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Not surprising given how many times it's going to be hit/kicked Although the majority of those reactions in that video look staged, the guy with the phone looks like he's crapped himself until he realises what it is and starts laughing.

Idiot drone pilots doing their best to ruin the hobby for the 99.95% of us that follow the rules. Plus the idiotic fear mongering press who put two and two together, come up with five and present it as fact.... Back to schools, my son's is having great difficulty with all the students who came from his previous primary, mainly because they were taught in such a way (in order to gain good sat results for the school) that the secondary is having to reteach everything they should have been taught originally last year.

Young lad black hair, looked a bit like Timmy Hill (Google him)? If so he was on Colossus last weekend.

Superb photo of an empty cattle pen, captures the contrast lovely

Yeah, I guess you'll see something in the VR and like a normal person think oh that's cool, then the zombie will grab your arm or something both physically and on screen, I'd guess the majority of effects/electronics will relate to those effects.

I doubt there's a huge amount of effects if there's VR involved.

Maybe they've read TPM and taken on board how much everybody hates the quality theming of Saw's exterior.

I was going to say the biggest difference I see between now and when I was last in a school as a student is pressure, just as Charlie says, in my son's school they've had students attempting suicide because the pressure is so high, there is also far too much homework given out, way way too much, back when I was at school we were lucky if we got homework, now my niece (who is 16) has so much homework she barely has time to sleep and eat at weekends, let along do anything fun. Josh, I'm not sure when you were in school but several years ago the way pupils are funded was changed, and to put it frankly, if you are a premium pupil (someone with disabilities) the LA get's much more funding from central government for that pupil than they do non-disabled kids so that may be why the high achievers were getting ignored (also it didn't help that the schools were basically graded from year to year, and those that had a higher improvement rate got more funding). I was a complete cop-out at school, hardly turned up in my last year, missed half my exams, and failed most of the others, was told I'd never achieve anything in life blah blah blah, went straight from school into business and ran a very successful one for quiet a few years, and never used that oh so important algebra once.

There's fighting violence with violence, then there's sending a message, they're two different things. Hey I agree, I'd rather the human race was far more evolved then it is, but all the time people are born, there are always going to be people who only understand one language, adapt or don't, it's your choice, but don't expect the school to do anything about it, they can't, it's not like back in my day where if you gave the teacher lip they pulled out a cane, bent you over the desk, ripped your trousers down and give you 10 lashes, they can't even touch you now. Or they could laugh it off like you said, and hope that in 15 years that gobby chav will probably be ending their sentence to them with the words 'yes boss' rather than the other way round, there's more than one way to skin a cat.

Read my whole post and you may understand, if you think the school is going to do anything about a gobby chav then you're going to have a very long wait, I hate violence but sometimes you have to take extreme steps to safeguard your own sanity, otherwise they'll never stop.Hit a bully where it hurts, usually his gob, and they'll back off. Or maybe you could try talking to them and explaining how their words are hurting *your feelings, and see what reaction you get (I know it's not you personally *).

That's the same excuse they come up with, it's always the last governments fault every time someone points out to Dave he's failed. The schools are not bad (certainly better than the facilities I had), it's just the way things are being taught is crap, and that's only been going on for a few years, not decades.

Or punch their lights out, I found that worked petty well too, find a quiet area where there are no witnesses or cctv and do the deed, then when they whine like a mamma, just say they touched you first and you were just defending yourself which is your right to do and stick to that story, it's your word against theirs and nobody can prove anything different. You may get suspended for a day or two (probably both of you will), but that kid won't come near you again, worked fine for me, intact the kid was removed from the school and the family moved once the truth of what he'd done had come out, my breaking his nose was just the tip of the iceberg and the final straw. Having said that I really don't like violence and will avoid it wherever I can, but sometimes people are ****s and deserve to be taken down a peg or two.

Spoken like a true Tory. Academies may not have been bought in by the Tories true, but the way they are now being used to push privatisation through by the back door stops solely at Dave's door, he had plenty of opportunities to change the legislation and stop OFSTED labelling school inadequate (which in turn activated the legislation which allowed the school to be taken over), but what did he and his is coke snorting sidekick do? They adapted the legislation and made it MANDATORY that all schools are privatised. The whole idea of state education is that it is is to the same standard throughout the country and follows the same curriculum regardless of race, ability or location, that's not what we're going to end up with when the schools are privatised....

It was running two trains fine on Sunday.

They just need something now that does a decent number of inversions and they'll be the best overall family park period simply because they'll be the only one that truly caters for everybody. They should bulldoze that useless kart track and stick a B&M on it, it would compliment that area perfectly, or maybe they should have offered Merlin 50 quid for Ripsaw, I'm sure their theming alone would make the ride infinitely better, aside from the Cobra and that water thing, Paultons really lead the way with park theming.

<< books tickets immediately. On the plus side I like that advanced tickets are valid for any day up to the end of October, rather than having to book a specific date like I assume you have to at Merlin parks (never have had to buy a day ticket for Thorpe in 20 years so don't actually know the procedure lol).

Where is the table? We went on the Wednesdsy so it might not have been there then, just curious. Went to Thorpe Sunday and were in and out of guest services inside 5 minutes, such a contrasting experience to Chessie

It's also good for setting your tap water on fire. If Derren is anti-frakking and has used this as an opportunity to express his views, then I've no problem with that, but it's probably just part of the show (maybe it's how you 'escape' like with the tube train at Shrek).

Once you push them they'll go up by themselves, sometimes, if you push hard enough, it's the others (Inferno, Swarm and Stealth that go up by themselves, assuming you've undone the belt buckle beforehand). Yesterday one of the trains had the rear two rows of seats completely shut off and the restraints were permanently tied down, so explain that one lol.

I was too polite to say anything but it did look as if she'd become a tad over-excited.

They've only started doing it (to this extent) this year.

I don't know, my only assumption if as said, it's not that they simply cannot be bothered to apply, then perhaps the boundaries were changed at some point in the past, there is an area round here that was regraded from brownfield to green belt to stop a devolper building houses on it (mainly because the area was below sea level and flooded regularly and the devolper had pissed off a councillor, but they changed the boundary here none the less). I don't think anybody was disagreeing with your point over all parks having restrictions and working within them, just your insistance we were wrong when it came to the green belt boundaries.

Oh that's right I forgot, never let the facts get in the way of a good internet argument.... my mistake

Urgh, as Sam and I mentioned, the entire site is green belt, had you bothered to check you would know the boundary goes right up to Barwell Lane. Green area designates Green Belt land....

No, Sam is right, the entire park is green belt, the boundary goes right up to the housing estates now, you can check them on the rtpi and local government websites yourself if you want. There are also not many people within earshot of the site, I've worked at one of the houses that is closest to Chessie and you can't hear a thing (you could hear Fury's chain more than you could Vampire), noise may be an issue, but it's more of a perceived noise issue, rather than an actual one (you can't even hear the park from the garden center), the traffic is a bigger deal for the locals, which is ironic considering the traffic is no better when the park is closed. Knowing local authorities, any planning issues are more that they haven't done enough to bribe them for permission, if a person who will remain nameless can get permission to build housing estates and industrial estates on green belt (twice on two different districts) then he's doing something different to chessington if they're having issues (which planning records show they're actually not).