Beats by Dré, and I can turn up the volume. Standard equipment on plane flights. Also, “Avalon” album by Roxy Music to doze off to.
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Yeah, it’s the locking up of the baby by herself in the washroom that is the WTF. I expect the babies’ parents won’t be letting grandma and grandpa fly alone with their baby again!
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It sounds like the strangers were in there with her and threatening her that she wouldn’t be let out until she stopped crying, while one was filming. Pretty traumatizing no matter how it went down, that poor kid.
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That’s if you can convince the toddler to keep the headphones on.
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That might work, too!
I’ve been told that Disney no longer has a shuttle from Orlando International to Disney. I don’t know if that’s true or not. I just know that when I went down for RPM in 2016, we had the Disney shuttle to/from and it was a ~45 minute infomercial each way about all the ways you could spend money at Disney.
I don’t think “vial of blood from your favorite Disney character, on a string necklace for $119 - for a double-string necklace, just $69 more” was mentioned, but it’s possible I wasn’t on the bus long enough for that to come up.
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Our company routinely brought leadership to Orlando the first week in January, and as a surprise we got to spend about six hours in a park and I chose Epcot. It was a nice to have this experience, but it was laughable how the main ride in Epcot that chronicled technology came to a stop in the 1980s. And I just rolled my eyes at the price and all the souvenir shops. For the money they pay, they would be better off actually going to another country and experiencing the actual food and culture rather than a cheap Disney imitation.
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He’s back for Round II
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Not sure this needs any commentary.
Good Lord
Going back to Disney: They have a “private club” with $50k membership fee and $15k annual fee. And a couple that can’t actually afford that blew $400k trying to get their membership reinstated (it was revoked for being drunk in public while at Disney)
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This is the opposite of Groucho Marx: “I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members”.
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I read about that.
First, I think they can afford it. They live in Arizona, visit DL (and probably other Disney properties) multiple times a year.
From The LA Times:
As members of Disney’s exclusive Club 33, Scott and Diana Anderson visited the two Anaheim theme parks 60 to 80 times a year.
The club’s yearly dues were $31,500, and with travel and hotel expenses, the Arizona couple were spending close to $125,000 annually to get their Disney fix.
“Fix” is the appropriate word.
I would consider a meal at Club 33 to be a once in a lifetime experience, not 60 times a year.
It is crazy for people to think this place is for fans.
It is for businesses to impress potential clients. But Disney caught wind of of a cult that they could exploit.
You do have to behave yourself. Can’t be all Goofy.
Guy is claiming he has a condition that exasperates his casual drinking to fall-down drunkenness.
“My wife and I are both dead set that this is an absolute wrong, and we will fight this to the death,” Scott, who owns a golf course in Gilbert, Ariz., told The Times. “There is no way we’re letting this go.”
He said the lawsuit has cost him about $400,000.
“My retirement is set back five years,” he said. “I’m paying through the nose. Every day, I’m seeing another bill, and I’m about to keel over.” He said he will appeal.
His wife said she wants to keep fighting.
“I’ll sell a kidney,” Diana said. “I don’t care.”
Ok, I see the real problem.
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Paling around with Mickey? So they carry water for him?
60-80 times a year?
That is very much “WTF”
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Sorry, I misread it and thought that their income was under $200k. So they are merely stupid, not completely idiotic.
I’ve been to club 33 a couple of times and it’s pretty cool, but nowhere near worth the cost imo. You have to be pretty into Disney (like it’s a big part of your identity) to think you are getting value out of the experience. Or just like to one-up your friends or relatives by belonging to an exclusive club that they can’t get into.
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I guess if you really like Disney and are near a property it isn’t much different than joining an expensive county club.