[div class="metadata"][span class="storyDate"]What's your favourite ride? Wooden Coaster for me. I think the scariest ride is the Wild Mouse because you're sure the damn thing is going to fall apart before the end of the ride. Mind you, it was rickety 25 years ago.
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I agree with you Lil Me on both counts
Wooden Coaster for sure. About 7 years ago, I went on that ride with my brother (he barely made the height / weight restriction... he was about 6 or 7 years old). So the coaster got to the very top of the hill (starting section), it went down, and on the part it goes back up, the only body part of my brother which still touched the coaster was his hands (his body was inside the car, but in the air... if that makes sense).
I hope they keep that ride so it's only the bar, with no seatbelts.
I totally know what you mean, Marik. I had that experience on the wooden coaster myself as a kid. My older cousin told me to stand on my toes when I went through the ride entrance.
According to family legend, the same cousin took me on The Skydiver Ride before I was 3. She started to freak out because the bar wasn't holding me in during the upside-down flips. She says she kept one hand on the wheel (in an attempt to stop it from turning) and one hand on me, absoluelty terrified that the metal clothespin holding the cage door shut was going to break off.
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The Skydiver Ride.
My cousin was only 13 at the time, but she said that experience aged her considerably. She didn't think I was going to make it alive through the ride.
Apparently I had the BEST time ever. (I don't remember)
[FONT face="Comic Sans MS"]My Fav ride is also the wooden Coaster ...but I remember like 8 or 9 yeras ago they had the old school haunted house where you went in on this lil cart and all the creatures and such were behind glass. That was classic ..now the haunted house is alot more creepier and interactive. Anyone else remeber the old haunted house??[/FONT]
The old skool haunted house was funny.
Anyone remember the big Fun House in the 1970s? You walked through a building with moving stairs. There was a big slide at the end. I think the structure burned down around 1980(?)
I'm still a big coaster fan. I had the pleasure of taking hubby on his first coaster ride. He's a laughing kind of guy, but I swear I never heard him laugh quite like that before or since. It was the best.
Then I took him on the new one....it was tame compared to the old wooden one.
Don't remember any of the 'houses'. I always went for the speed rides.
Never really spent much time there. Didn't mind the old coaster, it was kind of creepy...so I liked it..hahaha!
Anything that goes fast and spins....love it!
I don't like the Crazy Beach Party...first year they had that sucker in, I got stuck on it for 30 minutes after the ride stopped because the hydrolocks wouldn't release the safety restraints. It was hot and sweaty and I was the last one to get released. They had to use a screwdriver and manually release the harnesses one by one!
I like the Crazy Beach Party ride cause it made Isis all hot and sweaty!
tsk tsk....such a Devil you are!
Now THAT's what you should say to get rid of the witnesses i.e. the title of this thread..
BUMP!
Heckyl and Jeckyl skipped school today and we went to Playland.
Great time, but was somewhat busy due to the large number of school groups there.
Heckyl went on the wooden rollercoaster for the first time, said he prefers the Wild Mouse or the Enterprise.
Jeckyl had fun on the Flume and the Wave Swinger.
Mr LM is a bit under the weather, so I was put on "spinny ride" detail for the day.
lol spinney ride detail. hilarious.
Hmmm..... I don't recall much of the rides there at Playland. Then again, I was never one for the rides.
I remember passing the mouse ride and thinking 'wow, that ride doesn't look safe at all'. I know a few friends who claim that it was the scariest ride of their lives. (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/13.gif)
After Disneyland, the rides at Playland look pathetic. Sorry but it's true. Needs some upgrade.
Lise wrote:
After Disneyland, the rides at Playland look pathetic. Sorry but it's true. Needs some upgrade.
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Yes and no. They are very different things.
Disneyland is all about the "dark ride" experience and mad animatronics.
Playland is old skool carnival.
Disney started adding carnival rides to California Adventure to fill up space, but none of the outdoor carnival rides are very good, except for California Screaming. The dark rides Tower of Terror and Soaring Over California are amazing, unique and totally Disney.
Comparing Disneyland with Playland is not realistic.
The PNE and Playland used to be like a country fair before Vancouver exploded with people. Back in the days when my folks were young in Vancouver and it was actually a very nice town.
Disneyland was a corporate, multi-million dollar, kid magnet since day 1.
The old wooden roller coaster for me is the best. Feels very unsafe, so it is a rush!
Does anyone yearn for the "good ole days" when the Music Express ran backwards and at supersonic speed?
I wonder if that is the same ride I'm thinking of Lil Me. I think many of the rides are the same as when I was a kid, but with different names. Like The Wild Mouse was the Mad Mouse.....
