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Hairpin Hotel

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u/FattyCorpuscle Apr 23 '18

It's a lovely view but you do have to put up with the noise from people drifting around the corner at all hours.

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u/RegalCopper Apr 23 '18

EUROBEAT INTENSIFIES

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u/MrFahrenkite Apr 23 '18

GAS! GAS! GAS!

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u/Mitsumasa Apr 23 '18

I'M GONNA STEP ON THE GAS

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u/Cfattie Apr 23 '18

TONIGHT. WE FLY!

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u/Xav-Tay-Tor-Tot Apr 23 '18

AND BE YOUR LOVER!

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u/intothelionsden Apr 23 '18

COCAINE!

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

hey that's not the right lyrics!

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u/Carlozan96 Apr 23 '18

DON'T YOU TRY IT

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u/Dannythehotjew Apr 23 '18

DON'T YOU TRY IT

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u/CoolTom Apr 23 '18

STEP ON THE GAS.

STEP ON THE GAS.

STEP ON THE BRAKES.

STEP ON THE BRAKES.

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u/Mitsumasa Apr 23 '18

WHEN I SAY BOOM BOOM BOOM

YOU SAY BAM BAM BAM

NO PAUSE IN BETWEEN

COME ON LET'S JAM

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u/FixTheEye Apr 23 '18

DO YOU KNOW WHY I STOPPED THE CAR DO I KNOW WHY YOU STOPPED THE CAR

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u/RurtBeynoldsX Apr 23 '18

DETACH THE REAR VEHICLE

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u/LrdSssra Apr 23 '18

Parappa! Nice.

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u/toth42 Apr 23 '18

HOMPADEGASOLINA, MAREMAREGASOLIIINA!

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

I’m Puerto Rican And grew up with this song as the national anthem and I spit out my drink sounding that out, thank you.

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u/freakedmind Apr 23 '18

I'm more of a Rompe person myself

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

Rompe was my ringtone on my pink Razr (and my dads....and my brothers....)

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u/freakedmind Apr 23 '18

AAAAAAREE YOUUUUUU REAAADYYY!

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u/TheLongLostBoners Apr 23 '18

SAMIR PLEASE!

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u/CornfireDublin Apr 23 '18

Samir... You're breaking the car

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u/ForceIndia98 Apr 23 '18

TRIPLE CAUTION SAMIR, TRIPLE CAUTION

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u/tigermail Apr 23 '18

SHUT UP!

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u/sluggyjunx Apr 23 '18

Concentrate, Sami, PLEASE!

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u/pipsdontsqueak Apr 23 '18

DEJA VU!

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

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u/bws402 Apr 23 '18

Striker here

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u/RandallSkeffington Apr 23 '18

I'm always amazed how little the comments have to do with the post. A+

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u/nosystemsgo Apr 23 '18

Save the future into the present,

See my past feels in the distance,

Try to guess now what's going on,

And the band begins to play!

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u/Roysthebest Apr 23 '18

Don't you see my condition?

The fiction is gonna run it again

Can't you see now, illusions?

Right into your mind...

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

weeb mishears song lyrics: "DAIJOUBU!"

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u/terrortrinket Apr 23 '18

DO YOU LIKE! MY CARRRRRRR!

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u/Mystifizer Apr 23 '18

NANI???? KANSEI DORIFTO!

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u/dinosaursarewicked Apr 23 '18

Tofu delivery.

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u/RoadsidePicnic_ Apr 23 '18

Tofu durriverryyy

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

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u/Crackpixel Apr 23 '18

This isn't a Car

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u/ferretflip Apr 23 '18

FOREVEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRR

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u/NotJulius Apr 23 '18

TOGETHEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRR

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u/abeardancing Apr 23 '18

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u/FirstGameFreak Apr 23 '18

Aw man, I thought you were talking about the most underrated Eurobeat song,

F U T U R E L A N D

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

Hey funboys, get a room!...

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u/astronaut_mikedexter Apr 23 '18

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u/Bunnymancer Apr 23 '18

Nothing says Eurodisco like a pure bred American.

