This. I couldn't believe how fat everyone was at Disneyland the last time I went. I mean there are fatties in my state too but it's one of the lower obesity rates in the country, so I still get surprised when I go somewhere and half the women look like they weigh as much as me
Haha. The same when I went to florida in the 90's. Seen a young lad, about 14 or 15, at Gatorland and he was enormous. His t-shirt looked like a 2 man tent. Then a visit to pizza hut where a family of 3 were so fat, scrunched into the seating area, that their top halfs were melting onto the table. It was eye opening.
Being disabled doesn't mean you get preferential treatment. And that is what was happening you didn't have to wait you didn't to do what everybody else did. you got preferential treatment. I think you can accommodate without being preferential. Just make your queues wider.
In practice, in the US, it can manifest in what is, for all intents and purposes, preferential treatment. Disney already have standard queues wide enough to accommodate a wheelchair, but the time it takes to onboard a disabled person and deal with their equipment when they reach the front of an attraction would slow the queue down even more. Taking them aside at the point of boarding could be seen as embarrassing and thus discriminatory under the ADA, so they allow people with disabilities to use a second entrance so that they can discreetly process them outside of the standard process while keeping the primary queue moving more efficiently.
I thought you had to like.. validate that you are eligible to actually use them. That's interesting.
They took the burden off of the people staffing the attractions with the disability access services thing they're doing now. You have to have an interview with a park rep and with the person with the disability present to qualify for the disability pass. Then they give the party with the disabled person what amounts to fast pass time slots for the attractions so they don't have to wait in line. If someone shows up claiming disability and they don't have DAS they can be turned away.
Do you see those seats with specials stickers on the bus or the metro? Or looking back - why do you think a bus has this ramp that retracts?
That is called accommodation making sure you can use the same stuff. More trying to normalize.
When it is a family with a child who has cerebral palsy, take your time folks.
My neural stimulator qualifies me for the DAS service, I use it every time I go to the parks. It's a great service, and yes- there are a shit ton of people with them.
When I went to America I thought I'd seen gluttony before in the UK, but stepping into Walmart was like a religious experience. Seeing the size of those shopping carts and overflowing with industrial sized crates of soda and other sugar filled junk was insane to me.
A lot of peoples carts were filled with just beige looking crap, carbs carbs carbs.
This is the problem. The US government made a food pyramid that made carbs the most important, then went around telling people that meat and eggs will kill you. The sugar industry lobbied hard for the government to be nice to them where even now 100 grams of sugar per day is officially what a person should consume. Carbs are listed at 300 grams per day which is also too high.When I went to America I thought I'd seen gluttony before in the UK, but stepping into Walmart was like a religious experience. Seeing the size of those shopping carts and overflowing with industrial sized crates of soda and other sugar filled junk was insane to me.
This. Every time I grocery shop, I see three-generation families all scooting and creaking around, buying microwave burritos and energy drinks in bulk. Looks like a Mario Kart reskin.
Yep. Corn, which is subsidized by the USDA, who is also in charge of the food recommendations.
Yeah I've listened to a lot of people talk about this on podcasts etc... and 300grams is quite insane. People who consume that much must be experiencing blood sugar crashes on the daily which would be awful. I probably consume 100-125grams which still feels like too much and ideally I'm working towards about 50-75grams of carbs coming from non grain foods and the remaining protein and fat. I couldn't do keto though.
They call their carts "rascals".
Honestly, after three days at Disney I can barely walk and I'm perfectly healthy. If you have, like, arthritis or a bum knee or something that might be perfectly fine in your day to day life, walking 10 miles a day around a theme park for several days in a row could still push you past your limit.
Not surprising when the US has tons of buffets, giant food portions, cheap booze everywhere and rock bottom priced fast food deals. Watching US TV channels and the Taco Bell and McDonalds or bargain pizza ads shown with crazy deals are nuts.
