QueenofKrakatoa

Also, why are ghosts portrayed as pre-1900s? Where's the ghost of the guy that died in 2007 and screams IT'S BRITNEY ***** at 3am?

On 12/26/2019 at 11:42 PM, mugtech said:

Tandy died at age 50, perhaps the ghosts put out a hit on him.

He knew too much

I think you'll find that this answers a few questions. Research the correlation between hauntings and infrasound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Tandy

1 hour ago, luisc25 said:

And the answer is?

 

I believe a couple things:

Each frozen drink machine cost about 2k to 4k and you are limited to one specific flavor, with the blender you can make unlimited flavors for way less; The Island Oasis machine cost about the same but you are not limited to one flavor each-time. Also cleaning those machines are a pain, they tend to build mold on them.

 

Royal probably don't pay for the machine is given to them if the buy the Kerry products.

 

I wonder if the student at your school clean the machine correctly?

 

This is pretty much what I came here to say, spot on

Literally wear whatever you want.

This entire thread can be summed up with "ok boomer"

5 hours ago, SRF said:

Again, if the staff does not enforce the rules due to worrying about bad marks, then start giving them bad marks for not enforcing the rules.

Okay, except all that does is punish the grunt, who has ZERO to do with policy making. Their manager will tell them to placate the customer, because "tHe CuStOmEr iS aLwAyS RiGhT" and then they'll follow their managers directions. Then the customer who didn't get their way should write a bad review of the employee, so they get in trouble for following directions? No. Take up your complaints with management or use your wallet, but don't punish the guy trying to get by. 

7 hours ago, Joebucks said:

It won't stop until the fear of god is put into them that gasp...... it is no longer a cool thing to do.

This is my approach to a lot of immoralities in the world, such as racism. 

10 minutes ago, CruiseAfterWLS said:

WEIGHT LOSS SURGERY AND RESTAURANT MEALS   ---------------------->>>>>

I know I'm really late to the party, but I HAD to respond to this. I stumbled upon this thread while searching how to get my card replaced, as I've lost it. At first, I was really in shock because I had assumed I was reading in a forum for people who had weight loss surgery. I couldn't believe the lack of empathy. After reading through a few REALLY misinformed replies, I realized it was a cruise forum and most people responding here likely don't know anything about this type of procedure, or life after having it. They have accepted my card on a cruise, btw.

 

When you have this surgery, it's not about just eating LESS. For most people, particularly with standard gastric bypass, it's about STARVING your body to make the weight come off. You eat almost nothing. It's generally because typical diet and exercise won't do it and most of us don't have the willpower to literally starve ourselves voluntarily. Many people who become morbidly obese did NOT get there by eating everything they see. There are a variety of health conditions that lead to weight gain, or inability to lose, or even just really shitty (IE: ancestors evolved really well to survive famine) metabolism. On that note, I've always been jealous of skinny friends who don't have to exercise and can stuff themselves literally all day long, with the WORST stuff, and just stay skinny. While there are heavy people out there who just eat too much and there are thin people who starve themselves and spend 10 hours a week in the gym to stay that way, body size is largely about genetics. Most people who have weight loss surgery were not eating 5 servings at restaurants pre-surgery.

 

People don't show restaurants this card and ask for a discount because they're "only going to eat one or two plates of food, while others eat three or ten." It's not because they're "eating light." It's because they literally are not consuming a "meal." It's also not free. For instance, a place may have a senior menu where you can order half a sandwich and a cup of soup, instead of paying for a whole sandwich and bowl of soup that you're just going to waste. AN EXAMPLE: Imagine if you went out with your family to a place that charges $50 a person for an all you can eat buffet, but you couldn't eat AT ALL. Are you wealthy enough to feel completely comfortable handing them $50 plus tax for the privilege of joining your family in their establishment? I'm not. Even if you can afford to throw away money like that, would you feel good about going to the buffet and putting food on your plate, only for you to eat two bites and someone to pick it up and dump it in the trash when you leave? Would you go, or would you be left out of family gatherings so you're not having to basically buy a ticket to be present? I may show them my WLS card, explain how I eat, and the manager could approve me to pay $20 for the otherwise $50 buffet. Then I'd go to the buffet and get my egg, or two pieces of shrimp, or bowl of broth, and they'd get $20 for it. Cruise or not, buffet or not, LOTS of social activities are based around dining. People who can't eat ,and are probably making payments on their surgery bill and ongoing associated care, shouldn't be bullied for not wanting to spend $$ to $$$ for food they aren't eating, just so they can spend time with friends and family. 

 

Serious insight:

