"Surf is over! Again!"
Do you recall the dot-com bubble burst of 2002? Well of course you do. Even millennials were alive then, though likely not paying attention. As a refresher, everyone thought this new internet thing was a can’t miss money guaranteer so threw dollar after dollar after dollar at Pets.com etc. and then everyone realized this new internet thing was fake and lost all that money.
Very reminiscent of wave pool technology today. Oh the World Surf League has hitched its entire wellbeing to Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch. Surf Lakes, in Australia, has sold another property even though the first model broke while making two-foot waves. The Waco facility is back open after a gentleman likely contracted brain-eating amoeba there and died.
Still, big talk is being made. Wave pools are the future. A great new arms race. Surfing everywhere. Surfing the world.
But is the bubble set to burst? Let’s read about the “Surf Lagoon” in suburban Georgia. Let’s learn of its fate.
Jay Patel, one of the owners, didn’t want to comment on why the water park is closed, but instead focused on what’s to come. He says they’re still in the blueprint stages of the apartment project, so he couldn’t give a timeline of when construction is set to begin.
“With surf lagoon being there, it didn’t really show the peaks in the business. It kind of stayed steady all the way across. We were just hoping for higher numbers, but that’s business,” said Arshad Beckett, Ms. Polly’s Cake Giants.
Beckett also says the new apartments would be good for Pooler and businesses as a whole, because that means residents and people who aren’t just coming and going into this area.
“With them bringing a new apartment complex there, I feel like that’s cool. More people would have to pass us, so it would give us that visual for them to bring us a little recognition back here, and we just hope that it brings more clientele.”
Surf Lagoon will be used for parking this weekend for St. Patrick’s Day shuttle parking in Pooler.
And now let’s sing together.
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I didn’t sing
In the Toaster too long and now burnt.
Is Fassbender the world’s most handsome ginger?
Is there an inverse relationship between ginger attractiveness and surf ability?
Comment below!
no and no.
I was hoping this would be about a wavepool in Tbilisi. Disappointment abounds.
Incoherent
Chas….check this!
Speaking of water…looks like Oaktree Capitol is taking water…
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Oh I love me some zerohedge!
Haha that’s cuz Tyler Durden is the Chas Smith of the financial world. Kindred spirits.
You know how many times I’ve told you stick to the one avatar and you can stay?
That’s right, you don’t know because with changing your avatar daily you never saw the replies.
I gave up months ago and now just delete everything.
Case in point… Yesterday you were posting as Headache.
Stop being a fucking dick, stick to the one avatar and you can stay… I’m not asking you to join the new world order and breed babies to sell for body parts to the Rothschilds rich friends. It’s real simple Bushy.
Negs, sorry to bust your balls, not much of a individual to being controlled. Hell that’s why surf!
What’s up with you wanting to controlling the narrative on some but letting others run wild?
That’s your fouth avatar change within a day… I’m not trying to control the narravative. It’s confusing and not fair on others when we are trying to have campfire conversations as individuals.
You hide behind many masks and in doing that you’re like those you criticise.
Layers of lies Bushy, you and them.
So letting the others run wild and free around the campfire?
Hell yeah…
One thing I don’t do is lie… truths hard for many to believe as research is too much work. Reminding them of the ignorance is not well received.
You lie to others here by having multiple identies.
Remember this goes back to Ben Marcus’s beginning… and you banning me and let him run a muck… when you banned me you created the multiple personalities. You were the spark, some have left having been involved, which was too bad for BG as this is the life of a great blog…. Zerohedge has lost many due to this same issues that drives the truth. Knowledge is the life blood of creativity!
Stop with the victim mentality.
Ben has a shadow ban which gets toggled on and off.
What I do anyway is not your concern.
I’ve said multiple times to you and others…
One account.
If people can’t stick to that, comments will be deleted.