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I'm with you Kaffy, I'm a total fraidy cat when it comes to fairground rides. 
When we go I'm the one standing holding all the bags and coats 
*snogs Kaffy*
A safe thread.... thank you, thank you, thank you!
Right, ahem... fairground rides! Yeah.... I used to when I was young and thought I was immortal, but not anymore!
Especially the travelling fairs.... where some bloke has dismantled them and put them back up with a spanner!
Also... I don't like the feeling when your stomach 'goes'..... or the cranking up the hill before the steep slopey bit.
If I am wittering on... is only cos I have said about all I could in the Moth thread...
A safe thread.... thank you, thank you, thank you!
Right, ahem... fairground rides! Yeah.... I used to when I was young and thought I was immortal, but not anymore!
Especially the travelling fairs.... where some bloke has dismantled them and put them back up with a spanner!
Also... I don't like the feeling when your stomach 'goes'..... or the cranking up the hill before the steep slopey bit.
If I am wittering on... is only cos I have said about all I could in the Moth thread...
I still have to pay full fare when we go to oakwood. **sigh** I don't go on anything. Not even the sappy Treetops rollercoaster. I carry the coats and the drinks and that's about it.
I reckon I should get in for free. They could sticker my hand to mark me out as a non-combatant.
I reckon I should get in for free. They could sticker my hand to mark me out as a non-combatant.
quote:Originally posted by Queen of the High Teas:
Dodgem cars used to my limit... now I don't bother at all. Mind you .... give you a week and maybe you should be queuing up for a go on The Big One (no pun intended!)
quote:Originally posted by erinp:
When we go I'm the one standing holding all the bags and coats
Wise move!
quote:Originally posted by Dirtyprettygirlthing:
*snogs Kaffy*
A safe thread.... thank you, thank you, thank you!
Right, ahem... fairground rides! Yeah.... I used to when I was young and thought I was immortal, but not anymore!
Especially the travelling fairs.... where some bloke has dismantled them and put them back up with a spanner!
Also... I don't like the feeling when your stomach 'goes'..... or the cranking up the hill before the steep slopey bit.
If I am wittering on... is only cos I have said about all I could in the Moth thread...
Oh yeah.... when you see some of the guys that put them together! If it's not hand built by robots and it goes more than two miles an hour I ain't getting on it.
I avoid fairs now.. can't stand anything about them, the smell makes me
but that may be because a nurse friend of mine told me how they had an old woman from the fair brought into hozzie one night and they had to admit her. She needed scrubbed down and virtually de-loused and when she got chatting they asked what she did... 'Oh, I run a hot dog stall, dear..' quote:Originally posted by Cariad:
I still have to pay full fare when we go to oakwood. **sigh** I don't go on anything. Not even the sappy Treetops rollercoaster. I carry the coats and the drinks and that's about it.
I reckon I should get in for free. They could sticker my hand to mark me out as a non-combatant.
You pay to even go in? Blimey!
quote:Originally posted by ~~KaffyBaffy~~:
I avoid fairs now.. can't stand anything about them, the smell makes me
Oooooh MY Gawd! quote:Originally posted by ~~KaffyBaffy~~:quote:Originally posted by Cariad:
I still have to pay full fare when we go to oakwood. **sigh** I don't go on anything. Not even the sappy Treetops rollercoaster. I carry the coats and the drinks and that's about it.
I reckon I should get in for free. They could sticker my hand to mark me out as a non-combatant.
You pay to even go in? Blimey!
Yup...no choice if I'm taking the kids.
I've been on that! I came off with a massive headache, it's a right boneshaker!
On the few ocassions anyone has managed to persuade me to get on a rollercoaster in the last 10 years I haven't enjoyed one second of it! I closed my eyes and prayed for it to end the whole time.
I came off with a massive headache, it's a right boneshaker!On the few ocassions anyone has managed to persuade me to get on a rollercoaster in the last 10 years I haven't enjoyed one second of it! I closed my eyes and prayed for it to end the whole time.
we've been to thorpe park today.....stealth and saw such luverly rides.......
stealth.....0-80mph in 2.5 seconds....straight up a vertical hill,,over the top and straight back down a vertical drop the other side.....all 205 feet of it.......
stealth.....0-80mph in 2.5 seconds....straight up a vertical hill,,over the top and straight back down a vertical drop the other side.....all 205 feet of it.......
quote:Originally posted by spongebob squarepants:
we've been to thorpe park today.....stealth and saw such luverly rides.......
stealth.....0-80mph in 2.5 seconds....straight up a vertical hill,,over the top and straight back down a vertical drop the other side.....all 205 feet of it.......
