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Re: Las Vegas convention 2009!

Postby Asso » Sun Sep 14, 2008 2:36 pm

Bookworm wrote:Thanks this has helped a lot. Maybe I could get my huddy to come with me. I wont get him to come to the convention, but maybe he could go to gamble or something.
There are so many things I've never seen and don't have any experience about so I don't know what to expect. I know we have a casino somewhere in Helsinki, but I've never been there and I can't even imagine what a place with multiple casinos is like.

Eh, Eh, Bookworm :lol: :lol:
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Re: Las Vegas convention 2009!

Postby Alelou » Sun Sep 14, 2008 2:44 pm

Okay... why not now?
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Re: Las Vegas convention 2009!

Postby Bookworm » Sun Sep 14, 2008 3:34 pm

Asso wrote:Eh, Eh, Bookworm :lol: :lol:
Some day I will explain the meaning of the term "Casino" in Italian slang. :D



Hmmm, some things come to mind what it could mean. :lol:
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Re: Las Vegas convention 2009!

Postby Asso » Sun Sep 14, 2008 5:06 pm

Alelou wrote:Okay... why not now?

OK.
Basically, Casino's meaning is "Mess", a great, great, great mess.
But this meaning is a "free translation" in its turn.
Do you remember those peculiar places, where some pretty damsels were going around not too much dressed, talking and - separately - doing something else with some men, who - but who knows the why! - were laughing and were... pleased, someway?
Well! Surely those places had to be "a mess", in a sense of way.
A... CASINO! :lol:
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Re: Las Vegas convention 2009!

Postby Alelou » Sun Sep 14, 2008 5:13 pm

AKA in English ... a cat house? A house of ill repute? A bordello?

Actually, I was a bit perplexed to see what sure looked a heck of a lot like one of your pretty damsels standing on the corner at a rest stop on the New York Thruway yesterday, on a Sunday afternoon, with many families driving in and out... in a very quiet upstate area. That's not something that usually goes on so obviously.
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Re: Las Vegas convention 2009!

Postby Asso » Sun Sep 14, 2008 5:26 pm

Alelou wrote:AKA in English ... a cat house? A house of ill repute? A bordello?

Actually, I was a bit perplexed to see what sure looked a heck of a lot like one of your pretty damsels standing on the corner at a rest stop on the New York Thruway yesterday, on a Sunday afternoon, with many families driving in and out... in a very quiet upstate area. That's not something that usually goes on so obviously.

I used past tense, Alelou. :D
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Re: Las Vegas convention 2009!

Postby Alelou » Sun Sep 14, 2008 5:41 pm

?? So a sailor could not stroll into a pretty Italian city today and ask after the casino?
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Re: Las Vegas convention 2009!

Postby Asso » Sun Sep 14, 2008 7:09 pm

Alelou wrote:?? So a sailor could not stroll into a pretty Italian city today and ask after the casino?

No, Alelou, he can't.
And... please understand me (you know what women represent for me)... I don't know if it is a good thing.
Our towns are full of... not too much dressed damsels, nowadays, especially since Italy became a bridge between Africa and Europe, but also a destination for many countries of Eastern Europe.
Our streets are a bad spectacle, on these days.
And that wounds very much my romantic male heart. :(
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Re: Las Vegas convention 2009!

Postby Bookworm » Sun Sep 14, 2008 7:52 pm

When I was in Italy last time I learned that few completely normal words in finnish are swear words in Italy.
I wonder what other complety normal words are something else.

Asso wrote:Our towns are full of... not too much dressed damsels, nowadays, especially since Italy became a bridge between Africa and Europe, but also a destination for many countries of Eastern Europe.
Our streets are a bad spectacle, on these days.


We were really surprised here last autumn when there started to be beggars on our streets in Helsinki, but I haven't noticed any that kind of damsels here. I am sure there must be those kind of damsels, but maybe they aren't very openly on the streets. It is so sad that there are some very poor people living very near us and also in europe and then when they come to our countries they usually wont be able to get decent jobs and have difficult time. Like those beggars in Helsinki I'm sure that they would rather work than beg on the streets especially because people here aren't that tolerating towards beggars, because we aren't really used to people begging on streets, but here it's almost impossible to get any jobs if one doesn't speak finnish. What is the most saddest in the situation is that even if they have to beg on the streets and have horrible time it's still better than in their own countries and they earn more to support their family here begging than being at home. :(
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Re: Las Vegas convention 2009!

Postby Bookworm » Tue Sep 16, 2008 6:22 am

Fortunately there is still a lot of time before this convention because I just checked how much the plane tickets would cost. I might get to Las Vegas and back with about 900-1000 euros. There is no way I can afford to pay for my hubby to come too and he can't afford it himself since he just started university studies again after several years of working. Does anyone know how much the hotels cost and food and things like that?
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Re: Las Vegas convention 2009!

Postby Alelou » Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:26 pm

To get pricing ideas, you could go to expedia.com and put in the travel info.

You want to avoid anything with one star, and carefully check location on anything with two stars. And definitely read the reviews.

Most of the time I go to expedia to check up on hotels, then I contact the hotel chain directly through their own web site or toll-free number. They usually meet Expedia's rate and you don't have to pay in advance or at least it's easier to cancel. Once in awhile I just go with the Expedia deal because it's unbeatable. Other options are hotels.com and ... uh... Priceline.com, I guess, but I could never figure them out.
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Re: Las Vegas convention 2009!

Postby Elessar » Fri Sep 19, 2008 6:24 pm

Bookworm wrote:Fortunately there is still a lot of time before this convention because I just checked how much the plane tickets would cost. I might get to Las Vegas and back with about 900-1000 euros. There is no way I can afford to pay for my hubby to come too and he can't afford it himself since he just started university studies again after several years of working. Does anyone know how much the hotels cost and food and things like that?



Hotel stays at the convention hotel, I believe, have always been $110 USD/night but with inflation and everything, may go up before the convention. The hook is, if you could find female guests with whom you could share a room it can get really cheap really fast.

I'm bad at eating cheap. In Cherry Hill, the ladies went to the store and just got cheap groceries - which works well. Hotel restaraunt lunches are between $8-$15, dinners $12-$30, depending on the scale of the establishment. Really nice places in Vegas, and particularly outside the hotel, obviously, are going to be much more than that.

And of course if you're going to do one of the 'meal' events, you have to budget that in. And those are pricy, but obviously you're not paying for the food, :lol:.
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Re: Las Vegas convention 2009!

Postby enterprikayak » Sun Sep 21, 2008 4:56 am

Elessar wrote:if you could find female guests with whom you could share a room it can get really cheap really fast.


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Re: Las Vegas convention 2009!

Postby justTripn » Sun Sep 21, 2008 1:19 pm

Ooo me, me. But what about Priso?
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Re: Las Vegas convention 2009!

Postby enterprikayak » Tue Sep 30, 2008 7:41 am

Well, clearly, he'll stay home with the younguns. :lol:
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