Well, the cruise up and down the English Channel is well underway. T-shirts have been provided but not yet worn, perhaps because I didn't supply my size when asked (apparently mine is either an XXL or an XXS).
Anyway, Disney is a cult. I spent an hour in a theatre last night with a thousand screaming fans watching a show about how great Disney is, by awarding itself awards named after itself given by itself to itself.
Then it was the pirate party. So I whipped out my best costume, as suggested on this very thread. With the punchline "I'm sure my invite said 'Parrot Party'..."
Just popped to the top floor for a stroll and a coffee. Around 0730 it was pretty quiet. As I wondered back to the cabin, the % of Disneyshit (tm) wearers increased exponentially which was interesting.
$18.40 for a beer and small popcorn last night in the theatre (including tip).
Loads of engineers working away on bits and bobs while no punters are around. The attention to detail* is really quite something. It's like the opposite of the UK standard approach to making profit, which is to stop all maintenance and cut staffing (MacDonald hotels - I'm looking at you here).
You get the real feeling that everything is monitored, measured and assessed to bleed as much money out of people as possible. Apparently this tub is going for refurb next month, but they're still polishing, sanding and touching up paint.
*Actually, not all... Exhibit A milud
What is going on with that chessboard?
Having been in the same clubs and done the same events for three decades it's quite easy for us to dress the same and it makes us smile. Going through junior's stuff recently we found some club jerseys in different sizes from his racing days, we gave them to him and he sent us a pic of him and his girlfriend wearing them on a bike tour.
It seems STW Ts sell well.
Go on, get the T-shirt, then wear until it falls off your back.
Edit: I missed the thread being months old and several pages long and highly entertaining, sorry for such a boring post.
Oh god, that chess board makes me itch. But it is perhaps a perfect symbol of mindless capitalism.
Can someone plase explain what i am missing?
The white bishops and knights could do with a shuffle
"what am I missing?"
The board should have a white square at bottom right, not black - the board needs to be turned 90º. That also means the king and queen on each side will have to swap positions. The knights and bishops on the white side are in each others places (unless they're playing some sort of Fischer game).
...also, all those ****ing mice need to be scrubbed off the board.
Ahahaha. I didn't even look at the whites just assumed they were the same as the blacks.
The board should have a white square at bottom right, not black – the board needs to be turned 90º. That also means the king and queen on each side will have to swap positions. The knights and bishops on the white side are in each others places (unless they’re playing some sort of Fischer game).
So nothing, other than piece mix up.
“So nothing, other than piece mix up.”
Yeah, d4 is a solid opening.
The thing is Rich, you could have said no to the whole thing, but you didn’t so just get on with it - har, de har har! ?☠️
har, de har har!
Blackbeard, is that you?
So I whipped out my best costume,
Did it fill up ankle deep with pure sweat?
How was your day trip to Rotterdam/Zeebrugge etc?
Shit. Apparently it’s time to don t-shirts and have a family photo.
Presumably you will be sharing this?
Pics or it didn't happen.
P.o.i.d.h.
People just won’t f___g grow up.
“Growing old is inevitable, growing up is optional” Which is why I neither act nor dress my age; at least one member of my archery club, who’s significantly younger than me, refuses to believe how old I actually am. Which is gratifying. However, anyone telling me that, on some hypothetical group outing everyone has to wear identical tee shirts with some stupid motto or some other shitty design would be given a coloured marker and go out and pick the corner of the patio they’d like to be buried under and mark the slabs accordingly. The only thing worse is adults wearing matching fleeces with wolves or dreamcatchers woven in.
As for cruises, the majority are things of epic horror, a city-sized Petri dish full up with human test subjects being used to develop ever more sophisticated forms of novel bio weapons.
There are, however, some exceptions, like the ones that Hurtigruten run up the Norwegian coast, which I’m giving serious consideration to.
That puffed up parrot outfit has made my day. It's absolutely brilliant and funny - WANT.
It's taken Mrs i853 20 years to wear me down, I now reluctantly wear an AC/DC Christmas jumper.
Ah! It's a massive erect and angry looking parrot!
That puffed up parrot outfit has made my day. It’s absolutely brilliant and funny – WANT.
We help out with a puppy socialization class which involves exposing adorable 2-6 month old puppers to an avalanche of weird s****.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. I've dressed up in an inflatable parrot costume and chased sprocker spaniel puppies around a village hall. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain...
I used spend a lot of time in Nassau. Cruise boats would always be in as Ft. Lauderdale was just a few hours away.
Disney always had lots of boats in and out but the interesting thing was some were “no kids”. Those boats had happy smiling people coming off. The other ones, not so much…
That puffed up parrot outfit has made my day. It’s absolutely brilliant and funny – WANT.
Inflatable Rio Blue Parrot Costume Cartoon Animal Anime Cosplay Costume Parrot Clothes Adult Halloween Christmas Party Costumes
https://a.aliexpress.com/_EI6hyDn
About £20 posted ish.
Recommended if you don't want other people's kids to leave you alone.
That puffed up parrot outfit has made my day. It’s absolutely brilliant and funny – WANT.
I *need* one of the inflatable t-rex's and one of the Picachu ones too...
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I *need* one of the inflatable t-rex’s and one of the Picachu ones too…
Matt - did you see the t-rex racing on the telly? The competitor who won literally threw himself over the line, in a dive any premier league goalie would be proud of, t'was hilarious.
I heard Disneyland described the other day as Mouschwitz, which made I larf.
@cougar apparently they took offence to staff referring to it in that way so they took to calling it Duckau instead.
