I'm now wide open

[Destroit]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42919502/ns/travel-destination_travel/

The big yellow Ferris wheel sits idle; the bumper cars look frozen in suspended animation, as if they were abandoned mid-collision. So does the nearby school, whose cafeteria is littered with the detritus of dusty gas masks in case of nuclear war, its classrooms strewn with Cyrillic math textbooks and Soviet newspapers from the 1980s. A sign warns schoolchildren to save energy and heat.

Slideshow: Tour Chernobyl

Welcome to Pripyat, the Ukrainian town with the misfortune of sitting just miles from the world's most notorious nuclear power plant, Chernobyl. Twenty-five years ago this once heavily forested area bore the brunt of the world's deadliest nuclear power disaster, leaving untold victims who suffered from the radioactive fallout and ecological disaster in its wake. Now it is one of Ukraine's most visited sites. Roughly 6,000 tourists — most of them Europeans — stream through this ghost town annually on private tours unsanctioned by the authorities. But starting this year, the government is also looking to cash in on the plant's notoriety, with plans to open up the zone to official tours, as well as boost its safety by building a giant concrete shell to encase the reactor by 2015.

After making the two-hour drive from Kiev, the tour kicks off in the no-frills office of the Ukrainian information agency. My guide, Yuri, points at color-coded maps of the radioactive fallout from the exclusion zone — or "dead zone" — a 30-kilometer radius that requires permits (and passports for foreigners) to enter. Next up is a drive-by photo op of the half-finished cooling towers and rusting nuclear reactors. There's an Iwo Jima-like statue devoted to the 29 firemen who died here, too.

Tourists tote around a yellow Geiger counter, which resembles a garage door opener and beeps incessantly as it measures the air's radiation. Levels can vary from as low as 10 microroentgens or one-millionth of a roentgen, in Pripyat (harmless), to 200 in front of Reactor No. 4. (possibly harmful with long-term exposure), the site of the meltdown.

"Only when it started beeping a lot was I scared," said Lina Selander, an artist visiting the nuclear zone from Sweden. "It's like Chernobyl's soundtrack."

The most surreal stop of the tour is Pripyat. There are no hazmat-like outfits or special masks necessary. The poplars do not glow from radiation. The town is an eerily mundane time capsule, buried in dust and left almost exactly as it was when its roughly 50,000 inhabitants were forced to flee in 1986. Tourists are allowed to roam relatively un-chaperoned through the necropolis' spooky remains of apartment blocs, a gymnasium, dance hall, swimming pool, and an Orwellian-eque Palace of Culture, whose peeling sky-blue paint and scattered broken glass feel like a Soviet version of the Titanic.

After the four-hour tour and a prison-style meal, visitors stand on a contraption that looks like a time machine. If it flashes green — no radiation — then you are good to go. On your way out of the exclusion zone, you (and your vehicle) must go through a similar radiation x-ray of sorts.

Tours are not cheap, running upwards of $150 for groups and $400 for individuals. Sergii Mirnyi, a commander of the radiation reconnaissance platoon that responded in 1986, accuses the government of "milking" the disaster for every last tourist dollar. He says the reactor should stand as a monument to ecological education.

"Chernobyl tourism," he told me, "undoubtedly can generate money. But I believe it can generate so much more."

[Raev]

My mind so went somewhere else when I read the subject line.

[phee]

My mind so went somewhere else when I read the subject line.

My mind saw your mind there....

[Troy Spiral (13)]

How dare you miss the deep , spread, swollen and inviting intention of the topic post in favor of more prurient comments. *shakes head*

[Enishi]

The title and description on this thread almost made me choke on my coffee. ROFL!!

[Vater Araignee]

OK I gotta admit that when I read the title the lyrics to Toxic Love ran through my head.

After 3 years in a mental asylum

I'm finally out and I'm fine now no doubt

Rolling home I see a bitch on a payphone.

She was fat and round and had it going on.

She had a name tag on Roxy Carol

Stepped up to her like hello

We was kicking it

I said I got this dick sup on lickin it

She said I'm down for the tactics

Then my dick stood up like a Tucson cactus

I threw her in the back of my jaloppe

She was wet and sloppy

But nothing could stop me

I was like jesus

Her neden was yellow and smelled like cheese pizza

I paid it no mind

I stuck my dick in raw and comenced to grind.

Toxic love

I'm so lonely, lonely i'm so lonely

Toxic love

Did she burn you?

Yes

Did it hurt you?

Yes

Toxic love

I'm so lonely, lonely lonely lonely

Toxic love

Did she burn you?

Yes

Did it hurt you?

Yes

The whole car smelled like pickles

I stuck my toe in her ass

And tweaked her titty nipples

We fucked for about an hour

I dropped her off where I found her and went for the shower

I got home and I kicked back

Thought about the shower haha fuck that

When I woke up the very next morning

I was awake but my dick was snoring

It was whistling and shooting out smoke

The head was spinning like a dayton hundred spoke

I started shaking and sweating

I had a fever

My dick was swelled up like a faygo 2 liter

It was greenish with purple bungions

And dripping blue skeet and flaking like onions

She gave me skiffilufigus no doubt

I'ma find that bitch and knock her the fuck out

Toxic love

I'm so lonely, lonely i'm so lonely

Toxic love

Did she burn you?

Yes

Did it hurt you?

