Celia Mae

Online petitions can make quite a big difference. A few months ago the whole thing about acquitting everyone who has been wrongly punished of being gay through history in Britain started as an online petition, and that happened for real.

If you ignore the Alton Towers part (I don't believe it will lead to Towers' death either) the principal is good. Yes it's some people's fault for believing everything they read but most people are generally going to believe what they read, and the papers know this. Therefore they are more at fault. This incident is the one that has opened my eyes due to what I have learned recently on here, but most people won't have that.

Banned for constantly rubbing his holiday in all of us people who weren't liked enough to be invited's faces

So this exists now, which I quite strongly believe in. https://www.change.org/p/everyone-stop-the-media-madness

Banned for not attending a meet in god knows how long

I got the email about it, I don't think you'll be able to buy on the day,they're expecting it to be oversubscribed

I think they took out a few trials

I think this is the only weather I would happily go on Tidal Wave in.

I think there's different stuff open on nights where Summer Nights AND Island Beats are on, due to proximity of rides to the stages and stuff

Probably because it's so close to the main stage and makes such a racket

With 12 years until I'm 30 I'd be happy with doing this in my life 1) Get my American passport renewed so I can go there. 2) Understand UK/US dual citizen double taxation laws. 3) Visit where I was born in America and pop down the road to New York City. 4) Actually learn to ride my motorbike. 5) Get a full-time job I enjoy. 6) Marry, and not divorce. 7) Adopt a child? 8) Visit Venice again. 9) Go to Florida. 10) Learn to drive and get a car. 11) Get back into running and rowing. 12) Go to Glastonbury. 13) Get a pet terrapin. 14) Watch the British Grand Prix.

Okay so I've worn glasses for reading and close up stuff for like a year now. In the past week my eyesight has deteriorated rapidly to the point where now I can't even send a text without wearing them without giving myself a massive headache. My mum also lost her eyesight at around my age when she was younger and I'm kinda worried I'm gonna end up like her and only be able to see shapes and colours without glasses. And the worst thing is I really don't like contact lenses and I don't know how my geekiness will survive with having to take off glasses and put them on again with every ride...

My cheeky Nando's is popping down and getting a cheeky discount for everyone with my cheeky military ID

Not so unfortunate... I hate drop towers :')

Nah it was closed all day, why has this been a regular thing recently?

Sup nerds, So today I had my first visit to a seaside amusement park, with my charity taking a bunch of our disabled Young People. We went to Funland Hayling Island just outside Portsmouth, a cute little place right on the beach a lot bigger than it appears from the outside, with actually some decent stuff. First came a twister, pretty much what it says on the tin but it was on a pretty good setting. Then there was the Klondlike rollercoaster that was really good surprisingly, if a little cramped inside the cars. It even had an inversion and one of the steepest drops of a 1.2m limit coaster I've ever seen. Next we went on this little log flume, meandered about between some bushes for a bit (yawn) and then did one large drop that got you soaked wherever you sat in the boat (as two of the kids found out when they tried to sit behind me thinking I would take the worst of the water for them... Mwahahahahaha!) The only problem, other than the fact it was a little boring at the start) was that it was ridiculously shallow, so bad our boat scraped along the bottom all the way round and actually stopped at one point. I had to use the walls of the tunnels and sides of the trough to push us along. We then went on another flat, I can't remember the name of it but you see them everywhere, think it's made by Huss but probably isn't. Anyway, you sit in a long row of seats all next to each other, and swing around in sideways circles. Anyway, it was being manually controlled by the guy in the booth, who kept making us think it was going to stop, before starting us spinning again much to the enjoyment of the young people. It really makes you see the advantages of little parks like that, we only had just over an hour but hardly queued, walked straight on to pretty much all of the rides bar the log flume (it was a really hot day!) Each ride accepted tokens at the start from all the young people (or unlimited ride wristbands) and obviously they knew us or had been told or something as they knew I was looking after my group of young people and let me on free. But due to them being manually controlled you got really good value for money for your tokens thanks to the non-existent queues! The only slight annoyances were we weren't allowed long so barely scratched the surface of all the rides there, I might try and go back at some point during July, and this young ride op who counted three too many of us onto the twister due to three young siblings who all wanted their own booth rather than sharing with their brother/sister. Ah well, I'll head back at some point and try out the rest, I'll probably get a wrist band next time... See ya!

Found this doodle I did years ago at school...

Back on the topic of WC16... Lots of activity on site today... Saw a big hole and foundations going in from Slammer, plus got a few photos. A moving digger moving piles of dirt higher than my head! Cement mixer and the drill (not drilling today). Plus one of the last-surviving pieces of arena fence! Still standing... Just. Blue fence trying to hide the hole they're digging for foundations... A very station-shaped hole. And finally... This is why Thorpe can't have nice things.

"...cost the park £14million to build..." If you're going to bring it into something completely unrelated Daily Fail then please get your facts right...

Gotze is there sometimes, I've definitely been this year and Gotze has been there interacting with the little kids. But that still doesn't explain about Chase

I thought they only ran it on one car on weekdays?

I think that's how everyone feels really. I don't know why this argument has been going on so long.

Ryan is just saying they can both be dealth with with the current system. I don't know about this emptying a cattlepen thing, they didn't do it when we were at Chessington or we at least didn't notice, so evidently it doesn't cause that much stress.

No one's disagreeing they're not the same, but people are saying that the same method can be used to deal with both.

It's not patronising, people just need to realise that they can actually find it harder than a lot of only physically disabled people because they see and understand and interpret different things in different ways to non-mentally-disabled people. Don't take this wrong, I agree with you that they are completely different. But didn't this whole argument come up because it was assumed they were positively discriminated against by effectively getting free fastrack? Well as Ian said and I've shown, they don't. They just have a different way of queuing. And as Ryan said, all disabilities should be treated the same, because whether they are different or not they all mean that the person affected cannot deal with some things (like queuing) like a majority of the GP.