Comments on: Someone PLEASE burn Las Vegas to the ground. I’ll give you $50.

By: jose sense

jose sense — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:03:18 +0000

I came out to Vegas for a new beginning. Left three years later. There is no sense of community, everybody I knew didn’t know anybody there after living there for 10 years. The jobs don’t pay you squat. It is one gigantic tourist town, if you are not a celebrity or at least a visiting one, there is no place for you. Oh, and it’s a great town if you want to see a musical act for double of what it would cost you in another major city. It used to be a cheap place to live, not any more, other than buy a cheap house because the housing market tanked. And I have never run into more flakes in all of the 10 major cities and towns that I have lived in than when I lived in Vegas. Oh and the Violent crime index is double the rate than what is the national standard. But they let you carry a gun there! I guess you might need it!

By: Nico

Nico — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 00:12:36 +0000

I’ll never go to Vegas for the very reasons illustrated by this article. I prefer to hang out with humans.

By: Lola

Lola — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:59:15 +0000

I live in Vegas, born and raised. It is the most vile, disgusting place on the planet. I know this post is old, but I had to comment after reading my exact thoughts on this city from someone else. I avoid the strip like the fucking plague. You basically nailed everything I’m surrounded by on a daily basis. The people you see in that video all look exactly like everyone I’ve ever known. Oh and if Vegas couldn’t get even more disgusting, there’s a commercial for a new strip club called “Badda Bing” where it shows a schluby loser, made to look extra schluby, sitting on the couch with his perfectly lovely girlfriend (who, of course, is already too good for him). He’s asleep, dreaming about being at the club, it cuts back and forth between his dream and his girlfriend trying to wake his smug, smirking ass up. At the end it shows the stripper sitting on his lap in the dream saying “I know what men like, men like me.” in some bizarre, baby voice. I honestly couldn’t believe I’d just seen that when it first came on.

By: Turel

Turel — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 07:47:13 +0000

>.> Fifty? hmmm…o.o I do need more money for college….throw in a free lunch and you have a deal! :D

(this is a joke! I’m not really going to burn down LA.)

By: JOhn

JOhn — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:42:13 +0000

I went to Vegas once as a kid, and it sucked. The only things you can do are eat, drink, gamble, and hookers. Obviously, a minor can only do one of those. I think the time I spent in the hotel playing video games was the most fun part of the trip. Fuck Vegas.

By: Plecto

Plecto — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:50:56 +0000

Gosh, I find myself strangely mesmerized – what starts off as a ramble about how Vegas sucks (which it truly does) turns into something quite substantial.

By: harmony

harmony — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:40:35 +0000

this was great! nice analysis of american culture.

some of the funniest quotes:

0:38 “our staff makes sure that no guest ruins the experience for another guest.” (they’d have to kick out every last one of em, then!)

1:20 “this is, possibly, the best day of my life i’ve ever had.” (said by the guy who was kidnapped by a sadist at 3 months old and just escaped from the torture dungeon the night before.)

By: Renee

Renee — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:27:45 +0000

Gotta say that not only should vegas be burned to the ground but every single fucking casino on the planet. They are nothing but black holes sucking the life out of people. If I never set foot in another one it will be to damn soon.

By: crankosaur

crankosaur — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:52:43 +0000

Ha, I’m moving to Vegas for school in about six weeks. I went there last month and found it completely fascinating… I mean, an entire city whose biggest industry revolves around appealing to the most base desires inspired by a patriarchal system? The greed, the exploitation, the lack of pants being worn by women… It’s incredible.
But just as syndicalist702 said, aside from the strip, the rest of the city is pretty awesome, with lots of thrift stores and taco places and laws that allow open alcohol containers in public.

By: Nine Deuce

Nine Deuce — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:12:15 +0000

If you ever go to Vegas, steer clear of Vegas. That business about it being high end now might be true, but all that means is that the mega-hotels have figured out how to get customers to pay full price for hotels and side attractions, whereas in the past you could get rooms and do other shit there cheaply because they were trying to get you to hang out in the casinos. Now they get to hose everybody from both ends (I didn’t mean that to sound sexual, but it does).