There was a ride called the Caterpillar many years ago....and it would go round the track....and a cover would slowly cover over.....then in the dark, it would go at break-neck speed backwards.....in the dark. LOVED that ride.
Well, I still think I prefer Disneyland to Playland. I guess I'm easily amused. (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/13.gif) Old skool is oh so boring........ to me anyways.
I guess it is all in perspective. I think 6 Flags LA makes Disneyland look like...well Disneyland, lol!
It all comes down to whatever a person is into. Most people think Vancouver is the most exciting part of BC. I think it is the most boring.
P.C. wrote:
There was a ride called the Caterpillar many years ago....and it would go round the track....and a cover would slowly cover over.....then in the dark, it would go at break-neck speed backwards.....in the dark. LOVED that ride.
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The Music Express is a variation on that ride's platform. Unfortunately they run it forwards these days. Sucks when legal liability gets in the way of old fashioned fun...
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Yeah those spinner rides. Only those 'punk kids' go on those because they don't have a brain to protect.
punk kids
Not that we're still bitter or anything.
Michel wrote: Yeah those spinner rides. Only those 'punk kids' go on those because they don't have a brain to protect.
punk kids
Ahem.
I like spinner rides. [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/e058.gif" border=0]
Michel wrote: LOL PC are you a member of the Post-Stalin school of falsification ? This is a quote from SD not me.
I don't think there's enough room on this board for all the labels SD might likely slap on me.(//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/4.gif)
bwhaha nobody on here is a 'punk kid'. Back in my high school days my friends and I came up with the term to describe wannabe badass posers who walked around at night talking gangster usually, thinking they were cool. Although usually it just meant teenagers who thought they were cool and acted like it.
Poser:
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He think he black yo
Andy Roddick the punk poser Tennis Player:
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usually the turned hat is a dead give away, along with the cocky attitude, the hop step type of walk, and the popped polo collar.
Sportsdude wrote:
usually it just meant teenagers who thought they were cool
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Some of us WERE cool.
Lil Me wrote:
Sportsdude wrote:
[SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic"]usually it just meant teenagers who thought they were cool [/SPAN]
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Some of us WERE cool.
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[FONT color=#0000bf]Some of us still are.[/FONT]
OOh suuuuure, that's what you think. ;)
At least we didn't have to do keeping up appearances and play nice to people we didn't like.
But lol, for us the posers were the outkasts in our group who tried to move up a class to the popular crowd. So pathetic they looked, hilarious and of course the popular class never accepted these guys. They just made fun of them, used them as slaves and have the kids buy them stuff.
I get what you're saying.
Posers are posers, no matter what social group or circumstance...or age....
Yep, understood. I was just making a difference between those who are INHERENTLY cool (i.e. everyone on this board) and those who are posers.
Yup. Be yourself not something you aren't. Which always explains the popular kids downfall after high school. None of them are actually having productive lives. They've all dropped out of university. The outkasts keep trucking on motivated from all the torment received by the higher classes in high school. Although the funny thing is that the higher classes still think they're the best even after life has passed them by.
True.
Run into any old chaps back in jolly old England Gopher?
This cool vs. poser reminds me of when my mom goes down to the farm, runs into her friends from an earlier time and she says they're still stuck in this I'm 18 mode, except now they go to the bar everyday because they're alcoholics.
A couple of my cousins friends are like that, high school was the best time in their life folks.
Sportsdude wrote:
Yup. Be yourself not something you aren't. Which always explains the popular kids downfall
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Hang on. Back up.
I think we need to distinguish between the "popular kids" and the "poser kids" (who ran with the popular kids).
In my experience, the "popular kids" were the Type-A personalities who were football captains, student presidents, valedictorians, etc. Natural leaders. They went on to be doctors, lawyers, professional athletes and politicians.
The "poser kids" were the hangers-on. Some of 'em made it, some of 'em didn't.
Precisely LM.
I thought this guy was explaining what happened when he accidently picked up the lefty scissors at Craft Camp.
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Lil Me wrote:
Sportsdude wrote:
Yup. Be yourself not something you aren't. Which always explains the popular kids downfall
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Hang on. Back up.
I think we need to distinguish between the "popular kids" and the "poser kids" (who ran with the popular kids).
In my experience, the "popular kids" were the Type-A personalities who were football captains, student presidents, valedictorians, etc. Natural leaders. They went on to be doctors, lawyers, professional athletes and politicians.
The "poser kids" were the hangers-on. Some of 'em made it, some of 'em didn't.
LOL Times have changed. It's reverse now.
The guys on the football team are the normal kids and its considered uncool. Those Type A a-holes are on the soccer team. It was more pronounced at my first school because it was split racially and was completely bizarre. No black kids on the soccer team in 75% black majority school. While the football team was completely the opposite. Myself and 2 others were the only 'white guys'.
