The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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StarWarsGirl said:
It was Mom, lol. Yup, total generational flip.

These are the same people who never watched Star Wars until I made them. 🤣
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Yea, and your parents are about the same age I am…!!!!! :hilarious:
To be fair though, I watched the first 3 movies in the theater, and then lost interest after that.
When I came home Wednesday night, Carolyn and Matt wanted to watch the latest “The Mandalorian” episode on D+. We’ve watched a few episodes together, and it’s all just so dark and brooding (except for maybe the one silly lady that sells the used droids, and whatnot) that I can’t get into any of it anymore.
At least there was some silly levity in the first 3 movies. Everything since seems to try to take itself too seriously, IMO.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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FutureCEO said:
My mom hated planes too so my dad used to drive to Disney when we were kids. Horrible. Sometimes two or three days just to get there.
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I think I told this story before. My dad was a mechanic in the Army Air Corps in WWII. In spite of being that close he NEVER flew. Not once in his life. He did relish telling us about everything that could go wrong with an airplane when we were kids. Any place we went was a road trip, airplanes never even came up in conversation while trip planning.

I really didn't think about it much until I got in college and a Alitalia sponsored European Tour became available as a three credit experience. 15 days, to Lisbon, Madrid, Venice, Rome, Paris and London. Airfare to each location, meals, bus tours, hotel, everything (except booze) for, are you ready? $500.00 I decided that was to much of a good deal to pass up so I had to get over that fear of flying that was firmly settled in my brain box. So we left from Montreal and returned to Montreal (buses back to Vermont, also included in the cost). I had to admit that I was a bit nervous to the point that I made it intentional to be the last one on the plane in case I wanted to change my mind at the last minute. If I had the time I'd give an account of the now comical things that I experience on that flight, but one thing was so pleasantly intense that I have to mention it.

We left Montreal about midnight and headed across the Atlantic and most of the trip was uneventful until sunrise. We were, of course, above the clouds as the sun came up over the horizon. As it got a little brighter the most beautiful golden outline of the clouds started to develop. I'll bet my jaw literally dropped open the whole time. Never had I seen anything like it and frankly never have since. It was a matter of perfect timing. I only wish I had not been so mesmerized that it never occurred to me to get my camera out of my carry on and take a picture.

Since that time I have flown thousands of miles but always had a small part of that early brain washing to have a slight anxiety about flying. I will do it, and for the most part, enjoy it. But that inner fear never quite goes away. I guess that we don't realize the lasting influence that we have as parents. Now that I am older, I don't have that many places that I want to go to and those that I do I will usually pick road trip. The last flights I was on was for my trip to Europe in 2015. There I flew from Raleigh to Toronto to Iceland to Paris. Then from Paris to Venice. Everything for the next four weeks was train or shoe leather and a huge boat back and the very last flight was from Ft. Lauderdale to Raleigh on Nov. 16, 2015.

I have loved to go places and explore the areas wherever I am. I was a dedicated WDW fan for many years, but even then, only once, did I go just to WDW. I had the desire to see the area, to do everything that was out there and frankly I probably had a slight case of AADD because as much as I loved WDW, I would quickly get bored with it and want to see something else. WDW was more of a 4 day part of the itinerary and Kissimmee was my base. I loved that part of my life and the many memories that it gave me.
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Goofyernmost said:
I think it is somewhat due to the fact that staring at a phone screen all day and not being social leads to an absence of any degree of a sense of humor. Everyone has become solemn and easily offended because they do not know how to laugh at themselves and their every person flaws and situations. I feel that because so many have primarily only interacted with themselves they are unable to recognize sarcasm, dark humor or serious situations.

There are many injustices in todays world, some of a very serious nature that need to be addressed and fixed where possible, however, every little minor thing along with very serious things are all given the same degree of concern when that shouldn't be the case. That elevates the mundane and by natural reactions brings the serious things down to be grouped with the mundane. I have never seen a time when society has been so unable to differentiate the important from the petty.

