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Dribble Joy
18-08-05, 00:31
I'm off for a bit.
To the states in fact. As I won £500 of travel vouchers a while ago, and I like anime and webcomics, I decided to fuck off to Otakon (www.otakon.com), for much hilarity and shenanigans in the US.
I aim to get arrested for jaywalking (pleading innocence/ignorance of course), and hopefully showing you yanks how to drink proper. Though getting a decent beer may be a problem.
See you on Monday, my little chutney ferrets.
Dribble Joy Does America!
No one is safe :eek:, be safe and have fun.
Remember to practise safe sex (Smash her in the cunt).
Hmmmm..... :p
Have fun! ;) And we will see you when you get back.
P.S. *Remember the camera!*
Though getting a decent beer may be a problem.
Yeah it is.... I mean, what is Bud, like 3% or something?
sanityislost
18-08-05, 08:24
Whoa have fun dude, tell meh if that place was any good >_<
SiL ..:..
Bugs Gunny
18-08-05, 08:52
You guys know nothing about beer.
Try belgian beers. DUVEL, and there's even worse ones.
It allways cracks me up when tourists order it thinking they'll have a "local beer" and then end up falling off their chairs.
Anyway, DJ, have fun there.
Original monk
18-08-05, 09:20
DUVEL, and there's even worse ones.
cough
delirium tremens, piraat, kasteelbier, la chouffe, westmalle tripel, westvleteren to name a few :p
Yeah it is.... I mean, what is Bud, like 3% or something?
Prolly more like 0.3%....
Enjoy yourself Dwibble. Just don't come back 5 stone heavier.
Baltimore sucks. Very dirty place except around the rich parts of it. Avoid those places and you'll be fine.
cough
delirium tremens, piraat, kasteelbier, la chouffe, westmalle tripel, westvleteren to name a few :p
mm, I remember trying la chouffe one lunchtime...I felt like I'd had a few pints after just one glass :wtf:
no-one for a nice cool lambic?
darknessfairy
18-08-05, 22:02
you going by yourself DJ ?
Tidus_Origin
18-08-05, 22:26
To the states in fact. As I won £500 of travel vouchers a while ago, and I like anime and webcomics, I decided to fuck off to Otakon (www.otakon.com), for much hilarity and shenanigans in the US.
Lucky you :lol: :D Have fun, DJ.
You should go meet the guy from ctrl+alt+del...hes going to be there o_O
Original monk
19-08-05, 09:41
mm, I remember trying la chouffe one lunchtime...I felt like I'd had a few pints after just one glass :wtf:
my favourite beer :P
http://users.pandora.be/original/lachouffe.jpg
its called kabouterbier (littery translated gnomebeer) or tripbeer :) it doesnt feel like any other beer in the world lol, not cause its that strong .. there are stronger ... but because it gives a very distinct feeling ... this is caused by the composition of the water they use from a certain spring where the water is directly derrived from ... a spring with the exact correct combinations of minerals for letting the beer leaven (dunno how to spell the last word ... let it "ripe" in bottles so sugar gets formed into alcohol and CO2)
visiting the lachouffe brewery tought me some stuff lol
the beer is made by 2 guys from antwerp who bought a small garage in wallonie (southern-belgium) to start out ... now its a full grown brewery with diffrent kinds of beer .. like also the dark version of lachouffe and seasonbound beers ... lachouffe beer of the moon and lachouffe beer of the sun :)
i also yust bought myself a coffeelike liquor made by the brewery d'achouffe (looks like baileys) but i didnt even dare to open it yet :)
i also seen lambic aka lambiek mentioned in this thread :) a very known beer made in brussels, i visted the brewery (of bellevue) with my class when i was still in college, its also made true a special procedure in a certain place where even the composition of the air matters lol wich makes its unique taste :)
of the brewery of bellevue i especially remember the distinct lambiek smell that hangs around there :)
i can keep talking about it altough im not a real beerdrinker tbh, to end i can tell you that when we visited the brewery in brussels we had to help our teachers back home cause they where atleast as drunk as we where :P
Dribble Joy
22-08-05, 23:11
Huzza, much fun had.
