California Observations, and questions

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1. Everyone you meet in LA is a DJ.

2. NO amount of make-up is too much, no eyelashes too fake, no dress too tight. This phenomenon is especially prevalent at higher end rooftop lounges. I dubbed these creatures "California Girls" while my co-worker went with the probably more accurate "lady's of the night"

3. You either drive a Tesla or you drilled a hole in your muffler, and you just drag race between every stop light. There is no in between.

4. It's cold. I neglected to bring a jacket. It's southern California in June, it's going to be like the devils butthole out there. Yeah, not so much.

5. What the hell are those ugly blue stickers everyone has on the bumpers of their Tesla's? NO way I'm putting one on mine.

In all seriousness, I had a great time. Show was muted, or so I've been told, but it was great to see @Mark Wein and @baimun again. The People were great, and good time were had by all. Most importantly we managed to stay out of jail despite our drunken antics.
 
reverend1 said:
I almost forgot:

Friendly law enforcement tip of the day- Just because a homeless guy peed on it, doesn't mean you can pee on it.
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The trick is to make them think you are homeless...ramble nonsense to yourself, yell at buildings, carry around a bunch of scrap metal, etc then you can peen anywhere
 
1. Everyone you meet in LA is a DJ.
Depends on where you are.

2. NO amount of make-up is too much, no eyelashes too fake, no dress too tight. This phenomenon is especially prevalent at higher end rooftop lounges. I dubbed these creatures "California Girls" while my co-worker went with the probably more accurate "lady's of the night"
Once again, depends on where you are. I get the feeling that you mostly interacted with people in bars in Anaheim around the convention center, or similar venues.


3. You either drive a Tesla or you drilled a hole in your muffler, and you just drag race between every stop light. There is no in between.
Partially correct. Around here, it seems like every third car is a Tesla. Also, you were in downtown Anaheim.



4. It's cold. I neglected to bring a jacket. It's southern California in June, it's going to be like the devils butthole out there. Yeah, not so much.
This cracks me up. I thought it was kind of pleasant last week. Our seasons vary quite a bit in recent years though, so it might not really get hot for another month or two. Usually by August or September it starts getting uncomfortable and the hills start to burn.


5. What the hell are those ugly blue stickers everyone has on the bumpers of their Tesla's? NO way I'm putting one on mine.
If you lived here, you would. That gets you use of the HOV lanes regardless of your vehicle occupancy.


In all seriousness, I had a great time. Show was muted, or so I've been told, but it was great to see @Mark Wein and @baimun again. The People were great, and good time were had by all. Most importantly we managed to stay out of jail despite our drunken antics.

It was definitely fun seeing you and Tony. Also good on the staying out of jail. Anaheim PD can be a little rough. I behave myself extra when I'm there.
 
Mark Wein said:
Story?
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We had a really good time on Friday night. One of our group @baimun will know exactly to whom I'm referring. He ordered an obscene amount of room service to a random room at the Marriot. Then we encountered a hippie drum circle, to which one of our dealers employees declared "time to wash the hippies" and drenched them with water from the fountain. At last call we somehow got the bartender to give us a bottle of wine which we drank while stumbling back to our hotel. We walked past a homeless guy peeing on a street sign next to a bus stop, so he decided to pee there as well. Then a cop emerged from nowhere, confiscated our bottle (it was already empty) and told us to go back to our hotel. He was actually pretty nice about it.
 
reverend1 said:
2. NO amount of make-up is too much, no eyelashes too fake, no dress too tight. This phenomenon is especially prevalent at higher end rooftop lounges. I dubbed these creatures "California Girls" while my co-worker went with the probably more accurate "lady's of the night"
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reverend1 said:
We had a really good time on Friday night. One of our group @baimun will know exactly to whom I'm referring. He ordered an obscene amount of room service to a random room at the Marriot. Then we encountered a hippie drum circle, to which one of our dealers employees declared "time to wash the hippies" and drenched them with water from the fountain. At last call we somehow got the bartender to give us a bottle of wine which we drank while stumbling back to our hotel. We walked past a homeless guy peeing on a street sign next to a bus stop, so he decided to pee there as well. Then a cop emerged from nowhere, confiscated our bottle (it was already empty) and told us to go back to our hotel. He was actually pretty nice about it.
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That’s a good story. I’m amazed the Anaheim cop was cool about anything at all that weekend.
 
