Adubs European "vacation"

[8893]

Meat sweats beating on his forehead and his fiancé‘s contractions at five minutes apart….

I can picture it!

 

[CL82]

I can picture it!

We may be the only two laughing this, but for whatever reason I’m finding it hysterical.

 

[storrsroars]

Easy to spot in Shaun of the Dead and it's ilk.

Jim Jefferies, Ricky Gervais, and Jimmy Carr are the masters of its use.

He wakes up at the Big Texan with five minutes on the clock and 24 ounces more steak to eat to win the challenge.

With The Sheriff standing behind him wearing only a grease-laden apron and cowboy boots, yelling, "You gonna eat that, boy?", while repeatedly slapping him in the ears with a spatula.

 

[8893]

We may be the only two laughing this, but for whatever reason I’m finding it hysterical.

Heat delirium.

 

[Chin Diesel]

He wakes up at the Big Texan with five minutes on the clock and 24 ounces more steak to eat to win the challenge.

Meat sweats beading on his forehead and his fiancé‘s contractions at five minutes apart….

Jim Jefferies, Ricky Gervais, and Jimmy Carr are the masters of its use.


With The Sheriff standing behind him wearing only a grease-laden apron and cowboy boots, yelling, "You gonna eat that, boy?", while repeatedly slapping him in the ears with a spatula.

He has a choice of finishing 24oz in 5 min and forever having the Sheriff's respect......or, tapping out and getting his GF to hospital in time to deliver baby.

We all know how this ends. A steak soaked meat sweating ADub frantically finishes steak and is driving GF to hospital when she goes in to labor. He has to stop and deliver the baby himself only to find out he is stuck in his dream as his GF gives birth to 72 Oz steak triplets and ADub looks up to the Sheriff staring at him.

 

[businesslawyer]

I will. I’m on a 3.5 hour car ride right now going from Alva to Dunoon through the Highlands thought I could write through it, but getting bounced around and in and out for cell service. Just stopped for a scone in Nuss ( Loch Lomond). Give me a bit.

Love the highlands by the way. Hope you're well enough to enjoy it.

 

[8893]

Love the highlands by the way. Hope you're well enough to enjoy it.

Musical interlude?

 

[CL82]

 

[ClifSpliffy]

oh, we know how this all ends, good lord willing..
auggie collapses to the ground in an arbys parking lot, chanting 'never get out of the boat,' totally prostrate as his gf sits in the car singing songs aboot broccolirabe and sausage.
like this,

'i didn't get out of the eighth grade for this!'

 

[ClifSpliffy]

nyse XAL opened around 59 this am, now 58.
always trust content from adub, it can make u money sometimes.
in my best eddie murphy voice, 'i can feel them panicking out there. they're worried that they won't be able to afford the gi joe with the kung grip for their kids xmas present.....' sell, sell, sell!

 

[storrsroars]

Love the highlands by the way. Hope you're well enough to enjoy it.

It's a big area, like more than half of Scotland.

I've only been as far north as Inverness, but driving through the Grampians from Fort William to Loch Lomond is like driving through the Green Mountains, but without any people, houses, roadside attractions, or even much traffic. Just sheep and cows and green pastures and mountains. It's beautiful. Even hiking up Ben Nevis, for the first hour it was just me and a couple of mountain sheep until I ran into anyone. And at night, I've never been anywhere where I've seen as many stars and galaxies with the naked eye as there's almost no light pollution.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I'm fully expecting, while in the checkout lane in the grocery store next week, to see a National Enquirer headline saying "American Tourist proves Nessie exists".

 

[Scot-e]

Crazy story.
My wife and I were complaining about the temp in Spain last month - I feel like a jerk complainImg after hearing your story. We spent a month in Europe and got out “ just in time” It’s bonkers there right now.
Hope you and your GF are feeling better and are in better place.

 

[Deepster]

Meh. This thread has "jumped the shark". We get it. You're on a summer family vacation where nothing's going right. Join the club.

Wake me up when someone a little more exciting happens.

 

[businesslawyer]

I'm fully expecting, while in the checkout lane in the grocery store next week, to see a National Enquirer headline saying "American Tourist proves Nessie exists".

Actually, this thread makes me wonder if the entire history of Nessie sightings can be attributed to the mixture of scotch and opioids.

 

[August_West]

Are you actually going all the way around? Not taking the ferry? If you just went by Loch Lomond then yes, it seems so. Long drive indeed. I've only done that in the reverse direction, Oban to Glasgow. Traffic was brutal on the A82 in summer.

Yes we went all the way around through inveraray/loch fyne. No Ferry. When we head to Glasgow next week we will take the ferry . It was a beautiful drive. Worth the extra length.

I know I owe you guys some stuff, just gonna nap for a bit before dinner and after it I’ll get it to you. Finally “ home” at GF family home, doesn’t suck. View from my bedroom.

 

[August_West]

Love the highlands by the way. Hope you're well enough to enjoy it.

