cool. thanks.
When you can gamble all night long and then tell the waitress, “Bring me the gayest drink ever . . .” and they do, you know you’re somewhere special.
This is something wonderful.
I really have no desire to go, although I have been told it can even be a family-fun place.
If you’re referring to bringing kids, let me just say, Las Vegas is NOT a “family-fun” place.
It is possible to go to Vegas with your family and there are some family-friendly activities that you can do, but they are not at the casinos or anywhere on the strip. If you think you can go to Vegas and pull double-duty as a good parent and still enjoy the delights of the strip . . . nope, not gonna happen.
Kids don’t like being locked in hotel rooms. And parents don’t like drunken profanity and pornographic hooker ads all around their kids. Plus there’s a bunch of people that, like me, feel kids have no business being in Vegas and roll their eyes whenever anyone brings them.
If you are on a family trip and make a stop in town, just stay off the strip and out of the casinos and everything will be allright.
You forgot to mention the stripper pole truck that cruises up and down las Vegas blvd with a stripper inside.
I’m with Gunnar on this one, Leave the little ones at home. Bad parents bring their underage children to Vegas with them.
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HAHA!!! I’ve not seen the truck with a live girl on the poll. There’s always the huge ass mobile billboard truck, though, with “LIVE GIRLS DIRECT TO YOUR ROOM – 1-800-469-6969” that has a giant sized naked slut on it.
It’s okay, though, it’s not pornography if they have little stars covering the nipples and vaginas.
The look of happiness. Thank you Vegas!:
Bull-Ridin’ At Stoney’s:
$900 about to be doubled (but first I’ll have a heart attack):
At My Suite at Cosmopolitan:
I’m such a fiend at gambling I can’t even sit still while my wife goes to the restroom:
People who don’t like Vegas must be allergic to fun or something.
good work.
[reply]I really have no desire to go, although I have been told it can even be a family-fun place.
If you’re referring to bringing kids, let me just say, Las Vegas is NOT a “family-fun” place.
It is possible to go to Vegas with your family and there are some family-friendly activities that you can do, but they are not at the casinos or anywhere on the strip. If you think you can go to Vegas and pull double-duty as a good parent and still enjoy the delights of the strip . . . nope, not gonna happen.
Kids don’t like being locked in hotel rooms. And parents don’t like drunken profanity and pornographic hooker ads all around their kids. Plus there’s a bunch of people that, like me, feel kids have no business being in Vegas and roll their eyes whenever anyone brings them.
If you are on a family trip and make a stop in town, just stay off the strip and out of the casinos and everything will be allright.[/reply]
I whole heartedly agree with everything written here!
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Allergic to fun?
Wait till fun kicks yer ass!
They don’t build those big ass casinos cause people win!
“We have the loosests slots 98% payback”
They’re bragging they only steal 2 bucks from you for every 100 bucks you play. I’ll keep my hundred snaps in my pocket and not have to worry if ill get it back minus 2 bucks!
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My kids are too old at this point, but I never contemplated taking them there. And in recent years, The las Vegas ads have been trying to get away from anything family friendly, whatever that means, and getting back to adults doing really stupid dtuff.
My kids are too old at this point, but I never contemplated taking them there. And in recent years, The las Vegas ads have been trying to get away from anything family friendly, whatever that means, and getting back to adults doing really stupid dtuff.
Yeah, hence the “what happens in vegas stays in vegas” ad campaign. Apparently they think crabs, herpes and bastard children all can’t leave city limits, Ha! Or even more appropriate maybe they’re talking about your money!
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Allergic to fun?
Wait till fun kicks yer ass!
They don’t build those big ass casinos cause people win!
“We have the loosests slots 98% payback”
They’re bragging they only steal 2 bucks from you for every 100 bucks you play. I’ll keep my hundred snaps in my pocket and not have to worry if ill get it back minus 2 bucks!
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Yeah, that’s why you’ll never have fun in Vegas. Because you’re sitting there crying over 100 bucks, instead of having a blast and enjoying the possibility that you MIGHT win (yes, it does happen sometimes, but is certainly NOT a guarantee or even the norm).
Gambling is not an investment strategy. It’s recreation. Some people pay hundreds or thousands of dollars playing video games. How much do those games pay back?
I don’t collect stamps. I don’t play video games. I don’t particularly care for sports. I like gambling. It’s a fun and very social activity for me and there is the CHANCE of a big win.
But, I can afford to lose what I gamble and I don’t cry like an idiot about the games being tilted in the house’s favor (file under: “DUH”) or about me losing the month’s mortgage, because it has already been paid.
If you can’t afford to gamble, you shouldn’t gamble. PERIOD. And if you don’t enjoy the EXPERIENCE of gambling despite the outcome, you shouldn’t gamble.
