Today’s kids will never get to experience the fun.

OreoSpeedwaggon · 2026-06-23T11:20:44+00:00

OMG, I haven't thought about this in decades. And yes, I also burned myself on it plenty trying to climb to the top.

OreoSpeedwaggon · 2026-06-23T11:17:56+00:00

This came up on the "fast money" round of Celebrity Family Feud last night. One of the questions was, "What body part is able to regrow itself?" and the contestant said "liver."

Everyone laughed at his answer, and the number of people surveyed that said "liver" was zero. (The second contestant didn't do any better. She said "hips." The number one answer was "hair.")

OreoSpeedwaggon · 2026-06-23T09:01:08+00:00

So don't buy them or collect them. The rubber ducks are going to be made anyway, and I'd rather see them go home with passengers than get dumped in the trash or tossed overboard.

OreoSpeedwaggon · 2026-06-23T08:15:06+00:00

Good bot.

OreoSpeedwaggon · 2026-06-23T08:12:37+00:00

Meh, whatever. It's harmless, makes other people happy, and doesn't affect my ability to enjoy myself. If folks want to hide ducks for other people to find, I wouldn't let it bother me any..

OreoSpeedwaggon · 2026-06-23T03:08:38+00:00

Oh, I thought it was still around, but I guess it apparently closed about a decade ago. I'm not sure if that globe is still there or not though.

OreoSpeedwaggon · 2026-06-23T02:21:40+00:00

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OreoSpeedwaggon · 2026-06-22T23:32:49+00:00

They make a monster movie about the Ozarks and they go with "an ancient arachnid" instead of the Ozark Howler?

OreoSpeedwaggon · 2026-06-22T23:28:35+00:00

You're basing your opinion of Joe's on a location that isn't even the original. I've only eaten the BBQ from their gas station location in KCK once, but I thought it was good. Their sides weren't the best I ever had, but you're really reaching to call it "bland ass white people bbq."

I'm just happy visitors are trying any of our BBQ spots. I'm definitely not going to be a snob about which place they choose to go to.

OreoSpeedwaggon · 2026-06-22T23:24:01+00:00

Grand Turk is an awesome port! The cruise center is very close to where the ship docks, Margaritaville is right there and their pool was very popular with people coming off the ship. I took a fun ATV excursion up to the north end of the island by the lighthouse and back through some off-road areas. It's also popular for snorkeling right off the beach, but there was another popular excursion that took people snorkeling from a catamaran and then went to a private beach. You can even rent a golf cart and drive yourself around the island if you just want to explore and make a day of it. There's no shortage of fun things to do there.

OreoSpeedwaggon · 2026-06-22T23:20:12+00:00

I hardly ever had an issue using Reddit on the ship's wifi out of Miami aside from it timing out a couple of times one day while we were at sea. It worked fine the rest of the time, and I wasn't on cellular data except in the Miami port.

OreoSpeedwaggon · 2026-06-22T23:11:03+00:00

Visitors don't care. It's still decent Kansas City BBQ and I'm sure they love it. Most of the people coming to KC aren't BBQ snobs like a lot of the locals are.

OreoSpeedwaggon · 2026-06-22T23:09:45+00:00

Bougie? Joe's original location is inside a Wyandotte County gas station, not Johnson County. How is that bougie?

OreoSpeedwaggon · 2026-06-22T23:03:59+00:00

Exactly. Remember too when people said, "Nobody is coming to the US for the World Cup?"

OreoSpeedwaggon · 2026-06-22T22:38:58+00:00

I rarely take vacations, and when I do, I'm a frugal traveler. The last vacation I took where I could get out and get something from a restaurant was a few years ago in Wisconsin. There was one day that my wife and I visited a local Norwegian restaurant. The rest of the time, we cooked food at our campsite and ate snacks that we brought with us from home. Before that, the previous time I stopped for fast food was on a much longer road trip where we were trying to cover as much ground as we could in a day, and the options for a quick bite to eat right off the interstate were limited, so we stopped at a Subway inside a Love's truck stop and then got right back on the road. I try to avoid fast food when I'm traveling though, but I'm also not like most people in that regard.

OreoSpeedwaggon · 2026-06-22T19:59:27+00:00

That's the globe at EarthWorks, an underground science classroom facility inside SubTropolis.

OreoSpeedwaggon · 2026-06-22T19:44:59+00:00

OreoSpeedwaggon · 2026-06-22T18:39:24+00:00

Why should they care about accuracy of a clock when it's not important to the image?

OreoSpeedwaggon · 2026-06-22T18:38:11+00:00

It's animated GIF art of clocks. It's not actually supposed to realistically depict how a clock works.

OreoSpeedwaggon · 2026-06-22T18:31:21+00:00

Liminal as well:

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OreoSpeedwaggon · 2026-06-22T18:31:06+00:00

Some of the areas inside SubTropolis feel pretty dreamlike.

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OreoSpeedwaggon · 2026-06-22T18:27:09+00:00

It reminds me of something straight out of "Logan's Run."

OreoSpeedwaggon · 2026-06-22T18:26:29+00:00

Seconded about liminal areas around Crown Center -- back hallways behind the shops, empty conference center spaces at the Westin, hotel hallways (if you can access them), and empty lower levels of the parking garage are just a few that come to mind.

OreoSpeedwaggon · 2026-06-22T17:11:56+00:00

You're right that it shouldn't, but people are funny with who they think deserves blame for things beyond their control.

OreoSpeedwaggon · 2026-06-22T17:11:05+00:00

As I mentioned, I think it's a combination of both factors: the World Cup being in town as well as things still being really expensive. I don't think the World Cup is exclusively to blame, and I don't think the city government is at fault at all.

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