 For the first year after I had the surgery, I couldn't finish a hard boiled egg. That's ONE EGG. That's not as "part of breakfast" or something like that. It was literally too much for me to eat an egg as an entire meal. I had to carry water with me at all times and take tiny sips every few minutes, all day long, because there wasn't enough room in my stomach to just "drink a glass of water." I went to an all you can eat steakhouse once with friends and the management wouldn't help me out. I had to pay the same as everyone else and for my "meal," I went to the salad bar and put a piece of pepperoni and a small chunk of cheese on a cracker. FULL (and even in pain for eating too much that time). In the next couple of years after that, I could eat half of a sandwich. Again, I'm not talking about half a sandwich plus a salad and soup, nor am I talking about half a sub at Subway. I mean one slice of bread, folded in half, with a couple deli cuts or peanut butter. Ordering a restaurant meal for an adult would not only be a major waste financially, it would also be a major waste of food because I wouldn't be physically capable of finishing the leftovers before they were no good. Note that I'm not saying I wouldn't WANT the leftovers, I'm saying I would have to eat them for every single meal for 2 or 3 days to possibly finish one restaurant serving. Now that my stomach has stretched (it eventually does or you would starve to death), I can eat portions like an average child. It's been 10 years now and I still eat like a little kid (and I've gained back 30 pounds of what I lost in the initial, starvation period because A. super slow metabolism + B. I eat some food sometimes). For restaurant portion references: I can go to Olive Garden and have between one third and one half of a bread stick and a bowl of Pasta e Fagioli. I can't have salad if I plan to have anything else. Your body also doesn't break down food as well after weight loss surgery. The idea is that your body clung to too many calories before so, even when you're eating only a little bit, it's worthwhile to try not to absorb ALL of the food you manage to eat. If I eat salad and then meat, the roughage will stop up the digestion process and then I just wind up with an esophageal obstruction because the meat can't go down. If I eat junk food with someone at a fast food place, I might get something like chicken nuggets or french fries. NOT both. I can have one or the other. I might order a small burger instead, remove half of the bun, and almost finish the patty and other half of the bun. The last bite or two goes out the window for the birds. If I try to really splurge (usually for someone else who insists), and eat a more adult portion, I wind up in pain with my blood pressure skyrocketing, extreme fatigue, palpitations, light-headed, nauseous or rocking back and forth with severe stomach cramping, maybe confused, and sweating, from postprandial hypoglycemia (look it up). 

 

Please try not to look at other people and assume your challenges in life are comparable. I don't like to talk about the surgery because many people *as shown in some of the replies here* are very judgmental. They think it's "the easy way to lose weight," which couldn't be further from the truth. Hell, weight loss surgery almost killed me, and I'm not the only one. That was after years of dieting, starving myself, and being looked down on and treated badly by others because I was fat. Particularly as a woman, people treat you like you're actually a BAD PERSON if you're overweight. It's pretty sick and demented, really. People also think that if you had weight loss surgery, it's because you can't control yourself and just eat and eat, so you had to have surgery to keep you from overeating. After being faced with those assumptions time and again, I stopped telling anyone who didn't already know I had it. I've had acquaintances who were absolutely certain I was anorexic. People are always trying to force me to eat more. When I'm sick, they discount my real health issues and tell me it's because I'm not eating enough. I only found out I had lupus AFTER I had gastric bypass. I had it done because I couldn't lose weight and was becoming diabetic. I had been very sick for a while and doctors kept insisting I was just so exhausted and in so much pain all the time because I was fat... I had to schedule naps on my way to and from work so I wouldn't fall asleep at the wheel. I was in incredible pain and I never felt like I had any sleep. I was falling down the stairs frequently because my legs would just stop working properly. When the weight started falling off and my health got worse, instead of better, they finally took my symptoms seriously and figured it out.

 

 

This was an amazing response. Thank you. 

Kinky Boots. 

Do people just forget that disabled or elderly people exist? Straws make it easier for them. Or maybe some people just like using straws. 

3 hours ago, leisuretraveler223 said:

 

Totally agree!

 

I never understood why anyone above the age of a child needs a straw for anything but a frozen drink (and even then only sometimes).

 

Really, imagine if you had guests over your house- I'm talking grown adults- and upon handing them a glass of ice water, a diet coke, or a gin & tonic, they were like "could I have a straw?" LOL!

 

Seriously haven't used one on a liquid beverage since I was a child....

Um disabled people use them. The whole straw thing is incredibly ableist. 

10 minutes ago, azbaby8062 said:

I know at least two people who have died from sleep apnea within the past three years.

Correlation doesn't equal causation. I was tested for sleep apnea and the doctor said that sleep apnea isn't life threatening, just annoying. 

9 minutes ago, JennyB1977 said:

@QueenofKrakatoa These children are not simply wearing mini skirts and tank tops. They are showing cleavage, underboob, side boob, wearing see through articles of clothing and showing butt cheeks. I am not referring to their swimwear either. This is what they wear to meals, excursions, to the buffet. When a parent allows a child to wear clothing that shows what should be left covered and others comment on it, that does not make one a pedophile or a weirdo. 

Listen, I've been on a Quince cruise, when I was on the Allure last year. None of the girls were "showing cleavage" or sideboob or whatever. Their shorts were normal. Comments like this absolutely do make you pedophilic, REGARDLESS of what they're wearing. They could be naked. It doesn't matter. You make a sexual comment comparing them to strippers, it's pedophilic. Case closed. 

Enjoy the glaciers while you still can. 

Just use this and take it in your purse.

1 hour ago, matj2000 said:

What's the problem with plastic straws?

Are you really going to gatekeep an elevator because you think a person doesn't look disabled enough? Also, nobody is stopping you from using the elevator. They're for everyone. I was a nurse before I became disabled, and I've seen all kinds of people with different invisible illnesses, so it's really frustrating when people do this.

1 hour ago, S.A.M.J.R. said:

Sorry, I disagree with this.  I use a CPAP machine, for only one reason, but that's to not snore so DW can sleep

Agree. Cumbersome to not have one? Yes. Life-threatening? No.

The closest thing to what you're describing is a genie for booking star class, but they're not on Vision class ships.

On 4/19/2019 at 12:22 AM, Hogbay said:

Don.t forget your socks and sandals 

 

https://www.sadanduseless.com/socks-and-sandals/

 

🤣

If you don't look like this, you aren't allowed in.

It's a shame they don't have Macallan. 

7 hours ago, bouhunter said:

Since you're done with Royal Caribbean, maybe you can start working with General Motors on their product quality.  I'm sure their team is eagerly awaiting your input.  Amazon too, they must be anxious for your thoughts on improved customer service.

Hi don't forget Comcast...

Get on twitter and facebook with those photos and start dragging the cruise line.