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Hello everybody welcome back to Your Stupid Opinions.
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My name is James Petragallo, I'm here with my co-host.
I'm Jimmy Wissman.
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Oh, I'm always hungry always hungry. Well, let us go to Idaho where we always go when we're hungry
That's where I go. Damn it, why am I not in Idaho?
My stomach is grumbling.
We're going to the Idaho Potato Museum.
Oh, the museum.
And Potato Station Cafe.
That's gotta be boring, right?
I mean, the cafe sounds great.
I would hope they have some good french fries, maybe get a big potato there.
Now this place is at 130 Northwest Main Street in Blackfoot, Idaho
Okay, and it's described as exhibits on the history and cultivation of potatoes in a former train depot
with a cafe and gift shop
You've been here before
It's got an enormous, like a...
Yeah, a giant spud right out front.
Eight foot long, fucking seven foot high potato out front of it, so you can't miss it really.
If you've driven by it, you've seen it.
It's got four and a half stars on Google.
People love the potato.
Is that right?
Yeah, 2350 reviews too.
I mean this is...
My God.
People are going to the potato museum.
It closes...
That's everybody in town. That town going to the potato museum. It closes. Everybody in town.
That town's tiny.
Yeah.
It closes at 5 o'clock which is real early.
I don't even get like, my interest in potatoes starts peaking around 7, 8.
You know what I mean?
It's really, it's not that early.
5 PM.
We're done.
5 PM.
Get the fuck out.
Potatoes are over.
So here we go.
Five stars.
This is from Walter. He's got
1,521 reviews on Google so this guy he's been to
1,521 places at least and this was a five-star this dude reviews everything he does he goes to McDonald's every time through the drive-thru
It's a review like you can't review. I haven't been 1,500 places in the last 20 years
Have you that That's crazy.
I don't think so.
Holy shit, that would be five places a day for a year.
That's a lot, yeah.
That's a lot, so.
Five stars, we enjoyed our visit and learnt, learnt,
not learnt, learnt.
That's Blackfoot.
So much about the famous potato.
The fully loaded baked potato served
at the museum restaurant
was a blast. I've never heard of a potato or any meal being described as a
blast like the food itself. A potato especially. Wally. It had bacon bits on
it though Jimmy so it's really a blast. It's a blast then it gets crazy
So fun imagine someone putting a potato in front of you and you're like fuck yeah
Fucking devil horns. Yeah
How deprived are you all you've been to 1500 places? I mean the blast where is he going?
Byron that's one person. I'd like to explore their reviews and see what that's it. That's it. It was a blast
Doesn't have time he's got a review he's got a review the eight other things he did today He doesn't have a lot of time thing better dance like the California raisins for a whole lot of stuff
Are you telling you the sour cream moves around the bacon bits?
Do a little fucking shuffle?
Byron five stars.
Probably the best potato museum I've ever seen.
I would hope so.
We've seen more than one.
It is Idaho.
Do they have multiple potato museums?
That's possible up there, honestly.
That's what I mean.
They all have one.
In fact, many people are saying it's the best food museum around.
Oh. Food in general., I didn't general.
I literally didn't know food museums existed until this cheeseburger
potato music that I'll go to.
I'll go to the cheeseburger museum. That sounds terrific.
They even have a replica of the world's largest potato.
I think it's I don't think it's a replica of the actual potato.
I think it's that out front. That's the largest.
Now, I think it's just a giant potato they put out there.
I don't think they're like this.
We have the exact measurements of the world's largest fucking
recorded potato when we made a copy of it outside.
They even have a restaurant that features many different potatoes.
I mean, French fries, baked and top notch potato soup.
I was going to put in a potato pun, but I could not find a place to mash it in.
Oh, you son of a bitch.
Byron, Byron, Byron, Byron.
You did it anyway.
Lousy son of a bitch.
You can do the museum in about an hour.
Great.
In about as much time as it takes to bake a potato.
Right.
So perfect.
Marissa five stars.
By the way, I love potatoes in all things potato.
Potatoes are wonderful.
It's the most versatile thing on the planet.
I love it.
I love a baked potato, I love a mashed potato,
a roasted potato, crispy on the, ah!
They're amazing.
Jesus Christ, french fries, give me those thick steaks.
There's no bad way to do it.
No, potatoes are wonderful.
So for me to go here and to not love it,
it would really have to suck.
It would really have to be bad.
You'd have to have no potatoes.
No potatoes.
It's not even about potatoes.
It's about turnips.
Like your experience in North Carolina
when you thought you had potatoes on your plate
and they were not potatoes at all.
Fascinating potatoes.
That's because it's not a potato, Jimmy.
Oh, makes no sense.
It was funny that I knew what you ordered,
and I was like, you didn't look at your menu item
that you ordered?
And then you were like, have a bite,
and it tasted like a wet mushroom.
It was weird, it was not.
This is bad.
It was bad.
Marissa Five Stars, I went on a road trip
and saw a bunch of things, including the Grand Canyon,
and I can confidently say this was one of the best
moments of my trip.
Get out of here.
I've seen the largest hole in the world but I saw also a giant potato.
Blackfoot Idaho to the Grand Canyon is like a two day ride.
10 hours.
Yeah it's so long.
I could not stop talking about it to my family as I had such a great experience.
These poor people
All she keeps talking about is a giant potato out in front of the fucking place shut up Marissa shut up
Jesus Christ. I was given pins and
Instant mashed potatoes which instantly set the tone for the rest of the museum. Here's a pin
Here's a box of fucking Idahoan.
Get in there and look around.
Yeah, yeah.
A little pouch of them.
The history, VR experience, Mr. Potato Heads, videos,
and massive baked potato statue outside
were interactive and fun to do.
My absolute favorite part was the cafe,
and at, cafe at the end,
it really tied the whole
experience together and I couldn't stop smiling imagine if you took her to like
a Broadway show her head would explode it's like oh my god they're dancing and
singing and acting and there's other people there wait till she goes to
Disney after every ride they have all the toys for the theme there too.
Oh my god.
Right as you get out.
And then a giant mouse talks to you, it's incredible.
It's so good.
So she says, the staff was amazing and super sweet.
10 out of 10 experience.
I've been recommending it to everyone, I bet you have.
You've been annoying everyone you know about.
And they're like, you know at her job,
they're like, Jesus Christ, fucking Marissa
and that goddamn tomato or potato museum, I can't take it anymore. It's too
much. She never shuts the fuck up about it. She's looking for it for sure. Uh, please
never close and then prayer hands. Never close. How often do you want to go back here? Okay.
So that's the good. I love, you know a place is gonna be funny
when the good reviews are hilarious.
That's when they're funny.
Okay.
How do you get mad at this?
That's what I mean.
Well, some people do.
Let's find out.
Emerald, one star, super mad at it,
and a lot of reviews for this person too.
The museum side was cool, pretty annoyed
because specifically picked this restaurant and forced the family to stop
Just to get a baked potato and check out the place
Went to order food after finishing the museum and they said they're out of potatoes for a minimum of 30 minutes
Okay potatoes take a while to bake if you want to bake potato
There's no way to speed that up unless you want it in the microwave and being like, shit.
Yeah.
I want a decent potato.
But this is-
They came to a museum strictly for the cafe?
To eat a baked potato, to pull off the road
so they could eat a baked potato.
Go to Wendy's.
Which is a really strange thing to do here.
This is 100% what you are known for and what you do.