I’m getting better, fever way down. Just still get gassed pretty quickly. More importantly GF seems to be much better . Thanks for asking.

 

[ClifSpliffy]

Yes we went all the way around through inveraray/loch fyne. No Ferry. When we head to Glasgow next week we will take the ferry . It was a beautiful drive. Worth the extra length.

I know I owe you guys some stuff, just gonna nap for a bit before dinner and after it I’ll get it to you. Finally “ home” at GF family home, doesn’t suck. View from my bedroom.

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meh, might as well be a pic from East Lyme, looking down toward Niantic Bay, except that East Lyme is sunnier, and u just have to go a few minutes down the road to wallyworld, or mickey d's.

 

[CL82]

I'm fully expecting, while in the checkout lane in the grocery store next week, to see a National Enquirer headline saying "American Tourist proves Nessie exists".

Subheading:
“ Uses pimento sticks to lure her out of loch.”

 

[The Yakk]

Meanwhile back in states, my GF and I and the rest of the family are watching his trials with trepidation because now we are all starting to head over and we know it is going to be bad. Everyone is supposed to be on different flights, but my GF's mom and step-father were on our flight from JFK to Heathrow after their flights had got just as screwed as ours were except they were connecting to Edinburgh and we were connecting to Glasgow.

Well the day before leaving JFK we both get alerts that our connecting flights were in jeopardy, not cancelled (because letting us know they were going to be cancelled would be too moral for BA) and that freaked out my step father in law. He doesnt like overseas travel in the first place, and doesn't suffer fools or inconvenience very well, (He's 71 and has earned that right) plus they are the parents of the bride and HAVE to be in Edinburgh for the final preparations for the daughter. So with all of our trust in BA at a low (but it would soon become lower), he booked a last minute direct flight from JFK to Edinburgh on Delta for him and his wife for the tune of 15k , His seats on the BA flight in business class went unused and unrefunded. So 22k more? poof.

now it turns out that was one of the smartest moves of the trip, because my GF and I got on the the BA flight the next morning , got to Heathrow, (which is a 3rd world airport these days, more to come) got through a 2 hour customs line , finally got to the BA club world lounge (which was trashed) ladled a couple bowls of soup out while waiting for our Glasgow flight, and then the cancellations came up on the board and all hell broke loose.......................

Your step father in law should just go to his credit card company for a full refund of the BA fare; don't even bother dealing with BA. I have had success with this more than once. He has 1) the email alerts from BA putting the flights in jeopardy, and 2) the fact that nobody is answering the phones at BA as facts on his side. He has a good chance of getting a refund that way.

 

[The Yakk]

ok I’m trying to keep my journey in order, and I am and have been in Alva for a few days since leaving Edinburgh Monday afternoon it is a tiny town in the hills, northwest of Edinburgh. We were supposed to share an air bnb with my GFs best friend and her parents from CT who now live win holland and wales respectively, but when we showed up from Edinburgh with the Covid obviously had to separate.
Anyway Monday evening on the way in we stopped at a Tesco about 12 miles from here just for some paracetamol ( tylenol ) and ibuprofen and some charcuterie style snacks and coffee and stuff. Well we’ve been laid out since and obviously not that hungry so since then we’ve been nibbling on cheese and crackers. That’s pretty much it.

Well its Thursday now and we are out of paracetamol and I need some real food so here is a live Adub lookin at 2 pm in the afternoon, wandering the metropolis of Alva for the first time since being here. First stop? Pharmacy!

Another point about travelling around Scotland, especially if you are outside the main cities:

You pretty much ALWAYS need a reservation for dinner. Very rare and lucky to get seated for dinner if you just drop in somewhere.

 

[The Yakk]

Part 1A Escape from Heathrow.

So now I know getting the bag is out the window..... screw it, nothing we can do, lets get to the curb and get a taxi its midnight.

Easy right? No.

NO! NO! NO! Paddington Express train, which is way faster and there are tons of hotels right near the train station.

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

Crazy story.
My wife and I were complaining about the temp in Spain last month - I feel like a jerk complainImg after hearing your story. We spent a month in Europe and got out “ just in time” It’s bonkers there right now.
Hope you and your GF are feeling better and are in better place.

I'm on the southern coast of Spain with my wife now after a wedding in Dublin last week in Malaga. It's hot and humid as heck but the 5 euro bottles of wine helps.

 

[The Yakk]

Your step father in law should just go to his credit card company for a full refund of the BA fare; don't even bother dealing with BA. I have had success with this more than once. He has 1) the email alerts from BA putting the flights in jeopardy, and 2) the fact that nobody is answering the phones at BA as facts on his side. He has a good chance of getting a refund that way.

And if the connecting flight was actually cancelled, it is a slam dunk. I bet Visa or AMEX or MC will issue the credit as soon as he makes the claim.

 

[SubbaBub]

His CC may also include travel insurance for flights paid using the card. He may get the rebook instead of the original fare.
YMMV.