also I'm not positive if i actually went or if I'm just conflating memories of seeing The Cable Guy as a young child with actually going to Medieval Times
The idea of a place where I can eat food and watch jousting being a thing that exist is just blowing me away. Even if it's fake wrestling style jousting, it's still cool as all hell. I have to make a stop in one of these places next time I'm stateside.
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Haha that place is pretty fun! I went there in 8th grade and their chicken being really tasty stuck with me till I was 24 and I went again and it was still good but just didn't live to my memory which isn't very surprising.
Also I got a figurine of a griffin man riding a gryphon.
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my family loves to tell the story of our trip to medieval times, especially to new girlfriends of mine
so here goes!
I was six and we went to disneyland for three days
for dinner one night, I was told we were going to have pizza
now, to understand what this meant to me, you have to understand how I viewed pizza
as far as I was concerned, pizza was the absolute pinnacle of food
so when we got out of the car and saw where we were going, I began to suspect, but dared not admit, that my father and stepmother had lied to me about getting pizza
but that is indeed what happened
I made it my mission to be an immovable rock of distemper during this meal
I would pitch no fits, but I would make sure that everyone who looked at me knew that this was a child who had been wronged
so there is a picture of my six-year-old self, taken by one of the waitresses, sitting next to my sister (who is loving every second of this circumstance), looking for all the world like a caricature of grouchiness
all cartoonish, exagerrated frown
I loosened up when it became clear that instead of pizza I'd get to eat an entire hen with my hands
I've been to the website and it only mentions a selection of non-alcoholic beverages
if they do have booze then this changes the whole landscape of the situation
Never been to an American jousting thing but when I was young we used to go down to Warwick Castle on weekends and watch the guys in full plate whale on each other with longswords and show off trebuchets and stuff
For those who don't remember, which is all of you because seriously who gives a shit, in high school I was basically good at all the major subjects (at a HS level obviously) and when I got to college and figured out I only needed to be good at like two things, everything else dropped off
And I decided some time ago that I wanted to try to get back to what I've always wanted to be, which is to be passingly knowledgeable about as many different subjects as I can; not expert-level obviously, but able to hold my own even briefly in a conversation on any number of things
Priority one was a refresher course in a lot of basic chemistry and physics because as an anthropology major I quickly neglected all endeavors aside from absolute bullshit
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This might be the year I actually make some strides on that "become a renaissance man" goal from a few years back
This is a good goal, and one that i am somewhat less explicitly pursuing
Trying to get back into making music, which I used to (well, and still do) really enjoy, and to actively pursue my writing projects more doggedly, and to spend time working on learning to draw well instead I just doodling. I also got some watercolors for Christmas, so there's that
And I mean of course I'm going to continue memorizing Wikipedia
Theodore Flooseveltproud parent of eight beautiful girls and shalmelodorne (which is currently being ruled by a woman (awesome role model for my daughters)) #dornedadRegistered Userregular
This might be the year I actually make some strides on that "become a renaissance man" goal from a few years back
This is a good goal, and one that i am somewhat less explicitly pursuing
Trying to get back into making music, which I used to (well, and still do) really enjoy, and to actively pursue my writing projects more doggedly, and to spend time working on learning to draw well instead I just doodling. I also got some watercolors for Christmas, so there's that
And I mean of course I'm going to continue memorizing Wikipedia
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GOD DAMN I WANT TO GO SO BAD!
apart from the green knight being the coolest
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what would vriska do
She would murder everyone and steal all their stuff.
I . . . I don't think I should do that. Sometimes we just can't be Vriska.
You can also drink booze and eat with your hands.
Also I got a figurine of a griffin man riding a gryphon.
so here goes!
I was six and we went to disneyland for three days
for dinner one night, I was told we were going to have pizza
now, to understand what this meant to me, you have to understand how I viewed pizza
as far as I was concerned, pizza was the absolute pinnacle of food
so when we got out of the car and saw where we were going, I began to suspect, but dared not admit, that my father and stepmother had lied to me about getting pizza
but that is indeed what happened
I made it my mission to be an immovable rock of distemper during this meal
I would pitch no fits, but I would make sure that everyone who looked at me knew that this was a child who had been wronged
so there is a picture of my six-year-old self, taken by one of the waitresses, sitting next to my sister (who is loving every second of this circumstance), looking for all the world like a caricature of grouchiness
all cartoonish, exagerrated frown
I loosened up when it became clear that instead of pizza I'd get to eat an entire hen with my hands
I guess this is pretty good, I thought
I've been to the website and it only mentions a selection of non-alcoholic beverages
if they do have booze then this changes the whole landscape of the situation
And I decided some time ago that I wanted to try to get back to what I've always wanted to be, which is to be passingly knowledgeable about as many different subjects as I can; not expert-level obviously, but able to hold my own even briefly in a conversation on any number of things
Priority one was a refresher course in a lot of basic chemistry and physics because as an anthropology major I quickly neglected all endeavors aside from absolute bullshit
I promptly made absolutely zero progress on this
I mean I'll try and learn other stuff
but food's awesome
luckily you get to eat your progress
like I don't want to just cook
I want to know why stuff cooks the way it does
The last time I went to Medieval Times
Our knight tossed me a rose.
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jeeeeaaalooouss~
Thats fun up until a point. Like, it's cool to know why emulsions work the way they do but im not going to obsess about ratios.
Shit be silly but super fun to hit people with foam swords.
Oh man
watch out, Veretas
This is a good goal, and one that i am somewhat less explicitly pursuing
Trying to get back into making music, which I used to (well, and still do) really enjoy, and to actively pursue my writing projects more doggedly, and to spend time working on learning to draw well instead I just doodling. I also got some watercolors for Christmas, so there's that
And I mean of course I'm going to continue memorizing Wikipedia
I could be wrong
But maybe
just maybe it was meant for the little girl on the row below me
that just stared longingly as I held the rose triumphantly
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forget her
she shoulda tried hard for it
that's how life is girl, better move on, this rose is mine
he did toss it pretty high
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really I just want to become Viggo Mortenson
Did he toss anything else of yours that night?
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Try to connect with my son.
Well you've got the face for it