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Those that push their count to mean they know more than you and their opinion is better. Urgh, I want to punch them in the face a thousand times over if it gets annoying. Nice to know youve ridden 1000+ coasters, but how does that mean your opinion is better than others.

Hmmm....another one that I have had the rare pleasure of dealing with is theyve met someone in the business at an event and let it go to there head. For fuxake people, facebook/twitter stalking isnt being their friend. You dont meet with them regularily, you dont even have lunch with them. Dont push around blatant statements like theyve said it to you personally. ARGH!

Those are the two that I fogured I could add to the list of ever growing annoyances.

As for the clapping, yea...its mainly at the events or if there happens to be an abnormally large gathering of enthusiasts at random in a park.

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I think the fact that there's 5 pages of trivial things that 'annoy us' tells its own story. And yeah, that's me talking...
 
Uncertain if it is very exclusive to enthusiasts, however when there are abbrevation for any ride or park whose name exceeds seven letters or similar.

i.e. "Today I went to PL and rode BM, CA and TotNH. BM were fab but not as good as AB at CW or SB at KBF." . . Hmm...?

Perhaps it is exclusive to this forum however I have observed abbrevations used excessively within other enthusiasm as well.
 
^Yeah, that annoys me as well. Personally, I will use abbreviations sometimes, but only if I've already used the full name earlier in the post, or it's obvious from the previous post or the topic itself.
 
Non enthusiasts call Chessington Chessie. It is a town, afterall.

I avoid using abbreviations of things that are not obvious. Like, earlier I listed some parks on a potential roadtrip... I wouldn't think of shortening Waldameer, but CP and KI I shortened because I assumed it was obvious what they were, before saying Dollywood, Holiday World and Silver Dollar City.
 
Joey said:
Non enthusiasts call Chessington Chessie. It is a town, afterall.
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I have a "Facebook friend" who lives in Chessie. I only found out recently he lives in Yorkshire, Chesterfield :roll:

Joey said:
I avoid using abbreviations of things that are not obvious. Like, earlier I listed some parks on a potential roadtrip... I wouldn't think of shortening Waldameer, but CP and KI I shortened because I assumed it was obvious what they were, before saying Dollywood, Holiday World and Silver Dollar City.
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I'm with Gavin on this one and I will use abbreviations once I've established what the thing I'm abbreviating is. I think it's very common though where you have an online community like this to shorten common, long names that would otherwise wear out your S, I, X, F, L, A, G, R, E, A, T, D, V, N and U keys rapidly ;)

Joey said:
I think the opposite is a worse problem. Trying to save old crap from redevelopment is ridiculous. Granted if the ride is particularly special, or good, then yeah sure... But why did we care about Southport again?
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Ooooh, meant to pick this up earlier.

Have you seen Southport "Pleasureland" in the six years since the park closed down? It's essentially a building site with some travelling fair rides on it. It was once a "tidy", small park with a low attendance (I think about 500,000) but that was fun in small doses. The place is a **** hole now and will be for years to come.

Thankfully, Southport never relied on the fair to bring in visitors, but look at towns like Margate and Rhyl, where a move away from that and to "redevelopment" has quite literally killed the towns.

Is it better to have a load of litter strewn empty land or a small park with a couple of coasters? THAT is why we (I :lol: ) cared about Southport.

Will said:
I think the fact that there's 5 pages of trivial things that 'annoy us' tells its own story. And yeah, that's me talking...
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Personally I love how it's making people very defensive and I'm really enjoying wading in with a big spoon and stirring things up too ;)
 
Have you seen Southport "Pleasureland" in the six years since the park closed down? It's essentially a building site with some travelling fair rides on it.
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I've seen some photo's of that place recently, and to be fair, it is looking better than when they first took over. They've made a few small improvements and it does look better for it.

I'm not saying its better now than that what it was before, but I genuinely think they now have a chance of making the place a proper little park again. They're were only given 1 year to begin with, and 6 years later, they're still there... so they must be doing something right.

But thats for another topic.
 
