Undefinable Musical Taste...and there are amusment parks in England???

[shadowkat]

1. Define Your Musical Taste in Five Bands or Less.

CANNOT DO IT!

But will try.

Pink Floyd, The Beatles, ABBA, Green Day, NY York Philharmonic

Eh. No.

Rolling Stones, ABBA, The Decemberists, RUSH, and PRince & The Revolution

Nah.

Billie Holiday, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lush, Lady Gaga, The Civil Wars

Nah.

David Bowie, The Beach Boys, Nine Inch Nails, Peter/Paul & Mary, Arcadia...

I give up.

Defining my music taste is impossible. I basically like a little of everything, but not too much of any one thing...it's usually the extremes that make me crazy.

2. Mother: You're cousin is visiting England and taking her kids to lots of amusement parks in England and London.
Me: Wait. England, not to mention London, has Amusement Parks, now? Like with roller coasters and stuff?
Mother: Yes.
Me: When did England get amusement parks? Does England even have enough room for amusement parks? I did not know they had amusement parks in England.
Mother: We didn't visit amusement parks in England, why would you even want to? I get wanting to do something fun and all...but it is England, a foreign country. There's other more interesting things to see.
Me: Well, they didn't have amusement parks when we were there. I don't think so at any rate. We visited in the 1980s. It was sort of a novelty back then and kind of exclusive to the US. Not that England needed them..

3. Mother: You do realize Bret Kavanagh is your generation, right? They had drunken orgies in college back then and frat parties..
Me: Yes, I know. I went to college with a lot of drunken rapists. This is not news to me. Trust me.

4. Work made me crazy, so I decided not to do laundry. It was an aggravating day. Not helped by lack of sleep and possibly too much chocolate. I chose not to interact with the internet fandoms and well FB in general. I found it aggravating after a quick scroll. I may watch the Great British Baking Sho to relax.

Comments

[cookiegirl]

This post made me Google all our theme parks to see when they opened! :D Surprised to find the first rides at Blackpool Pleasure Beach were open in 1896!! Thorpe Park is near London and opened at the end of the 1970s, Alton Towers was 1980, Lightwater Valley similar sort of time. I think the only one I'd bother with as a foreign visitor is Alton Towers, though, unless you wanted a seaside experience, as it's not near the coast. For little kids though, it'd be worth checking out the Legoland near London which is meant to be amazing.

[shadowkat]

Well, cousin does work for Legoland in Florida ...so she most likely took her kids there. Although you'd think she'd be sick of it by now. LOL!

They went to Dragon Land, Harry Potter, and somewhere else.

Are they really theme amusement parks or carnival/fun fairs? Theme parks tend to be really big. Like the size of a small town or city.

[cookiegirl]

Well I wouldn't say they are the size of a city, but yeah, some are pretty big. Alton Towers is about 4 kilometres according to the internet. Definitely not what I'd class as a funfair, it has parks, hotels, water parks, lots of restaurants, theatres, etc. Massive rides. Blackpool is possibly more what you're thinking of, though still big. I don't think we have any near the size of DisneyWorld though.

Harry Potter is more a studio tour and museum than a theme park, I haven't done it yet but I'm hoping to this year, and that's something that is worth doing if you're coming to England and a Potter fan because you can't get the studio tour and the Great Hall etc anywhere else! There's no rides there though.

[shadowkat]

Yeah, I can see doing Harry Potter. That's different, and has the actual costumes and sets from the movies. It's similar to the Universal Studio Tours.

I'm admittedly not a huge amusement park fan -- so it's not surprising that I did not know these existed. But...it's odd that they are there. Granted England's about the size of Florida, and Florida has a ton of theme parks. Disney World, Universal, Sea World, Busch Gardens, Harry Potter, Animal Kingdom...it goes on.

Apparently England has more than Alton Towers and Blackpool...it also has Dragon Land and a Safari Park with Wild Animals. (Cousin went to those). The one's you mentioned are the ones that my mother didn't. (She's been following cousins travels on FB.)

I should Google this myself, shouldn't I? LOL!

[shadowkat]

Yeah, I can see doing Harry Potter. That's different, and has the actual costumes and sets from the movies. It's similar to the Universal Studio Tours.

I'm admittedly not a huge amusement park fan -- so it's not surprising that I did not know these existed. But...it's odd that they are there. Granted England's about the size of Florida, and Florida has a ton of theme parks. Disney World, Universal, Sea World, Busch Gardens, Harry Potter, Animal Kingdom...it goes on.

Apparently England has more than Alton Towers and Blackpool...it also has Dragon Land and a Safari Park with Wild Animals. (Cousin went to those). The one's you mentioned are the ones that my mother didn't. (She's been following cousins travels on FB.)

I should Google this myself, shouldn't I? LOL!

ETA: I did. Jeeze. There's a lot. I did not know there was enough room in England for all those parks, but apparently there is.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/family-holidays/uk-best-theme-parks/

[shadowkat]

Eh, fell down the rabbit hole. You would not believe the insane rides some of these countries have. England has this ride called "Saw - The Ride" at Thorpe Amusement Park -- which appears to be a horror film and teleivision theme park. And they had to close a couple of rides at Alton -- too dangerous. The Prodigy was put out of commission.

Also, Japan has one that goes under water. And Spain has one that is based on wine making.

Las Vegas have two...that make me wonder about the point...one goes off the edge of a 250 story building and spins about, it had an accident a while back, where everyone was suspended for an hour and half upside down off the edge of the building. Yeah, no.