Yes, but given that they had sat in those buffer seats, would you have offered to let them sit with each other? (Assuming you knew they were a couple)
It is a conditional question just to test your attitude about this situation.
Oh good Christ. Can’t get a date, huh?
Well with my crazed feminist stance…
You know what anonymous user, I think you are an arrogant young guy. I think I’ve had enough. :rolleyes: I am not submitting to your silly tests.
In all the years I’ve been going to movies, I frequently see the “move over a seat” issue handled successfully and gracefully by all participants. I have never even seen a conflict about the issue, it’s just standard practice that is expected.
So here’s a question for everyone: Have you ever actually seen someone refuse to move over a seat for a couple and/or group?
I have never seen anyone ask for someone’s seat in a half-empty theatre.
52 years old. I go to movies about 4 times a year. So not that much. I’ve never been asked to move. I’ve never seen anyone be asked to move.
I think I’ve seen this particular movie before on this board…
1, Spunky woman says something shocking and doesn’t back down
2, Group #1 takes the bait and attacks the OP in a tiresome predictable way
3, Group #2 falls deeply in love with the OP and draws swords to defend her honor (probably imagining a chance at sex & romance if they behave gallantly enough)
Reminds me of that thread where the cute girl claimed to talk to a ghost…
I really wonder sometimes what people expect in a pit thread. Why do people come into a pit thread on a message board and say, “Oh, I’ve seen this all before! You are all taking the bait, feeding the troll, and knighting in white!” So what? That is the entire point of this forum. To talk shit and crack jokes and argue stupid shit. WTF else would we be doing in here?
Pssst. They don’t restrict the internet to straight guys any more. That’s why it makes you look like a drooling retard when you accuse a heterogeneous group of internet people defending a woman of secretly wanting to do sex with her.
Well, that and the fact that your mouth is hanging open and your bib is soaking wet.
It didn’t start out as a pit thread, though. A mod moved it here rather than bother doing their job.
No, though I used to go to the cinema often, I now only go for “big event” films as we’ve gotten a projector for our home instead of a tv unit. When we DO go we use the Ipic theater which is more expensive, but has ushers, assigned seats, beer and food.
I use a regular theatre for matinee horror films so the issue does not usually arise, but when it does, I’ve never seen someone refuse to make room.
But, it’s in the pit now. LC went to the pit forum, opened a pit thread. What did he expect to find?
Yep, neither have I.
But the first 5 rows of all of the theaters I go to are pretty much always empty because they are too close for most people.
The assumption being (I assumed I didn’t have to spell out something so basic, but hey it’s the internet and not everyone has a 240 IQ like I do) that there are no other 2 seats together in the seating area that 99% of people consider “enjoyable”.
YOU CAN’T MAKE ME get up and move on over to another thread just because I came in late. 
I guess everyone has their preferences, but I don’t see anything fatally wrong with the entirety of the first five rows of seating. I mean, come on. That’s over a third of the damn theatre! If you’re that particular about seating, then you should make an effort to arrive early enough so that it isn’t an issue.
faithfool, you are my hero! Fascinating data. Not that anyone who is a zealot or who believes their own opinion is the truth will be convinced, but maybe the more reasonable folks will find it interesting.
Hmmm.
A thread starts in IMHO.
One smallish group with one POV cannot manage to communicate adequately there because insults are restricted and manage to drag the thread into The Pit where they even there cannot manage to refrain from using insults that are considered out of bounds anywhere on this message board, and feel oh so clever by insulting someone calling them a retard (oh, better yet, by calling them the name of a well known severely developmentally disabled individual).
One group, with more individual posters, albeit fewer posts, with another POV, manage to express themselves without calling other posters cunts, and even after a move to The Pit, keep the insults within a non-hateful level.
Which group should I look to for guidance on what is proper manners and how to not be a jerk?
I’ll have to mull this one over for a while, because as someone who does not think that the op was any unwritten social obligation to either move or to explain why she preferred not to, I am apparently a mentally defective individual.
Honestly for a while I thought it woud be nice to go to a Dopefest and meet some other Dopers in person. Given what I see demonstrated in this thread by some … I’d cross the street to avoid having to interact with quite a few in person … out of fear that in real life I’d lose my cool and slug someone. Insult humor can be funny, it can even be ironic. The level shown here however is not humor; it is just nasty and hateful for the sole sake of being a jerk.
Pit or no Pit that’s sad.
Are you aware that movie theaters come in different sizes?
First off, I love this resting guy. Almost missed him at first. January 2013 join date noted.
Anywho,
Wait, hold up. Someone starts an opinion thread, details an account of how she acted like a fussy little child, and someone says, “Dude, that behavior was dickish,” and the person who points it out is the asshole? Interesting. And whether or not the OP was being asstacular depends on how much you like how those who say she was have responded to this thread? Really? You weigh whether something is dickish or not based on the manner in which people respond? So are the responses disagreeing with the OP that did not include the terms “assholish” or “dickish” invalidated? All right then.
If I masturbate enough, will God kill a kitten?
Well it’s kind of a dumb question. We’re talking about a small theatre where the performers are about five feet from the front row. They want as few distractions as possible. This isn’t like, say, a movie or a lecture or something where crawling over people to get to your seat, or requesting that people move down doesn’t really make any difference. This show also discourages people from going to the bathroom or ordering drinks in the middle of the act, and request that you wait til intermission. As I was not born in 1938, I’ve never been to a movie with an intermission before. If I have to get up and pee, I just go, and it doesn’t cause a distraction to the guy who’s trying to improvise a comedy act five feet from me.
Are you happy now that I’ve answered you?
That depends. He might be at least interested in a little pussy.