# I'm not giving up my seat **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 16, 2013, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431 "2013-01-16T22:34:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 76
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1501 "2013-01-28T12:18:45Z")
> [@l1I235](#): > > I ignored this thread for several days. Others kept bumping it. Including you, just now. You should’ve just kept ignoring it. Let it die. ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1502 "2013-01-28T12:21:06Z")
> [@Anonymous User](#): > > I think that the reason people are giving you such a hard time is your reasoning (now dont take this post as rude. It is only constructive criticism). The issue is that you consistently cite your three reasons every time someone asks you, “Why didn’t you move?” The reason they keep asking you why, even though you have stated your three reasons countless number of times, is because they are too poor to be taken seriously (I understand this sounds harsh but I am just trying to help you). If you can provide better reasoning to me and the other people that disagree with your point of view, maybe things can calm down considerabely. It is all about the reasoning. So I am going to go through each of your reasons, and explain why they are not sufficient. > > > [@l1I235](#): > > > > In case you were wondering, why I did not want to move: > > > > I had just gotten over a cold, and the people we would of been moving closer to were sniffling and stifling coughs. I felt it wrong to humiliate the sick person by pointing her out, so I didn’t. I had just gotten over a cold myself, my balance wasn’t so great, and there we go. I don’t know if the guy in question watches the news, but there is a flu epidemic out there. > > > > On top of that, I don’t care for entitled people, and I a had an inkling they would not be the best movie goers. And what did they do? Text during the whole 3 hour long movie. Who would of thunk. :rolleyes: > > > > But to me, I don’t need a reason. If I didn’t want to, I didn’t want to. It’s as simple as that. As the old adage goes…"A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part > > 1. Like others have stated many times, you could have asked your SO to move, or you could have moved so that he other couple would sit next to the sick. I am sorry, but this wasn’t a valid excuse. > > 2. How could you assume they were not going to be good movie goers? What if it was someone who was interested in the movie? You couldn’t have known that from the beginning. > > 3. The problem here is that you are implying that you wouldn’t have moved even if you didn’t have a reason. Sure you didn’t have to move, but like I said earlier, it is basically the same thing as saying, “I don’t have to tip waiters.” This isn’t really a reason. Also, it is about generosity. If you want to be viewed as a generous person, you will want to do courteous things like this. > > I think you can avoid a lot of commotion that is going on here if you can provide some real arguments, or come up with a valid response to my refutation of your arguments, or even forfeiting your stance (however I recommend you first try to reason with us). It all comes down to reasoning on this Message Board. If you want to have a good experience on the SDMB your reasoning needs to be air tight, or you will experience much of what is going on right now in this thread - people constantly on your back, etc. > > Bottom line: find good reasoning to support your stance if you want others to take you seriously and stop annoying you. > > Bob Ducca, if you are just here to poke her with a stick, we might as well just assume your posts have no value. You are just being a troll. I know it has been a slow week on the SDMB, but that doesn’t mean you should be annoying, insulting, and making mademoiselle unhappy. Get a life. Now here’s that reply again. You said, “That ship has sailed.” Unfortunately that was true at the time because Bob Ducca and a bunch of other idiots kept overflowing the thread resulting in my post getting burried. But now since this thread is fairly calm at the moment, I’d like to quote my original post here. I’m bringing another ship (going with your analogy). Please, don’t let this one sail! :D:eek:🙂 ETA: I also forgot, while it wasn’t that critical to move due to the fact the seats were scattered (as mentioned in the first couple of pages of this thread), there’s no reason you couldn’t or shouldn’t have (unless you can provide some). ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1503 "2013-01-28T14:13:18Z")
> [@l1I235](#): > > 10 years ago (when you were, uh 5…), the SDMB was not the shit show of bullies/trolls/shit stirrers you see currently (with a few quality posters still here now). It was a message board I liked, in which I thought I could find opinions. Yes, even dissenting ones. So you stopped posting ten years ago because it was a message board you liked, and came back to post about your seat issues because it’s now a shit show of bullies and trolls? You don’t seem to be a strong thinker. Either that or you’re saying you posted this OP about your seat issues now because this is a good place for trolling. Or both dumb and trolling. That works too. ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1504 "2013-01-28T17:14:34Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > So you stopped posting ten years ago because it was a message board you liked, and came back to post about your seat issues because it’s now a shit show of bullies and trolls? > > You don’t seem to be a strong thinker. Either that or you’re saying you posted this OP about your seat issues now because this is a good place for trolling. > > Or both dumb and trolling. That works too. Actually, he has a point. Why would you leave a message board you liked, and then come back because it has a lot of trolls, just to post a thread about movie seats? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1505 "2013-01-28T17:59:07Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > I generated a word cloud for this entire thread and [posted it to tinypic](http://i50.tinypic.com/2whnpzr.png). Many thanks to the [WordItOut](http://worditout.com/) word cloud generator. Awesome. Hey could you do one for the Joe Paterno thread, since it refuses to die? Maybe also the Zimmerman Martin thread in IMHO, if that rears its head again. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1506 "2013-01-28T18:40:19Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > Then next time move over or rent out the entire theater, bitch. Since you like to acquiesce to retarded requests surely you’ll acquisce to this one. (I’ll even ask nicely.) Please stop posting on this message board. If you refuse to comply then surely you are a little fucking bitch. > [@MegaBee](#): > > You should’ve just kept ignoring it. Let it die. Says the retard who bumped the thread instead of not posting and letting it die. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1507 "2013-01-28T18:51:46Z")
