The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Mr Ferret 75]

I do a lot of people watching while a Disney and some of which are kids. Seeing there eyes get big as saucers when they see there favorite character, see the castle, or the fireworks is priceless. What makes it even better is you see adults get the same way, including myself.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

They have a big wall built around them ???

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

It was the cleanest thing i could think of

 

[StarWarsGirl]

It was the cleanest thing i could think of

You sir, have problems.

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

You sir, have problems.

Not as many as 'Merica might have

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Not as many as 'Merica might have

Whelp, you've had your fun. Back to your cage.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Not as many as 'Merica might have

 

[Songbird76]

Yeah, I realize they were in a tough spot. And they were probably conflicted and under a lot of peer pressure. I hope all of them learned a lesson in this.

Amen to that!! But I sincerely hope the US does something to whomever it was who did the damage instead of protecting the precious athlete, or they won't learn anything.

 

[Songbird76]

The Brazillian officials could probably dig up some charges and then it might be jail. I'm sure the swimmers would rather "donate" to charity and go home than spend time in jail.

Possibly. I have no idea how other justice systems work. I DO have to say I'm glad they don't let it go just because they are star athletes.

 

[Songbird76]

I thought about hiking once

Spoiler

Worst 10 minutes of my life

Just imagine if you had actually done it!!

 

[Songbird76]

I don't think I'll ever get bored with Disney either and never want to go. For me though, especially on a teachers salary it is not about multiple vacations throughout the year. There may be one or two week to 10 day vacations per year for me and my girlfriend. Most of the time in the 5 years we have been together it has been 1 big one with a long weekend or two thrown in. So for me Even though I love Disney a lot I am not going to go every year. My girlfriend also is not nearly as much of a fan of Disney as myself so I wouldn't even think to subject her to going every year. I also love seeing other places so I am totally fine with that part of it. Once I get back every 3-4 years it is all fresh and new and I am extremely excited like a 6 year old kid.

I have a bucket list of a mile long in terms of places I want to see. I love Disney, but there are SO many places I want to go, so I can't justify going to Disney every time we have a big vacation. I want to go to Ireland, Italy, Greece, do London again, Scotland, see more of Germany, there are a few things I missed in Paris that I'd like to see, I want to see the Grand Canyon, and I'd like to go back to New York and see the things I missed there...Vegas would be nice, just for a day...and of course I already mentioned WWoHP at Universal. I've got my work cut out for me!!

 

[Cesar R M]

I definitely agree that the sense of entitlement is not limited to any one group. You see it in a LOT of people. My in-laws took us out for dinner the other night to a buffet restaurant. They had this 3-tiered candy dish on the counter...a really big one. This guy ahead of us, after he paid and was then to follow a hostess to his table, grabs the whole dish like he's going to take it to his table. The hostess was just a young girl...probably 17 or so...she just looks confused. Is he being serious or is it just a joke. One of her older colleagues comes and takes the dish and sets it back on the counter and he laughs...it appears to be just a joke in really bad taste. But the girl takes him and his party to their table, and then he comes back...maybe they weren't happy with their table, I don't know, but they came back and while they were occupying the hostesses, he went over to this wall where they have tubs of candy...mostly gummies, but some suckers, and licorice, etc...it says on there that you can take what you like, but have to eat it in the restaurant. You can't fill a baggie to take home with you. The guy reaches in, grabs a piece and eats it, then just takes the whole tub under his arm and walks off back to his table with it. Who cares that there are other patrons in the restaurant that might want some, or that the management has already told you once that you can not take the whole container of candy to your table? He obviously considered himself more important than anyone else and too much so to follow the rules of the restaurant, or social norms, etc. I let the staff know he had again relieved them of an entire load of candy, and they sent someone to retrieve it, but I walked by his table several times as I went to different parts of the buffet and he was a rude, obnoxious, loud, arrogant jerk who THOUGHT he was very funny. (it wasn't just about the candy) He may have been drunk, I don't know, but he was definitely NOT a millennial. Just an entitled donkey.

