Three Very Important Travel Safety Questions

[Jerloma]

Even though I was just really looking for affirmation, I did semi-seriously ask if anyone would swim in that lake behind the house I'm staying at, and I'm like a genius. So...

[Shirley]

Oh, I think Disney's liable whether they put alligator warning signs up or not. I really don't get why they'd build that sandy beach though, for water you aren't allowed to swim in. That's weird.

[rass]

Even though I was just really looking for affirmation, I did semi-seriously ask if anyone would swim in that lake behind the house I'm staying at, and I'm like a genius. So...

/swims in lake, does not get bitten by gator
/does pick up brain-eating amoeba
/with last intelligible utterance before entering a permanent vegetative state, insists that it isn't in the least bit ironic that he called himself a genius before taking this trip
/spends part of every Sunday for the rest of his life being wheeled to a church service in the living facility's cafeteria/chapel

[rass]

* I'm going to just echo ard go deeper on the "on property" issue. Disney goes WAY out its way to make you feel like you've entered another place/domain once you drive onto their massive, sprawling complex. They invite you to believe you have entered the happiest place on earth. Everything is manicured and sculpted to make you buy into this.

Exactly. Much better way to make this point than calling DW-goers rubes.

[brian]

* I'm going to just echo ard go deeper on the "on property" issue. Disney goes WAY out its way to make you feel like you've entered another place/domain once you drive onto their massive, sprawling complex. They invite you to believe you have entered the happiest place on earth. Everything is manicured and sculpted to make you buy into this.

Exactly. Much better way to make this point than calling DW-goers rubes.

Those two points aren't mutually exclusive.

[brian]

Also, it's not a Disney (or Las Vegas) thing. The vast number of people to visit Disney or Las Vegas are rubes because the vast majority of Americans are rubes. Doesn't matter whether they're vacationing in Orlando or Omaha.

[rass]

Also, it's not a Disney (or Las Vegas) thing. The vast number of people to visit Disney or Las Vegas are rubes because the vast majority of Americans are rubes. Doesn't matter whether they're vacationing in Orlando or Omaha.

I think the only point that I'm trying to make is that DW is engineered to to make you and your kids feel safe and to feel like nothing like what happened on Monday could ever EVER happen there. They want you to be able to relax, especially at the hotels (and especially at the Grand Floridian where the rooms probably start at no less than $600 a night). This likely could have happened even if the kid hadn't been in the water, but just on the sand. I personally really enjoy the DW experience, but they fucked up.

[Rush2112]

Also, it's not a Disney (or Las Vegas) thing. The vast number of people to visit Disney or Las Vegas are rubes because the vast majority of Americans are rubes. Doesn't matter whether they're vacationing in Orlando or Omaha.

I think the only point that I'm trying to make is that DW is engineered to to make you and your kids feel safe and to feel like nothing like what happened on Monday could ever EVER happen there. They want you to be able to relax, especially at the hotels (and especially at the Grand Floridian where the rooms probably start at no less than $600 a night). This likely could have happened even if the kid hadn't been in the water, but just on the sand. I personally really enjoy the DW experience, but they fucked up.

But if Joe Witchita had been able to bring his gun into Disney none of this would have happened.

[Nonlinear FC]

Also, it's not a Disney (or Las Vegas) thing. The vast number of people to visit Disney or Las Vegas are rubes because the vast majority of Americans are rubes. Doesn't matter whether they're vacationing in Orlando or Omaha.

I think the only point that I'm trying to make is that DW is engineered to to make you and your kids feel safe and to feel like nothing like what happened on Monday could ever EVER happen there. They want you to be able to relax, especially at the hotels (and especially at the Grand Floridian where the rooms probably start at no less than $600 a night). This likely could have happened even if the kid hadn't been in the water, but just on the sand. I personally really enjoy the DW experience, but they fucked up.

That's really the point I was trying to make (and I think did, subsequently.)

But I did just type up a long "i've seen some shit" about my experiences at Disney. I thought it better not to cloud the issue, because it's mostly a tangent about essentially what Brian said.

In sum: A combination of scorching heat and the cost of the trip (for many, this is a once in a lifetime deal) results in people losing their god damn minds at Disney.

[rass]

Also, it's not a Disney (or Las Vegas) thing. The vast number of people to visit Disney or Las Vegas are rubes because the vast majority of Americans are rubes. Doesn't matter whether they're vacationing in Orlando or Omaha.

