OT - Bolivia Now a Desirable Destination?
The New York Times, in today's travel section, listed the "52 Places to Go in 2015."
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/01/11/travel/52-places-to-go-in…
Check out #8 on the list.
Do we need to find a new place to send those who misbehave?
Where should we send those who commit egregious MGoTransgressions?
January 11th, 2015 at 10:28 PM ^
Columbus
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January 11th, 2015 at 10:29 PM ^
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Cleveland is a pretty cool city. Hate to say it.
January 12th, 2015 at 10:05 AM ^
Great food to eat in Cleveland. The majority of people who make fun of it have never been there, or they were there once 20 years ago.
January 12th, 2015 at 10:19 AM ^
January 11th, 2015 at 10:32 PM ^
You do know the source of Bolivia, right? It was a riff on Mike Tyson's quote "I guess I'm just gonna fade into Bolivian." I remember this popping up on the blog back in 08.
January 11th, 2015 at 10:36 PM ^
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January 11th, 2015 at 10:38 PM ^
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January 11th, 2015 at 10:49 PM ^
So all we have to do is wait for another high-profile, undereducated athlete with CTE to make a well-quoted malapropism referencing a city, state or country during an interview.
Piece of cake.
January 11th, 2015 at 10:54 PM ^
What about Belize from Breaking Bad?
January 11th, 2015 at 10:56 PM ^
Especially if you like diving.
January 12th, 2015 at 7:44 AM ^
If people are being rebellion, mods could send them to the scrip club. (P.M. Jones). Of course they'll have to be careful getting there, because if you don't know where you're going you might end up somewhere else. (Y. Berra)
January 11th, 2015 at 10:55 PM ^
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January 12th, 2015 at 9:13 AM ^
I believe you are almost correct, FTW. IIRC, it was still the Wild West here, Seth was still going by his nom de plume, Brian descended from on high into board depths more often, and some of his old buds (formerly anonymous et al) still hung around. I believe with the post in question, the original poster was woefully and innocently unaware of his faux pax, leading to the snarky and sarcastic piling on and adaptation of Bolivian by the board at large.
And there were some epic flame wars, where poster stupidity (choosing to reply belligerently multiple times in your own already negative post) allowed for massive piling on of negs. I vaguely recall guys having downwards of 70 in negative points for a single post, with maybe a dozen or more posts in the same thread. If you invoked the wrath of the board community, with some members having a very long and punitive memory, you could quickly descend into Bolivian without help from ever watchful moderators.
It would be interesting if someone with access to the bowels of mgoblog history could sleuth up the maximum cumulative negs and maximum cumulative posbangs in a single thread, sans the Gandalfian wizardry of mods or proprieters adding or deleting ungodly numbers of points in one fell swoop. I'd hazard a guess that Raback or TomVH would top the list of positive points, for some post breaking the news of an upcoming commitment. (WD might be up there, but this is obscured by the dispensation of 1,000,000 special points.)
It would be harder for me to remember who had the maximum negative total. Posters like that often chose to go down in an inglorious blaze of blind board hatred and fury, burning board bridges, receiving the dreaded ban hammer, and not only "going to Bolivia," but truly "fading into oblivion," lost in the mists of ether memory.
January 12th, 2015 at 10:52 AM ^
I noticed that WD's dispensation has been adjusted.
January 12th, 2015 at 10:58 AM ^
When you go to adjust points there's an option to give an end date to return points back to what they would be without the mod pos/negbang. PGB set WD's points to expire on New Years.
January 12th, 2015 at 12:10 AM ^
Passed my grade ten with flying fucking carpets
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MGoLore!
January 11th, 2015 at 10:34 PM ^
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January 11th, 2015 at 10:35 PM ^
I ain't a leavin' Merica.
January 11th, 2015 at 10:37 PM ^
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Pangea was fully assembled by the Early Permian Period, some 270 million years ago. It began to break apart about 200 million years ago, during the Early Jurassic Period, eventually forming the modern continents and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
January 12th, 2015 at 6:54 AM ^
I've heard the Tethys Sea region is nice this time of year.
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January 11th, 2015 at 10:57 PM ^
It was pretty awesome when I was there many years ago (and young and adventurous), and despite the implication from Mike Tyson, I managed to return. I didn't even have to adopt a new screen name, either.
January 12th, 2015 at 12:03 AM ^
just so I can visit Lake Titicaca ...and then brag about it!
"Titicaca" ---just being able to say that name, over and over, gets my inner 7-year old giggling uncontrollably.
"Titties!"
"Caca!"
"Titicaca!"
/s
January 12th, 2015 at 1:33 AM ^
Thailand. Then you can go to Bangkok. Bangkok always makes your inner 7-year old laugh too.
Bangkok. ;-D
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You should see my avitar in person!
LOL
January 12th, 2015 at 2:42 PM ^
Upvote Grateful Dead reference!
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January 12th, 2015 at 5:42 PM ^
... is a reference to a documentary on surfing in the Great Lakes. It was made by Vince Deur who is from my home town of Grand Haven. An excerpt made it onto NBC's Jeep World of Adventure Sports. You can see it on the YouTube.
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