Got my vote. 45 days is the score to beat.
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A thing that has irked me for many years:
Assume there are two parties, which you regard as the Baby-Eating Demons Party and the Fluffy Puppies and Kittens for Everyone Party.
When the Demons Party proposed something, you said it was the worst thing ever and would give the ruling party too much power. Now the Fluffy Party proposes it, and you’re all in favour.
Do you not think the Demons Party will get in ever again?
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Might just do a week and retire on the 115k pension.
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I think most parties try to change the conditions on the legacy game.
I can’t see all parties gaining victory points for flying Unicorns to Narnia.
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Town Advisory Board Seems Reluctant to Allow Tiger Sanctuary in a Tent One Block From the Vegas Strip
They were planning to sell alcohol, too.
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Politicians, like businessmen, tend to concentrate on what they want to happen. It’s engineers who think the most about things they don’t want to happen, because they’ll have to fix them.
While my employer belonged to EDS, there was a lot of training that seemed intended to teach us that top management were infinitely wise, and we should do whatever they wanted. The quality of the scenarios was … unconvincing, but better than the actual top managers.
In particular, I learned that “strategic vision” means “has a plan that looks further ahead than next quarter’s sales figures.”
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You just missed your chance to have front seats at a big funeral, though. I am guessing that’s why Liz signed in…
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The place we went to did not serve booze. Just axes and knives.
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The safest axe-throwing I’ve seen was set up like a bowling alley, but with full walls between each lane, so that if you throw your axe 90 degrees sideways it just hits a wall and not the next person. That was in London, and they were very definitely selling booze as well.
Nothing to stop you dropping the axe into your own foot though. I like archery, and axe-throwing seems AWESOME but with some pretty large safety concerns…
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This placed had fences dividing the lanes back most of the way. 90 degrees, you could hit the person next to you. You’d have to work at it, though.
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When did axe throwing become a thing? Japan, unsurprisingly, seems to have missed this particular craze.
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I’m glad my working day is over as it wasn’t the best of days and that my 4 year old is laughing as he tries to type a story on his mum’s computer. The giggles and squawks are just what the doctor ordered. That and the beer, I’ll pass on throwing axes thank you.
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That’s just what I was thinking, I think someone I know here in Colorado mentioned it recently (and the beer part) and I was what? This is a thing? It happens in York too? (My mum and sister live just outside York, don’t think they’ve dabbled in axe throwing yet).
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I dunno. But I feel like the Ballroom Dance school I used to drive by on my way to/from work got turned into an axe throwing entertainment venue like 8 or 9 years ago.
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I first heard of axe throwing as thing people went to a bar to do at least 12 years ago but fewer than 17 years ago. (I remember who told me, and where. But not when.) It was a thing done in the northwoods of Wisconsin, where the per capita axe count is higher than many places. I was going to say I don’t think ti’s a thing here, but a quick google turns up a place just a brief bike ride from my house. And a mobile axe throwing connpany, that will bring an ax throwing trailer to you.
i had never done it, and it was a blast. I am not going to go visit my local axe emporiurm, or throw my axes at the fence, any time soon. But I’d do it again, with the right people. Work paid for it, so I don’t know what it cost, or where it would fit on the value spectrum.
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London UK got the first high-profile axe venue in trendy Shoreditch around 2016, I think (“Whistle Punks”).
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I had my first try a couple of years ago here in NZ in Norsewood, on the Viking Festival. Somehow, I have a natural talent, I placed every single axe in the target… even when I doubled the distance, to my surprise (and the guy running the event as well)
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Oh, man, you already have two titles. “Official tekeli.li axe thrower” won’t fit.
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I must admit I would rather not have another subtitle, or you would turn me into the Daenerys of the forums…
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hm that would be a good meta title though. do you have white hair by chance?
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