Disney World AAR

[Ideologue]

What's a simulated roller coaster?

You sit in a chair that jerks around while images on the screen in front of you come at you.

I.e., the kind that actually make me throw up, because my brain can't match the input from my senses balance and vision, and therefore assumes I've been poisoned.

[katmai]

What's a simulated roller coaster?

You sit in a chair that jerks around while images on the screen in front of you come at you.

I.e., the kind that actually make me throw up, because my brain can't match the input from my senses balance and vision, and therefore assumes I've been poisoned.

I would think your body couldn't tell with all the shit you eat.

[Ideologue]

Only time I ever threw up at an amusement park was when I watched this curved-screen fiasco about racecars.

[Caliga]

I.e., the kind that actually make me throw up, because my brain can't match the input from my senses balance and vision, and therefore assumes I've been poisoned.

I don't have any problem at all with the simulators, and not in terms of motion sickness, etc. with the roller coasters.  The lame thing is that I have a pair of those things you clip to your glasses to wear around the back of your head/neck to keep them from falling off--which I got for my boat--but I left them on my sunglasses which I left in my car in Kentucky.  We tried to find another pair in one of the Disney gift shops, but couldn't.  I was surprised that they don't carry them.

[Caliga]

DISNEY WORLD AAR
Part III: The Confederate Flag Report

Confederate Flags Spotted
1.  50+ foot tall flagpole sporting the Stars and Bars outside of Lake City, Florida on I-75
2.  50+ foot tall flagpole sporting the Stars and Bars outside of Tifton, Georgia on I-75
3.  I also saw a few cars with Confederate flag bumper stickers in Florida (oddly, one in Celebration right outside Disney World) and one somewhere in south Georgia.

What's interesting about this trip is that I saw fewer Confederate flags in South Carolina--where I actually saw zero--than in south Georgia and Florida.  I knew that Florida Crackers were extremely Southern in orientation... but moreso than South Carolinians?

Part IIIa:  The I-75 'Spa' Report
I noticed billboards for lots of 'Spas' (TRUCKERS WELCOME!) on I-75 between Valdosta and Macon, Georgia.  These Spas seem to be staffed by sexy ladies in lingerie and bikinis.  Princesca asked if she could stop in and get a manicure at one of them.  I told her I didn't think so.  In what may or may not be a coincidence, the exit(s) that led to these spas often led to sex shops (WE HAVE TOYS AND DVDS!) as well.

[Eddie Teach]

What's interesting about this trip is that I saw fewer Confederate flags in South Carolina--where I actually saw zero--than in south Georgia and Florida.  I knew that Florida Crackers were extremely Southern in orientation... but moreso than South Carolinians?

From this, we can conclude that Cal doesn't understand probability and statistics.

[Capetan Mihali]

My mother took my sister and me on an ill-fated trip to Disney World as kids.  We got separated from her in a crowd and got taken to the lost kids holding pen while she got to run through every child abduction scenario in her mind for a couple of hours.  My sister whined every time we had to wait on line for more than 10 minutes.  I behaved like a nutjob and was seized with fear about going on almost any ride.  Although, like Cal, I did love that Star Wars motion simulator.    Driving back to Tampa, the car went off the road in a huge thunderstorm.

The most pleasant memory is probably my youthful surprise at seeing so many guys sporting rattails.  Oh, and eating one of those massive Chipwich things, even though it was probably freaking 12 dollars or something.

[stjaba]

Part IIIa:  The I-75 'Spa' Report
I noticed billboards for lots of 'Spas' (TRUCKERS WELCOME!) on I-75 between Valdosta and Macon, Georgia.  These Spas seem to be staffed by sexy ladies in lingerie and bikinis.  Princesca asked if she could stop in and get a manicure at one of them.  I told her I didn't think so.  In what may or may not be a coincidence, the exit(s) that led to these spas often led to sex shops (WE HAVE TOYS AND DVDS!) as well.

There's one of those right outside of Gainesville. It's called Cafe Risque. It's a strip club combined with a sex shop combined with trucker showers combined with a restaurant. I went once, on "College Night" which was free admission with college id and purchase of all you can eat wings for like 10 bucks. The wings were actually pretty good. The strippers, not so much. 

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

There's one of those right outside of Gainesville. It's called Cafe Risque. It's a strip club combined with a sex shop combined with trucker showers combined with a restaurant. I went once, on "College Night" which was free admission with college id and purchase of all you can eat wings for like 10 bucks. The wings were actually pretty good. The strippers, not so much.

WE BARE ALL!

Yeah, never had any urge to stop there.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

1.  50+ foot tall flagpole sporting the Stars and Bars outside of Lake City, Florida on I-75

Must be north of 10, because I've never noticed one.

Have seen plenty on the road, though.

[Caliga]

Must be north of 10, because I've never noticed one.

Have seen plenty on the road, though.

It was somewhere around there... could have been north of the intersection with I-10.

[Caliga]

There's one of those right outside of Gainesville. It's called Cafe Risque. It's a strip club combined with a sex shop combined with trucker showers combined with a restaurant. I went once, on "College Night" which was free admission with college id and purchase of all you can eat wings for like 10 bucks. The wings were actually pretty good. The strippers, not so much.

Now that you mention it I remember ads for that place, too.

[MadImmortalMan]

Why go to Disney if you don't have kids?

[The Larch]

There's one of those right outside of Gainesville. It's called Cafe Risque. It's a strip club combined with a sex shop combined with trucker showers combined with a restaurant. I went once, on "College Night" which was free admission with college id and purchase of all you can eat wings for like 10 bucks. The wings were actually pretty good. The strippers, not so much.

Now that you mention it I remember ads for that place, too.

In case you want to discuss this any further, I've created a poll in this burning issue. 

[Malthus]

There's one of those right outside of Gainesville. It's called Cafe Risque. It's a strip club combined with a sex shop combined with trucker showers combined with a restaurant. I went once, on "College Night" which was free admission with college id and purchase of all you can eat wings for like 10 bucks. The wings were actually pretty good. The strippers, not so much.

Now that you mention it I remember ads for that place, too.

In case you want to discuss this any further, I've created a poll in this burning issue. 

The 'burning issue' only happens if you accept a "massage" from one of the truck-stop ladies.