I think the only point that I'm trying to make is that DW is engineered to to make you and your kids feel safe and to feel like nothing like what happened on Monday could ever EVER happen there. They want you to be able to relax, especially at the hotels (and especially at the Grand Floridian where the rooms probably start at no less than $600 a night). This likely could have happened even if the kid hadn't been in the water, but just on the sand. I personally really enjoy the DW experience, but they fucked up.

That's really the point I was trying to make (and I think did, subsequently.)

Yup, I think you did, too.

And if you think the Disney post is worth sharing...

[Ryan]

Luckily we can all just drive 20 minutes over to Sea World for some payback

[sancarlos]

Also, it's not a Disney (or Las Vegas) thing. The vast number of people to visit Disney or Las Vegas are rubes because the vast majority of Americans are rubes. Doesn't matter whether they're vacationing in Orlando or Omaha.

I would think the visitors to Las Vegas seem like dazzling urbanites relative to the rubes who visit a rustic place like Branson.

[brian]

Also, it's not a Disney (or Las Vegas) thing. The vast number of people to visit Disney or Las Vegas are rubes because the vast majority of Americans are rubes. Doesn't matter whether they're vacationing in Orlando or Omaha.

I would think the visitors to Las Vegas seem like dazzling urbanites relative to the rubes who visit a rustic place like Branson.

I'd like to think that as well, though I doubt it's true.

[Giff]

So, I found out that in NV you can buy if you have a medical card from another state. I was going to take a whole batch of J-Lo's cookies with me, but now I don't have to!

[brian]

So, I found out that in NV you can buy if you have a medical card from another state. I was going to take a whole batch of J-Lo's cookies with me, but now I don't have to!

Make sure to check on that before you leave though. There's been some bellyaching and discussion about changing the laws because of douchebag Californians. I doubt anything will change before your visit, but be sure to double check.

[Giff]

So, I found out that in NV you can buy if you have a medical card from another state. I was going to take a whole batch of J-Lo's cookies with me, but now I don't have to!

Make sure to check on that before you leave though. There's been some bellyaching and discussion about changing the laws because of douchebag Californians. I doubt anything will change before your visit, but be sure to double check.

Cool will do. I've been begging my sister to drive instead of fly, but with her company paying for it since she's going to a conference, it's not happening.

[Jerloma]

We had some logistical issues and I ended up on separate flights than the wife kids. I did more research on the cookies. Apparently, the TSA could not care less about weed. Everything just said to discreetly put it in your carry on and forget about it. So that was a piece of cake.

Anyway, 4th very important travel question. I'm here by myself until Uber comes to take me to the airport at 8:30. Everyone has already left. My friend said I could feel free to take out one of these Gibbs. I'm not nearly bad ass enough to do this without hurting myself, right? I mean, I've driven a 4 wheel ATV and I've driven a jet ski. I feel like I'm competent enough but who knows? Would you do it?

[A_B]

I think you have no choice but to ride that bad boy.

[BSF21]

I think you have no choice but to ride that bad boy.

You're not Giff...

[govmentchedda]

I think you have no choice but to ride that bad boy.

It's a must.

[Jerloma]

I opened the garage door and started it up, then sat there for 30 seconds imagining getting it stuck in the lake and having to dig it out surrounded by gators. Then I shut it off and decided to masturbate and have a glass of wine and a bath.

Then masturbate again.

Feel free to tell the story differently for my eulogy though.

[A_B]

I opened the garage door and started it up, then sat there for 30 seconds imagining getting it stuck in the lake and having to dig it out surrounded by gators. Then I shut it off and decided to masturbate and have a glass of wine and a bath.

Then masturbate again.

Feel free to tell the story differently for my eulogy though.

Jerloma was nothing if not one for opening doors for himself. He was a self-starter. He was contemplative, often taking time to consider the future, bleak though it may have seemed. He did have fears of failures, however - of being surrounded by those who would mean him harm, even if it were only because of the most basic impulses shared by those less knowledgeable than himself. You might say he feared being devoured by the simpler of society whose beliefs stretch back thousands of years and fail to consider the world outside their own dark confines.

He knew when to take a step back. He was a man who did find pleasure in being alone but would often stop to fire off e-mails to close family members in furious bursts. He took pleasure in the fruits of nature, no matter how long it might take them to reach their true calling and partake only when appropriate personal cleansing was necessary.

And one thing was true. He loved himself some more every day.

[HaulCitgo]

Nice eulogy. And you're a pussy. I would have wimped out too. But in a 30 mph ride on the four wheeler.

[mister d]

I would have drank wine and masturbated while riding that four wheeler.