Women

I didn't think prostitution was legal in Las Vegas itself.

However when I was there this summer ( I had booked flights but no
accomodation so was deciding where I went as I felt like it )and was
booking hotels for the next few days in the lobby of my hotel one
evening it was pretty clear that they did a roaring trade in
prostitution. In 30 minutes I must have seen at least half a dozen big
blokes arrive to collect 'their girls'. Where someone had gone over his
allotted time the minders were calling the room using the desk phone!

Some of the minders were on first name terms with the desk clerk and got
coffee from him.

It's worthwhile. I quite like it as a spectacle, not really my thing
though.

 

Actually that's very well phrased. Except I *think* it does believe it's
the last word in style.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, ogden amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

Why would you want to avoid uptown?

Don't you get mugged if you go downtown?

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, ogden amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

That was the only reason I went to Northern Ireland.

 

Halesowen for me.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Switters amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

I'm a country(ish) bumpkin as well. I'm in London because I well, found
myself here and now I'm a bit lost.

Heh.

I like to keep that quiet.

 

Juneau, Alaska for me. What do I win?

 

Well, if you go seriously uptown, like above 112th street, you're in
Harlem. Whereas if you go seriously downtown, below Canal street,
you're in the financial district. More likely to be mugged in the
former than the latter. But having spent time staggering drunk around
most bits south of Central Park and not been mugged by anyone, I'd
say so long as you avoid Harlem after dark, most of Manhattan is
pretty safe.

Very (very very) roughly speaking, working from the top down...

Harlem = Hackney
Upper East Side = Knightsbridge
Upper West Side = Mayfair
Midtown = Leicester Square/Coventry Street/Haymarket
East Village = Soho
West Village = Shoreditch
Lower East Side = Camden
Lower West Side = Clerkenwell
Financial District = City

....but with bigger buildings and worse driving.

 

A cold dick?

 

Nah, there were always a few warm places to stick it.

 

"Looks like you've blown a seal, mate."

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, ogden amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

Just goes to show. I thought your uptowns were your more affluent areas.
I suppose you could say it's like comparing (very very very roughly
speaking) Barnet to Watford )

I don't really like being there in the_daytime_

Yeah, these are ok but pricey. The people aren't as rude as other areas
but then most don't live there.

So the villages are ok for tourists but there's a high chance of being
accosted in some way.

*Worse* driving?

How can it be worse? I mean the standard of driving in London is pretty
poor imo, but that's more down to frustration and anger.

What angers me, specially if I'm not on the bike is when you're waiting
to putt out of a sidestreet, the main road is chocca from roadworks or
traffic lights or whatever and when the queue on the main road moves,
they'll still bunch up thus preventing you from getting out, *despite*
them not actually moving any further in the queue.

Makes me fucking seeth that does.

 

Keep walking East until you find yourself.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Switters amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

I don't think it's myself I need to find, rather the path I lost when I
was on my "experimentation" tip. It's like I'm in some sort of parallel
universe, like I'm playing a record that's a groove or three out IYKWIM.

 

And it's probably right.

 

wrote:

I was reading something on the web just the other day. It's all about
"counties" over there, isn't it? Well, the website was saying that it
was a little-known fact that <whatever-county-Vegas-is-in> has legal
whoring.

"I read it on the internet so it must be true"

Slick business.

I like hotels where you sit down to check in, and they bring you fresh
juice and hot towels.

Next time I go to the States, I'm going to make sure I go down there.
It's only an hour's flight from my HQ in Colorado Springs.

I want to try and swing by NYC, too, to see the Graingers.

 

Uptown means the bits either side of Central Park:

Harlem is north of Central park, and isn't really Uptown in that sense.

Umm, not really. Most of the tourists seem to stick to midtown (Times
Square, Rockefeller, 42nd Street, etc) - Greenwich Village is great.

I mean in terms of general feel, rather than likelihood of having your
wallet pinched.

 

Instead of sitting around stressing go and read that book. Step away
from UKRM and pick up that lovely paperback. Trust me. It will do you
good.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, ogden amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

Ah right. Gotcha. So someone being an "uptown girl" as in the fab 80's
classic from Jilly Joel doesn't necessarily mean they're wealthy, it
just means that she lives on one side of Central Park.

Heh, well I *am* learning this shit, it's not like I've ever been there
or had someone tell me.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Lady Nina amazed us all with this pearl of
wisdom:

OK, Miss Nina, I trust you.

I'll have a decent excuse to put off the housework (again) too