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This teddy bear I won smells kind of mildewy, I'll probably just throw it away later. But first, let's go check out the sun-bleached Whacky Shack, hopefully all the mechanical parts are still moving.
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I've never been to a state fair in the US. But, I've been to the mother of all state fairs, Ocktoberfest in Munich. This was many years ago, I can't imagine it's much different now. Oktoberfest isn't just drinking beer in huge tents. No siree! There's rides and food and drama!  Okay, there's a lot of drinking. A lot. With the usual outcomes.  There are lot of guys and gals standing around in lederhosen and dirndls.  A lot of whatever this is.  Rides! Lots of rides!.  And more rides!
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Sweeeet pictures! I just got back from the fair. Mission Accomplished. I ate so much junk and then started going on spinning rides to test the power of my will, and stomach. Interesting note: Rode The Zipper 3 times. The 3rd time was drastically more spinny than the previous two. We hit 6 full rotations in a row at one point, whereas we never even got a double the previous two times. Makes you wonder.
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I haven’t been to the state fair since Big Tex burned because I am convinced it was an inside job and am still mad about it.
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I wonder why they call it oktoberfest
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Each car has different wear and/or (hopefully) lubrication. That's why when you're waiting in line you should look to see which ones are especially spinny and pick which one that you want to end up in. Sometimes I'll offer the person in back of me cuts so I can plan to be in a primo seat.
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Oct 7, 2023 02:19
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I went to the county fair with a close friend and it was easily one of the best days I had this year. I don’t go annually for whatever reason, and my last time I had went was with my boyfriend at the time in 2018. It’s pretty much my Disneyland though. Every single facet of it, the copyright infringing shirts, the overuse of neon lighting and glow sticks, the shoddy spray paint artwork both on the rides and on tshirts, the farm animals, the mariachi bands, the exhibits where the 11 year old won blue ribbon for a minion created using flower pedals, the incredibly unhealthy food, it’s everything I absolutely love. It’s so unpretentious, so raw and American in all its mediocre glory, I legitimately have a fantastic time every time I go. I think part of it is because it reminds me of my hometown, which is a pretty crappy agricultural town, but it feels nice to revisit those authentic roots after living in a city so infamous for being image and clout focused. Part of this might be nostalgia because my late grandma would take me to these every year and it became one of those core childhood memories. But I can still experience it as an adult and have a whole day of fun for like $50 or more if I want a shirt with my name spray painted on it with Gangster SpongeBob underneath.
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Oct 7, 2023 02:41
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Someday someone will unravel the terrible origin of the Rasta banana plushie prize
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Oct 7, 2023 02:45
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If you need me I’ll be over at the fire department’s bingo tent piling up fat stacks of quarters while the old ladies glare at me. Not my fault your cards suck lady..
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Oct 7, 2023 02:49
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It's too hot, I get heatstroke easily, can I just sit in the car with the AC on or maybe lie down in the shade under the big oak tree? 
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Oct 7, 2023 04:15
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The one man band is playing!
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I brought 500mg worth of cookies last time and had poor cooler management and ruined 80% of them edit: Oh, County fair, not Country
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Oct 7, 2023 04:47
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Wow, the side of the ride is painted like this, but crudely!
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Oct 7, 2023 04:48
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There's a free concert tonight included with my ticket but ehhh looks real bad
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Nelly played at our county fair ~4 years ago. I probably just read the internet that night
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Fair update: I only saw one dedicated Trump merchandise tent, it was small, and empty. Compared to 3 bigger ones last year. There was sporadic political stuff here and there in other tents, but overall I was psyched to see how little of it there was compared to previous years.
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redshirt posted:Fair update: I only saw one dedicated Trump merchandise tent, it was small, and empty. Compared to 3 bigger ones last year. There was sporadic political stuff here and there in other tents, but overall I was psyched to see how little of it there was compared to previous years. I love the overlap of Trump merchandise and the other racist and crude stuff. Like if you see a t-shirt with Trump slogans you can also probably find biker merchandise with uplifting and positive slogans like a biker t-shirt that says "If you can read this, the bitch fell off."
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Oct 7, 2023 14:21
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Is fair dinkum a puppet?
