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Thread: Worse Place

Ah, I'm not sure where to start, to put it all in context. Let's just say that not long before I met up with a couple of American guys that I'd met on my travels, to hike the Grand Canyon, I'd been in Africa, running a temperature of over 105, which initially was thought may have been malaria, but I'd say more likely was along the lines of alcohol poisoning, considering the amount consumed on the trip! I only knew the American guys superficially, so on the hike back up the Canyon, as everything I'd put my body through over the past couple of months caught up with me, and I started to throw up my stomach lining, and fall over every five metres, when I told them, You guys go ahead, I just need a little rest, they said okay, and left me with about a half gallon of water. It was only when they reached the top, about ten hours later, they realised there was no way in hell I was going to make it, so went to the Canyon Authorities. In the meantime, having ran out of water, and in my not quite clear state of mind, attempting to take a short-cut, I'd gotten well off the beaten path. I rested up overnight, and then decided to head back to where I'd found a stream bed previously. That's when I thought I'd take another short-cut, and instead of finding a way down the bank, I hung off a ledge, and dropped about ten-feet. When I landed, I heard a 'crack', stood up, and my ankle was flopping sideways. Fortunately, the search-and-rescue teams had already been mobilised, and about eight or ten hours later, I was located, pumped full of fluids and morphine, and evacuated by Helicopter. The strange thing was I'd experienced no real pain until they arrived, then it hurt like a bitch! Spent five days in Hospital, then rang my Mum, and her first words were, When are you coming home? Being stubborn Quix, my instinctive reaction to that expectation was I'm not, so, after a few more days in a Hotel, I Amtracked it to Vancouver, and spent the next five weeks traversing the Canadian Rockies on crutches, and a foot to knee cast. It was a fun experience, and all I can say, is thanks to whoever invented Travel Insurance
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Oklahoma. Pretty much you could copy and paste what HeyThereLittleBear said about NC but add Baptist to what someone needs to be to be considered a person. The town I lived in from Kindergarten to 2nd grade my family was the only non-Baptist family. Everyone in the town was the same at least outwardly. They were all white, cis, het, conservative and Baptist. I was called some pretty horrible things throughout my life in that state. I was even told by my teachers I could read my heathen texts out in the hallway while the principal read passages of the New Testament over the intercom. My heathen texts were early sci-fi readers. The next school I went to with a population over 400 there were 12 kids who weren't white and Baptist. 2 students of Japanese descent, 1 Native American, 1 Greek Orthodox, 2 Jews, 3 African Americans, 1 Latino and 2 Catholics. The 12 of us had to look out for each other as we pretty much all got bullied often. The other place that was awful was Jamaica. A buddy of mine, his girlfriend and I traveled inland to see what the country was like. When we hit this town which seemed nice we were harassed repeatedly being asked, How much for the girl? Now some of them were wanting to hire her for sex work but some of them wanted to buy her like human trafficking and we were disgusted. They mostly talked to my buddy and I because as a woman she clearly didn't have any say over her body. It makes me angry thinking about it. It was a really rough two days we were getting worn down, honestly we wanted to throw down but knew we'd get in trouble and beat up by most of the town if we did something.
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Not so much an adventurer, Rudolph. More like a combination of stubborness, stupidity, and ignorance, both on my behalf, and the guys, who, because of impatience, and because we really didn't know each other that well, believed me when I said I'd be fine. And, nothing in compared to the guy in the James Franco movie, which I haven't seen, but I have read Aron Rolston's biography. What he experienced, and how he survived, was incredible. Sorry to hear about your Hell, and being stuck there for three years. High-School can oftentimes be the cruelest place of all.
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How about in a room full of homophobes? No joke, lol. Got dragged to a sermon by my very staunchly Christian grandparents While I was visiting. This was during a college break my freshman year. when the topic just so happened to be homosexuality. Me and my flaming hairstyle didn't really do well once that started--also, a few family friends were there, all of which were aware of my transition from female to male, which just kind of worsened my anxiety. Every time I looked around, I saw someone eyeing me...unnerving as hell. It had to be the most uncomfortable hour of my life. I'm still not sure how I didn't just leave early. Not really sure what I expected from my podunk redneck town, especially since I already knew that this particular church wasn't very open to deviation. I argued pretty loudly with my grandpa as we left, saying conventional church was total bullshit and a waste of my time if I was just going to be shamed for who I was. He thought there was nothing wrong with the sermon and once again reflected his disappointment in my life choices. I sped off pretty damn fast out of that parking lot. I decided to get my stuff and kick it with a familiar dude on grind for the night, rather than spend it with them. Which I guess is pretty funny, given the circumstances.
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Bumfuck, Missouri I was actually born there, and my earliest memories are moderately happy, but when my parents divorced I left with my mom to California and my dad stayed in Missouri. I'd visit in the summer, and that was reasonably decent, usually stay for a month or two before heading back to Cali. What was shitty was when I was around 14, and I was a complete hellion for my mom. teen-aged rebellion, the usual. So she sent me to live with my dad for about 4 months, and finish up my 8th grade year. So I was a bisexual punkgoth atheist living in an area where church youth group was where you went to meet up with everyone. I was immediately ostracized, left with one friend. But hey, that friend knew a couple older guys who like rock music and smoked pot, and lucky me, I got invited to go along. So I smoked pot for the first time with a cute junior, and I definitely pretended to be higher than I was, so I could fit in. This guy, probably 17-18 took that as an opportunity to feel me up and tried to fuck me, and I almost let him because I was so lonely and desperate for validation. But hey, don't worry. The fact that I didn't sleep with him didn't get in the way of being called a slut for the rest of my time there. Fun times.
Thread: Worse Place