I never thought I would say this, especially at the time, but having survive being in a war situation, and looking back, I think that it really has given me more of an ability to see the big picture, having seen the worst of mankind in action. So many thing that people find deadly serious, I find a whole lot of whining. My scale of concern ranges from Meh to Damn that's awful. It just seems like society today is in constant "damn that's awful" state. Others just overplay some minor situations for personal gain and so many are not able to understand that.
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I hafta’ say, you and I are mostly in the same boat on this one. Whining over petty crap seems to have become an art form over the years.
Just as an example, there is a young (28-year-old) vlogger dude I watch from time to time, mostly out of morbid curiosity.
This dude whines like a spoiled 4-year-old too much of the time. It’s nauseating.
I think to myself, if we ever got into a major world conflict again, this is who might be called to defend us…?!?!?! He’ll crawl under his bed, lay in fetal position with his thumb in his mouth, and be whimpering for his mommy.
I think there’s inevitable stuff comin’ down the pike that most choose to ignore out of convenience, and not to “stress” themselves out…lalalalala………..
See where that’ll get ya’.
Just keep whistlin’ past the graveyard.
 
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Lilofan

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Goofyernmost said:
I think I told this story before. My dad was a mechanic in the Army Air Corps in WWII. In spite of being that close he NEVER flew. Not once in his life. He did relish telling us about everything that could go wrong with an airplane when we were kids. Any place we went was a road trip, airplanes never even came up in conversation while trip planning.

I really didn't think about it much until I got in college and a Alitalia sponsored European Tour became available as a three credit experience. 15 days, to Lisbon, Madrid, Venice, Rome, Paris and London. Airfare to each location, meals, bus tours, hotel, everything (except booze) for, are you ready? $500.00 I decided that was to much of a good deal to pass up so I had to get over that fear of flying that was firmly settled in my brain box. So we left from Montreal and returned to Montreal (buses back to Vermont, also included in the cost). I had to admit that I was a bit nervous to the point that I made it intentional to be the last one on the plane in case I wanted to change my mind at the last minute. If I had the time I'd give an account of the now comical things that I experience on that flight, but one thing was so pleasantly intense that I have to mention it.

We left Montreal about midnight and headed across the Atlantic and most of the trip was uneventful until sunrise. We were, of course, above the clouds as the sun came up over the horizon. As it got a little brighter the most beautiful golden outline of the clouds started to develop. I'll bet my jaw literally dropped open the whole time. Never had I seen anything like it and frankly never have since. It was a matter of perfect timing. I only wish I had not been so mesmerized that it never occurred to me to get my camera out of my carry on and take a picture.

Since that time I have flown thousands of miles but always had a small part of that early brain washing to have a slight anxiety about flying. I will do it, and for the most part, enjoy it. But that inner fear never quite goes away. I guess that we don't realize the lasting influence that we have as parents. Now that I am older, I don't have that many places that I want to go to and those that I do I will usually pick road trip. The last flights I was on was for my trip to Europe in 2015. There I flew from Raleigh to Toronto to Iceland to Paris. Then from Paris to Venice. Everything for the next four weeks was train or shoe leather and a huge boat back and the very last flight was from Ft. Lauderdale to Raleigh on Nov. 16, 2015.

I have loved to go places and explore the areas wherever I am. I was a dedicated WDW fan for many years, but even then, only once, did I go just to WDW. I had the desire to see the area, to do everything that was out there and frankly I probably had a slight case of AADD because as much as I loved WDW, I would quickly get bored with it and want to see something else. WDW was more of a 4 day part of the itinerary and Kissimmee was my base. I loved that part of my life and the many memories that it gave me.
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I'm not much of a flier but need to be to get to my destination. My friend who works for United corporate Chicago flies for free and sometimes on a whim flies to Hong Kong with a friend lands in HK , has breakfast lunch in the city then goes back to HK airport and flies back to Chicago .
 

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