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Your Mom is a Garbage Shore-Tour
- Thread starter Duhgreat
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Not when you have to smell that rank-ass shit all over downtown now. ? Smells like Satan’s asshole.Didn't they already ruin it with weed or was that a benefit?
Austin-Powers
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But it's coool and hip mannn take a hit heh heh hehhh
It's like, what's that smell? Either somebody buttered their burned toast with shit, or I'm having a stroke and I don't know it, or that's just the herb again.
Did you mean "succeed" or "secede"?
Yet again the East is rumbling about it . . . and yet again their bill will die in committee.
I tried Whidbey for 6 years, I never want to go back.
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Why is Whidbey bad?
It's a small town on an island and it took 2.5 hours or more to get to Seattle or Vancouver and more than a handful of the same old places for entertainment, especially if you want to socialize with non-Navy folks along with non-enlisted and non-married women. For a bachelor the opportunities to change that status weren't plentiful.
Drivers in the NW also suck, a significant portion of whom drive well below the speed limit even on highways and even better have a tendency to do so in large packs. Driving behind a cluster of folks going ~50 on I-5 to Seattle or Canada for a solid hour was maddening, especially when it happened almost every time I made that drive.
Finally the weather was overcast and dreary from early fall to late spring, hovering in the 40's to 50's with drizzle and hardly a peek of the sun and it does become a drag.
It's definitely not the worst place in the world to be stationed but it wasn't Shangri-La either. All that said I will likely retire to WA state, the wife is from Vancouver, Canada and misses it a lot. Not Whidbey though, she wasn't a fan either.
That doesn't even count as an airmet. I think we should come up with a new term, something like "dumbmet."
*AIRMEH
Which is why you go to Seattle on the weekends. Even I and my horrible lack of game knew that.
Can't argue that point. They also have a disturbing habit of not understanding the concept of "keep right except to pass." Thus forcing you to bracket the slowpoke on the center lane as you and the other driver pass them on both sides.
Of note, this only applies outside Greater Seattle, especially during commute times. Inside that bubble, every square inch of roadway must be used, no quarter is given or expected, and if you don't establish dominance, you may be summarily killed and eaten. It's fucking insane.
That happens until winter hits and it gets cold. And then comes back until spring. But from late November to mid-January and again from May to August, you get this . . .
And this . . .
And if you go backpacking by Baker, you get this . . .
Like I said, wonderful place for as long as the Seattleites aren't successful in turning it into California's insecure little brother.
Every base has its upsides, downsides, lovers, and haters. A lot of it depends on where you are in your life and your interests. If you like backpacking and the great outdoors than Whidbey isn't bad. If youre a young single JO looking for love then SD may your place. If you're married with kids then looking to have a home in a good school district may make SD seem less appealing. A lot of Helo guys hate NOB but the jet guys fight get to Oceana. Some guys are terrified of going to Japan and others will never leave. Different folks, different strokes.
Only send your kid to Public School in San Diego if you want them to watch The Producers, Blazing Saddles, and Monty Python's Life of Brian in class as a part of their curriculum.