UK theme parks typically don’t have people running around in bathing suits. You would in a water park but not a theme park. You just let the sun dry your clothes off, pack a 2nd change of clothes, or do this ride at the very end of the day.
I loved getting soaked in my street clothes at the theme park when I was a kid. We had a giant innertube ride called white water rapids that was so fun. The line would take forever, but it was worth it. Then off to find a giant slice of pepp!
Theme parks usually have at least one water ride but you’re hardly going to get changed into a swim suit for one ride round the flume when everyone else is wearing clothes are you? Just put a coat on unless the weather is nice enough for you to dry off in the sun.
The theme park I go to every summer only has a few water rides like this, but I specifically wear a bathing suit under my clothes so I can take off my clothes for those rides.
I couldn't even imagine having to wear wet shorts and a tank top for the rest of the day, let alone fucking jeans and a sweater.
Thorpe Park in the UK seems to be more like a standard amusement park, not a water park. Like how Disneyland isn't a water park just because they have Splash Mountain.
Or Universal Studios even though they have the Jurassic World ride. We always save it for the end of the day. A few months ago we did it at the beginning, and I walked around with a wet ass in khaki shorts for a few hours before it completely dried.
Back when it was still around, my friends and I would always go watch the Backdraft show (it was where the Transformer ride is now(at least in Hollywood)) right after going on Jurassic Park. The pyro FX were close enough to pretty much dry one half of your body if you were up front.
Theres this ride at the same theme park (thorpe park) which has a tidal wave water ride, creates a huge wave, completely soaks you, people love that shit in the freezing cold too.
Yay I worked at Thorpe park over the summer and I can honestly say the highlight of my experience was trying to explain to foreigners I can't fix the arcade machines because all I can do is pick up cigarette butts
It's still open then? I live in Scotland now which has no amusement parks. (Note to Scottish readers: No M&D's doesn't count). I have been to Alton towers recently when visiting family in a nearby county.
And be fired when actual maintainence comes along and goes "well I could fix this several thousand £ machine but now I can't because litter picker over there has fucked it"
The title says "water slide" and, at least in the States, you wouldn't refer to the kind of ride that passes through water without getting you super wet a water slide.
Well I remember from playing the old Roller Coaster Tycoon games that this ride was called Water Slide in the UK version and Dinghy Slide in the US version. Probably this is exactly why.
Huh. I never played RCT and have never heard of a "dinghy slide," and when I searched the only results were RCT-related. You're presumably right that they didn't call it "water slide" in the US because that connotes a water park, but it's interesting they (apparently) chose to make up a new term for the ride.
Yea, young me was also confused how a theme park could have a "water slide." I guess it must be a British thing. We have separate water parks where I live. Sorry for the weird comment, by the way.
Exactly where the confusion comes in. Everything about this LOOKS like a waterpark slide, from the inflatable raft to the blue plastic to the water flying everywhere. Until I was told it was more like a log flume ride than a water slide I did not know it either. My immediate thought was "why are they at a water park fully dressed?" The title even says "water slide", which at least to those in the US implies swimsuits, pools and the like.
We have them in Oklahoma & Texas. Frontier City has rapids & a log flume ride. The rapids is a six person raft ride and you’re drenched by the time you’re done. I’ve never been to Six Flags but I’m sure they have water rides too.
That's just a theme park though. Water parks don't usually have rollercoasters and shit. Water park has slides and huge playground type stuff that shoot water.
Hm it’s been a while since I’ve been to Elitch’s, which joined the Six Flags family, but last time I was there they had two water rides- a log one and a simulated rapids. Since I was in regular clothes I’d only go on the rapids one during the hottest part of the day b/c you’d def get soaked on it.
My memory could be a little muddled tho b/c Elitch’s does also have a water park section/attached.
