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always, always do the grab test on a date

make sure you bring pingpong balls, and cash so you can buy plenty of fake or stolen goods from the merchants. It's like the US, only cheaper and sleazier

Well, nobody's yet told you to open your ears & eyes when travelling.

It's probably more that. I've noticed a marked increase in hostility/attitude at the big ski resorts, esp. on gong show powder days, and a decrease in localism attitude at surf breaks. The ski stinkeye will last all day, the surf stinkeye passes unless you suck and don't belong at the break - shown by flailing on a wave. I surfed a 4/3 in Oregon all season. Sometimes in summer I'd leave the booties at home - even then they'd go numb occaisonally. I don't find a big difference between 4/3 and 3/2 in terms of mobility, mostly because surfing in a wetsuit is like sex with a condom. Better than nothing, but not something for the long term.

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Localisms been on the decline in CA for 10+ years. Aside from a few topoftheline breaks it's more unfriendliness than thuggishness. Yes, you'll still get the stinkeye in Hawaii (maybe more if you are stupid) - but thats what happens to haoles, you'll get it at the bar too. I do most of my surfing down the street from me now, it's a mediocre wave, but it's just me and my neighbors - a big days 5-6 people out. Even the 'big' breaks in town aren't as thuggish and unfriendly as a big ski resort like Mammoth - ski areas are the new frontier of localism

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I was going to say the best surfing in Washington.... is in California

In the PNW? No. 4/3 or 5/4/3 even in summer.

Well, absent those egregious cases (though ones with a long history) - attacking Beirut airport, sea ports, a lighthouse, grain silos, bridges, roads, factories, medical and relief trucks, mobile telephone and television stations,fuel containers and service stations, and the country's largest dairy farm eviscerates the entire infrastructure of Lebanon, increasing the time and money required to turn Lebanon into a functional state. It's some dark comedy. Turn the clock back 20 years. Great - you want Arafat? WTF?

Drop the soap at the Muir Hut and you'll see one. The site of bare client ass is a bigger aphrodisiac than american dollars to a chilliwack cougar.

While Israel does take civilian casualties into some account they definitely don't do everything in their power to minimize, at least compared to the US militaries tactics. Perhaps Israel as indifferent to civilian casualties, Hezbollah actively desiring them, and the US actively avoiding them would be fair. Not that fair ever mattered in this conflict.