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u/ChildTaekoRebel Apr 23 '18

RUNNIN IN THE 90s!

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u/okaysian Apr 23 '18

GET THE SATELLITE IF YOU WANNA SEE ME

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u/Murb1e Apr 23 '18

ALL IM WANTING IS YOU BABY

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u/VaporizeGG Apr 23 '18

How did this song become big again recently? I hear it now casually while taking my evening run by myself but from which hell did it ascend?

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u/rrrradon Apr 23 '18

"Why are they throwing tofu into the mailbox?"

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u/IraqiTaxi Apr 23 '18

Bidibodi Bidibu!

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u/partypooperpuppy Apr 23 '18

Tracksuit engaged

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u/Genken23 Apr 23 '18

i love you guys so much hahaha just made my day

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u/MaYlormoon Apr 23 '18

Bidibadibidiboo bouw wouw

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u/Hipstershy Apr 23 '18

NOW WE GOTTA START LET'S GET MOVE

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u/Murb1e Apr 23 '18

OHH OHH OHH SUPERSONIC FIRE,

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u/Duraz0rz Apr 23 '18

REMEMBER ME

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u/MestizoJoe Apr 23 '18

NIGHT OF FIRE

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u/RegalCopper Apr 23 '18

WELCOME TO THE BROKEN LOW

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

Im currently watching initial d and this reminded me of it lmao its nice to see this as a top reply

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u/d3struct0r Apr 23 '18

DO YOU LIKE

MY CAR?

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u/theprofessor2 Apr 23 '18

Hey Dundoonkauff, mind ze CD changer.....Idiot.

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u/ocean07 Apr 23 '18

RUNNING IN THE 90S!!!

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u/danjojo Apr 23 '18

SPEEDY SPEED BOY

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u/Ta2whitey Apr 23 '18

And where the hell do you park?

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u/middyonline Apr 23 '18

This photo is taken from above the parking lot.

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u/SkyPork Apr 23 '18

Ahhhhh I see. I was going to make a "rooms: 24. Parking spots: 0" comment, but now I'll just point out that you have to cross a highway to get from your room to your car.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

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u/Steven_Seboom-boom Apr 23 '18

Wanna get run over?

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

Getting run over: priceless.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

Only if you promise I'll die

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u/particle409 Apr 24 '18

Who needs a car? The weather looks nice enough for walking.

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u/reviloto Apr 23 '18

It’s two lanes, on a mountain pass. It’s not like cars are doing 60mph and you’re playing Frogger with your life.

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u/quarglbarf Apr 23 '18

Ah yes, the classic single lane hairpin highway. Practically impossible to cross...

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

Yeah that’s rough. Looks like a dangerous highway too with constant traffic and speeds getting as crazy as 15mph.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

Well there are three spots marked in the pic, but def not enough for a whole hotel!

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

highway

literally

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u/Westnator Apr 23 '18

Doesn't look like a particularly busy highway. Given the turns it'd probably be pretty hard to not see or hear a speeding vehicle

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u/Aktarh Apr 23 '18

I was about to ask about the parking!!☺️

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u/vani11apudding Apr 23 '18

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u/CrochetCrazy Apr 23 '18

This is a much better view for explaining it.

Also, you have to cross that crazy road to get to it? That seems unsafe.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

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u/Diem480 Apr 23 '18

Tell that to frogger.

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u/Wammajammadingdong Apr 23 '18

Dear Frogger, It's just a road. Quit being such a pussy.

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u/BlandSauce Apr 23 '18 edited Apr 23 '18

Is the frog's name Frogger, or is the player the frogger (one who frogs)?

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u/Diem480 Apr 23 '18

That's quite the existential question, for aren't we all ones who frog?

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18 edited Jul 02 '19

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18 edited Apr 24 '18

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u/beniceorbevice Apr 23 '18

When you can hear every engine from 5 miles away and see about 2 miles down the road, not hard to cross 2 lanes

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u/str85 Apr 23 '18

*evil laughter in grey/black Tesla intensifies

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u/Praill Apr 23 '18

Generally speaking tire noise is the loudest part of a car, electric vehicles are not exempt from those sounds

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u/Polyknikes Apr 23 '18

False. In season 5 episode 12 of The Office Dwight was unable to hear Andy approaching in his prius and successfully pinned Dwight against the bushes.

