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re: I hate Disney World
Posted on 6/19/24 at 12:11 pm to SuckerPunch
Posted on 6/19/24 at 12:11 pm to SuckerPunch
I learned that every middle aged person on up wore a knee brace. I've never seen so many knee braces in my life.
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Posted on 6/19/24 at 1:05 pm to SuckerPunch
Disney can suck my balls
Posted on 6/19/24 at 1:15 pm to SuckerPunch
the allure of this place, or ANY large theme park, especially during the summer months, has never made sense to me.
It's like a herd of cattle going to a place to suffer and drop money around because they were told its the "fun summer vacation" thing to do.
It's like a herd of cattle going to a place to suffer and drop money around because they were told its the "fun summer vacation" thing to do.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 1:32 pm to AwgustaDawg
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and 4-5 hours and about $250 you are done and leaving.
You watched people feed alligators for 5 hours???
Posted on 6/19/24 at 1:51 pm to BugAC
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You watched people feed alligators for 5 hours???
No...most of that time I watched whatever kids were with me running through the splash pad. Again, these were 5-7 year old kids....they aren't the brightest animals in captivity....but they had a BLAST at Gator Land. They would have had as much fun in the backyard with me hosing them down with a garden hose which, at that age, beats 14 hours at Disney to a bloody pulp, and its good for the grass. No, we have plenty of alligators in our area if watching alligators was something they wanted to do, would not have to drive to Central Florida. Out of five hours about 15 minutes was spent watching those rednecks use a clothes line with a chicken hanging off it over a mass of Alligators and Crocodiles and the damned things jump nearly out of the water to get at it....if you are 6 years old and that ain't fun you got some issues.....
Posted on 6/19/24 at 1:57 pm to Smoke7024
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I learned that every middle aged person on up wore a knee brace. I've never seen so many knee braces in my life.
You should applaud those who choose to nut-up and take advil and wear a knee brace to walk 15 miles a day instead of renting a fricking scooter.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 2:10 pm to LSUZombie
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long road trip
My nightmare
Posted on 6/19/24 at 2:11 pm to caro81
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the allure of this place, or ANY large theme park, especially during the summer months, has never made sense to me.
It's like a herd of cattle going to a place to suffer and drop money around because they were told its the "fun summer vacation" thing to do.
Cruise ships and theme parks are very similar....folks in a dead panic trying to make memories suffering from the delusion that money will help. And it does, often times the memories are not what was planned though.
I get it. If a good time means wading through a mass of humanity desperately trying to buy memories is your cup of tea good for you and god bless. I would suggest, however, if your adult child's fondest childhood memories are trips to Disney and not some unplanned adventure like camping in the back yard or going fishing while they ought to be in school or just having your undivided attention for a few hours doing something like painting the house or changing the oil you and they have missed out on the best part of childhood. Disney is about families....I get that. What kids really want is some positive attention from their parents. Most of them, if they possessed to ability to consider it logically and express themselves, would probably take a pass if they knew before hand it meant walking 1400 miles in a Central Florida summer, waiting in lines....what kid wants to wait on anything????.... and having Mama and Daddy stressed out because the memories are few and far between and damned expensive to boot.
We took our niece when she was about 8 on the spur of the moment. Got a room at Shades of Green at the last minute. Spent 5 days. One day, in the Magic Kingdom..... actually about 6 hours because its Central Florida and about 3 o'clock the monsoon came. That afternoon and the next 3 days she was more than happy to go to the pool and forego the parks. Happier than a clam. She'd have been just as happy at the Howard Johnson's in Athens....at the time it wasn't the crack den it is now and it had a BIG pool.
I asked her about that trip 2 years ago when my wife took her and her daughter to Disney....she seriously did not remember going to the Magic Kingdom...remembered us spending almost the entire time in the pool with her....very fondly. One of her favorite childhood memories, according to her. She was particularly fond of me and her sneaking into a couple of ponds on Disney property and catching big bream on a Zebco Under Spin....especially the part where Disney security caught us and told us we couldn't fish but to have fun doing so.....we could have drug her through the crowds and the heat and the stress and her memories would be far different. We bought the tickets...she simply was not interested, she had stared into the abyss for 6 hours and did not like the view.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 2:16 pm to mikelbr
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You should applaud those who choose to nut-up and take advil and wear a knee brace to walk 15 miles a day instead of renting a fricking scooter.