Got lift with parents to heathrow, as they were buggaring off to Germany to go cycling around pretty looking places, apparently. They left earlier (daft sods had a flight at around daft o'clock), but not before I piked breaky off them in 'spoons. I checked in after a long sit on the floor waiting for cypriate airlines to sod off and iceland air (The Cool Airline!) to shuffle in.
That done it was off to the bar and grumbling quietly while handing over 2.49 for a pint of ale (this was a 'spoons as well, where 2.49 is blasphemy). I then went through passport controll, noting the complete lack of real in-depth passport verification. Had another pint, read a book a bit, drank another pint, got on plane.
http://www.live-wyre.co.uk/images/otakon/wing.jpg
Flight to Reciovjjkickeggggggickj (maybe it was 5 g's?) was uneventful, other than the.... well actually no, there wasn't anything.
Iceland is like a brown bit of rock in the sea with lumps in the middle, well it is, some white bits where people seem to have decided to live, but otherwise, rocky and lumpy and lots of sea around the shop.
The airport at Reciovjjkickeggggggickj is no-where near Reciovjjkickeggggggickj it seems.
Again sod all passport security.
Read book untill flight to BWI appeared, more lax passport shenanigans and they let me get on the plane.
I sat next to a girl called Brook, she was a physio.
The food wasn't too bad, still had that unique airline fod smell to it that takes weeks to get out of your mouth.
Arrived in BWI and found directions from a funny little man in an info booth, what a funny man he was.
Anyway, he said left and about 50 yards.
I went 50 yards, right and 50 yards again and found the Light Rail.
A wall of humidity hit me like a man with a large wet, warm trout. I felt sticky and started to sweat simply by standing about, so I sat down.
This only served to give me a very wet and damp crack.
The train sat there and I wondered when it was going to open and let me on.
Two guys walked up 20 mins later and pressed a button, opening the doors.
Feeling like a tit, I got on and tryed not to look like the bunneh in the proverbial lights with the 'guilable tourist' neon sign tied to my bunneh ears with day glow tape.
More people got on and we went to Baltimore, a rozzer got on and he had a gun, I was scared.
I got off (another wet'n'warm trout to the face) and as the station name implied, found myself standing next to the convention centre.
http://www.live-wyre.co.uk/images/otakon/con1.jpg
http://www.live-wyre.co.uk/images/otakon/con2.jpg
http://www.live-wyre.co.uk/images/otakon/con3.jpg
Fishing in my bag I wandered in and got my badge in preparation for the beginning of the con the next day.
Then began the task of wandering the streets at night looking for my hotel.
Fortuneately, the con people put a map of downtown in the back of the program guide.
The Wyndam Inner Harbour Hotel.
I apparently had a Queen sized room.
http://www.live-wyre.co.uk/images/otakon/hotel1.jpg
http://www.live-wyre.co.uk/images/otakon/hotel2.jpg
The pictures aren't as good as it was, it was very nice.
Though there was a few tea bags there, no means of boiling the water other than by using the perculator, and no milk, just coffee creamer.
Quite wholey and utterly unlike tea.
I went to bed after watching US telly.
Your ads are wierd.
On Friday the con proper started.
Breakfast involved some stuff from the little shop on the first floor of the con center, I had some odd tasting stuff called mountain dew, a slice of peperoni and some thing called a breakfast bun, burger or whatever, it had egg in it, and hard crunchy bits that really souldn't have been there.
All of which set me back about $11 O_o.
I then bimbled off around the con, watching stuff and going to a panel or two.
Unfortunately, there was no photography allowed in the artist alley, so no pics of the people I saw there.
I saw, Mookie (http://www.dominic-deegan.com/), I forget what we talked about.
Annath (http://www.applegeeks.com), I got a poster, a t-shirt and erm... just that.