How are you out?
I'm highly disappointed.
Went to find some other unique place to eat went to find some other weird
Museum with the who are the facsimile of the food they serve in giant form right outside their door later
I need to learn about my dinner before I have it and then
But I don't want a dinner either. I just want a side dish
That's not even a dinner. No. It's just a potato.
You go to the broccoli museum and just eat broccoli?
Yeah, that's my dinner here. Highly dis- how are you out? They didn't say they were out.
They said it would be 30 minutes. They're making more.
You fucking jerk off.
They're in the oven.
Alright, here we go. Idaho Potato Museum and Potato Station Cafe owner has responded.
Oh really?
Hi Emerald, I'm glad you found somewhere else to eat.
I love how that has just enough snark in it.
Glad you didn't starve to death because we were out of potatoes for 30 minutes.
There are a lot of great local options in Blackfoot, Idaho Falls, Pocatello and Fort
Hall.
No there's not. No there's not. of great local options in Blackfoot, Idaho Falls, Pocatello and Fort Hall.
If you're in a hurry and don't have the time to wait for a spud, you have the option
of calling in at this phone number to order your potato one to two hours out or purchase
it online at IdahoPotatoMuseum.com.
You can pre-order your potato.
We make sure to have spuds for those orders, especially if you have an arrival time on
your order.
Okay, that sounds fair.
Mads, one star, was absolutely dumb.
Yeah, it's a potato museum.
It's just a fun, stupid thing.
You're not going to go and go, Jesus, I'm not as informed about the potatoes as I want
it to be.
What do you want from these people?
I want to know so much more about the russet
Do not go waste of six dollars
Sincerely a native Idahoan also the talking basement potatoes definitely got an illegal lobotomy. Please check on mrs. Potato
What are we I couldn't dollars? It's six dollars to walk around in there. That's what this costs waste of six dollars
If you spent an hour six dollars is you did you got your money's worth even if it wasn't that fun
Just six dollars is a that's a if you can waste an hour. That's fine
And I don't know about you for six dollars
Not a lot nothing you can't get a McDonald's extra value meal for six dollars
So walk around and shut the fuck up
Eric one star
For a potato museum. They really didn't know anything about potatoes lol
This person's quiz and people none of my answers were answered none of my answers were answered
This person just said maybe because you didn't know how to ask,
you were answering instead of asking.
You should have asked questions.
That's your problem.
Okay, here we go, here are his questions.
Answer one, other than grocery stores,
where can I buy a bag of potatoes?
Okay, that's not an answer.
This person doesn't know the definition
of the word answer and question.
They had no clue.
Yeah, I don't know, a farmer fuck. Are you talking about a farm?
You know a guy on the corner with a second, but I don't care where you buy your fucking potatoes
This isn't what we're about here answer to answer to where is the nearest potato farm?
They didn't know on it motherfucker. They didn't know they told me to Google it
They didn't know on it motherfucker. They didn't know they told me to Google it
Answer three who sells the biggest potatoes they didn't know
No, no Answer four who tell who sells the most potatoes are you looking for a company a guy?
What are you talking about surprisingly no one knows lol?
Answer five where do you guys get the potatoes from a distributor? They don't know who?
No, I mean, yeah, I don't know Idaho man. What do you think somewhere around?
That's where they grow them. No one there really even knows anything about potatoes for a potato museum
The price was six bucks too high and the to not
to too high with no tour guide do you really need a tour guide to be told
about potatoes can you just walk around and read some shit and such a small
space but the main reason I went there to buy potatoes this guy can't find
potatoes anywhere else in Idaho he's like they must have them here
He doesn't have those answers to his questions. That's why he's asking that me wants the biggest potatoes he can find And where can I get them? Yeah and hoping to eat the world's best potatoes
Unfortunately, they only gave me six pieces of potato dollars six pieces of potato dollars lol
I don't know what that means. And a small amount of fries.
Save your money, your six dollars,
which is what fries cost.
Just Google everything and go to the nearest restaurant
to eat a potato.
Those are all separate sentences, by the way.
This guy's, the Idaho Museum has answered him.
Don't you worry.
It's ruined him, it broke him.
They came back and they have answers for young
Eric here. Hi Eric. I'm not sure who you spoke with but there's a good chance it was one
of our teenagers who work in the cafe and gift shop. I'm sorry you didn't get the answers
you were looking for but there are not short answers to your questions. More than likely
the teenager simply didn't know how to articulate what they've known since birth. Here are your
answers. One, yes, you can purchase the potatoes
directly from the growers or at You Pick Farms
or even at farmers markets.
There are even a few roadside booths
where travelers can stop and purchase their spuds.
Some locals even glean potatoes
at the end of a harvesting season.
And then in parentheses,
gleaning is picking up potatoes
left in the fields after harvest.
Yeah, there are some that are gonna fall off off the truck. Yeah, it's called stealing from
farms. But for most people who live in our area, we just go to the grocery store because our stores
carry potatoes that come from the local farms like Wada and non-periel. Where is the nearest
farm? The fields are all around us. Go in any direction and as soon as
you are out of the city limits you can be near a potato field. There are a few fields inside the
city limits too but they're smaller. The hardship in answering this question is that we can tell you
where the farm is located but giving out directions is more difficult. We know where they are but don't
know where the address is without looking it up and you can do that as just as easy as we can do it. We can tell you the water
farms in Pingree, Liberty's gold offices are in Blackfoot and so are non-parrills. Idaho
potato growers are in Shelley, but I can't tell you exactly where their fields are. Also,
growers rotate their fields so we would not know what crop is in what field until their
plants start to grow.
And frankly, we don't keep track.
Because we don't give a shit, man.
Because no one cares about this but you, Eric.
You fucking weirdo.
You fucking potato weirdo.
You strange potato nerd.
I don't like it.
Eric's just out here trying to debunk potato museums.
Yeah, you fucking potato liars.
Three, who sells the biggest potatoes?
Potato growers do not deliberately grow big potatoes
or harvest by a uniform size.
As the harvest comes in, the growers sort potatoes
as to size and they are sold according to size.
Most consumers prefer to purchase smaller potatoes
because they take a lot less time to cook.
Small potatoes. But larger potatoes are sold.
The Idaho potato museum purchases 50 pound boxes of potatoes.
These boxes are sold by potato size. We purchased sixties, which means it takes,
this is really inside potato baseball here. Very inside potato jargon,
which means it takes 60 potatoes to fill a 50 pound box.
If you were to buy hundreds, that would mean a 50 pound box. If you were to buy
hundreds, that would mean 100 smaller potatoes. If you were to purchase 40s, they would be
larger.
Who sells the most potatoes? As you know, farms like all other businesses are private
enterprises so their information is proprietary. So how the fuck do we know who sells the most
potatoes?
Five, where do you guys get the potatoes?
Usually we purchase from non-perial,
but we use other growers too, like Liberty Gold.
However, we go through a small business
who picks up and delivers the potatoes for us called Spuds.
There you go.
So, I don't know.
They say as to the-
I wish they'd have ignored him.
He doesn't deserve answers.
Dude, this person, this is like,
this took an hour to respond to this guy.
It's still a one-star review.
They should have just said, go fuck yourself, Eric.
That would have been way more efficient than this.
Don't come back, Eric.
Eat dicks, Eric.
That's what you like, not potatoes.
Fuck off.
He said, as to the portions in the cafe,
a tater dollar is an entire 60-count spud.
