DR gunning for Heart and Hand

[dummiesoot 16,005]

1 minute ago, RaoulDuke66 said:

Well I'm older than him. Lucky b is still under 40.

Stop arguing with everyone and settle into the forum instead of what you are doing at the moment. 

[TamCoopz 19,605]

17 minutes ago, RaoulDuke66 said:

You're missing the point mate. If I was a mhank how would I know that the CL package went on sale the same day RDB signed back in 2000? Fact check it. 

They went on sale the day before he signed 

[DennyBlueNose 652]

2 minutes ago, RaoulDuke66 said:

If you look back at the history I said nothing until I was accused of being a current DR employee in one post, and a disgruntled ex DR employee in the next (all because I said we should go after the editor in chief). They picked on the wrong guy. 

Raoul Duke is one of the names Hunter S Thompson uses in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Page 66 had this passage:

Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era—the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run . . . but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant. . . .

History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights—or very early mornings—when I left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour wearing L. L. Bean shorts and a Butte sheepherder's jacket . . . booming through the Treasure Island tunnel at the lights of Oakland and Berkeley and Richmond, not quite sure which turn-off to take when I got to the other end (always stalling at the toll-gate, too twisted to find neutral while I fumbled for change) . . . but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: No doubt at all about that. . . .

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .

And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

For a new member of two days you have a fairly good grasp of who's who and the politics of the forum. 

Being accused of being a tim/journo/banned user is just part of the fun. If you're gonna last on here you need to grow thicker skin. 

Just an idea but as you pointed out this a Rangers fans forum, why not try talking about Rangers instead of picking fights and calling names. 

[scottyscott1963 18,287]

29 minutes ago, DennyBlueNose said:

Why you coming on here helll bent on arguing with everyone? 

Jeez give yourself a break man, been at it constant. 

Out of interest what book was your fav and what was so special about page 66?

Character from fear and loathing in Los Vegas which printed in 66,and Duke was the anti hero,who had a shed load of drugs in his personal collection,including acid soaked blotting paper   
Think this poster might be on a permanent high along the same lines as the duderino in the big Lebowski.

[DennyBlueNose 652]

1 minute ago, scottyscott1963 said:

Character from fear and loathing in Los Vegas which printed in 66,and Duke was the anti hero,who had a shed load of drugs in his personal collection,including acid soaked blotting paper   

This guy is suspect as fuck tbh

[DennyBlueNose 652]

24 minutes ago, RaoulDuke66 said:

You're missing the point mate. If I was a mhank how would I know that the CL package went on sale the same day RDB signed back in 2000? Fact check it. 

Cos you wrote a story on it for the DR?

[scottyscott1963 18,287]

5 minutes ago, DennyBlueNose said:

This guy is suspect as fuck tbh

That's what i meant.
He's a fictional character and he needs chased as he's only here to wind up Rangers fans.
Was actually surprised he was still here this morning.

[RaoulDuke66 20]

20 minutes ago, dummiesoot said:

Stop arguing with everyone and settle into the forum instead of what you are doing at the moment. 

All that's happened is I'm constantly being accused of being a DR plant. Have a look mate. It's still going on. And it started before I said boo to anyone. And when I said I wasn't I got a wanker sign. How exactly do you settle into that?

[RaoulDuke66 20]

16 minutes ago, TamCoopz said:

They went on sale the day before he signed 

I was standing in a queue at Ibrox the day he signed. It was a double signing. Fact. 

[RaoulDuke66 20]

14 minutes ago, DennyBlueNose said:

For a new member of two days you have a fairly good grasp of who's who and the politics of the forum. 

Being accused of being a tim/journo/banned user is just part of the fun. If you're gonna last on here you need to grow thicker skin. 

Just an idea but as you pointed out this a Rangers fans forum, why not try talking about Rangers instead of picking fights and calling names. 

Being accused of being a mhank and a DR journalist is fun? Have a word with yourself. 

[RaoulDuke66 20]

11 minutes ago, DennyBlueNose said:

Cos you wrote a story on it for the DR?

I'm too clever to be a journalist. 

[TamCoopz 19,605]

3 minutes ago, RaoulDuke66 said:

I was standing in a queue at Ibrox the day he signed. It was a double signing. Fact. 

Incorrect, I was in the queue and saw Ronald sign the next day 

[The Dude 20,026]

4 minutes ago, RaoulDuke66 said:

I'm too clever to be a journalist. 

Yet you've named yourself after one.

[Prso's headband 35,428]

Gaby isn’t taking his outing well I see

[peter huistra 1,740]

78 odd pages and now full on extracts from fear and loathing Las Vegas, this is why RM is the best forum on the internet.

 

[RaoulDuke66 20]

4 minutes ago, The Dude said:

Yet you've named yourself after one.

Now THAT is great post! You have rocketed in my estimation Sir. Love it! 

[DennyBlueNose 652]

5 minutes ago, RaoulDuke66 said:

Being accused of being a mhank and a DR journalist is fun? Have a word with yourself. 

From time to time you're gonna get that kinda thing thrown at you.

You can't just have a hissy fit every time someone sends you the shifty eyes. If you can't let it be water off a ducks back maybe RM isn't for you. 

 

[RaoulDuke66 20]

2 minutes ago, Prso's headband said:

Gaby isn’t taking his outing well I see

I'm ugly but I'm not that fugly! 

[The Dude 20,026]

1 minute ago, peter huistra said:

78 odd pages and now full on extracts from fear and loathing Las Vegas, this is why RM is the best forum on the internet.

 

Aye, posting an entire passage from F&L is certainly a unique way of proving youre a Rangers fan.

[DennyBlueNose 652]

Does anyone listen to Gersnet podcast?

[stu43rigger 327]

Am I the only cunt who has no idea what fear and loathing in las Vegas is??

[graeme_4 34,436]

I think we’re quick to accuse cunts of being from the dark side, but some just don’t help themselves and are very thin skinned. 

[The Dude 20,026]

4 minutes ago, stu43rigger said:

Am I the only cunt who has no idea what fear and loathing in las Vegas is??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas

[peter huistra 1,740]

3 minutes ago, DennyBlueNose said:

Does anyone listen to Gersnet podcast?

More of a Cjnovo992 man myself 

[RaoulDuke66 20]

6 minutes ago, stu43rigger said:

Am I the only cunt who has no idea what fear and loathing in las Vegas is??

I know I technically started this but I want to say - read it, you'll love it - and please can we make this the last ever post about Fear and Loathing?