Introverts, how is your day?

[Carol the Dabbler]

VBS, I fixed a couple of emoties in your last post.  I'm guessing that you typed the code in by hand.  When you do that, you need to leave a space on each side of the code, so the software can see that it's a code.

And please ignore the rest -- new software wouldn't let me do what meant, and now won't let me delete it!

blather:Dblather

[Pseudonym]

Continuing on from friendly strangers and headphones...

 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Yes, but the staffs are normally in front or at the back during 'discharge' time. (not sure what is the term, unloading passenger? ), so they'd have to wait until the plane cleared off, which would take a long while since it's a big plane and we were seated just couple of row behind business class. 
I'm not worry though, there are a lot of helpful strangers, especially when they are not doing anything while waiting for the line to move. 
Just that ignorant neighbor who left them without a word ...

I *still* write down my direction manually until quite recently. End of this road, turn left, this landmark, right, etc, etc.
Now I just put my phone in my jacket, although I still read the map manually instead of using GPS.
The inner city looks pretty neat, J.P.
No such luck here, especially residential area. 
 
Never heard of Osage County before, looking at how young BC, it must be an older show?
 
Do you guys ever get stuck in a plane with chatty neighbor? It is one of the worst actually, second only to smelly neighbor = tie with screaming children.
A elderly couple was trying to chat with me, starting by commenting on my jacket etc. And when I helped them with their overhead cabin, they became even friendlier.
But thank goodness for earphone and inflight entertainment, it is easier to gesture that you are about to watch something, and them having it give them something to do as well although they ended up chatting with people sitting in front of us.
Since I have nothing but a small backpack, after we were 'released' from the seat belt I quickly made a beeline along the aisle to the exit, which is what I always do as long as it doesn't disrupt others yet, and completely forgot to help them with their bags since they couldn't reach the overhead cabin. Oops, hopefully some strangers around would help them since they seemed pretty nice although less chatty would be good.

Osage County came out in 2013 and to leave a plane, boat, etc is to disembark.

[Arcadia]

17 hours ago, SherlockedCAMPer said:

I'd say it's from August: Osage County.  The shirt and suit coat look about the same only darker because of lighting.  And the hair style is about the same as his Little Charles Aiken.

Nope!  Earlier than that. Earlier than Sherlock.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Nope!  Earlier than that. Earlier than Sherlock.

Miss Marple: Murder is Easy?

[Arcadia]

Yay, you win the no prize!

[Pseudonym]

We've got a weather system coming in that's supposed to be pretty epic and the forecasters have dubbed it 'the beast from the east.' I feel like we're expecting an influx of monsters coming westwards, lol. 

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

You say there's an East Wind coming? 

[Pseudonym]

*Angry muttering* Better not be stoopid Eurus and her stoopid death maze "mutter mutter*

[J.P.]

I thought the Wall was in the North?

[Hikari]

On ‎2‎/‎22‎/‎2018 at 3:32 PM, SherlockedCAMPer said:

If you really want to have fun with ordinal directions and street names, go to Duluth, Minnesota. It’s considered the San Francisco of the Midwest. It on the shore of Lake Superior which obviously curves so the whole city sits at a weird angle. Streets have name similar to N 10th St E. And that might not even be near the lake as the city is kind of on the northwest shores. So using the ordinal directions would be slightly insane. (Sounds perfect for this fandom)

I think perhaps only Sherlock Holmes would be capable of really having fun with ordinal directions, so you're right there!  The rest of us just muddle along, unless we were like, military navigators, or sumpthin.  My dad was a navigator for the USAF as a young man.  If you plunked him down in a strange town with a map and a compass (installed on the car), he could navigate like a breeze.  We never got lost when Dad was driving.   I did not inherit this gift for directionality.  I can do ordinal directions in my own neighborhood, but only because I know my house faces north, and the sun sets to my left, therefore.  Take me somewhere else and I'm lost . . .quite literally.

[Pseudonym]

It is. Luckily we don't have any White Walkers down here... yet. We're meant to have a lot of snow, fingers crossed they won't be hidden in it. 

[Arcadia]

Sounds like the Snowpocalypse of 2010 here in the Washington DC area. Here's some headlines:

• "Greece's sun-kissed beaches covered in foot of snow as FREAK WEATHER hits Europe!"
• "Europe’s Cities Face More Extreme Weather Than Previously Thought!"
• "Cold snap causes travel chaos in parts of Europe!"
• "UK weather sends shoppers into panic mode as ‘Beast from the East’ causes chaos!"

 

I'm so jealous...........

 

[Pseudonym]

The disappointing thing is that where I live we hardly ever get snow, it always seems to bypass us, and if we do it's a tiny flurry that doesn't stick. Such a shame, I would love a few snow days. Looks like it's Thursday and Friday it might actually hit here - I've got my fingers crossed for being snowed in. Being 'snowed in' takes very little in this country since we're so unprepared for snow. I think it was last winter the government caved and borrowed a few snow plows off Norway. 

[Arcadia]

Same here in the DC area. But I spent part of my youth in snow country; I love it. Bring it on! Send me some! More snow!

[Pseudonym]

Super jealous today, schools closed in loads of areas, people being told to stay home, roads closed. Here... a light dusting of snow frozen on the car and blue skies.  I want to go up to the mountains and go sledding, bet there's snow up there. 

[Arcadia]

Awww, my sympathies. 

[Pseudonym]

*snort* Advice given by one of our councils. 

[Pseudonym]

Have any of you guys ever been to one of those puzzle 'escape the room' places? I'm going to one next weekend. The story is that we've been captured by a serial killer and have to escape the room he's locked in within one hour or never be seen again.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Sounds like fun -- as long as there isn't actually a serial killer involved.  You might want to check the fine print.

[Pseudonym]

There's a spaceship themed one too that looks good. 

[Arcadia]

Sounds like torture to me. Have fun, Pseud!

[Carol the Dabbler]

1 hour ago, Pseudonym said:

There's a spaceship themed one too that looks good. 

What's the set-up for that one?

[Pseudonym]

The Voyager spacecraft was travelling to a new homeland when its systems malfunctioned. You come out of hibernation and face being stuck on the ship for eternity. You must prove that you are human to enter the cockpit and turn the ship around.

Not sure how you go about proving you're human. 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Generally all you have to do is read some text from an image -- but I suspect it'd be a bit more stringent than that.