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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-be ... s-25390071

Every year without fail there's one of these stories now... actually, with plenty of FAIL :lol:

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Those who had paid £6 to take their children to Santa's Grotto found it was closed for much of the day and, when it did open, the Santas were described as being young, thin men in Santa suits.

So did Santa fail a background check? ;)

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I just don't get those "winter wonderland" rubbishness. Take them to the zoo instead!


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I just don't get those "winter wonderland" rubbishness. Take them to the zoo instead!

Yeah! Because nothing says Christmas like a Giraffe and a Rhino. :P

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Watch the video. A kid described it as “stinky wonderland’! :lol:

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They've have done a better job putting me in a santa suit and let me loose on the slopes at the Milton SnoZone.

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Doesn't this happen *every* year?

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Yeah, there was something down south a couple of years ago that suffered a similar fate.

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Doesn't this happen *every* year?


Pretty much, yes. Some shyster with access to some tents sets up a “Winter Wonderland” in a field somewhere, watches up a website with lots of jolly Xmas cheer, and rakes in the cash. People turn up to see a few poorly conditioned reindeer, so hungry dogs and a lot of mud. There’s a fuss on the news, it closes down and the things vanish into the mists from whence they came.

The whole sorry spectacle is repeated the following year by another “entrepreneur” who has clearly not been paying attention, or who has plans that far exceeds his abilities to fulfil them.

The public will, eventually, get wise to this and they’ll go away. Probably to be replaced by variations of “Magical Easter Bunny Land”.

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I just don't get those "winter wonderland" rubbishness. Take them to the zoo instead!


It is Milton Keynes.... could have gone into town :lol:

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Yeah, there was something down south a couple of years ago that suffered a similar fate.


Are you suggesting that MK is oop North?

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I'm suggesting that you can't get much further south than Cornwall, which is where I'm thinking this other place was.

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