Originally Posted By bobbelee9 ^^^Love your new attitude girl!! I am elite, and a snob, but also an individual, so I prefer the Poly.
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey BTW, while I was pondering the whole question of elitism last night, I remembered the perfect example of elitism, thanks to People magazine. Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony recently has twins, and the twins have CASHMERE ONESIES! I cannot think of a more unnecessary, elitist accessory. Itty bitty babies do nothing but poop and spit up, and they'll be spitting up and pooping all over their ridiculously expensive, impractical cashmere onesies. There are children in the world who don't have food or clothing, and J Lo's kids will be doing numbers 1 & 2 on their cashmere onesies. That's ridiculous.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 >> And Nikki explain it well, although I'm not sure how/when an elitist became a bad thing on the road to being elite. << <<The key to this, and where things go wrong is acting in an elitist fashion.>> I'm a terrible actor (should have seen me in my sophomore production of Othello). But I am a great comedian since I recognize the asburdity of what we spirits call life! >> Hey, you're supposed to me my minion! << <<Semper Fidelis! I'm sure the Spirit would prefer thinking minions over mineless slugs, who would follow anyone!>> Tis true. Tis true. I just think of you as special. And I've never been great at sharing. Someone once lost three fingers attempting to borrow some pizza from me. >> Can you put down that beer can down ... and the one you've got between your feet and dial up WDW now? << <<No need to put the beer cans down. I am a well trained red neck, and I can multi task.>> Ah. Evolution it's a wonderful thing. Too bad too many rednecks can't see the apes in their family trees!
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<Am I coming through that bad? Someone at work today accused me of having some hostility toward her. Loooong story, but she is right.>> Hostility is good. Much preferred to the apathetic masses that go thru life in a haze. I respect angry people. Most of the time they got good reason for that anger.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<And I'd rather the Yosemite Suite at the WL myself.>> <<Uh, excuse me, isn't the Grand Floridian the poshest (if that wasn't a word, my elitist self just made it one, because I rock) and most expensive hotel on property, which makes it the ELITE, the best of the best? A true elitist would only stay at the Grand Floridian because it is THE BEST.>> A true elitist wouldn't be caught dead at WDW. Period. ... Now, maybe some wannabes would be at the GF so they could say they stayed there. But cost doesn't equal quality. I stayed at the GF exactly once for six nights. I enjoyed it, although the service was barely 3 star, certainly not 4 or 5. This was in 2001, though. On the other hand, I have spent probably 70 nights of my life at the WL, including being there opening day. I never tire of it. And there's plenty of class and charm there. So, I guess I'm a proud WL elitist. <<You need some work on your elitism, Spirit, or you can't hang with me and my snobby self anymore .>> I'm still (years later) waiting to buy you a drink (and one that doesn't come in a refillable mug!) ... although I might pour mine into one just to make Nikki feel like she's with a bad spirit!
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<BTW, while I was pondering the whole question of elitism last night, I remembered the perfect example of elitism, thanks to People magazine. Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony recently has twins, and the twins have CASHMERE ONESIES! I cannot think of a more unnecessary, elitist accessory. Itty bitty babies do nothing but poop and spit up, and they'll be spitting up and pooping all over their ridiculously expensive, impractical cashmere onesies. There are children in the world who don't have food or clothing, and J Lo's kids will be doing numbers 1 & 2 on their cashmere onesies. That's ridiculous.>> Clearly, I can't be an elitist as I had never heard the term 'onesies' until this minute. Although I can say that twosies can be fun!
Originally Posted By hopemax <<And I'd rather the Yosemite Suite at the WL myself.>> Do you prefer it to the Yellowstone Suite? I've only stayed in the Yellowstone, so I can't compare it to the Yosemite.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 ^^You know I think the only time I was in the Yellowstone was for a brief look-see the week the hotel opened. All I remember thinking at the time was 'I'll never afford this place' ... haven't seen it since its redo. When did you stay there?
Originally Posted By hopemax December 24th, 1998. It was one night only. DH and I were there for our honeymoon, and we had booked one of the honeymoon rooms, and when we checked in they said, "I'm sorry the honeymoon room isn't available for some reason, would the Yellowstone Suite be okay?" It was pre-concierge, so we didn't get to take advantage of that stuff, but waking up Christmas morning, and opening our presents under a Christmas tree, was something very special. When we found out we were getting that room, we canceled all our plans, except dinner at the Rose&Crown. We didn't leave the suite until 2 minutes before check out time! DH says there is no way he can recreate that trip because we couldn't afford to pay for Christmas Eve in that suite. I'd love to get back in there to see what it looks like now. It was pre-digital days, but I took over a roll of film just of the suite. I think the bathroom was bigger than my first apartment.
Originally Posted By hopemax The bad thing was, we had booked 4 nights in the honeymoon rooms. That was our big splurge for the trip (we stayed at French Quarter for 5 nights too). We had been really looking forward to it. But we went from the Yellowstone Suite to the Honeymoon room and so it turned out to be a bit of a letdown. We kept hoping Disney would let us stay there the rest of the nights, but no such luck.
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey <<But cost doesn't equal quality.>> No, it doesn't - but many elitists (or those who fall under my definition of eltists) think that way. For instance, you can't tell me that a $5000 Hermes Birkin bag is of so much better quality than an average leather purse that costs much less. However, some very famous women pay big bucks for an Hermes, only because it's an Hermes. In some cases, you do get what you pay for, and in some cases I may be an elitist. For instance, it will be a cold day in hell before you see a pair of Payless shoes on my feet.
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 ^^^ Louie's are ugly, almost as bad as the Burberry. Not my taste at all. <<Someone once lost three fingers attempting to borrow some pizza from me.>> I'd lose something else if someone actually returned pizza that they borrowed from me. Not a pretty sight.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> I'd lose something else if someone actually returned pizza that they borrowed from me. Not a pretty sight. << I did that same thing many moons ago while on a date with Gloria Fife. She didn't seemed to impressed. At least I managed to get out of the car before the psychedelic waterfall began.
Originally Posted By MPierce My friend-girl a very long time ago. Boy was she ever built... I know very sexist of me, but I just can't help myself when it comes to Gloria!
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 OK, I figured that was another celebrity that I'd never heard of. I'm not up on who's in these days. So at least she won't be writing a tell all book about you!
Originally Posted By barboy ////I have a Louis Vuitton bag and I KNOW most people are JEALOUS!!!!//// But is it 'US' tagged or 'Paris' tagged(or neither as I was told there is a Spain tag too) Around my parts I see LV all day long---they are everywhere and probably 1 out of 3 are fakes though. The other 2 out of three real McCoys are almost always US labeled. So very few around here are the real deal 'native' Paris versions. My wife has 6 Paris versions and they are all ugly or at the very least nothing to look at anyway. Those things are just too passe and unbiquitous in the Bay Area. Since she never once took her $1,400 Fendi brown unisex shoulder bag out of its orignal packaging from downtown Naussau, Bahamas I took it from her in Feb. and now I use it daily. It looks great on me! Hey, better on my shoulder than stored in the closet, right?
