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Wednesday [livejournal.com profile] classicaljunkie and I went to Six Flags. It was weird and nobody had any fun. Basically, her approach to amusement parks is to ride the 500-foot coasters over and over until she can't walk anymore. Mine is to go on the baby rides with my eyes squeezed shut while I go FUCKFUCKSHITCOCKNONOAAAAAAAAAAA, and then sit for a while to recover. A basic incompatibility was thus discovered.

But then we went shopping and had coffee and felt better.

Date: 2007-06-01 05:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hahathor.livejournal.com
Next time you want to go, invite me. I'll ride the vomit comets with [livejournal.com profile] classicaljunkie while you ride the little choo-choo that goes round and round.

I loves me some big-ass roller coasters!

Shuddup

Date: 2007-06-01 05:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] prog.livejournal.com
the pirate ship is WAY AWESOMER than teh choo choo

Re: Shuddup

Date: 2007-06-01 05:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hahathor.livejournal.com
Why, yes it is. And I bet you look like a big scary pirate when you ride on it.

Such a big boy!!

Date: 2007-06-01 05:41 pm (UTC)
cnoocy: green a-e ligature (Default)
From: [personal profile] cnoocy
I have some of the same issues. But I like water rides and the midway, so I can go on the rapids with my friends, then win small stuffed animals while they go on scary rides.

Date: 2007-06-01 05:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] prog.livejournal.com
I like water rides too!

Date: 2007-06-01 05:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cortezopossum.livejournal.com
My roommate had planned a "coasters till you puke" event at Six Flags (Great America -- Gurnee IL) with the intention of trying to ride all the largest coasters in a single day. Knowing that you probably wouldn't have wanted to go to that event.

Unfortunately one of the attendees didn't expect a 'coasters till you puke' event to actually involve riding any roller coasters so he got to be all mopey and sit out on all of them.

Another guy there would ride coasters but he didn't want to go on any that actually went upside down. After waiting in line for a Batman coaster for nearly an hour, watching the coaster go upside down he got all upset that it actually WENT upside down.

Then we had that one girl with severe emotional instability -- she broke down crying for a half an hour because she saw someone who reminded her of an ex boyfriend she knew online two years prior. She was okay on the coasters though.

Date: 2007-06-01 06:39 pm (UTC)
jazzfish: Stormtrooper making an L on his forehead (Soy un perridor)
From: [personal profile] jazzfish
Jeez. The two worst social experiences of my life both involved amusement parks, but I thought that was just my bad luck. Good to know it happens to other people too, I guess.

Date: 2007-06-05 11:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] radtea.livejournal.com
It happens to absolutely everyone, all the time. I swear that no one has ever had any fun at an "amusement" park. Everyone is under so much pressure to have a good time--particularly given the outrageous cost of admission--and there are so few venues to actually enjoy, and tastes differ so vastly, that the experience is massively unpleasant for everyone, always. Add to that the feeling that being at an amusement park frees the emotionally unstable and morally stunted from the usual restrictions of basic politeness and decency, and you have a nightmarishly toxic koolaid that park operators can only get their victims to down by expending endless advertising dollars.

Every summer I think about taking my kids to Canada's Wonderland, which is our version a Six Flags type thing, and then I recover my senses and think about jabbing myself in the eye with a fork instead. It would be far cheaper and quite a bit less painful than repeatedly waiting in a hot, sweaty line for untold hours to take a brief excursion on a ride that at least one member of any party is guaranteed to hate.

Date: 2007-06-01 05:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jtroutman.livejournal.com
I'm with you on the rides thing. I can handle the little "saucer cup" type ride where you swing around, but that is about it. Anything requiring me to turn upside down, or experience "zero g" of the gut is right out.

Other things like ferris wheels or water rides are just fine, and non-roller coaster type things at places like Epcot are good.

my wife, on the other hand, loves rides. She would not want to do big scary coasters, but she would do "normal" ones and other rides with glee.

Date: 2007-06-01 06:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dictator555.livejournal.com
Now you know I don't call her "Amy Ironbelly" for nothing.

Date: 2007-06-01 06:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chocorisu.livejournal.com
I am fine with coasters so long as I take Dramamine. Otherwise I puke bright orange slime, or maybe that was because I drank too much Mountain Dew Code Red and ate a giant elephant ear that one time I was at Cedar Point.

Anyway, coasters are great so long as you remember they are not real.

Date: 2007-06-01 06:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rserocki.livejournal.com
Dramamine helps me, too. I've never vomited from riding a r.c., to my recollection, but after anything more severe than what's in Disneyland, I have to go sit down and feel bad for about 15-20 minutes or so.

as a total aside

Date: 2007-06-01 08:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jtroutman.livejournal.com
that is the most amazing icon you have. Not quite sure what the flaming toast is all about, but it captivates me.

Re: as a total aside

Date: 2007-06-01 09:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chocorisu.livejournal.com
Oh my, you should see the whole video then - it's for the song "Move Your Feet" by Junior Senior, and it was animated by the lovely animators at Shynola on a Amiga using Deluxe Paint (!).

Date: 2007-06-01 06:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rserocki.livejournal.com
For anyone who wants photos of the roller coaster!

http://rcdb.com/id3031.htm

Date: 2007-06-02 02:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aspartaimee.livejournal.com
coasters rule!

that said, people who don't go on them rule cuz they can hold my stuff. that's [livejournal.com profile] kumquatmay's job when we go to six flags and she rocks at it.

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