That potato is six inches long and weighs just short of a pound
That is more than I can eat in one sitting the same with the fries the portion equals one Baker again
I'm sorry. You did not enjoy your visit
Jesus Christ Eric you suck
Here is frog and toad one star
430 p.m.
430 p.m.
Drove in from Yellowstone after months of rave reviews from our co-workers friends and guests I'm sure they talked to Marissa before and she
Filled this person all in yeah
My friend was so excited for these potatoes and then
Disaster struck what happened? They must have shown up and it's like in flames
You know what I mean help most helpness with them french fries are exploding out of the top of it like it's a fireworks factory
Disasterstruck closed half an hour early. Oh god you poor people you showed up to a museum
Yeah, my friend was devastated we asked at the gift shop next door and learned that our worst fears had come to life.
What there was a guy in a giant potato costume that was going to rape you now? What are you
talking about? What's your worst fear come to life? You couldn't look at potato exhibits?
I'm going to go ahead and butter my potato here.
We asked the gift shop. Holy shit. The gift shop lady was nice though. The potato station cafe was closed early and would not be open until the next day.
Or would not be open the next day as it was Sunday and they don't serve potatoes on the
Lord's Day.
No.
No, that's right in the Bible.
I mean that's Old Testament there.
They tell you no.
Chick-fil-A and potatoes.
No.
That's why Chick-fil-A closes, it's the waffle fries.
Well they tell you no meat on Fridays, no potatoes on Sunday. I realize that's growing up
That's what I always heard from
Catholic Church there. She began to cry. Okay, who cried the friend who's so disappointed you are
Too sensitive to do shit in the world. I would are you friends with toddlers lady?
I would advise you to seek therapy. Yeah, and if anyone is like in a relationship with this person,
cut ties and abandon ship fucking immediately because she's going to be a
goddamn nightmare or he's going to be a goddamn nightmare. This is a,
she's going to burn your shit when you break up. This is, this is bad. Yeah.
She's going to turn you into a country song. If this makes her cry. Yeah. Uh,
we're devastated by the lack of potatoes to be had in Blackfoot,
Idaho on a Saturday at 430 where we all know all the potatoes are always available.
Yeah. Head over to Idaho Falls. I'm sure they have a regular ass Outback Steakhouse that
has plenty of fucking potatoes.
Plenty of shitty potatoes for you. Garrett one star. I'm an avid potato fan.
Big posters on the wall and shit.
Which is why I was looking forward to this.
All caps, disappointing.
The museum was okay, but I was looking forward to the cafe.
I was excited to see how people in Idaho's
own potato museum would fare compared to my mom's recipe.
They're teenagers.
They probably poorly.
Your mom probably took care to make that shit.
Answer. Horrible.
Yeah, I sent back my potato three times.
You what? OK, at that point, get the fuck out.
Get out now.
Post haste, get the fuck out
Yeah, we put a we put a special something special in there with the sour cream on this one. Yeah, don't worry about it. This is
Each time it came back undercooked and hard. You got to cook a potato
The thing about a potato is unless you you know make it into like a charcoal
You can't really ruin a potato by overcooking it.
You can only make it crispier on the outside
and mash potato-y, lovely, pillow-iness on the inside.
That's all you're doing.
Let them go.
Well, olive oil on that on the grill
and crisp up the spot that's, oh my God.
I'm telling you, roasted potatoes,
you want them to be done.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Give another half hour.
Let them fucking go.
You're gonna be so happy with it.
You can't ruin that.
It's probably the only food you can't, right?
No, it's impossible.
They're just, they get better
the longer you keep them in there.
It's just for the flavor, fuck.
Fuck yeah.
When I finally accepted my fate,
accepted by the way, this is accepted my fate.
E-X-C-E-P-T-E-D, acceptedTed accepted accepted my fate. I asked for more butter to mask it
I was told that extra butter costs what that's like charging for ketchup
No, it's not actually butter is a shitload more expensive than ketchup way different
Yeah, I'll bet butter is more expensive than fucking avocados
But I'm sure probably is yeah, I know butter is more expensive than fucking avocados. Probably is yeah I know it's more
expensive than potatoes which they're giving you and they're cheap as shit. They gave you a
30 cent potato and you want a dollar fifty worth of butter for free that's the problem. So Aurora
one star the slogan is free taters for attestators.
That's not bad, that's pretty good.
That's pretty decent.
I'm from Montana, thus out of state, and I got no potatoes.
No potatoes.
That's the whole review.
They jacked her, man.
They didn't live up to their, yeah.
That's called advertisement.
They actually stole the bag of potatoes she had that she brought in from the outside,
so it's really bad.
Now we have Frankie with one star here, last one.
World's biggest potato, spelled properly potato, was not even a real potato.
He spells this one P-O-T-E-T-A-O.
Petitow. E T A O. But that pet a towel, pet a towel.
The world's biggest potato is not even a real pettitowl.
He spelled potato differently.
They're four words apart.
These two potatoes.
You nailed it and then swung and missed and then this is an
outrage.
That's the whole review.
It's an outrage.
They respond to him.
The museum here.
Hi, Frankie., sorry you were disappointed
in the giant potato statue located
at the front of the building.
The Idaho Potato Museum doesn't claim
to have the biggest potato.
That goes to the Idaho Potato Commission.
They have the largest one on their truck.
I'm not sure what the exact size of the giant potato
located in the front of the Prince Edward Island
Potato Museum is, but it's really big.
The real world's largest potato was grown
by Mr. Peter Glazebrook of Nottinghamshire, England.
He grew the heaviest potato in 1994.
It weighed eight pounds, four ounces.
That's a big fucking potato.
That's big, but the one outside is eight feet long
and seven feet high, and that's obviously not.
It's more than eight pounds.
That would be a fucking 700 pound potato. It is way not not what a real one is
We do claim to have the world's largest potato crisp made by Pringles and it is real though 30 years old
Don't eat that so I would say probably although it probably looks exactly the same. It's probably complete like
Probably looks perfect. That said we're all full of potatoes
now. It's a lot of carbs. We got we got to exercise off those potatoes. What do you say? Let's get out
and do some roller skating everybody. How about that? That's always a party. Let's go to skate away
in Midlothian Virginia. Where's skate away like separate things with a dash. Midlothian, Virginia. Uh-huh. Where's that? Skate A Way.
Like, separate things with a dash.
Midlothian.
M-I-D-L-O-T-H-I-A-N.
Midlothian, I assume.
I'm sure it's not pronounced like that,
because that's how it looks.
This is at 3300 Speaks Drive
in Midlothian, Virginia.
And yeah, they're ready to go here.
It has 3.8 stars on Google.
Not great.
Yeah.
Let's find out the good here.
Leslie, she loves it.
Five stars.
Thanks to Skate Away for an awesome adult family birthday party.
Adult slash family.
Booking was easy thanks to Ashley.
And the customer service, great at the event.
Thanks to Adam.
In the words of one of my adult children, quote, it was epic.
Oh boy.
This guy needs to get out more.
Roller skating is never epic, I don't think.
Or he just overuses epic, like some people do.
And dad just using kids' terms is no fun.
No fun, as one of my adult children said. Yeah.
One of those crazy TikTok words they're all using out there you know that goes
fucking 70 year old man. Travis three stars this place is okay it looks a bit rundown but my child
had fun. Yeah that's all you're there for. That's it right. I don't give a shit. Money well spent.
