icke83
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When I was in on hols in the US a couple of years back I got the Greyhound to Pontiac from Detroit so I could go have a nosey around the Silverdome but there wasn't a taxi to be found and I didn't have enough time to walk it (and wasn't the safest of walks from what I gathered from the locals). Shame, would have been quite interesting/eerie.
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More potential McGregor going off the rails news..About 30 mins old is this story http://mmaimports.com/2017/11/report-conor-mcgregor-beats-random-dude-bar-last-night-dublin/
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Co-main just starting now
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Just saw by chance there is a live stream of the Sheffield show on facebook https://www.facebook.com/sheffieldstar/videos/10154768120743414/?hc_ref=ART26mnaR7Qy__p-LSWteReurFC0MoFwvmXss895s_EmPenf2El7aWqqv8pVVsFaWtE
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I prefer to plan my trips myself so I can tailor it exactly to what I want to do and also save money but I also enjoy the organising part so if it's the stress of organising it you don't like then pay the extra and use a tour company to take care of the transport/itinerary etc. so all you have to do is be at the pick up point and then just go with the flow, like these http://www.wildhighlandtours.co.uk/wildlife-tours/
But if it's more anxiety around doing things in a group setting with strangers then obviously a tour like that wouldn't be ideal and you'd be best planning stuff yourself, so depends what the cause of your stress etc is really?
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I remember now, but I think they didn't release the second season on DVD or something and that was a few years back when I didn't really bother with downloading stuff but i'll see if I can find season 2 online now, cheers for the reminder.
I'd recommend adding Wentworth to your list too
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Hi does Terriers end on an annoying cliffhanger with it only being 1 season or did they kind of wrap things up since they knew it was going to be cancelled? I made that mistake with Huff, which was really good but only ran for one season and it left loads of stuff unanswered so kinda wish I hadn't bothered.
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Not MMA and I don't know anything about horse racing but it might be worth sticking a quid on Gray Wolf River at Kempton tomorrow as it's 500-1 (down from 1000-1) and it's only a 5 horse race..tis the season of miracles and all that
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I couldn't find the betting thread and I don't know anything about horse racing but for anyone interested it might be worth sticking a quid on Gray Wolf River at Kempton tomorrow as it's 500-1 (down from 1000-1) and it's only a 5 horse race..
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Hi does anyone have ECW Vs. USWA - Civil war of the 90's I can buy a copy of?
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I have been to DC and I thought it was the biggest dump on Earth and I have been to Hull (sorry Rick). Between the White House, The Lincoln Memorial and the Capitol Building there is a nice green belt called National Mall which contains most of the Smithsonian Museums. Outside that the city is a bit ropey.
Once was enough in DC for me too just to see the obvious things, though I quite like the idea of spending some time in the bars etc. frequented by White House/Secret Service staff but that's probably more of a living vicariously thing than anything else..not that I want to work in the White House/could just with it been an iconic place and been a fan of the West Wing..
I found it all a bit of a trek from one place/Metro station to another in DC too but I might have got lazy having come straight from NYC with its subway stations on most corners..
I did get to see Obama's motorcade go past which was pretty cool.
I don't know if you are a Steve Martin fan/if you are there then but he is doing a show in Boston on the 7th & 8th April. I'm just waiting to see what's happening with the UFC show April 23rd then going to get my next trip booked. Want to catch Steve then or the 24th in Atlanta.. http://www.citicenter.org/buy/show-listing/steve-martin-and-martin-short
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Heading to Boston, Phily, Baltimore and DC in March for two and a half weeks. Looking forward to the museums in DC the most I think. There's apparently one with the bullet that killed Lincoln along with fragments of his skull. Also want to have a look at the buildings and bar that were used in Homicide when I'm in Baltimore. Plus the Rocky statue in Phily. Trying to head along to a hockey or Celtics match in Boston as well. Can't wait to go, literally crossing off the days!
The Eastern State Penitentiary is a short walk from the 'Rocky steps' too, well worth a trip.
For what it's worth Baltimore is the only place I've been to in the US where I felt a bit uneasy (and I'll happily walk past Skid Row from the Greyhound station in LA/stay in hostels in Harlem etc.). The harbour area is fine but it just seemed a couple of blocks walk away you were in areas you generally wouldn't find so close to a city centre.
From Boston it's not too far on the train to head up to Salem (Salem witch trials) and Gloucester (where The Perfect Storm was based). You can stay at the Crow's Nest as seen in the film and it's still owned by the Shatford family. I didn't make it to Gloucester as it was just too cold (I was there last January for McGregor Vs. Siver) but definitely want to go there and Maine next time..
I was hoping to go to the National Museum of Crime & Punishment next time I was in DC but I heard it closed late last year which is a shame. I hadn't heard of it when I was there previously or else that would have been top of the list..
Have you been to NYC before and didn't fancy it this trip?
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Cheers for the update. Not sure what the plan is yet but it would be nice bookends to the trip if I can see that show (my first boxing event) and then the UFC debut at MSG 2 weeks after..
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Ok cheers, had a quick look on their website earlier but nothing on, probably waiting for an opponent first..
Do you think the cheapest tickets for that show, assuming it is at the MGM, will be similar to the cheapest at the UFC events there or is boxing generally more expensive?
