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Young people don't feel like their vote matters. It's exactly in circumstances like this where 75% of young people want to remain get over-ridden by the older generations makes them feel more disenfranchised. We see it time and time again. What worries more is the outright racism being displayed up and down the country at the moment. It terrifies me and it's not the United Kingdom I want to live in. A pandoras box of hate has been opened and thats never going to close now that the little Englanders feel like they have the right to do it.
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I like it. For instance the Tory government has never cared about the poor. The poorest ironically are the ones that voted to leave. If we want an arrangement like Norway then we have to accept free movement of people, I.e. those pesky immigrants. Except this time there will be no Schengen agreement in place. So the main argument from Leave is completely irrelevant, unless we don't really want to trade with Europe and are happy to shut up shop. That damning shadow of the EU rebuilt Manchester after the 1999 bomb, injects 60 million a year into Cornwall, a minimum of 650 million a year into Wales, money the UK government would never put into place. We're in a brave new world now and I'm quite amazed by the effect this little country has had on the rest of the world. By taking a shotgun to ourselves and our families future, we may have started something that in ten years will be a very different Europe.
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They were waiting for the economy to crash before opening their brand new ride.
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You're beginning to sound like an expert and we don't listen to experts anymore. Today has been an awful day. Normally I'd celebrate the resignation of a Tory prime minister, but knowing that we could be ruled by the class clown isn't enough to console me. Still on the bright side, we managed to crash the Japanese economy too so silver lining and all that.
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My Grandfather was Scottish, so when they inevitably go independent and join the Eu, screw the lot of you. I can live without the English B&M's anyway.
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If I was an AP user still, this would definitely be the day to avoid.
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Is that still happening? I thought it was off the cards now what with the Beauty and the Beast dark ride coming.
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Another one for the Zeus is better then Wodan club please. Forgot how good that ride is, it's not really spoken about much. But its awesome.
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The best reviews so far say that if it was in Fantasyland it would be awesome but because it's in World Showcase, it's all a bit QUICK, GET A FROZEN RIDE IN.
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He has just as much right to say which way he's voting as anyone else. David Beckham for instance was from a working class family and hasn't always had things because of money or things being done for him. Majority of politicians on the other hand.... Besides if we aren't listening to experts anymore (thanks Boris and Farage) then we may ask people like David flipping Beckham.
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The five rollercoasters in my bottom five are:- Shamu Express at Seaworld Orlando. A kids ride should not be this bad. It's attrocious Tornado at Bakken. I hated this violent, terrible excuse for a spinning rollercoaster. Your rides restraints should not be cutting blood lines into my body you vile thing. Furius Baco at PortAventura. Terrible, terrible ride. That launch is great but it's 1/20th of the ride. The rest is tedious rubbish that is jerky and rough and unenjoyable in the extreme. Not even a scenic turn round can save it. Rutschebanan at Bakken. How do you destroy your brake-man, historic rollercoaster? You get Kumbak in to trash it, thats what. Awful, awful ride. I do wonder how good it was before this disastrous change. The Big One at Blackpool. I'm glad the hyper coaster moved on quickly from arrow, because if this ride is anything to go by they were boring. Shallow, tedious hill followed by shallow tedious hill. Then that helix which is beggars belief. A good first drop and a good ending aren't enough.
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They've never got on with theme park groups to be honest, when I went with the ECC in 2006, we weren't allowed any extra ride times and they restricted our time on park too. They seem incredibly strict with their park, especially compared to Europa Park who bend over backwards to give theme park enthusiasts exclusives.
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Love the Curse of Peladon. The Jon Pertwee era is by far my favourite from the classic series. The older series is far more fun to watch to be honest.
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The locals will lap it up. They go crazy over things like El Diablo after all.
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It's only going by previous experience and it is ok to speculate. We want this ride to be perfect beyond its first couple of seasons after all, it shouldn't be a case of only at the top of its game for the first few years of its existence.
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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.
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It's sickening. And for what its worth the complete white wash in the right wing media of what happened makes me furious. When people say that pride is just about getting drunk and sleeping around, they haven't a bloody clue what they're on about as the fight goes on for LGBTQ people.
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Oh the Trolling.
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It's all very well doing staff testing, my question is, why are they doing the staff testing during opening hours. This is the kind of stuff they used to do after the park was closed as it avoids upsetting the paying guests who can quite visibly see people riding something that by all accounts is now ready to open.
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I definitely wasn't serious and I was definitely paying homage to another TPM member.
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Not sarcasm. First time riders always describe the new ride in the most superlative terms and you two have been refreshing in just calling it fun. I'm not always sarcastic
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It's really refreshing for some of the first riders to be not so over the top in their positivity. Thanks you two
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Do they not know how to run a theme park? Jesus christ.
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Thats okay. My love for it will always be absolute.
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Hey Matt. I'd say Florida is better to do first. Disney World is easier to do from a guest perspective. Things like the Dining plan and the magic band encourage you to plan your trip and the fact Florida is a bubble means there is very little navigating to do outside of the tourist area. I do love California though and if you wish to do things like Magic Mountain or Knotts, its highly recommended from me. From a Disney perspective however, stick with Florida.