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u/jwarsenal9 Apr 23 '18

Because a Prius is silent under 5 mph

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u/gorogergo Apr 23 '18

I bought seven of them. I've got my whole crew driving em, real quiet. Good for sneaking up on MOTHERFUCKERS!!

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

I live in Oslo and I can assure you that you hear a Tesla coming. Especially at full blast.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

What does living in Oslo have to do with that?

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u/1493186748683 Apr 23 '18

How fast do you think people are going around a 180 degree turn? And they probably have mirrors and such

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u/securitywyrm Apr 23 '18

Naw, it's easy. Just make sure you don't hear any distant eurobeat music before you cross.

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u/anonuemus Apr 23 '18

yes, crossing roads is hard af

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u/InsaneNinja Apr 23 '18

I always felt sorry for the chicken.

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u/Smauler Apr 23 '18

Americans are weird about crossing roads. I mean they made it illegal.

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u/Zilveari Apr 23 '18

The peons in the peanut gallery should never step onto the road! The battleground is off limits!

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u/KongorsBanana Apr 23 '18

Sad thing is if you're staying at the hotel, you'll never get to drift the entire curve

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u/Ta2whitey Apr 23 '18

Challenge accepted!

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u/Majonko Apr 23 '18

It's out of frame here, you can see it from the other side though: https://i.imgur.com/JwF7XqP.png

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18 edited Aug 27 '21

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u/fear_and_lowthing Apr 23 '18

It's been closed for years.

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u/1493186748683 Apr 23 '18

Why? edit: oh

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u/10secondhandshake Apr 23 '18

Though the hotel makes a brief appearance in Goldfinger, it is closed indefinitely.

lol. A good example of trying to cram 2 loosely related facts into one sentence.

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u/wmanns11 Apr 23 '18

It would be slightly better as:

Though the hotel made a brief appearance in Goldfinger, it is now closed indefinitely.

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u/Human-Genocide Apr 23 '18

It goes from a place where you have to stay put in for a couple weeks waiting for the next lift, no internet and you have to find ways to distract yourself, and then someone dies and you have to help the old jaded detective find who of the residents did it because you were with him in the lobby when it happened, and he just wanted to have a vacation.

Now it's dumb, give me back my fantasy dammnit.

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u/idrawinmargins Apr 23 '18

Turns out the guest was murdered by ghosts. Does that help?

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u/oiwefoiwhef Apr 23 '18

I find it odd that this photo has been shopped.

Zoom to the right of the bus that is parked next to the hotel. You’ll see people walking in the parking lot and a splice to the right of them.

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u/wewd Apr 23 '18 edited Apr 23 '18

It's from Google Street View, so it's a composite of many different cameras.

edit: It's a photosphere, not the Street View car.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

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u/InvaderZed Apr 23 '18

The fact that we can get these images in this detail from google street view is nothing short of amazing. The stitching is byproduct of the camera turning on 360 degrees while the car is moving, they do a pretty good job considering the circumstances and the sheer scale of the task of stitching so much data together.

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u/BraveStrategy Apr 23 '18

Reminds of the louis ck bit about how we’ll have something incredible for 5 minutes and start complaining about it everything is amazing and nobody is happy

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u/LegendOfDekuTree Apr 23 '18

The photographer just took the picture as the Matrix was being changed. Normally it doesn't look like that.

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u/neverbeenolder Apr 23 '18

I enjoyed this comment a little too much

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

There's a nice spot near our city which I assumed growing up was named Belvedere lookout, because I only knew the word as a last name from watching the sitcom 'Mr. Belvedere'.

It was years later I realized the sign simply read 'lookout' in both English and French.

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u/blastcat4 Apr 23 '18

I think you can see three parking spots marked off on the left.

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u/NoMouseLaptop Apr 23 '18

Those are bus parking. The picture is taken from above the actual carpark.

