It is very human for babies to cry; very human for people to talk at social gatherings , like a visit to a theatre ; very human to fart, belch, pee on roads in Japan, etc.
Therefore , we must ban all you inferior human types from all public places. All of you stay home, dammit!
This means that only Unca Cecil and I will be in the theatre at any time. Cecil, I volunteer to run the projector.
That idea doesn’t work, does it? <sigh> Another good idea shot to shit. Well , you’ll all just have to learn to get along & be sociable.
Regarding breast feeding: I don’t object—I just sit back & enjoy the view. Just like the Classic Cat Showbar, but no covercharge.
Breastfeeding in public doesn’t bother me at all. Hey, if you wanna hang it out there for me, Harry, Joe, Pete, and everyone else in Walmart, feel free! But if you can’t control your kids in restaurants, theatres, or airplanes, please stay home if at all possible. Your child’s freedom to fly ends when he crawls over the back of my seat and starts munching on my hair. Especially when he adds his own seasonings. Likewise, his right to fine dining are over when his fries land in my coffee, when he is crawling under my table, and when he snatches something off my plate to use in his brilliant window art. I’m a step-parent, and when we are in public as a family, I require reasonably decent, civilized behaviour, and I expect the same courtesy from other families with children. Is this really so outrageous?
I’ve moved on from being a disability education teacher to a social awareness issue teacher. Currently, multiculturalism. We perform puppet shows with these large, colourful puppets. They’re about 3 feet tall. The puppeteers dress head to toe in black, and stand against a black backdrop, so we blend in. Our stage is just a table with a black banner on the front that has our name spelled out in bright letters.
We were performing a show at a festival in a town near us. They put us in a restaurant that was closed for the day. A little girl, just learning to walk, liked our bright letters. She came up and started tugging on the banner, in the middle of the show. The parents tried to take her away, but she started screaming. So, they just let her go. She was trying to pull our stage apart, and babbling away. This got the rest of the kids (about 30 of them) going. The other parents kept their kids quiet, and one person took their kid outside.
Why couldn’t the parents of the brat follow their lead, instead of ruining the show for everyone??
I have never seen nor read such words of vitriol, anger and rage. I’m stunned! It seems to me, and let’s just get this out right at the start, IMHO a lot of you seem to take it personally when a child acts up in public. Not that this kid is just being a kid but that somehow they are fucking with you on a personal level. Wow! Let us just back up a moment. We are talking about children!
Children really DON’T know any better. They are not trying to ruin your date, your movie, your life. They are kids! They do nothing out of anger as some of you have suggested or hinted at. Kids act out, they vocalize, they react. I’m not saying “Gee go ahead, it’s only natural” but come on, they are children and we’ve all been there.
We do and say things as children that we would never do as adults. Sure, blame the parents, wrap some control on that child but if you saw someone whack their child for being a child wouldn’t you be even more angry? I know I would.
No, I don’t want parents to let their children run rampant but I don’t want them to beat or verbally abuse the child into submission either. I’ve rarely run across a parent that didn’t realize their child was causing a problem. Usually they (one of the parents) removes them. I have never seen a blatant disregard for others as some of you suggest.
I don’t have children myself but I have nephews, nieces and I myself have been the one to remove them when it was necessary. Sure, there are those buttheads who don’t have a clue but I think most parents know and do their best. Jesus, folks, lets cut each other a little slack and try to understand.
I like the part in “Parenthood” where he feels he’s on the rollercoaster and realizes that it’s okay. That’s life. Rock and roll!
And BTW RTA I would have bust out laughing if someone did that during a movie. I like the interaction of a theater. But again, that’s just me and as always this is just IMHO.
The moon looks on many flowers, the flowers on but one moon.
Hey, Byzantine, here’s a pretty simple set of steps you might be able to follow:
Moviegoers gather to enjoy movie.
Wailing/misbehaving child interrupts moviegoing experience.
3a) Asshole parents allow child to wail in theater for 90 minutes.
3b) Courteous parents remove child from theater, allowing remainder of paying customers to enjoy movie.
