Thread: New Orleans ....

No, that's the toilet. Drive on the interstate with the window down going by the airport and you'll quickly learn why.

Originally Posted by ROID

It seems its not as trashy as it used to be before katrina. Don't get me wrong, its still trashy but a clean trashy now. garbage isn't piled up on the streets.

"“If any city in this country needed a bath, it was New Orleans. Cajuns are dirty. That’s a fact. That’s French and Redneck merging. That’s a hygiene combination no antiperspirant can tackle." - Tosh

Originally Posted by DOMS

"“If any city in this country needed a bath, it was New Orleans. Cajuns are dirty. That’s a fact. That’s French and Redneck merging. That’s a hygiene combination no antiperspirant can tackle." - Tosh

lawl! Tosh is funny... and correct.

Originally Posted by vortrit

lawl! Tosh is funny... and correct.

Oh, hell yes, he is!

That quote is in this part of his stand up (I think):

Originally Posted by ROID

I haven't been but to a few places in my life, New Orleans is a great place. We just parked and walked all day saturday and all day sunday. I have worked in New orleans before but never enjoyed anything. It seems its not as trashy as it used to be before katrina. Don't get me wrong, its still trashy but a clean trashy now. garbage isn't piled up on the streets. The homeless problems seems a little worse now. I feel bad for them even if they are just a bunch of drunks and druggies.

I drank maybe 4 beers, I enjoyed all the food and the shops more than getting twisted. Unique people in New Orleans.

I will say that the indigenous population are the most rude people I have ever met, mainly the workers. I guess they are tired of tourist but why bite the hand that feeds you ?

What I would give to own a bar or restaurant in the French Quarter. I know a few places we ate had to make almost 50k to 60k on a weekend. A place called Mother's had a solid line for hours.

Try to post some pictures up tonight. I've already skipped a class this morning and I'm going to be late for another one. I'm pretty sure I was meant to float through life on a trust fund but somehow i got screwed.

You have no idea how right you are. It took me while living here to understand, but I get it now. The rest of the country does nothing but talk shit about New Orleans and Louisiana in general, but let us throw a party, and all you fuckheads show up.

Louisiana has a completely different breed of people. I fucking love it. The people here speak their mind, and they don't kiss your ass with a bunch of fake southern hospitality. They are just a lot more real. Almost every city and town in southern Louisiana uses any excuse to throw a party. We have had four festivals in the last two weeks alone in Hammond.

Originally Posted by DOMS

Awesome!

Originally Posted by KelJu

You have no idea how right you are. It took me while living here to understand, but I get it now. The rest of the country does nothing but talk shit about New Orleans and Louisiana in general, but let us throw a party, and all you fuckheads show up.

Louisiana has a completely different breed of people. I fucking love it. The people here speak their mind, and they don't kiss your ass with a bunch of fake southern hospitality. They are just a lot more real. Almost every city and town in southern Louisiana uses any excuse to throw a party. We have had four festivals in the last two weeks alone in Hammond.

You're right, every December we have several thousand tourists flood Waikiki for the Marathon and those bastards run through and piss on everything cause they drank too much water before the race, I can only imagine how bad it could get with a bunch of drunks...

There are some great little places in NO, a very neat little world where musicians and artistic minded people thrive, mostly because they can get fucked up every day and not be out of place. I would like to live there for a while just as a poet, the impression I got when I was there the 2 times I felt the city had a certain blessing of the muses. maybe it was all the musical vibes keeping all things in alignment, or maybe it was cause I had slight delirium tremens and a high level of THC in my blood.

I imagined privateers marching up from the piers, with the rocking swagger of sailors too long at sea heading for the ale houses and then the whore houses. Walking down certain streets I imagined William Faulkner or Elmore Leonard looking through the same eyes as mine and tales forming from the various sights; and at every passing of a stranger I felt they could be a character of John Kennedy Toole's 'A Confederacy of Dunces'.

New Orleans is a blast! I am glad we went! Roid finally had a good plan
I would definatly go back and visit