There’s no one walking around breathing air
that doesn’t do one or the other and/or both
to some extent.

A man/woman sees what they want to see
and disregards the rest.
Paul Simon

Sic: Objectivity is always a matter of subjectivity.

I still think they ( the musicians in the distance )
look(ed) bored to tears. Your mileage may vary.

Gosh, you’re right.
I just suffered from that known medical condition
‘multipostamania’ which is caused by reading too
much fourm/thread/post/feed/wall information too
quickly and then mixing up all the times and dates.

You are right.
I have no idea what time of day this way… but
now I am curious.

WAS that really an EVENING visit?
Gosh… I hope not.

Re: The ten foot pole.

No… the pole I wouldn’t even touch the dancer/musicians
‘there they go and I must follow for I am their leader’ debate
with is NOT a stripper pole…

.. it’s a big, long, square newel post with a round
bally-finial-type-thingy on the top that’s easy to
grab onto.

Also - that 10 foot pole you wouldn’t touch the 1,000 year-old dancer following the music debate with, is it stripper pole?

Re: Camera too far away? See above about car crash and
people ’seeing’ different things from varying distances.
Some people see better than others, that’s all.

Re: Isn’t the dancer supposed to follow the music?
That’s about a 1,000 year old debate that I wouldn’t
touch with a ten foot pole. All I know is that when
some people are playing and some other people are
dancing it’s nice if they do it TOGETHER. That’s not
the case here, for whatever reason. If you watch
the video closely I think she just literally ‘got off on
the wrong foot’ and never adjusted, nor did the
fellas try to adjust. It just stated ‘off’ and pretty
much stayed that way. I really don’t think she
could HEAR them at all with the hardshoe making
such a racket underneath her.

Re: Is one video of an after-lunch slow moment enough
to judge a place? Of course not. I was just commenting
on this particular video made at this particular moment
in time. I certainly DO hope, for Raglan’s sake, that
the evening scene is quite different.

It WAS 3 PM and I WAS still on my first cup of coffee.

I was up until 6 AM programming so that people like us can
do this kind of public commenting stuff. Whoopee.

I DID watch the video again… and then a third time.
No joy.

‘Branson’ is the word, fer sure, but it still looks like a
stripper pole which is even hard to find in Branson.
Caveat: Got nothing against strip joints. Everyone has
to make a living. It just doesn’t fit what ‘Raglan’ SEEMS
to be trying to be, that’s all.

You are also spot on about’spontaneity and hospitality’
( regardless of whether it’s ‘Irish’ or not ).

It’s not only hard/impossible to ‘fake’… I’ll go you one better
and say it’s something that should never even be attempted.

See the posting ‘Last Night’s Fun’ on the IrishKC site.
It’s a testament to how good it can get when it’s all
REAL… not FAKE. I was there and I still remember
that night fondly. It just doesn’t get any better.

Maybe it’s that this ( supposedly ) wildly successful joint with corporate backing seems to come across about as ‘inviting’ as the dark part of a parking garage, even with a girl in a short skirt gyrating on a table.

Or maybe it’s her.

Yea, yea, I know… that tall post by the table is to help her get UP on the table but it just comes across as a ’stripper pole’… especially with all the 50-something business types staring at her. At any moment I expected her to grab the pole and stick her bum in the air. Maybe she did and I just missed it.

Or maybe it was the dress.
Almost hooker-pink. ( Or is it actually Fuchsia ).

Or maybe it was the quick shot of the ‘boys in the band’ who look so bored they might puke and who also didn’t seem to be paying any attention to whether they were matching the dancer’s steps. Maybe they just couldn’t hear each other but it just looked like everyone was in their own world thinking about their own laundry.

I’ll have another cup of coffee and watch this video again.
Maybe then there will be something inviting about it.