Where the hell are my hoards of t-shirt buyers for the holiday season? I mean, come on! I need my xmas bonus! My side hustle is fading into the sunset...
Indeed.
We should have sat down with George III and had illuminating conversations or had a cuppa with Adolf and discussed the weather instead of the carnage outside.
Dusty Springfield. I loved to hear her unique voice. She was an important part of the rock-n-roll radio experience during the 60's and 70's. I don't hear any of her music on RP. Am I somehow missing it?
They're pretty internationally-inclined (and have already passed Portuguese language classes). They want to be part of something different, not make their new neighbours conform to them.
I wasn't casting aspersions, just generalities.
The first wave is usually pretty chill, it's a little later that 'progress' comes along. I think it's a numbers thing too, there seems to be a critical mass that requires a larger grocery store. Once the chains see a market for their goods it's all downhill.
And to be clear - I do recognize my own part in the problem. We've been early movers in a couple of places, and seen the pop happen. It's not all bad, but it does have some melancholy that goes with it.
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Nov 20, 2024 - 9:01am
islander wrote:
The unfortunate thing is a lot of other places have it figured out. And a lot of Americans go there seeking the good stuff. But then they want a KFC for convenience, and they need a way to get Amazon deliveries, and it would be nice if Ubereats would deliver my pizza. So slowly they terraform it back into what they left.
They're pretty internationally-inclined (and have already passed Portuguese language classes). They want to be part of something different, not make their new neighbours conform to them.
A friend of mine and his husband have moved from SF to Portugal. They are impossibly happy over there.
The unfortunate thing is a lot of other places have it figured out. And a lot of Americans go there seeking the good stuff. But then they want a KFC for convenience, and they need a way to get Amazon deliveries, and it would be nice if Ubereats would deliver my pizza. So slowly they terraform it back into what they left.
Watching an old episode of Suits (guilty pleasure after all the real world noise) and one of the main characters, always being trod upon by one of the Stars of the Show, complains to someone and he says he thought, wrongly, that their relationship was like Ralph and Sam, adversaries in the office, but okay with each other after work.
I really enjoyed that and it got a good laugh. Nice writing.
