Skaville
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This thread has to be NSC Gold. I was laughing so loud, I nearly woke the bairn up .
New Forest Lapland experience disappointing
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This great, you couldn't make it up !!!!
I laugh every time I see this picture. I'm not sure who looks more embarrassed; the bear or the woman.
Twinkle Toes
Growing old disgracefully
Here's a few choice bits of copy I just found on the Southern Daily Echo's website. Had me in stitches:-
Farcical scenes saw “elves” involved in scuffles with furious parents in a “gingerbread house” and Father Christmas punched in his grotto, according to angry customers who are now demanding their money back.
One parent complained her children even stumbled across “Santa” during a smoking break at the back of his grotto.
A Hampshire recruitment agency which supplied 20 members of staff to the park withdrew all their employees following a number of attacks on staff by furious customers.
Adrian Wood quit the park after being punched in the head and called “a pikey”. He said: “People were complaining before they even got in. How there weren’t riots, I have no idea.”
Another agency worker who asked not to be named said: “We asked Henry (Mears) what to do if anyone asked to speak to the manager if they were unhappy.
“He told us to point them in any direction and look out for the guy with curly hair – but he doesn’t have curly hair.
“He then said if they carried on to pretend we had a phone call or had to go to the toilet and just walk away.”
Diana Porter, from Totton, spent £350 taking her family which included her daughter Anita Saunders and five-year-old grandson Alfie.
Anita said: “My five-year-old son Alfie was looking forward to seeing Father Christmas and the reindeer.When we got there, there were two of them that you could hardly see and he just turned around to me and said: ‘Mummy are they dead?”
“They were lying down in a shed and didn’t look very healthy.”
Farcical scenes saw “elves” involved in scuffles with furious parents in a “gingerbread house” and Father Christmas punched in his grotto, according to angry customers who are now demanding their money back.
One parent complained her children even stumbled across “Santa” during a smoking break at the back of his grotto.
A Hampshire recruitment agency which supplied 20 members of staff to the park withdrew all their employees following a number of attacks on staff by furious customers.
Adrian Wood quit the park after being punched in the head and called “a pikey”. He said: “People were complaining before they even got in. How there weren’t riots, I have no idea.”
Another agency worker who asked not to be named said: “We asked Henry (Mears) what to do if anyone asked to speak to the manager if they were unhappy.
“He told us to point them in any direction and look out for the guy with curly hair – but he doesn’t have curly hair.
“He then said if they carried on to pretend we had a phone call or had to go to the toilet and just walk away.”
Diana Porter, from Totton, spent £350 taking her family which included her daughter Anita Saunders and five-year-old grandson Alfie.
Anita said: “My five-year-old son Alfie was looking forward to seeing Father Christmas and the reindeer.When we got there, there were two of them that you could hardly see and he just turned around to me and said: ‘Mummy are they dead?”
“They were lying down in a shed and didn’t look very healthy.”
£25 and I'm there.
I mean, for, what, about £70-80 ferry fare, £50-60 petrol costs and £40-50 a night for a half-decent cheap hotel, you could hit any of the real-deal proper traditional Christmas markets currently selling gluehwein, gingerbread and wooden soldier-shaped nutcrackers to half-cut people in a big swathe across beautiful medieval towns in continental northwest Europe at the moment: about every town in Holland, Belgium, Germany, northern France. And you get REAL snow and ice too.
But...who'd want that. When, for twice the money, you could have THIS.
It looks more like a cold Guantanamo Bay for animals.
alan partridge
Active member
Few things
1. The photos of this place crack me up every time.
2. I don't see how people are stupid if they go after seeing it on the website seeing as how it was advertised . I.E. nothing like the reality.
3. Shit as it is, beating up the staff seems a bit OTT.
The photos still crack me up though. They should get this place listed so we can all visit it for years to come.
Apologies, but is he not Victor's brother?
I always thought business wise they were very clued up and nothing like the mickey mouse organisation this appears to be.
Is our present council leader connected to the Mears family you're talking about ?
skipper734
Registered ruffian
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Looking forward immensely to their forthcoming Spring extravanganza 'The Miracle Of Easter - As Advertised In The New (Forest) Testament' 
Bloody Hell !!!! So from the implied statements above we have someone from a gangster family running the city ! Wonder how long it will take the Argus to catch up - couple of years
skipper734
Registered ruffian
I thought they were greengrocers not gangsters! 
clippedgull
Hotdogs, extra onions
I think the Albion have taken their eye off the ball here.
A few portacabins, muddy field (Falmer at present)
Fake snow, Dick Knight as Santa Martin Perry as Chief Elf, Dean Cox, Junior Elf
Mr and Mrs Gully could don a reindeer suit.
Plenty of fairies unemployed currently in Brighton
Quids in!!
A few portacabins, muddy field (Falmer at present)
Fake snow, Dick Knight as Santa Martin Perry as Chief Elf, Dean Cox, Junior Elf
Mr and Mrs Gully could don a reindeer suit.
Plenty of fairies unemployed currently in Brighton
Quids in!!
He'll be like Belloti, just the fall guy while mister big laughs all the way to the bank, hope they find the fucker and take him for everything or perhaps 'Universal Justice' will have away of taking the smile off his face - there are a lots of nasty things out there we have no control over, even people with a lot of rip-off money in their bank accounts. Enjoy it Mr. Big, while you can.
Twinkle Toes
Growing old disgracefully
I'm bloody glad I wasn't one of the costumed helpers on the Front Line. Getting punched is, I would imagine, seriously bad for your elf..
*Gets little green coat & scurries off*
*Gets little green coat & scurries off*
Lots of chatter on 5Live about this, this morning including one woman and kid who said they'd heard the elves moaning about their pay, swearing and smoking in full view of the children. Made me think of this:
However with the number of Trading Standards complaints at 2000 and rising rapidly, I couldn't help but think of the Brand/Ross incident and many folk now just jumping on the bandwagon, thinking they have a sniff of getting some money back.
However with the number of Trading Standards complaints at 2000 and rising rapidly, I couldn't help but think of the Brand/Ross incident and many folk now just jumping on the bandwagon, thinking they have a sniff of getting some money back.
That same 'joke' was made on 5Live this morning too.
turienzo's lovechild
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- Oct 25, 2003
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"People were complaining before they even got in."
errr...........why did they go in then?!
errr...........why did they go in then?!
Little boy interviewed on South Today yesterday:
"We got out of the car and it started to get rubbish"
"We got out of the car and it started to get rubbish"
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Little boy interviewed on South Today yesterday:
"We got out of the car and it started to get rubbish"
I saw that and laughed, brilliant wasn't it
I wonder if Withdean gets a similar appraisal from the young fans.
"We arrived at the ground and it started to get rubbish..."