Get it yet? Also, a theater is not for “interaction”; it’s for watching a movie. Any comments you or anyone else may have to make to the screen are not worth my $8.00, or any other amount. If they were, you’d be on the screen rather than in a seat, wouldn’t you?
Soooooo, what all of you who are for quiet movie theaters are saying is, ‘When you go to a movie theatre PLEASE SHUT THE HELL UP’. ‘Silence, silence, SILENCE!!!’
Aren’t there any exceptions like funny movies or movies that scare the SHIT out of someone? G-I-V-E * M-E * A * F-U-C-K-I-N-G * B-R-E-A-K * !
If my wife allowed me to go to a movie by myself and one of you gave me shit, I would Stomp a mud-hole in your ASS.
Brother Haus, way to fucking read the very first goddamned post in the thread written by me, in which I quite succinctly said:
Read the bolded sentence again, and again, and again, until it sinks into your feeble-ass brain, OK?
Laugh, cry, gasp, scream, whatever. Movies are supposed to solicit emotional responses. Cellphone conversations, constant talking at full voice, shouted comments at the screen, constant disruption? I’m gonna get your ass thrown out of the theater. And I’m gonna get my money back. Got it?
If you think you’re that fucking talented and important and fun to listen to, go to Hollywood and get an agent and a screen test, and I promise that whenever you hit my local theater, I’ll pay full price to see you. Otherwise, shut the fuck up.
Hey everybody…
My main pet peeves when I go to the movies…
The parents who let their children scream throughout the movie…I have to agree with most of the posts here…it is very easy to take your child outside if he/she gets unruly.
On a related note, why do parents insist on taking their children to movies that are rated “R”? I went to see Species II (ugh…very lame movie)…A women brought about 4 children to see this movie. What was she thinking? The whole time, I was feeling sorry for what these kids were going through (Bet the little tykes really loved the “Alien explodes from the pregnant mother’s stomach and kills the guy she just had sex with” scene). I’m sorry, but there are some movies you shouldn’t bring a child to see…that’s why we have a ratings system.
CELLPHONES. What tha hell, you are soooo important you can’t turn the damn thing off for two hours? If that isn’t the most obnoxious behavior I’ve ever seen from an adult…AND IT’S HAPPENING MORE OFTEN!!! Try watching a thriller like Sixth Sense with these musical rings going off constantly.
Thankfully the laser pointer thing has died down. I was all in favor of flogging for this one.
Cool…I got to rant!!! Thanks for reading this, y’all.
pldennison: Well, well, well, now I get the feeling of who you really are. Your personal attack on me shows how well you pay attention to my (and other people’s) postings.
Obviously you, PLDENNISON, did not grasp the reality of my post.
What the meaning of the post was, (in terms that jackasses like yourself can understand), is that, people may and sometimes do gasp, scream, and laugh at movies shown to them in the public. But, they also make comments like, “Holy Heck, that scared the stuffings out of me!”, and “Wow-zers, that was so funny, it almost made me dump a load of stuffings in my shorts!” Are those comments acceptable with you, or would you just like me to, "SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP?!
=Brother Haus says: “It sure didn’t take someone to long to shoot out the ‘Light Bulb’ from atop your dick-head.”=
It’s, exactly, people like you that makes me wish we had Population-Control. Why don’t you write your congressperson to let them know you are in favor of eliminating the 1st amendment. Or better yet, don’t go to movies. Just stay home and talk to yourself, because nobody cares about listening to you anyways.
I wasn’t directing my comments to you in my earlier post anyhow.
Confusious Say:
-Man who stand on toilet,
Is high on pot-
Brother Haus, this is, you’ll notice, a forum called the “BBQ Pit.” It is designed for flaming. If you can’t handle it, get the fuck out.
Second of all, only a complete fucking ignoramus cocksucker would mention the 1st Amendment in regards to a topic having absolutely nothing to do with government action. Do you honestly think the 1st Amendment has anything to do with movie theaterd making sure that all their patrons, and not just the unable-to-behave-in-public loudmouth fuckheads, get to enjoy the movie? If you do, you are so stupid you shouldn’t even be permitted to post. Please, in your reply, address specifically what the 1st Amendment has to do with the topic. I’m eager to know.
