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Bizarre tourist resort plan
« on: February 16, 2009, 06:26:35 AM »
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One of pop superstar Michael Jackson's brothers, Marlon, is involved in a controversial plan to develop a $3.4bn slavery memorial and luxury resort in Badagry, Nigeria
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Re: Bizarre tourist resort plan
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2009, 07:00:43 AM »
Quote from: Don't care on February 16, 2009, 06:26:35 AM
The historic slave port is to be transformed through the bizarre combination of a slave history theme park

Just when you thought you'd seen the peak of stupidity...

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a museum dedicated to double Grammy-winning pop-soul group the Jackson Five.........

...they have to prove you wrong.

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Re: Bizarre tourist resort plan
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2009, 07:59:48 AM »
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Re: Bizarre tourist resort plan
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2009, 03:10:06 PM »
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-Visitors will be able to pay their respects at the site of a mass grave for those who died before boarding ships across the Atlantic Ocean.

-And then travel a few yards in a buggy to play a round of golf.

Beautifully written.

I'm guessing that insanity is genetic?
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Re: Bizarre tourist resort plan
« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2009, 04:37:51 PM »
Quote from: Don't care on February 16, 2009, 06:26:35 AM

-They can visit a replica slave ship to see the conditions Africans suffered, before visiting the world's only museum dedicated to the memory of the Jackson Five. [/color]


....and listen to the music that made America suffer....  :laugh:

I'll wait for the opening of the Bataan Death March Memorial and Nature Trail....
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Re: Bizarre tourist resort plan
« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2009, 04:53:08 PM »
Quote from: seeker_two on February 16, 2009, 04:37:51 PM
....and listen to the music that made America suffer....  :laugh:

I'll wait for the opening of the Bataan Death March Memorial and Nature Trail....

The death march trail situated next to a 24 hour buffet and free clinic?   
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Re: Bizarre tourist resort plan
« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2009, 07:49:23 PM »
Quote from: Don't care on February 16, 2009, 06:26:35 AM
One of pop superstar Michael Jackson's brothers, Marlon, is involved in a controversial plan to develop a $3.4bn slavery memorial and luxury resort in Badagry, Nigeria.
"Controversial"?!?!

How about "bizarre" and "tasteless" and "grotesque?"

What next, a combination Holocaust cruise and BBQ?  :mad:

Remembering something bad that happened in the past is good - trivializing it with a theme park(!) is not.
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Re: Bizarre tourist resort plan
« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2009, 09:03:24 PM »
I don't think it's all that odd.  I can understand how this might appeal to some tourists of African decent.  There really is no way to go back and trace their roots - and this was a departure point for many of their ancestors, regardless of the very bad circumstances.  I'm sure the docks of Ireland weren't gleeful places when people left there to avoid starvation, but there's nothing wrong about going back to the last place where you KNOW your relatives stood.   
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Re: Bizarre tourist resort plan
« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2009, 11:54:31 PM »
I don't think it would sound as odd if a Jackson weren't involved.  I agree with Lee.  But I think some of the luxury features are bizarre--
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-And then travel a few yards in a buggy to play a round of golf.

-They can visit a replica slave ship to see the conditions Africans suffered,
--the best analogy I can think of would be if a "Shoah Memorial Golf Course" was built next to Auschwitz.

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before visiting the world's only museum dedicated to the memory of the Jackson Five.

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Re: Bizarre tourist resort plan
« Reply #9 on: February 17, 2009, 12:49:01 AM »
Derail: How about the growth in "Medical Tourism?"
 
A company builds a Darn Nice surgical center and recoup facility in a resort location. They hire good doctors for lower rates, or just bring them in temp, because they can live there, and then folks who are having elective surgeries show up, get it done, and then recover out by the pool...
 
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Re: Bizarre tourist resort plan
« Reply #10 on: February 17, 2009, 02:10:23 AM »
How is that a problem?  (Medical tourism that is).
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Re: Bizarre tourist resort plan
« Reply #11 on: February 17, 2009, 02:56:48 AM »
Medical tourism is allready well established here in Europe.
People go to Tunesia for cosmetic surgery which isn't reemboursed
by the SS on the continent. They'll stay at a resort hotel and relax at the pool while their scars are healing. This is sold at package rates: Airfair, transport, restaurants, boobjob all inclusive.
People from Austria or Germany will go to Hungary to get their teeth fixed and relax in the sulfur
water of the region and visit the Balaton lake...
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Re: Bizarre tourist resort plan
« Reply #12 on: February 17, 2009, 03:06:58 AM »
People from Russia go to Israel for lifesaving surgeries and pay the full, non-subsidized price for them. My uncle did this. They saved his life.
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Re: Bizarre tourist resort plan
« Reply #13 on: February 17, 2009, 06:03:34 AM »
How much does surgery cost in Israel, if I may ask ?
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Re: Bizarre tourist resort plan
« Reply #14 on: February 17, 2009, 08:06:26 AM »
People in the US, especially the elderly, have been known to go to Mexico for surgery and medical care.
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Re: Bizarre tourist resort plan
« Reply #15 on: February 17, 2009, 09:49:02 AM »
what person that actually has $3.4 billion dollars would be dumb enough to invest in such a thing?
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Re: Bizarre tourist resort plan
« Reply #16 on: February 17, 2009, 11:31:02 AM »
Quote from: HankB on February 16, 2009, 07:49:23 PM
"Controversial"?!?!

How about "bizarre" and "tasteless" and "grotesque?"

What next, a combination Holocaust cruise and BBQ?  :mad:

Remembering something bad that happened in the past is good - trivializing it with a theme park(!) is not.

I was thinking more along the lines of the "Auschwitz Weight Loss Camp" :O.
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Re: Bizarre tourist resort plan
« Reply #17 on: February 17, 2009, 01:49:14 PM »
They have a great buffet at the Donner Party Resort Museum.  But since I joined the Polar Club at Titanic Memorial Water Park, I don't get over there much, any more. 
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