I don’t know why people get so negative about the place. It’s not like you’re forced to do anything there. It’s a place for entertainment. If you don’t like gambling, you can go to shows, go to clubs, go to restaurants. You can do lots of stuff. If you don’t like any of those things then you shouldn’t be in Las Vegas at all. Or if you have to come for work stay at the Marriott Courtyard or some other non-gaming establishment and it’ll seem like any other business trip.
[reply]Allergic to fun?
Wait till fun kicks yer ass!
They don’t build those big ass casinos cause people win!
“We have the loosests slots 98% payback”
They’re bragging they only steal 2 bucks from you for every 100 bucks you play. I’ll keep my hundred snaps in my pocket and not have to worry if ill get it back minus 2 bucks!
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Yeah, that’s why you’ll never have fun in Vegas. Because you’re sitting there crying over 100 bucks, instead of having a blast and enjoying the possibility that you MIGHT win (yes, it does happen sometimes, but is certainly NOT a guarantee or even the norm).
Gambling is not an investment strategy. It’s recreation. Some people pay hundreds or thousands of dollars playing video games. How much do those games pay back?
I don’t collect stamps. I don’t play video games. I don’t particularly care for sports. I like gambling. It’s a fun and very social activity for me and there is the CHANCE of a big win.
But, I can afford to lose what I gamble and I don’t cry like an idiot about the games being tilted in the house’s favor (file under: “DUH”) or about me losing the month’s mortgage, because it has already been paid.
If you can’t afford to gamble, you shouldn’t gamble. PERIOD. And if you don’t enjoy the EXPERIENCE of gambling despite the outcome, you shouldn’t gamble.
I don’t know why people get so negative about the place. It’s not like you’re forced to do anything there. It’s a place for entertainment. If you don’t like gambling, you can go to shows, go to clubs, go to restaurants. You can do lots of stuff. If you don’t like any of those things then you shouldn’t be in Las Vegas at all. Or if you have to come for work stay at the Marriott Courtyard or some other non-gaming establishment and it’ll seem like any other business trip.[/reply]
I think I’ve touched a nerve.
I think the reason I’m so negative on the place is because of the vibe I get from it. I don’t see fun I see and feel misery and lies I see and feel greed and selfishness.
Do I want to shut vegas down? Of course not. different strokes and what not…
Some people can’t see it or block it out. I envy them
Do I detest you for liking vegas? Absolutely not.
I think most that don’t like vegas have some moral or ethical objection to it. I don’t I just don’t like how I feel when I’m there.
Sure you’re mortgage is paid and its your money to do with as you please but I doubt your wealthy enough to just burn money which essentially what your doing.
Plus how many people aren’t that responsible? Maybe that’s what I feel when I go there. I’m an empath and shit!
And I’m not crying over a hundred bucks I’m crying over what I get for my 100 bucks. There is so much other fun shit I could do with 100 bucks than give it to some shuckster that’s going to tell me I might win.
I guess I see it as no different than you giving me a hundred dollars and me blinking a multicolored flash light on and off in your face all the while telling you could win big while I give you 98 dollars in change. When you get your 98 bucks. I say sorry you didn’t win but wasn’t that fun? go ahead and try again.
Plus the ads are deceptive 98% payback makes it sound like you have 98% chance of winning. Not true.
Psychologically dishonest…
I have more to write but I’m on my phone and its a bitch with this little keyboard but I still want to chat with you about this. Not trying to change your mind just hearing your viewpoint and maybe telling me where you see flaw with mine.
The whole reason I started this thread was because vegas makes me uneasy was wondering if anyone else got that too.
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Sure you’re mortgage is paid and its your money to do with as you please but I doubt your wealthy enough to just burn money which essentially what your doing.
Well, obviously I AM “wealthy” enough to “burn money” or I wouldn’t be doing it. I object to people categorizing it thusly, though. I don’t like sports, but I understand the enjoyment some people get from them and why someone would spend $1000 to go to the Super Bowl.
I also understand why someone would spend that same $1000 to go to Chicago to see some bands they like and party with some friends (many of whom they’ve never met before).
It’s all entertainment . . . or is anything that doesn’t pay the bills or put a meal on your plate “burning money”? Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean it’s not satisfying to others.
Plus how many people aren’t that responsible? Maybe that’s what I feel when I go there. I’m an empath and shit!
Well, I can’t really blame a city for people’s inability to take control over their own lives. Should we all sue McDonalds because some retards can’t figure out how to eat junk food in moderation?
And I’m not crying over a hundred bucks I’m crying over what I get for my 100 bucks. There is so much other fun shit I could do with 100 bucks than give it to some shuckster that’s going to tell me I might win.
Well, YOU don’t get anything for that hundred bucks because it’s not enjoyable for you. I get a lot of enjoyment, though.
I wouldn’t spend $13.13 for a bunch of remixxxed cover songs by a washed up rockstar. But I understand the satisfaction of having a “complete” collection and wanting to own something regardless.
