The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[brb1006]

alaska is beautiful, went on the wonder.. worth it.
by the way.. the wonder is supposed to get improved. I bet its goingto be better for you.

I always wanted to go on a Disney Cruise ever since I been watching old WDW videos that promoted the then new Disney Cruise Ships. I always wanted to try the kids area at the time.

 

[brb1006]

Dont know about you, but id rather go to disneyland(60th festivities before they start to reduce hours..etc..) right now and wait for next year for WDW (Avatar).

The construction for Avatar at AK is looking much promising by the latest photos.

 

[brb1006]

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.

I hope WDW might get a special announcement next year. I really hope they might hint at a future electrical parade.

 

[brb1006]

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.

I remember most of the people were bored but I remember coming off Revenge of the Mummy the second time and this one black guy was telling use to "Beware of the mummy" and making ghost noises. He was really into it.

 

[brb1006]

Have you tried DL? If not, you should give it a try. You could do a big long SoCal trip with about 5 Disney days. The parks out there are very different from the WDW parks. In fact, I would say those parks trump any of the individual WDW parks. My friend and I are going to DL in January and also spending some time in San Diego.

I really want to play musical chairs with Alice and the Mad Hatter when I visit Disneyland someday.

 

[brb1006]

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.

I remember the people at Toon Lagoon and Seuss Landing were pretty quite most of the time.

 

[Cesar R M]

Cruise ships do really well at avoiding bad weather so go enjoy.

yeah, but the issues are the "shore excursions" :O

Well see how it goes!

 

[Cesar R M]

You mean you don't think the scanners really do anything? Or that they only pick the suspicious looking people to go through? I kept getting "Randomly selected" to do "additional screening", which was just walking through the metal detector thing. Hubby did a few times, but I had to almost every time. One time, I got selected and the officer says "Come on down" and I asked if it was the price is right and what I won...he said "A trip through the metal detector" and we both laughed.

Imho, the scanners are for show.. but their intelligence will get the "suspicious people" and random people thru the detector to deterr bad people.

So it acts both as deterrent and in combination with the intelligence. Effective.
I actually would believe that the intelligence method stops more culprits than "random trips to the metal detector".

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

I always wanted to go on a Disney Cruise ever since I been watching old WDW videos that promoted the then new Disney Cruise Ships. I always wanted to try the kids area at the time.

Disney Cruises are awesome, although I have only been on one. That will be remedied in November though. My husband refused to go on a cruise for years, I kept making him watch the DCL cruise show and he finally relented. When we got off our cruise he apologized to me for being so stubborn about the cruise.

 

[Cesar R M]

That is interesting about trying to eliminate cash purchases. I have been to some small stores, even a gas station once, where they gave a discount for using cash. I think they gave the discount so they didn't have to pay for the credit charge to go through. I like using cash sometimes, but I also like getting the rewards for using my credit card. I even pay by check occasionally, but I do not have a debit card as I know I would lose track of those transactions. I have enough trouble balancing my checkbook, actually it hasn't been balanced in over a year and a half. The bank keeps saying that I have more money in it than my records show, I guess that is good. It is the same amount every month, I suppose it would be safe for me to add it in now.

That is kinda common on small business here. Because the Credit card company charges them a flat rate per transfer and usage of the "terminal".
And they are already selling very cheap. Some of these cant handle to absorb the cost of the terminals unless they sold a lot.

 

[donaldtoo]

got back from the doctor, the diagnosis isnt looking really bright.
I have some heavy "rotating" in my spine.
The problem is, it is rotated to the opposite side my doctor expected it to be. so he's baffled.

Sympathy like.
Hopefully they can find a good and non-intrusive solution.
I too have one leg shorter than the other (my left leg is about 3/4" shorter than my right). It doesn't sound like much, but, even that little amount can throw things off.
I don't know for sure, but, I think it stems from when that leg was in various casts over a 4.5 mo. period, at age 13 in the middle of a growth spurt, after I broke my calcaneous bone on a diving board.
As a result, say if I'm standing in a Disney queue , about 99.5% of the time I lean on my left leg. My right leg props just fine that way 'cause it's a bit longer. If I lean on my right leg, for even a short amount of time, l get pain in my left hip 'cause my left leg is kinda' hangin'.
Darn it all! I wanna' be more symmetrical...!!!

 

[Cesar R M]

The one that I find the weirdest is a company based in Vermont that provides three different locations to ferry across Lake Champlain to New York State. The cheapest cost is $20.00 one way and they take cash only. It is easy for those of us that lived there and knew that was the case, but, for travelers it is a total pain if they get there without enough Cash to pay for it. They have ATM machines but that ends up costing the customer even more money. I just don't understand that philosophy in this day and age. They have made a fortune hauling cars and pedestrians back and forth for as long as I can remember. I know I rode them as a young child. The family is enormously wealthy, yet, the cannot cut their customers a little slack. Heck, even if they have to raise the price to cover the cost of credit cards, get into the 21 century for heavens sake.