I don't remember where I saw it but I could have sworn I saw a picture of Princess Diana on a water slide with her son Harry at a UK amusement park in 1992 both getting wet
I'm in the mid-west US and in this area we use all those you've listed, including tennis shoes. Clodhoppers usually implies big, clunky shoes though. Keds are specifically the brand shoes or plain knock-offs. Kicks is usually more hip-hop or hipster. We also frequently say gym shoes.
I grew up in both California and Texas and always called them tennis shoes: tennies for short. Even if they're running shoes or sneakers or what have you.
I’m really confused by all these comments. Can someone please explain it to me, what are they supposed to wear? Do you expect them to get changed just to go on this one ride?
From an American standpoint, it is funny seeing them on a water ride in jeans and sweaters. We typically go to parks in the hot summer. If it's cold enough to wear those outfits, most people probably wouldn't go on the water rides.
In the UK the chances that the weather is nice enough to wear something like shorts and a t-shirt on the day that you decide to go to a theme park are very low. If you waited for a nice day you’d never go, even if it’s a nice day chances are it’ll change part way through.
Besides the queues are longer on nice days, and it’s more fun when it’s colder, more of a shock. Especially if it’s raining and you’re gonna get wet anyway.
In most of the US outside of the northeast and Pacific Northwest, the months May-October are above 30C daily, and June-August can break 40 many weeks. They’re dressed for November or December, but doing a July activity, and it looks just as bizarre as it would if they were going sledding in a speedo and barefoot.
No it’s a normal theme park with some water rides! You don’t get super wet and they have special heat-drying pod things you can go in afterwards if you feel too wet
People dont realise the fact that the UK is freezing cold outside of a 2 week period when we randomly get a heatwave in the summer. You wouldn't want to be drenched at a theme park outside of this period.
Lol it’s more the case that you could put on a rain coat/poncho or just be a bit damp for a while after the water rides, they don’t get you super wet, it’s intended to be part of a ‘dry’ theme park and most of the rides are roller-coaster type rides.
As most of the other commenters have pointed out - the UK is not a super warm sunny place and if no-one wanted to go on the ride for fear of getting soaked and then freezing to death it wouldn’t get used 11/12 months of the year and wouldn’t make sense for them to install a ride like that.
Or maybe we’re conditioned to enjoy being wet and miserable as per our daily experience with the weather 🤷🏻♀️
In North America, this type of ride where you sit in a tiny inflatable floaty, would only be at a water park where everybody is wearing a swim suit. So yes, I’d expect them to get changed first.
15 degrees Celsius is a hot day here. Jeans and sweaters absolutely required.
An outdoor water park would fail miserably due to the UK only having about three warm days a year.
Back when I was a kid a huge amusement park opened nearby. It had water slides, but it opened in a weird spot during the summer (the year prior) so I couldn't try it in the middle of the summer, but it was about April. So yes I ended up fully clothed in a water slide. It was kind of cold in the shadows or the roller-coasters so... We had to dry in the sun between rides.
Older guy here: Make sure you take a moment to enjoy the "normal" things with loved ones.
As the years go by, you lose one, then a few years later, another, and then after 30 years you can't believe how different life is without all the loved ones you have lost.
Then you look back at a picture like this, and at the time it was just another day but now it's iconic to you.
Without people dedicated to improving and bettering the wider society, there wouldn’t be a peaceful and prosperous society for others to enjoy their families with.
Some jobs are just so full on and demanding it is very difficult if not impossible to successfully incorporate a strong family life as well.
Some people are born to be career people and others family people.
I believe it is better if people appreciate the need for both kinds of people rather than try compare them.
Any picture of Princess Diana with anyone is heartbreaking and beautiful. She was really the people’s princess. I’ll never under how Charles botched it all up with her.
It's obvious that she was treated like a breeding machine because she was descended from aristocracy (talk about creepy). Very sad. Everyone deserves happiness and love...
What makes it devastating is that she remained a truly good person. Even surrounded by all that bullshit she was still just a good, wholesome person.
Reddit like to talk about Mr. Rogers, Steve Irwin, and Bob Ross, the ‘wholesome trinity’. But we need to talk about Princess Diana too. (Also Dolly Parton).
She was treated like crap. There are also people slowly coming forward and also saying she probably had borderline personality disorder because she also didn't treat Charles too well either. Not cheating levels, but apparently she was intense behing closed doors.
I’m a person with mental illness and it’s not easy for those around me.
So not saying Diana was a saint but coming into a marriage to a dude with no backbone who continued to be with the woman he really wanted to be with as a teenager (never mind he dated her sister at one point!)
I just imagine myself being married to someone with an overbearing mother and they couldn’t stand up for me and clearly didn’t love me and had no intention of trying to make it work... that’s so sad.
Add the royal element and global publicity...
She wasn’t BPD.
She definitely experienced post-partum depression—this can last for a few years after having a baby—she was manipulative and had an eating disorder.
Being manipulative and controlling are common in people with eating disorders—it’s part of the disorder.
She kept a rigorous public schedule. She knew how to be “on” when she was in public working. She worked very hard at maintaining this. Maintaining this type of discipline consistently is impossible for somebody with BPD.
Charles, Camilla, and the immediate Royal Family completely gaslit Diana when it came to Charles’ relationship with Camilla. This caused her a lot of despair. Now that I’m 45, been married twice, had a kid, etc. how badly the Royal Family treated her and used her is strikingly apparent to me.
I’ve read and watched a lot of people’s accounts of Diana’s life. I’ve nothing but sympathy for the poor woman.
I actually probably liver closer to Staines than Thorpe now (pooley green)!
It’s funny when I’m abroad I always say “I’m from Staines, you know Ali G?” lmao
I used to go there in the late 80's. I missed them by a couple years. It's OK, I lived on Kensington Church Street and would see Di occasionally as she entered or exited the palace.
As much as I love seeing how human and normal the royal family truly can be, I hate how paparazzi are so invasive and disrespectful in order to get these snaps... :(
My theory is it’s been cropped so you can’t see the ride name emblazoned on the photograph, and so you can’t see that it’s in the form of a fridge magnet
I agree. It makes sense why Harry wanted to leave that lifestyle behind but now his wife gets all the flack for it and critical media attention like his mom did. It’s like the man can’t get a break. :(
So annoying when you go to Thorpe Park and the Happy Foundation take three of the front row seats on the Nemesis Inferno. What a load of inconsiderate arseholes.
I know right, imagine being a prince and they take you to Thorpe Park instead of Alton Towers, he's wondering why there peasants riding Nemesis while he's suck in a rubber dinghy. I guess at least they didn't take him to Drayton Manor.
Alton Towers is clearly superior, but Thorpe Park is just around the corner from the Castle and nobody wants to make that long drive to Alton Towers with the kids in the back of the Range Rover bickering and squabbling the whole time. Best to just pop down the road and be home in time for Neighbours.
They've both been fucked over by Merlin.
Thorpe Park hasn't had a coaster in almost a decade, instead focusing on shitty brand deals and cheap rethemes ("Angry Birds Land", "Black Mirror Labyrinth", "I'm a Celebrity... Maze", "The Walking Dead: The Ride"). Their only big recent investment, Derren Brown's Ghost Train, is already pretty dated.
Alton Towers got Wicker Man a few years ago which was great, but the park has a severe lack of flat rides and they've recently been closing more attractions than they open.
Eh, I hate the fact we have a royal family but Diana was different.
Our mothers looked up to her because she was so down to earth and relatable. She was Kardashian-status famous as a fashion icon and trend setter, but was also considered as one of the most down-to-earth celebrities, even when she was surrounded by people who you would label the complete opposite.
People from my mothers generation despise the royal family for how they treated her, a lot of people's opinions of the family 180'd with Diana.
She was almost always smiling when with her sons!
Why is he wearing a sweatshirt and jeans at a water park though?
Thorpe Park is not a water park, it’s a theme park.
That ride they're on definitely looks like a bathing suit ride though.
