I love the US and its people, perhaps as much as they love peeing in pools
welp that makes one of us
i hate Americans
they are fat, greedy, lazy, stupid, drive like idiots, are loud, eat crappy food, and vote for terrible politicians
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which is why we need to Travel (and have a travel forum) so we can get away from them!
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My MiL offered to pay for a 7 day cruise in the Caribbean this August. Would be me, my wife, whichever of her three kids want to go, and her mom. Given my aversion to cruises, should I go on this? If any of her kids go, I'll go because it might be more fun. But if it is just me, my wife, and my MiL, I might politely decline. Thoughts?
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.
There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.
There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.
There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.
O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.
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CRYING MYSELF TO SLEEP ON THE BIGGEST CRUISE SHIP EVER
Seven agonizing nights aboard the Icon of the Seas
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Yeah think I’ll politely decline. Only reason to go is if one of my stepsons or my step daughter goes to have someone to hang with, as i assume my wife will be busy looking after her mom
eating blocks of cheese and only wearing sweat pants
have time to follow up on all sorts of tasks
solve perpetual motion
sky is the limit
if only
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our trip into what surely will be a comedy of errors and half tragedies begins this afternoon. i already noticed that united airlines put the first initial of my middle name on the back of my first name. i know it was them because i looked back at an old boarding pass from january and it showed the same thing. i normally wouldn't care, but i'm worried about security in rome on the way home. so i called united last night, and they said that they would have to reissue the ticket, and it would cost me the difference in the price of the flight now versus what i paid for it back in january (around $3000). i was livid. so my wife called and they said it was their error, they were marking it in my reservation, and if security gave me troubles a united agent would vouch for me. this doesn't portend good things for me.
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