is that it's only useful for the slow or non moving rides that are mainly aural/visual. For obvious reasons rises such as Space Mountain, without the key component (that feeling in your stomach) the experience is going to be somewhat removed (unless you have a very strong friend to shake your chair!)
As far as educational rides go, this would be a great idea, and would save the pain of the extortionate entry fees.
Funny how they say it closed in 1985 as I'm sure I went on this ride back on my first and only trip to Disneyland in 1993. I don't remember much but I can recall floating around the bloodstream of a person and there was a splinter (which obviously looked very large) in the skin, with another molecule sized person working on it.
Maybe I'm thinking of a different Innerspace ride but thinking of the film with the same name I'm pretty certain I went on this ride.
I was born after 1967, and I've ridden MTWR many times
I went on Mr Toads Wild Ride back in 1993, at the young age of 9, and after that I vowed to never experiment with LSD or other hallucenogenic substances.
There's the hobbit blade Sting and, right next to it, two versions of the kingly sword known as Anduril, one shattered, one whole
Frodo, you dont have to put up a red light, I'll send an S.O.S to the Shire, I'll send an S.O.S to the shire I hope that someone gets my, I hope that someone gets my, message in a bottle.....
Being a resident of England (or should I say 'United Kingdom' in order not to alienate my Irish/Welsh/Scottish compatriates?) I have seen more than a lions share of political correctness. It seems like every week that I open up the newspaper to find a half amusing/half irritating article written about a particular group of people who seem to have a beef with the way they are 'labelled'.
Example
Old Age Pensiors (OAPs) - 'We are offended by the name given us and see it as ageist. Therefore we would like to be known as Senior Citizens' (um, cause that doesn't refer to your age?)
I'm sure everyone out there in/.dom has has experienced the mailman/mailperson debacle.(milkman, garbage man etc. are all also valid) Hey while we're at it, why not plurally refer to ourselves as Personkind! One small step for a person, one person-of-irregular-height leap for Personkind!
And it doesn't stop at there! A school in this banned sportsday because it is deemed as unfair to those who don't win. Aww boohoo so your little snotty kid lost the egg and spoon race, we better give 'em all a medal, cause 'EVERYONE'S A WINNER!'
Mothercare have, or were going to, release an updated version of Humpty Dumpty in which the poor egg shaped fellow was put back together and lived happily ever after in order to protect children from a perilous dilemma. I know I'm taking this political correctness thread off on a bit of a mollycoddle tangent, but they're all related to one thing - The Bubble Wrapped Society.
It seems that the Scandinavians/NE Europeans are very talented with all parts of computing, such as programming and gaming. If i'm not mistaken, the Counter Strike clan that won the latest CPL were Swedish. I see a lot of good quality mappers that are from this part of the world, 3D-Mike and this guy for example. Oh, let's not forget Linus Torvalds. I hear that the broadband infrastructure is excellent in those parts of Europe and I suppose that will do anything but harm the situation.
Parents like to blame other people for not watching their children closely enough
That's the golden ticket. It's always the fault of other people - the teachers, the police, the social services, the Internet, the TV, the teen magazines, the child's friends, the advertisers, ad nauseum.
To parents - Wake up and take some fucking responsibility for your children
The backlash to the Brass Eye programme you mentioned really struck a chord with me. All of a sudden the 'caring parents' came out and protested the programme as making a mockery of a serious issue (which indeed it was but the complainers grasped the completely wrong end of the stick). I forgot who the famous comedian was that said something along the lines of that when a subject becomes such a taboo that it can't be made fun of, well that's the day that comedy is dead.
I mean a paedophile dressed up as a school (and we are talking a massive school 'suit' several metres squared here) to attract children does not make me reach for the phone to cry out in anger, it makes me laugh.
If these parents would reroute all of these resources that are getting them red in their face while their kids spend 8 hours a day chatting to random people then they could be a tad more productive.
What is needed here is an education programme to teach parents, not children, as to the dangers. Most parents are clueless about the Net as a whole.
What seems to be the trend is more and more parents are clueless about parenting as a whole. Time and time again I see articles in the paper that follow the same formula - child does something bad, parent blames everyone but themselves
The teachers aren't giving proper sex education so my 14 year old daughter got pregnant
On the subject of 12 year old school girls being sent home for wearing highly visible thongs to school - They're fed up of being treated like children(Well what the fuck are they then you fucking Ford Mondeo driving, Adidas wearing, Council estate dwelling scum?). They don't want VPLs
The broad, freely available radio, Internet and television media become babysitters while the parents sit on their fat backsides wtaching mind numbing reality TV. Then all of a sudden when something happens to their kids it's such a shock!
Anger not intended to taint the message of this post
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Yep, you're right, they are overrated for what you're actually paying for. Try telling the girlfriend or the wife that though. They don't give a shit about corrupt, murderous, exploitative companies they just want that fucking iceberg on their finger so they can one-up their girl friends in the coffee house. It's a sad sad situation.