Mr Quixotic said Ah, I'm not sure where to start, to put it all in context. Let's just say that not long before I met up with a couple of American guys that I'd met on my travels, to hike the Grand Canyon, I'd been in Africa, running a temperature of over 105, which initially was thought may have been malaria, but I'd say more likely was along the lines of alcohol poisoning, considering the amount consumed on the trip! I only knew the American guys superficially, so on the hike back up the Canyon, as everything I'd put my body through over the past couple of months caught up with me, and I started to throw up my stomach lining, and fall over every five metres, when I told them, You guys go ahead, I just need a little rest, they said okay, and left me with about a half gallon of water. It was only when they reached the top, about ten hours later, they realised there was no way in hell I was going to make it, so went to the Canyon Authorities. In the meantime, having ran out of water, and in my not quite clear state of mind, attempting to take a short-cut, I'd gotten well off the beaten path. I rested up overnight, and then decided to head back to where I'd found a stream bed previously. That's when I thought I'd take another short-cut, and instead of finding a way down the bank, I hung off a ledge, and dropped about ten-feet. When I landed, I heard a 'crack', stood up, and my ankle was flopping sideways. Fortunately, the search-and-rescue teams had already been mobilised, and about eight or ten hours later, I was located, pumped full of fluids and morphine, and evacuated by Helicopter. The strange thing was I'd experienced no real pain until they arrived, then it hurt like a bitch! Spent five days in Hospital, then rang my Mum, and her first words were, When are you coming home? Being stubborn Quix, my instinctive reaction to that expectation was I'm not, so, after a few more days in a Hotel, I Amtracked it to Vancouver, and spent the next five weeks traversing the Canadian Rockies on crutches, and a foot to knee cast. It was a fun experience, and all I can say, is thanks to whoever invented Travel Insurance Click to expand... I don't know if it's the way you've written it, but that sounds equally horrendous and hysterically funny. . You must be one tenacious critter to carry on like that, but sounds like you enjoyed most of it. Thanks for satisfying my curiosity and glad you're here to tell the tale!
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No worries, Nature Girl. Although it wasn't so funny at the time, it's quite amusing in hindsight. As my brother said, between laughter, when I talked to him from the Hospital right after I'd spoken to Mum, It could only happen to you. xD
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For me it was highschool. I always been a social outcast throughout my whole life. Mainly due to my parents rules of no freinds ove type of thing. I met this guy in 8thgrade my buddy aled. No one understood him he had a heavy Mississippi accent and had somewhat of a speech impediment and got stuck in the special ed classes mostly because he did not do the work. Fast forward to freshman year we decided to take it to a relationship now my rep was antisocial but don't screw with me. Been in a fight or two standing up for ppl being bullied. I just gotten out of class and at the time I hung or socialized with goths and hippies. Me and a classmate where talking and I hear alex yelling from the other side of the school. Now the school is a decent size about three levels. I'm on top level at the end hallway I take off. At my he time I was in black get up and wore a black leather trench coat about ankle length. I come to one of the main stairs about 45 steps in all. I have no recolation of this besides seeing alex get hit. Though according to ppl that knew both me and alex I apperently took five steps down lept the rest of the way landed and as soon as my feet hit the floor I took off and superman punched the guy that just hit alex. Knocked his glasses off then kneed him the gut and hit him again knocking him out. Like I said don't remeber it not my proudest mokent but ever since thwt day in highschool I was called Beast. No ikagine a girl a bit heqvy set social awkward being called beast.
Thread: Worse Place

