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Happy Thanksgiving

Posted: 25/11/21, 11:15:11
by TC
Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends who still visit here. Hope you all are staying healthy and able to spend time with family.

My mom went to TX to spend time this year with her oldest son and his fam so this year, just me, my wife, and my boys. Even their girlfriends are either working or with their fam. So just a chill day enjoying time together while they’re both still close by. Right now, cooking and enjoying the annual tradition of MST3K marathon (even though these days there is a 24/7/365 MST3K channel, it just feels right).

I appreciate all of you. I’ve “known” most of you for nearly 25 years at this point, yet only actually met two of you in person, one of which no longer visits here as he seems very busy with his own thing and FB. One of the first things I did when I got online was look up David Lynch stuff, which lead me to Mike’s site and all of you. So you are literally the people I’ve known the longest online. While people have moved on to social media sites, which I get, I will always keep this site up and running. As we’re seeing, lots of people - me included - have had it with social media. Real friendships are something else. So maybe one day people will want to find another way to interact that’s less volatile and derisive. What’s old is new again. That gum you like is going to come back in style.

Peace.
C

Re: Happy Thanksgiving

Posted: 26/11/21, 01:45:26
by darkness
Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Americans as well. I didn't really do anything other than eat a nice dinner and actually sit down and watch a couple of movies. I finally broke out my 4k disc of Howard the Duck since it's too cold to go out to the mailbox and get my 4k Citizen Kane. Close enough I figured.

Yeah, I've been kind of pulling back from FB as well now too. I spend more time on instagram and tictok now when it comes to social media, the latter of which at least allows some creativity. It'll be interesting to see if webboards become a thing again. Of course if they do they'll probably be political echo chambers sadly.

Re: Happy Thanksgiving

Posted: 26/11/21, 06:18:15
by TC
darkness wrote: 26/11/21, 01:45:26 Of course if they do they'll probably be political echo chambers sadly.
Of course. Most of the ones that have survived are exactly that. But at least i can guarantee you that that won’t happen here. No politics.

Re: Happy Thanksgiving

Posted: 26/11/21, 18:06:19
by Draesk
Happy turkey day you ungrateful colonials. :toot:

And yeah, I'm very, very done with Facebook. Can't believe it's near 20 years since even we met though. Still keep in touch with one or two from the phpBB days actually.

Next time I get to go over to the US to see the fam, I'll see about adding another layover to the itinerary for a bit. :cheers:

Re: Happy Thanksgiving

Posted: 27/11/21, 07:46:30
by TC
Yeah that would rule. Or better yet, I need to go to the land of Scots. I like that idea better.

Re: Happy Thanksgiving

Posted: 29/11/21, 08:51:44
by big d note
My wife and I went all over Scotland in 2019 and it was great. Definitely recommend.

I just relaxed on Thanksgiving, ate turkey, read some more Dune (almost to the end of the first book). It will be interesting to see how some of this gets translated to the screen.

I've managed to purge almost all politics from my Facebook feed by aggressively blocking hundreds of Pages that people share crap from, so it's pretty well pruned down to just friends and bands that I follow on there. Plus ads. Always ads.

Re: Happy Thanksgiving

Posted: 16/12/21, 11:09:03
by Draesk
TC wrote: 27/11/21, 07:46:30 Yeah that would rule. Or better yet, I need to go to the land of Scots. I like that idea better.
Sure would love to have you over once we find a balance with this weaponised puppet side-show they call the "pandemic response" in this country. Scotland sure has a lot of cool stuff to show off. Some of it's even non-alcoholic.

Re: Happy Thanksgiving

Posted: 16/12/21, 12:37:32
by TC
Draesk wrote: 16/12/21, 11:09:03
TC wrote: 27/11/21, 07:46:30 Yeah that would rule. Or better yet, I need to go to the land of Scots. I like that idea better.
Sure would love to have you over once we find a balance with this weaponised puppet side-show they call the "pandemic response" in this country. Scotland sure has a lot of cool stuff to show off. Some of it's even non-alcoholic.
:roflmao: :roflmao:

Re: Happy Thanksgiving

Posted: 16/12/21, 20:26:53
by O-dot
Still here, mostly lurking.