I've gotten to tons of places my kids loved. It was a
nightmare for me at the end of the day. Success. That's why I took them there.
My wallet was empty and they smiled. Good. They smiled. Great. That's the trade-off. Demetrius, three stars.
Place is mostly clean but carpet could use a good steam clean once every few
months. The food they sell is on the lower end of quality. I expect a five star meal from my local roller skating rink.
Tell you.
Where's the Michelin chef?
Yeah, where? What's going on?
Sweaty used shoes with wheels on them.
Do you have the eight course tasting menu tonight
or are we doing a la carte?
How does this work tonight?
What are the flights tonight?
What are the, yeah.
Can I speak to the sommelier before we start? because I'd really like to match this up and pair it
correctly. Jesus Christ. So yeah this guy is expecting he's expecting fucking Gordon Ramsey
to come out and tell him what's going on here. Then he goes on and say I'd rather they just sell four to five things They make fresh then heat up the frozen stuff
No, it takes it takes skilled labor to do that. That's the thing
You're in a fucking roller skating rink with fucking teenagers
You're getting chicken fingers. Yeah happening here. You're getting shit that they either dunk in the deep fryer
Yeah, we're putting that weird little oven thing. They have that's not even a real oven one of the two. Yeah, that's all you're getting shit that they either dunk in the deep fryer or put in that weird little oven thing they have that's not even a real oven.
One of the two.
That's all you're getting.
But hey, if you're hungry, there's a dozen fast food within two minutes of here.
Okay, then what are you fucking complaining about?
That's what you're getting here.
Same thing.
Skate floor is spacious and mostly undamaged, but for one spot where the wood seems to have
split, seems like water damage, but it's not too where the wood seems to have split seems like
water damage but it's not too bad crowd tends to be on the younger side at a
roller skating rink really right yes really well the playground I was gonna
say what about at a bouncy house place or one of those joints what about the
McDonald's ball pit younger crowd in there like 60% 6 to 12 30% 12 to 18 yeah
that's about what I would expect that a place like that it's pretty much exactly
what I would expect at a place like that on the other hand there are always a few
skaters that seem to enjoy weaving within inches of people at higher
speeds one of which ran into me yeah get out of the fucking way you're you're get
right I think is the point they're trying to make.
Overall, eh, it works.
You can skate here, which is the point,
and the problems they have can be fixed
if they choose to do so.
Also, the speakers are either old or damaged,
which makes the bass on the trap music
they almost only play very unappealing.
I'm sure.
So I got some rattly bass.
Okay, next up.
And you got music for young kids?
Weird, they know their audience.
Wow, it's strange.
It's almost like it's four children
and you're out of place.
Weird, right?
Almost like you look like a pervert showing up alone
with no kids skating around in a fucking circle.
That's probably why people were bumping into you.
They're like, out of the way, pedophile.
Why else are you here? At home, old're man. Yeah get the fuck out of here
If I go someplace alone, and it's filled with children. I'm leaving. I don't belong here
This is weird the guy that ran into you was trying to send you a message to stop looking at his sister
That's what I'm saying
Look, I'm coming back with a nephew or something. Here you go. If I want to be there.
Queen one star.
I'm giving them a star due to the fact
that they lack of security inside.
Okay, I'm giving them, I guess I'm giving them one star.
This is not a public park.
It's pay for admission for all except parents or guardians.
Therefore, I expect my teens and
their siblings to be safe inside from any type of attacks."
I would hope, yeah. I wouldn't think so. But you got that one guy skating around, who
knows? Anything's possible here.
Attacks.
Attacks. Well, no. Some thieves or gang member wannabes assaulted my child by snatching a Nike Pro Hyperwarm
hoodie off of his head while my son was waiting for his sisters to finish the sock race.
Jesus Christ.
Took the whole hoodie that he was just like resting the hood on his head and they just
mugged it off.
They just mugged him of his hoodie right there.
Holy shit.
Unacceptable behavior.
Then they ran outside and drove off.
They have cars, okay, that's the saddest group
of criminals ever.
They stole a hoodie from a truck and then ran away
and drove off like it was a Brinks heist.
What the fuck are you doing?
Hope you got their plate number then.
Wow, I guess so.
If they had to be buzzed out as they were getting in,
they would have been caught and would have had
to return my son's item back to him.
Because my son immediately went for help to go after them,
but they got away, now I'm going to have to replace it.
And mind you, it's not a cheap item.
No, hoodies are expensive.
It's my opinion that people think twice before
committing a crime when they know there's nowhere to run after the crime. So keeping
all the doors locked at all times should be considered. What if there's a fire? Lock
a fucking dozens of children in a building. I think that's called a fire hazard. I think I think that's specifically against the law here
And the response from the owner is thank you for the suggestion
We are sorry this type of activity exists
We will check with the Chesterfield fire department concerning locking the exit doors in other words. Hey stupid
We're not all gonna burn to death in here to save a hoodie yeah now he's got a hoodie great it's on fire perfect now
it's welded to him because of the flames yeah it's no melted onto him the nylon
is melted to his skin Ashley one, no one can steal it now.
Melted to his skin.
Ashley, one star.
I really wish I could give no stars.
No, no, no, that's not it Ashley.
You missed the phrase, but no.
One, this place gives racist.
Okay, it's giving racist. They give you racist when you walk in.
That's very funny. At least I understand that.
You walk in and they immediately you're accompanied by like an old man who'll shout out racial
slurs to you as the over the course of the afternoon. This is your racial guy.
It feels racist. It's giving racist. It's giving racist in here.
Old man comes up, calls you, whatever racial slur applies to you,
it says, come on, I'll show you around.
So it goes, at least they discriminate for sure.
The music choice is not diverse.
Okay.
Two, it's, yeah, I mean, it's loud shit
that kids like, loud, they like loud, active shit.
That's what they want.
Keeps them going.
Anything that is geared towards 14 year olds,
you're gonna get their music.
That's it.
That's all you're gonna get.
Two, the manager is horrible
and had an attitude from the door.
Manager Ashley is horrible and rude in all caps.
If you go toward the wrong door,
she yells at you despite them having the door locked
and it being a
long line while trying to get out of the way.
I don't know what that means.
Two, they don't have the assisting device for the kids to skate and told my guests,
oh well you gotta go find one.
Lady proceeds to bring one back and she yells, and I want my five dollars, despite the guest
already trying to hand her the five dollars before being rude
Then snatched the money out of her hand
Those are the little assists like the little Walker the little Walker things they give kids
three
Yeah, here's a PVC Walker. Yeah, it really is. I got that poor kid
What got you kid? What was it? I just
Osteoporosis, What are we talking about?
What's the problem here?
You got scoliosis, kid?
You poor kid.
Three, you have to bring cash,
or for every $10, they charge you $1.
If you charge.
Oh, for a card, yeah.
For a card.
That happens sometimes.
It's cheesy, but whatever. Well sometimes it's cheesy but whatever well
it's usually the smaller businesses that yeah they're not a big fucking chain
yeah they got up they can't just absorb that dollar somewhere they want they
don't want to anyway no they might be able to but they're not willing to either
one for they will run out of pizza and tell you they have parties tomorrow and need the
pizza.
No, we need this pizza.
No, we're out.
What are all those?
Those are for the party tomorrow.
Yeah, we're all, those are special pizzas.
We put those aside for people.
Those aren't for you.
Those are for the fun day.
Today sucks.
