Yep, I’m leaving, just give me a second to wipe the snotty end of my fuckstick on yo mama’s ass!! What’s that, Mrs. Miller, you want that big ten inch again tomorrow? Ok, but you have to give your whiney brat a dollar and send him to the movies, 'cuz he’s spoiling the mood!
What I have learned today: some people have no sense of humor!
Oh wait… I already knew that.
Anybody who goes to chuck e cheese is a dumb shlub to begin with. (no offense)
Nothing like pumping 20 bucks into a ski-ball machine only to win a cheap plastic spider ring to demonstrate that you’re smarter than the other guy.
Here’s a question since I don’t consider myself of any particular political persuasion. Why does democrat = socialism and republican = capitalism? I have a hard time believing it’s that black and white.
Here’s another question (seriously) Didn’t Clintons administration balance the budget and start paying down the national debt?
Isn’t this one doing the opposite?
’luce, I hope your kids ask for tuition to Wharton. 
…on what planet does forty to fifty percent of ANYONE’s income go to subsidize the poor? Every source I have consulted says that even in Canada, only a smallish fraction of the government’s tax income goes to much in the way of welfare services and payout.
Gah. I said “in part.”
IMHO, skee-ball jumped the shark with the introduction of the 100-point rings.
-Joe (whose high score is 400-out-of-450 on a real machine)
You said it Joe K.
I play Skeeball at the local seaside park that opened somewhere around 1870. I have no idea how old the machines are but the “sirens” sound like my old elementary school recess bell. All the finish has worn off the alleys, the balls are pitted…on a busy day you might have to work out an arrangement with the guy next to you to play a 9th ball. My high score is 380.
The prizes are cool though, for the grown up crowd…lots of Harley Davidson gimcrackery, sunglasses, binoculars, etc…I saved up tickets for a month or so when I’d spend days at the beach with the babies, and got a neat crystal serving dish out of there. It’s the size of a pizza.
{sigh.} Good times.
Actually, though, it never occurred to me to ponder Chuck E. Cheese in a socioeconomic context.
The one time I ever went there – with my kid, and a couple belonging to a friend – my first thought was, “Mighod, it’s like Dante’s Inferno… for PARENTS!”
Skee ball fucking OWNS!!!
And I’m a liberal. I don’t play for the prizes, I play because I LIKE SKEE BALL!!!
(Although, I found out the hard way it’s a bad idea to hold your out in the ball return so you can grab one right away. Those things shoot out FAST!)
Don’t sweat it; it’s part of little Miller’s charm. He likes to wander into threads, crap on someone, then cry like a baby when they bitch-slap him back to reality.
He’s just not as clever as he thinks, and sadly the overwhelming evidence does not seem to convince him otherwise. Ahh, the arrogance of youth…and the ignorance that loves it!
Yoy know, leander, you’ve got a point. What I said to you the other day was really out of line. I apologize for it. It was really a low class thing for me to do. Seriously, what kind of asshole teases the mentally handicapped like that? That wasn’t right, and I feel awful about doing it. I hope you’ll accept my deepest, most heartfelt apologies once you find someone to explain this post to you.
And that goes double for Fear Itself.
Heck, I’m a liberal! And I caught the funniness the first time.
Your wife’s pregnant and she gets ONE AFTERNOON a week when you take the 3-yr-old off her hands?
fuckin’ Republican
You must have gone to a Soviet Chuck E. Cheese. The ones I’ve been to don’t have free games in the birthday room, they just give you a cup of free tokens to use in any game - like welfare, or school vouchers.
Also, it becomes clear that merit has nothing to do with earning prizes when you see that you can buy tickets for 10 cents apiece. Sure, occasionally a kid comes in the door with a dollar in his pocket and leaves with a boom box and a bag of rubber spiders, but more often than not, the kid who “wins” the boom box is the one who came in with enough money to buy it outright.
Bravo, Scylla. Another classic!
-Rav
The Chuck E. Cheese problem is that the said establishment is providing a pitiful pay-one-price area that does not measure up to the pay-as-you-go area (and allowing the two to commingle).
If market mechanics actually worked, like all good capitalists say they always work, then the shlubby birthday area would be unsuccessful, especially if it would be cheaper to get better services by eschewing the POP area and simply using the PAYGO area.
Thus, market forces have failed again, allowing the said establishment to prey on the stupidity of consumers.
There is a solution and a lesson:
The solution: Protect the consumers by regulating the industry (as already mentioned). There are many tactics of regulation in this area, such as not allowing the simultaneous POP and PAYGO.
The lesson: Socialism and captalism can not live side by side. Therefore the U.S. must completely abandon capitalism.
Peace.
Come on now, is that really the best you can do? Call someone “stupid” or “mentally handicapped”?
Yeah.
Don’t forget “brain damaged.”
It’s not the best I can do.
But it’s good enough for the likes of you.