In a couple years your kid is probably going to want to go to Disneyland. You’ll take him and your wife and you guys will all have a great time. Why? Did they PAY you money to go there? No. Because it was fun watching the kid laugh and going on some roller coasters and other dumb crap that you really can’t explain. It just is.
Fun shouldn’t need to be scientifically explained. Either something gives it to you, or it doesn’t. I like FUN, and to me, that’s worth the price of gambling . . . and eating, and staying in hotels, and dancing, and all the other stuff that I do in Vegas when I’m not gambling.
I guess I see it as no different than you giving me a hundred dollars and me blinking a multicolored flash light on and off in your face all the while telling you could win big while I give you 98 dollars in change. When you get your 98 bucks. I say sorry you didn’t win but wasn’t that fun? go ahead and try again.
I find that an ignorant and arrogant way to view it. But that’s allright. I still enjoy it even if others don’t understand it.
Plus the ads are deceptive 98% payback makes it sound like you have 98% chance of winning. Not true.
Only an idiot would think that. “98% payback” means exactly that — the machines are programmed for an average 2% retention/ profit margin.
And, yes, some people that go to Vegas are idiots. But there’s still plenty of them left in California as well.
I have more to write but I’m on my phone and its a bitch with this little keyboard but I still want to chat with you about this. Not trying to change your mind just hearing your viewpoint and maybe telling me where you see flaw with mine.
My only problem with your “viewpoint” is your painting of gambling and Vegas, in general, as basically an activity that is enjoyed only by people with some intellectual flaw or something.
To compare the hobby I enjoy with “flashing a light in my face” and taking my money is ignorant. I could say that about anything. What hobbies or activities actually pay us money? Hardly any, or we’d call them JOBS.
So, if you can’t relate to the enjoyment of sitting at a table for hours with strangers, drinking some booze, telling some jokes, and playing some cards . . . so be it. But I think it’s pretty narrow-minded to look down on such activities just because they don’t float your boat.
The whole reason I started this thread was because vegas makes me uneasy was wondering if anyone else got that too.
I have no problem with this as your reaction. Like you said, different strokes for different folks. I’ll even tell you that I did not feel comfortable when I first started going to Vegas.
I think I’ve touched a nerve.
I think the reason I’m so negative on the place is because of the vibe I get from it. I don’t see fun I see and feel misery and lies I see and feel greed and selfishness.
Which places did you stay at or visit, by the way? There are some really seedy places that stink of desperation (and other foul odors). I don’t stay there or even set foot there. I like the nicer hotels and prefer to gamble at the high-end resorts (no, I’m not a high-roller, I just prefer a classier and cleaner atmosphere). People at the Cosmopolitan or Pallazo are not generally blowing their paycheck on a whim. But if you walk over to the Riviera or Circus Circus, you may get a different vibe entirely.
That’s one of the things I like about Vegas. There’s so many places to choose from. If I don’t like what one spot is offering, I just keep walking . . .
Wow, something I agree with Grump on. How about that. I’m way too cheap to gamble, but have no problem with those who do.
Been to Vegas twice, neither time by choice, but still had fun. No gambling, etc, but we had fun seeing a few of the shows (Penn & Teller, Cirque) and went to the Nuclear Testing Museum. Yeah, we’re nerds.
But the people-watching there is A+. All kinds of random folks. It’s fun to try and guess their stories. Always thought that would be a fun book to write - just asking random people their stories.
and went to the Nuclear Testing Museum.
I’d like to check that out some time. I heard it’s pretty cool, actually.
Another awesome nerd thing to do is visit the PINBALL HALL OF FAME.
I grew up in a state that permitted casino gambling at age 18; thus, casino gambling does not have much appeal to me. I might sit and play video poker for no more than $20 and that’s it because I find video gambling very boring.
I’d rather do other things in Vegas, such as go to the spa, see the attractions like the atomic testing museum, the neon graveyard, red rock, Laughlin, the premium outlet mall, the aquarium, a concert, Ethyl M chocolate (M&M Mars factory), and the fabulous restaurants. I’ve been to L’atalier, R M Seafood (saw Chef Moonen when we were there), Craftsteak, Emeril’s, Firefly, Spago, Top of the World, Mon Ami Gabi, Shintaro (closed), etc. There used to be this huge record store that I would go to when there, but it’s gone now. 
Man, we so would’ve checked out the Pinball Museum if I’d known it was there. We’re very down with that sort of thing. And roadside attractions as well. The more bizarre or nerdy, the better.
Man, we so would’ve checked out the Pinball Museum if I’d known it was there. We’re very down with that sort of thing. And roadside attractions as well. The more bizarre or nerdy, the better.
Yeah. good point. I forgot about that place. I’ve been wanting to go but forget every time. I do know they’ve had to expand their facility. that place looks waay cool
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