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Ghost of LL

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  1. 46 minutes ago, randomhorn said:

    “Come early, be loud, stay late, wear orange blue.”

    do you have match tickets yet? 

    Yeah--it's my birthday, so Mrs.LL sprung for some premium tickets.  Something about the locker room--like there's a club in the locker room NFL teams use when they're playing there?  I don't exactly know, but whatever.

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  2. 15 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

    Considered the Grosvenor?  Marriott property.  Bond street.  Great places to wander and get lost.  Never far from excellent random eating.  

    That's on the list.  It's one of the several properties Marriott has in Mayfair.  And I guess that's a big question I have: for neighborhoods, should I hang out in Mayfair or should I do the Edition (kind of on the north end of Soho)?

  3. 2 hours ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    I just got back from London last Friday.  I generally stay at the St. Ermin's hotel.  

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    From a location perspective, it is really central. There are also really good tube links (St. James station right on the back of the hotel, and Victoria just down the road), and the staff is fantastic.  Granted, I stay there 6-8 weeks a year give or take.  It is also a Marriott hotel (I have Titanium status, so that helps too).

    I have also recently stayed at the Dixon (Bermondsey, also Marriott) and the W in Soho in the last year or so. W is a nice hotel, but the location, right off Picadilly Circus, is a fucking beating. I like the Dixon a lot. It is quieter, and you are a quick walk to Borough Market.

    However, if I were in London just for fun, I would stay at the London Edition. Location cannot be beat, and I am a real fan of Editions in general (stays at Madrid and Singapore in the last two years were most excellent).

    On this last trip, I had the fortune of being able to go out to Bibi, Mambow, Mamapen (the only Cambodian place in London), and KOL. All were fantastic, but my favorite was Mambow. Holy shit was that good.

    I stayed at the St. Ermin's last time I was in London and really liked it.  So that's a plus and minus, right?  On the plus side, I'm familiar with it and really liked it.  On the downside, it's not new.  And I like staying at a different hotel in a city like New York or London each time not just for the hotel, but also to explore the neighborhood a bit.

    And thanks for the restaurant recommendations.  I don't think I've ever had Cambodian, so that may be something to check out.

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  4. Ok, London people--I need a little help.  Mrs.LL and I are thinking about heading over for a long weekend in late January to go to a Tottenham match and maybe a Fulham match that night.  Where should we stay (preferably a Marriott property because points).  I can do one of the Marriott properties in Mayfair; the one that is across the river from Westminster Palace, the W in Soho or one of the places in the City.  Or somewhere else entirely.

    Or I could blow off the Marriott properties and stay at the Savoy.

    So help a brother out.  I'm just not up to speed on the London neighborhoods right now, and need to know where I want to walk around, pop into bars/pubs, and just hang out for a few days around the football matches.

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  5. Mr. Pibb is superior to Dr Pepper.

    Yeah--I said it.  Just because it's from Texas doesn't mean it's superior.  Or even good.  Actually, many of the things we've come to conclude are "great" just because they're from Texas are, in fact, barely adequate (see, e.g., Blue Bell, Whataburger, Southwest Airlines).

    I came to this realization yesterday at the AMC movie theater, which is one of the few places where you get Mr. Pibb because Coca-Cola has a stranglehold on the pouring rights there.  But the cherry vanilla Mr. Pibb is fucking sublime.

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  6. 19 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

    I have mixed feelings on this. On the one hand, fuck ‘em. On the other hand, education is the only way out of fascism. Further eroding the quality of rural schools will only expand the ignorant mob. And it’s not like these dipshits will ever understand the consequences. Replacing secular curricula with religion, pseudoscience, and ahistorical, performative patriotism is exactly what they want. They’ll be blissfully ignorant.

    Theres not much schadenfreude to be had from a bunch of idiots enjoying the fuck out of becoming even worse citizens.

    But on the other-other hand, we're going to need a steady supply of low-skill, low-wage workers if Trump is going to undertake his mass deportation.  And I can think of few better places to get those workers than rural Arkansas, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Texas once the federal government cuts their communities off from the federal largesse that keeps them inhabitable.

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