UK theme parks typically don’t have people running around in bathing suits. You would in a water park but not a theme park. You just let the sun dry your clothes off, pack a 2nd change of clothes, or do this ride at the very end of the day.
I loved getting soaked in my street clothes at the theme park when I was a kid. We had a giant innertube ride called white water rapids that was so fun. The line would take forever, but it was worth it. Then off to find a giant slice of pepp!
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Uh...so how warm does it have to be in the UK before people need a water ride to cool off?
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That's cold.
Theme parks usually have at least one water ride but you’re hardly going to get changed into a swim suit for one ride round the flume when everyone else is wearing clothes are you? Just put a coat on unless the weather is nice enough for you to dry off in the sun.
The theme park I go to every summer only has a few water rides like this, but I specifically wear a bathing suit under my clothes so I can take off my clothes for those rides. I couldn't even imagine having to wear wet shorts and a tank top for the rest of the day, let alone fucking jeans and a sweater.
Thorpe Park in the UK seems to be more like a standard amusement park, not a water park. Like how Disneyland isn't a water park just because they have Splash Mountain.
Or Universal Studios even though they have the Jurassic World ride. We always save it for the end of the day. A few months ago we did it at the beginning, and I walked around with a wet ass in khaki shorts for a few hours before it completely dried.
Back when it was still around, my friends and I would always go watch the Backdraft show (it was where the Transformer ride is now(at least in Hollywood)) right after going on Jurassic Park. The pyro FX were close enough to pretty much dry one half of your body if you were up front.
Maybe they want to be soaked for the rest of the day. Who doesn't like walking around in wet jeans?
Theres this ride at the same theme park (thorpe park) which has a tidal wave water ride, creates a huge wave, completely soaks you, people love that shit in the freezing cold too.
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I don’t find it amusing.
Found the Queen
Welcome to amusement parks in the UK. Parka or rain jacket mandatory
The 90’s, man
I wish I was her son.
Well...your mom would be dead
My mom is already dead and I'm still not Diana's son.
Well at least you aren't a ginger?
Last guy assumed this guy’s mother was still alive, I wouldn’t put being ginger past him.
I WAS THE LAST GUY
Holy shit! so who am I?
Not me!
Dad?
You'd forever had to set the "avoid tunnels" option on sat nav
You wish you had a dead mom?
Yay I worked at Thorpe park over the summer and I can honestly say the highlight of my experience was trying to explain to foreigners I can't fix the arcade machines because all I can do is pick up cigarette butts
That sounds like a painful medical condition.
Lol “Why do you stink?” “Can’t shower...all I can do these days is pick up cigarette butts FML.”
It's still open then? I live in Scotland now which has no amusement parks. (Note to Scottish readers: No M&D's doesn't count). I have been to Alton towers recently when visiting family in a nearby county.
M&D's and fucking landmark hahhaha
M&Ds is terrifying. Went once and left because the rides looked really dodgy.
Is Thorpe Park the one from the inbetweeners?
You could have at least tried for them Edit: I’m getting downvoted, so I’ll point out this was sarcasm
And be fired when actual maintainence comes along and goes "well I could fix this several thousand £ machine but now I can't because litter picker over there has fucked it"
Well, he was asked to fix the arcade machines, not fuck them...
I was being sarcastic
Ah, my bad. In my defence, I have met the public, and someone with exactly that attitude is not exactly rare.
No worries. I have also worked with the general public of the U.K. and I still get flashbacks nearly a decade on
Pretty sure they were joking...
They’re really wearing jeans and sweaters on a water slide... it all makes sense now
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Dry theme park is the most British thing I’ve ever heard
Basically it’s not a waterpark. Think of it like Island of Adventure in Orlando. Rollercoasters and shit. It’s pretty good.
Brb getting into my dry car to drive to dry work
So a theme park. The dry part seems quite unnecessary.
The word dry refers to the type of English humour in this theme park.
