Let me be the first to suggest.....
Shit. Nevermind.
I'm in for either day, of course. As I continually lament, the NYC commentariat has dropped in population since early Unfogged -- I'm not sure who else is going to be around.
I'm assuming they all moved to Ohio to shift the electoral college votes.
Obviously not moving hard enough. Goddamn reprobates.
LB killed them. She regrets how hard it is to find new victims.
Would you eat your clone? I say yes.
1 I suggested it first in my email to LB so there.
I could do either day but Tuesday is better for me.
Next week I'm going to be further from Fresh Salt than usual.
I know New Yorkers are hesitant to move to Ohio because they think they will miss the Fresh Salt, but soon you won't need to worry about that.
Planet Oasis!
A Central Ohio developer is lining up the pieces for a sprawling amusement park covering 350 acres in Delaware County, featuring a multitude of attractions representing a "multi-billion-dollar" investment
The complex would be centered around a 15- to 20-acre salt water lake with sand beaches and a boardwalk connecting the multiple venues.
https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2018/06/28/billion-dollar-plus-amusement-park-planned-on-350.html
Why go all the way to the nightmarish wastelands of Uzbekistan or Utah when real-estate speculation will bring the same thing right to your doorstep?
There's lots of Utah that is just beautiful if you can get past the protective layer of suspiciously polite white people.
I don't trust anyone who doesn't have an outlet to the sea.
Honestly, Ohio is probably one of the ugliest states, in terms of nature. It's not that the bland parts are worse than Iowa or Indiana, but that there's very little to offset them. The only part that I really I've seen that I liked was the Cuyahoga Valley, the part upriver from where the river can start on fire.
I think 12 should have been signed by Nemo.
The hills along the Ohio are full of bugs and serial killers.
I've been thinking about re-reading 20,000 Leagues. Anyone read it recently?
I don't know why you assholes even wanted independence if you were going to keep on giving places names like that.
16: You're getting off topic.
17: No, because then I would have missed Zanesville.
The islands aren't bad, either. Anyway, Delaware County has multiple freshwater reservoirs hundreds of times larger than this planned endorheic folly. If they want to ruin their little bit of Ohio, I can't say I particularly care.
19: The Nautilus literally ran on fresh salt.
Anyway, don't see The League of Ordinary Gentlemen. It has Nemo, but is basically unwatchable.
Why would anyone even make a movie about ordinary people?
I couldn't make spaghetti sauce because Paul Newman already had the idea.
Making the spaghetti sauce was outsourced to me.
I don't know Ohio except via crossing on the train but I feel like the nicest parts in terms of nature are probably in Kentucky.
I used to live 150 meters from Cuyahoga Valley National Park, before it was a National Park. It was pretty great. All the way down to WV is pretty interesting, stretches of Ohioness notwithstanding.
JM and I are in. Tuesday is better for us.
28 Tuesday it is then. LB would you kindly amend the post?
Tuesday is probably better for me.
"Tuesday's gray and Wednesday too."
Cool, I've never met Just Plain Jane! (I'm in. What time are people going to start showing up?)
I've never met almost everybody who will be there.
I usually make it to FS around six thirty -- not sure what Barry's schedule is.
Sometime someone should hold an "Unfogged Renegades" meetup at Fresh Salt. All the various banned ex-commenters, kind of like an Unfogged Legion of Doom. I'm not sure who would be the Brainiac.
39: We could pick a time and place and just announce it here since of course they are all still reading every comment.
How many outlawed commenters are there?
41 I could show up even earlier if anyone is likely to be around.
No way. There are way more. I can think of 4 formal bans and at least 4 more who left in a huff on bad terms. More than enough to have a long table that they can sit around and toast to evil.
You've been here longer than I have.
There's Read, the ToS, Bob, some guy who had an issue with Nosflow that I can't remember the details of but I think was mostly off-this-blog in origin, Clownaesthesiologist... that's all I can think of for bans, although my memory is imperfect.
Also, the racist mathematician. Halford was right.
I forgot about read (I guess oddly as she helped pick my pseud) and didn't think of ToS as "banned" because it seemed way beyond that.
48 amazingly not about John Derby/shire.
Oh, forgot Shearer, who wasn't exactly banned, but was affirmatively made to feel unwelcome so close enough.
I was counting Shearer, in his 60s-short-sleeve-pocket-protector-racist-nerd glory, as one of the four. The guy who beefed with Nosflow was before my time.
I'll always think of Shearer as a racist, but really it was his sexism that got him banned.
The English Courtesan could be the [looks it up] Cheetah of the Unfogged Legion of Doom.
Anyway, it's been a while. I don't really recall Clownaesthesiologist or any courtesans.
Clowny was also called The Modesto Kid later on. I still don't think you overlapped with him, though.
58: I thought he was the Modesto Kid first, and at one point he went by Clownaesthesiologist on one blog and Modesto Kid on another at the same time for a little while.
He was a bit unusual in being banned for talking about his bad off-blog behavior. I guess he wasn't banned elsewhere because he didn't introduce that history into other communities.