A place called Walhalla down here. It is a beautiful little town surrounded by hills, very scenic, a lot like living history as a lot of what there is quite old. On the downside it is fairly isolated and there isn't much there, the stores are usually closed, the coffee places, restaurants etc were closed on most days. The one place that was open would usually sell out of everything by noon! I was there for a week and by the end I couldn't get away quickly enough.
Thread: Worse Place

The worst place to be stuck for a long time. Well, I have been stuck on this planet called EARTH. The local population are intelligent but they only play political games against each other. They would like to be like frogs in a pot of slow boiling water. They keep on heating up their own planet and they are unwilling to do anything about it. If I do not leave this planet soon, I am doomed with the whole lot. Captain Kirk, come to Earth and have Scotty beam me up.
Thread: Places to Take a Date

Where is the best place to take a date? For me, it'd either be the movies or watching a movie at home with them. Movies are a big part of my life and if someone I'm going to be with doesn't jibe with that, then it'd be nice to know that right away. So, the date would definitely involve a lot of talking about the films afterward. Also, there are a couple of landmarks around here and Philly that are about the birth of America as the USA which would be really cool to take somebody.
Thread: Places to Take a Date

One of my favorite dates was when a guy took me to a children's museum. I'm easily amused, and it was more about having fun together than it was about the museum. Another one I enjoyed was just walking around downtown and trying foods at different snackdessertcoffee shops. I also like chilling at home and watching a movie, anime, anything really. One time a boyfriend and I watched Attack on Titan and made breakfast for dinner, and I loved that. I'm not picky with dates, other than the fact that I don't like them so structured and on a schedule. I like leisurely dates, so that ideally we'd have a lot of time to talk and get to know each other--from the kinds of animes they like to why they put gummy bears on their frozen yogurt, haha.
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The best date I've been on was when a guy took me to a lake and rented a small boat. He had fruit and drinks with him and we just stayed on the lake for hours.
Thread: Places to Take a Date

