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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

to ask whether any 'plus size' MNers have ever been to Thorpe Park?

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RagamuffinAndFidget · 26/06/2012 13:34

A few friends and I are thinking of going to Thorpe Park this weekend but I'm a bit worried that at my present, larger than I'd like, size I won't fit on some of the rides. Their website says they have a 51 inch torso restriction - does anyone know what that equates to in sizes? I am a UK 22 on the bottom and 20 on top.. I don't really want to go and be embarrassed by not being able to fit in any of the rides

I know I am totally BU for posting this here really, but has anyone of a similar size (if you don't mind me being nosy?!) been to Thorpe Park and found it was OK to get on the rides?

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hipposaurus · 27/06/2012 11:21

I'm not worried about the size of other people - each to their own.

But in the nicest possible way, I think if you are obese you should pay for two seats on a plane/bus/train etc as you can't fit in a standard seat size. It's very unpleasant for a stranger to have an obese person overspilling onto them. If the seats were designed for obese people we'd all have to pay higher fares.

Anyway, I deviate from the question, hope you have fun at Thorpe park.

Krumbum · 27/06/2012 11:22

Not you bunbaker, these things were pointed at orchid. Dw lol

OlympicRingSting · 27/06/2012 11:59

With the utmost respect to all the obese Ohchids you prat, you're not offering any respect to anyone who is overweight, you're being rude, mean, and showing how little manners and social grace you have. Sincerely hope your DC aren't as nasty as you.

newport67 · 27/06/2012 12:20

Why is it that when people say "with utmost respect" or "no disrespect" they think they can be disrespectful and get away with it?

OlympicRingSting · 27/06/2012 12:25

It's funny isn't it; that the phrase 'with respect' it always followed by disrespect! Luckily it looks like Ohchids has gone to trawl other threads looking for more people to be rude to and lord it over.

SiioCal · 27/06/2012 12:35

Went to pleated beach last year was an 18 and I had no problem on any of the rides. Since you are 1-2 sizes bigger I would think although it might be a squeeze and maybe a bit uncomfortable I doubt you would actually be too big . I love a good theme park and I've seen loads of bigger people on lots of different rides .

LookAtAllTheseFucksIGive · 27/06/2012 12:40

As a 26 I managed to squeeze on to all the rides at Blackpool (though I do have very small titties for my size).

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RagamuffinAndFidget · 27/06/2012 14:09

Thanks for the sensible/helpful replies all

Just to skip right back to ohchids comment - my boys are nearly three years and nearly eleven months old, they're staying at home with Daddy, so thanks for your concern but they won't be there to be traumatised at the sight of Mama's blubber flying down the log flume. Yes, I'm a fatty, yes I need to lose quite a bit of weight, but I'm not going to sit at home and never leave the house until I've done so. How would I get any exercise, for a start?

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mirry2 · 27/06/2012 14:14

ohchids that was unnnecessary. The op asked a perfectly reasonable question and doesn't need you to tell her to go on a diet.

mirry2 · 27/06/2012 14:20

Go and have fun ragamuffin. You may not be able to fit on all the rides but there are plenty that you can go on and there are other things to do which don't involve strapping yourself in to a seat

ChippingInNeedsCoffee · 14/07/2012 19:04

Ragamuffin - did you go? Did you have a good day??

KittyFane1 · 14/07/2012 19:35

It is very unlikely you won't fit OP. I have been on rides and I have been bigger than you in dress size.
I have also 'not fitted' and despite lots of heaving and pushing of safety harnesses have had to get off. This, I have to add was accompanied by lots of laughter between me, the park staff and my friends!
Nobody was embarrassed as a previous idiotic poster suggested.
I know that some people don't like fat people, are embarrassed by them and look down on them but guess what? Fat people look down on them right back and would be more than embarrassed to call these sad little people acquaintances let alone friends.

Georgiee123 · 20/06/2013 19:12

I was just wondering if you we're able to go on all of the rides in the end?

havingamadmoment · 20/06/2013 19:15

ohchids my daughter got bullied at school because of my hair colour (I have red hair) - I suppose I SHOULD have shaved it all off....

MyShoofly · 20/06/2013 19:17

Gee, I wonder why OP is worried about going....she doesn't want to be bullied and disrespected by total assholes.

Go and have fun OP

tupuedes · 20/06/2013 19:20

Don't worry about ohchids, she posted more out of a desire to wind people up than a genuine problem with the obese.

Footface · 20/06/2013 19:39

I went a few years back, dp and I were on colluses, and the ride wouldn't start. They spent ages trying to work out what the problem was. I just knew it was one of is. In the end we swapped seats and it worked. Bit I felt very humiliated.

I was an 18 in autumn so had layer and dp a bit bigger.

JaquelineHyde · 20/06/2013 19:59

This thread is a year old.

Xales · 20/06/2013 20:02

I am a 18/20/22/24 (please can we have a standard size so I know what to buy!!) and it wasn't the boobs that were the issue it is the thighs/belly.

The boobs squished down into the harnesses, but when sitting the thighs come up a little and the belly had no where to go.

I did get on all the rides I went on though.

Have fun.

Xales · 20/06/2013 20:03

Oh poo X-posts ignore that as you have probably been and discovered for yourself

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