I'm probably going to get shit for this, but it comes from an honest place and I couldn't really find a thread like it. Just a lot of derailed threads.
Earlier today, a thread was started that eventually devolved into people randomly posting things that had nothing to do with the initial post and it became a discussion about energy drinks and Clint Eastwood's Christian Bale voice in Gran Torino (not necessarily in that order).
Now, mind you, we do stuff like that over on The B Action Thread all the time. So I'm used to that.
My point is: I was having some fun in that thread but it was shut down before I could respond to something Ryan S posted, which was this:
And I wanted to say that you don't know the half of it. That picture may be kind of old. That used to be the only way you could access the Yungas section of La Paz. Now they have a much spiffier road with tunnels and bridges and everything. However, people actually choose to continue using this road.
To be fair, it's actually very scenic and beautiful with cascading waterfalls and a lovely view of the endless precipice.
As you ride down its serpentine path, you can take comfort in knowing that - were your car to stumble off the edge - you would never be heard from again; and your death, though gory and horrendous, would certainly be a complete one. You would be dead, dead, dead... No doubt about it. No paralysis, no surviving and starving to death... Just fucking dead and gone.
People like to ride it on BMX bikes. It's a popular tourist attraction for the backpackers that come here, go to the pub reeking of sweat, with open-toed sandals, grungy beards, and waxy hair they haven't washed in decades; and still get laid with horny Bolivians.
.......
Okay - call me self-indulgent, but I needed to get that off my chest. I now pass it over to you.
Feel free to respond to this specifically or take the conversation in another direction. The idea of this thread is talk about whatever. Have specific posts be the segue into something else entirely. I mean, I know I'm coming off like a jackass who's attempting to structure chaos (and will probably deserve it if Jake comes in to post that .gif of Seinfeld throwing his hands in the air and leaving) but I like the idea of a stream-of-consciousness thread about nothing in particular.
If you want to talk movies, for example, my post could act as an interesting conversation starter as to why Danny Boyle's The Beach is such a stupid fucking movie with completely putrid, unlikable characters who all deserve to die horribly.
Or... Just tell me to fuck off for doing this. The choice is yours.
Earlier today, a thread was started that eventually devolved into people randomly posting things that had nothing to do with the initial post and it became a discussion about energy drinks and Clint Eastwood's Christian Bale voice in Gran Torino (not necessarily in that order).
Now, mind you, we do stuff like that over on The B Action Thread all the time. So I'm used to that.
My point is: I was having some fun in that thread but it was shut down before I could respond to something Ryan S posted, which was this:
Quote:
| Originally posted by Ryan S Jake, they don't need shit like Loko in La Paz, they've got the Camino de la Muerte for excitement:  |
To be fair, it's actually very scenic and beautiful with cascading waterfalls and a lovely view of the endless precipice.
As you ride down its serpentine path, you can take comfort in knowing that - were your car to stumble off the edge - you would never be heard from again; and your death, though gory and horrendous, would certainly be a complete one. You would be dead, dead, dead... No doubt about it. No paralysis, no surviving and starving to death... Just fucking dead and gone.
People like to ride it on BMX bikes. It's a popular tourist attraction for the backpackers that come here, go to the pub reeking of sweat, with open-toed sandals, grungy beards, and waxy hair they haven't washed in decades; and still get laid with horny Bolivians.
.......
Okay - call me self-indulgent, but I needed to get that off my chest. I now pass it over to you.
Feel free to respond to this specifically or take the conversation in another direction. The idea of this thread is talk about whatever. Have specific posts be the segue into something else entirely. I mean, I know I'm coming off like a jackass who's attempting to structure chaos (and will probably deserve it if Jake comes in to post that .gif of Seinfeld throwing his hands in the air and leaving) but I like the idea of a stream-of-consciousness thread about nothing in particular.
If you want to talk movies, for example, my post could act as an interesting conversation starter as to why Danny Boyle's The Beach is such a stupid fucking movie with completely putrid, unlikable characters who all deserve to die horribly.
Or... Just tell me to fuck off for doing this. The choice is yours.
