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

[shadowkat]

Yeah, I know London is in England. But...it's sort of like NYC is in the US. It's possible to just visit London and not see anything else. And being an international city...it's not really representative of the rest of the country. It's equally possible to visit England and not see London. At least I think it is. ;-)

Hence the England and London. I'd say New York City and the US, or Istanbul and Turkey, or Paris and France, or Hong Kong and China, for pretty much the same reasons.

I wouldn't go near an amusement park - they have too many accidents.

Right there with you regarding the "roller-coaster" or "thrill-seeking" rides. I watched a video about the top 5 rides that have been banned and you can no longer ride, then a couple about the weirdest and the most dangerous rides in the world. The UK had three of them. Las Vegas had two. And Six Flags parks in the US two, and the rest were in places like Japan, Netherlands..etc.

After watching that, I thought, eh...zip-lining was enough for me, thanks. (I did amusement parks when I was much younger, and the last one I did was Six Flags in the 1990s. After I did it, I screwed up my back and my physical therapist told me that I was not permitted to EVER ride a rollercoaster or a thrill ride -- again.
I'd destroy my back. I thought..."okay". Considering I am perfectly capable of hurting my back just by picking up boxes or sitting wrong, I figure I don't need to wrench it on a thrill ride as well...for $50-$60 a pop.

Well there's a few that aren't a problem: Legoland in Windsor (which apparently is listed among the top in the world), and Harry Potter Studio Tour. Although when we went to Windsor as a kid, we went to well, Windsor Castle but Legoland also didn't exist in the 1980s (anywhere).

I think Disney created the huge theme park or non-roller-coaster family friendly amusement park idea. Prior to that I think most amusement parks were associated with thrill-seeking rides. (But I may be wrong about that. It's possible it pre-existed Disney but in much smaller form.)

I googled amusement parks last night and fell down a bit of a rabbit hole.

[trepkos]

I'd destroy my back. I thought..."okay". Considering I am perfectly capable of hurting my back just by picking up boxes or sitting wrong, I figure I don't need to wrench it on a thrill ride as well...for $50-$60 a pop.

EXACTLY! I don't get why people would pay to be terrified. I was harassed into going on a fairground ride where the cad when round a big wheel and turned over and over - I thought I was going to die. And that tea-cup thing - *shudders*. I guess my otoliths can't cope. I can get vertigo just sitting down.

[shadowkat]

I can get vertigo just sitting down

Yes...and the vertigo thing sort of rules it out for me as well.

The upside down, turn over and over, corkscrew rides which are designed to disorient and make you dizzy -- make me ill. I can get vertigo just from a sinus headache.

I don't get why people would pay to be terrified.

I think there's a lot of people out there who don't get scared easily. Or they love the adrenaline rush. (Aka Adrenaline Junkies).

I'm prone to anxiety, so really do not require help in the adrenaline department. I can get there on my own. I require help in calming down and not getting anxious. So I pay for a mindfulness app that 'calms' my nerves.

Just looking at these rides on the internet gives me an adrenaline rush. I think being on one of them could very well kill me or do serious damage to my physical well-being at this stage in my life.

To be fair -- they aren't really designed for anyone over the age of 45. They are designed for teenagers and folks in their early twenties, who think they are immortal. People in their 40s, 50s, and up, know they aren't immortal and the stupid body is a fragile thing. People in their teens, twenties and early thirties don't tend to get that.

[trepkos]

To be fair, I've never, at any age, been keen on thrill rides, but reading my diary from 30 years ago, I do wonder how I survived ...