Reminds me of the latest drama of chinese people in buffets. The government cracked down on Chinese tourists who didnt understand the buffet etiquette.They tried to chunk tons of kg of food to their table, where 90% was left untouched and went bad.

 

[Cesar R M]

Omg we have to sort over 3000 pics for our tr it may take a while to get up when we get home. Dh isn't going back to work until the pics are all on the computer. 3 cameras and 2 phones equals lots of pics. BTW lots of food drink and Potter pics

We know we asked for pics.. but WOW!
Not even I take that many! XD (I took nearly 800 in my Alaska trip)

 

[Cesar R M]

Yes, I'm betting that adding in the Hogwarts Express and Diagon Alley have relieved some of the pressure by distributing people more to other parts. Before, it was all concentrated into the one area and now people are dispersed more evenly...there are 2 sections, plus the transportation between them. I think when they built the first part and opened it, they hadn't actually anticipated that the number of people who visited per day would increase by that much. I think they completely underestimated the size of the fandom. So they maybe expected to see a surge initially, but they were completely blown away by the size of the surge. I read they were hoping for 2% more visitors. I don't know how many more than that they got, but I'm sure it was a lot. So they hadn't actually designed it for quite that many people. I really want to see Diagon Alley, since I haven't seen that at all, and I'd also like to see Hogsmeade again because it was so packed with people when I was there that you couldn't see anything except people...you couldn't really see the theming. And I SO want to ride the Hogwarts Express!!!!

pretty sure that the amount of visitors exploded by 300 or 600% during opening days.
I still remember the line going all the way to city walk.
covering all Islands of Adventure, the universal globe and half of city walk.

 

[FutureCEO]

Is it time to go home yet

 

[Cesar R M]

The 60th festivities end September 5. Paint the night will still run sometimes. But Disneyland is great at any time. We are going back next July. We are going to brave the D23 convention too.

exactly, thats what makes me sad, no money to visit there anymore before they remove the 60th.
Will probably not see Paint the Night if I go there.

Wishing Disney could stop being cheap to artificially keep the value of the company high.

 

[Cesar R M]

Yeah, we went to UNI for one day on our honeymoon and were not impressed. Disney CMs were SOOOO much nicer and the whole thing was just magical, but at Uni, there wasn't that much that wowed us and the lines were a LOT longer. We never had to wait for anything at Disney (that was because of September 11th), but for some reason Universal didn't seem to have the same benefit. We had decided not to waste any more time there. But then they opened WWoHP and since we had already been planning on being in Orlando for about 2 weeks, we got one day tickets to Islands of Adventure, just for that. Though that was NOT a great experience, I hear from others that it is MUCH better now, and I SO want to see the new stuff. So someday I will go back, whether Hubby comes with me or not (which I hope he does). But my understanding is that WWoHP changed the whole dynamic of the park.

That I agree with you by a lot.
CMs at Disney are always waaay more warm, they smile a lot..etc..
they are kinda bored looking at UNI except in the Transformers, Spiderman and harry potter lands.. dont know why.

 

[Cesar R M]

I don't know who caused all the damage, but they had been drinking and sometimes people who have been drinking think it is fun to destroy things. But they are really just being jerks.

the news says the security armed guard and owner of the gas station confronted them and they paid.
so I suppose they indeed paid part of the damage.
so the real damage was the lying...
claiming they were robbed by cops or pseudo cops at gunpoint..

 

[Cesar R M]

My girlfriend loves vacationing at National Parks and loves hiking. I am also an outdoor person so I am all for these sort of vacations as well.

Thats still one of my dreams, renting a medium sized trailer/camper/RV and do a roadtrip to national parks (a la Paul, an SCIFI movie)

 

[Cesar R M]

When we went, it was on the Norwiegon , many years ago. Some things were cancelled. I can't say about today. It was our first cruise, and we had a great time.

Norwegian Pearl?
there are a lot of Norwegian cruises.
unless you mean NCL (norwegian cruise line)