TomcatMF said:
Maybe he was near the end of his shift and didn't want to deal with the paperwork.
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Possibility, the fact my coworker kept calling him Ponch wasn’t helping. In all honesty, he was really cool about it. Told us we couldnt drink in public, asked if we were there for the show, (fairly certain we had our badges on still) asked where we were staying. Then asked if we could make it back. I told I’d make sure we did, and he sent us on our way. Pretty positive interaction, and he would have been justified in being a dick.
 
reverend1 said:
2. NO amount of make-up is too much, no eyelashes too fake, no dress too tight. This phenomenon is especially prevalent at higher end rooftop lounges. I dubbed these creatures "California Girls" while my co-worker went with the probably more accurate "lady's of the night"

3. You either drive a Tesla or you drilled a hole in your muffler, and you just drag race between every stop light. There is no in between.
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2. We went to an outlet mall in Oxnard on Saturday and I saw way too much of this there myself. And it's more a SoCal thing.

3. My step-daughter (13) likes play slug-bug when she sees VW Beatles or the old VW buses. Mainly an excuse to hit me while we are out and about. There were not enough around so we added Teslas. I got hit an awful lot from that point on.
 
Denverdave said:
2. We went to an outlet mall in Oxnard on Saturday and I saw way too much of this there myself. And it's more a SoCal thing.

3. My step-daughter (13) likes play slug-bug when she sees VW Beatles or the old VW buses. Mainly an excuse to hit me while we are out and about. There were not enough around so we added Teslas. I got hit an awful lot from that point on.
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That's 15 minutes from my home. I'm at the top of the grade. I bought my last 2 pair of shoes at that outlet . Timberland. Buy one, get the second pair for half off.
I would play slug bug with my daughter too. I had plenty of hits.
I'll take a Tesla.
 
Needs to be retitled "SoCal observations and questions" because most of the points made (save the prevalence of Teslas) are unique to the water-stealing, smog-breathing, botox-injecting, fashion-obsessed cesspool of swank known as Southern California. You would likely have a different set of observations if you were 400 miles north. The differences can be as stark as comparing - say - Chicagoland to the rest of Illinois.
 
bsman said:
Needs to be retitled "SoCal observations and questions" because most of the points made (save the prevalence of Teslas) are unique to the water-stealing, smog-breathing, botox-injecting, fashion-obsessed cesspool of swank known as Southern California. You would likely have a different set of observations if you were 400 miles north. The differences can be as stark as comparing - say - Chicagoland to the rest of Illinois.
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I haven't been to SanDiego yet to make a true assessment of "Southern California", but I do agree that San Francisco and north has more in common with Seattle than it does with LA.
 
bsman said:
Needs to be retitled "SoCal observations and questions" because most of the points made (save the prevalence of Teslas) are unique to the water-stealing, smog-breathing, botox-injecting, fashion-obsessed cesspool of swank known as Southern California. You would likely have a different set of observations if you were 400 miles north. The differences can be as stark as comparing - say - Chicagoland to the rest of Illinois.
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California could probably be split into three distinct areas..NorCal, Socal, and the inland desert regions
 
DdBob said:
California could probably be split into three distinct areas..NorCal, Socal, and the inland desert regions
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Driving through those curvy roads along the coast are equally breathtaking and scary as shit.

It had been raining, and there were areas where the hillside kind of "barfed rocks and mud" all over the highway.....

... and a few areas where there were signs that the ocean side lane was closed so they could repair erosion. :messedup: Um... if HALF of the road has erosion and gaping holes underneath where soil is supposed to be... I don't want to drive on the OTHER half of that same road either!!!! They should almost rebuild that road so it's like a bridge... with anchors going down and out to the east.... so when the coast eventually erodes away, you'll just be driving on a highway over the ocean, looking at the coast off to the east. :grin:

But the alternative is going inland.... getting on the highway... taking an umbrella and locking the steering wheel in place... and setting the cruise.

No shit I think the road designers put a map on the table... pulled out a yardstick and drew a 400 mile straight line. :embarrassed: That's great if you need to land planes on it once in a while.... but makes the drive feel like a root canal!!! :mad:

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baimun said:
But the alternative is going inland.... getting on the highway... taking an umbrella and locking the steering wheel in place... and setting the cruise.

No shit I think the road designers put a map on the table... pulled out a yardstick and drew a 400 mile straight line. :embarrassed: That's great if you need to land planes on it once in a while.... but makes the drive feel like a root canal!!! :mad:

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I-5. Considering the landscape there you would want to be out of there as fast as possible as well. Straight is better.
 
bsman said:
Needs to be retitled "SoCal observations and questions" because most of the points made (save the prevalence of Teslas) are unique to the water-stealing, smog-breathing, botox-injecting, fashion-obsessed cesspool of swank known as Southern California. You would likely have a different set of observations if you were 400 miles north. The differences can be as stark as comparing - say - Chicagoland to the rest of Illinois.
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I'm aware. I have a lot of family in the middle/ northern part of the state. In fact my uncle was once the mayor of Carmel.
 
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