The Real Incredi-Coaster

Rich T

Rich T

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Curious Constance said:
If anyone cares, the Oregon public schools are becoming a joke. My blood pressure shoots up all the time having to deal with the teachers. And I think theirs does too, when they have to deal with me.

My son's teacher has been literally drilling it into the kid's heads all year that hurtful words are the equivalent to physical bodily harm. (And this is district approved because I checked.)
And then she turns around and says things like, "Use your brain" to him in an annoyed voice when he makes a mistake.
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Aren't those kind of airheaded hypocrites with no real world experience just wonderful??? We all know that, in wars, the soldiers don't have to use weapons: yelling hurtful words at each other is apparently just as effective.
 
Rich T

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I visit Oregon a lot to visit my Dad. Nothing against cyclists, but Oregon has taken bike lanes to a stupid extreme in parts of the Portland area.
 
TP2000

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TROR said:
Don't know how you can hate Oklahoma when it has this lit song
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I wanted to like it specifically due to that song. I was humming it all the way on the flight. But then I got there...

1LE McQueen said:
I like how this thread turned into an argument about which states are awful and which aren't.
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What else are we supposed to talk about until Star Wars Land opens? You wanna watch the paint dry on the Incredicoaster?

Curious Constance said:
If anyone cares, the Oregon public schools are becoming a joke. My blood pressure shoots up all the time having to deal with the teachers. And I think theirs does too, when they have to deal with me.

My son's teacher has been literally drilling it into the kid's heads all year that hurtful words are the equivalent to physical bodily harm. (And this is district approved because I checked.)
And then she turns around and says things like, "Use your brain" to him in an annoyed voice when he makes a mistake.

I got a call from my daughter's teacher. My daughter is basically an angel in school. (Takes after me, of course.) He starts in saying he was upset because she sneezed in class and caused a distraction. It's not the sneeze, he assured me, that upset him, it's the distraction it caused. I had an hour long conversation with that man, and at the end, he was sorry he called. Next time my daughter sneezed in his class, his reply was, "Bless you."
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I don't know how young parents do it nowadays. I have family in a Portland suburb, Lake Oswego, that have horror stories about Portland Public Schools (in a very good neighborhood even) that convinced them to move to Lake Oswego to get out of Portland and get their kids into a private school before they hit high school. The stories they have of Newspeak and double-talk and having to sit through oppresive PC "talking points" during Parent Teacher Night from the public school teachers and administrators was horrifying. They saved their kids just in the nick of time, but parents who can't afford to move and pay a private school are not as lucky. And these family members are people who are registered Democrats! It's baffling how this happened to our culture.
 
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Curious Constance

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TP2000 said:
I wanted to like it specifically due to that song. I was humming it all the way on the flight. But then I got there...



What else are we supposed to talk about until Star Wars Land opens? You wanna watch the paint dry on the Incredicoaster?



I don't know how young parents do it nowadays. I have family in a Portland suburb, Lake Oswego, that have horror stories about Portland Public Schools (in a very good neighborhood even) that convinced them to move to Lake Oswego to get out of Portland and get their kids into a private school before they hit high school. The stories they have of Newspeak and double-talk and having to sit through oppresive PC "talking points" during Parent Teacher Night from the public school teachers and administrators was horrifying. They saved their kids just in the nick of time, but parents who can't afford to move and pay a private school are not as lucky. And these family members are people who are registered Democrats! It's baffling how this happened to our culture.
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Oh, yeah. It's not really school anymore, it's a platform where the FAR left can spoon feed their propaganda to young minds. And when parents speak out and don't like it, they basically get told too bad.
 
Rich T

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Curious Constance said:
Oh, yeah. It's not really school anymore, it's a platform where the FAR left can spoon feed their propaganda to young minds. And when parents speak out and don't like it, they basically get told too bad.
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My middle-school was this in the early 70's. One of my teachers took my class on a field trip to a new age church in Berkeley that performed non-binding "free love" naked weddings. Public school. This was the age of New Math, Esperanto, and We're Converting to the Metric System.
 
Rich T

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Okay, to get somewhat back to the topic, here's what just might be the best commercial for a new ride I've ever seen!

See? Ohio's actually very photogenic and all Wild Westy! And such beautiful sunsets! :D
 
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Rich T said:

Testing has begun on Steel Vengeance at Cedar Point. If I can afford airfare to Ohio this summer...for just one day....
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ummm... just wow
- impressive in it's own right, the fact it's a re-track is cray cray

btw, it's pretty obvious that cedar point and kings island alone have a greater collection of good ol roller coasters than any other entire state
- but yeah, they remain... under a dead ohio sky
 
Disneyhead'71

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I have traveled to Ohio many times for coasters and awesome live music. Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, The Who, The Grateful Dead, Peter Gabriel, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Frank Zappa. Cleveland Rocks!
 
Rich T

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Today is Press Day for Steel Vengengeance! And with it comes this best-ever ride-along with Ohio reporter Kenny Crumpton. Cedar Point should give riders the option of playing his commentary as their ride audio:

"AAAAAAAAHHH! YOU ALMOST FALL OUT OF THE SEAT! THAT'S WHAT'S CRAZY! I THOUGHT I WAS GONNA -- AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!"
Toward the end he just loses it and starts yelling "CANDY BAR!" :D
 
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