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Port Of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago back in '90 while in the Navy. Sat in a pizza parlor while a hooker outside the barred up window propositioned me for a slice of pepperoni & sausage while an armed guard tried to move her along. Walking around the town, in most neighborhoods each house had 6 to 8 foot fences topped with barb wire and a huge dog patrolling inside. As my buddy and I were going down an isolated street, two men in traditional Muslim dress looked up, spotted us and turned swiftly and walked away. You could sense something just wasn't right and sure enough it wasn't. After arriving back to Norfolk and driving home to southwest VA that same day and coming into my parent's house for supper lo and behold there is Tom Brokaw talking about the place I had just left earlier in the week on the Nightly News, a coup had taken place. Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt I would have said southern Iraq/Kuwait during Desert Storm but considering the circumstances I thought there wasn't anything weird about it. Being in a location where an unexpected schiattstorm is about to erupt and knowing something just isn't right but not being able to put your finger on it was surreal in a sense.
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Port Of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago back in '90 while in the Navy. Sat in a pizza parlor while a hooker outside the barred up window propositioned me for a slice of pepperoni & sausage while an armed guard tried to move her along. Walking around the town, in most neighborhoods each house had 6 to 8 foot fences topped with barb wire and a huge dog patrolling inside. As my buddy and I were going down an isolated street, two men in traditional Muslim dress looked up, spotted us and turned swiftly and walked away. You could sense something just wasn't right and sure enough it wasn't. After arriving back to Norfolk and driving home to southwest VA that same day and coming into my parent's house for supper lo and behold there is Tom Brokaw talking about the place I had just left earlier in the week on the Nightly News, a coup had taken place. Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt I would have said southern Iraq/Kuwait during Desert Storm but considering the circumstances I thought there wasn't anything weird about it. Being in a location where an unexpected schiattstorm is about to erupt and knowing something just isn't right but not being able to put your finger on it was surreal in a sense. Welcome to the Fire, Enjoy. Thank you for your service.
Paul
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Trump Won!, Sandmann Won!, Rittenhouse Won!, Suck it Liberal Fuuktards.
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LaMiere Vapiere,
little club downtown Chicago, it got torched, some say the cops did it as it was a giant pain for them.
had never seen anything like it, late 70's and I was a wide eyed farm boy, men with makeup, safety pins through their cheeks and other parts of their faces, wild clothes and hair,
co'ed restrooms, didn't matter which one you went into everyone just used whatever was available, funny to watch a little filly straddle a man's urinal to relieve herself.
and then the alley out back, lots of strange goings on back there, people doing drugs, sex, and some of those disgusting animals were even smoking cigarettes!
I couldn't read sign real well back then, but I was pretty certain I was a fur piece from SW MO.
my mother would have fainted if she'd seen me in that place
she'd have been mad as hell if she knew how many times I went back! lol had to, what a freakshow
I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
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Thank you as well Paul for the welcome and I do appreciate it.
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Standing in the center of what seemed like a glass lined room which was detonation point of and underground nuclear test, a mile from the tunnel entrance and 2000ft below ground surface, with no supplied air, a miners light, double suited up with anti contamination gear including a full face mask. I assume that was before the detonation? when you say glass lined room it makes me wonder.
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I am thinking it was after.
The first time I shot myself in the head...
Meniere's Sucks Big Time!!!
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck!
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![[Linked Image]](http://www.lacrememagazine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Crown-Jewels-of-the-United-Kingdom.jpg) The Tower of London. Riches beyond the realm of the imagination... Mostly ill gotten gains 
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
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USA since obummer took over...
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Went to a wedding back in the mid-80's in NYC.
Couple of well known "families". Straight out of the Godfather sort of wedding.
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Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.�
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Gay pride parade in Sydney Australia.
Some mornings, it just does not feel worth it to chew through the straps!~
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The Capuchini Bone Chapel in Roma
I have been there...
And to The Great Pyramid the Roman Baths in Bath�
Stonehenge, seen crop circles
But
The Weirdest place is / was NYC
Snake
That which does not kill us makes us stronger
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Burning Man Festival, Black Rock, NV
S Dali Museum in Florence, Italy
Market Day at El Alto La Paz, Bolivia
Isla Del Sol, Lake Titticaca, Peru
Those are the weird places. This forum is the source of the weirdest ideas I have ever heard. But that is why I can't stop checking out the hunters fire for the next whacky idea.
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Not as weird as many posted, but the place I recall as the most weird in the visual sense is The Blue Lagoon in Iceland. It is a geothermal lake, and yes, the water really is that colour. I was there before the tourist season, and that blue water was filled with absolutely gorgeous Icelandic women (most of whom were topless). Apparently, after the tourist season starts, it is filled with hairy German women.  ![[Linked Image]](http://aadurian.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/adriana-durian-photography-blue-lagoon_05.jpg) John
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Enbalming room.
When in college one of my buddies worked in a funeral home for room and board doing light maintenance, cleaning, etc. He had a room stuck way in the bowels of the building, and it took a number of turns though various hallways to get to it.
Got into a bottle or two of MD 20/20 and a few joints, then decided it was time to tap a kidney. Took a number of wrong turns and found myself in a dark room. Thinking it was the john I searched for a light switch, finding none I struck my lighter. A few dead folks there in different stages of "preparation" loomed out of the dark in the low light. Forgot about peeing.
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Wisconsin is pretty strange as far as I'm concerned
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