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Does anyone know if the venue for Pacman's retirement fight in April in Vegas has been announced yet as I might be in the US around that time and depending on ticket prices, might try to go.
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Its official - the Pontiac Silverdome is being demolished.
http://www.freep.com/story/money/business/2015/10/29/pontiac-silverdome-meet-wrecking-ball/74754746/I went to Pontiac while in Detroit in February to try get in to the Silverdome to sneak in and have a nosey around but didn't realise there would be no taxis around whatsoever to get there and back and didn't have time to walk there before my Greyhound coach back to Detroit..So close yet so far. Hmm will have to try get there in November..I did get to the Houston Astrodome a couple of years back, couldn't get in though unfortunately
http://postimg.org/image/6u081c2sj
Some other guy did manage it. It's grim.
The problem is I don't tend to hire my own car when I'm away, I just stick to Amtrak/Greyhound/local Metro etc. (and taxis when absolutely necessary) so makes it tricky to get off the beaten track. I definitely want to try get there before the fencing goes up prior to the wrecking ball though as I'm interested in stuff like that
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Its official - the Pontiac Silverdome is being demolished.
http://www.freep.com/story/money/business/2015/10/29/pontiac-silverdome-meet-wrecking-ball/74754746/I went to Pontiac while in Detroit in February to try get in to the Silverdome to sneak in and have a nosey around but didn't realise there would be no taxis around whatsoever to get there and back and didn't have time to walk there before my Greyhound coach back to Detroit..So close yet so far. Hmm will have to try get there in November..I did get to the Houston Astrodome a couple of years back, couldn't get in though unfortunately
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I know they do at snooker events as I went once last year to see Ronnie play at The Crucible. It was around a fiver for an ear piece which goes in to one ear and which you could tune into the commentary. But as mentioned above, I'm not sure if it can be just set up at any venue on the fly?
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And it's not like they were free before, these overheads are obviously factored in to the prices..
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If their aim is to raise awareness then it is ludicrous they partnered with a company which uses BPA in their water bottles. Surely they should be raising awareness of the links to cancer and advising people to avoid such products? I think that clearly demonstrates where their priorities lie.
Obviously you can apply that to many (if not all) large charity organisations/corporations but hey, if chucking a few quid their way makes people feel better about themselves..
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My favourite. If you don't agree, you're obviously blind/a sheep/stupid.
I was saying the people who blindly follow the mainstream media's version of events are just as bad as those who look for a conspiracy in everything.
It's always good seeing these kind of comments at the bottom of MSM stories 'I wonder what psychotropic drugs he has been on since a child?!' (Sky News website in relation to this story) but it's a scandal that these questions aren't asked by the 'investigative' journalists who write the articles the vast majority of people rely on for their information. Doesn't this come back to what Thomas Sheridan said about conspiracy theories arising because 'mainstream' journalists aren't doing their jobs?
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Taken from: http://www.theburningplatform.com/tag/chris-harper-mercer/
‘Records show Harper-Mercer, 26, lived in a ground-floor apartment on Arlington Avenue at 230th Street in Torrance with his mother, Laurel Harper, from 2011 to 2013. Lists of South Bay graduates from 2009 published in the Daily Breeze showed Harper Mercer graduated from the Switzer Learning Center in Torrance with four other students. Switzer teaches students with learning disabilities and emotional issues. A former behavioral aide at Switzer, who did not want her name used, said the majority of the students at the school are from foster, low-income and single-parent homes. Some of these students were expelled from other schools or had been in trouble with the law. The school is divided among special needs students and those with behavioral problems.’
It is pretty clear he has been emotionally disturbed for years if he graduated from a school for emotionally disturbed kids who can’t function in traditional public schools. Then there was another tidbit that he posted on some social media site with the alias Lithium Lover. Lithium just happens to be a drug as described below:
‘Lithium is useful in the treatment of bipolar disorder. Lithium salts may also be helpful for related diagnoses, such as schizoaffective disorder and cyclic major depression.’
So we have another male loner who has been emotionally disturbed for years from a broken home. Can someone please ask his father or mother whether he was taking psychotropic drugs of any kind? Or is that a private matter that has nothing to do with this mass murder? Virtually every mass murder over the last 10 years has been committed by mentally disturbed young men who were on psychotropic drugs. Jared Lee Loughner, Adam Lanza, Seung-Hui Cho and James Holmes were all on psychotropic drugs. Why is no one in the mass media exploring this key fact? I’ll tell you. It’s because they have an anti-gun agenda. Obama should be calling for a ban on psychotropic drugs being distributed to teenagers.
The mass murder issue should be politicized. Obama and the mass media should be politicizing why there are so many emotionally disturbed young men being drugged up by Big Pharma with dangerous drugs that have proven to spur anger and mass murder. It will take a non-mainstream media to uncover the truth about what drugs this dude was taking.
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any false flag accusations about yet for the horrible mass shooting that took place yesterday?
And any betting the shooter was on psychotropic drugs?
I would most definitely bet in favour of him been on them..
Never hear much about that aspect which a lot of these kind of incidents seem to have in common.
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Hi does anyone know the best (English language) places to check for what wrestling shows are happening in Tokyo in July? Thanks.
Ignore that, i've found http://puroresuspirit.net/events/ which seems like a great resource.