Yeah that’s the guy. I saw his clip but I was thinking ‘WTF’ you wen’t 3.03’? but then i realised that he was taking about marathon distance and not race distance. (which makes my marathon better than 3.38.28 
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Brilliant:
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You have to think like a Kardashian 
Bit of bike packing, backcountry skiing…
good film - a lot of effort however for 3 descents?
I really enjoyed that. She really knows how to let one rip!
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Talking of YT, has anyone done the ‘verify your age’ thing?
Love a bit of Ozzy Man reviews!
It does seem a bit odd… Like why was the person filming her from the start?
Iwaters I want to try this…
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Hah, I have been to that very place a few times, never seen the mini-gun though.
Massive fun, I suspect if this sort of thing was available here I would be murdering paper targets every weekend.
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As I am broke all I can do is virtually travel, a lot of it Vegas related funnily enough. Anyone who views my internet history could be forgiven for thinking I am a gambling addict fantasist. When in reality I am getting to know myself better (eg by considering this or that and working out why) and hence trying to evolve myself. After several years of this I actually feel like I have been to Vegas yet never set foot in the country. And my self knowledge has improved immensely. Not the same as actually being there though obviously.
Hope you have had a lot of fun there LF.
Have you crushed the car with the tank? Or used their mortars/flamethrowers etc?
I have a weird relationship with Vegas.
I first went their years ago as the token finance guy to a sales conference, this would have just after the George Clooney Oceans 11 movie came out, so my expectations were built around this - I even took my dinner suit so I could blend in well in the casinos.
How wrong I was, much of it is dire, little more than a Blackpool on steroids. The first time I stayed there was at the Luxor, the big glass pyramid full of fake Egyptian stuff which is right at the end of the strip, 15 years later I went back (2018) and literally nothing had changed, I don’t think the rooms had even seen paint.
In between I sampled the Bellagio, the Trump (I Know, I know.), Caesars and the Venetian - Hotel rooms are really cheap, its everything else that costs silly money, $70 for a lunch, $6 for a bottle of water etc.
What I have never been able to reconcile is the weird difference betwen the surroundings and the people. If you go to the Bellagio or Caesars they both have shopping malls inside with very high end brands - Leica cameras, Rolex, Gucci, Prada etc. But when you go down onto the casino floor you are met with a sea of people in shorts and cheap t-shirts, if you wore a tie you would be out of place, despair and desperation is in the air all the time, its hard to explain.
And yet I still get drawn back every time we go to California. but never for more than a couple of days, that is about my tolerance limit.
Whenever that question " If you could go anywhere at any time" comes up my answer is always Vegas in its heyday back in the 60s/70s. I must have been quite something back then.
As far as battlefield goes I have only ever shot rifles and pistols, none of the more extreme stuff. An hour or so in there easily burns up $200.
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Fuck yea. I so want to go the US and let off some lead. Dont think that will be happening any time soon
I’ve been to LV four times, twice for work and twice for ‘pleasure’. (once because my parents hadn’t been and once because Mrs FP hadn’t been).
Stayed at the Bellagio and Wynn for work, much preferred Wynn, although it’s at the extreme end of the strip, it feels nicer. They were both std work trips nothing much to report, convention type stuff and a few nights out. TBH, had the best night at the old part. (forgot what it’s called).
Most of the casinos are the same, once you get past the elaborate themed entrances, they’re just warehouses with pokie machines and sad people, especially in the daytime, where a lot of the card tables are automated.
Both times, I’ve stayed on my own coin, I’ve stayed in a hotel that doesn’t have a casino and you get a ton more vfm. First time was a place called The Jockey Club, which got ripped down and that’s where the Cosmopolitan got built (which has a nice buffet).
Second time with Mrs FP was at the Platinum Suites, which is about 300mtrs off the strip but we rented a suite there which was bigger than our unit in Sydney for relative peanuts.
Haven’t been for probably 8 or 9yrs but when I was there, nobody was interested in gambling and the money wasn’t in the shows (we saw a few). The money Vegas was chasing was in the ‘day club’ crowd. Music, poolside, rent a lounger and a minimum commit spend. That’s where it was at.
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LF
It’s sad but I can answer some of those questions for you, from reading trip reports etc. While there are many types of people who Vegas, for different reasons, some quite wealthy people purposefully dress down. Walk out of Bellagio high limit with a stack of bananas in your hands and just watch how quick you realise your rookie mistake.
Sadly, from my money laundering knowledge, more so in Macau I give you, but those high end shops can (not saying that they are, just that they can) offer money laundering opportunities. Eg a Chinese gambler might have trouble getting funds out of China. But as one casino employee once put it on an interview, said gambler could buy eg expensive watch in China, go to casino, take it to shop for a refund. Cash to gamble with.
The shops can also do business with casino as gifts for those who blow $25 million in a weekend (half a million a hand eg at Wynn, Venetian, the Mansion). Wynn eg gives shopping vouchers out to those who will happily blow iirc 1/4 million during a year, once a year. Gets people back for another trip.
But back to the flamethrower I would never have the self confidence/desire to do that, but that minigun oh yeah.
It’s sad to say LF I can answer a lot of questions re hotels, restaurants, comps, etc, based on years of keeping up with gamblers reports. Which is funny in that I think gambling is stupid, and have read books on how casinos are designed to addict you by design.
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Jockey club is still there, Cosmo was literally built around it. An elevator in Cosmo will take you to car park near the interior entrance to jockey club shop. It’s sad I know that.
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Is that right? ha, that’s so funny, because when I went with my parents, we stayed at JC and a few years later, when I was trying to show Mrs FP where we stayed, I couldn’t find it but could see the Cosmo in what I thought was the place where JC stood.
Makes me wonder why I didn’t try to book the JC for me and Mrs FP now? 
Look at it on maps and you will see that the JC is still there, precisely surrounded by Cosmo. The JC shop is regularly used by Cosmo guests who want to pay normal prices for essentials. The lift, iirc, is on the casino floor separate from main lifts I think, it goes to parking and diagonally opposite is the door to JC.
My daughter must be correct I am a nerd.
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+1 for the buffet at the cosmopolitan
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