What’s the matter–you don’t think everyone else’s movie dollar is as valuable as yours? Only you should be allowed to enjoy the movie? You think people who know how to behave in a public forum should be punished, while those who can’t properly contain themselves should be rewarded? We have a word for people like that: “Asshole.”
Fact is, you got caught debating a point that was moot, because nobody and said people should sit at the movies in absolute silence, and now you’re pissed off and indignant because you got nailed. Everybody, let’s have a pity party for Haus on three. Ready?
One, two, three! “Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.”
You sit and talk like that behind me or in front of me at a movie I paid to see, you’ll be leaving early, one way or another. Got it?
Oh, incidentally, Brother Haus (And what’s with referring to yourself in the third person? That’s generally the hallmark of a complete jerkoff.), every theater I’ve ever attended runs a short piece before the film asking people to turn off cellphones, pagers and watch alarms, and asks guests to refrain from unnecessary conversation. Do you go whine to the theater owners after you see that request that they’re snicker abridging your 1st Amendment rights? I’ll bet you don’t.
I’m not going to flame any posters here, but I’ve gotta throw in my two cents now. I’ve got a 2 year old. She’s been to a movie exactly once. It was a drive in, and she was about 6 months old. I know my child, and I know what she will and will not do. I know her levels of tolerance. I know that she is capable of sitting still, but not for two hours in a movie theater. Fine dining? No way. Not yet.
As an adult who didn’t used to have kids, I know how annoyed I’d get at the parents who let their kids go crazy (I don’t blame the kids, really, unless they are obviously old enough to know better). I swore that if I ever had kids, they’d never behave like that. Well, kids do, and I found out quickly that it’s MY job to stop the behavior or remove the kid. So that’s what I try really, really hard to do now. If I can’t find a sitter, I don’t go to the movies. When I grocery shop, my daughter either a) stays at home with dad or b) all three of us go, so that way if she gets rowdy & uncontrollable, one of us can take her to the car while the other finishes the shopping.
I understand that not all situations are avoidable, though, but when you CAN avoid a bad situation, you should. I (and most of the rest of us) really can tell when another parent is really trying to keep a kid in line, and those folks don’t upset me at all. It’s the ones that don’t even try that bug me.
I do understand what the BBQ Pit is and stands for. That is why I added a post into your topic. If you didn’t notice, my first post in this topic did not mention your name or anybody elses. For some reason, you decided to personally attack what I had written, in my first post. I will always believe that makes a person like you a-
-so go ahead and keep it up. Your every statement will always remind me of who you really are.
Brother Haus’ flaming to ‘people who want silence in movie theaters’ (which obviously did not include you because I have read your postings):
These had nothing to do with you. If they did, I would have written your name in my first post. =Got your brain out of your ass NOW?!= (NOT LIKELY)
You flaming me for some off-the-wall reason: (your quotes about my first post)
Maybe I’m “assuming” this, but, it appears you like to tell me what to do. So go tell it to the mountain, because it’s falling upon deaf ears here.
Not once did I flame you, until you started the flaming (your possible response to this: Oh boo hoo :(, Mommy he started it. Waaahh, waaahh, waaahh.). Why is this?
pldennison writes:
Somehow you pulled some brain-power together to ask this question. Somewhere in the 1st amendment it mentions what people like me hold dear, and that is “free speech.” It means people are allowed to “speak freely.” Which, it appears, you like to do; so do I. I regretfully admit, you probably won’t understand this, because you haven’t understood me far.
My mentioning of the 1st amendment had to do with what you had written about my first post. Your, OP, had nothing to do with “breast feeding” in public, but you let that one slip by, didn’t you? Or is that accepted by “your rules” of all postings?
pldennison writes:
Well, all you had to do was ask. Only an idiot would think this, which I never proclaimed I was. As a matter of fact, I have learned how to ignore people that cannot handle themselves in a “public forum.” I will either, move to a different section, talk louder than they do (for effect), or force myself into the conversation. These have worked for me. But, you will never catch me “whining” to anybody, except for my wife. So, if it gives you pleasure to call someone like me an “asshole”, go ahead. Your pitiful life, and observences on it, will never mean anything to me. GOT IT?