We don't want you here.
No, it's Thursday today.
No one wants that.
The pizza looked crazy though for $18.
What does that mean?
Crazy good or crazy bad.
I've never seen a pizza and went,
that pizza looks crazy.
Have you?
I mean, if it was a birthday cake
and they called it pizza, that would be crazy.
Just a giant potato sitting in the middle of it.
That would be weird, I guess.
They didn't have many pretzels
Many do they have enough for you to eat them the ones you wanted
Did you have one or two and we're happy all they had was four dollar french fries
Okay
And it just turned 3 p.m.. I don't know what that means
That almost is a positive for them because 3pm isn't a real meal time.
So they might have a lot around 12-1.
They might have a lot after 5.
Maybe from 2 to 5.
Yeah, that's French fry time.
Yeah, 2 to 5.
They probably don't have a lot of pizzas ready.
5, now back to the manager, quote unquote.
On website it says no outside food or drink but cake and ice cream allowed.
However it's for parties.
Mind you I spent well over the amount for the party room, well I would have if they
had pizzas.
Long story short we asked the manager to clarify why several people not in a party room had
cake, cupcakes, etc.
Again a part of the party room room and she said oh they shouldn't
She stated she would address it. However after we stepped around her
Around for her to address it. She starts yelling talking unprofessional making threats
I stand there with the cake for her to go address the issue instead
She harasses me called the police and Messed my baby birthday cake up
Don't mess up her baby birthday cake boy. What did she do? Just put her hands in it and take that fuck your baby
this feels like
They rarely just like
Okay, go handle why they don't have cupcakes or why they do have and then she threw the lady's cake and called the police
I think I'm missing a lot of the story
I pictured she said fuck you that I pictured a lady holding like a sheet cake in her hands
And then she kicked the bottom of the cake pow and then it flew up everywhere
And take just when all this lady was wearing frosting. That's what I pictured then
She said I'm calling the cops on you you frosting covered bitch, and then she made and did it. You made me kick a cake that's illegal. That's illegal. In Virginia that's a class C felony. That's a felony boy especially at my baby
birthday cake. Yeah. An adult birthday cake that's a misdemeanor. It's a felony to kick a baby
birthday cake. So this lasted 30 minutes or more and kids crying. Police always come here per officer.
The cops didn't show up. Yeah they officer. They're here all the time.
Dovecops didn't show up.
Yeah, they showed up, they're here all the time, apparently.
Like, oh, back at the skating place again.
All in all, she could have did what a real manager would do
and address the situation fairly,
as she was given time and spoken to nicely.
I had no intentions of blatantly cutting cake.
Blatantly cutting cake if she addresses the unfairness.
What?
Did I mention breaking bread same thing why?
Breaking bread is when you get along cutting cake is when you're mean to it's pissed off
I'm a cut cake with that motherfucker right now. I say that shit all the time
Yeah, I'm like oh me and you were gonna cut cake bitch, and you know
That's if we if we come to an agreement.
Did I mention I should press charges for her running to block me with her body?
Y'all it was so so weird.
Don't ever go!
Three exclamation points.
Several of my guests were offended when they arrived prior to this incident.
Five exclamation points
wow and i asked for the corporate number prior to the real incident and it's an 804 number which
i believe is a fake number if i would have paid attention to the room i never would have they're
giving her fake numbers now by the way 804 you mean 800 no No, 804. Here's the birthday cake, which is fucked up.
The top is broken. It looks like she kicked it.
The plastic is broken and it looks like it was dumped
upside down because it has the design of the top of the
cake all on the plastic.
That was a kicked cake.
She kicked that shit from underneath.
She messed up her baby birthday cake.
She did, man. That'll do it.
And the response from the owner, let's
see if it's salty here, it's not. Quote, we will try to do better. We've made some personnel
adjustments and the changes will benefit all involved. We fired all our cake kickers and
now we're down to a good staff. Tanya one star, what a laughing joke this business is laughing Joe the best kind of joke
It is filthy we arrived during the opened hours I would hope so arrive when they're closed
That their official website had posted we were told that a private party was happening sure that's fine
But how come no one posted a sign on the door or on the website?
The portly short guy chewing on a straw while wearing a John Deere hat couldn't articulate the
hours. Well that's because he's on ecstasy. He doesn't even know shit about tractors, he's just
high. Was he also drinking orange juice? And sucking on a fucking pacifier. Was that in there at all?
Waving around a glow stick.
That's a, you can tell a lot when that happens.
They give a lot of tells those ecstasy users.
He wouldn't let us skate even though we were there and ready.
Had my skates on.
We could not understand his, this is great,
Duke's of Hazard accent.
Oh my God, you are in Virginia. I was gonna say, it's Virginia. I can't understandkes of hazard accent. Oh my god. You are Virginia. It's gonna say it's Virginia
I can't understand anybody's fucking accent. So if you can understand one accent, you can probably understand most of them
I'm gonna sign this
Well, there's an ink pen. Pardon me an ink pen. What what's that now ink pen? I don't know what you're saying. Oh
What's that now? Ink pin!
I don't know what you're saying!
Oh, ink pen!
Oh forget it, just give me a gum band.
Oh fuck.
Gum band?
I guess it was that.
Gum band.
We went somewhere else where the rink was way more happening.
Way more happening.
Clean, very friendly, not rude and had a great Sunday.
Avoid this trailer park of roller rink based on the management and clientele.
Pay heed to the other reviews. Good grief, what an experience. A little kindness goes
a long way. And the response from the owner, thank you for letting us know. We will try
to do better in the future. Okay. Better with what?
I don't want to wear John Deere hats anymore.
No more strost chewing at all while talking to customers.
Samantha one star absolutely terrible double x everything is double exclamation point here by
the way some guy named Anthony slash Andy yelled at my children for trying to stick up for someone.
He pushed my child. I almost called the cops. Terrible. Don't go're just hanging out in the parking lot waiting for the next call anyway.
Wouldn't have taken long.
They're already there.
Oh my God.
Response from the owner.
We need to train and educate our staff to do a better job of interacting with our customers.
Very sorry that you didn't have a better experience.
So they're like, sorry our guy pushed your child.
We know he does that.
Yeah.
We told him we're going to take his John Deere hat away if he kept doing it, but he doesn't listen
Little handsy
Chanel one star very rude and unprofessional owner attempted to embarrass my daughter in front of her school
How I guess the whole school is at the skating rink. She got a period today. There it is
Look at her leaking out the back. Oh god. You shouldn't have worn white today. I guess
I'm so up upset and my child is visibly shaken
My daughter had an accident and my parents were attempting to clean the already dirty floors
And she got on the speaker telling us to clean the floors
She oh
Yeah, your kids got a shit trail behind them
Someone want to clean up the shit trail
around the left side of the thing.
All the other kids looking.
It's shit, because she said dirty, not wet.
Yeah, no, exactly, and clean up is shit.
You could just put some napkins down on pee.
And how much pee, it's all gonna soak up
in the clothes for the most part.
And did she do this while rollers on the rink?
I think so, she got so so excited. Maybe I don't know
Thankfully the other parents were extremely helpful and empathetic
They made us feel a lot better about it and totally understood that accidents happen
Thankful for parents there the employees also understood my stance and knew the owner was wrong would not recommend. Oh
boy
There's a lot on
Oh boy
There's a lot on back
Did she have diarrhea there that is not an accident how old is this child yeah over five
Yeah, they really don't happen that often You don't touch anyone over under five to go roller skating
I would hope not and if you do they may shit themselves
It might happen. Holy shit.
