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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Yeah, I spoke with one of the mail delivery people in my area, they said the old trucks were more convenient in some ways, but holy poo poo the new ones have air conditioning, that is 100% worth it. Regular Car Reviews got to take one of those old LLV mail trucks for a spin a while back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3g2p4KKS74
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"What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" is from freakin' 2003. It's another one of those phrases that's so ingrained, I would've sworn it had been around my entire life.
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Captain Hygiene posted:"What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" is from freakin' 2003. It's another one of those phrases that's so ingrained, I would've sworn it had been around my entire life. What's interesting to me is that slogan wasn't really around before then? I always assumed they just adopted it since everyone was saying it anyway, but it doesn't seem to be the case.
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Before that it was just Known
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Yeah I’m pretty sure I’ve heard people use that line on TV when I was a kid in the 90s. It’s probably older than that, too e: on the other hand, looking into it online pretty much everything seems to point to 2003 being the origin of the slogan so I guess my memory ain’t all that reliable Kit Walker has a new favorite as of 17:41 on Feb 8, 2024 |
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2003 is the origin of the slogan, and it's considered one of the most successful marketing efforts of all time, basically because of what's already been mentioned, that it feels like it's been around forever. That phrase is credited with more or less saving most of the Strip from being torn down for timeshares. Now the timeshares are two blocks off the strip, on land they were able to get cheap after the 2008 collapse. Capitalism finds a way, baby.
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credburn posted:What's interesting to me is that slogan wasn't really around before then? I always assumed they just adopted it since everyone was saying it anyway, but it doesn't seem to be the case. Ehh, early ‘00s sounds pretty right to me, I don’t remember hearing it before then, and when it was introduced I heard it all the goddamn time like everyone was going to Vegas on the regular to do some serious dirt. Like gently caress off guys, it’s not that salacious, Vegas is more lame and tacky (well, it’s always been tacky as poo poo) than anything else nowadays
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Feb 8, 2024 18:49
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How do anyone who would say that figure it'll stay in vegas. Like dude, I know exactly what kind of poo poo you enjoy, I have eyes and you don't have a sense of fashion
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poo poo Fuckasaurus posted:That phrase is credited with more or less saving most of the Strip from being torn down for timeshares. Jesus, we were actually saved from a slightly shittier vegas. Hard to believe
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One of the most famous cities in the US being a testament to mankind's hubris in the middle of a desert that was largely built as a tax scam by organized crime is pure distilled America. Of course now the Cosa Nostra has been replaced by large multinational corporations, who are slightly less murderous, as the owner of most of the casinos but also now there's a gargantuan spherical advertisement billboard tower over everything. Primo stuff and I really want to go there before the desert swallows it because it sounds like a really weird place to be.
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FreudianSlippers posted:...but also now there's a gargantuan spherical advertisement billboard tower over everything.
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FreudianSlippers posted:One of the most famous cities in the US being a testament to mankind's hubris in the middle of a desert that was largely built as a tax scam by organized crime is pure distilled America. It’s trash no matter who runs it. I’d rather wait until it’s nearly finished being reclaimed by the desert before I go, it might be interesting to explore the ruins.
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Feb 8, 2024 22:05
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LA is much worse in its perverse construction and existence.
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It kind of felt noteworthy at the time because Las Vegas had spent the 90s Disneyfying itself. So the slogan really seemed like a change in direction.
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Gaius Marius posted:LA is much worse in its perverse construction and existence. Socal is a lot prettier than that part of nevada and there's at least a handful of beautiful buildings and neighborhoods. I don't even like LA but man this is an unfair take
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At least LA has a river, even if it is a concrete ditch.
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1940s noir films keep LA from ever becoming too uncool
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_water_wars
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All the california cities seemed pretty hellish when I was there SF would be cool if I made 200k At least Vegas doesn’t pretend to be better than it is
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SF won't be cool until all the people making 200k are dumped in the bay
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Ommin posted:I am going to Vegas for the first time in a couple of weeks just to see this billboard because I do think it is an amazing technological achievement. The wife and I are going to grab a couple of other shows on a long weekend, but neither of us drink heavily or gamble nor are easily persuaded to do so. Weird Vegas seems way more fun than Seedy Vegas. Eddy Burback did a pilgrimage out to Vegas specifically to experience The Sphere about two months ago. I guess if you're going there in a few weeks then you should probably avoid videos like this so you can go in blind but for everyone else, here's a big ol' video about what it's like to visit the Las Vegas Sphere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN63DDD9Y04
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I left Vegas just before the sphere lit up All I got to see was a big black orb doing nothing,
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credburn posted:I left Vegas just before the sphere lit up Should've pondered it.
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It's not as big as the globe in Stockholm. Oooh it's got lights on it, yawn.
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Philippe posted:It's not as big as the globe in Stockholm. Oooh it's got lights on it, yawn. The Stockholm globe is satanic and anyone who prefers it over the obviously superior Vegas Sphere is clearly suffering from stockholm sin dome
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Don't get it, ayhe? Bulb isn't lit, eh? Got a dim dark duncle dome got ya, ah?
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The lyrics of that old electro song wasn't ever "push me and then just hurt me till I can get my satisfaction". It was "and then just touch me". I always thought it was this weird BDSM anthem. This one, clip fairly NWS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0fkNdPiIL4
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credburn posted:All I got to see was a big black orb doing nothing, Turn on your monitor
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PYFTYJR: the giant skull on the front of Castle Grayskull is wearing a hat I have no idea how I never noticed that before now
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:PYFTYJR: the giant skull on the front of Castle Grayskull is wearing a hat linda perry also wore a giant hat coincidence? 
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Carthag Tuek posted:linda perry also wore a giant hat What's up with that?
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Carthag Tuek posted:wait people go there specifically to look at it??
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Ommin posted:I said we were going just to see it, but that's mainly me. My wife just likes any excuse to travel someplace she's never been. I want to see the inside, which is essentially a Super-Mega IMAX. We had tickets but then loving U2 decided they wanted to do an extra show and they cancelled ours. Hopefully when can get in another time. traveling is fun but going to see a thing isnt my jam. i just wanna go a place and be there for a while
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Carthag Tuek posted:traveling is fun but going to see a thing isnt my jam. i just wanna go a place and be there for a while
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Ommin posted:I have a weird love/hate relationship with travel, so having something to focus on helps my anxiety. Then once I'm at the destination I can settle in and relax. whatever works also to be clear i do hate traveling, its the being in a new place i like. the whole transport time is rear end. but i just take a nap and wake up 10 mins later fully relaxed so i can be awake for the entire trip, it owns.
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When I travel I like to be constantly on the move. Only staying in one place for at most three or so days then moving on. Otherwise I get bored. Moving is the closest thing to being free. Also I'm a weirdo.
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