Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
The title is going to enrage a few of you so let me share as a Native Floridian who used to drive the I-4 corridor back in 1995 when we closed up the clubs in Tampa at 9am and then take off for Disney and yes we would drop acid when we got there and tour EPCOT the far superior park to Disney although I will say the Pirates of the Caribbean is a whole adventure by itself, I remember the walls breathing as you were entering and exiting that ride. Let's be real here, most of the folks in those parks were not having the same trip as we were, haha!
The reason I put this in the politics forum is part of my irritability stems from the Mouse House and everything it owns including but not limited to ABC and especially ESPN, then add in they have the rights to Marvel, Star Wars and I start wondering out loud "How the flip did we let this happen?" The constant hammer over the head in quite a number of their Sports programming on ESPN to the point I can't even watch it any more. Or how about how Disney is still running commercials with little children outside wearing a mask when we all know its virtually impossible to catch it outdoors not to mention we mostly have moved past this point yet we are still getting a daily reminder, keep stoking that fire as long as humanly possible. Every night on the TB Rays/MIA Marlins games every half inning I gotta see a kid outside wearing a mask acting like they are having the time of their lives...btw did they explain to this little girl how she was being filmed running around the park? Does she have any clue how that will look down the road in a few years? Exploitation of minors for their political gain is another beef I have with the Mouse House.
Next, I have been reading that now they are catering to the rich. And correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it like well over $100 to get into one of these parks for the day? The Hotels are usually pretty pricey too that Disney owns and operates. The food is expensive and I know folks will dazzle us with these money saving things they do to enjoy Disney, who goes on vacation to save money? I do have an MoP style exchange while I was away in the Mountains, yeah let's jump to Ashevile, NC and the Fairfield Inn by Marriott...
(Side trip) We wake up on the 4th Floor to the sounds of workers drilling and pounding thru cement and whatnot at 7AM trying to fix the pool and hot tub down stairs, I said you gotta be kidding me. Mrs calls the front desk, pay close attention here because you all like to paint me sometimes as a villain when in fact I am the person standing up for others. Wife calls down and my wife has a sweet sounding voice, and she is always calm but I could hear that things were not going well and she started to sound like she was about to raise her voice and I took the phone out of her hand and asked the lady on the phone why she was arguing with my wife and upsetting her. HER WORDS..."What do you expect me to do? There's nothing I can do?" Now I did not start yelling but that was the wrong thing to say to me. I replied to her "Oh there's a lot you can do and I'm going to help enlighten you, let's start by apologizing for waking up everyone in the building by 7am, I couldn't have been the first call of the day" to which she said there have been other calls before we called down complaining...so see she knew the #### was about to hit the fan.
I called the corp number on my cell phone while this woman was yelling at me and then I politely hung up with her after I informed her I was on the phone with Marriott now and would not require any more of her terrific hotel service. I #### you not, I couldn't even get the complaint lodged and the actual hotel manager called me and started an apology the likes I have not heard in a very long time. He started by knocking off $50 from our room, that was generous I thought, good of him to start right off with money. So I asked him how come my wife could NOT get the same treatment that her husband, the MAN seems to get when things need to be fixed...he stuttered a bit and then comped the room for the night, I disconnected from Marriott corporate, no complaint in his file now.
(Back to Disney) Why would you want to support that place? Isn't it time we sat down and leveled with some of our children? Maybe get the video game consoles or baby sitters as I refer to them, maybe time to shut it off for a bit and go play ball with your children? Or maybe it's time to shut that TV off because that TV is costing you a lot of money and a lot of unnecessary heartache with all their ads and programs and stories trying to tell us how to behave and live life. Turn that thing OFF because the only reason you are going to Disney World is because your children watch TV and watch things that influence and control their lives which in turn somehow control yours. So those of you that choose Disney this summer in the 100 degree heat of Central Orlando, you can't get a lot further from the beaches than Central Florida. Give me 5 days on St Pete Beach vs a 5 Day stay at Mosquito World, you folks enjoy though.