Wow.
Then there's an edit.
Edit.
The manager called to apologize.
That's nice.
I accept the apology for myself and my daughter and she prays she doesn't do anything again.
Do this again to anyone else.
She prays that she doesn't.
Your daughter or the manager?
I don't know.
There's a lot of she's, too many she's there.
Still heartbreaking, but apology accepted.
Well that's nice anyway.
We will close out with this one
and then we'll go to the personal item here.
RM, one star, this place is so rundown.
The owner's wife is very rude and disrespectful.
She has nothing but horrible customer service and there
is a varying amount of exclamation points. Four on one sentence, three on
another, one on one. She's literally a disgusting human being. Oh, literally. I want
literally a disgusting human being. I wonder how she still has people working
for her. If you were thinking about having a party here, don't.
Save your money and look elsewhere.
Like most places, they didn't have a party host.
Okay, then what are you complaining about
if most places don't have a, yeah.
They took forever to bring cups for the children
and the pizzas weren't even ready
for when it was time to get us to the party room.
By the way, the food here is disgusting.
Save your money.
Again, if we could just get a Michelin star guy in here to work this all out.
Everything's disgusting.
All disgusting.
Also, when the owner's wife tells you she'll give you a discount for all their errors and
you don't see it on the receipt, so you ask her for clarification, she threatens to call
the cops.
Oh.
The cops are here a lot.
It really...
There's a lot of cop interaction.
That's not a reason to call the cops.
So you did something else.
What else? Did you call her a fat cunt?
Is that what you did? What did you do?
Did you shit on the floor?
Did you tell your kid, go shit on the floor?
You told me you had one locked and loaded.
Go do it over there.
You said turtle head, go let it loose.
Mm-hmm.
I don't give a shit, do it.
If your child really wants to have a party
at a skating place, check out Ashland skating instead.
Okay, oh, I gotta put this one in too.
There's a couple more we have to do, sorry.
Okay, gotta do this one just because it talks
about the dress code, which I think is hilarious.
Say what?
Yeah, dress code.
Keely, one star, $40 for three people
and one quad skate rental.
Quads, I mean the quadriplegic skate rental?
I don't know.
Four skates you need for that?
Or is that the, is that the?
Put them on their hands too?
Or is that the little walker that they give out?
I don't know.
No rules enforced from what I can see the kids
Sneezing on us on purpose because they've decided we were in their way and everyone's going in different directions
That's impressive that they can sneeze on command I
Can burp on command but sneezing is a little harder. You know just sneezing on
On purpose, I don't know how you would sneeze on purpose unless you're in their way. Well you've recognized the problem now rectify it.
Get the fuck out of the way.
Used to be a fun place, but I cannot say I will be returning anytime soon.
Also, seriously, no crop tops or shorts. Are we in the 50s? Do better.
I don't know. No shorts? Or shorts are we in the 50s do better?
Yeah, I don't know shorts no sure it says that so you don't get like like
Raspberries or like burns. I have no fucking idea what that's all like is that a safety
Concern, I don't know. Um, alright, we'll do one last one Donna one star only because they start out hot when they start out right
I can't help it but read it here if I could give it
No stars. I
Would okay. No zero. Well, change was out thing. Yeah, fine. The owner is rude and very unprofessional
We have a big family with many kids
Jesus we spent a lot of money here and this is the second time we've had a huge birthday party and she has been rude to
People we have invited.
The only thing they did was ask her a question and she took it out of contact, out of content, not out of context,
instead of trying to understand what her paying customers were asking. She started screaming,
talking about the public need to stop trying to tell her what to do and she know what she's doing.
The public need to stop trying to tell her what to do and she know what she's doing. The question was, do you pay for the adults and children or do you just pay for the children
at a birthday party?
She couldn't seem to answer that without being rude and disrespectful.
My God.
I think the question that was probably followed up was, is the parent skating?
Yeah, I don't know either way
I'm gonna call the cops. Yeah, so
There's another review here another one star that says the owner or maybe the rude woman is his wife
Very nasty attitude and a jaw moving 80 miles an hour
So a coked out very nasty attitude and she's on meth her meth, perfect. Very meth-y person, yeah, yeah.
Perfect, we got a meth-y jaw mover, excellent.
Wow, that's amazing.
She said she was rude to the kids,
and all sorts of shit here.
Then, the response from the owner here,
rather than an apology, is quote, this is amazing.
The owner does not come into the facility.
This is false information.
Right. This is false information.
This is just an employee who does horrible things, but it's not the owner. Don't worry about that. We need to drug test. No fucking shit, man.
Holy shit. There's also people claiming they shoved their daughter outside.
It's fucking why this place, I don't know what is it?
We kind of have to read the yeah, Melissa one star
I don't even give this place a star at all. You fucked it all up
No, you did don't go here my daughter who is underage under what age?
I mean team 12. What are we talking about? If you're taking your adult daughter here, there's something weird happening in your family. We assume she's underage.
Well, yeah, we took my daughter here.
She's a little slow and, you know.
It's 30 seconds, but you know.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, she still watches like SpongeBob and shit,
so it's really...
She loves to roller skate, so where are you?
Don't go here. My daughter's underage.
Went for a birthday party, and a lady that worked there
was very rude with my daughter and putage, went for a birthday party, and a lady that worked there was very rude with my daughter
and put her hands on her and shoved her outside by herself,
all because she didn't have her skates on
when she went to the restroom.
What?
I don't know.
Gross.
I mean, yeah.
I hope she has shoes on.
I would hope so.
I hope she's not in a public restroom with no footwear.
That sounds horrifying.
I'll push it.
I'll push it. Ew, gross. Barefoot person. Get out, get out. That sounds horrifying. I'll push it. Ew, gross.
Barefoot person.
Out, get out.
I was gonna throw it outside too.
Gross, gross, nasty.
Then, lucky I don't sue her.
Don't go here.
They ready to call the cops over everything, all caps.
No joke.
And they put five exclamation points, so they mean it.
No joke.
Read these people's reviews. I'm not the only one saying this wish I could have read them before letting my daughter go. Oh
The poor daughter was just fucking
Yeah
Now she doesn't want to do anything and she's underaged. You know, so that's another thing here
They also said quote. Here's another review. I'm gonna read gonna read just one part of it. It's a one-star obviously
Additionally I witnessed multiple teens suggesting to do inappropriate things in the bathroom
What I don't know what that means fingering each other could be anything really
As a teen, unapologetically knocking over others
regardless of age, smoking inside,
and continuously acting disorderly in large clusters.
Out of many occasions, I saw staff speak to these teens
a couple times, but they still misbehaved.
Well, yeah, they're teenagers, that's what happens.
And yeah, so they said their response is basically,
we have like little kid nights, you should go there.
You should do that.
It's probably not smoking, it's probably vaping, right?
There's no way somebody was smoking a cigarette in there,
right? That's probably a vape, yeah.
That's what I mean.
