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LEGOLAND style horrors today

49 replies

MikeRotch · 12/04/2011 16:57

no not people with strangely non moving helmet hair - almost worse.

when going to a theme park you DONT need to dress as if scaling everest - horrible craghopper trousers, trainers with toggles a waterproof and a fixed grim expression. its hardly longer than an afternoons shopping

SImilarly today was COLD - not the day for shorts - but yet men were there with VAST guts( or conversely strangely emaciated ) with slimy sports 3/4 length trousers and trainers with toggles.

Several women turned up ( at 6 degrees this am) in white LINEN TROUSER ( klaxon ) and just looked freezing.

BUt the piece de resistance was a woman in long black leggings that seemd to even cover her feet.
WHY could we see her feet? oh she had gladiators and socks( or maybe legging bottoms) on
WOW

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polyhymnia · 12/04/2011 18:57

OH !!

Hassled · 12/04/2011 19:02

If I had to go to Legoland again I'd dress as though prepared for death. Or maybe as though I were death. Certainly a fixed grim expression would be called for - and maybe a scythe.

brimfull · 12/04/2011 19:03

I would never wear trainers for anything other than exercising. You can shoot me when i do.

LaurieFairyCake · 12/04/2011 19:05

What the fuck were you doing at Legoland?

grim,grim,grim

FriskyMare · 12/04/2011 19:08

My DH has trainers with toggles but they are for when he does triathlons. Is that ok????

Shhhh · 12/04/2011 19:09

saucer of milk anyone..?

Katisha · 12/04/2011 19:14

Eeeooooorrrrghghghghghggg I will have nightmares having clicked on that link

Aaaaiiiiiieeeeeeee

geordieminx · 12/04/2011 19:16

It was like planet of the apes!

FebreezeYourJeans · 12/04/2011 19:20

MY EYES MY EYES

Original poster
MikeRotch · 12/04/2011 19:21

it was lovely there today

but then i am a VEry Good Parent

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ConnorTraceptive · 12/04/2011 19:21

I'm actually wetting myself at the toe shoes! I wonder though do they make special ones for weirdy feet where the second toe is longer than the big toe?

magicmelons · 12/04/2011 19:24

Have you ever been to Gullivers World?

largeginandtonic · 12/04/2011 19:24

Arf.

The twins would LOVE those shoe type things.

We live practically on the beach. Every year it is the same old. Women trekking to the beach in nowt but a bikini and sarong and the men in shorts with no T.

Frightening most of the time but pure insanity when it is 8 degree's out.

Come the 1st of October they all change in to toggle trainers and waterproofs for the same walk. Some of them even carry a map (plastic covered obv)

largeginandtonic · 12/04/2011 19:27

Legoland is fab. The tyranaosaurus rex that roars every now and again (seen breaking through the building near the top of the hill) scared the living daylights out of ds5 last time we went.

womma · 12/04/2011 20:22

The down side of good weather is that the British generally just can't dress well for it/don't look good in shorts, sorry, it's got to be said. The sun seems to take any self conciousness away from a lot of people and also the ability to look in the mirror and realise that they look like shite

Velcro shoes are for toddlers and people who've had a stroke, no one else

JackieNo · 12/04/2011 20:31

I'm with Hassled - I'd have a deeply grim face if I had to spend the day at a theme park (though Legoland sounds like probably the least horrific of all of them!)

foundwanting · 12/04/2011 20:54

It is very shiny coralpink. Must cost a fortune in serums and conditioners to keep it in such good nick.

I saw a strange thing today. A family obviously on holiday in our 'fine city', all wearing three-quarter length, outdoorsy trousers with toggle ties round the hem of each leg.

What is that all about then? Is it in case one wanders into a ferret-infested area by mistake?

Mutt · 12/04/2011 20:59

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Soups · 12/04/2011 22:48

I'll admit to having two pair of shoes with toggles. One pair are cross country running shoes, the other for kayaking (wet laces are hard to tie). Not much call for them round Legoland Grin

Soups · 12/04/2011 23:02

The odd toe shoes are
www.vibramfivefingers.it/eng/default.aspx

My surgeon and phisio both suggested them. I couldn't be arsed with all the question if I went out on the hills in them. I spent the money on a pair of funky long boots instead to strut around town in Grin

cybbo · 13/04/2011 12:15

HUGE rucksack contingent at Alice Holt Forest park on Monday

Also several OTT dressed glam mums struggling on the gravel in high high heels and hipster belts.

Toggle trainer count also V high

I despair

Soups · 13/04/2011 17:57

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WTFeck is wrong with rucksacks at Alice Holt Forest Park? It's a forest...People park there to head off for day long walks. If you're off for a couple of hours with the kids, what should their waterproofs, picnic, sun cream, drinks in be carried in? A large beach bag hooked over one shoulder? Hmm

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