State of the Game

Arriving back at Heathrow from a trip to Barcelona to watch the F1, waiting for our bags we got interview by a BA staffer asking about our flight experience and then asked why we'd been in Barcelona,

My mate Tim turned to me, laughed and said, 'she doesn't know who you are!' I shot him a 'please don't make a big deal out of it' look, smiled, looked a little awkward and went back to answering her questions. The poor girl didn't know what to do or how to act and we were both very very polite to her, 'not wanting to make a fuss, please'.

Hilarious.

I'm Batman!
Jelly of that. RyanAir just ask me if I fit in the bag sizer.
 
Those are our words, you're not allowed to use them.

We swapped them decades ago for something about freedoms and tea parties.

Stop making harry potter and hobbit movies for a minute and maybe i'd be able to giffy quote something relevant. Until then, you get proper hollywood gold.
 
Being in gubment I've met quiet a few pols and got to have lunch with a few congressmen and senators. When I was a waiter growing up i met a quite few sports stars (Dee Brown from the Celtics [@ BrotherLeo Boston] and oil can boyd [Red Sox pitcher] stand out) and some soap opera stars while working meet and greet functions. Random encounters: Richard (filter lol) Vitale (sports announcer) and Lance Parrish (baseball player) having diner (not sure if cottaging was involved) and most of the the Dropkick Murphy's eating in the same place we were before a St. Patrick's day show.
 
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Californians...they think everyone looks up to them...when really its just the opposite...

that would require caring about what others think. And i'm fairly certain we dont. Not on a state or national level anyway. all the social media addicts and the few actual celebrities obviously care about what others think..but that's more of a personal level.
 
So the flip side to my airport story is visiting a well known NY restaurant with a bunch of work colleagues. All from the UK.

As we were led to our table there were four men being loud and gregarious, looking rather excited and pink, with lots of people 'noticing' them. They were all very well dressed and situated more or less in the middle of the room and they all pretty much looked up to us as we walked by, to receive complete and utter indifference and be on the receiving end of being roundly ignored.

As we sat someone in our group asked if anyone had a clue who 'they' were. A few asked who she was talking about, the rest said we didn't. We collectively shrugged and continued paying them not a jot of attention. (Whilst we all also sniggered about it). One of the chaps later played a blinder and whilst ambling to the toilets stopped near to their table to send/receive a text, again without giving them the merest glance. We thought it hilarious, although we were also quite drunk and far louder than them by then. They left not longer after and I still have no idea who they were, no-one cared to ask.
 
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catch it while it's still existing :

 
you should see the visit "some random fly over state" advertisements they have during college sports games around here. "Nice try Michigan...No."
Wy not Wyoming? (saw that or some iteration of it lately)

We've recently got some ugly yellow and red "Come back to New York" billboards going right now as we're 3-4 hrs away. thanks but no I'll enjoy my urban decay and societal breakdown locally. Actually now that I think on it not sure if that slogan is an invite or a threat. πŸ€”
 
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