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Tumble posted:I love the overlap of Trump merchandise and the other racist and crude stuff. Like if you see a t-shirt with Trump slogans you can also probably find biker merchandise with uplifting and positive slogans like a biker t-shirt that says "If you can read this, the bitch fell off." My best friend’s dad had that shirt, and we changed the meaning of the phrase to be “that man has lost his goddamned mind”. As in, “yo Tone, what’s your dad up to?” “[heavy sigh] the bitch fell off again, he took a bunch of stuff from work and it’s not poo poo they don’t use.” Honestly, I think fully assimilating into rural American culture as a Lao refugee in the mid/late ‘70s is what made the bitch fall off from the outset, but that’s [a] an epiphany to me just now and [b] not a topic for this thread. root beer fucked around with this message at 14:45 on Oct 7, 2023 |
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Tumble posted:I love the overlap of Trump merchandise and the other racist and crude stuff. Like if you see a t-shirt with Trump slogans you can also probably find biker merchandise with uplifting and positive slogans like a biker t-shirt that says "If you can read this, the bitch fell off." For sure, that stuff all goes hand and hand. Those biker tents, in the long ago, used to be fun. Switchblade combs! Leather vests! But no longer.
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Oct 7, 2023 14:38
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How many bitchin’ Camaro or Trans Am coke mirrors were for sale?
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I was just here 25 years ago and you guys had and entire back wall of little 8"x8" mirrors in your carnival game tent with Iron Maiden and Ozzy album covers painted on them! What do you mean you don't have them anymore?! No, I don't want a knock-off Deadpool badge or a sexy Harley Quinn poster... Sigh... Do you at least have the Harley Quinn poster painted on a 8"x8" mirror?
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In Traverse City, Michigan we have the Cherry Festival during the week of 4th of July. But most years the local cherries aren't ripe yet so our massively advertised festival brings in cherries from Washington and California instead. But we also get a lot of acts like Vanilla Ice, Nelly, Boys to Men, Flo Rida, Nelly again...
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Eclipse12 posted:But we also get a lot of acts like Vanilla Ice, Nelly, Boys to Men, Flo Rida, Nelly again... Boys 2 Men were playing at The Food and Wine Festival when we went to Epcot and lunatics were lined up at 3 for a 6:30 show. I wouldn’t have waited in that line in that heat for 1984 Van Halen.
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redshirt posted:For sure, that stuff all goes hand and hand. I was so excited to finally get a switchblade comb from the state fair one year. It stopped working pretty quickly after it was exposed to my Rave hairspray soaked hair 
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maybealabia posted:There's a free concert tonight included with my ticket but ehhh looks real bad Is it Night Ranger or Hank Williams Jr?
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Look at the huge balls on those pigs
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big diarrhea energy coming, time to hit up the biffy it's only 10 minutes into the fair opening and it's still pristine edit: 
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a land of fried foods and clandestine public sex acts
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come on down to the mt hermon county fair to see the worlds ONLY pig with testicles for eyes. $2.50 for general admission, $10 for the fast pass.
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This caricature artist really gets me
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I'm the carnival ride that lurches loose from its supports and flings fairgoers skyward I'm also the multiple mass shootings that happen at the same fair
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I like how 12 carnies live together in a makeshift hovel trailer with no air conditioning or plumbing Oh wait no, I hate that
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The results are in from the test your strength machine. You failed.
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Gherkin Jerkin posted:Each car has different wear and/or (hopefully) lubrication. That's why when you're waiting in line you should look to see which ones are especially spinny and pick which one that you want to end up in. Sometimes I'll offer the person in back of me cuts so I can plan to be in a primo seat. The line for the Zipper was long, we had no choice for the car we'd get. I did pull that trick on the "Pirate Ship" ride, and we indeed got the back row, which is by far the best seat. Also, it's an objective FACT that fairs are 50% better at night.
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50%? Nighttime is the only time fairs are even tolerable in the first place
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root beer posted:50%? Nighttime is the only time fairs are even tolerable in the first place I mean you can go in any time of the day drunk and wearing a blindfold for an optimized experience.
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I forget the name of the ride, it was Avengers themed, and had 4 pods of 4 seats that would spin way up in the sky. Big line. We're like 2-3 turns away and we see that some kid hurled on it and the Mexican Carny was hosing off a very big area and my niece was like "Nope" and I'm like "We've already waited so long, and we have to wait a while more, it will all be dry and gone by the time we get there" and she was adamantly "Nope". So, no spinny Avengers ride...
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