Darkmod Euro meet: testing the water

[Destined]

I would prefer the weekend. Not only because you don't need to take holydays, but in Germany there are special offers for train tickets on the weekends.

[Bikerdude]

Is there any time you guys prefer? Over the week or only weekend? Which week in july / august?

I would have thought the weekend is preferable.

 

[SteveL]

Agree weekend is best. More people will be able to make it. And given that this will be a short break, it should be easily accessible from an airport, ideally by one train or bus direct from the airport. If we have more people in Germany, can you guys tell us which are the easiest German options?

[Destined]

fllood suggested Heidelberg and Rothenburg. If been to the latter a couple of times. Very beautyful town. For this group the criminalistic museum would also be quite interesting. It's about medieval crime and torture. I just checked: From Nuremberg you would have to change trains one or two times. With Heidelberg it is pretty much the same from Karlsruhe.

Regarding Tickets: In Bavaria there is a "Bavaria Ticket" (not sure, if other lands like Baden-Würtemberg also hae something similar, but I suppose they do): With this you can travel the whole day for 23 Euro, if you're alone, but for each extra person (5 max), it only costs 5 additional Euros. So six people can travel for about 9 Euros per person. It is valid for all trains (2nd class) and all local traffic; so this should be the cheapest way to go around in Germany itself.

[Bikerdude]

Agree weekend is best. More people will be able to make it. And given that this will be a short break, it should be easily accessible from an airport.

Whats cheaper, the plane or euro-tunnel..?

[Airship Ballet]

yo momma

[Bikerdude]

That might be the case, had she not passed away along with my best friend several years ago...

[Airship Ballet]

why would you bring that up rather than having a giggle, oh god what is wrong with you

 

Anyway, the tunnel is way, way cheaper, just a whole lot more effort on your part. It was like £50 for a long holiday last I went, but tiresome as anything driving everywhere.

Edited July 20, 2015 by Airship Ballet

[SeriousToni]

why would you bring that up rather than having a giggle, oh god what is wrong with you

 

Because the only person who giggles about your silly posts is yourself and I really ask myself what is wrong with you actually...

 

Anyways... I would prefer a weekend in august since I'm already busy for july. For the guys that travel by plane, there's some really cheap bus travels from the main german locations like airports, like Flixbus, which gets you around germany for only a few Euros. Don't travel by train, which is really expensive here.

[Springheel]

They don't have "yo mama" jokes in your part of the world? They're pretty ubiquitous here, and are about as offensive as bad puns.

[demagogue]

Let's be honest. There's something a little wrong about the whole lot of us.

 

We're not the first people I'd pen down in the 'perfectly normal' list I keep with me for inexplicable purposes.

[Airship Ballet]

They're pretty ubiquitous here, and are about as offensive as bad puns.

In fact that's the whole point. Like puns, you giggle at how inane they are. The biggest part of deriving humour in something is the subversion of expectations, so the sillier it is, the better.

Because the only person who giggles about your silly posts is yourself and I really ask myself what is wrong with you actually...

I mean if you don't see what's wrong with bringing that up out of nowhere in a public place then it must be me who's socially awkward after all. Golly.

We're not the first people I'd pen down in the 'perfectly normal' list I keep with me for inexplicable purposes.

Who is on that list?

[demagogue]

A friend of mine sells insurance and thinks the only purpose of games are, like Disney movies, a way to keep kids occupied, and is a lot of other perfectly fine things to be, like a football fan or proud supporter of our local police, school team, and military, and similar things that I don't have the time to get into now.

 

A guy like that is painfully normal and gets a high place on the list.

[Sotha]

They don't have "yo mama" jokes in your part of the world? They're pretty ubiquitous here, and are about as offensive as bad puns.

I didn't even know it is a joke. Guess it is dependent on location and age. For example, children have plenty of this kind of humor.

 

Normality always needs a reference point. A gamer probably calls a normal person normal because they want to feel special. You could also say, when hanging with gamers, that you are normal and everyone else is a 'non-gamer.' Statistics are unintuitive to humans, so normality is always very subjective.

 

It is nice that we are such a heterogeneous community. The danger is, that you might end up telling cancer jokes to someone who has cancer or has loved once who died due to cancer. No harm in discretion, but sometimes someone is bound to get offended.

[Bikerdude]

FEI. I was neither amused or offended, I was being matter of fact.

 

But back ON TOPIC, I will have a look at Eurotunnel prices to some of the places in Germany mentioned thus far.

[SeriousToni]

So for finding a concrete date you might want to join us here: http://doodle.com/uurcfv88ty8antk4

[Bikerdude]

@stevel and SirTaff, which dates are you guys thinking off so the 3 of us can travel at the same time.

[SeriousToni]

@stevel and SirTaff, which dates are you guys thinking off so the 3 of us can travel at the same time.

Just post your open weekends in the doodle and at the end the weekend with the most matches wins

[Bikerdude]

With in reason, ALL my weekends are open. So I can work around SteveL/Sirtaff.

[Capela]

hehe..this is a great idea, unfortunate im suffer from several stress and anxiety, i cant even do 100 Km on a highway. But if you decide to come to Lisbon just say. If not at dont forget to record it.

[SeriousToni]

If not at dont forget to record it.

Hm I am not sure if we really want to make photos / videos public.

 

Especially when we got drunk...

 

[Sir Taffsalot]

I'm definately up for this. I can't do the weekends of 11-13 of September and 18-20 of September. I've also only just noticed that my passport is out of date. I'll be applying for a new one ASAP.

[Bikerdude]

Well when ST has his new pp and he and Stevel have dats that coincide I will join them.

[Destined]

I will have to remove the first weekend (or at least one day of the weekend) in September, because my grandparents will celebrate their 80th and 85th birthday together. I am afraid, I cannot miss that... But I don't know the exact day. I will update the Doodle as soon as I know.

[RPGista]

Uhhh... You guys need to watch more american humour. Also, loosen up.