Fast track to the difference society – VG

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Now I will stagger like a hungover South tourist in the glass house, because I increasingly throw a hundred on the table to avoid standing in a mile-long queue at Gardermoen, but in other words: The announced introduction of so-called express passes at Tusenfryd everything else is a joyous one.

Visitors with holiday money out of the ordinary will thus get past the usual at the amusement park by paying a fat additional amount on top of the already quite expensive entrance fee.

Not only to move past others in the queue into the park, but also when they – that is, the offspring (mostly) – are to drive the biggest and (for some reason) most attractive attractions.

This means this: That those with bad advice have to sweat in long queues, while the kids of those who sniff at the income top lists can hover past, as if the regular queue does not concern them.

“Unorsk” is a word I do not have all the world enjoy using, but here it fits: This is pinadø unorsk.

Ok, then, then there is a “test”, and the express passes are few (50 a day). But the reorganization is happening for a reason, namely that it is in demand.

Of those who can afford it, we believe.

SV politicians rage, among them culture and sports agency councilor in Oslo, Omar Samy Gamal. He calls it a “general bad development in society”, and is probably right in many ways. Football, the sport of equality before anyone else, is also struggling an increasing class divide by increased training fees.

Former football player Anders Jacobsen believes we are moving towards a development from “the club in my heart” to “the club in dad’s wallet”.

It’s a clever wording. Same with the Daisy «test» which is designed to test the essence of the Norwegian equality and (thus) trust society: That Norwegian kids are as equal as possible when it comes to play and fun.

Daisies are the happy madness when summer draws to a close and most people have a holiday. These are the queues from hell, or more precisely, as the undersigned sees it: the queues to hell.

Driving the harshest roller coasters there in the yard is pure madness, and beyond any comprehension, at least among those of us who feel the fear of heights only we go up the stairs at home.

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But there is now a siding. Daisies and their like are incredibly popular among the second youngest, and we who pay for their fun – the attractions and not least the perhaps not quite sensible food served – stand there, in line after line, and feel the panic rise, both because the summer sun gets proper roof, and because the crowds threaten on all sides – consisting of people (fortunately mostly children) who will expose themselves to near-death experiences, and that completely voluntarily.

Such people should be respected.

No other of the family parks in Summer Norway will introduce similar schemes, it is claimed, and that is good. Still, it’s probably the way it goes anyway – simply because demand and competition between them is increasing.

This means: Greater class division, also between children.

It is no wonder that left-wing politicians throw themselves into the debate and see their cut to warn against an unfortunate trend in the still rich Norway. This is left-wing politics in practice, and which probably resonates well in the broad strata.

Norwegians do not like inequality, at least not when it affects them. And it is especially unpleasant when it goes beyond the children.

Tusenfryd marketing manager Erik Røhne Andersen himself tells NRK that he does not think this will have special consequences for the queue lengths, but that is what one learns to say at the marketing management school.

Of course it has, and at least if the scheme is extended to resemble schemes many of us recognize from similar parks abroad.

I myself live not far from Tusenfryd, and the pressure to go there is not small, exactly. Paying 500 kroner per head per day quickly becomes a juicy cut in the holiday budget and at least if the pressure (hustle) in the continuation is that you will not have to stand in the long queues.
“Only 300 kroner extra, Dad!”

I hear it for myself. And like it is not deleted.

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