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I'm going to try everything I possibly can when I'm there.

I think we're going to head back to KI next weekend and I can't wait, especially now that my youngest is 48 inches tall and we can ride even more together as a family.

Thabto I'll be interested to hear your impressions after your visit.

I've seen Cash Coaster on FunTV at Carowinds, CP, and Michigan's Adventure. Most of the clips I've witnessed have been filmed at Canada's Wonderland, but I've also seen one filmed on Banshee.

RCMAC said:

Kind of judgemental about musicians in general there, eh Redwolf?

Not at all, hence the word "some". I have mad respect for musical skill. Never was the modifier in the sentence "all".

They film at Wonderland because of the exchange rate. One loonie is only $0.77 in USD.

(I'm kidding)

Not so fast, Redwolf.

Do you turn to your co-workers and dictate to them how they should spend their paychecks? Do you propose paydays should be cancelled because an employee has a habit (of any kind?) I should hope not.

We all have a right to payment for work performed or services given. What we do with our money after that is none of your business. You're going to have a very hard time buying things if you refuse to spend money where "some" might make poor spending choices.

You comment was obviously an attempt to show off from your moral high horse. Get down from there.

^ For some reason, I really want some Chick-Fil-A right about now...

Hugely different, the park is somewhere I go to spend my money. I Choose to spend my money as I want to. I cannot determine or tell you how spend your money. This has nothing to do with morality. It has everything to do with free choice. Your analogy is incorrect.

Then why does it matter to you how these artists spend their money?

Except that you would rather Cedar Point spend money on rides and attractions instead of paying royalties to line some drug addicted musician's pockets. Which is what you said. So, you're not spending your money, you're dictating how the company should spend theirs to your satisfaction.

And as for Chik fil A? Let's go.
I judge them. But that's personal for me (and several million others) but more important it's how and where I choose to spend my money, not anyone else's. I won't go there, but y'all can go ahead provided its not Sunday. Do I prefer the restaurants disappear from Cedar Fair parks? No more than I wish them to disappear from the mall. But I cant stop them and won't try- that clearly is none of my business.
And if I were to stand here and make ridiculous statements and insist that Cedar Fair close them down, it would be because they carry a definite, publicly stated policy that I don't agree with. Not because I'm fabricating rash generalizations about "some" of them.

If you're afraid music contracts that parks have will trickle down to include payment to someone that has a habit, then you're probably right. It's not Cedar Point's intention, but it happens. And if you object to it then you should do what I do with my least favorite restaurant. Don't go.

That you infer newer genres of music surely must be full of "whacked out musicians with monthly drug habits" is ridiculous. By the way, was that the Beach Boys I just heard on the walk over there by Soak City?

RCMAC said:

We all have a right to payment for work performed or services given. What we do with our money after that is none of your business.

RCMAC said:

And as for Chik fil A? Let's go.

I judge them. But that's personal for me (and several million others) but more important it's how and where I choose to spend my money, not anyone else's. I won't go there, but y'all can go ahead provided its not Sunday. Do I prefer the restaurants disappear from Cedar Fair parks? No more than I wish them to disappear from the mall. But I cant stop them and won't try- that clearly is none of my business.
And if I were to stand here and make ridiculous statements and insist that Cedar Fair close them down, it would be because they carry a definite, publicly stated policy that I don't agree with. Not because I'm fabricating rash generalizations about "some" of them.

Hmm.. Seems contradictory.

How so?

You earn your pay, and you get to decide when, how and where to spend it. Or when, how and where not to spend it. Which seems to be the opposite of what Redwolf presented.

Your pay; your choice. Not your employer. Not a customer of your employer. Not Redwolf.

FYI: you can delete parts of paragraphs, you know...

let's please not turn this thread into another political/moral debate. Fun TV.

I feel like I'm the only person who likes the music that plays when they show the weather, sports highlights, etc.

The weather stuff is fine by me, sports/news not so much.

Ah, yes, online political discussions. Those always go well. Wait..

I like the weather. It would be nice to see the radar up there too instead of just the time and temp.

While it is a nice idea to have the weather radar up on the screens, it would probably be bad business to do that.

For the same reason why there are not clocks or windows in casinos- in that case its so you don't have a constant reminder of what time it is and when to leave.

Weather Radar, being in its perpetual state of change, is a forecast not an absolute. While the park obviously wants to keep guests aware of severe weather, putting up weather maps showing potential bad weather approaching (weather that may very well miss the point) would scare off guests into early departures.

And the weather does tend to change rapidly around CP giving its location.

I'm not really thinking of weather maps predicting weather, just the loop of what has happened past half hour or so like you can get on the weather sites but I have trouble loading with my phone in the park. Of course I guess other people may not be as good as predicting on their own what will happen next from that and only see that there is a huge blob near the park and freak. Like last week when people kept saying it was going to rain when the sky turned purple and there was lightning but it was all to the east so the chances of the park getting it were almost nothing and it never rained one drop. They never closed anything down for lightning either which I thought was odd maybe it was far enough away I don't know what their mile limit for that kind of thing is.

You can see lightening over a great distance on the lake, the lightening was probably further away than it looked.

Pete's right. You can see lightning 100 miles away so that storm could have been well past Cleveland.