Re: Happy Thanksgiving

Posted: 17/12/21, 09:31:20
by big d note
Draesk wrote: 16/12/21, 11:09:03
TC wrote: 27/11/21, 07:46:30 Yeah that would rule. Or better yet, I need to go to the land of Scots. I like that idea better.
Sure would love to have you over once we find a balance with this weaponised puppet side-show they call the "pandemic response" in this country. Scotland sure has a lot of cool stuff to show off. Some of it's even non-alcoholic.
Are you in Glasgow or Edinburgh? Or somewhere in the empty north with the sheep? :) My friend from Glasgow described it as "you can go up north, but there's _nobody_ up there!" Achnasheen was about the farthest north we went. It would've been cool to go up to the Orkney isles, but that's a long haul and we didn't have the time.

Re: Happy Thanksgiving

Posted: 22/12/21, 16:47:28
by Draesk
I'm Glasgow through and through (fuck Edinburgh lmao). There are, technically, people living further north than Stirling. We don't talk about them though. Not sure if they talk about us either, but that's mainly just because you can't make out a word they say.

In fairness, Achnasheen is ridiculously far north. Anything northwest of the Fort William-Loch Ness-Inverness fault line really is just 99.925% sheep. It's proper "easy to get lost and die" territory.

The Western Isles are tonnes better than Orkney/Shetland. For one, they're not a pain in the arse to get to (that costs you a significant portion of said arse in rip-off ferry fees). They're also awesome, full of whisky, really pretty, and full of whisky.

Did I mention the whisky?

Hit up Islay some day if you haven't already. Make sure there's space in your luggage.

Edit: Skye is also great because it has a bridge to the mainland, so you can literally just drive there. It's the biggest of the isles, so it's easy enough to get round and has a fair bit of cool history to see.

Re: Happy Thanksgiving

Posted: 23/12/21, 10:53:45
by big d note
We did do Skye on our trip, but did not make it to Islay. My wife isn't a whisky drinker. We toured one distillery (Glenlivet because most were fully booked already) and she was not a fan. There's a bunch more places I'd like to see if we go back. I brought back 6 bottles of whisky on that trip. Had to throw away a pair of shoes to make room. Priorities! My suitcase was about 1 kg short of the limit.

Glasgow was cool, but we didn't spend a ton of time there. Edinburgh definitely has more in the way of tourist sights. In Glasgow we saw the cathedral, met my friend for lunch at the Willow Tea Rooms, and had a nice dinner in the West End.

Re: Happy Thanksgiving

Posted: 01/01/22, 15:24:37
by Draesk
Oh goodness, Willow! I absolutely love that place! Pre-pandemic, I'd always take my mum there for her birthday. I've done sound for orchestras in the Cathedral as well (challenging acoustics!).

Edinburgh definitely is the more tourist-centric city - being the capital and having the castle certainly directs that, and it has more places that cater to tourists as a result (especially with tours etc). I'd say Glasgow is the cultural heart though. Admittedly you have to dig a bit deeper to find the stand-out places as they generally aren't marketed as well for tourism. But we have a few great museums (Transport Museum, Kelvin Hall) and at least pre-pandemic, every second bar in the city centre would have live music events.

Stirling is another pretty good tourist spot (the castle + the Wallace Monument + Bannockburn visitor centre - the centre is so fucking cool, it has 3D hologram warriors that come at you, and you get to play a giant D&D style reproduction of the battle itself, complete with 3D topographical maps).

If you're ever over again, hit me up - I'll play tour guide!

Re: Happy Thanksgiving

Posted: 03/01/22, 10:49:41
by big d note
Stirling was great! We started that day in Falkirk to see the Kelpies, then did Bannockburn (we left at the beginning of the battle part), went to Stirling Castle and spent a few hours there, and made it to Doune Castle with only about 45 minutes left. Loved the Monty Python audio tour.

I can sympathize with trying to mix sound in the Cathedral, since my job is acoustical consulting (room acoustics, not AV). Not much you can do with a room like that, but it's great to look at.

Re: Happy Thanksgiving

Posted: 10/01/22, 11:16:54
by big d note
I picked up some Copper Dog whisky in the liquor store yesterday. My wife and I had our anniversary dinner in the pub there in 2019. I don't think they were selling the whisky at that point though. It's a decent blend for the price, but not my favorite.