The Natural leaders are A-type neo-cons who berate women and worship fascism. The school president was a self proclaimed fascist. Lovely bloke...Everyone hated him and he makes fun of people who died in car accidents... he was a poser.
The 'in crowd' is apolitical that lean conservativebecause they vote what daddy tells them to do, they've completely gone materialistic. So the outkasts really run the show if you will. The popular girls don't do cheer leading, popular girls don't do much of anything.
The Brainiacs are part of the outkasts now. Then if you went to a religious school you have the holy rollers and the everybody else.
So everything is reverse now.
Outkasts are the majority. Except the hanger ons or wannabes get elected because they're deemed safe by the administrators and 'in crowd'. Mr. Fascist boy ran sexist stuff in the newspaper, ran the school developed a fascist club. Obviously I was on his 'hit list' the guy hated me he created the fascist club in his words "To piss SD off ", but I must say he was a complete idiot in civics class, anti-semetic, anti-immigrant, wanted to nuke everyone that type... Just another blowhard that people followed publicly because they were scared of him and his ilk but not privately he was the most hated person in the school and quite possiblely the world. I mean he made fun of a classmate who died in a car accident because in his words 'he deserved it'. He ran on a campaign of silencing women and 'putting them in their place'. The girls hated him obviously, but the guys loved him.
Clarify:
'In Crowd': Captain of the football team but they'd get hated on by everyone on the soccer team, the basketball team. The 'in crowd girls' don't do much they might play softball or volleyball. They're materialistic. The focus of the 'in crowd': sex, sex, drugs, getting drunk, smoking, more drugs, partying. That's all they did, but they also would get good grades like a 30 on the ACT. Then they'd party themselves out of university. Spent most of the school day talking about who they f-d the night before and there drunkeness. Most are now either not in school or in community college just taking courses living off their parents. Most have a record of some kind. All the girls loved the drug dealer. The majority of the girls in this group have already had kids. These folks lives end after High School. They don't really have any plans.
'Posers'. Outkasts who masquerade as the 'in crowd'. Can be anyone from school president to the idiot who wants to be accepted. None of these people were actually smart or anything. Hated by all the groups. These folks eventually get 'eaten' socially. They become the suck ups as adults.
Outkasts:
Smarts: These are your top of the class people, the ones that become doctors etc. Hated by the 'in crowd' in league friends and buddies with the rebels.
: Anti-In Crowd, usually a mix of lower to middle income people who were the 'police' of the school. In crowd boys would pick fights with us only to get their ass handed to them. We ridiculed the 'posers' for being fakes. Usually the rebels are split between class lower and middle with the middle having a couple super rich people who weren't cool enough to be in the 'in crowd'.
Lower class rebels are the ones who mostly have kids now, they were seen as the varmint of the school, you know the future mechanics etc. They were 'southern' sometimes wore confederate stuff, heavy smokers. Self proclaimed rednecks. The girls in this group have had kids for the most part. And some of the guys are already fathers.
Dating wise, they dated each other.
Middle class is made up of the smarts, the class clowns, the politico disrupter's with some holy rollers and the group was multi-cultural and looked like a UN meeting at the lunch table. I was a leader in this group (although I was political oriented and didn't see myself as a leader per say until people would tell me so, then I'd become baffled at such a notion. The other leader was a joker and we had battles over control, it was quite epic) we'd attack anything that was associated with 'in crowd'. For example we would sabotage the 'in crowds' parties by calling the cops on them. Stuff like that. The Smarts were attracted to us and we would date each other, eventually, just not in high school. Middle class guys become the guys girls want to date in college, but for some reason in High School they're not 'cool' enough or something. I never understood why, but for the most part the Smarts if they were dating were dating College age kids who were exactly like us, just a year or two older. lol
Whoa! Who knew the mid-West was such a complicated society? SD should write a sociology dissertation on Middle-American Adolescent Social Values, Symbols and Norms.
I'll help.
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Oh P.C. Stop. You're killing me.
One of these days I'll write a term paper on my grade 11 and 12 years for sociology and I could really write this as a paper decrying the values of suburbia in a geography class. Most of the stuff we did, we did because of boredom and a reaction to our society as we saw it.
True Story.
I went to Playland for our Grade 9 Physics field trip. I rode on the rollercoaster...by myself. I thought I was going to fall over. These boys behind me were laughing their heads off cuz I was clutching the bar with my dear life.
After the ride, one of the lenses from my glasses popped right out.
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oh dear.
Sportsdude wrote:
Lil Me wrote:
Sportsdude wrote:
[SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic"]Yup. Be yourself not something you aren't. Which always explains the popular kids downfall [/SPAN]
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Hang on. Back up.