For those who cannot connect the dots...If you support the Disney theme parks and spend thousands and thousands on these trips, you're supporting their politics which reaches down into the depths of ABC, ESPN, Disney, the crummy new Star Wars movies and they are horrible. I didn't think they could bottom out past Attack of the Clones but we found a couple along the way that easily push that out of the bottom including side projects like Solo. But please stop supporting this place, let it rot.
The reason I put this in the politics forum is part of my irritability stems from the Mouse House and everything it owns including but not limited to ABC and especially ESPN, then add in they have the rights to Marvel, Star Wars and I start wondering out loud "How the flip did we let this happen?" The constant hammer over the head in quite a number of their Sports programming on ESPN to the point I can't even watch it any more. Or how about how Disney is still running commercials with little children outside wearing a mask when we all know its virtually impossible to catch it outdoors not to mention we mostly have moved past this point yet we are still getting a daily reminder, keep stoking that fire as long as humanly possible. Every night on the TB Rays/MIA Marlins games every half inning I gotta see a kid outside wearing a mask acting like they are having the time of their lives...btw did they explain to this little girl how she was being filmed running around the park? Does she have any clue how that will look down the road in a few years? Exploitation of minors for their political gain is another beef I have with the Mouse House.
Next, I have been reading that now they are catering to the rich. And correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it like well over $100 to get into one of these parks for the day? The Hotels are usually pretty pricey too that Disney owns and operates. The food is expensive and I know folks will dazzle us with these money saving things they do to enjoy Disney, who goes on vacation to save money? I do have an MoP style exchange while I was away in the Mountains, yeah let's jump to Ashevile, NC and the Fairfield Inn by Marriott...
(Side trip) We wake up on the 4th Floor to the sounds of workers drilling and pounding thru cement and whatnot at 7AM trying to fix the pool and hot tub down stairs, I said you gotta be kidding me. Mrs calls the front desk, pay close attention here because you all like to paint me sometimes as a villain when in fact I am the person standing up for others. Wife calls down and my wife has a sweet sounding voice, and she is always calm but I could hear that things were not going well and she started to sound like she was about to raise her voice and I took the phone out of her hand and asked the lady on the phone why she was arguing with my wife and upsetting her. HER WORDS..."What do you expect me to do? There's nothing I can do?" Now I did not start yelling but that was the wrong thing to say to me. I replied to her "Oh there's a lot you can do and I'm going to help enlighten you, let's start by apologizing for waking up everyone in the building by 7am, I couldn't have been the first call of the day" to which she said there have been other calls before we called down complaining...so see she knew the #### was about to hit the fan.
I called the corp number on my cell phone while this woman was yelling at me and then I politely hung up with her after I informed her I was on the phone with Marriott now and would not require any more of her terrific hotel service. I #### you not, I couldn't even get the complaint lodged and the actual hotel manager called me and started an apology the likes I have not heard in a very long time. He started by knocking off $50 from our room, that was generous I thought, good of him to start right off with money. So I asked him how come my wife could NOT get the same treatment that her husband, the MAN seems to get when things need to be fixed...he stuttered a bit and then comped the room for the night, I disconnected from Marriott corporate, no complaint in his file now.
(Back to Disney) Why would you want to support that place? Isn't it time we sat down and leveled with some of our children? Maybe get the video game consoles or baby sitters as I refer to them, maybe time to shut it off for a bit and go play ball with your children? Or maybe it's time to shut that TV off because that TV is costing you a lot of money and a lot of unnecessary heartache with all their ads and programs and stories trying to tell us how to behave and live life. Turn that thing OFF because the only reason you are going to Disney World is because your children watch TV and watch things that influence and control their lives which in turn somehow control yours. So those of you that choose Disney this summer in the 100 degree heat of Central Orlando, you can't get a lot further from the beaches than Central Florida. Give me 5 days on St Pete Beach vs a 5 Day stay at Mosquito World, you folks enjoy though.
For those who cannot connect the dots...If you support the Disney theme parks and spend thousands and thousands on these trips, you're supporting their politics which reaches down into the depths of ABC, ESPN, Disney, the crummy new Star Wars movies and they are horrible. I didn't think they could bottom out past Attack of the Clones but we found a couple along the way that easily push that out of the bottom including side projects like Solo. But please stop supporting this place, let it rot.
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