I love to go to the movies on a first date. That's where me and my husband went - we were hella classy and went to see Avatar then followed it up by going out to McDonalds. Like I said, hella classy.
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Even though I love movies, I wouldn't want to go to the cinema on a first date. I think of those like a job interview because I'd rather be able to get to know the other person. I can't do that in movies because I like to maintain 100 focus on screen. Maybe a restaurant, a coffee shop or a walk in the park. If the guy was fun the place won't really matter.
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This is locationaly biased, but I'm not far from Niagara Falls. It's a pretty fun place to take a date, really. There's always fairs, nice resturants, and a ton of Casinos if you're of the risky variety. Never disappointed, really.
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Me amd my husband first dated he took me to a arcade one of those obes that srill take coins. He ended up winning enough to get me a actual cubic zorcnic ring there. Thats when we first dated I kept the ring. We ended up splitting up and two years later got back together. Our first date the second time he took me to the local arcade and to the movies. Even got me out of my confort zone and had me try sushi for the firdt time. We still due date night like those on occasion. Usually we our at home abd cook abd watch a movie.
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You can't beat getting all cosied up under a blanket while huskies pull you on a sleigh through sparkling snow. A real valentine's day kind of date.
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I've never actually have been on a date lol but like if I did I'd totally be okay with like even just going for a walk somewhere till it gets dark and chilly because that 's snuggle weather lol. Or just be somewhere quiet 'cause I'd like to indulge myself in the person I'm with in the moment. Just watch their expressions, how they act and all that mushy good stuff. You buncha romantic cuties
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My go to first date is go karting. There's an indoor track that is unlimited rides for a set price near me. And usually around date time after 8 or nine it's mostly empty. You get to have a lot of fun and be competitive while bonding between races.
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Best place for another woman to take me to a date is mine or her bedroom! We can skip the flowers and candy we should give each other.
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I live in a smallish city and when im out and about I take note of places which would be nice for a date, there are a few clubs, restaurants and parks round here. For me on a first date it should be something a little laid back, no pressure just the two of you hanging out and seeing what they're like. They may not be 'the one' but at least you'll have a nice day out together. That being said ive had a few first dates but never been followed up. After that first date though stuff like movies, night in with takeaway and grander days out would help build things into something special.
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Unless we both can't wait to see a certain movie, I'd rather a date in a less noisy location where it's actually not a problem to talk Classy restaurants and all can be real fun, but also a nightmare if it turns out that you don't like the person.
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RedRose said Classy restaurants and all can be real fun, but also a nightmare if it turns out that you don't like the person. Click to expand... Hah! Right? It feels like you have to awkwardly stay because you both ordered food and now have to last the entire duration of the dinner. I try to avoid that, as I don't like feeling boxed in or unable to leave when I want to.
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Hero Your avatar and signature set made me smile just now XD Adorable! Sadly there is much in the way of exciting places to take a date where I live. RedRose and Amriamella I COMPLETELY agreeunderstand what you mean by hating feel boxed in should the situation turn awkward especially if it turns out you and the other person actually have very little in common and would do better to part ways albeit you stay together for the duration of the date especially if you are in a public social setting such a caf to avoid any and all forms of social backlash from those around you. For me, I never arranged datesasked to go out on a date they more or less...happened naturally. Going somewhere with a group of friends and the singles tend to gravitate towards one another, eventually splitting off into pairs as they go about enjoying themselves in the general area. Most 'dates' I've been on consisted of randomly pairing off with a friend or someone else invited along on a group social outing and taking the time to get to know them as we enjoyed ourselves with whatever we were originally doing. Ren Fairs, Conventions, and Amusement Parks were the three main places this trend seemed to happen. During college this often gravitated to social gatherings in the relaxation and common areas of the grounds, just a bunch of people hanging around, talking and blowing off steam.
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We rarely do dinner and a movie, it's hard to find the time and our schedules don't help at all. Being overnighters we are most often awake while everything else is closed down. So what we do instead is binge watch some series or we'll go out cruising in the car. It's a nice way to relax and we've covered a lot of ground just doing that. One night we drove two and a half hours one way for some arbies in another town. We stopped, drove on through, looked at the corn palace in the middle of the night and went back home. Keeping closer to town we occasionally head up to the obelisk that's on the highest point in town, supposedly it's were some settlers got ambushed by natives, we call it God's Penis because it's a fucking obelisk that looks out over the entire city. Then there's the falls for which my town is named. Those are rather pretty at all hours of the day.
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We have a super cute little downtown area in my town that's fun to wander, but I really like doing things together - it's just so much easier to chat when there's something you're mutually focused on. Making some kind of art, playing a game, kayaking I'm a fan.
Thread: Red Sands (Hattori + Cricket)

