WAR ROOM LOUNGE V11: Now With More

[AgonyandIrony]

Within full view. The Mt. Baker ski area is actually on Shuksan just the "arm" of it.

You can see the glacier in this shot from the ski area.

That's beautiful. I really want to spend some time in the mountains in a year or two.

This is what I've been enjoying nature wise.

architecture wise this city is the best, most unique city I've ever been in.

But Jesus dude, this heat is KILLING me. Taking showers like I'm hiding boners from God Almighty down here.

 

[Gregolian]

That's beautiful. I really want to spend some time in the mountains in a year or two.

This is what I've been enjoying nature wise.

architecture wise this city is the best, most unique city I've ever been in.

But Jesus dude, this heat is KILLING me. Taking showers like I'm hiding boners from God Almighty down here.

The heat up here is bad too. 80s-90s which doesn't sound THAT bad but the humidity is nearing 60-70% and that's killing me.

Can't see the first pic BTW.

Next Thursday though I will be at the Columbia River Gorge for a Country Music festival.

 

[AgonyandIrony]

Not a big Alkaline Trio fan in total, but their demo version of "Smoke" is killer.

They're pretty diverse sound wise (I guess only as an Alk3 fan) and I love a good three piece band with two vocalists, saw them once and ended up getting drunk with my hero Alk3 bassist Dan Andriano. He's got that good hate yourself music.

 

[AgonyandIrony]

The heat up here is bad too. 80s-90s which doesn't sound THAT bad but the humidity is nearing 60-70% and that's killing me.

Can't see the first pic BTW.

Next Thursday though I will be at the Columbia River Gorge for a Country Music festival.

Balls, it's a pic of the beautiful City Park in New Orleans.

I'm also obsessed with swamp life. Fucking alligators and shit. In a weird way I kind of prefer the wet heat to Oklahoma dry heat. I mean you sweat A LOT down here, but it doesn't feel as sharp if that makes sense. You should come down and visit sometime, I'll show you the best food in the country and if you like drinking oooooh boy.

 

[Ruprecht]

Zero? Man, I don't know about that. Remember how she was pressuring Obama to support the NATO intervention in Libya? Well Gaddafi was a heck of a lot more friendly to Western interests than is the Iranian government - and there is probably more organic political unrest in Iran than there was in Libya. Clinton wouldn't be openly and needlessly poking with moronic tweets, but the potential for subversion and intervention would always be possible.

Given it was her legacy as Sec. of State, Clinton was more invested in the success of the Iran deal than most.
She also wouldn't have wanted a repeat of the Bush/Iraq/WMD fiasco, so the sort of violations of the deal that would be needed to prompt intervention would have needed to be clear cut and egregious.
Iran's leadership are still rational actors, so it seems highly unlikely they'd do that knowing the consequences.
Lastly, the "snapback" renegotiation of sanctions would have had to fail at that point, and even though Trump has pulled out of the deal, he hasn't attempted to put them back in effect and has no cooperation on that point. The "snapback" would be unlikely to fail (although it'd largely be dependent on China and Russia) if the Iranians transgression was sufficient.
Not zero possibility, but an unlikely enough sequence of events for it not to be a concern.

 

[Limbo Pete]

Brilliant, I had conditions like that in South Korea. Wind/snow blowing up. Stand facing a wall, and the wind and snow still blow directly in your face.

PNW weather in the mountains is nothing to fuck with. I got caught out miles from the car at an unclimbed cliff on the summer solstice, wearing what you wear in June, in a hailstorm-laden blizzard that nearly took my fingers from frostbite. We were almost proper fucked out there, and it was not easy to find the car. Good times.

My savior is the Pacific Crest Trail. Coming across the PCT saved me massive suffering at least 5 times.

Some years ago, I was working in the mountains of northern California and a random guy came up the road (this was the middle of nowhere). He was walking the Pacific Crest and got detoured due to forest fires.
"Where didja start?"
"Mexico."
Buuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhh lol.

 

[Jesus H. Sherdog]

Balls, it's a pic of the beautiful City Park in New Orleans.

I'm also obsessed with swamp life. Fucking alligators and shit. In a weird way I kind of prefer the wet heat to Oklahoma dry heat. I mean you sweat A LOT down here, but it doesn't feel as sharp if that makes sense. You should come down and visit sometime, I'll show you the best food in the country and if you like drinking oooooh boy.

The biggest difference I feel is with the wet heat you feel it all over your body, that dampness. The dry heat you mostly only feel when the sun is directly on your skin, and you feel it in your nose when you inhale haha. Never been to Oklahoma but spent plenty of time in Nevada and Arizona with that dry, super hot heat.

