Our satellite receiver is dead. Of all the times to go dead… TODAY is the first episode of the season for Breaking Bad. Oh, the humanity…
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Okay, this kind of attention-whore grin is the sort of thing that requires the woman to be locked up in restraints until such time as her baby can be taken away and given to someone that isn’t so obviously ****ed in the head.
Sorry, but there you are.
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#1 on page 2… I heard about this place as a kid and desperately wanted to go there. Now I read about how deadly dangerous the place was.
Please, if you have been there, could you tell us about what you thought of it overall, whether you got creamed by any part of it, and what you thought was the scariest ride?
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Yes, I’m cranky lately… why do you ask?
McCartney speculates that the “8 cups of water a day myth” is being propagated by bottled water companies that are out to make a profit.
McCartney notes that a new international health initiative called “Hydration for Health,” which promotes drinking more water for a healthier lifestyle, is sponsored by Danone, which markets the Evian and Volvic bottled water brands.
“There are many organizations with vested interests who would like to tell doctors and patients what to do. We should just say no,” she says
McCartney argues that there is no high quality published evidence to support claims that drinking increased amounts of water offers benefits. She says reports that increased water can improve concentration and mental performance in kids, for example, have not been confirmed by research studies.
While there are some health conditions that do benefit from drinking more water, such as in people with recurrent kidney stones, the fluid’s ability to prevent disease is conflicting, at best, she says.
A number of experts were quick to lash back.
In comments sent in to BMJ.com, Caroline J. Edmonds, a senior lecturer at the School of Psychology at the University of East London said she knows there is “well established literature” about the negative effects of dehydration on mental skills, both in adults and in children, which McCartney didn’t mention.
Absolutely, yes, it is known that dehydration is bad for you. But who the hell determined that everyone needs the same amount of water to remain hydrated?
That water question has bugged me for years. And that woman eating polish?? If she were serious, she would be seeking to be interviewed by the NHS for a textbook case, not a tabloid.
And I’ll pass on the deadliest ride ever, thanks… 😉
Ask and ye shall receive
http://www.doubleplusundead.mee.nu/traction_park
Action Park was the most wonderful place on Earth
Well, if you were a 19 year old who laughed (Ha ha!) at death.
My only regret about that post is that I didn’t title it with the quote I later found in a Wikipedia page about their “three-way water rope swing”. It was deranged, the three ropes all converged on the same point in the middle of the pool.
After that, they painted the pool white so they could see bodies lying on the bottom.
I wrote it from memory and then started looking around the tubes for info.
Ha! You are finally out of the spam bucket. No, you haven’t been banned – only OldCatMan has ever gotten that honor – not even Ms. Tessa I-Hope-You-Deep-Throat-a-Running-Chainsaw. Later I decided that perhaps that was a cute tree-hugger, bunny-fluffer, duck-squeezer kind of flirtatious advance.
A white pool bottom? How the hell were they supposed to see a fish-belly-white cracker like me?
Comment in moderation, but I realized I didn’t answer your question.
The Alpine Slide was the most dangerous that was open, the perfectly circular loop one was rarely open, they’d open it for a day and a few people would break some bones so they’d close it.
The Alpine Slide could really mess you up. When, not if, you wiped out, you either slid along the track and got serious road-rash or you flew out of the tube on the rock-strewn ground with a good chance of hitting a support pole set in concrete.
Wheeeeeeeeee-aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh-(crunch)-moooooooooooaaaaaaannnnnnnn was how it went as I recall.
But for me, the two most scary rides were two waterslides.
in one, you climbed two to three miles up and jumped.
It went straight down so you were just falling, you weren’t even in the trough of the half-pipe. It was heart-stoppingly scary.
At the bottom it slowly curved to horizontal and then you hit the pool and your bathing suit went up your butt and tickled your tonsils.
The other most scary one was a long, underground, curvy tube. In the middle there was a spot with no dirt over it that let some soft light through but that just made the absolute darkness of the rest as you zoomed for about 2 hours (plus/minus 1 hour, 59 minutes, 45 seconds) and flew out in mid-air about 10 feet above a pool.
Ever time I swore that this time, this time, I was going to do a jack-knife and end up in a dive.
I always came flailing out, freaking out, with my heart stopped and then wildly starting as I careened into the pool with a “cold shot of urine” coursing through my veins.
That’s where I perfect the art of not thinking about what I was going to do before doing something that scared the living you know what out of me.
That was a lesson that has not stood me in good stead in my life.
I can’t believe what a pain in the ass WordPress is being lately. I think finally your comment is out of moderation after I double-secret triple-koshered it out of the steaming bath of excrement that is the spam bucket. The stuff that floats in there is absolutely disgusting.
The way you describe the rides I’m surprised they didn’t have a Pit-O-Glass-with-a-Turpentine-Dip ride somewhere on-site.
Man I wish I could have gone there.
Wow. I’d never heard of Action Park. Those are some scary stories, bro.
Scary but in the good way, right?
LOL. http://www.domainofdeath3.com/actionpark
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