The grey halls were a panic. The normally quiet, monotonous life that had been made there was ruined by the quake that tore through it. A rush of flesh, screams and cries, carried the young woman through the halls. A rushed panic - all that important propriety tossed aside. And into a tube she went, into an endless-seeming grey sleep. Beeping and soft hissing pushed her, pulled her to sleep. It was the sleep of cold, an endless slumber, and yet, it seemed as soon as her eyes closed... She was woken up. But the eternity weighed on her, heavy and strong, powerfully rigid. Like wearing a heavy, ill-fitting suit of plates that pushed down on her. It was hard to open eyes, to move. But ears worked just fine. So weak... The thing opened slowly, hissing as her body thawed. The world around her was broken. Skeletons littered the floor, the pods. People she'd seen mere moments ago - but that was all nothing compared to the sky. The ceiling was broken open, a huge rend in what was once her grey sky, revealing solid blue an infinity away. There was a way up, it seemed, a path of stone and sand...
Thread: Red Sands (Hattori + Cricket)

When Lydia woke up, she had to take a moment to recall where she was. She had never been moved... the earth around her had just been drastically changed. She stuck a leg out delicately from her pod. She was still wearing a scratchy gray jumpsuit as the rest of the community did, to avoid excess in all things including their clothing. But everything was different. Lydia took a deep breath-- the air even smelled different, tasted different. It felt heavier in her lungs, but not in a suffocating way. Her simple sandals crunched on bone. She jumped backward in fear, but it was soon apparent that stepping on the ancient bodies would be unavoidable. So she trudged on, across the bodies and up the path of stone and sand, following the bright blue sky.
Thread: Red Sands (Hattori + Cricket)

She emerged from a tomb into a a massive plain of red sand. Stones littered the earth, all over, distant ruins of buildings jutting from the ground, like so many tombstones of titans. Streets of an old city, broken and split, barely seemed to form paths of any merit, one leading back up to where she was. In fact, she was on a tall hill that gave her a good view. Something simmered in her body, a light buzz like inhaling heavy fumes, but it didn't seem to hinder anything just yet. In the distance, there was a much larger, domed structure, surrounded by dozens of smaller, ramshackle ones. Small figures seemed to surround it, barely-visible humanoids. So much to see!
Thread: Red Sands (Hattori + Cricket)

Her society had predicted a rapture, an end-of-times, but there had been no telling what would result in the aftermath. A new civilization? Lydia's ears were ringing, but if it was from the confusion, new atmosphere, or something else, she didn't know. The humans left could be of a generation of sinners. But she couldn't stay in the ruins forever, she'd never survive. And the other options would be to wander the seemingly endless red sand. Not to mention she was curious. She took a few delicate steps that soon became an eager run. The hope of new life was getting to her, she yearned to see something real and alive in the aftermath of this wreckage. Lydia began shouting and waving her hands. The shouts were something between urgency and triumph. Maybe those figures would be excited to meet a survivor from the past?
Thread: Red Sands (Hattori + Cricket)

A few people looked up, blinking, and parted to let her pass. Except... Well, to her, they might seem half-naked. Pants only, or small tops and short shorts. That alone might be shocking enough - or arousing - but then there was the fur. Bunny people. Hounds. Catfolk. So many! So very many of them, all looking at her. There was considerable consternation, people running back into town, until finally, someone emerged. Alright, what's all the fuss... about... He looked like some sort of cowboy - wide brim hat, grizzled looks, an eyepatch. A duster of leather, bandoleir of large bullets. Leather gloves. Heavy-looking pants an leather boots. And massive firearms at his hips. Holy shit. Another sleeper. he said quietly. You okay, little lady? he asked gently.