You could even say I feel remorse for the imbecile that bought this game. Would you say he was a fool worthy of our pity?
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Beachcomber posted:Going to have to disagree on which art is better. They both suck rear end hth
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 i got this game at a yard sale for like 2 dollars in the late 80s. I don't remember anything about it, other than we liked it that's my story, thanks for reading
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I had BAS-KET. Springs under the board that you flicked with a lever on each side.
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Randaconda posted:
I have this game It is very good
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Randaconda posted:
i sort of remember it. i think the object of the game was to lose. you win the game by losing.
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:I had BAS-KET. I always hated "games" like that as a kid. I put the scare quotes around them because they were basically just gimmicky toys that were fun for like ten minutes then you got bored. Hungry hungry hippoes type crap. Zero strategy, just slap crappy mechanical thing and try to get bigger number. Like, you can sit down and play a few games in a row of even something as basic as connect four. You can kill an hour or two with a sibling and that glorified tic tac toe. There was nothing worse than being at some relative's house and being told to go keep yourself busy with the game closet only to find crap like hungry hungry hippoes.
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dee eight posted:i sort of remember it. i think the object of the game was to lose. you win the game by losing. More specifically you win the game by losing all your money Gaining money is bad Lord help you if your name was actually Alfred E Neuman There was a lot of great art and good jokes all over the board and silly behavior like a card making you "act like a rock" or walk around the table backwards without the card falling off your head
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