Dave (http://manga.clone-army.org/index.phphttp://paradox-lost.com/), hes was next to Lem (http://www.frozenreality.co.uk/comic/bunny/) who is from england too, we natted about how pocky is highly overrated (what? it's just a chocolate digestive in a stick form?), how I ended up on the other side of the pond and how bloody mind wrenchingly hard it was to get a decent tea around there. I aquired Bunny stickers.
Other Dave (http://www.chugworth.com), who is from Glasgow. He thought I was from Devon, I corrected him and we natted about something. I aquired a poster and book.
Fred ("]Dan[/url] was next to him. Twisted man he is. I aquired a poster.
Then it was over to Matt and Ian. I got a poster, the book and a sketch off Ian of his Malakim FFXI character (PANTS!).
I learned off Annath that [url="http://www.megatokyo.com) Was in the dealer's room, because his stall was the size of a small whale.
On the way I saw this:
http://www.live-wyre.co.uk/images/otakon/tehenemy.jpg
TEH ENEMY!!!
Who on earth let those lot in?!
Anyway, got a t-shirt and a scetch off Fred.
Lunch was Snapple (yummy) and a root beer (yuk).
I hung around the artist alley like a creepy old git without saying anything.
I did talk to the Damn Swedes (http://www.little-gamers.com), when they recovered from their hangovers enough and come to their table. I aquired a poster.
At about 1:30 am I bimbled off back to my room.
Woke at 7, got out of bed at 9, had tea, then wandered off in search of breaky, which I found in the form of a McDs, I forgot to order a drink, so the pancakes and 'sausage' didn't go down well, especially not with the bloody liquid sugar treacle.
Saturday first involved finding Earl Grey at the Starbucks stand, so all was good (ish).
I took some pics.
http://www.live-wyre.co.uk/images/otakon/willy.jpg
http://www.live-wyre.co.uk/images/otakon/pacman.jpg
http://www.live-wyre.co.uk/images/otakon/domo.jpg
Then it was time for the webcomic panel.
http://www.live-wyre.co.uk/images/otakon/panel.jpg
I couldn't decide if Brian Carrol was an arse or not.
Regardless, all good fun.
A bit more wanderage, and it was time for the ************ Nani Megatokyo panel.
Only managed to get one pic out half decent.
http://www.live-wyre.co.uk/images/otakon/fred1.jpg
All good, intro by the Damn Swedes, and an hour of fred being fred... in a kitty eared hat.
I went to search for pubs and located an Irish one next to the harbour front.
http://www.live-wyre.co.uk/images/otakon/harbour1.jpg
http://www.live-wyre.co.uk/images/otakon/harbour2.jpg
http://www.live-wyre.co.uk/images/otakon/dog.jpg
Yes, that is indeed a pint of Newky Brown.
I then went in search of a pub I that read in the guide, on the way I saw this;
http://www.live-wyre.co.uk/images/otakon/legal.jpg
What? Is there illegal seafood?
Why do I get visions of under the counter illicit shrimp raquets?
Anyway, found the pub;
http://www.live-wyre.co.uk/images/otakon/pub.jpg
Sat down, and drank lots of beer, talked random shit to some dude from Philly and then staggered back.
Woke with a hangover, drank more quasi-tea and went in search of breaky again.
I think I had Burger King, not sure.
Oh yes.... I did....
http://www.live-wyre.co.uk/images/otakon/ffs.jpg
That is just daft. It's like... 8 inches high.
Got a cup of tea and hung around in the artist alley again.
Got a scetch off Hawk (applegeeks), Dave (chugworth) and a t-shirt off Aido (http://www.fallen-comic.com), who is teh fit.
Chatted to Mookie again, and after watching some more anime, headed back to the hotel for the last time.
On the way out of the concentre, I was acosted by some dude who's car had been towed, he asked for some change for the bus and I said I didn't have any, fumbling the $40 in notes and coins in my pocket as I did so. He mooched off looking a bit depressed and I walked off grinning like the evil cunt I am.
