Jersey Girl wrote: What about outbound foreign travel from the US overseas? Has there been a decline in this also?
I'm asking because of what happened in London (and other places of course). I'm supposed to go overseas next year and I'm starting to rethink that idea. I wonder how many US citizens are doing the same?
I don't think it's a real worry, Jersey Girl. Great Britain's security services are very good at this sort of thing. Generally, most of Europe is a very safe place. Much safer than NYC, LA or Chicago, etc.
There were 335 murders in just NYC last year. That's more than all the terrorist killings in all of Europe last year. There were 471 people that died in plane crashes in 2015 and 271 in 2016. The flight over is scarier than the vacation. The odds of dying in a plane crash are one in 11 million. The leading cause of deaths for Americans traveling abroad is not terrorism, or murder or even crime of any type. It’s car crashes. Just take a bus or train or subway or taxi and you'll you'll be fine.
So...
I'm taking a car to the airport, which is the leading cause of death for travelers.
I'm going on a plane trip that is scarier than the vacation.
I should just take the bus/train/subway/taxi through London where the attacks just occurred.
And I'll be fine visiting Borough Market because...because...I don't know why.
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
Jersey Girl wrote:I'm taking a car to the airport, which is the leading cause of death for travelers.
I'm going on a plane trip that is scarier than the vacation.
I should just take the bus/train/subway/taxi through London where the attacks just occurred.
And I'll be fine visiting Borough Market because...because...I don't know why.
In World War I, soldiers routinely took defilade shelter in the craters created by enemy artillery shells. The thought was that there was less of a chance of a shell landing in the exact same spot. Using that logic, today would probably be the best day to walk across London Bridge.
"The great problem of any civilization is how to rejuvenate itself without rebarbarization." - Will Durant "We've kept more promises than we've even made" - Donald Trump "Of what meaning is the world without mind? The question cannot exist." - Edwin Land
EAllusion wrote:Zucchini is great. You're worse than Trump.
Zucchini is so bad, you can compare me to Trump all day before I bend on zucchinigate.
Zucchini must be like cilantro: some people just think it tastes like dirt.
My wife buys tons of that crap because she loves it. I don't think it tastes like dirt, but I don't care for it like she does. Most of it for me is the texture. Sends a shiver down my back just thinking about it. I have a texture problem with water chestnuts too. Might as well nibble on tin foil.
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.
Some Schmo wrote:Most of it for me is the texture. Sends a shiver down my back just thinking about it. I have a texture problem with water chestnuts too. Might as well nibble on tin foil.
This is also a big part of it for me. Texture is at the heart of all my food hang-ups. There are many foods I love prepared one way but can't gag down prepared in other ways.
Truthfully, when it comes to zucchini it's the fact that we ended up with so much of it that probably killed it for me. We'd have it in all sorts of food, and because Mormonism that often meant in places it just should not have been. I've spit out more than one bite of chocolate cake because someone decided putting shredded zucchini in it was a good idea. Why!?
The world is always full of the sound of waves..but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who knows it's depth? ~ Eiji Yoshikawa
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:Anecdotally my wife I probably produced around at least 200 lbs of...zucchini,...
Jokingly, I'd have guessed half of that was the zucchini. Growing up we gardened as well (we keep a small one, my parents still have their rather large one) and so much zucchini would grow you couldn't give it away. And I hate zucchini.
Seriously you'd be right. Lol. Luckily I don't mind zucchini. As long as my wife doesn't chop it up and put it into bread for some god awful reason I'm good to go.
We're attempting broccoli, onions and cauliflower in addition to the other stuff this. So far things, uh, have a ways to go.
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
I'm taking a car to the airport, which is the leading cause of death for travelers.
I'm going on a plane trip that is scarier than the vacation.
I should just take the bus/train/subway/taxi through London where the attacks just occurred.
And I'll be fine visiting Borough Market because...because...I don't know why.
I still have my Google up. More than 18,000 Americans die every year from injuries that take place in their home. Three people were stabbed in Borough Market. I haven't heard if any of them died.
This means that if there was a terrorist attack in Borough Market every day, you would still be monumentally safer having a pork pie in a Borough Market pub than working on your deck at home. Go!
This, or any other post that I have made or will make in the future, is strictly my own opinion and consequently of little or no value.
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true" Twain.
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:Anecdotally my wife I probably produced around at least 200 lbs of...zucchini,...
Jokingly, I'd have guessed half of that was the zucchini. Growing up we gardened as well (we keep a small one, my parents still have their rather large one) and so much zucchini would grow you couldn't give it away. And I hate zucchini.
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:Seriously you'd be right. Lol. Luckily I don't mind zucchini. As long as my wife doesn't chop it up and put it into bread for some god awful reason I'm good to go.
We're attempting broccoli, onions and cauliflower in addition to the other stuff this. So far things, uh, have a ways to go.
- Doc
To each his own tastes, I guess. I love zucchini and zucchini bread. It is one of my favorite vegetables. I find it hard to imagine enjoying it in chocolate cake, though, even though I enjoy a lot of food combinations that others find bizarre. Have you ever tried orange sherbet with barbecue sauce? Yummy! I also love Brussels Sprouts. What gives me the willies is okra. The sliminess of okra freaks me out -- to me it's like eating snot! I have found, though, that I can tolerate it, sometimes, if it is fried. It is one of the very few foods I have tried that I don't enjoy eating.
Last edited by Guest on Mon Jun 05, 2017 1:04 am, edited 1 time in total.
No precept or claim is more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
― Harlan Ellison
You should google chocolate zucchini cake. There are tons of recipes out there for it. Yuck.
My mother would treat it the same way some people treat mushrooms on pizza. "You can't really taste it, so just eat it."
She'd deliberately not say it had zucchini sometimes just to see if I'd eat it. Turned out it was not true you couldn't really taste it. Zucchini and disappointment are two tastes that do go well together, though. Hard to get the taste of both out of your mouth, too.
ETA: It's crazy but just recalling biting into chocolate cake with no expectation of zucchini brought back the very vivid taste of it to me despite it being easily two decades since I actually tasted it. Bleech.
Last edited by Guest on Mon Jun 05, 2017 12:40 am, edited 1 time in total.
The world is always full of the sound of waves..but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who knows it's depth? ~ Eiji Yoshikawa