Actually I think the people who were inconsiderate were the sniffling coughing friends who decided to come to a movie theater with a cold. ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1508 "2013-01-28T19:09:22Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Says the retard who bumped the thread instead of not posting and letting it die. Go home, **Drunky Smurf**. You’re drunk. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1509 "2013-01-29T00:50:30Z")
> [@l1I235](#): > > And I did not take it personally. Thank you for being better than most of the dissenting posters in this thread, for attempting to have a rational discussion. So far as I’ve been able to determine, in your dictionary “rational discussion” means “you agree completely with me and wouldn’t dream of expressing even the mildest dissent”. ---
**Author:** ![l1I235](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@l1I235](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/l1I235)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1510 "2013-01-29T01:26:27Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > So far as I’ve been able to determine, in your dictionary “rational discussion” means “you agree completely with me and wouldn’t dream of expressing even the mildest dissent”. No. I means to me not immediately indulging in childish name calling, knee jerk reactions, and the like. If dickhead is in the first few sentences of your post in IMHO, yeah, I would not call that rational. Notice that in the post you are referring to, septimus is disagreeing with my actions, yet I am thanking them for being rational. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1511 "2013-01-29T01:44:58Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > Awesome. Hey could you do one for the Joe Paterno thread, since it refuses to die? Maybe also the Zimmerman Martin thread in IMHO, if that rears its head again. Knock yourself out. (Not snarking.) It’s really kind of a fun web app: [http://worditout.com/](http://worditout.com/) I was concerned that it would choke when I started to upload over 1MB of text but it didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1512 "2013-01-29T01:50:04Z")
Oh please, **mademoiselle**. Don’t tell me that the ship has [sailed](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15945198&postcount=1502) again! ---
**Author:** ![l1I235](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@l1I235](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/l1I235)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1513 "2013-01-29T02:09:02Z")
> [@Anonymous User](#): > > Oh please, **mademoiselle**. Don’t tell me that the ship has [sailed](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15945198&postcount=1502) again! AU, let it go. I am done answering point by point questions to appease a 15 year old. And if you are that desperate to get into MIT, I’d find other things to focus on. ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1514 "2013-01-29T02:34:52Z")
> [@l1I235](#): > > AU, let it go. I am done answering point by point questions to appease a 15 year old. > > And if you are that desperate to get into MIT, I’d find other things to focus on. First of all, I am not desperate anymore. That was just me being immature. Second of all, that post had some valuable information that I literally spent 20+ minutes on. You don’t have to appease me if you don’t want to. I was hoping you could, but If you don’t want to, that is fine, I will let it go. I thought you didn’t respond because it got buried by Bob Ducca’s idiotic replies. I didn’t know it was because you were done “appeasing” me. But as you wish, **mademoiselle**. :(🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1515 "2013-01-29T13:59:07Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Since you like to acquiesce to retarded requests surely you’ll acquisce to this one. (I’ll even ask nicely.) Please stop posting on this message board. If you refuse to comply then surely you are a little fucking bitch. No, I’m a big fucking bitch. But I’ll move over a seat at a movie theater. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1516 "2013-01-29T15:43:11Z")
> [@Anonymous User](#): > > First of all, I am not desperate anymore. That was just me being immature. She’s just not into you. There [del]will[/del] may be others. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1517 "2013-01-29T15:56:26Z")
> [@MegaBee](#): > > Go home, **Drunky Smurf**. You’re drunk. I admit I do imbibe once in awhile but you’ll always be retarded. > [@kidchameleon](#): > > No, I’m a big fucking bitch. But I’ll move over a seat at a movie theater. Why are you being an asshole? I asked a perfectly reasonable request and now you are making a scene and ruining everyone’s experience. Stop being an asshole and stop posting on this messageboard you fucking goat raper. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1518 "2013-01-29T16:13:13Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > I admit I do imbibe once in awhile but you’ll always be retarded. Being drunk and being retarded are not mutually exclusive. I don’t pretend to be able to guess what the various challenges you experience might be. Whatever they are, though, their impairment appears to be pretty consistent over time. ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1519 "2013-01-29T16:58:56Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > She’s just not into you. There [del]will[/del] may be others. Dude, I was talking about MIT. She said I was desperate to get into MIT. Like I said, white knighting? My ass. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-giving-up-my-seat/647431/1520 "2013-01-29T17:32:33Z")
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