Robert65
Major Obvious (recently promoted)
I see the rebel scum has learned to start livestreaming the encounter as soon as the stormtroopers roll up on them.Stormtroopers ferreting out Rebel Scum! - LoLView attachment 665102
I see the rebel scum has learned to start livestreaming the encounter as soon as the stormtroopers roll up on them.Stormtroopers ferreting out Rebel Scum! - LoLView attachment 665102
That sounds as bad as Larry Ellison (Oracle's Founder) buying an entire Hawaiian island for himself.Another view from the southern promontory looking north from Lighthouse Point, Eleuthera, Bahamas. I once walked the length of that beach getting a total tan
Sadly, The Mouse now owns the entire Point for use as a cruise adventure location. Nobody really knows what that means but along with the cruise boat pier and a whole bunch of day use infrastructure the presumption is the public will no longer have access to the beach or Point...which will suck.
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No the cruise ships are worse, they unleash thousands of clueless fat white pasty people who trash everything in sight...like walking on reefs and damaging them because they are cluesless. The cruise ship lines also put big demands on local infrastructure, squeeze local operators to minimal prices, and keep the money extracted from guests for themselves...very little actually makes into the local economy...this is why cruise ship lines create these private venues, so they can keep it all for themselves. Cluesless cruise guests actually think they have been to a country, but in fact have never left the artificial confines of the cruise ship and their private venues.That sounds as bad as Larry Ellison (Oracle's Founder) buying an entire Hawaiian island for himself.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/14/see...and-larry-ellison-bought-for-300-million.html
This is how they operate everywhere. They pay off a few local politicians and do as they please. They make almost zero contribution to the local economy.The whole cruise company buying day destination thing has become a puzzling problem for the Bahamas.
On the one hand, the Bahamas economy outside of Nassau and Grand Bahamas is checkered at best. Eleuthera, Cat Island, Exuma, Long Island - outside of tourism there isn't much going on, given the very small populations on these islands the native economies aren't enough to keep youngsters from leaving.
On the other hand, the cruise lines have been clearly exploitive in their deals, and historically their promises of employing natives has been close to a complete lie. The companies bring in most of the construction workers and equipment. Later - as these are day destinations - when the cruise ship pulls up most of the on shore tasks are handled by ship crew. So there's hardly any chance of long term employment for islanders.
About the only people that make out are the original land holders, usually families that go back hundreds of years to plantation times long since gone, and given the dearth of potential suitors are hard pressed to turn down a real offer just to keep these spectacular properties available to the public.
Just around the point and a bit up the Caribbean side there's a Princess Cruise Lines day destination as well. But it's sited in a location that frankly never held much interest and perhaps is its best use. At least they had the good grace not to take private such an amazing piece of the planet as Lighthouse Point...
Cheers!
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Bedrock Brewing
Smooth..[emoji41]
SO I read the linked article by @Schlenkerla and was struck by the fact that it appears @day_trippr has been there...
ok... "kinda hot" may have been an understatement
but admit I may have to crosspost to the I think they're hot, but you probably don't thread
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Nasty day here today (good day for brewing indoors) so here are a couple of warm pics from one of my favorite islands.
Mmmm...toasty
Cheers!
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How long does it take to actually unload once your turn comes?Hauling wheat to town today. Half an hour to load the truck, half an hour to drive to the grain elevator, wait in line an hour and a half to unload, lather, rinse, repeat.
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Hauling wheat to town today. Half an hour to load the truck, half an hour to drive to the grain elevator, wait in line an hour and a half to unload, lather, rinse, repeat.
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How long does it take to actually unload once your turn comes?
Exuma?
Damn! Longest I’ve waited to dump is 15 minutes.
Which one would that be? The one you're baking or the one you're pinching. LoLWell anyway, as an avid baker (and eater, for that matter,) I thank you guys for doing the important work. If you're growing hard red winter wheat, maybe a bit of yours is in my loaf.
Can't have one without the other!Which one would that be? The one you're baking or the one you're pinching. LoL
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