Were you on it? *is in awe*quote:Originally posted by skive:
I've been on that!
On the few ocassions anyone has managed to persuade me to get on a rollercoaster in the last 10 years I haven't enjoyed one second of it! I closed my eyes and prayed for it to end the whole time.
Nothing would make me get on one of them, skive.
quote:Originally posted by ~~KaffyBaffy~~:quote:Originally posted by spongebob squarepants:
we've been to thorpe park today.....stealth and saw such luverly rides.......
stealth.....0-80mph in 2.5 seconds....straight up a vertical hill,,over the top and straight back down a vertical drop the other side.....all 205 feet of it.......
ooooooooo yes.......i love rollercoasters........
i've been on the big dipper at blackpool loads of times......shocking news......glad it wasn't more of a tragedy.....
a few years back we went on the pepsi max at blackpool..it was chugging up the nice 180ft odd hill.....and broke down......we had to sit and wait for them to rescue us.......
quote:Originally posted by
Also... I don't like the feeling when your stomach 'goes'.....
This reminded me of something. There's a local road that has a sharp drop just after the brow of hill where your stomach 'goes' if you're travelling at any speed at all. When my niece was little, she used to love going that way and had her own name for the road. Now.... 30 years on, we still refer to it as 'the tickle-belly road' "Shall we go the main road, or will we take the tickle-belly road?"
quote:Originally posted by spongebob squarepants:
a few years back we went on the pepsi max at blackpool..it was chugging up the nice 180ft odd hill.....and broke down......we had to sit and wait for them to rescue us.......
That's the one thing that scares me more than falling off it... getting stuck ON it!
Oh I've been on that loads of times at Blackpool,but the "Grand National" a twin track wooden coaster where two carriages race each other is the best.
quote:Originally posted by spongebob squarepants:
a few years back we went on the pepsi max at blackpool..it was chugging up the nice 180ft odd hill.....and broke down......we had to sit and wait for them to rescue us.......
That would be the end of me there and then. My obituary would read "she shit out her intestines from utter terror before the rescuers could reach her".quote:Originally posted by kattymieoww:
Oh I've been on that loads of times at Blackpool,but the "Grand National" a twin track wooden coaster where two carriages race each other is the best.
You're all mad. Mad, I tell you, mad!
quote:Originally posted by skive:quote:Originally posted by spongebob squarepants:
a few years back we went on the pepsi max at blackpool..it was chugging up the nice 180ft odd hill.....and broke down......we had to sit and wait for them to rescue us.......
quote:Originally posted by skive:quote:Originally posted by spongebob squarepants:
a few years back we went on the pepsi max at blackpool..it was chugging up the nice 180ft odd hill.....and broke down......we had to sit and wait for them to rescue us.......
quote:Originally posted by kattymieoww:
Oh I've been on that loads of times at Blackpool,but the "Grand National" a twin track wooden coaster where two carriages race each other is the best.
that's a great ride.......
...one of my favourites is air at alton towers......a brilliant ride....... 
I nearly fell off a ride once. I was pretty shaken up by it and so were a few people watching. 
I was pretty shaken up by it and so were a few people watching.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc6lnWHRoqo
Grand National,it fair rattles yer teeth.Once I dropped my bag on the floor,cue me bouncing all over the shop trying to pick its contents off the carriage floor,all me makeup etc.
Grand National,it fair rattles yer teeth.Once I dropped my bag on the floor,cue me bouncing all over the shop trying to pick its contents off the carriage floor,all me makeup etc.
quote:Originally posted by faerykelstar:
I nearly fell off a ride once.
Were you not strapped in faery!
I've seen too many horror films to trust those straps and bars.
