Text 10131, 99 rader
Skriven 2014-02-20 18:11:19 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 10003 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: exactitude 218
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 17 Feb 14  11:25:00 <=-

 ML>> Well, go traveling with someone like that for a while.
 ML>> You'd understand in the concrete in short order.
 NB>> Except that you just said that you don't understand it..
 ML> That was just a flipper statement than my previous one. To
 ML> salvage some bit of accuracy, you'd understand my lack of
 ML> understanding in short order - and perhaps sympathize even
 ML> more than understand.

In fact, I do sympathize... with you, that is... ;)  I was being just
as flipper as you, I think.. ;0  I can sympathize in the concrete...
understanding people who won't try new things remains an abstract...
from being around those who won't... I sorta see where they are coming
from, but it certainly isn't my way of doing things... :)

 ML>> she'll probably spend a huge premium for lamb kebabs
 ML>> overlooking the Aegean, while I feast cheaply (I hope) on
 ML>> local shellfish. Odd that she's come to like lamb, which to
 ML>> me has quite a strong flavor.
 NB>> Reminds her of hamburger, probably.. ;)  It will be another adventure,
 NB>> no doubt...  :)  Is that likely to be before or after Easter...?
 ML> Turns out to be Smyrna (Izmir) and in March for the best fares.
 ML> Our upgrades cleared, but this means 8500 miles in biz class and
 ML> 2000 in Lufthansa's peculiar nonbusiness class, where the middle
 ML> seat folds down into a table, and they don't sell it unless it
 ML> looks like the plane will fill. In this case, they gave me the
 ML> uncomfortable middle next to Lilli's aisle, hoping that they can
 ML> get money for the window seat. 

We can hope that the window seat doesn't sell and that you get to move
over...?  Sounds like with the middle used as a table it shouldn't be
too uncomfortable... but that might be prime season for filling the
plane...? 

 ML> My first choice was Melbourne, because using the same certificates
 ML> I could sit in business for 20500 miles and complete my elite
 ML> requalification in maximum comfort. Her preferences are not
 ML> insignificant for me, and it looks as though I may be doing such
 ML> a trip in coach later in the year.
 
Ah, well...  :) 

 ML>> It's said that chicken tikka masala is the closest thing
 ML>> that the Brits have to a national dish nowadays.
 NB>> I've heard that, too...  :)  I don't remember what we had, though...
 NB>> it was almost 30 years ago, now... :)
 ML> Tastes better than starchy sausages with starchy potatoes.

Quite.
 
 NB>> you two are travel companions more than dining companions,
 ML> We have recently agreed to disagree on a bunch of things, such
 ML> as airline alliances - it looks as though in the future we'll
 ML> fly internationally once a year together and do the rest of our
 ML> travel separately, meeting at our destination. 

That will save the inconveniences of companion upgrades not making it
through the system, I suppose...  and preserving each ones status on the
airline of choice... 

 ML> Now she's pushing for Longyearbyen again, meeting in Oslo or
 ML> someplace. Having lived through Yellowknife in the minus twenties
 ML> and Montreal in a minus ten with a wind, she's getting adventurous

Cold doesn't seem so bad in the abstract after surviving it in reality,
eh...?   :)  Especially when it comes with added benefits...

 ML> - and counting the times she's going to be able to travel before
 ML> she gets old and decrepit. I've not had a bucket list, but she is
 ML> sort of giving me one.

Or, one could say that you don't have to make a bucket list, since she's
supplying the impetus to go all sorts of places that might otherwise
have been put on such a list...  :)

 ML> I'll have to go on gastronomic trips by myself or with someone else.

A different bucket list, so to speak... ;)   If I had the wherewithal to
travel like that, I could be interested... :)

 ML>> I can see the merits of a good steak frites, but not
 ML>> several times a week alternating with burgers and oatmeal
 ML>> and the occasional omelet or egg salad ...
 NB>> Could get boring quite quickly, eh...?
 ML> tttt, I will eat a monodiet once in a while and tolerate it
 ML> quite well if it's beef. 
 NB> But that's different, eh...?   :)

 ML> Well, I probably could do with a steak a day for many days.

Dunno as I could... :)   But it would cetainly be one of the better
choices for a monodiet, as far as I'm concerned... :)

ttyl          neb

... I would strongly oppose apathy, if I cared...
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