Hey kids! You ready to water slide down to you're deaths!?

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Originally Posted by Chilly Willy

That ain't scary - scary was Six Flags Georgia in the early 80's. The place was poorly maintained and falling apart - more than half the rides were shut down because they were no longer safe. The main roller coaster (I think it was the Mind Bender) was closed when I got there, but people were waiting in line for it, so I joined the queue. About an hour later, they sent a group of cars without riders off to see if it was working yet - the cars made it about 2/3rds of the way up the first hill, they came crashing back down to the start... the sound of the crash was deafening. Half the line in the queue disappeared at that point, but I stayed. About an hour later, they sent another group of cars... they made it over the hill and went off down the track... and never came back! Half of the remaining line disappeared at that point. Funny thing is, they went ahead and started the ride at that point. Let me tell you, I made it through without a scratch, but the whole ride the car felt like it was about to fly off the tracks.

The whole park was that way... rides shut down for obvious reasons, or looking like they SHOULD be shut down.

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That sounds like the fairs I used to go to as a kid. Those things were rusted, worn out, and missing bolts. Me and my dad used to joke about the tilt-a-whirl flying apart.
While we rode it. :D

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Originally Posted by Olls

It might relate to his atrocious spelling.

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Knowing more than one language still kicks ass. ;)

Isn't English supposed to be your first language? Not that I'm hating or trying to be a grammar nazi, just curious.

I've said that I was Peruvian here a while ago. When I moved here, I learned most of my English threw just listening to others talk English. Funny how that worked out at the time.

Ahh, okay. ;)

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Originally Posted by Guntz

It's a gross over-generalization and blatant showing of ignorance to paint home schooling as a completely bad thing. There are advantages to it (as well as disadvantages of course) and plenty of people turn out fine through that kind of education. The worst that ever happens is a bit of social ineptness, which can be supplemented.

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Repped!

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Originally Posted by old man

That sounds like the fairs I used to go to as a kid. Those things were rusted, worn out, and missing bolts. Me and my dad used to joke about the tilt-a-whirl flying apart.
While we rode it. :D

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Yeah, that was EXACTLY how SFG was when I was there. :D

You know the ride with LONG chains with seats on the end; it spins really fast causing the seats to go almost sideways from centrifical force... it was really rusty, and some of the seats were missing (just the chains were left). I rode that - the thrill was partly imagining the bolts on your seat giving out and your seat goes flying. :shock:

Ha ha, I've seen that ride before, and missing seats to boot. They always claim it happened while they were testing it (yeah right). Another thing that's fun is hearing about a ride you once rode COLLAPSING, and getting that sense of pride mingled with horror, knowing you survived it. The one I'm talking about is those giant rings with the coaster that goes back and forth before spinning around inside it. Me and my dad rode one of those even though we were a bit leery about it. Later he told me about that same ride collapsing just as the carts reached the top of the ring. (We had joked about that also while we rode it)

I remember going to Opry Land before they turned it into a hotel resort and we rode this big roller coaster that was pretty wild, multiple loops etc. But then we got on this smaller, older coaster that didn't go as fast, but we thought was even scarier, because it was such a piece of shit and didn't have any restraints. :D