The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

MySmallWorldof4

Well-Known Member
We were seated this time in the Palm Room.

Adult beverages. Note DD finished her Frozen Strawberry Margarita. First Adult Beverage Finished Award. She had only managed to drink about an inch in Mexico's LaCava. There is also a Classic Frozen, a Watermelon Margarita and My Classic on the rocks. And the complimentary chips and salsa. The chips were still warm and slightly tender and we were starved.
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The Chicken Taco's. They came beyond stuffed with Chicken already and all that stuff was to fill the taco shell with :jawdrop:

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The Combo Platter.

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And 2 Fajita platters ordered, beef.
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Came back with about 2/3 of our meals. So much food. Nom nom nom
Holy guacamole that is a lot of food. Love the palm tree room!
 

DryerLintFan

Premium Member
My biggest present issue will be DS asked for a certain gaming system I had in college. Apparently what is old is new again?:confused: They brought it back and now it is sold out everywhere. Hoping it gets restocked. But now I wish I would have kept it. I know I told my dad to throw it out a bunch of a years back when he asked. It was in perfect shape too. :oops:

About a month and a half ago some mom friends were telling me about this toy that their preschoolers are obsessed with. I had a stressful trip I was getting ready for, then going on, then an event at work, and long story short I couldn't get to the store to pick up a couple of these toys as stocking stuffers.

I finally made it to ToysRUs on Thursday and was told that this toy nobody even heard about a couple months ago was added to the Hottest Toys list for 2017 and nobody could keep it in stock. They said people line up two hours early on stocking days just to buy these things. Amazon is even selling them for twice the price they normally go for and you can find them on eBay for much more than that. I had to hunt and hunt for them and was finally able to snag a couple from Wal-Mart.

So I feel your pain!! But on the bright side it will all be readily available come January!!
 

Goofyernmost

Well-Known Member
Good Will is not a privately owned company. It is a non profit 501 c 3 charity exactly like the Salvation Army, St. Jude etc. They all have different missions but are not for profit organizations.

Good Will had come under fire years ago for a loop hole for being able to pay their disabled less than Minimum wage. Salvation Army came under fire for not paying those in need and sheltering at all which the Labor Board won in court that you can not demand working a required job without pay, courts intervened. The Paid Kettle employees have quotas to meet. If they don't meet them they are often moved to a less profitable area. If they don't meet those quotas they sometimes loose their jobs. Last I heard the quota was $150 per shift in donations. Red Cross comes under fire for their over the top administration costs and collecting funds for a specific natural disaster and moving those funds to another disaster. They have tried to fix that when donations slipped. Many charities seem to have their hidden dark sides. I donate my goods to Good Will, I donate money to Salvation Army, I avoid Red Cross, Love St Judes. I have beyond cookies avoided Scouts for the same reason as too much goes to Administration and little directly to troops earning the funds. My favorite is a local the McCormick Foundation who doles out their funds to so many diverse charities. McCormick depending on who owns what now has had the Tribune News Paper, WGN Radio and TV, Chicago Cubs....many an entity raising funds each year. McCormick has a zero Administration cost, the various corporations absorb the admin costs. It is very local to Northern and Central IL so I love it, you see where it is really going.
Like I said, I was only conveying what I was told. That said... I would still bypass a corporation which still has to skim off a lot of money to pay it's management (if nothing else) so I will go to local, non-profits, connected with reliable Religions (not many of them left either) where I know that the proceeds are staying in the community. I'm sure everyone has their own personal reasons for donating where they donate. Mine was guided by what I had heard to a minor degree, but, mostly because I think there are others that do a better job of making sure my donations are going to benefit the majority of their intended target.

I tend to agree with Salvation Army over Red Cross, because of personal experience. I still donated blood to the Red Cross until the Cancer diagnosis and now they won't let me. I used to do St. Jude until I donated a fairly large amount to them only to receive a letter from them saying that they received it but it wasn't enough, send more! Didn't even thank me for what I did give, and then proceeded to bombard me with more request for money for days after that. They probably used up all my donation just to send me those requests. Now it's the Shriner's Hospitals that I will support. Whatever, the case may be unless we are millionaires (I'm more then a few dollars short on that one) we chose the one(s) that we feel the most comfortable with. Helping others should be what this country is all about. We have the resources and "Us First" is not the way we should be. We already have everything, sharing is what makes us stronger.
 

ajrwdwgirl

Premium Member
He has talked about it for years.

Think back to the food they 'packed.' The can of Chili. Well I guess on the way back home they still had the can of chili going through TSA at MCO. A good 5 minute conversation about how TSA examined, swabbed etc the can of chili, f o r e v e r.

Anybody heard of what is going on in MCO and their extreme vetting of food? It isn't happening anywhere else that I've heard anyhow.
Good thing the Halloween Parties are over at Disney. I saw 4 hours in advance now for Magical Express. Getting to the point that it doesn't make sense to go into the parks for a partial day if you have to leave for airport 4 hours in advance of your flight.

When I came back through the airport on Tuesday there were signs up about taking any food products out of carry-on bags. I didn't really pay attention to see if anyone was taking food out, but I had a Disney bucket of popcorn in my bag so I took that out. It didn't get swabbed and I had a couple candy bars in my backpack that I forgot to take out and they got through just fine.
 

12in12

Well-Known Member
Thank you all for the welcome.:)
I just finished watching Avatar for the first time, I can't say I loved it but I didn't hate it either. Watching it did make me more excited about seeing Pandora. It stopped raining so I will go for a walk now. I hope everyone else is having a nice Sunday.
 
