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Post by tzarine on Aug 3, 2023 14:04:02 GMT -5
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Aug 3, 2023 17:54:03 GMT -5
I could easily spend my hypothetical million dollars on that!
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Post by Liiisa on Aug 3, 2023 18:03:59 GMT -5
When my friend and I went to see the Taj Mahal, we ran into a nice Belgian couple and their Abercrombie and Kent guide. He was friends with the woman we'd hired to be our guide, and he begged her if she could please take them into the Taj as well because there was some issue with his guiding permit. So we had a nice morning at the Taj with these very nice randos, who I hope tipped our guide lavishly.
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Post by tucano on Aug 4, 2023 4:30:59 GMT -5
Well I guess if you have all that money to burn...*checks carbon footprint of a private jet*.
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Post by Liiisa on Aug 4, 2023 5:01:29 GMT -5
*checks carbon footprint of a private jet*. Yep: even if I were a trillionaire I wouldn't do that
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Post by sprite on Aug 4, 2023 10:00:27 GMT -5
I mean, if there's 48 people, it's no a private jet!
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Post by tzarine on Aug 4, 2023 13:20:45 GMT -5
i applied for a job w them for china when i got out of school so glad i didn't get it
it is sOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO sexy to wear shoes you cant walk in what vanity must you have to hire a crew for a video shoot of you in your wedding frock & block my street (also thats not a very nice frock)
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Post by sprite on Aug 4, 2023 14:24:44 GMT -5
Partner bought himself a massage gun. we are more excited about this than anything since we got a new kettle.
we are laughing at ourselves.
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Post by psw on Aug 4, 2023 18:39:06 GMT -5
sprite "I mean, if there's 48 people, it's not a private jet!" It's a private jet because it's independent, can go wherever and whenever it wants, not following any airline's hubs and connections, etc. A&K uses it enough to own it. A one-shot group would charter rather than purchasing.
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Post by tzarine on Aug 4, 2023 19:15:08 GMT -5
Partner bought himself a massage gun. we are more excited about this than anything since we got a new kettle. we are laughing at ourselves. the insanity i experience while on an innocent task
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Aug 4, 2023 19:21:20 GMT -5
sprite "I mean, if there's 48 people, it's not a private jet!" It's a private jet because it's independent, can go wherever and whenever it wants, not following any airline's hubs and connections, etc. A&K uses it enough to own it. A one-shot group would charter rather than purchasing. Oooh, we could use one of these to pick all of us up and take us to a massive piss-up. I’m thinking the Caribbean would be nice!
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Post by Liiisa on Aug 4, 2023 21:18:58 GMT -5
I dunno, I heard something that is repeated in this news story that I quote here: "In 2019, the accident rate for a commercial plane was 0.2 accidents for every 100,000 hours flown. For a private plane, it's more than 25 times higher at 5.6 accidents for every 100,000 hours. "In general, it's an experience thing, and a regulatory oversight and requirements thing,"
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Post by psw on Aug 5, 2023 0:36:36 GMT -5
Liiisa - I'd like to have a clearer definition of Private Plane, which could include everything from a little puddle-jumper flown by its owner who is not a full-time pilot to a 48-seat aircraft belonging to a travel company which hires a pilot and crew. Also the most dangerous times are take-offs and landings, which occur once per flight, no matter the duration of the flight, so 100,000 hours is going to include a wide range of numbers of take-offs and landings per aircraft.
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Post by Liiisa on Aug 5, 2023 5:42:15 GMT -5
True psw - in fact I know someone who has a pilot's license and a tiny plane, and I could be talked into flying with him. And if it's 48 people, then it's no different from those very small planes one can take to Bangor or whatever. But - there's no way I'm taking a tour with 48 people! (Here's where I admit I didn't read the article)
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Post by sprite on Aug 6, 2023 14:38:01 GMT -5
Last night we went out with partner's friend and his new partner for drinks, then met her sisters and their partners for dinner. all three women are from Montreal! Very Canadian night with our british toyboys.
quote from girlfriend: "When a woman cries around Bob, he plays golf in his head."
a few months ago, I went out for dinner with a friend, and met one of her friends--who, it turned out, lived around the corner from me. Woo, small world!! we said.
Last night, I learned that this person is the ex of one of the sisters who was at dinner. That's a bit too small world for me.
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Post by tzarine on Aug 6, 2023 15:17:01 GMT -5
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Post by psw on Aug 9, 2023 12:28:53 GMT -5
Didn't know whether to laugh, cry or be pissed off:
The cashier at the supermarket, a new young employee, anglo, asked what an item was - it was a grapefruit.
Am I expecting too much?
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Post by Liiisa on Aug 9, 2023 12:58:21 GMT -5
I wonder if young people don't grow up with any around, now that so many drugs interact with grapefruit and grapefruit juice.
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Post by tzarine on Aug 9, 2023 14:33:29 GMT -5
Didn't know whether to laugh, cry or be pissed off: The cashier at the supermarket, a new young employee, anglo, asked what an item was - it was a grapefruit. Am I expecting too much? its our education system, sadly before tzarevich was born when tzar was a migrant professor, taking jobs in various cities, in texas, the cashier (causcasian) didnt know what a cucumber was years later in michigan, where tzar was teaching, i was eating an avocado outside our apartment in faculty housing, this kid was really puzzled about the thing i was eating
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Post by jimm on Aug 10, 2023 18:23:19 GMT -5
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Post by tzarine on Aug 10, 2023 19:23:38 GMT -5
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Post by tzarine on Aug 11, 2023 17:06:13 GMT -5
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Post by Liiisa on Aug 11, 2023 17:41:45 GMT -5
Maybe they'll both sustain terrible injuries and have to retire
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Post by tzarine on Aug 11, 2023 18:01:42 GMT -5
or like in roman times loser is lion food
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Post by Liiisa on Aug 11, 2023 19:19:52 GMT -5
Feed them both to the lions
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Post by Liiisa on Aug 12, 2023 6:37:57 GMT -5
Radio is playing "Old McDonald Had a Farm" but done by some singer in Arabic with the whole fabulous kind of Arabic/Egyptian/Lebanese kind of accompaniment, and it's hilarious.
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Post by tzarine on Aug 13, 2023 9:03:45 GMT -5
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Aug 15, 2023 6:02:45 GMT -5
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Post by tzarine on Aug 17, 2023 16:25:34 GMT -5
"How I Turned My Love of Dildos Into a Sex-Positive Writing Career"
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Aug 20, 2023 18:43:29 GMT -5
I just heard that the Russian space craft crashed into the moon, and has “ceased to exist”.
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