rollercoasters, 1898 stylee
just found this. mind boggling that footage this old exists in this quality imo. (the sound is fake though)
like how everyone dressed their absolute sunday best at all times back then. however getting off the carriage before it stops is clear health + safety breach though, no need for that!
like how everyone dressed their absolute sunday best at all times back then. however getting off the carriage before it stops is clear health + safety breach though, no need for that!
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I could be wrong though, but something just does feel right with that clip.
the footage has been "stabilised" apparently. Not sure exactly what that means, but I agree the background of the park + people looks a bit odd somehow...
It does look weird. It took me a while to work how the car on the right keeps going 'up'. But isn't that a top view of the one on the left. If so that does prove there has been some editing. But why fake it? Are all films fake. Everything is edited etc. I always say all of TV is a lie ;)
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Going ever so slightly OT.. The desire to constantly be the center of attention, or put another way, a celebrity, is also a narcissistic/psychopathic trait, which while not the only one in and of itself that is the determining factor, is nevertheless a pretty big a red flag, and that end of the pathological spectrum is known to show no empathy or see anything wrong in what would normally be considered outrageous or (put mildly) inappropriate behaviour, such as exhibited by some of the more notorious examples you allude to. They, however, do excel at mimicking the exact type of behaviour that shows them in the best light or show exceptional charm that they use to lure people into their confidence.
It is said that the vampire is the allegorical manifestation of the psychopathic personality. A vampire drinks the lifeblood of its victim, whereas a psychopath/narcissist feeds on the emotional and mental energy of theirs.
Anyway.. back to circa 1898 rollercoasters that may or may not be faked..
but let's get... back on track.
US version....
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The angle of the view is deceptive though. Fogging in the distance disguises the fact that the camera is pointing downhill, giving the illusion that the far end of the track is much higher than it is. This one at Folkestone gives you a better idea of how they were built. The two tracks are much more on a level than they appear to be in the film.
As the car arrives on the left, you can see everyone jumping off and guides rushing in to take hold of the car and stop it rolling backwards - it's still on a slope. They push it up higher, the tracks switch it over to the right-hand-side behind the camera, new people get on, then they let it go down the right-hand side. It's just running under gravity.
At the far end you can see people running out to push it the rest of the way up the slope, and a few of the people that got off have already run around the top of the ramp to the other side to ride it back.
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I've been on the wooden coaster at Great Yarmouth and it's worrying how loosely it appears to stay on the track. But the big American ones look terrifying from a safety point of view.
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It's in Scarfolk, just up the A1128 from Melchester.
And just down the road from the Scarfolk Drop.
Rolf. I should have said Cackpool, after looking at the colour of the sea there and what you often find floating in it. Either that or Cesspool.
Incidentally how does somewhere get the name Skegness? It sounds as bad as it probably was at the end of it's heyday. Skaggyness is what I think of when see that place name, which I am told is not too far off the mark.
It comes from the Norse word "Skeggi" ("people with beards") and the English word "ness" (headland), apparently it was an early Viking settlement, and the local Anglo Saxons called it Skegness (headland with lots of bearded people) as a warning to avoid the area (because it was full of Vikings).
Everyone has a crap game inside them, let yours out!
It pops up on my facebook every now and then. There's a whole blog of it here: http://scarfolk.blogspot.co.uk/
Not in my dictionary it doesn't...
You're absolutely right, I can only apologise for using such an disreputable and unreliable publication as the Oxford English Dictionary - they obviously don't devote the same amount of time to research as the fine people at Roger's Profanisaurus ;-)
Everyone has a crap game inside them, let yours out!
There's a lot of places around there with 'thorpe' in the name too. That's from 'torp', which refers to an outlying farm several miles from a town. So they're all named after whoever owned the farm, e.g. Malbert's Farm -> Mablethorpe.
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The local developers keep saying "It's Here!", we keep saying "It's Where?"
They keep saying "It's the Spirit of Sittingbourne!" we keep saying, yup it's dead and and full of drunks, charity, coffee and empty shops.
Sittingbourne... don't make eye contact with the locals and never stay for more than 180 days.
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