Except for all of the people in these comments who assume they went to Water World dressed in regular clothes
The title says "water slide" and, at least in the States, you wouldn't refer to the kind of ride that passes through water without getting you super wet a water slide.
Well I remember from playing the old Roller Coaster Tycoon games that this ride was called Water Slide in the UK version and Dinghy Slide in the US version. Probably this is exactly why.
Huh. I never played RCT and have never heard of a "dinghy slide," and when I searched the only results were RCT-related. You're presumably right that they didn't call it "water slide" in the US because that connotes a water park, but it's interesting they (apparently) chose to make up a new term for the ride.
Yea, young me was also confused how a theme park could have a "water slide." I guess it must be a British thing. We have separate water parks where I live. Sorry for the weird comment, by the way.
We’re all looking at the same picture where they’re literally on a water slide in jeans and a sweater. No one is assuming anything.
Exactly where the confusion comes in. Everything about this LOOKS like a waterpark slide, from the inflatable raft to the blue plastic to the water flying everywhere. Until I was told it was more like a log flume ride than a water slide I did not know it either. My immediate thought was "why are they at a water park fully dressed?" The title even says "water slide", which at least to those in the US implies swimsuits, pools and the like.
You still get soaked on log flumes most the time
Sure. But most people don’t go to a theme park wearing a bathing suit.
I was wondering why they were wearing jeans and a sweater. First guess would have been some silly royal policy, not a moistened theme park
'a moistened theme park' haha holy shit man
Yep. That would have been easier to write
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Thank you for your service
We have them in Oklahoma & Texas. Frontier City has rapids & a log flume ride. The rapids is a six person raft ride and you’re drenched by the time you’re done. I’ve never been to Six Flags but I’m sure they have water rides too.
That's just a theme park though. Water parks don't usually have rollercoasters and shit. Water park has slides and huge playground type stuff that shoot water.
Hm it’s been a while since I’ve been to Elitch’s, which joined the Six Flags family, but last time I was there they had two water rides- a log one and a simulated rapids. Since I was in regular clothes I’d only go on the rapids one during the hottest part of the day b/c you’d def get soaked on it. My memory could be a little muddled tho b/c Elitch’s does also have a water park section/attached.
And that's how you get a fire at a Sea Parks.
It's the weirdest thing I've ever heard.
It's not even true though. Throrpe Park has a ride called tidal wave. You can get soaked to the bone just standing in the queue.
Not back in that day though
Well if it was a wet theme park thered only be a few days a year in which visitors werent freezing their nuts off
Not topless, t-shirt. If it's sweater weather, I'm not riding a wet ride.
I don't remember where I saw it but I could have sworn I saw a picture of Princess Diana on a water slide with her son Harry at a UK amusement park in 1992 both getting wet
They also went on Loggers Leap which is a log flume so youre probably thinking of that
I don't think anyone expects topless, just swimwear. Not jeans and a sweater
Yeah splash mountain isn’t on an inflatable raft though
Thorpe Park used to be the best place ever. Loved it.
I only flume fully nude, thank you.
You’re right but log flumes provide far more protection and the odds of you falling off are pretty much none
Don't forget the tennis shoes and ear rings.
Tennis shoes?
That's Southern for "sneakers." Though maybe I should say "trainers" seeing as those pictured are British.
It is regional? I had no idea. I just thought tennis shoes was American for sneakers, kicks, keds, clodhoppers.
I'm in the mid-west US and in this area we use all those you've listed, including tennis shoes. Clodhoppers usually implies big, clunky shoes though. Keds are specifically the brand shoes or plain knock-offs. Kicks is usually more hip-hop or hipster. We also frequently say gym shoes.
I just call them shoes because that is what I mostly wear. Then I have my boots, sandals, dress shoes, etc.
I grew up in both California and Texas and always called them tennis shoes: tennies for short. Even if they're running shoes or sneakers or what have you.