Yeah cause in my post I really painted all foreigners with the same brush, moron. I never said nobody should be allowed into the country. I'm just saying I actually know what goes on, and I'm not some fucking clueless moderator who draws upon the fucking newspapers. Fact: asylum seekers are more trouble than they are worth. Remind me where I said that all Albanians and Kosovans are 'like that'. Fucking bleeding hearts. Oh well, got karma to burn anyway, mostly as a result of actually knowing what I'm talking about.
I've always wondered why new cars aren't actually fitted with speed limiters. After all, if the highest possible legal speed in the country is 70 mph, do you really need a car that can do 180 top speed? On the other hand there is the problem of taking cars abroad and having conflicts with their speed limits, but 70mph wouldn't be too slow anywhere. The trouble with implementing this is that the morons who spend 2 grand doing up a shitty Vauxhall Nova to squeeze out an extra 10mph would have to find another way to compensate for their 'shortcomings'.
ID cards good: keep foreign scum out of the country
What exactly is wrong with having ID cards? Oh yeah I forgot it's to keep tabs on you! Never mind the other 60 million people in the country, the government just wants to spy on YOU! It's a loss of privacy!
If it could help stem the flow of bogus asylum seekers and health tourists coming into the country then thats more than enough. I have personal experience in this, my dad is a property owner/landlord/(realtor for US Centric folk?). A lot of his tenants coming through are 'asylum seekers' - Albanians, Kosovans etc. Sure while they can be easy money paid regularly and on time by Social Services, they have more than their fair share of problems. The biggest problem is the culture clash, they simply have no idea. My dad told some of them to clean a mouldy fridge and they took it outside and threw buckets of cold water over it! They are violent, compulsive liars, often involved with drugs and other 'dangers to society'. A lot of them simply disappear, slipping into the system and sponging off of the state under false names. Call me xenophobic, but I would rather we deal with our problems before we welcome foreigners who may or may not be in immediate danger.
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is that it's only useful for the slow or non moving rides that are mainly aural/visual. For obvious reasons rises such as Space Mountain, without the key component (that feeling in your stomach) the experience is going to be somewhat removed (unless you have a very strong friend to shake your chair!)
As far as educational rides go, this would be a great idea, and would save the pain of the extortionate entry fees.
Just change a few names around:
Spinner Ace
Mr Woe's Tide Ride
etc.
Just the other day I bumped into the Inner Space guy and chatted to him about this very project. It's a small world after all.
Funny how they say it closed in 1985 as I'm sure I went on this ride back on my first and only trip to Disneyland in 1993. I don't remember much but I can recall floating around the bloodstream of a person and there was a splinter (which obviously looked very large) in the skin, with another molecule sized person working on it.
Maybe I'm thinking of a different Innerspace ride but thinking of the film with the same name I'm pretty certain I went on this ride.
I was born after 1967, and I've ridden MTWR many times
I went on Mr Toads Wild Ride back in 1993, at the young age of 9, and after that I vowed to never experiment with LSD or other hallucenogenic substances.
I am really optimistic about the final film in the series, I mean what can be as unexpected as the last segment as the LOTR Triolgy?
There's the hobbit blade Sting and, right next to it, two versions of the kingly sword known as Anduril, one shattered, one whole Frodo, you dont have to put up a red light, I'll send an S.O.S to the Shire, I'll send an S.O.S to the shire I hope that someone gets my, I hope that someone gets my, message in a bottle.....
My review of the Karma : Excellent.
Being a resident of England (or should I say 'United Kingdom' in order not to alienate my Irish/Welsh/Scottish compatriates?) I have seen more than a lions share of political correctness. It seems like every week that I open up the newspaper to find a half amusing/half irritating article written about a particular group of people who seem to have a beef with the way they are 'labelled'.
/.dom has has experienced the mailman/mailperson debacle.(milkman, garbage man etc. are all also valid)
Example Old Age Pensiors (OAPs) - 'We are offended by the name given us and see it as ageist. Therefore we would like to be known as Senior Citizens' (um, cause that doesn't refer to your age?)
I'm sure everyone out there in
Hey while we're at it, why not plurally refer to ourselves as Personkind! One small step for a person, one person-of-irregular-height leap for Personkind!
And it doesn't stop at there! A school in this banned sportsday because it is deemed as unfair to those who don't win. Aww boohoo so your little snotty kid lost the egg and spoon race, we better give 'em all a medal, cause 'EVERYONE'S A WINNER!'
Mothercare have, or were going to, release an updated version of Humpty Dumpty in which the poor egg shaped fellow was put back together and lived happily ever after in order to protect children from a perilous dilemma. I know I'm taking this political correctness thread off on a bit of a mollycoddle tangent, but they're all related to one thing - The Bubble Wrapped Society.
Amazon sues AT&T for suing PayPal and eBay with Amazon's 'One-Click-Sueing' technology. Full story at 11.