That was also not exactly originally a ban. He dropped the horrifying confession, banned himself because no one would want to associate with him after that, and then a while later (don't recall how long, but not very) emailed the FPPs to see if he could come back, and consensus was that no he couldn't, given the magnitude of the confession and some other exacerbating factors. But I don't know that we would have arrived at banning him if it hadn't been his idea.
Maybe if I got myself banned I could both be more productive and join the Legion of Doom. Hmmm.
In 2003 I killed and ate a drifter. What can I say.
Killed and ate a drifter, then used poor punctuation in my confession.
I was kind of hoping that presenting as a murderous cannibal would keep people from correcting punctuation errors.
Wasn't there some otherwise reasonable sounding dude who admitted to a date rape and was asked to leave?
There was also an American dude in Germany whose pseud was his name backwards like ttaM who beefed with a number of the people on the blog and huffed off.
This blog bans date rapists but has no problem with drifter-eating cannibals, another sign that #metoo has gone too far.
There's been a lot of flouncing, some of it actually permanent.
WE'RE HARDLY EVEN WORTH EATING.
I once shot a man for snoring. Turns out that didn't help reduce my snoring at all. I should look into a CPAP.
68: THOSE ARE NOWHERE NEAR THE RIGHT LYRICS
YOU ARE TOO WORTH EATING.
GODDAMN MONSTER! WE'RE BEAUTIFUL! YOU'RE HIDEOUS!
64: Huh, I thought I was the only American dude in Germany who commented semi-regularly on Unfogged. I'm not around as much as I used to be because of inconvenient employment, and my name has always been forward. At least it has as long as we have been at war with Eastasia.
About the only commenter I have had serious disagreements with is gswift, who didn't like hearing that the first guards at Dachau were regular Bavarian police, but history is like that sometimes.
Also, I have never huffed Off. In case there was any doubt.
I'm not remembering backward-name German guy, but I'm sure it's not you. Possibly that's the same guy as 'had some kind of beef with nosflow', who I also don't remember much detail about.
noslow is real. I haven't met him, but I've seen pictures.
He sometimes posts stuff I send him, with arbitrary edits. A bot could do that though.
73 It's definitely not you, Doug. I think his first name was Jeff?
!wehW
Er, Whew!
We should have a Berlin meetup. All y'all should come and see where the Wall isn't.
I plan to take an NJ-to-NYC train which gets into Penn Station at 5:57. And then the subway, and then a bit of walking...I hope to be at Fresh Salt at about 6:30 or so.
He dropped the horrifying confession,
This I do remember. And I sometimes see him at that other place (a friend of a friend, as these fb things go...), and can never see him without thinking of that horrifying confession...
It looks like there may be quite a few of us, should we reserve a table? Anyone planning on being there earlyish hit me up on email.
Do they reserve tables? I mean, go for it if they do.
83: Has no one determined whether they reserve tables in all this time? Or are you just being open to new possibilities?
Just showing up has always worked okay in the past.
You don't need a reservation at Fresh Salt, so long as someone suggests it promptly.
Taking a train in to Penn that arrives at 4:34. I should be there around 5:30.
On the train, just stopping at Wyandanch now. My people, I give you live pre-blogging (or is it "pre-live blogging ")
yes. you meant to post that 91 was true and 90 a lie the second time.
I'm already at Fresh Salt. This is no lie.
Not sure I can make it, most probably not before 8. Barry, if I miss tonight, have you any time for coffee during the remainder of the week?
Place is pretty empty so far. I'm sipping a beer and refreshing the blog. Going to look at the menu in a few minutes.
Don't ever say I don't come through on the live blogging.
97 I hope you can make it. I leave this Thursday afternoon, I'll be around a bit tomorrow afternoon but time is pretty tight.
I have tables but I may have to get into a knife fight to defend them.
I'm feeling some serious side-eye here.
Maybe it's my imagination.
I should live blog the conversations at the other tables.
Table next to mine is taking our chairs. Send help.
Table next to mine is taking our chairs. Send help.
But I was victorious. I'm Im readying for a counter-attack from the flank.
Full frontal assault from the bartender successfully countered.
Full frontal assault from the bartender successfully countered.
Readying for a series of human-wave assaults on my position but I will hold these tables at all cost.
Expected relief column is 3 minutes out. Ammunition and supplies are growing low but I dare not make a sally on the bar.
Fended off a feeble enemy probe.
Just leaving work -- there in 5-10.
For future reference they take reservations by email.
Sad truth: we are as far away from the year in which Dikembe Mutumbo said "Who wants to sex Mutombo?" as Dikembe Mutmbo was from 1954.
These days Mutumbo says it with tears in his eyes.
The lack of liveblogging is a good sign. It means they are getting ready to attack and don't want a paper trail.
Who will rescue the lost battalion of bloggers?
Great meet up. Just Plain Jane (great to finally meet and put a face to a pseud, I hope you made your train), LB, dagger aleph, Jackmormon, Blandings, and Tia. We successfully invested the position for the duration. Thanks to all for coming out.