And then finally, India One Star, absolute joke of a place,
got assaulted on the floor while roller skating twice
Including getting hit in the face and scratched
Jesus Wow, it is like it's roller derby out there. You didn't know this is roller derby night. You're in the game now
You didn't realize
Yeah, you're you're you're on the Virginia rollers over here you're playing
Rollers with smokers here we go. You're playing Greenville tonight and you guys are
against each other. When I reported the incident the manager complained about the length of
my shirt. That's fine. I got smacked and assaulted. I don't know maybe you wore a longer shirt
and you're weird. I don't know. Maybe stop being such a fucking shirt slut. Maybe that's
what it is
Look at that I can see your belly brought and I mean Jesus Christ It would be okay for me to just take you in the bathroom and assault you right now probably
Yeah, what's wrong with you?
Then she called the girl who assaulted me into the prize room and proceeded to corner me and demand I come in there because quote
She's going to give me attitude and lie so I need
you in there.
What?
I'm out of this at this point.
The manager ended up completely dismissing the event saying over and over she's not a
good skater.
She fell when the girl had looked directly at me and said, I do not care when I told
her she hit me twice.
Don't give a fuck.
Oh my god.
She doesn't care. her she hit me twice don't give a fuck
doesn't care when I asked for a refund due to the way the manager handled the
situation she replied people complain all the time only wanting a refund I'm Fuck off. And then someone else.
If I get you a refund, everybody's going to want a refund.
No one's happy in there. Look at them all. Everyone's miserable.
They all want a refund.
I might have to give a refund to that chick that don't care.
No. I'm going to give her one because she don't care.
Finally, somebody else says, benches are biohazard, bathrooms
are a disgrace, owner is rude, employees are rude and incompetent, stinks like a bad burrito
stuffed in a wet gym sock. Very specific. A real farts fart is what that was. Next up
let's finish this off with the personal item of the week everybody. Here we go this is come on in I'm gonna show you the
picture of it and see if you can figure out where what happens here. What is it?
It's a it's a home stripper pole. Oh okay it's the schematics for it. Yeah
it's all this is all that it comes with you got your bases your pole lengths
even gloves. Yeah. So you don't get blisters, I guess,
while you're screwing around.
Is it spinnable?
I think so.
This is the Serene Life Professional Spinning Dance
Pole.
45 millimeter portable exercise pole for fitness.
Yeah, that's what it's for.
Durables.
It's thick in your mouth.
Yeah, it's thick in your ass.
Terrible steel build, anti-rust finish.
Suitable for home club gym party pub. Home. Let's go with home. Don't just take that
to the bar. No, I brought this. There's all different setups and they seem to vary from
$136.49 all the way up to a hundred eighty eight dollars
a hundred eighty nine dollars and eight and ninety nine cents and there's different colors and different shit like they get a black one a
Gold one if you're a douchebag things like that
Yeah
It's probably adjustable depending on the height of your ceiling. I think it is from the seal
It's like a like a shower curtain goes
Horizontally this just goes vertical yeah but they have like ceiling like things where they're mounts where it
looks like it clicks in it looks like it's pretty sturdy I would I would hope
anyway they call it a high quality chrome steel construction switch between
static and spinning modes adjust the base not to easily transition the base
nut okay so easily transition between static and spinning modes,
perfect for beginners building strength or advanced users
performing dynamic fluid movements.
Simple assembly and portability, no need for drilling.
This pole assembles and disassembles easily,
making it portable for use in various spaces.
Adjustable height for versatile spaces.
It adjusts from 82 inches to 108 inches,
and it's ideal for fitness and dance enthusiasts.
Right.
Okay, now Jen, five stars, great exercise.
Yes, it is.
Arriving with all the correct components,
the DVD lacks audio, yet after viewing it a few times,
it becomes genuinely straightforward.
My flooring consists of carpet and popcorn ceilings
and I can confirm that it's suitable,
oh god, that's terrible,
and we need to redo our house because it's from 1987.
Yeah, we've got work to do.
That's after that, we're gonna rip this shit up.
And I can confirm that it's suitable
as there's no damage to the ceiling.
How do you not damage a popcorn ceiling?
You've got, yeah.
If I,
You crushed something. There's, I'm tall,
and I have ripped my hands apart on popcorn ceilings
many times, like taking a shirt off,
and tons of shit falls down on me too when I do that.
That's just my hand, so.
Yeah, I used to throw a basketball around inside.
Ah, destroyed.
It's in your eyes.
I mean, I'm gonna die of asbestos poisoning, I'm sure.
It's fucking everywhere, it I mean, I'm gonna die of asbestos poisoning. I'm sure of it. It's fucking everywhere.
It's all over the floor.
Yeah.
I promptly executed an inverted maneuver
and it remains secure like a true champion.
I would highly recommend enlisting the assistance
of a second person to ensure it's properly aligned
and holds a couple items.
I'm thoroughly enamored with it
and I'm exceedingly satisfied.
Due to having children,
I prefer not to leave it up permanently. What's that, mom? Oh, that's mommy's exceedingly satisfied. Due to having children I prefer not to
leave it up permanently. What's that mom? Oh that's mommy's horny pole don't worry
about that. That gets daddy. Yeah that gets daddy's pole rigid too. But the
Swift setup and disassembly made it very convenient. A small stepladder will come
in handy.
Apart from that it functions well, although the rotation may initially feel a bit rigid
and improve slightly once in motion.
I genuinely rate it as 5 stars.
Five stars from Peyton.
Perfect for a college student.
One that's on OnlyFans.
Yeah I would say.
Don't tell your dad that.
Wow. It's on only fans. Yeah, I would say Well, I was a bit skeptical at first because it's not necessarily
Necessarily reputable like x-pole or loop it this person knows
Fucking name brand ones those name brands of stripper poles. What the fuck is going on?
But those were way outside my budget. Oh, of course, that's the the the x-pole
That's the Rolls Royce of stripper poles.
Everyone knows that.
You can't afford that.
Somebody with a full-time job.
You can't get that on a student salary.
No, on a student?
No, God, no, no.
You gotta really be working outside the home.
I ended up buying this and it came with all the parts.
That's good, I guess.
The box arrived in good condition and was discreet.
That's nice.
I put a dish towel.
Oh, I'm sorry, no, this thing is pretty sturdy and just make sure
you're installing it under a ceiling joist.
Knock on the ceiling and find a spot that does not sound hollow.
Yeah, get a stud.
Yeah, don't blast this fucking ceiling trywall.
Jesus.
I'm about a hundred pounds and my friend is about a hundred and fifty pounds.
We both spin on it pretty fast and I can
hit inverted upside down skills without any fear. I did put a dish towel on the
ceiling since the since we are renters. The instructions are a bit confusing but
the important part is that the pole is that pole A attached to the top dome any
extensions should be going at the base and not at the top or middle.
The metal is thick, no rust, screws did not slip, and pieces come together with seams
that don't disrupt your grip.
Me and my friend have been using it for about an hour a day, mixed stationary and spin.
So far no bends, creaking or clicking.
You were the pole, I guess.
Jesus Christ.
Alright, three stars. I have no idea is the title of this
review. I'm so confused as to why I'm slipping on this poll no matter what I try. Is it just
me? Yeah. Yeah. You have a lot of hands. Yeah. Your hand strength is bad. You're a clammy
gal. Yeah. You're all clammed up, Jiggy. Three stars. Okay, but not stable unless you screw it in. Yeah, why, that's why there's screws.
I stood the basketball pole up in my driveway. It just keeps falling over. It's just so weird. Yeah, I
can't get it. After having this pole for a year, I will say it's a good one for the price. If you,
if I were you, I would just buy the expert pole. It's a good one for the price. If I were you I would just buy
the expert pole. It's a lot safer. Unless you screw in this pole, no matter how much
you tighten it, it still ends up falling over when trying to invert or even doing a simple
climb. You also might be out of the weight. I also think you did not install this properly.
