Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Yep - I remember when I was a teen, my dad was the Drummer with the Drifers and they were performing in Manchester when the IRA bomb destroyed the city centre. In the news was his tour poster blown in half. We were worried sick until we could hear from him (days before cell phones).
Originally Posted By MPierce >> How many people's ashes are strewn at Disney Parks? << I bet a bunch. I even considered it myself at one time. My wife told me "don't get your hopes up. You probably won't make it past the commode".
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Or the scariest was 7/7. I was supposed to go to a meeting in London and was delayed. I called a colleague to let him know and we changed where and when we were going to meet. It was the last conversation I had with him. If I was on time, I wouldn't be on LP anymore either. Makes you think.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo The really sad thing, is between that, and some of the junk I contend with in the real world, I like to use Disney as an escape. And when the things that are wrong with the real world encroach on my Disney world, I get really grumpy. Let's hope the current trend stops, and soon. especially as the gripes we have about WDW seem to be infiltrating DLP and DL now too.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Lol MPierce. I used to want my ashes at DL, but then besides the fact they have special vacuums to clean them up, I also don't want people to think of the parks as graveyards (HM and in front of Spaceship Earth excluded of course ;-)
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Or the scariest was 7/7. I was supposed to go to a meeting in London and was delayed. I called a colleague to let him know and we changed where and when we were going to meet. It was the last conversation I had with him. If I was on time, I wouldn't be on LP anymore either. << Now that's scarey.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Yep - I remember when I was a teen, my dad was the Drummer with the Drifers and they were performing in Manchester when the IRA bomb destroyed the city centre. In the news was his tour poster blown in half. We were worried sick until we could hear from him (days before cell phones). << Are you talking about the group that recorded "Up on the Roof"? Manchester was really a front line city when it came to music in those days.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Yep, the very one - Under the Boardwalk, Up on the Roof, Kissing in the Back Row of the Movies, Spanish Harlem, Sister and Brother etc. Johnny Moore was a god father of my brother Dan, and Ben E King were all friends of the family. They wouldn't give my musician step dad a green card, so that's how we ended up over here.
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 But did we learn anything? Or is the attitude "It can't happen again?" I'm secretary/bookkeeper at a Catholic Church. After 9/11, church attendance and donations skyrocketed for about 6-7 months, then as people felt safer, they went back to their old ways. Even with all the talk about today's economy, the future, the fact that my DH and I both turned 65 this year, I'm still planning my next Disney trip. Complacency will kill or bankrupt me. The reason we went to WDW that year was because my son had just gone to basic training for the Navy in August. My daughters thought a Disney trip would take away my stress. We went to his graduation in October, luckily he was in a program where the Navy sent him to school for 1 1/2 more years. But most of those kids 18-20 year olds, got shipped out on aircraft carriers for a life they sure were not prepared.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<Last week in the Toy Story Mania que (the tent part) there was a large section of wall where the paint had been torn off. About the size of a tv screen. This was on Sunday. When we went back again on Friday the spot was fixed and we couldn't even tell where it had been.>> I noticed that on 10/23. And a few days later it was still like that. And in other places there was damage too. Shouldn't use such cheap materials and shouldn't take weeks (or even days) to repair. I suppose I should be happy that fixed it. But the materials used on that attraction and the ability for kids to climb all over the props in the queue lead me to believe the WDI team that worked on this again missed very basic things regarding guests and their bad behavior.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip SPIRIT!! I'm so danged glad to see you. Just when I was thinking there was no reason for me to ever come back to LP; you arrive!! Thank you, thank you, thank you. I look forward to your posts.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo I do wonder though, the Buzz queue at Paris looks more like vinyl wall paper rather than paint. could this be why it is getting such a touch time compared to other queues?
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<I think a little bit of Magic died in all of us that day.>> That's for sure! <<America now knows what Europe has felt for years. I don't think we liked that feeling very much. Sometimes we tend to think that we are isolated from the rest of the real world.>> No ... it's the feeling of fear ... but it's also been used against us by our own leaders too (hey, bud, I didn't turn the discussion in this direction, just putting in my dime's worth!) Fear is never good. The idea of 'healthy fear' has always made me uneasy. And we can't live in isolation, no matter what some think. It really is a small world and we are all intimately connected. People lose sight of that if they aren't world travelers or live in a small town in Nebraska and think Omaha is at the big city. I know when I first traveling it's amazing how far places seemed from each other, a small three hour flight from Florida to NYC seemed to take forever. Now, I travel around the world and don't think twice. ...Travel is good ... it exposes you to different people, cultures, ideas ... and, yes, Disney resorts too!
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 I'm going out soon to go to a wine tasting thing, but the above post sounds like RoadTrip was already there. I, too enjoy reading Spirit's comments, but, he wasn't gone that long.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> But did we learn anything? Or is the attitude "It can't happen again?" << Sadly I think we have become complacent once more. We should have learned our lesson from the rest of the world.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo By the same token, you cannot always live on alert either. It is a hard balance to get right sadly. What I do know is the US embassy in Grosvenor Square London looks like it is in a warzone, and my family is not even allowed in there with me. Bonkers.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<The really sad thing, is between that, and some of the junk I contend with in the real world, I like to use Disney as an escape. And when the things that are wrong with the real world encroach on my Disney world, I get really grumpy. Let's hope the current trend stops, and soon. especially as the gripes we have about WDW seem to be infiltrating DLP and DL now too.>> This is why Dave is a kindred spirit! This is actually how I feel. When I am bitching about WDW being WalMarted and people being so accepting of it, I think what (in the big picture) I am thinking about is how TWDC is just a microcosm of society. You WalMart Disney, you WalMart America!
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Yep, the very one - Under the Boardwalk, Up on the Roof, Kissing in the Back Row of the Movies, Spanish Harlem, Sister and Brother etc. Johnny Moore was a god father of my brother Dan, and Ben E King were all friends of the family. They wouldn't give my musician step dad a green card, so that's how we ended up over here. << A great group I remember them well. How strange, your mother was a yank wasn't she.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Indeed, but we better be careful before we are given a time out and are told to take it to World Events. What's your favorite snack item/ride/hotel??? ;-)
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Indeedy! But the band were all English (just the singers were American)
