quote:Originally posted by squeegy: Creme Soda in Southern Africa is green. No drink should ever be green. It's quite nice for a hangover though.
Fun fact here Squeegy. My better half is ACTUALLY southern african without the pitch bent voice because when she came to england she was all like 'pip pip what ho' and doesn't have the accent.
Anyway so she still loves some of the South African food like boerewors, biltong, cheese nik naks, grape Fanta and yes, Sparletta green cream soda and the deadly fish paste. In fact, for this easter weekend I might treat her to a bit of meat (lol, squeek etc) and go to Snoggy's on Upper Richmond Street.
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quote:Originally posted by Deep Freeze: last night I dreamed that BM and I went to a Harry Potter theme park and did loads of coke. It was pretty good.
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Not really. Theme parks must take decades to recoup their losses, and probably take nearly as long to get off the ground. Pottermania will be long gone before you're anywhere near clearing a profit, and your theme park is going to look like old hat even as you're cutting the tape on the first day. Plus regardless of how well (badly) you're doing you're going to be constantly handing over wodges of cash to Warner Bros, Bloomsbury, Daniel Radcliffe etc etc. It'd be like being in bed with the mob. Long after you've gassed yourself in your garage, saddling your family with the debts, economists will be referring to the resultant pile of rusting carts and half-painted dodgems as 'Benway's Folly'.
At best, you could probably justify a Harry Potter ride somewhere, or maybe a themed subsection of an existing theme park. That might just pay for the licensing costs and would probably boost attendance to an existing venture, as long as it could be reconfigured to something else when the hype fades away.
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: Anyway so she still loves some of the South African food like boerewors, biltong, cheese nik naks, grape Fanta and yes, Sparletta green cream soda and the deadly fish paste.
She has excellent taste. Everything on that list is awesome. Even the deadly fish paste.
Yes but you could have a whole theme park, devoted to Harry Potter! Think about it. It would be a smash. Harry Potter this, Harry Potter that. Buy a wizard's hat. Eat a muggleburger. Amazing!
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they should do like a london dungeons thing, but based on recent serial killers. That would be rad. You go round and see recreations of bundy raping / killing college girls, Fred and Rose West torturing the genitals of their dying daughter, Shipman calmly administering a fatal injection. When does it become 'too soon' for that kind of thing?
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quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: They nicked my idea about building it into an existing theme park, too. Scum.
To be fair though, I did have this idea in a dream, so logic and economic rationalism didn't really come into it. It's not like the bit later on with the Japanese hooker was even physically possible, but you know, dreams tend to be that way. The fine details aren't necessarily worked out.
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They should do a Kafkaworld one, where all the staff talk in circles, and you're gradually caught up in an incomprehensible system beyond your control, aware only of mounting paranoia powerlessness and despair as your sanity unravels.
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