The Cellar / Scenic Spots Everywhere

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 5/14/2022 7:59 pm

More states...

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 5/20/2022 3:43 am

China is big and varied with lots of scenic spots...

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 5/21/2022 11:06 am

Leshan Giant Buddha: Miniature people dolls shown for scale.

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 5/21/2022 2:10 pm

Why would someone produce a doll modeled on a miniature person?

That'd just be silly...

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 5/22/2022 11:11 am

TheNeverWas wrote:
Why would someone produce a doll modeled on a miniature person?

That'd just be silly...

I told you why. To make that 15 foot statue look big.

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 5/22/2022 12:24 pm

Prolly just a bunch o' bondo and chicken wire...

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 5/22/2022 11:00 pm

Yeah but it was fresh BONDO when it was made.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 5/27/2022 4:15 am

More to see then thighs in Thailand...

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 6/09/2022 11:37 am

China has been building scenery for a long time and don't seem to be big on bulldoze it and start over...

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 6/26/2022 11:23 pm

But you sure don't have to leave the USA for scenery...

**Posted by BigV** 7/02/2022 10:59 pm

That was a big boat we passed... This one's big too. Easier to pass, harder to miss. Glorious!

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 7/03/2022 12:04 am

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 7/14/2022 5:20 pm

See, Egypt, Florida, France, and Hong Kong, wasn't worth 50¢ more to go round the world?

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 7/18/2022 10:50 pm

India...

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 7/19/2022 12:35 pm

Fisher Island, eh?
Never heard of it, so I did some wwwebbing.
I'll bet there may be more excess somewhere, but they have managed to keep it secret.
I think I'll go back to never having heard of it.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 7/23/2022 9:17 am

Trying to find another ZIP code with an average income of $ 2.2+ million? Fat chance.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 7/28/2022 11:55 pm

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 7/30/2022 12:02 pm

Australia may be bigger, but I can see the moon.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 8/02/2022 11:42 pm

North America...

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 8/06/2022 11:18 pm

China's a big country with a variety of terrain closed off to tourists for much of history.
Because of that there is a lot of stuff few have seen.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 8/15/2022 2:51 pm

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 8/21/2022 11:03 pm

Some scenic spots might not be quite as scenic as you expect...

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 8/24/2022 8:36 am

**Posted by glatt** 8/24/2022 10:49 am

When I was a kid, I loved castle ruins and other ruins, but now that I've had more life experiences, I look at that ruin in Ireland and feel a little sad. That wasn't that long ago, and I have known people who were alive then. I imagine it was a beautiful building, and now it's just ruins because of some stupid politics. I think part of it might be because I've seen cool places destroyed. Chapman's Mill, about 45 minutes drive from me was a historic old mill until some drunk teenagers burned it down a decade or two ago. And now it's historic old ruins.

I feel like to enjoy ruins, you need to disassociate yourself from the frame of reference that it was once an actual vibrant place. Maybe give it another hundred years.

**Posted by griff** 8/24/2022 4:14 pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_Hall,_County_Mayo
The politics were maybe even stupider than you'd think. The Moore's appear to have been Irish patriots but not patriotic enough for the extremists of the times. I know it was complicated but these were not typical landlords. I think about the self-styled rebels we have, aping patriotism, working to break our politics, and believing a replacement authoritarian system would be better for them.