Question of the Day - 30 August 2019

"It also flew in the face of the notion that visitors come to Las Vegas to experience something they can’t duplicate at home."

I question the accuracy of that notion. At my first buffet on my first trip to Vegas, I was startled to see "Sizzlean" as a prominently featured item. Until then, I never would have thought that people would travel hundreds or thousands of miles to have Sizzlean for breakfast as well as other items that seemed designed to replicate what the traveler would have for breakfast back home. I soon realized that many or most people did not want to risk new experiences and were comforted by the familiar, especially, I think, Vegas visitors who are not looking for an actual exotic travel experience, so much as just the illusion of one. Otherwise, they'd go to Venice, not The Venetian.

So I guess travelers from Asia might be looking for the Asian equivalent of buffets that serve Sizzlean and Cherrios to Americans.   

...not theming, that makes the difference. Asian gamblers like baccarat (perhaps for its childish simplicity and lack of any kind of strategy--Monkeymonkeymonkey!!) and pai gow (tiles and cards). The only casino in Vegas that offers those games in any real quantity is the Gold Coast. And it isn't Asian-themed at all.

The theme of a casino matters not. Bop me on the head and dump me in the middle of any casino--in Vegas or elsewhere--and when I wake up, I won't be able to immediately tell which casino I'm in. 

The model "Las Vegas experience" is to rape the customer, overcharging for everything, and provide terrible gambling that makes the chance of winning roughly equivalent to that of Big Elvis appearing on "The Bachelor." That model has proved extremely popular!!

Las Vegas is not out to rape anyone. Utilizing "rape" in anything other than its true detestable meaning is in very poor taste. Hopefully, even with your limited intellectual capacity, you'll refrain from being so immature in future posts.

Actually, Vic, everyone's intellectual capacity is limited--yours included. But I'd lay 500-1 that I'm smarter than you, since you don't understand what figurative language is.

You have just been a victim of the current climate of political correctness. For example, in the politically correct world run amok you can still use "murder" figuratively with impunity even though murder is at least as horrific a crime as rape.  

Perhaps you should have said Vegas is out to milk the customer for everything its got, since the dairy industry doesn't have a pressure group out to abolish the negative metaphoric use of terms that describe its business. Yet.

For the latest on the "sexual exploitation of dairy cows," go to the link below to see a piece on a journal published by a New York university Gender Studies department. 

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13575

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I am in favor of what is inaccurately termed "political correctness" when it actually refers to avoiding using terms that a given group may find offensive. I also prefer to err on the side of caution in this regard; there's always more than one way to say something.

However, I doubt that the American Society of Rapists is such a group, or that their objections to my use of the word would have any weight. 

In regard to cows, upon consideration, I will immediately stop referring to a complaint as a "beef," or saying that a football team that beat its opponents 63-0 "ground them into hamburger."

There actually is an American Society of Rapists. It's called NAMBLA. There's a Wikipedia article on it. 

There are politically correct activists (or whatever term you choose for them) who would ban the humor in your comment, because rape victims, they say, may suffer attacks of PTSD from merely seeing the "r" word. If these extremists had their way, at a minimum, a "trigger warning" would be required before any use of the "r" word. Some of these warriors would be comfortable with the outright banning of anything *they* determined was harmful to any portion of the populace.

Taken to its logical conclusion, vast areas of humor, debate or general discussion would become verboten. I could unilaterally terminate the use of the words wayne and newton when used together since such use causes me to break out in hives.