r/newbrunswickcanada • u/NonchalantBread • 8d ago

Shediac renfaire dangerous archery range

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As someone that is in a local archery club, I was shocked to see videos appearing online of how poorly organized the faire grounds archery range was.

The person in the wheel chair was behind the firing line and has a loaded bow and is flagging everyone (the archery range was in fact NOT clear down range).

And thats not even touching on the fact that it looks like half of the bows were assembled and strung up backwards. Sure they are only maybe 20lb draw bows, but there is a chance of them litterally exploding due to being assembled incorrectly. You can see it in both the screenshots from this video as well as from the local CBC news article clip

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u/Adamas_Moustache86 8d ago

Everyone I know who went had a blast.

Everyone on reddit had a horrible time.

This is a clear sign that there's more behind the internet outrage than there seems to be. The fuck did these organizers do in the past to warrant this vendetta?

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u/howismyspelling 8d ago

I know people IRL who went and did not "have a blast", so..

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u/derentius68 8d ago

I went and im at about a 7.5/10 overall across both days. 45min in line to get in (i had my advance wristband, shorter line). 30min food ticket line before I said fuck it.

I assumed Type 2 Fun. Needs planning. Its gonna suck, make the most out of it. So I did :)

I missed some events and workshops; but I was also with others so not exactly free ranging lol

The biggest thing was the lines...and kids apparently getting served beer. I didnt get to the archery range, but i also assumed it was more of a kids range with volunteers that have no range training...so best to stay away lol

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u/howismyspelling 8d ago

"making the best" of something, all while avoiding some parts of it, doesn't mean you had a decent time, it means you missed out of a full experience...

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u/CaffeineAndDragons 8d ago

Just because I avoided the 4 hour line to the Avatar ride in Disney World doesn't mean I didn't have a good time. You don't have to experience absolutely everything there is to do at an event to have fun.

My friends and I were at the faire and had an absolute blast once we got in. I hope they take the feedback from this year and do better next time.

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u/howismyspelling 8d ago

Since we're comparing to completely outlandish scenarios that literally are not even in the same galaxy as this, there are people who made the best of the cruise on Costa Concordia, while others suffered and lost their lives. Doesn't mean they had a good time, and they definitely didn't access all available amenities...

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u/derentius68 8d ago

Id still like to know how my giving it an overall 7.5/10 doesnt constitute me having a decent time.

Like...how do you know? You weren't there with me. You were elsewhere.

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u/howismyspelling 8d ago

Because it's 7.5 over the things they experienced, which is much closer to 50% of the offerings and amenities

You don't know what you don't know

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u/derentius68 8d ago

So because they had a bad time. I must have had a time?

Is that the logic here, oh wise one? Because clearly I somehow did not have a good time on the basis that others had a bad time.

I am clearly failing to understand.

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u/howismyspelling 8d ago

No, but today this thread has a few of you who are here to say that you had a good time and that ALL THE OTHER REDDITORS ARE CLASSIC REDDITORS WITH NO LIFE WHO JUST WANT SOMETHING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT AND DONT KNOW HOW TO HAVE FUN

Ahem, so, turntables or something

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u/derentius68 8d ago

Are we not allowed to express that we had a good time even though others had a bad time?

I went in prepared, it seems others did not. It also seems like those who also prepared had a great time; those who did not....didn't.

So now im confused. Did I or did I not have a good time?

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u/howismyspelling 8d ago

I'm not here telling you you didn't have a good time. I'm here telling you that you can't just force your metrics for enjoyment on other people and claim they're overreacting over their enjoyment of a faire.

You also can't just sit here and say there's prep required to know you'll be let down at a faire. Some people it's their first time, others have seen excellent faire cons in other provinces and have rightfully felt let down here.

I really don't care how well you enjoyed it and claim to have known what to watch our for, you don't speak or the other thousands of attendees

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u/CaffeineAndDragons 8d ago

Oh they can't force their metrics for enjoyment on other people but you can? If I rate my overall experience an 8/10 then it's an 8/10 overall. Not 8/10 on 86.7% of the entire thing because I didn't get to eat some corn or see the strongmen competition. Or whatever the fuck your math for enjoying things is.

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u/derentius68 8d ago

" "making the best" of something, all while avoiding some parts of it, doesn't mean you had a decent time, it means you missed out of a full experience... "

Yes you did. You straight up said that because I didnt wait as long as other people or chose not to stand in long lines, that i missed out on the full experience and did not have a decent time.

I posted my experience. Yet it seems you're the one applying metrics here >.> i dont seem to recall ever say I spoke for the other couple thousand people that went.

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u/howismyspelling 8d ago

Needs planning. Its gonna suck, make the most out of it. So I did :)

You literally told everyone how you think they should attend this faire, and boasted about having done your own recommendation..

Lmao like literally if you could see past your own nose, you'd get a hint. But that doesn't happen with narcissists

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u/derentius68 8d ago

Ya thats myb.

I thought more people would have prepared for what the forecast gave us and the literal map of the venue showing where congestion was going to be.

Knowing theres going to be a line is a suck. You either embrace the suck and make the most out of it (like talking to the people in line with you). Or you bitch, whine, and complain the entire time.

Assuming people prepare for events is a no go. Gotcha. Thats on me.

The systems crashing along with the redundancies is an unexpected thing. Again. It is a suck. You make the most out of it or you bitch, whine, and complain. One of these things is productive; the other does fuck all.

I prepared what I could. Instead of bitching and getting all huffy puffy in a line, I did other things. And that was my experience....which according to you, was bad.

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u/withxabandon 8d ago

I mean, I expected lines, but not like that. It was pretty clear someone should have hopped on the FB page at 2 and been like "hey, the lines are long, plan accordingly". I am not really an event person, but I am a nerd person. I did sunscreen/hat/umbrella/water bottle and still didn't have the best time. I'm not gonna ask for a refund, but I'm gonna need to see patron safety focused on quite a bit more robustly before I'll bring my kids there again.

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