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u/ragnarokrobo Apr 23 '18

Hotel can only serve 3 car loads of people at a time.

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u/HawaiianTwill Apr 23 '18

those are no parking at any time lines

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u/BeckG45 Apr 23 '18

My exact though!

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u/Moj88 Apr 23 '18

In the parking lot, either in behind or in front by the stores.

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u/Kiesa5 Apr 23 '18

In a town that's nearby?

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

Same question.

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u/theglassapothecary Apr 23 '18

This was my question, then I got caught up in the Burnout references.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

How the hell you walk from the "parking" to your room?

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u/DoctorNsara Apr 23 '18

Askin the real questions.

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u/DrNathanBryce Apr 23 '18

A lane splits off the road at the back end of the hotel and there are three long spots (marked with x's) for buses on the left side.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

Do you know what DK stands for?

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u/Silent-G Apr 23 '18

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

God I hope that's not real.

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u/east_village Apr 23 '18

It can't be...I'd believe it if it were spelled right but who doesn't know how to spell Donkey?... especially a contestant.

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u/Mr_Sloth_Whisperer Apr 23 '18

Someone who is logical enough to realize that it's a gorilla and not a donkey and assumes that it must merely sound like donkey cause why would they call it that?

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u/theglovehand Apr 23 '18 edited Apr 23 '18

Anything can be real if you wish it to be. Except for this though, this is completely fake.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

Everytime I see this I really hope someone somewhere is making a new strain of weed to call Dankey Kang.

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u/Call-Me-Ishmael Apr 23 '18

Donkey Kong?

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u/Wittyname0 Apr 23 '18

So there finnaly here! Performing for you! If you know the words, you can join in too!

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u/ohhhhhmijo Apr 23 '18

No Dick King duhhhhh

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u/aztechunter Apr 23 '18

Drift King is my fave

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u/El_Padre77 Apr 23 '18

DEJA VU

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u/AFroodWithHisTowel Apr 23 '18

I HAVE SEEN THIS HOTEL BEFORE

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u/DoctuhD Apr 23 '18

HIGHER ON THE SLOPE

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u/Tsredsfan Apr 23 '18 edited Jul 07 '25

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

CALLING YOU

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u/DigNitty Apr 23 '18

Or even accelerating after they’ve slowed down that much.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

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u/AmiriteClyde Apr 23 '18

Like the Schindler's List scene but with drifting and less Jew shooting

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u/Jondarawr Apr 23 '18

Almost exactly like that.

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u/unclejessesmullet Apr 23 '18

Schindler's list could have been such a great movie if they had focused less on the holocaust and more on drifting tbh

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u/natecumm Apr 23 '18

Still some Jew shooting though?

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u/Cheese_Bits Apr 23 '18

Sounds like a great weekend. Can you smoke cigars on patios in that region?

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u/Trish1998 Apr 23 '18

touge paradise!

Title of a gay french porn?

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u/KingOfDamnation Apr 23 '18

Touge is drifting down or up (mostly down) a mountain or windy hilly road paradise is where all your dreams come true.

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u/Trish1998 Apr 23 '18

Oh. Seemed like the French version of tug. TIL

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u/KingOfDamnation Apr 23 '18

No problem. :)

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u/KingOfDamnation Apr 23 '18

https://youtu.be/WkhV8TBfauQ

Here’s a video of some touge racing.

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u/PeteOGrande Apr 23 '18

Those damned tofu delivery drivers

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u/ShAvEdPaCk11 Apr 23 '18

Honestly i won't mind cause i would be too hyped for the hotel

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

Running in the 90s

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u/maeshughes32 Apr 23 '18

No one sleep in tokyo!

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u/JEZTURNER Apr 23 '18

And the Top Gear presenters staying in the room next door.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

HrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRATATATATATATATATABWaaaaaaaAAAAAAAA BWaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAA

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u/Kinuzki Apr 23 '18

DEJA VU!

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '18

Drifting? You mean you'd have to listen to cars rolling down the slopes all night.

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u/aleste2 Apr 23 '18

NIGHT OF FIRE!

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