Lively Case Discussion #622 5/16- 5/17/2007

[IndyDan]

It's the first time I've seen one in ages,  but I am dead serious.  I was beautiful,  I was excited to see where it was.  When I saw Aruba,  I honestly do NOT believe it was taped there.  Nothing in it shows anything from any pics. I've ever seen from there.

We never see any of those ads over here - heck, even the travel agents have not heard of Aruba.  
We get ads for Fiji, Vanuatu and all those Pacific islands, plus northern Queensland etc.  The scenes are right out of a picture book but bear little resemblance to the actual places.   Must be some photoshopping done I think.

When I went on a cruise to several hot, nasty islands many years ago, I noticed the same thing. The islands looked nowhere near as good as the photos advertising them. Actually, the only place I've ever seen that looked better than the advertising photos is England.

Sorta like the fast food burger and pizza commercials.  They all look so good when you see them on TV but when you buy one it's just not what it looked like on TV.

[BTgirl]

<-been catching salamanders fro the last couple days

and some Newts <--------

Well....ewwww

Umm....why?

[robots]

<---------been shipping maple syrup over to my mates in australia
for years... i think they eat all the time  


 

eat the syrup all the time is what i meant

ice cream
cereal
rolls
they love it  

[Dihannah1]

Ok, off <crawling> to corner to hide    as usual, I seem to be invisible here most of the time (except for a few regular posters who respond to me   ).  Especially since I've been home and trying to post more.  

Maybe I should ask Robots for his magic on lifting my invisibility...  

Dont' feel that way Dihannah - it get's busy and sometimes we get on certain topics and respond only to that post.  Then if you don't read back you miss some posts.

Nobody is ignoring you...honest!

Klaas, I understand that. I'm know I'm one of them.  It just seems to happen to me pretty frequently, over the past 2 years, Not always!  I usually just ignore it and go back to lurking.   YOU always see me  
But your just special that way!

[klaasend]

It's the first time I've seen one in ages,  but I am dead serious.  I was beautiful,  I was excited to see where it was.  When I saw Aruba,  I honestly do NOT believe it was taped there.  Nothing in it shows anything from any pics. I've ever seen from there.

So the photos in the commercial didn't look like the REAL Aruba, lol     Just like "One Happy Island", more false advertising!

[Tibrogargan]

It's the first time I've seen one in ages,  but I am dead serious.  I was beautiful,  I was excited to see where it was.  When I saw Aruba,  I honestly do NOT believe it was taped there.  Nothing in it shows anything from any pics. I've ever seen from there.

We never see any of those ads over here - heck, even the travel agents have not heard of Aruba.  
We get ads for Fiji, Vanuatu and all those Pacific islands, plus northern Queensland etc.  The scenes are right out of a picture book but bear little resemblance to the actual places.   Must be some photoshopping done I think.

My dream vactaion spot is Australia!  I'm serious, you have it ALL and then some!  

We have the same sort of variety you have in the States - everything from snow resorts to desert.  And we speaka da Eeenglish!
I agree with BT, too.  A lot of those places are dirty, smelly and downright frightening.  A lot of the Asian holiday places are like that - just a false front for the tourists and abject poverty in the background.

[Anna]

BT,

I went on those hot nasty island tour cruises, too, and now I really can't even remember one hot nasty island from another, they just all ran together by the time I got home.  Hot, smelly, filthy except for the hotel district and often even ugly except for the resort areas.

Yet they seem to hold a special appeal to a certain segment of the population, maybe people from colder climates?  Dunno but I sure don't want to go back ever.

.

[robots]

<-been catching salamanders fro the last couple days

and some Newts <--------

Well....ewwww

Umm....why?

cause they are cooooooooooooooooolll

i keep em for a day and let em go

i like dinosaurs and reptiles and especially spiders  

[Dihannah1]

It's the first time I've seen one in ages,  but I am dead serious.  I was beautiful,  I was excited to see where it was.  When I saw Aruba,  I honestly do NOT believe it was taped there.  Nothing in it shows anything from any pics. I've ever seen from there.

So the photos in the commercial didn't look like the REAL Aruba, lol     Just like "One Happy Island", more false advertising!

No Way!  I've been to the Bahamas, the only Carribean Island I've been to.  But THAT commercial was NOT Aruba.  I have no doubt about it!

[robots]

Ok, off <crawling> to corner to hide    as usual, I seem to be invisible here most of the time (except for a few regular posters who respond to me   ).  Especially since I've been home and trying to post more.  