Maybe to prevent credit card fraud? who knows.
my country still uses mostly cash still. Mostly because the "vendors" are the weak link and there are mafias who insert their members into business to use copy machines (to duplicate cards)

 

[Cesar R M]

That pretty much describes me. Raised "very" Catholic, but, have become agnostic. My youngest daughter is pretty much in the same camp as me, but, my oldest is, although, not super Catholic (both she and her sister were baptized into Catholicism at around 7 years old). Just recently she had her three kids (two teens and one 3 year old, baptized along with her husband who converted from... to tell you the truth I don't know what he was. My wife was Anglican in every sense of the word, but, we never had any real problem when it came to religion. Anyway, we all are able to accept each others different beliefs and really don't discuss it very often.

It was such a big thing when I was a kid. Back then my Grandparents knew every Priest in upper New York State and on Saturday evening you couldn't make a sudden turn in their house without running into black suits and white color. Couldn't even leave without having to get on ones knee's for a blessing from whomever the designated bless-er was for the evening. Had one Uncle that went off to be a Franciscan Monk, One cousin that went off to be a Brother of Christian Instruction and two other cousins (sisters) that went off to be Nun's. Also interesting to realize that none of them stayed with it. One even got pregnant while still a Nun. Bit of a scandal with that one.

When I went to Vietnam, I came in contact with a group of Baptists that had me, involuntarily, added to their 'pray for his soul' lists. In fact, coincidentally, today, while shopping in Walmart I got a phone call from one of those groups asking me if I wanted to be included on their prayer lists and if so I should push "1" and hold on the line. I didn't wait around to find out how my 50 years old reputation finally caught up with me here in North Carolina. I'm thinking that some poster from WDWmagic turned me in.

Accept your sins Goofyer!!!

 

[Cesar R M]

My daughter recently had an experience at TSI. She beeped on the way through the machine and they wanded her. The really embarrassing part was the wand determined something in her, just below the waist area. I didn't have the nerve to ask her how that was resolved but apparently it was, but, she was completely embarrassed as the wanding happened in front of everyone. Must have been her chastity belt. I'm not sure why she continues to use that since she is married and has a kid already. Wait I don't remember giving her the keys.. Oops!

Spoiler

I'm pretty sure that everyone figured out that the last three sentences were fabricated just now. Just want to be sure, don't want to offend, don't you know.

I actually have heard that happen in reality. When people used strong metals for .. ahem... piercings down there (both male and female).
So no surprise if they light wands and sensors like christmass for the party in their pants.

 

[Goofyernmost]

I actually have heard that happen in reality. When people used strong metals for .. ahem... piercings down there (both male and female).
So no surprise if they light wands and sensors like christmass for the party in their pants.

To my knowledge she has no piercings anywhere. OK, maybe her ears, but, that's a considerable distance from the offending area. And this did happen in reality. I must remember to ask what actually happened to cause it.

 

[Cesar R M]

When we had bad weather coming in our area, our captain changed the course to avoid it. It was fun watching the tornado's and storms far across the ocean. You ship is very expensive, to be built, no captain wants to be responsible for losing a ship of this size. Go and enjoy, they will keep you safe....They may go to different islands, but that is fun too. They give you enough time to plan your excursions. That has been our experience.

Well, it has happened a few times (aka captain mistakes to save costs on fuel, aka the Anthem of the Seas that went sailing right straight into tropical storm winds that then transformed into full hurricane winds.
That ship was brand new and got heavy damage (including losing expensive communication towers and domes)

 

[Cesar R M]

I was patted down so many times, I can't count. Talk about being uncomfortable. Imagine having every body part touched with people looking on. That experience, for several flights...drove me to go with the check, and investigation, and 95.00$. Too stop this body check.

know the feeling, I have to get pat down ALL THE TIME in airports in the USA, at least when flying anything else but American Airlines (where I always get Pre-TSA). Thats the bad thing of having the implant heh.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Accept your sins Goofyer!!!

I accept them, in fact for the most part I am proud of them. It's everyone else that has to accept them as none of their business. I wouldn't call them "sins" anyway. More like minor indiscretions. Very old ones at that. I'm sure the statute of limitations has run out by now.

 

[Cesar R M]

I could infer from context what that was, but decided to Google it anyway. Thanks for the nightmares.

let me help your nightmares..

Spoiler: beware lol

I have been in many social websites, and I once fell into a fetish "feed post" livejournal.
some people actually do use restraining AND chastity devices as kinky stuff (and they wear them every day..)

 

[Cesar R M]

Forgot to mention that we got the car back yesterday. Some critter got up there and chewed through eight different wires.

They suggested putting mothballs around the engine when we're gone. Might have to try that in January since I won't need it for three weeks.

PLOT TWIST.. your cat did it(she pulled a James Bond), hence why she was all innocent when you returned.