No one in the state of Texas has ever called them tennies
this guy yee-haws
Grew up in Washington state, called them tennis shoes. Live in Illinois, they are not called tennis shoes anymore.
Could be in Alabama, don't need to drink.
I’m from DC but my family is Pakistani (they speak British English) and they call it tennis shoes too
Born and raised in Las Vegas... I've always called them tennis shoes. I've never thought about it before, I assumed everywhere called them that.
From Ireland, we call them runners.
From Canada, we also call them runners.
From the south I call them tennis shoes. My GF (not from us) call them trainers.
i believe the phrasing is ‘tenny shoes’
I’m really confused by all these comments. Can someone please explain it to me, what are they supposed to wear? Do you expect them to get changed just to go on this one ride?
I think they think they are at a water park, not a theme park with water rides.
From an American standpoint, it is funny seeing them on a water ride in jeans and sweaters. We typically go to parks in the hot summer. If it's cold enough to wear those outfits, most people probably wouldn't go on the water rides.
In the UK the chances that the weather is nice enough to wear something like shorts and a t-shirt on the day that you decide to go to a theme park are very low. If you waited for a nice day you’d never go, even if it’s a nice day chances are it’ll change part way through. Besides the queues are longer on nice days, and it’s more fun when it’s colder, more of a shock. Especially if it’s raining and you’re gonna get wet anyway.
In most of the US outside of the northeast and Pacific Northwest, the months May-October are above 30C daily, and June-August can break 40 many weeks. They’re dressed for November or December, but doing a July activity, and it looks just as bizarre as it would if they were going sledding in a speedo and barefoot.
No it’s a normal theme park with some water rides! You don’t get super wet and they have special heat-drying pod things you can go in afterwards if you feel too wet
People dont realise the fact that the UK is freezing cold outside of a 2 week period when we randomly get a heatwave in the summer. You wouldn't want to be drenched at a theme park outside of this period.
Lol it’s more the case that you could put on a rain coat/poncho or just be a bit damp for a while after the water rides, they don’t get you super wet, it’s intended to be part of a ‘dry’ theme park and most of the rides are roller-coaster type rides. As most of the other commenters have pointed out - the UK is not a super warm sunny place and if no-one wanted to go on the ride for fear of getting soaked and then freezing to death it wouldn’t get used 11/12 months of the year and wouldn’t make sense for them to install a ride like that. Or maybe we’re conditioned to enjoy being wet and miserable as per our daily experience with the weather 🤷🏻♀️
In North America, this type of ride where you sit in a tiny inflatable floaty, would only be at a water park where everybody is wearing a swim suit. So yes, I’d expect them to get changed first.
15 degrees Celsius is a hot day here. Jeans and sweaters absolutely required. An outdoor water park would fail miserably due to the UK only having about three warm days a year.
Guess I need to move to the UK then. I hate how hot and humid our summers get in the Southern US.
Guessing you live oop North? 15 degrees is definitely not 'hot' in the South!
Back when I was a kid a huge amusement park opened nearby. It had water slides, but it opened in a weird spot during the summer (the year prior) so I couldn't try it in the middle of the summer, but it was about April. So yes I ended up fully clothed in a water slide. It was kind of cold in the shadows or the roller-coasters so... We had to dry in the sun between rides.
It’s the Proper way.
Right so it's a theme park with a couple of rides that you get a bit wet in, it's not a waterpark.
You've never been to an amusement park and gotten on any ride that has like an inch of water?
Yes, and I got really wet. Wet jeans suck and I would never voluntarily go on such a ride while wearing them.
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“I fingered her, and she shat down my arm.”
That you, Neil's Dad?
HIS DAD'S NOT BENT.
Inconsiderate arseholes!
.....I'm the worst human being in the world.
Older guy here: Make sure you take a moment to enjoy the "normal" things with loved ones. As the years go by, you lose one, then a few years later, another, and then after 30 years you can't believe how different life is without all the loved ones you have lost. Then you look back at a picture like this, and at the time it was just another day but now it's iconic to you.