It seems that the Scandinavians/NE Europeans are very talented with all parts of computing, such as programming and gaming. If i'm not mistaken, the Counter Strike clan that won the latest CPL were Swedish. I see a lot of good quality mappers that are from this part of the world, 3D-Mike and this guy for example. Oh, let's not forget Linus Torvalds. I hear that the broadband infrastructure is excellent in those parts of Europe and I suppose that will do anything but harm the situation.
/.'ers like to comment?
Would any Eastern European
Dear Boss,
Susan pissed in your coffee,
John keyed your Jaguar,
and I was the one fucking your wife!
Have a profitable year,
A faithful employee
Using the screen as a guide (4.5"), the actual system comes out to about 6" by 3" if my 20 second measurements are of any use.
and what kind of games controller has 2/3 of a D-Pad on it?
Maybe they won't be taking the battery route in favour of this?
Anyone know if it's a launch game?
but will it feature Toy Story quality graphics?
Parents like to blame other people for not watching their children closely enough
That's the golden ticket. It's always the fault of other people - the teachers, the police, the social services, the Internet, the TV, the teen magazines, the child's friends, the advertisers, ad nauseum.
To parents - Wake up and take some fucking responsibility for your children
The backlash to the Brass Eye programme you mentioned really struck a chord with me. All of a sudden the 'caring parents' came out and protested the programme as making a mockery of a serious issue (which indeed it was but the complainers grasped the completely wrong end of the stick). I forgot who the famous comedian was that said something along the lines of that when a subject becomes such a taboo that it can't be made fun of, well that's the day that comedy is dead.
I mean a paedophile dressed up as a school (and we are talking a massive school 'suit' several metres squared here) to attract children does not make me reach for the phone to cry out in anger, it makes me laugh.
If these parents would reroute all of these resources that are getting them red in their face while their kids spend 8 hours a day chatting to random people then they could be a tad more productive.
Oh no! Now IRC will be suddenly full of immature people using some kind of weird form of English! Oh wait...
... I'm thinking of Slashdot
What is needed here is an education programme to teach parents, not children, as to the dangers. Most parents are clueless about the Net as a whole.
What seems to be the trend is more and more parents are clueless about parenting as a whole. Time and time again I see articles in the paper that follow the same formula - child does something bad, parent blames everyone but themselves
The teachers aren't giving proper sex education so my 14 year old daughter got pregnant
On the subject of 12 year old school girls being sent home for wearing highly visible thongs to school - They're fed up of being treated like children (Well what the fuck are they then you fucking Ford Mondeo driving, Adidas wearing, Council estate dwelling scum?). They don't want VPLs
The broad, freely available radio, Internet and television media become babysitters while the parents sit on their fat backsides wtaching mind numbing reality TV. Then all of a sudden when something happens to their kids it's such a shock!
Anger not intended to taint the message of this post
Yep, you're right, they are overrated for what you're actually paying for. Try telling the girlfriend or the wife that though. They don't give a shit about corrupt, murderous, exploitative companies they just want that fucking iceberg on their finger so they can one-up their girl friends in the coffee house. It's a sad sad situation.
Yeah cause in my post I really painted all foreigners with the same brush, moron. I never said nobody should be allowed into the country. I'm just saying I actually know what goes on, and I'm not some fucking clueless moderator who draws upon the fucking newspapers. Fact: asylum seekers are more trouble than they are worth. Remind me where I said that all Albanians and Kosovans are 'like that'. Fucking bleeding hearts. Oh well, got karma to burn anyway, mostly as a result of actually knowing what I'm talking about.
I've always wondered why new cars aren't actually fitted with speed limiters. After all, if the highest possible legal speed in the country is 70 mph, do you really need a car that can do 180 top speed? On the other hand there is the problem of taking cars abroad and having conflicts with their speed limits, but 70mph wouldn't be too slow anywhere. The trouble with implementing this is that the morons who spend 2 grand doing up a shitty Vauxhall Nova to squeeze out an extra 10mph would have to find another way to compensate for their 'shortcomings'.
ID cards good: keep foreign scum out of the country
What exactly is wrong with having ID cards? Oh yeah I forgot it's to keep tabs on you! Never mind the other 60 million people in the country, the government just wants to spy on YOU! It's a loss of privacy!
If it could help stem the flow of bogus asylum seekers and health tourists coming into the country then thats more than enough. I have personal experience in this, my dad is a property owner/landlord/(realtor for US Centric folk?). A lot of his tenants coming through are 'asylum seekers' - Albanians, Kosovans etc. Sure while they can be easy money paid regularly and on time by Social Services, they have more than their fair share of problems. The biggest problem is the culture clash, they simply have no idea. My dad told some of them to clean a mouldy fridge and they took it outside and threw buckets of cold water over it! They are violent, compulsive liars, often involved with drugs and other 'dangers to society'. A lot of them simply disappear, slipping into the system and sponging off of the state under false names. Call me xenophobic, but I would rather we deal with our problems before we welcome foreigners who may or may not be in immediate danger.