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You're the one who said people should be honoured they get in the park at all and Thorpe are not obliged to provide any rides or entertainment and to quit moaning and check their sense of entitlement at the door when rides are unavailable.
 
Perhaps you didn't understand but I didn't present an argument, I stated that attitude was a **** one to have (and gave an alternative non-theme park related example to highlight how the same attutide would work elsehere) you are the one arguing with anybody that disagrees with your point of view. 
 
It would be much better if you  countered an opposing view with a sensible, mature argument, rather than sarcasm.

Of course nobody has the right to enter the property like they do a public park, but what you're saying 'hey you should be honoured to pay £50 to enter and think yourself lucky there's any rides open at all" which a really ****ty attitude to have towards your customers, it would be like opening a nightclub and charging £20 a head to enter then when people complain there is no music simply shrung your shoulders and saying "DJ broke the decks, tough titties you paid to enter the building, I'm not obliged to provide you music, you should just be honoured I let you in".

Wonder if any nerds have just booked a room for tonight so they can go on Ghost Train.

Previews for select groups (whether that be hotel guests, passholders etc.) should be done out of hours, its not like they don't already open a few rides for hotel guests in the evenings anyway. 
 
I personally don't care as I have no intention of riding it, I can see how this operation would annoy people, especially when you have people bragging it.

I understand they did this during park hours which frankly I find appalling.  What a huge kick in the teeth for everyone on park today to see people being let in when they've spent all that money.
 
Thankfully I wasn't there, I've lost interest in this attraction but yet again they've completely mismanaged something which will cause annoyance and upset amongst the majority of paying customers!

That's capitalism for you.

That's capitalism for you.

That's capitalism for you.

From personal point of view it depends who is saying it, and how they are saying/asking it
 
If someone was to shout 'gay boy' at me, I would take offence
If someone was to ask 'are you gay?', that is completely fine and I would never expect them to ask if I was 'homosexual' or LGBT(Q) etc
The problem with the word 'gay' is when it's used to mean stupid.  E.g 'That's so gay'
 
If someone calls you a homophobe for asking 'are you gay' obviously without malicious intent, then they're over-reacting in my books
 
Edit:  The necessity of some people to ask someone if they're gay or not is a whole other point

Could someone please explain to Lucy the internet doesn't charge per letter?  Many thanks

Could someone please explain to Lucy the internet doesn't charge per letter?  Many thanks

Could someone please explain to Lucy the internet doesn't charge per letter?  Many thanks

Could someone please explain to Lucy the internet doesn't charge per letter?  Many thanks

Could someone please explain to Lucy the internet doesn't charge per letter?  Many thanks

Could someone please explain to Lucy the internet doesn't charge per letter?  Many thanks

Could someone please explain to Lucy the internet doesn't charge per letter?  Many thanks

Could someone please explain to Lucy the internet doesn't charge per letter?  Many thanks

Re-watching series 1 - 4 at the moment and it's reminded me why I used to really like DW - they don't make 'em like that anymore!

What was that old saying?  Don't feed the trolls?  If he annoys you ignore him, then once the ride opens, if what he says was correct, you won't be eating copious amounts of humble pie. 

What was that old saying?  Don't feed the trolls?  If he annoys you ignore him, then once the ride opens, if what he says was correct, you won't be eating copious amounts of humble pie. 

It's probably in that state right now.....

I've been kind of upset this week. Whenever something big happens in the world, its nearly inescapable. I remember the blanket news coverage of the Australia hostage situation two years ago, the two attacks on France last year and the one on Belgium this year. With it comes outpouring of grief on social media, a rush to change Facebook profile pictures to ones glossed over with the colours of the French flag. Newspapers run with headlines for days about the immovable grief that naturally comes from a situation.
 
So why doesn't anyone seem to give a damn about what happened in Orlando on Saturday night? Aside from gay friends on FB, nothing at all. Not a rainbow flag on a profile, or a comment condemning Americas gun laws, not a moment to remember that this is the single biggest targeting of the gay community since the Holocaust. Is it ingrained homophobia, is it a feeling of weariness that this grief solves nothing particularly with American laws? Some of our media didn't even cover it, the Daily Mail for instance focusing on Turkish xenophobia instead. The ones that did, made very little attempt to relate this as a gay hate crime. 
 
We seem to care about a gorilla, then we do 49 LGBT people who were mowed down by a terrorist. It makes me mad and makes me realise that the fight for LGBT rights is just as important now as it has ever been. I'm fed up of this world sometimes.

It's such a shame that differing opinions seem an alien concept to some.
 
On topic, themed uniform is quite rare at UK parks so it's good that they have done something.

You would, it's called the Unfair Consumer Contract Terms Regulations Act 1999:
 
 
You can have any terms and conditions you want attached to entry but if its loaded against the consumer, anybody competent in civil procedure would drive a truck through those terms and win hands down.
 
Standing behind those terms and being a meanie about it, is well, just being a meanie.

You would, it's called the Unfair Consumer Contract Terms Regulations Act 1999:
 
 
You can have any terms and conditions you want attached to entry but if its loaded against the consumer, anybody competent in civil procedure would drive a truck through those terms and win hands down.
 
Standing behind those terms and being a meanie about it, is well, just being a meanie.