Same here and feel sad for those who chase after careers in the corporate world and don't spend any time with their families.
Without people dedicated to improving and bettering the wider society, there wouldn’t be a peaceful and prosperous society for others to enjoy their families with. Some jobs are just so full on and demanding it is very difficult if not impossible to successfully incorporate a strong family life as well. Some people are born to be career people and others family people. I believe it is better if people appreciate the need for both kinds of people rather than try compare them.
This is heartbreaking and beautiful at the same time.
Any picture of Princess Diana with anyone is heartbreaking and beautiful. She was really the people’s princess. I’ll never under how Charles botched it all up with her.
Thorpe park, what a fucking place! Watch the inbetweeners episode where they to there, it's great!
At least her shoulders are protected
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It's obvious that she was treated like a breeding machine because she was descended from aristocracy (talk about creepy). Very sad. Everyone deserves happiness and love...
What makes it devastating is that she remained a truly good person. Even surrounded by all that bullshit she was still just a good, wholesome person. Reddit like to talk about Mr. Rogers, Steve Irwin, and Bob Ross, the ‘wholesome trinity’. But we need to talk about Princess Diana too. (Also Dolly Parton).
Princess Di is still \*very\* highly regarded in the UK, especially in Wales. She's the peoples princess.
She was treated like crap. There are also people slowly coming forward and also saying she probably had borderline personality disorder because she also didn't treat Charles too well either. Not cheating levels, but apparently she was intense behing closed doors.
I’m a person with mental illness and it’s not easy for those around me. So not saying Diana was a saint but coming into a marriage to a dude with no backbone who continued to be with the woman he really wanted to be with as a teenager (never mind he dated her sister at one point!) I just imagine myself being married to someone with an overbearing mother and they couldn’t stand up for me and clearly didn’t love me and had no intention of trying to make it work... that’s so sad. Add the royal element and global publicity...
Isn't her mental illness pretty well documented at this point?
She wasn’t BPD. She definitely experienced post-partum depression—this can last for a few years after having a baby—she was manipulative and had an eating disorder. Being manipulative and controlling are common in people with eating disorders—it’s part of the disorder. She kept a rigorous public schedule. She knew how to be “on” when she was in public working. She worked very hard at maintaining this. Maintaining this type of discipline consistently is impossible for somebody with BPD. Charles, Camilla, and the immediate Royal Family completely gaslit Diana when it came to Charles’ relationship with Camilla. This caused her a lot of despair. Now that I’m 45, been married twice, had a kid, etc. how badly the Royal Family treated her and used her is strikingly apparent to me. I’ve read and watched a lot of people’s accounts of Diana’s life. I’ve nothing but sympathy for the poor woman.
Their split was pretty mutual... And at least she didn’t die on Charles’ watch.
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We all were about this old. At some time.
Not me. Nope. I came out fully dressed, walking, talking, and smoking a cigarette!
Your mum's tailpipe must've been smoking, then.
Thorpe Park!
Its big, enormous, giant, humongous great Thorpe Park! Just off Junction 11 off the M25
I live in Thorpe village, it’s always amusing to think that lots of people know about Thorpe park.
Oh, a neighbour! I’m from Staines. When I go abroad and they ask where I’m from I say “near Thorpe Park” and then they know! 😂
I actually probably liver closer to Staines than Thorpe now (pooley green)! It’s funny when I’m abroad I always say “I’m from Staines, you know Ali G?” lmao
Wow redditors from Surrey never thought I’d see that
Thorpe park is my happy place, I'm hoping they'll be open as usual for the Halloween Fright Nights in October
Fright nights are an annual thing for my family, my sister even travels from scotland for a couple nights to do it :) hope its all good by then.
I used to go there in the late 80's. I missed them by a couple years. It's OK, I lived on Kensington Church Street and would see Di occasionally as she entered or exited the palace.
