Quote from: Sephirah on April 19, 2025, 04:26:30 PMI think that's why I get you, Lori. Some people never lose the wonder of an eight year old.

I'll be eight next year! 

Hah! You are hands down my favourite rockhound. Seeing what nature can do, with sometimes a bit of help, is just breathtaking. It has people beat. I am not religious. I don't subscribe to intelligent design or anything like that. My favourite TV show is "Lucifer", which shows just how dysfunctional a celestial hierarchy would be. I think that... beauty just happens. Once in a while.

Kind of like you, Lori. Sometimes everything comes together to produce something beyond what you can envisage. And all you can do is be grateful to witness it. If Pierce Brosnan had a much smarter, sassier sister in "Dante's Peak" that would be you.

Lori rocks!


Chrissy

Bluebells in flower in the woods on Malvern hills is the most wonderful sight.

Yellowstone National Park would be a nice visit too.

Chrissy

I want to visit MOAB.  😊

Quote from: ChrissyRyan on April 20, 2025, 07:55:57 AMYellowstone National Park would be a nice visit too.

Chrissy

I visited there a couple of years ago. I got to see the Old Faithful geyser and the Painted Pools. So many beautiful colors! It was still brutally cold the first week of May, but I wanted to beat the tourist traffic. I should have waited until it was warmer. 

There are still some foolish people who get too close to the wild animals there.

Some get off the paths and walk on or near the high temperature areas.  Also unwise.

I am an ocean person.  I have lived on the ocean all my life and started scuba diving and surfing when I was young.  My mountains are waves and underwater.  I have to retire from both, my knees are shot, but I have taken up day hiking and kayaking. I love early mornings in the fog as the sun rises.

Lori, I am jealous of the night sky you must see. Stars are always more impressive than skyscrapers.

Sephirah, I have spent a lot of time excavating and hiking on Hadrian's Wall.  The Romans picked a great spot for the Wall, running along the cliffs.  That mix of nature and man always inspires me...there's a great pub nearby too.

Chrissy, we have a different group of idiots here in NYC. They try to commune with nature by jumping into a bear cage at the zoo. 

You are all right, we are surrounded by beauty.  All you have to do is open your eyes and see.  Sadly, we have so many blind people who spend so much time taking pictures to look at later rather than seeing where they are now.

I love how we share and inspire here!  There is so much world to see and you don't need to be everywhere to appreciate it. Shared experiences among friends are the best postcards.

 

I am disappointed to see litter. 

I saw one guy throw out a pop bottle as he was pulling into a trailer park.

Some people think that the world is a big trash can.

Quote from: ChrissyRyan on April 21, 2025, 07:41:53 PMI am disappointed to see litter.

Pet peeve.  Littering.  How hard is it to keep the trash in your car until you stop.  Bins are everywhere these days.

Extremely disappointed in Cuba a couple of years ago.  On approach to Jose Marti Int'l Air Port the piles of litter were astounding outside the city and along the coast in the water.  Very sad situation for a country that has some of the best public health/medical schools in Latin America.   Not much trach along the main roads and streets in Havana, just outside the 'tourist areas'.

I was intrigued to see the carcasses of Soviet era military equipment abandoned around the Airport.  Reminders that I'm a Cold War era Vet.

IT'S A SCAM! 

I just watched a movie called "McVeigh: Based on Real Events". The story is about a young man and how he built a huge bomb, and what was happening in his life that motivated him to do it. The end of the movie is somewhat anticlimactic because the movie ends with him driving a truck full of explosives, and then cuts to newsreel footage of the OKC bombing aftermath.

After the credits roll by is the standard legal disclaimer:

"THE CHARACTERS AND EVENTS PORTRAYED IN THIS MOTION PICTURE ARE FICTITIOUS. ANY SIMILARITY TO ACTUAL PERSONS, LIVING OR DEAD, OR TO ACTUAL EVENTS IS PURELY COINCIDENTAL... yada yada"

So this is NOT based on real events?

The Timothy McVeigh in the movie was just made up and has absolutely no connection to THE Timothy McVeigh? 

I got sucked into a story for 90 minutes... for what? 

Gotta love Hollyweird productions. 

Sad real life event this was.

The lawyers wrote the end credits, Lori. That changes all realities!!!😁

Quote from: Lori Dee on April 23, 2025, 07:53:59 PMIT'S A SCAM! 

I just watched a movie called "McVeigh: Based on Real Events". The story is about a young man and how he built a huge bomb, and what was happening in his life that motivated him to do it. The end of the movie is somewhat anticlimactic because the movie ends with him driving a truck full of explosives, and then cuts to newsreel footage of the OKC bombing aftermath.

After the credits roll by is the standard legal disclaimer:

"THE CHARACTERS AND EVENTS PORTRAYED IN THIS MOTION PICTURE ARE FICTITIOUS. ANY SIMILARITY TO ACTUAL PERSONS, LIVING OR DEAD, OR TO ACTUAL EVENTS IS PURELY COINCIDENTAL... yada yada"

So this is NOT based on real events?

The Timothy McVeigh in the movie was just made up and has absolutely no connection to THE Timothy McVeigh? 

I got sucked into a story for 90 minutes... for what? 

Gotta love Hollyweird productions. 

That is really, really dumb. Like.. really dumb.

TV movies are kind of disgusting.

Quote from: Sephirah on April 24, 2025, 10:32:07 PMTV movies are kind of disgusting.

I bought this movie. I was thinking it might be informational. Ugh. 

Quote from: Lori Dee on April 24, 2025, 11:13:59 PMI bought this movie. I was thinking it might be informational. Ugh. 

If someone is vaguely orange, and has a hairstyle that a hurricane wouldn't shift... run. Run far, run fast. That's my takeaway from TV movies. You can usually find much better stuff on YouTube, lol.

Quote from: Sephirah on April 25, 2025, 06:34:46 AMIf someone is vaguely orange, and has a hairstyle that a hurricane wouldn't shift... run. Run far, run fast. That's my takeaway from TV movies. You can usually find much better stuff on YouTube, lol.

I realize that these movies are just dramatizations for entertainment. I was merely pointing out the hypocrisy.

I have about 700 movies in my collection (DVD, Blu-ray, and digital copies). Sometimes bundles go on sale, so I add them to my collection. I just recently got 25 horror movie classics for $25. Sometimes you get a good one and sometimes... not so much.

I had seen a movie a while ago that told the story of Noah and the Ark, but I couldn't remember who played Noah. It was a good one. Then, a movie called Noah starring Russell Crowe went on sale, so I grabbed it. That wasn't it. This movie had these alien rock-monster looking things attacking Noah's Ark. I was like What the ...  I'm okay with the story deviating a little, but at least make it believable. Hollyweird lost me on that one.

YouTube is no innocent by any means. I still have people telling me they know how to unlock a car using a tennis ball, even though those videos were debunked as hoaxes years ago.

Quote from: Lori Dee on April 25, 2025, 09:25:40 AMI still have people telling me they know how to unlock a car using a tennis ball, even though those videos were debunked as hoaxes years ago.

The car I learned to drive in didn't even need a tennis ball :-) You just pressed on the window till the catch unlatched, slid it back and popped the lock. It wasn't just that particular car, either, you could do it with every copy of the model they sold!

And if you had a worn FS code key you could get into and start a lot of 50s/early 60s stuff by doing the jiggle in the lock trick.