Fate caught up with me 200 yards down the road when I was set upon by two homeless guys again asking for a bus ride. I went for some coinage, but brought up a $5 bill, which of course was goaded out of my possesion by requests for a 'sub'.
I packed up and left, and took some pics.
The hotel again.
http://www.live-wyre.co.uk/images/otakon/hotel3.jpg
Actual steam from a grate in the street! That only ever happens in films!! (can't see it in the piccy though).
http://www.live-wyre.co.uk/images/otakon/steam.jpg
Random street.
http://www.live-wyre.co.uk/images/otakon/stuff1.jpg
Another.
http://www.live-wyre.co.uk/images/otakon/stuff2.jpg
A lovely little fountain in a mall ruined in it's entirety with the inclusion of a giant plastic fish.
http://www.live-wyre.co.uk/images/otakon/fish.jpg
The biggest termite mound in the world.
http://www.live-wyre.co.uk/images/otakon/termite.jpg
I got on the plane to Reciovjjkickeggggggickj, and found an enormous fat walrus of a woman sitting in my window seat, her belly nearly touched the seat in front.
Her almost as obese husband was next to her so I had to take the aisle seat.
Visions or airborne voilence filled my noggin.
A little later she said something to her fellow walrus, and realised she was scottish.
Visions of me following her back to Glasgow and force feeding her deep fried mars bars Se7en stylee filled my noggin.
The a little later, the stewardess asked me to move over to the other side of the aisle to a free seat so that Mr Walrus could move over to allow the flab to settle in both seats.
The visions of death by fat drenched molten chocolate returned.
Other than that the rest was uneventful, other than when I got to Heathrow, they actually checked my passport properly.
Vae Victis
22-08-05, 23:14
my favourite beer :Pbavaria or dommelsch?
<3 'm both
if I have to choose between one of those..
dommelsch :D
Asurmen Spec Op
22-08-05, 23:26
Badass DJ :)
[TgR]KILLER
22-08-05, 23:34
hehe nice report dj actually readed it all haha =) funneh to :p
That was quite an entertaining read :p cool trip, however it disturbs me that although the container of the Newcy Brown was made of glass, it wasnt in the bottle - this disturbs me greatly, tis an unwritten rule to drink it out of the bottle :p
Welcome Back.
Dribble Joy
23-08-05, 00:15
The Newky Brown was on tap.
The Newky Brown was on tap.
That is even more disturbing, lol
sanityislost
23-08-05, 01:08
Haha DJ nice read mate, looks like the place was kick ass :D
SiL ..:..
Original monk
23-08-05, 09:34
yeah and nice pictures :)
Dribble Joy Does America!
The new family movie by tratos? ;)
You guys know nothing about beer.
Try belgian beers. DUVEL, and there's even worse ones.
It allways cracks me up when tourists order it thinking they'll have a "local beer" and then end up falling off their chairs.
Anyway, DJ, have fun there.
Hoegaarden for the win!
Have a nice time in the US DJ.
Dribble Joy
23-08-05, 17:52
I'm back....
Vae Victis
23-08-05, 17:55
Hoegaarden for the win! lol
K..
Becks > Hoegaarden, and becks really is worlds worst beer ever (until hoegaarden was invented)
I think we can all agree on this one;
warsteiner :)
lol
K..
Becks > Hoegaarden, and becks really is worlds worst beer ever (until hoegaarden was invented)
I think we can all agree on this one;
warsteiner :)
NOOOO: Hoegaarden is the best beer ever! and by the way: warsteiner doesn't exist, just look at the bottle it says warfteiner. :lol:
Dribble Joy
23-08-05, 18:02
Ringwood old thumper.
Case closed.
I'm back....
Lol, welcome back. I am really confused today... :eek: o_O :D :) :lol:
Edit: must be all the talk about beer hey?
Vae Victis
24-08-05, 22:13
Lol, welcome back. I am really confused today... :eek: o_O :D :) :lol:
Edit: must be all the talk about beer hey?makes you wanna grab one eeyh? ;)
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