I hate roller coasters, unfortunately my 12 year old loves them. Last time we took him to blackpool we took along one of his friends, so I didn't have to go on the rides. It didn't work out so well as his friend 'didn't do roller coasters'. Mr Shar spent the day on the dodgems with our sons friend and I spend the day looking for my stomach after being dragged on everything. I hate the big dipper the most, too bad for me that he loves it the most.
Oh and I remember riding it when there were no lap restraint bars over thirty years ago,Just a little handle to hang to on the back of the seat in front of you.I swear you rose a foot out of your seat going over the humps! great stuff!
When I was 5 I fainted after coming off thoose kiddy tea pot rides.
Hated the fairground ever since.
Hated the fairground ever since.
quote:Originally posted by Lil misz:
When I was 5 I fainted after coming off thoose kiddy tea pot rides.
Hated the fairground ever since.
Cup and saucer ya mean!Lol. Aww.
quote:Originally posted by skive:quote:Originally posted by faerykelstar:
I nearly fell off a ride once.
Were you not strapped in faery!
I've seen too many horror films to trust those straps and bars.
I was strapped in, it was on of these rides...
and I slipped under the bar into the next seat as it went round. The girl next to me freaked out more than I did at the time.
What are those ones that spin round and round called? You can sit 5 or 6 people in them and then the attendant spins them as they move round?
Anyway nothing on god's earth would make me get in one of those, I feel sick just looking at them.
When I was a teenager my friend came off the ride as green as anything, staggered to the side and threw up.....all over this woman's ice-cream and hand who was sitting on a bench next to the ride.
Anyway nothing on god's earth would make me get in one of those, I feel sick just looking at them.
When I was a teenager my friend came off the ride as green as anything, staggered to the side and threw up.....all over this woman's ice-cream and hand who was sitting on a bench next to the ride.
Went on that big dipper once, never again, I felt sick when we came off it and being fairly little, my feet weren't touching the boards and I was sliding all over the place. Love the waltzers though!
quote:Originally posted by skive:
What are those ones that spin round and round called? You can sit 5 or 6 people in them and then the attendant spins them as they move round?
Anyway nothing on god's earth would make me get in one of those, I feel sick just looking at them.
When I was a teenager my friend came off the ride as green as anything, staggered to the side and threw up.....all over this woman's ice-cream and hand who was sitting on a bench next to the ride.
Waltzers. Work of the Devil - you can't breathe on them!
quote:Originally posted by skive:
What are those ones that spin round and round called? You can sit 5 or 6 people in them and then the attendant spins them as they move round?
Anyway nothing on god's earth would make me get in one of those, I feel sick just looking at them.
When I was a teenager my friend came off the ride as green as anything, staggered to the side and threw up.....all over this woman's ice-cream and hand who was sitting on a bench next to the ride.
"Waltzers" Now them I cannot go on.Roller coaster no problem,anything that spins or you go upside down in.
quote:Originally posted by skive:
What are those ones that spin round and round called? You can sit 5 or 6 people in them and then the attendant spins them as they move round?
Anyway nothing on god's earth would make me get in one of those, I feel sick just looking at them.
When I was a teenager my friend came off the ride as green as anything, staggered to the side and threw up.....all over this woman's ice-cream and hand who was sitting on a bench next to the ride.
The waltzers?? Your poor mate and that poor woman as well!! Bet she was put off ice cream for a while!
quote:Originally posted by skive:
What are those ones that spin round and round called? You can sit 5 or 6 people in them and then the attendant spins them as they move round?
Anyway nothing on god's earth would make me get in one of those, I feel sick just looking at them.
When I was a teenager my friend came off the ride as green as anything, staggered to the side and threw up.....all over this woman's ice-cream and hand who was sitting on a bench next to the ride.
Waltzers, love 'em!
quote:Originally posted by kattymieoww:quote:Originally posted by Lil misz:
When I was 5 I fainted after coming off thoose kiddy tea pot rides.
Hated the fairground ever since.
Cup and saucer ya mean!Lol. Aww.
i never ever go on the tea cup rides......they make me feel squiffy.....devil rides they are....and waltzers......
quote:Originally posted by faerykelstar:
The waltzers?? Your poor mate and that poor woman as well!! Bet she was put off ice cream for a while!
Them's the evil things!
For years after we had a joke about asking for vanilla and ending up with tutti frutti. Mean sods teenagers!