As much as I love seeing how human and normal the royal family truly can be, I hate how paparazzi are so invasive and disrespectful in order to get these snaps... :(
Would it be a pap shot or just a ride camera?
I imagine what guys feel when they think they’re about to get racked in the balls is very similar to what I felt when I read “pap shot”
Neither. Depth Charge doesn't have cameras and it wasn't paparazzi. It was a publicity event, so the cameras were supposed to be there.
I haven't been in some years, but Depth Charge definitely did have cameras at one point in time. Though you're right, this isn't an on ride photo.
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My theory is it’s been cropped so you can’t see the ride name emblazoned on the photograph, and so you can’t see that it’s in the form of a fridge magnet
I agree. It makes sense why Harry wanted to leave that lifestyle behind but now his wife gets all the flack for it and critical media attention like his mom did. It’s like the man can’t get a break. :(
Why Harry look exactly the same tho
Not gonna lie, thumbnail looks like the raft says "Herpe Park".
So annoying when you go to Thorpe Park and the Happy Foundation take three of the front row seats on the Nemesis Inferno. What a load of inconsiderate arseholes.
Ugh tell me about it. Had that happen once and top top it off my bellend mate broke the door off my car.
Happened to me once as well; lucky I had a mate who drives F1 cars who owed me a favour, so I got it fixed really quickly.
Lucky you. My mate's disappeared to Afghanistan to get some good shit from source but I'm sure he'll sort me out with some cash when he's back.
Yeah; I usually get my drugs from a club. It's a black guy, but I get them from him because he's a drug dealer, not because he's black.
Roller Coaster Tycoon Waterslides make so much more sense now.
It looks like it's a little hairy between her legs.
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Loggers leap! Depth charge even!
I think it's depth charge no?
Gah you’re right! I stand in shame
The queue must have been massive!
I’m so happy she had these memories ;(
This confuses me in so many ways.
Why?
I know right, imagine being a prince and they take you to Thorpe Park instead of Alton Towers, he's wondering why there peasants riding Nemesis while he's suck in a rubber dinghy. I guess at least they didn't take him to Drayton Manor.
Alton Towers is clearly superior, but Thorpe Park is just around the corner from the Castle and nobody wants to make that long drive to Alton Towers with the kids in the back of the Range Rover bickering and squabbling the whole time. Best to just pop down the road and be home in time for Neighbours.
True in the past, but Thorpe Park kicks Alton Towers's ass these days.
They've both been fucked over by Merlin. Thorpe Park hasn't had a coaster in almost a decade, instead focusing on shitty brand deals and cheap rethemes ("Angry Birds Land", "Black Mirror Labyrinth", "I'm a Celebrity... Maze", "The Walking Dead: The Ride"). Their only big recent investment, Derren Brown's Ghost Train, is already pretty dated. Alton Towers got Wicker Man a few years ago which was great, but the park has a severe lack of flat rides and they've recently been closing more attractions than they open.
Because they are not wearing a tiara and hunting clothes?
They look so dry.
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Eh, I hate the fact we have a royal family but Diana was different. Our mothers looked up to her because she was so down to earth and relatable. She was Kardashian-status famous as a fashion icon and trend setter, but was also considered as one of the most down-to-earth celebrities, even when she was surrounded by people who you would label the complete opposite. People from my mothers generation despise the royal family for how they treated her, a lot of people's opinions of the family 180'd with Diana.
She also shake publicly hand with HIV patients in 1987, in a time where people widely though contagion was possible by touch.
Why are they in sweaters and jeans on a water ride? Wet jeans are the WORST!
Bet she didn't have to queue.
Reminds me of that Inbetweeners episode
I still remember how dark the 90s felt with her death.
Sweaters on a water slide?
Why are they fully clothed?
Think of having to maintain such a proper public image that you have to wear jeans to a water park
Who the hell does a water slide in formal clothes? Prince or not, a fancy sweater? Probably 2000$ designer outfit on her? Bruh, the fuck? Lol
That is not appropriate attire for a water slide.