Yes

Toxic love

I'm so lonely, lonely lonely lonely

I'm on a mission I search and roam

Cuz my dick hole is spurting up pink foam

And I'm dragging my balls behind me

They're as big as a mailbox bumpy and slimy

Thank god I ain't dead yet

My dick is crispy but my drawers are wet somehow

There she is on the same payphone

Near Zug Island in the industrial waste zone

Wait a minute y'all hold up

Is that the same bitch I was with she looks toe-up

Holy fuck nothings in place that ain't a girl at all

It's a barrel of toxic waste!

Oh lord what have I done?

Roxy Carol is a toxic waste barrel

Me and my green dick headed back to the looney bin

I'm here to turn myself back in

Toxic love

I'm so lonely, lonely i'm so lonely

Toxic love

Did she burn you?

Yes

Did it hurt you?

Yes

Toxic love

I'm so lonely, lonely lonely lonely

Toxic love

Did she burn you?

Yes

Did it hurt you?

Yes

I still like you

When I inject my penis inside of you

My balls light up like light bulbs

You're green...You're green and you're so warm

Don't ask me why me of all people decided to hide it behind the spoiler, I cant explain what is prompting me.

[junefun28]

Am I the only one who read this and thought Chernobyl the place not the person????

that would be so fun to go see. Every thing frozen in time.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

OK I gotta admit that when I read the title the lyrics to Toxic Love ran through my head.

After 3 years in a mental asylum

I'm finally out and I'm fine now no doubt

Rolling home I see a bitch on a payphone.

She was fat and round and had it going on.

She had a name tag on Roxy Carol

Stepped up to her like hello

We was kicking it

I said I got this dick sup on lickin it

She said I'm down for the tactics

Then my dick stood up like a Tucson cactus

I threw her in the back of my jaloppe

She was wet and sloppy

But nothing could stop me

I was like jesus

Her neden was yellow and smelled like cheese pizza

I paid it no mind

I stuck my dick in raw and comenced to grind.

Toxic love

I'm so lonely, lonely i'm so lonely

Toxic love

Did she burn you?

Yes

Did it hurt you?

Yes

Toxic love

I'm so lonely, lonely lonely lonely

Toxic love

Did she burn you?

Yes

Did it hurt you?

Yes

The whole car smelled like pickles

I stuck my toe in her ass

And tweaked her titty nipples

We fucked for about an hour

I dropped her off where I found her and went for the shower

I got home and I kicked back

Thought about the shower haha fuck that

When I woke up the very next morning

I was awake but my dick was snoring

It was whistling and shooting out smoke

The head was spinning like a dayton hundred spoke

I started shaking and sweating

I had a fever

My dick was swelled up like a faygo 2 liter

It was greenish with purple bungions

And dripping blue skeet and flaking like onions

She gave me skiffilufigus no doubt

I'ma find that bitch and knock her the fuck out

Toxic love

I'm so lonely, lonely i'm so lonely

Toxic love

Did she burn you?

Yes

Did it hurt you?

Yes

Toxic love

I'm so lonely, lonely lonely lonely

I'm on a mission I search and roam

Cuz my dick hole is spurting up pink foam

And I'm dragging my balls behind me

They're as big as a mailbox bumpy and slimy

Thank god I ain't dead yet

My dick is crispy but my drawers are wet somehow

There she is on the same payphone

Near Zug Island in the industrial waste zone

Wait a minute y'all hold up

Is that the same bitch I was with she looks toe-up

Holy fuck nothings in place that ain't a girl at all

It's a barrel of toxic waste!

Oh lord what have I done?

Roxy Carol is a toxic waste barrel

Me and my green dick headed back to the looney bin

I'm here to turn myself back in

Toxic love

I'm so lonely, lonely i'm so lonely

Toxic love

Did she burn you?

Yes

Did it hurt you?

Yes

Toxic love

I'm so lonely, lonely lonely lonely

Toxic love

Did she burn you?

Yes

Did it hurt you?

Yes

I still like you

When I inject my penis inside of you

My balls light up like light bulbs

You're green...You're green and you're so warm

Don't ask me why me of all people decided to hide it behind the spoiler, I cant explain what is prompting me.

/ponders

Am I the only one who read this and thought Chernobyl the place not the person????

that would be so fun to go see. Every thing frozen in time.

OMG how could you actually have your mind on-topic?

On a side note I'm not sure I'd have fun exactly, but it would be interesting. Sort of like going to Dachau to a far less emotional extent. I'd (like I always do) have to do a lot more homework though. I'm only mildly familiar with the specifics. (Although my mild is often like others spicy.)

[ZhukovCodeslinger]

As much as I would like to visit the Ukraine, I think I will pass on visiting Pripyat at least in person. I have seen a number of videos taken by people who are braver than I, it is very erie looking.

I have to admit that although I fear the radiation, I would be more afraid of being killed by one of the hoards of wild boars that run wild in there and are not afraid of people or anything else.... at least if I got killed by too many Rads, it would not be as silly as being killed by giant, possibly mutant pigs on a rampage (due to no humans in the area)

WPD

[candyman]

So what does it cost for someone to say...put on some power armor and go all fallout on that bitch? They gotta have some political prisoners left over for me to shoot and I KNOW those bastards have a laser pistol somewhere...

[Mikielikesit]

Interesting ....too walk around inside someone with their permission...(puts on rubber boots and rain slicker).... :drag:

[Destroit]

Interesting ....too walk around inside someone with their permission...(puts on rubber boots and rain slicker).... :drag:

WHOA...a ghost . Glad to see you around .