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*Rich people's kid. This person is not particularly well-adjusted. He has an advanced degree in Non-profit Management so he can administer his parent's "foundation" that they've used to avoid paying taxes for the past few decades. His father was a tax avoidance consultant at a well-known company that was involved in a very well-known fiasco, and got out just before the fiasco was exposed. His mother's wedding ring is property of their "charitable foundation" for instance. Willing to bet the condo will be property of the foundation technically as well.
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I have looked at PYPL and whether I should have cut and run but I just didnt see the fundamental change to have made me move away. Hindsight being 20/20 yeah it would have been a good move. It to me is close to the same company it was 40% ago. If XOM can come back from the dead so can PYPL.
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Disney is pure evil and showing anything they have made in the last 15 years to kids should be punishable under the child abuse statutes.
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Have you ever taken your kids to Walt Disney World?
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Oh this post gives me PTSD. My ex had a group of friends like this. All full grown adults with no kids. Most of them also got married in Disney. These people are a blight on society
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I have run into some of these weirdos as well. Weirdly obsessed person who did not like anything other than Disney.
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One of the couples who got married there also decorated every room in their house in a different Disney theme. Weirdo doesnt even begin to describe these kinds of people.
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One of the benefits of being in the Pacific Northwest is that you're so far from civiliz... I mean, the rest of the country, that it gives parents an easy excuse for not giving into their kids' demands to go to the 2 Disney theme parks. People, especially east coast people don't really appreciate the distances involved. Like, it's about 280 miles from Eugene OR (UofO is there) to Seattle. In that space, there is maybe 4-5 cities, if you count Salem and Olympia as cities that is. On the East coast, that's roughly the same distance from D.C. to Bridgeport CT. Compare and contrast the amount of people in these 2 corridors. And people here think nothing of driving the ~4hrs to Seattle if need be. It's just how it goes. Further than that though? Meh. Getting to SF (the next really large metro area) just isn't really done much unless you REALLY have to because it's about an 11hr drive. And who really needs to go to CA these days? I don't even like going to PDX if I can possibly avoid it.
I have never been to Disneylandworld and will not go. Hell, I've only ever been to FL once and that was only for 2 days back in 2001.
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Disneyland is crap. Dont spend the money. Disney World on the other hand and its FOUR theme parks and its TWO water parks is another story. I think young kids should get the opportunity to experience it at least once in their lives. At the 5-10 age they just are in awe because they arent old enough to see through the illusion yet.
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The only reason I've ever been to Disneyworld + Land is because I won national competitions in high school that just happened to go to each one of them in subsequent years. Also the only time I've ever been more than 100 miles from my house.
I liked Disneyland a lot because the rides were so oldschool and reminded me of the great amusement parks we still had in New England when I was a kid, bigger budget but still old-school. But at DisneyWorld all I was really interested in was the operations/logistics of the park. Like FL was in the middle of this massive weeks-long drought and then all of a sudden the skies opened up and POURED with flash flood conditions and you saw entire large kiosks disappear behind the scenes only to be replaced by ones selling ponchos and umbrella, and it all happened so fast.
There's also apparently an entire underground vacuum tube system that carries away all the trash from all the places that serve food, so there's never any dumpsters or smell of garbage.
I liked Disneyland a lot because the rides were so oldschool and reminded me of the great amusement parks we still had in New England when I was a kid, bigger budget but still old-school. But at DisneyWorld all I was really interested in was the operations/logistics of the park. Like FL was in the middle of this massive weeks-long drought and then all of a sudden the skies opened up and POURED with flash flood conditions and you saw entire large kiosks disappear behind the scenes only to be replaced by ones selling ponchos and umbrella, and it all happened so fast.
There's also apparently an entire underground vacuum tube system that carries away all the trash from all the places that serve food, so there's never any dumpsters or smell of garbage.
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