I think we need to distinguish between the "popular kids" and the "poser kids" (who ran with the popular kids).
In my experience, the "popular kids" were the Type-A personalities who were football captains, student presidents, valedictorians, etc. Natural leaders. They went on to be doctors, lawyers, professional athletes and politicians.
The "poser kids" were the hangers-on. Some of 'em made it, some of 'em didn't.
LOL Times have changed. It's reverse now.
The guys on the football team are the normal kids and its considered uncool. Those Type A a-holes are on the soccer team. It was more pronounced at my first school because it was split racially and was completely bizarre. No black kids on the soccer team in 75% black majority school. While the football team was completely the opposite. Myself and 2 others were the only 'white guys'.
The Natural leaders are A-type neo-cons who berate women and worship fascism. The school president was a self proclaimed fascist. Lovely bloke...Everyone hated him and he makes fun of people who died in car accidents... he was a poser.
The 'in crowd' is apolitical that lean conservativebecause they vote what daddy tells them to do, they've completely gone materialistic. So the outkasts really run the show if you will. The popular girls don't do cheer leading, popular girls don't do much of anything.
The Brainiacs are part of the outkasts now. Then if you went to a religious school you have the holy rollers and the everybody else.
So everything is reverse now.
Outkasts are the majority. Except the hanger ons or wannabes get elected because they're deemed safe by the administrators and 'in crowd'. Mr. Fascist boy ran sexist stuff in the newspaper, ran the school developed a fascist club. Obviously I was on his 'hit list' the guy hated me he created the fascist club in his words "To piss SD off ", but I must say he was a complete idiot in civics class, anti-semetic, anti-immigrant, wanted to nuke everyone that type... Just another blowhard that people followed publicly because they were scared of him and his ilk but not privately he was the most hated person in the school and quite possiblely the world. I mean he made fun of a classmate who died in a car accident because in his words 'he deserved it'. He ran on a campaign of silencing women and 'putting them in their place'. The girls hated him obviously, but the guys loved him.
Clarify:
'In Crowd': Captain of the football team but they'd get hated on by everyone on the soccer team, the basketball team. The 'in crowd girls' don't do much they might play softball or volleyball. They're materialistic. The focus of the 'in crowd': sex, sex, drugs, getting drunk, smoking, more drugs, partying. That's all they did, but they also would get good grades like a 30 on the ACT. Then they'd party themselves out of university. Spent most of the school day talking about who they f-d the night before and there drunkeness. Most are now either not in school or in community college just taking courses living off their parents. Most have a record of some kind. All the girls loved the drug dealer. The majority of the girls in this group have already had kids. These folks lives end after High School. They don't really have any plans.
'Posers'. Outkasts who masquerade as the 'in crowd'. Can be anyone from school president to the idiot who wants to be accepted. None of these people were actually smart or anything. Hated by all the groups. These folks eventually get 'eaten' socially. They become the suck ups as adults.
Outkasts:
Smarts: These are your top of the class people, the ones that become doctors etc. Hated by the 'in crowd' in league friends and buddies with the rebels.
: Anti-In Crowd, usually a mix of lower to middle income people who were the 'police' of the school. In crowd boys would pick fights with us only to get their ass handed to them. We ridiculed the 'posers' for being fakes. Usually the rebels are split between class lower and middle with the middle having a couple super rich people who weren't cool enough to be in the 'in crowd'.
Lower class rebels are the ones who mostly have kids now, they were seen as the varmint of the school, you know the future mechanics etc. They were 'southern' sometimes wore confederate stuff, heavy smokers. Self proclaimed rednecks. The girls in this group have had kids for the most part. And some of the guys are already fathers.
Dating wise, they dated each other.
Middle class is made up of the smarts, the class clowns, the politico disrupter's with some holy rollers and the group was multi-cultural and looked like a UN meeting at the lunch table. I was a leader in this group (although I was political oriented and didn't see myself as a leader per say until people would tell me so, then I'd become baffled at such a notion. The other leader was a joker and we had battles over control, it was quite epic) we'd attack anything that was associated with 'in crowd'. For example we would sabotage the 'in crowds' parties by calling the cops on them. Stuff like that. The Smarts were attracted to us and we would date each other, eventually, just not in high school. Middle class guys become the guys girls want to date in college, but for some reason in High School they're not 'cool' enough or something. I never understood why, but for the most part the Smarts if they were dating were dating College age kids who were exactly like us, just a year or two older. lol
Wow! A lot of writing nobody at DS would read!
The Dean wrote:
[em][/em]Wow! A lot of writing nobody at DS would read!
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I'm sure SOMEDBODY would. Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?