I love going to museum alone so that I can really study the paintings up close. Obviously most things are more fun with other people, unless it's the sort of thing 95% of the population find tedious.

I know, but the Daily Mail provided a lot of other details which this one glossed over.

It says in the Daily Mail article that they were on the ride too.

Do Disney theme parks ever have accidents, or are they generally better maintained?

I think her two children were also on the ride. She probably felt a lot of pressure to stay and make them happy, otherwise they'd need to leave too.

I was going to say that maybe it's like surfing or other extreme sports. Except at least they're a good form of exercise...

I still remember going on a terrible ride called The Flying Carpet and another called a Viking Ship when I was very young. I was definitely too small to be on either, and felt genuinely terrified the entire time, since the solitary metal bar/hand rail was far too loose. I have no intention of going on rides like that…

I hadn't even thought of the weight/obesity aspect until you mentioned it. Obviously I don't mean that in a 'fat shaming' way, and we have no idea what she looks like. However, it may have played a role. Perhaps the employee didn't want to offend her, and so on.

It's not as if she had any idea it was going to happen! I imagine being sued and wrongly vilified will be bad enough.

At 27 I've never been on a rollercoaster. I'm ok with that.

I don't even live in America, yet I've read about so many accidents at that very same theme park. Why do people keep going there?

I thought that, but wikipedia says she died from cancer.

In the UK, the smallest size most clothing shops offer is an 8. A few (minority) offer a size 6. Nothing smaller than that in adult clothing. On saying that, two weeks ago I went shopping and ended up buying one dress in a size 12 in one shop, and another in a size 6 (ten minutes later) in another shop. Vanity sizing…

I like that. It's so sick.

Damn.

She teaches them how to cook pheasant and profiteroles (since that is clearly the only thing they are urgently in need of...)

"I can deal with him not touching me in public and all that"

Post it on groupthink or on your blog. Someone will promote it to groupthink if you don't have posting rights there.

As an adult, it's strange to think about the fact that the animals only breed with their own species. Racism? And have pets, like horses. Slavery?

Googling 'Barbie killer' produces a lot of weird results: