Not that you guys will care (645 hits)
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Submitted by Myself (View user info) at 2006-02-10 10:17:22 EST
Not that you guys will care, because the following doesn't contain any sex/rape/or masturbation (shame I know) but I though this place was freaken sweet, and am therefore trying to spread the word. so:
Because my husband and I were going to have the weekend off together, we were looking for something to do that wasn't too close, or too far, from home. What we found was the Atlanta Aquarium, which opened just before Thanksgiving. I really wanted to go because they had Beluga Whales, which I had never seen before, and also Whale Sharks, which, not only had I not seen, but which can not be seen anywhere else in the U.S. The aquarium is very cool all around. They have several touch tanks, with sharks, rays, sea urchins, starfish, anemones (they feel you back!) and other critters. They have lots of cool animals, including a sea otter that (at least when I was there) sucks its thumb. I really enjoyed even the fresh water tanks (which I've seen a lot of before in the Chattanooga Aquarium in TN). The Cold water exhibit (with the sea otters, beluga whales and the urchin/starfish/anemone touch tank) was really very cool <- terrible pun. They also have a very good reef exhibit. The layout of this exhibit is well directed. You walk and look at some tanks, and then you walk around a corner, and BAM! You are 15 feet under the ocean looking at a beautiful tropical coral reef. There is great music, and over your head the surf is crashing on the beach. You'll have to see it to know what I mean. But all of this is nothing as compared to the whale shark exhibit. It consists of a single tank: A single very large tank: A tank with 100,000 fish: A tank with 2 whale sharks, hammerheads, leopard sharks, groupers, and schools/flocks of rays. It is fantastic. This display is also well directed. You walk all the way around the tank, with windows here and there, that let you see slivers of this man made spectacle. Then you come to the tunnel, which is impressive. The light shines down through the water like the sun, the school of rays soaring overhead like graceful birds, and a grouper, with an entourage of yellow fish surrounding him goes by. After this, there are more windows, and then, the main attraction: A huge window. And just like with the coral reefs you are actually there, underwater, and I wish I was still sitting on the floor close to the glass (actually acrylic, but hey) and just watching a recreation of the ocean right in front of my face. In the center of the tank is a school of fish (most of those 100,000 fish) they are yellow and smallish, about the size of your hand or smaller, and they are REALLY schooling. They are like a whirling tornado, spin and swim, and turn as one entity. The whale sharks circle the tank (which is so large they sometimes disappear into the depths as they reach the other side) If one of the sharks swims through the school, they feed on its back, and as the shark emerges it pulls a golden finger of the fish away from the main school with it. The rays go by like birds migrating, and the smaller sharks circle the tank, or lay on the sandy ocean floor. There is music here also, which could not be more perfect. This is worth the trip, and the cost. Parking is about $8 and tickets for adults are $23 per person w/tax. I only have 3 suggestions: bring a camera; you'll be sorry if you don't, as am I. Eat before you go, you can't bring food in, and it's too much inside. And finally, if you live within range to visit more than 2 times a year, buy a pass, you'll want to go back every day.
User Reviews
Submitted by BranDo (user info) at 2006-02-13 23:13:52 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
And I knew you guys wouldn't like it. damn well doesn't seem like you guys are interested in fish.
Hold it right there, you like whaleshark and call it fish? Get your "you guys" out of my face as well as I'm the kind of person who decides what I like or am interested in myself and I don't like to read that YOU knew I didn't like it! Just the form was bad, bad form!
Submitted by digdug (user info) at 2006-02-13 22:57:11 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
"You walk and look at some tanks, and then you walk around a corner, and BAM! You are 15 feet under the ocean"
I hope you get thrown into the ocean, Emeril Lagasse.
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2006-02-13 22:51:44 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
the topic was fine, but i like paragraphs. makes it easier to digest.
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2006-02-13 22:47:32 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
shit... Look what you made me do.
I forgot to rate.
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2006-02-13 22:47:19 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
bigblockoftextandican'treadanythingohmygodyougheyraper!!!1
Submitted by rockdocc (user info) at 2006-02-13 22:38:25 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
I live in japan...you don't see me posting about the gigantic lizards stomping around tokyo, do you?
So what gives you the right to do such a thing with an aquarium.
PS-did you spear the whale shark? 'cause that would have made the story better. Remember, if there's no sex, then at least have violence, if there's no violence...make fun of emo.
Submitted by Gollygoshgirl (user info) at 2006-02-13 22:26:31 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
*Sigh* No good, no good..
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2006-02-13 21:47:09 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
you are literally THE most boring person on the planet, travelling aphid.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2006-02-10 19:07:46 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
With theis post you have disgraced yourself and brought dishonor to your dojo.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-02-10 19:07:14 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
SeaWorld is better
Submitted by DrRobertHand (user info) at 2006-02-10 17:30:32 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Yeah, I read that.
Submitted by KatHunter (user info) at 2006-02-10 12:52:37 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
She would never know, later, if she had somehow made a choice.
Seriously, according to your earlier posts, you're able to use the enter button quite well, so why torture us with this huge block of text? It makes the baby Jesus cry, you know.
Also, you have clearly not been around for too long.
Submitted by no_one (user info) at 2006-02-10 12:33:19 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
10th mistake: not realizing your impending -2 DIE!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, no I actually did anticipate that Foonbo. But I will thank you for at least being the only one so far who apparently read this, and who did in some fucked up egomaniac way provide constructive feedback. Unfortunately, It's true, I didn't write this for you, I'm just using it to test the waters here. And I knew you guys wouldn't like it. damn well doesn't seem like you guys are interested in fish. I'm glad you've been to an aquarium. but I guess I'm not suprised you don't want to go all the way down here. There isn't much else interesting in Atlanta, I'll admit. Yes quit sorry about the pictures. As you can plainly read, I forgot to bring my camera. Shame on me. But, don't think I'll die today. I'll just try something else on monday. And oh, try being a decent human being huh?
Submitted by Professional_Peon (user info) at 2006-02-10 12:31:44 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Congrats. You will now forever be known as the Uber-fish girl.
Good thing the name wasn't already taken.
Submitted by Foonbo (user info) at 2006-02-10 12:19:43 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
1st mistake: telling me I won't care. I may have cared, how do you know? Now, I don't, but I might have.
2nd mistake: immediately telling me there is no "sex/rape/or masturbation" content in your post. Don't give away the ending! Tease the reader.
3rd mistake: typing "freaken sweet."
4th mistake: not being part of a load pumped up your mother's ass or down her throat.
5th mistake: typing what I like to call a "Spooge-Bob Squarepost." Paragraphs, goddammit!
6th mistake: talking about fish and aquatic life w/o pictures. Now you're correct--we don't care.
7th mistake: no aquarium in the world compares to the Shedd Aquarium here in Chicago. Period.
But don't come here--you strike me as the type of dreaded tourist who can't find her way around for shit, creates traffic jams, and wears clothes that scream "Rob my dumb white ass!" We also
hate tourists here in Chicago, despite what the mayor will tell you.
8th mistake: you're a new fish here (oh, lordy, I'm so good with puns!), so you have to earn the casual conversational tone with us. I don't know you, I don't like you, so don't write as though
we've been fuck buddies for a couple years.
9th mistake: stop telling me what I will think! How do you know I will want to continuously return to the Atlanta Aquarium? I was in Atlanta for the '96 Olympics, and I have no desire to return.
10th mistake: not realizing your impending -2 DIE!!!!!!!!!!
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-02-10 10:53:09 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
MY BEAUTIFUL EYES - RUINED
Submitted by MrSparkle847 (user info) at 2006-02-10 10:41:41 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
You're right, I didn't care! I opened up the post and didn't read a word of it!
Submitted by Ballare (user info) at 2006-02-10 10:40:41 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Something something something, fish, some numbers, blah blah blah... Fish.
Submitted by nitty34 (user info) at 2006-02-10 10:40:01 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by dove666 (user info) at 2006-02-10 10:35:18 (#)
Ranking: -2
I heard they had a 'pair of grafs' in the tank. I guess not
BEST REVIEW EVAR
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2006-02-10 10:38:19 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2006-02-10 10:33:40 (#)
Ranking: -2
This post was more painful than a cardiac defibrillator from Big Lots.
Submitted by dove666 (user info) at 2006-02-10 10:35:18 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
I heard they had a 'pair of grafs' in the tank. I guess not
Submitted by sinna (user info) at 2006-02-10 10:33:16 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
SHould have left it at the title.
Submitted by HighVoltage900 (user info) at 2006-02-10 10:29:35 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
NOES!!!!! NOES!!!! The enter button is evil!
Submitted by PokeyPecker (user info) at 2006-02-10 10:25:42 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Because my husband and I were going to have the weekend off together, we were looking for something to do that wasn't too close, or too far, from home. What we found was the Atlanta Aquarium, which opened just before Thanksgiving. I really wanted to go because they had Beluga Whales, which I had never seen before, and also Whale Sharks, which, not only had I not seen, but which can not be seen anywhere else in the U.S. The aquarium is very cool all around. They have several touch tanks, with sharks, rays, sea urchins, starfish, anemones (they feel you back!) and other critters. They have lots of cool animals, including a sea otter that (at least when I was there) sucks its thumb. I really enjoyed even the fresh water tanks (which I've seen a lot of before in the Chattanooga Aquarium in TN). The Cold water exhibit (with the sea otters, beluga whales and the urchin/starfish/anemone touch tank) was really very cool <- terrible pun. They also have a very good reef exhibit. The layout of this exhibit is well directed. You walk and look at some tanks, and then you walk around a corner, and BAM! You are 15 feet under the ocean looking at a beautiful tropical coral reef. There is great music, and over your head the surf is crashing on the beach. You'll have to see it to know what I mean. But all of this is nothing as compared to the whale shark exhibit. It consists of a single tank: A single very large tank: A tank with 100,000 fish: A tank with 2 whale sharks, hammerheads, leopard sharks, groupers, and schools/flocks of rays. It is fantastic. This display is also well directed. You walk all the way around the tank, with windows here and there, that let you see slivers of this man made spectacle. Then you come to the tunnel, which is impressive. The light shines down through the water like the sun, the school of rays soaring overhead like graceful birds, and a grouper, with an entourage of yellow fish surrounding him goes by. After this, there are more windows, and then, the main attraction: A huge window. And just like with the coral reefs you are actually there, underwater, and I wish I was still sitting on the floor close to the glass (actually acrylic, but hey) and just watching a recreation of the ocean right in front of my face. In the center of the tank is a school of fish (most of those 100,000 fish) they are yellow and smallish, about the size of your hand or smaller, and they are REALLY schooling. They are like a whirling tornado, spin and swim, and turn as one entity. The whale sharks circle the tank (which is so large they sometimes disappear into the depths as they reach the other side) If one of the sharks swims through the school, they feed on its back, and as the shark emerges it pulls a golden finger of the fish away from the main school with it. The rays go by like birds migrating, and the smaller sharks circle the tank, or lay on the sandy ocean floor. There is music here also, which could not be more perfect. This is worth the trip, and the cost. Parking is about $8 and tickets for adults are $23 per person w/tax. I only have 3 suggestions: bring a camera; you'll be sorry if you don't, as am I. Eat before you go, you can't bring food in, and it's too much inside. And finally, if you live within range to visit more than 2 times a year, buy a pass, you'll want to go back every day.
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If that was a review, would you read it?
Exactly.
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2006-02-10 10:22:23 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
NOW YOU MUST SLEEP WITH THE FISHIES!
Submitted by ess-arr (user info) at 2006-02-10 10:20:16 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
Nurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Submitted by MichelleNJ (user info) at 2006-02-10 10:19:31 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
My eyes hurt already, and you make me squint to read that crap? I think not!
Submitted by phuzzygish (user info) at 2006-02-10 10:19:26 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Because my husband and I were going to have the weekend off together, we were looking for something to do that wasn't too close, or too far, from home. What we found was the Atlanta Aquarium, which opened just before Thanksgiving. I really wanted to go because they had Beluga Whales, which I had never seen before, and also Whale Sharks, which, not only had I not seen, but which can not be seen anywhere else in the U.S. The aquarium is very cool all around. They have several touch tanks, with sharks, rays, sea urchins, starfish, anemones (they feel you back!) and other critters. They have lots of cool animals, including a sea otter that (at least when I was there) sucks its thumb. I really enjoyed even the fresh water tanks (which I've seen a lot of before in the Chattanooga Aquarium in TN). The Cold water exhibit (with the sea otters, beluga whales and the urchin/starfish/anemone touch tank) was really very cool <- terrible pun. They also have a very good reef exhibit. The layout of this exhibit is well directed. You walk and look at some tanks, and then you walk around a corner, and BAM! You are 15 feet under the ocean looking at a beautiful tropical coral reef. There is great music, and over your head the surf is crashing on the beach. You'll have to see it to know what I mean. But all of this is nothing as compared to the whale shark exhibit. It consists of a single tank: A single very large tank: A tank with 100,000 fish: A tank with 2 whale sharks, hammerheads, leopard sharks, groupers, and schools/flocks of rays. It is fantastic. This display is also well directed. You walk all the way around the tank, with windows here and there, that let you see slivers of this man made spectacle. Then you come to the tunnel, which is impressive. The light shines down through the water like the sun, the school of rays soaring overhead like graceful birds, and a grouper, with an entourage of yellow fish surrounding him goes by. After this, there are more windows, and then, the main attraction: A huge window. And just like with the coral reefs you are actually there, underwater, and I wish I was still sitting on the floor close to the glass (actually acrylic, but hey) and just watching a recreation of the ocean right in front of my face. In the center of the tank is a school of fish (most of those 100,000 fish) they are yellow and smallish, about the size of your hand or smaller, and they are REALLY schooling. They are like a whirling tornado, spin and swim, and turn as one entity. The whale sharks circle the tank (which is so large they sometimes disappear into the depths as they reach the other side) If one of the sharks swims through the school, they feed on its back, and as the shark emerges it pulls a golden finger of the fish away from the main school with it. The rays go by like birds migrating, and the smaller sharks circle the tank, or lay on the sandy ocean floor. There is music here also, which could not be more perfect. This is worth the trip, and the cost. Parking is about $8 and tickets for adults are $23 per person w/tax. I only have 3 suggestions: bring a camera; you'll be sorry if you don't, as am I. Eat before you go, you can't bring food in, and it's too much inside. And finally, if you live within range to visit more than 2 times a year, buy a pass, you'll want to go back every day.
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If that was a review, would you read it?
Exactly.
Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2006-02-10 10:18:50 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
big blocks of text make baby jesus get molested