Reply to: Family Holiday

[G8_Summit]

Yay - Disney - you gotta love it !!

[TheBigYinJames]

Are you going to go here for a meal?

No. Unless It's some sort of ride where I can take a gun.

[Churchill]

It's Disney's way of making all races and cultures feel honoured to be represented by the same little annoying munchkins of varying hues. I wonder if anyone's ever drowned themselves in despair on that ride.

Are you going to go here for a meal?

[TheBigYinJames]

god

i had forgotten about that ride until now.......i never saw the point of it.....

It's Disney's way of making all races and cultures feel honoured to be represented by the same little annoying munchkins of varying hues. I wonder if anyone's ever drowned themselves in despair on that ride.

[Cooperinliverp00l]

I was trying to black that ride out

god

i had forgotten about that ride until now.......i never saw the point of it.....

[DimPrawn]

Is this the official miserable gits thread? It's for your kids enjoyment, not yours...

Wouldn't children actually enjoy something more, like an adventure holiday with other children in the great outdoors? Sports, boats, nature reserves etc?

[TheBigYinJames]

Is this the official miserable gits thread? It's for your kids enjoyment, not yours...

And they do really love it. The US parks do have their amusing points for adults:

1. Not standing up for the US National Anthem at Seaworld, I make a point of doing this. It's niot my anthem. If they want to exclude Brits from the greencard lottery, they can whistle theirn own anthem.

2. Bringing in your own food. They always search your bag nowadays, and it's fun to have loads of food in there, since they make a huge markup ont he piss-poor food they shovel up.

3. Watching the 400lb Disneypeople, they walk funny. You shouldn't laugh it's a disease.

4. looking out for a 'Disney Death' - a "code yellow" or whatever they call it these days. Nobody dies at Disney. They move the body offsite befoer allowing death to be declared. Allegedly

[ThomasSoerensen]

Is this the official miserable gits thread? It's for your kids enjoyment, not yours...

I agree. That is why I came up with my great solution to the problem.

[ratewhore]

Is this the official miserable gits thread? It's for your kids enjoyment, not yours...

[TheBigYinJames]

Last year I went with wife and kid to Eurodisney.
I think I made it clear that I did not enjoy it too much.

To give the US versions of the parks some defence.... Eurodisney is populated by angry Germans, Italians and French, and all manner of disenchanted European students working for crap pay in piss-poor weather. The on-site hotels are more like Stalags, there's nothing else to do apart from the parks themselves. We once went out a drive into the surrounding (beautiful) countryside, and the guard on the gate looked at us as if we were mad.. go... outside?

At least with the US versions, you generally get the weather and the cheaper exchange rate, and if you don't want to do the parks, there's loads of other things to do.

[ThomasSoerensen]

Am I the only one for whom the thought of visiting American "theme" parks ranks right there with visiting the HMRC for a tax inspection?

Last year I went with wife and kid to Eurodisney.
I think I made it clear that I did not enjoy it too much.

This year wife and kids go with her sister, her kids and my wifes mother.

Then I can work my ass off. I like being on a hourly rate contract.

[wxman]

By Nov, you should just escape the hurricane season!!

Agreeed but still a chance...

Hurricane Kate struck the Florida Panhandle on November 22, 1985 as a CAT2 Storm.

http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/at198511.asp

[Bagpuss]

Some are better than others. I hate the whole Disneycorp thing with a passion, but you go with the kids, and it's ok. The Universal parks are much better, less of a hard sell, and let's face it the movies they promote there are better (Terminator, ET, Back to the Future, etc)

One ride around "Its a Small World" gets most people sharing my Disneyphobia.

I hate Disney, good old Walt was a fascist, heavily involved in the McCarthey Witchunts, treated his animators like sheet. Stories like Disney corp suing schools and orphanages over copyright on murals, doesn't exactly line up with the overly sentimental, religious undertoned sacarine they output.

[TheBigYinJames]

I was trying to black that ride out

You'll be singing it ALL day now

[FiveTimes]

One ride around "Its a Small World" gets most people sharing my Disneyphobia.

I was trying to black that ride out