Maybe hire someone from Angie's list. There you you go I have noticed it leaves dense in my ceiling if you so if you're renting keep that in mind
The rubber on top or it's suctions to the ceiling is uneven and doesn't suction
Well, you can't rely on a suction cup for no for your safety. You're gonna break your neck for your body weight
I've fallen pretty hard with this pole a few times to be yeah
The hospital she's in a sling to counter this though
I do tighten everything every day although sadly this pole is not stable enough to invert
I recommend it to beginners who are just starting out
I will say the pole is thinner than most and quite slippery compared to other traditional dancing poles
Wow, okay three stars. It's okay
Poles Wow, okay three stars. It's okay
Just fine. I've had this pole for a few years. It's a decent cheap at-home pole. It does rust
I've had mine for a few years, and it was in a basement for a little while plus
I have really acidic skin what the fuck is wrong with I?
Am confused as fuck so you've stored it in the basement and your acidic skin did the rest of the work to take the
Chrome off of it
If your skin is so acidic that it takes chrome off a pole
That is disturbing you should check your diet see a doctor. This is bad
There's a screw that sits at the bottom of the pole to make the pole static or spinning after I cut my foot on it
I just had to take it out. It's sturdy if you install it correctly
Fin three stars broke my toe in the hole which hole
The pole works good for the most part
But will slide off some ceiling so I put a drawer liner around the top
but will slide off some ceiling, so I put a drawer liner around the top. My pinky toe got caught in one of the holes that the pole has while doing a trick and
it broke my toe and ripped off my nail.
I'm surprised it didn't take it clean off.
Jesus, I mean I looked and I had nine toes.
Fun to spin on though, spins great.
Here is Stay Away.
Robert, Stay Away.
Oh Robert, you got a drop, what'd you got a grub. What'd you do?
Two stars.
Do not waste the money.
Put this up in the garage since the room we wanted it in had carpeting, and it cannot
be used on carpet.
Well, that's not what the other person said.
Still in the garage with a flat roof and floor has to be put in so tight that the bearings
will not spin.
Do not waste your buddy.
I think he means money, but he says buddy.
Avoid this product at all costs.
He's like, I put the pole up in the garage for you, sweetie.
She's like, I'm not stripping in the garage.
What are you talking about?
You leave the door open so all the neighbors can come over and drink beer.
You think I'm going to spin around in there?
You can't pull a car in there anymore.
No.
Sky, two stars, almost died lol. Wow. Well
I have popcorn ceilings and I'm not sure if that affects it in any way but I finally set it up and
gave it a go. Pole fell over after being tightly adjusted onto the ceiling and took me with it.
Ended up knocking down a base station and putting a hole in the wall.
Love the idea but ouch, not really sturdy.
Again it might be a ceiling issue but but for the record, I left this review. For the record, you know, for the official record.
For the Library of Congress, I wanted this to be available.
Destiny, one star, or two stars, false advertising.
I used my poll to exercise, the poll has fell,
and now I'm scared to get back on it.
Refund how?
That's your poll.
Yeah. That is your stripper poll, darlin'. You put your junk on it. Refund how? That's your poll. That is your stripper poll, darlin'.
You put your junk on it. Here we go. Shaquana, one star. Poll may lose grip over time. She
says, just opened this poll. Was super excited to get started as I haven't poked in months.
I think polled is what she's going for, butoked will that sounds funnier. I like that. I consider myself an intermediate dancer. I've had to tighten
and retighten the pole. The instructions are hard to follow. It took me hours and a few
YouTube to understand what to do. After I finally got the pole up and did a durability
test I felt confident to pull. Is that what we're calling this, pulling? I guess it's an activity now, to pull.
Yeah, did a few spin moves and that was okay.
Came back to try a basic routine and me and the pull went down.
I weigh, I'm about 194 so I wouldn't say weight played a part.
You wouldn't?
You wouldn't?
That's what I weigh.
I wouldn't get on that fucking pole because I go I probably way too much for that. I am I'm shy of that, but I would never put my hats on a pole
I put it in and I
Big bolts
Into concrete, oh man, just like everything or everyone else something isn't right with the top part that suctions
It's uneven and I I even made sure my ceiling wasn't possibly uneven. Nope. It's the pole
It was partly scratched, but I paid that no mind overall
Don't get this pole if you're serious about your hobby. I could have really hurt myself. Yeah
One star from Bellina save your money in time
Yeah. Uh, one star from Bellina, save your money and time.
Almost all parts were missing and there were no tools or screws, instructions or instructions
and the gloves were missing as well.
It came very dirty and gross and was completely covered in sticky residue.
Oh man.
Someone's snail trail and all up and down that pole, man.
That's what that is. I
Tried to get a replacement, but it wouldn't allow me. No. Yeah. That is your pussy juice now when darlin
Yeah, exactly
Kimberly one star does not hold my weight 200 pounds
Yeah, I practiced pole fitness twice a week at a studio and thought building strength at home would be a nice way to compliment my practice. Despite the product being installed as instructed, background in carpentry and construction,
it does not sustain my weight in a fireman's spin.
The pole toppled, slicing my wall, molding and door while injuring my back and knee.
We were outside of the return window, so I contacted the manufacturer for assistance.
That's not helping any.
ARIE 1 Star.
This poll will fall on you.
That's not good.
No.
I've had this poll for two years.
It was good as a beginner but now that I can do a lot more this poll is simply not safe
to use for more than 15 minutes.
It's dangerous.
I've had guests try it and fall.
And I hate having it.
It's not worth the hospital bills, home damage, etc.
No!
It's not!
I can't believe this.
Holy fucking shit.
And then Jordan one star.
Dangerous.
The top is not sturdy on the ceiling.
Mine has fallen multiple times.
Not sure if I put it up wrong or what, but I would work for a while and then out of nowhere come
crashing down I hurt myself multiple times on this thing I'm sending it back
and getting one with a bigger top holy shit and then here is this one here we'll
do last one Natalie one star broke before the month
Before she even got her period it broke
This woman put them almost a month's worth of work on it and it broke is oh, yeah I think over time as you use it the screws loosen. I think it's a problem. It's so yeah
I think that's moving parts in this thing too because the yes
It's a sleeve that goes around the, and that's got bearings in it.
I don't trust that at all.
No, it seems-
Why would you expect that to work in your home?
Get the X pole, what's wrong with you people?
Let's go work at a strip club and work on the good pole.
Oh shit, you know what it does though?
It really shows you how well constructed
those stripper poles are at those strip clubs.
That's how someone's done a very good job at installing it.
Spent a lot of time in those places.
I've never seen one.
I've seen Gals fault.
They fault but it's not the poles fault.
Not the fault.
This review says, what can I say?
Bought it with the most incredible enthusiasm and literally two days before the month was
due, this piece of crap broke while I was
spinning and fell leaving me all bruised up and with a neck injury.
Oh my god.
Jesus, it's been a few days.
Well if you're upside down and something falls, yeah.
It's been a few days of pain now.
The material's not the greatest either and there's a hole in the middle of the pole that
scratches your hand when you spin and sometimes cuts.
Definitely get another brand because this is just a disaster.
And this thing's shy of $200?
I would never trust that ever to pull my body weight.
Fuck no.
No way.
No way, bullshit.
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