CoasterfanSWE said:
Uncertain if it is very exclusive to enthusiasts, however when there are abbrevation for any ride or park whose name exceeds seven letters or similar.

i.e. "Today I went to PL and rode BM, CA and TotNH. BM were fab but not as good as AB at CW or SB at KBF." . . Hmm...?

Perhaps it is exclusive to this forum however I have observed abbrevations used excessively within other enthusiasm as well.
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Don't go to Disney Forums, all I'm saying lol. I really don't have a quirk with abbreviations as long as it's blatantly obvious what you're talking about. I'm talking parks like SFoT, SFoG, IoA, USF, KD, SFNE, SFDK,etc. When you use something like SFGA I often get confused between great america and great adventure.
 
I doubt this is exclusive to enthusiasts but ride ops who do there absolute beat to staple you so hard you can't breath. Especially when they do it more than I once. Check the harnesses that's fine but it's kind of important to be able to breath >.>
 
^People who don't read topics, or even the first post in them, and just wade in after misinterpreting the topic title. They're the WORST!

bmac said:
I really don't have a quirk with abbreviations as long as it's blatantly obvious what you're talking about. I'm talking parks like SFoT, SFoG, IoA, USF, KD, SFNE, SFDK,etc.
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They're not "blatantly obvious" to a lot of people though, and to assume that they are actually comes across as quite superior to be honest. For a start, your examples are all American parks and Americans make up only a small percentage of users on this particular forum.

Yeah, a lot of non-Americans who use these forums regularly will know what you mean, but what about someone who's new to the forums or to coaster enthusiasm as a whole? They'd be completely lost.
 
^^i did read the title and first post. I hear enthusiasts complain about it all the time. It's just not limited to enthusiasts. It's just not a complaint at other enthusiasts.
 
This has already been said, but without question my biggest gripe about enthusiasts is their propensity to complain about perfectly enjoyable rides. Just because something isn't up to the standards of your top ~20 coasters or isn't the kind of airtime machine you love so much does NOT mean it's garbage. There are such rides out there, and it's completely reasonable to slate them, but to rag on a reasonably fun and well-made ride like it's a total waste of space, time and money (again, Hydra seems to be the ideal example here) is just pretentious and fake.

X:/No Way Out may actually be a crap coaster. Wodan Tibur Coaster is not.
 
Wrong. It's all opinion. Don't mistake people's strong opinions for statement of fact.

I would happily never, ever ride Hydra again.

It's not that it doesn't match any kind of top 20 material or anything (I'm perfectly happy to ride Thirteen again which is really nothingy, but I find it quite fun. If anyone says it's crap, I'd agree, it is. If they say "I'd never ride that POS again", I'd say, "fair enough, it is a bit rubbish, but I enjoy it now."

I really didn't enjoy Hydra. You saying it's "fun" and "well made" doesn't make it so, it just does in your opinion. We all experience different things in a ride and we can only ever take that experience as what we form as an opinion.

So my annoyance is people who take things as a personal slur if somebody dislikes something they like and they can't stretch to understand that people think differently and that a strong opinion isn't law and that you can both hold different opinions and both be right. As long as somebody can explain why they think one way and can construct an argument for their opinion, then it's fine.

An no, Wodan isn't a crap coaster, but it also isn't a good coaster; that's important ;)
 
^^There's absolutely nothing pretentious about disliking something. If it's one person deliberately going against the grain of common consensus just to be "different", then yeah, but otherwise, if someone doesn't like what you like, get over it. People getting all pissy and taking it as a personal insult because someone doesn't like what they like? I'd say that that's actually more pretentious and definitely more annoying.

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i did read the title and first post. I hear enthusiasts complain about it all the time. It's just not limited to enthusiasts. It's just not a complaint at other enthusiasts.
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Yeah, you've 100% not got what this topic is about at all. You're not the only one; don't worry. x
 
It does make me laugh how upset some people get when you say you didn't like a ride that they adore haha. I also think it's funny how some enthusiasts try to make you feel stupid for liking a certain ride.
 
nadroJ said:
It does make me laugh how upset some people get when you say you didn't like a ride that they adore haha. I also think it's funny how some enthusiasts try to make you feel stupid for liking a certain ride.
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Totally agree with this and have experienced it a number of times now.
 
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