Seriously. We went to Disney about 17 years ago when my son was 8 and our niece had just graduated high school. There were entire swarms of people from the Middle East....HUGE groups, all riding pimped out mobility scooters. Coolers on the back, misting fans, boom boxes blaring. From 8-80...eerybody riding a pimped out mobility scooter. Not rentals...they obviously brought these things from wherever they came from. Thousands of them. I actually enjoyed that trip to Disney...watching those parades of people was the likes of which I have never seen before or since....
Posted on 6/19/24 at 2:23 pm to caro81
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the allure of this place, or ANY large theme park, especially during the summer months, has never made sense to me.
The failure with this comparison is Disney World is not a theme park, it's a resort that has theme parks.
It also has water parks, shopping, mini golf, spas, fishing, entertainment, live music, Michelin star dining, etc etc etc.
The two biggest pieces of advice I can give anyone is to not just think of WDW as theme parks. Just because you may be there 7 days doesnt mean you need to go to the parks for 7 days. Take days to do other things OR go 7 days but only go half days and leave at noon or don't even shop up will 4 or 5 pm.
The other is to not try to put a square peg in a round hole. If you're not morning people, don't try to conform to one while you're there. Don't eat breakfast every day, don't go spend $200 on a breakfast. Don't do what other people told you was a "must do" and find the things that interest you and do those and be 100% okay with understanding that you will not see everything.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 2:35 pm to LSUZombie
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Currently wrapping up a long road trip that took my wife and I through Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah and I can't agree more.
Idaho was one of the most beautiful states I've ever visited.
In 2021 we took the kids all over that area. Grand Canyon, Zion, Grand Salt Lake, Yellowstone, Rushmore, back down to Colorado Springs to tour Air Force Academy, and Salida for White Water Rafting. We did it all.
in 2023 we took them to Disney World.
They have incredible memories from both trips. And I'm poor as frick. We did these trips very cheap(Super 8 by Wyndam is our hotel of choice. Seriously).
Parents who deprive their kids of experiences b/c of some bullshite they learn about in the media are the real failures here.
This post was edited on 6/19/24 at 2:41 pm
Posted on 6/19/24 at 2:37 pm to deeprig9
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You forgot to list all the gays that want to frick your children.
He’s talking about Disney, not Catholic Church or travel ball.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 2:38 pm to caro81
quote:Mardi Gras 2015 - the fountains weee frozen in EPCOT
especially during the summer months
Posted on 6/19/24 at 2:39 pm to mikelbr
Not sure how people can still make a trip to Disney or anywhere without putting in 5 minutes of research first.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 2:45 pm to concrete_tiger
quote:my sons are Boy Scouts, Altar Servers, and we’ve been to Disney 4 times - they haven’t been molested, and it doesn’t seem that any are gay (nttiawwt)
He’s talking about Disney, not Catholic Church or travel ball.
Maybe if they would’ve been in travel ball too
Posted on 6/19/24 at 2:48 pm to concrete_tiger
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Not sure how people can still make a trip to Disney or anywhere without putting in 5 minutes of research first.
You ain't wrong.
The worst thing to ever happen to travel agents was Google Maps, especially Streetview.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 3:16 pm to caro81
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the allure of this place, or ANY large theme park, especially during the summer months, has never made sense to me.
It’s when kids are out of school and a lot of people don’t have to worry about winter weather preventing them from flying in.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 8:23 pm to GreenRockTiger
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my sons are Boy Scouts, Altar Servers, and we’ve been to Disney 4 times - they haven’t been molested, and it doesn’t seem that any are gay (nttiawwt) Maybe if they would’ve been in travel ball too
Sorry you missed out.
Obviously it was a joke. Pedophiles are everywhere. There are way more stories about places other than Disney where it happens. It happened at my kids’ old school. Thankfully it was before we were there.
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