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Saturday morning stay at Caesar's Palace for a week

Started by Twed, September 20, 2018, 04:12:41 PM

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Z

Went for 2 days a few years ago just to see what hell looks like. Hell looks like the second newest Casino in Las Vegas, whichever one that is, at 7am.

It's a fucking horrible place and the only reason I'd recommend even bothering to go up to Fremont Street is that it feels a lot more personally like a republican hell hole than the colossal void of the strip.

There was a nice typewriter in the airport on display iirc, go look at it, for a week.


I imagine Nashville is somehow worse, mind.

QDRPHNC


Twed

Quote from: Z on September 20, 2018, 09:39:58 PM
I imagine Nashville is somehow worse, mind.
A place for which I have made excuses to avoid going twice, coincidentally.

Sebastian Cobb

At least in Britain when you're made to go to a cultural void for a computer course, you know you'll probably be able to leave Surrey and be home for tea.

Z

Quote from: Twed on September 20, 2018, 09:42:42 PM
A place for which I have made excuses to avoid going twice, coincidentally.
not even curious to check it out?

Shoulders?-Stomach!


Twed

Quote from: Z on September 20, 2018, 09:58:55 PM
not even curious to check it out?
It wasn't really the place itself, just that I didn't want to stay with the person who invited me, after he went to Nashville to make it big as a musician. What am I going to do next, go to the MOON to stay with somebody who wants to be an ASTRONAUT? I ask you.


Icehaven


Z

Quote from: Twed on September 20, 2018, 10:02:28 PM
It wasn't really the place itself, just that I didn't want to stay with the person who invited me, after he went to Nashville to make it big as a musician.
That sounds like the perfect horrible Nashville experience imo

Twed

English punk-inspired uniforms designed by Sandi Thom.

Blue Jam

Twed, I was going to ask you to try and spot a few Hell's Kitchen alumni when I saw this:

QuoteChef: Tatiana Askren

The winner of Hell's Kitchen gets the prize of a job as head chef at Gordon Ramsay's Pub And Grill. Tatiana Askrem is not a Hell's Kitchen winner. Have all the winners sacked off the gig to go and work for someone who isn't mental?

Apparently there's a Hell's Kitchen restaurant at Caesar's now so you also have to go there:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%27s_Kitchen_(U.S._TV_series)

EOLAN

Went Las Vegas for about 5 nights. Have friends or acquaintances who would be more outgoing and partying than me for fewer nights and they always say how quickly they got sick of it while myself; really enjoyed it and could have stayed a lot longer.

Wasn't as interested in winning by gambling; but rather see how thrifty I can be by gambling slowly; getting free multiple drinks orders with crisps and offering a fiver tip to the waitress. I am probably now on the "Do not Admit" list along with those counting cards people.

lebowskibukowski

I'm going in October for 7 nights as my wife has a conference nearby there so we are doubling it up as a holiday. I'm just going to have a constant, throbbing neon headache, aren't I?

Norton Canes

Don't forget to buy your Las Vegas Lights FC replica shirt!





The only place I could find that stocked them was the HQ of Zappos (they're a footwear company), the Zappos Campus.

Noodle Lizard

Quote from: lebowskibukowski on September 21, 2018, 11:43:52 AM
I'm going in October for 7 nights as my wife has a conference nearby there so we are doubling it up as a holiday. I'm just going to have a constant, throbbing neon headache, aren't I?

Go to Trilogy of Terror!  It's only open in October, it's cheap and it's a right laugh.  Bear in mind, you will be electrocuted and called a cunt in Gates of Hell.

Twed

#45
Hi

So here is the best thing to do in Vegas:

Hire scooters for touring the strip
Drive them out to the desert instead
Start driving them in the actual desert
Break the scooters because they are not designed for the desert
You are stuck in the desert now


Twed


Icehaven

If it's any consolation I hope the last photo I ever take is as beautiful and poignant as yours is.

famethrowa


mobias

I've got quite a perverse liking for Vegas. I've been a few times now. Its everything that is awful about the USA summed up in one city, but because of that its really quite amusing and entertaining. Driving out into the desert is good fun too.

boki

Quote from: Twed on September 23, 2018, 07:06:09 AM
An Uber will NOT come to the desert
"The only things that survive in the desert are the cold-blooded...the snakes and the lizards."

Twed

What does this cunt think he's playing at?



4/10. Those are fucking fries. Curry sauce may well have a ranch base. What an empty vessel of nonsense Gordon Ramsay is.


Quote from: Noodle Lizard on September 20, 2018, 07:39:09 PM
Gambling is fun, especially table games where you build a sort of team with other people against the house (craps, blackjack etc.).  Go in with a set amount you're prepared to lose and consider it admission for the time spent playing.  Bet small and keep any winnings.  $100 can last you hours, plus you get free drinks!  Wouldn't gamble in Caesar's though, Harrah's across the street has lower-stakes tables and a slightly less cunty clientele.  Get the m-life rewards card from pretty much any casino and use it whenever you gamble.  You get points quick and they'll comp you for shows, nice rooms etc.

The only fun form of gambling is to find a craps table full of the most obnoxious self-serious clientele possible, and to start putting down Don't Pass bets (i.e. betting on the shooter to lose, which you're not "supposed" to do even though it has slightly better odds and which in my experience makes obnoxious gamblers angry)


boki


Twed

Vegas is fine really. Obviously capitalist greed abounds, but in terms of excessive debauchery it's light. Americans don't know how to party, nothing here compares to a standard UK high street on a Saturday night.

bomb_dog

Best two places to visit: Pinball museum and Red Rock Canyon. Must try the neon museum next time I'm there.

QDRPHNC

I think that a grumpy thread about a free, week-long trip to Las Vegas may be some kind of high- or low-point for CaB, but I can't decide which.

Quote from: Twed on September 27, 2018, 09:24:27 PM
Vegas is fine really. Obviously capitalist greed abounds, but in terms of excessive debauchery it's light. Americans don't know how to party, nothing here compares to a standard UK high street on a Saturday night.

Did you go to Hakkasan like I told you to?


Twed

Quote from: QDRPHNC on September 28, 2018, 12:59:25 AM
Did you go to Hakkasan like I told you to?
Why would I want to go somewhere that sounds shit and requires dressing up for? I'll put on a shirt and stub my toe instead.