Totally agree about the food in New Orleans, one of my favorite cities and so unique. I lived out there about 15 years ago, was so sad when the reason I returned was because of Hurricane Katrina. Just awful.

 

[AgonyandIrony]

The biggest difference I feel is with the wet heat you feel it all over your body, that dampness. The dry heat you mostly only feel when the sun is directly on your skin, and you feel it in your nose when you inhale haha. Never been to Oklahoma but spent plenty of time in Nevada and Arizona with that dry, super hot heat.

Totally agree about the food in New Orleans, one of my favorite cities and so unique. I lived out there about 15 years ago, was so sad when the reason I returned was because of Hurricane Katrina. Just awful.

Yeah, you get used to just being.... wet. I live down by the cemeteries on Canal and hit the street car down to Royal usually. Walk the Quarter a bit down to Jackson Square then just go left until I'm on Frenchman then double back. It's not even that bad once you're used to it and that's a hellova walk to the river.

Sorry to hear about your reason for leaving, it's still pretty wild to me how much the city has rebuilt since then. I watched a bunch of documentaries (and every single thing on NOLA) waiting to move here and it was so depressing.



Also that woman stranded on the ten crying in her car saying "why won't anyone help us" broke my heart. Not to mention the douchey comments tourists make about Katrina to locals here.

If any of you need a testament to the awesomeness of this city.

 

[Andy Capp]

Balls, it's a pic of the beautiful City Park in New Orleans.

I'm also obsessed with swamp life. Fucking alligators and shit. In a weird way I kind of prefer the wet heat to Oklahoma dry heat. I mean you sweat A LOT down here, but it doesn't feel as sharp if that makes sense. You should come down and visit sometime, I'll show you the best food in the country and if you like drinking oooooh boy.

If I ever end up widowed or divorced (heaven forbid said the agnostic ex-Catholic) and they get rid of the Patriot Act, I'll be all over that like ugly on a swamp rat.

 

[Jack V Savage]

I done goofed here:

http://forums.sherdog.com/posts/143171651/

But I think the mods should intervene on the similarities between those guys. Maybe make one of them change their AV and the other change their name. Or just ban one or both of them.

 

[Gregolian]

I done goofed here:

http://forums.sherdog.com/posts/143171651/

But I think the mods should intervene on the similarities between those guys. Maybe make one of them change their AV and the other change their name. Or just ban one or both of them.

Their avs look nothing alike......

 

[Jack V Savage]

Their avs look nothing alike......

 

[Gregolian]

They're muppet characters is about the only similarities Jack.

You think Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman look alike because they're black don't you?

 

[Jack V Savage]

They're muppet characters is about the only similarities Jack.

You think Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman look alike because they're black don't you?

Nah, man. Morgan Freeman is the one in the All State commercials, and Denzel is the one who played Ricky in Boyz n the Hood.

 

[Ruprecht]

They're muppet characters is about the only similarities Jack.

You think Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman look alike because they're black don't you?

Expert on muppets? I guess it's an unusual mistake for Jack to make, there's a lot of muppets in the WR.

 

[Gregolian]

Expert on muppets? I guess it's an unusual mistake for Jack to make, there's a lot of muppets in the WR.

 

[Fawlty]

Some years ago, I was working in the mountains of northern California and a random guy came up the road (this was the middle of nowhere). He was walking the Pacific Crest and got detoured due to forest fires.
"Where didja start?"
"Mexico."
Buuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhh lol.

lol

I wanted to do the Oregon Coast Trail, which is a physical feat that rivals walking to the store for some pretzels a bunch of times. But it would have been neat. Need to make time for an epic hike one day.

 

[JudoThrowFiasco]

I bet they all look alike to you.

You antimuppite bastard.

 

[Islam Imamate]

I done goofed here:

http://forums.sherdog.com/posts/143171651/

But I think the mods should intervene on the similarities between those guys. Maybe make one of them change their AV and the other change their name. Or just ban one or both of them.

They're muppet characters is about the only similarities Jack.

You think Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman look alike because they're black don't you?

Its not just the avatars, their usernames also have seven lowercase letters and start with the letters "cl" so I can't blame JVS for confusing the two. I'm with him, mods must do something about this.

 

[Gregolian]

Its not just the avatars, their usernames also have seven lowercase letters and start with the letter "cl" so I can't blame JVS for confusing the two. I'm with him, mods must do something about this.

Fucking racists the lot of you