Maybe I should ask Robots for his magic on lifting my invisibility...  

Dont' feel that way Dihannah - it get's busy and sometimes we get on certain topics and respond only to that post.  Then if you don't read back you miss some posts.

Nobody is ignoring you...honest!

im not ignoring you

promise  

Klaas, I understand that. I'm know I'm one of them.  It just seems to happen to me pretty frequently, over the past 2 years, Not always!  I usually just ignore it and go back to lurking.   YOU always see me  
But your just special that way!

[Lifesong]

<-been catching salamanders fro the last couple days

and some Newts <--------

Well....ewwww

Umm....why?

cause they are cooooooooooooooooolll

i keep em for a day and let em go

i like dinosaurs and reptiles and especially spiders  

Well, shucks.  I was hoping for some high falutin' experiment!  

[robots]

im not ignoring you

promise    

[klaasend]

It's the first time I've seen one in ages,  but I am dead serious.  I was beautiful,  I was excited to see where it was.  When I saw Aruba,  I honestly do NOT believe it was taped there.  Nothing in it shows anything from any pics. I've ever seen from there.

So the photos in the commercial didn't look like the REAL Aruba, lol     Just like "One Happy Island", more false advertising!

No Way!  I've been to the Bahamas, the only Carribean Island I've been to.  But THAT commercial was NOT Aruba.  I have no doubt about it!

Well now I'll have to find that commercial! You have me curious!

[Kat_Gram]

<---------been shipping maple syrup over to my mates in australia
for years... i think they eat all the time  


 

Maple Syrup ! !! !      
That is so Canadian.

[BTgirl]

We have the same sort of variety you have in the States - everything from snow resorts to desert.  And we speaka da Eeenglish!
I agree with BT, too.  A lot of those places are dirty, smelly and downright frightening.  A lot of the Asian holiday places are like that - just a false front for the tourists and abject poverty in the background.

While I've been talking to y'all, I've been watching a travel show about Nepal, and now I want to go there.

They showed a small town where every morining the people who live there come out and stand on their flat roofs and silently watch the sunrise over the Himalayas. The people are gorgeous and seem so full of pleasure in life.  

[robots]

<-been catching salamanders fro the last couple days

and some Newts <--------

Well....ewwww

Umm....why?

cause they are cooooooooooooooooolll

i keep em for a day and let em go

i like dinosaurs and reptiles and especially spiders  

Well, shucks.  I was hoping for some high falutin' experiment!  

well, the last "sperimentin" i did with an animal ended up with me getting
chased by a mother BULL  

[Tibrogargan]

<-been catching salamanders fro the last couple days

and some Newts <--------

Hope you are not planning to ship those here as well    

It is difficult to find real maple syrup in the shops here - mostly some sort of artificial gunk.

[robots]

<-been catching salamanders fro the last couple days

and some Newts <--------

Well....ewwww

Umm....why?

cause they are cooooooooooooooooolll

i keep em for a day and let em go

i like dinosaurs and reptiles and especially spiders  

Well, shucks.  I was hoping for some high falutin' experiment!  

well, the last "sperimentin" i did with an animal ended up with me getting
chased by a mother BULL  

MOOSE ....... is the word i was looking for

dont hide behind a tree... they just knock em down

i dont hunt, but i do like to hike  

[BTgirl]

BT,

I went on those hot nasty island tour cruises, too, and now I really can't even remember one hot nasty island from another, they just all ran together by the time I got home.  Hot, smelly, filthy except for the hotel district and often even ugly except for the resort areas.

Yet they seem to hold a special appeal to a certain segment of the population, maybe people from colder climates?  Dunno but I sure don't want to go back ever.

.

I have an album of pictures from that cruise, Anna, and when people ask me which island is which, I can't tell them apart.  

[Lifesong]

It's the first time I've seen one in ages,  but I am dead serious.  I was beautiful,  I was excited to see where it was.  When I saw Aruba,  I honestly do NOT believe it was taped there.  Nothing in it shows anything from any pics. I've ever seen from there.

Dihannah - I worked from home today and had the tv on in the background.  Got tired of hearing the Today show so I flipped it over to Regis & Kelly - they did this spin the wheel thing to give a trip away to a viewer who was on the phone - the wheel landed on some resort I'd never heard of in Aruba.       The called got the question right and won the trip to Aruba and I turned back to the Today show.  Will never flip over to R & K again, that's for sure!