Very rarely see bad drunken behaviour here. It's mainly a family resort.Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2023 1:19 pmI stay away from the British bars here, they're generally full of drunk twats.
PdC is where the piss-heads go
Very rarely see bad drunken behaviour here. It's mainly a family resort.Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2023 1:19 pmI stay away from the British bars here, they're generally full of drunk twats.
Old school romance in being a ship captain ain't there?Cousin Jack wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2023 12:36 pm That's the bit I don't understand. On a bus tour you don't aspire to sit with the driver at dinner, on a plane the Captain is just a Driver, Airframe. What is different about a boat?
Noooooo. Had a long weekend in a "faded glamour" hotel in Windemere, chock full of old folks apart from my missus and I. The food was ropey, they had entertainment on site, some poor old bastards crooning in the hotel bar. I would bet my life they were running the bingo later. I doubt there would have been a quiz, they didn't seem up to it, that's for the other sort of thing I'm snobby about and covers that middle-age of nothingness entertainment before you get to the cabaret stage. I'll never know as I'd already legged it to the pub.Potter wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2023 12:59 pm I've sometimes enjoyed those good old fashioned working class package holidays where there is a cabaret and evening entertainment, a few pints and a game of bingo. I wouldn't want to live that that every weekend, but for the odd holiday we've had a good laugh, put your snobbery to the side for a week and enjoy a bit of a knees up.
I like doing my own thing too much to be stuck on a cruise ship for longer than a week, but I could manage a week of bingo and a wanky magician whilst I have a few pints of an evening.
Been there, done that. The shirt didn't fit and was bloody uncomfortable.DefTrap wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2023 2:14 pm Noooooo. Had a long weekend in a "faded glamour" hotel in Windemere, chock full of old folks apart from my missus and I. The food was ropey, they had entertainment on site, some poor old bastards crooning in the hotel bar. I would bet my life they were running the bingo later. I doubt there would have been a quiz, they didn't seem up to it, that's for the other sort of thing I'm snobby about and covers that middle-age of nothingness entertainment before you get to the cabaret stage. I'll never know as I'd already legged it to the pub.
Ah yes, the delights of Stone!Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2023 2:33 pm It all reminds me of doing BT courses at Yarnfield, near Stone, in Staffordshire, there was an onsite bar with entertainment, usually a ropey woman singing who got better looking the more beer you drank, if that was too tame for you there were the bright lights of Stone, grab a granny night in the Wayfarer or a fight in the Rising Sun.
A good few years ago I was on a Greek island (Skiathos) at Easter and, although the weather was marv, the place was v quiet. Then one day there was much activity, shops opening up, people wiping down tables at cafés/bars etc etc. Sure enough a hoooge cruise ship hoves into view, hundreds of aged Americans pile off for a couple of hours waving dollar bills at all and sundry. My mate pointed out the Bureau de Change about 10m away to which the reply was 'No point, we don't get off again until Israel'. The ship was reputed to have the best cardiac unit anywhere on the Med.Cousin Jack wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2023 12:36 pmOn the subject of visits ashore, I was in Bar Harbour one day when 3 ships were in port, the QE2 and 2 other behemoths. It was absolute chaos, in a town of maybe 5k people and about 2 or 3 times that number of tourists. It was lovely when they fcuked off back on board for dinner, and funny watching the inevitable stragglers trying to avoid being left behind.DefTrap wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2023 11:26 am My M-I-L was mad about them there cruises - lovely lady but god-rest-her-soul the worst kind of Sun-reading low-level snob you could meet. Her ambition was to spend the entire cruise schmoozing up to some poor bastard 'cruise captain' at the captain's table to try to bore him to death with her light hearted racist chin music.
OMG! This. Well, mostly. I do go to the seasonnaire bars but only if there's a good band on/I'm meet friends or in between apres and evening bands when it's quiet and the pissed brits are at the chalet cooking or eating!!
Bit like a prepper, getting your ducks in a row before the next big disaster. In this case a financial disaster regards CDBC. The authorities are cracking down on buying selling commodities like gold/coin because the whole point of a CDBC is "you will own nothing". It is a bit like bitcoin except state controlled and whereas with bitcoin, no one knows who is doing what with their money, the CDBC system is designed top be able to control spending right down to an individual level. So having a decent stash of actual gold or coins is probably a good idea.
Gold is eternal. It is also finite. You can't make it so at the same time as cracking down on mere plebs from investing in a real commodity (not lit. valueless fiat money) they are of course buying it up themselves as quickly as possible. That and farmland/houses etc...Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Sun Sep 03, 2023 6:23 pm If the government were to control all spending surely a stack of gold coins is pretty worthless?
Bit like how I can't spend old Triumph spares and bog roll tubes in Tesco
That is just not true. I will deliver your week's grocery shipping for 5kg of gold. Just give me your Tesco list and the gold.Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Sun Sep 03, 2023 6:43 pm How can it have value if the only way to buy stuff is via this hypothetical CBDC though?
I can't even buy stuff with gold right now. The only exception is using it to buy "normal" money.
Because gold is the very definition of value. Oil has become the international commodity of trade by shoring up the dollar (which is the only reason the entire military industrial complex is obsessed with keeping oil tied to the dollar). Difficult for the individual to trade in barrels of oil tho’ so for reasons I have highlighted before, gold is the commodity of choice.Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Sun Sep 03, 2023 6:43 pm How can it have value if the only way to buy stuff is via this hypothetical CBDC though?
I can't even buy stuff with gold right now. The only exception is using it to buy "normal" money.