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Goofyernmost

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When I came back through the airport on Tuesday there were signs up about taking any food products out of carry-on bags. I didn't really pay attention to see if anyone was taking food out, but I had a Disney bucket of popcorn in my bag so I took that out. It didn't get swabbed and I had a couple candy bars in my backpack that I forgot to take out and they got through just fine.
Chances are they don't care about food, what they care about is something disguised as food. Probably someone found out about someone prepared to try something, so they are being more careful without panicking the public.
 

ajrwdwgirl

Premium Member
Thank you all for the welcome.:)
I just finished watching Avatar for the first time, I can't say I loved it but I didn't have it either. Watching it did make me more excited about seeing Pandora. It stopped raining so I will go for a walk now. I hope everyone else is having a nice Sunday.

I watched Avatar about a week before we went to WDW in June and to Pandora for the first time. I'm glad I watched the movie before we went I think it helped me to appreciate Pandora more. I don't think watching the movie is completely necessary to enjoy the land though. I thought the movie was entertaining, but not necessarily something I need to watch again. I suppose when the sequels come out I will watch those.
 

12in12

Well-Known Member
I watched Avatar about a week before we went to WDW in June and to Pandora for the first time. I'm glad I watched the movie before we went I think it helped me to appreciate Pandora more. I don't think watching the movie is completely necessary to enjoy the land though. I thought the movie was entertaining, but not necessarily something I need to watch again. I suppose when the sequels come out I will watch those.

Avatar was definitely a one and done for me. I didn't know there are going to be sequels but I guess it makes sense since Disney invested so heavily in Pandora.
 

Pixieish

Well-Known Member
Good Will is not a privately owned company. It is a non profit 501 c 3 charity exactly like the Salvation Army, St. Jude etc. They all have different missions but are not for profit organizations.

Good Will had come under fire years ago for a loop hole for being able to pay their disabled less than Minimum wage. Salvation Army came under fire for not paying those in need and sheltering at all which the Labor Board won in court that you can not demand working a required job without pay, courts intervened. The Paid Kettle employees have quotas to meet. If they don't meet them they are often moved to a less profitable area. If they don't meet those quotas they sometimes loose their jobs. Last I heard the quota was $150 per shift in donations. Red Cross comes under fire for their over the top administration costs and collecting funds for a specific natural disaster and moving those funds to another disaster. They have tried to fix that when donations slipped. Many charities seem to have their hidden dark sides. I donate my goods to Good Will, I donate money to Salvation Army, I avoid Red Cross, Love St Judes. I have beyond cookies avoided Scouts for the same reason as too much goes to Administration and little directly to troops earning the funds. My favorite is a local the McCormick Foundation who doles out their funds to so many diverse charities. McCormick depending on who owns what now has had the Tribune News Paper, WGN Radio and TV, Chicago Cubs....many an entity raising funds each year. McCormick has a zero Administration cost, the various corporations absorb the admin costs. It is very local to Northern and Central IL so I love it, you see where it is really going.

If you donate directly to a specific Scout troop, the troop gets to keep ALL of the funds. NONE goes to regional admin or anything. ;) We quit scouts because while our troop was great about not asking parents to pay for anything, they were hardcore on the popcorn sales and it just felt so scammy. I would always tell people that if they're not popcorn fans, that they can donate directly and the troop keeps 100%.

St. Jude's is fabulous - I used to do graphic design for them, including some of their fundraisers. It's really scary how deeply you have to check "charities" to make sure your money actually does some good.

Good morning, I am new on the Chit chat thread and thought I would say Hi.
I am not American so no Thanksgiving stress or dinner for me, just a lazy Sunday.;)

Welcome! Lazy Sundays are my fave!

My biggest present issue will be DS asked for a certain gaming system I had in college. Apparently what is old is new again?:confused: They brought it back and now it is sold out everywhere. Hoping it gets restocked. But now I wish I would have kept it. I know I told my dad to throw it out a bunch of a years back when he asked. It was in perfect shape too. :oops:

My boys are notorious for asking for stuff like that! Last year, it was a Thomas train that my youngest saw on YouTube after watching with his brother - I had to send to Japan for that one because it's not made in the US. UGH.

I watched Avatar about a week before we went to WDW in June and to Pandora for the first time. I'm glad I watched the movie before we went I think it helped me to appreciate Pandora more. I don't think watching the movie is completely necessary to enjoy the land though. I thought the movie was entertaining, but not necessarily something I need to watch again. I suppose when the sequels come out I will watch those.

Avatar was definitely a one and done for me. I didn't know there are going to be sequels but I guess it makes sense since Disney invested so heavily in Pandora.

Avatar is basically the same story as Pocahontas but in space...not a riveting movie, but amazing visuals. I'm hoping the sequels are better and can't wait to see the land!
 

Cesar R M

Well-Known Member
He has talked about it for years.

Think back to the food they 'packed.' The can of Chili. Well I guess on the way back home they still had the can of chili going through TSA at MCO. A good 5 minute conversation about how TSA examined, swabbed etc the can of chili, f o r e v e r.

Anybody heard of what is going on in MCO and their extreme vetting of food? It isn't happening anywhere else that I've heard anyhow.
Good thing the Halloween Parties are over at Disney. I saw 4 hours in advance now for Magical Express. Getting to the point that it doesn't make sense to go into the parks for a partial day if you have to leave for airport 4 hours in advance of your flight.
I'm still confused what cause said fear.
 

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