Did you look at the picture? Portly? Hardly. I’ve seen this kind of behavior before and find it totally believable. The offender was sure he could intimidate and frighten the older white guy until he saw the jacket. It wasn’t fear…it was doubt. That’s the kind of courage you find in those kind of assholes too often. Once he saw the jacket he was no longer sure of the outcome of a confrontation and that’s what gave him pause. Bully’s like that prefer a sure thing.
Ohhhh, I see. Thanks.
And no, darlin’, the fact that you wear wifebeaters doesn’t mean you’re not gay. It just means that you’re not fashionable. Forget about transferring your card; you’ve sullied it to the point where it’s better off just being burned. With opprobrium. 
Signed,
A non-sports watching (and couldn’t care less) homosexual who, though he doesn’t wear wifebeaters (I was gonna use their proper name, but my brain just shorted out), doesn’t know what he’s “supposed” to know about fashion or decorating (and is soooooooo none the worse for it).
I know it sounds like some kind of sad resignation, but I just avoid going to see movies at times where there’s a reasonable chance of having people like that at the movie.
If I’m going to see a big, popular flick, I’ll try to do it at a matinee, or hopefully it’s playing at a theater where I don’t expect to see that kind of crowd.
Even if he stopped after the manager asked him to. … you’re distracted for a while, and you need to leave to go get the manager, and it’s on your mind the rest of the movie. It completely ruins the movie-going experience.
That’s why we bought a big wide-screen hi-def TV. We’re willing to wait a bit for an enjoyable movie-going experience. And these days the wait usually isn’t long at all.
As my very first sentence points out, it involves group dynamics. I don’t know if you’re a trained anthropologist (I’m certainly not), but it’s my understanding that when one enters an unfamiliar social environment, inappropriate behavior would include things like talking trash to the locals, while appropriate behavior would include looking around and learning about what the place is like before assuming that one has the privilege of using the more informal modes of address and inquiry with strangers.
Just because this is the Pit, it doesn’t mean that there is no etiquette at all. We are a real community, not the saloon at Oakwood Estates, with denizens sent over from Central Casting.
I got schpielkas. 
I’m not sure opprobrium is the right accelerant for the job. How about chloroform?
Dammit, 5-4 Fighting, I want my MONEY BACK !!
–flounces off in a tizzy. Now I got tsouris AND schpielkas. I hope you’re happy.
:o
And I’m saying that questioning the veracity of the OP *is *proper behavior in the Pit (if not other forums as well). That is what this place is like. And whether our guest realized that through careful observation or is simply lucky to be in the right forum is irrelevant.
I’m not making the claim that there is no etiquette in the Pit. My claim is this: calling bullshit on a questionable OP in the pit is normal, appropriate, and accepted. A guest ought not be chastised for it.
Look, it’s a great story. And if its true, more power to Clothahump. But don’t scold a guest for challenging a self-aggrandizing story in the Pit.
It’s not a question of not having a right to cast doubt upon the story, but the appropriateness of doing it so aggressively. When you join a new health club, you get to know the guys in the locker room before you start snapping towels at them, don’t you?
No. I just chose not to respond. It isn’t clear to me how a trollish calling of bullshit varies from a run-of-the-mill calling of bullshit.
So it is appropriate for a guest to cast doubt, but not aggressively? See above.
For both of you, would you have been OK if instead of sarcastically saying “Sometimes people substitute their fantasies for reality” he/she said, “Dear Sir, I respectfully submit my belief that your story may not be true. Sincerely, respecfulguest”??
Perhaps you’re missing the fact that this guest almost immediately started the trollish bullshit calling the day after somemone else with a habit of trollish Pit posts was banned for not heeding warnings after being suspended. That’s a bit too coincidental.
Yeah, I kinda am. If 'toon hadn’t written post 27, I wouldn’t have felt any need to explain to Pontius Pilates why I thought he was right to do so.
That said, I’m guilty of a breach of my own normal standards of hospitality, and I’d like to apologize for neglecting those.
Welcome to the Dope, Pontius Pilates. I hope you enjoy your time here. Fight some ignorance, get some of your own ignorance fought; overall, we’re pretty productive that way.
Linky?
One example of a cryptic jerk, particularly the “when rape is not rape” part.
Maybe he didn’t want to have to go the the laundromat at night…
Hmmm. I did lay it on a bit thick, because of the tone of Pontius Pilate’s post. ( then again, with a monicker like that, he’d better have skin as thick as his sandals !! ).
Welcome to The Dope, and I hope that you enjoy the neighborhood.
“Tis better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.” -various-
The home-movie watching experience is definitely leaps above what it used to be.
But, don’t get me wrong. . .I love going to the movies. I like theaters. I like seeing films with good crowds. But, I CAN’T stand seeing movies with inconsiderate crowds, so I just pick my time/movie/theater so that I can be reasonably sure to avoid a shitty crowd.
That means, for instance, not seeing *Oceans 13 *on opening weekend at a multiplex where I would figure the OP’s experience is more the rule than the exception.
Fortunately, Baltimore has 3 well-run independent theaters, so I do have more choice than a lot of other folks.
Agree with Trunk. While movies at home are great (what’s not to love about a 13" screen?), there’s no replacing the movie theatre experience. The popcorn smell alone makes it worth it. And where else can you spend $14 on $2 worth of snacks?
But I too try to pick movies and times where I’m unlikely to encounter jerks. The last time I was blinded by a cell phone was during the hightly popular and teen-oriented…
…An Inconvenient Truth.