Well, FYI, someone did write, in the form of a question, about going to a movie theatre and having complete silence. So, as soon you are done cussing people out and telling them how they should live the way you do, re-read the thread and find it. Did this person mean what he posted? I doubt it. But that won’t be good enough for you, will it?
I have a word for jackasses who, can’t-take-things-with-a-grain-of-salt, and that is, CRACK-WHORE.
I do like the “pity party” sketch though. I admit, you are good at telling people off. But, so am I. I’ll never win, and neither will you. I’m as good as you, and you are as good as me. If you feel the need to keep this up with me, fine. I’m all game. Let’s party.
I never wrote anything about pagers, cellphones, or unnecessary conversations in any of my post, but since you want to know…
I already addressed what I do about about those who want to talk, I don’t like beepers or paging devices, and I have never liked cellphones. I just disregard these people as idiots and laugh at them whenever I get the chance. By the way, I’m one of those people who say, “HELLO?”, when someone’s phone or beeper goes off in the theatre. Is this response one of those things that severely pisses you off in the theatre? Relax, smoke a joint and laugh at other people like I do (just a little advice that works for me).
I was just wondering, were you dropped, many times, on your head as a young child?
Confusious Say:
-Man who stand on toilet,
Is high on pot-
Just a reminder, pldennison. Pretend that I’m actually talking to you like a sensible person. For example: “Welcome to (whatever fast food restaurant), may I take your order.” It seems to me, by some of your responses, that you think people are yelling at you.
Rarely am I ever serious, but when I am, I’ll let you know then.
Confusious Say:
-Man who stand on toilet,
Is high on pot-
The First Amendment says that the government cannot restrict a person’s right to speak freely. It is perfectly legal for a citizen or business to regulate speech and expression on private property.
And now that I’ve corrected this common misconception, you kids can feel free to continue yelling and screaming.
Now that we’ve established that Brother Haus does not know what the 1st Amendment is, and cannot make the necessary and logical distinction between government action and action by private entities, we can safely ignore his opinion on pretty much anything, as he is obviously ill-informed. (Here’s a clue: Non-government entities like movie theaters and the Straight Dope can prevent you from talking whenever they like.)
Obviously, I cannot bullshit someone someone smarter than I am. I was called out; and was trying to bullshit my way out of it. From now on I will agree that the assholes and idiots of the world must be stopped. I’m not sure why you, pldennison, took offense to my first post. Possibly because it followed one of your post?
Perhaps, I should’ve written my first post, with the intention, going to those people I have encountered that have asked me, “What are you laughing at?”. I laugh at many parts of movies other’s don’t. And not a fill-the-room-laugh, just a regular laugh. I guess people take offense to that, and I’ll never figure out why.
If you, pldennison, are one of those people that get pissed off about people like me, I’m sorry. I’ve learned to laugh at people who say things to me about my enjoyment of movies. They are the one’s who I was writing about. I don’t see how you thought I was opposing you? Unless you tell me.
pldennison writes:
I’ve never had to deal with any situations like this. Nor am I ever going too. But, employees of a movie theatre cannot stop people from talking. The extreme measure would be to call the law enforcement, and have them remove the person(s) who are disturbing the people who are following the theater’s policies. And I am in favor of that.
I’m not looking for the SDMB’s moderators to ban me from posting, but how can they stop someone? There’s always another e-mail address and screen name. And that person can give off another “personality” in their writings. The only way I can think of being banned from posting, is if the SDMB does not exist. Maybe there is another way to be banned, but I would never attempt it.
All in all, trying to bullshit someone smarter than I won’t work. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I am humbled (though I don’t like to admit it).
Confusious Say:
-Man who stand on toilet,
Is high on pot-
The SDMB may not be able to permanently ban you, personally, from speaking. However, the moderators can delete your individual posts, close or remove threads, and generally censor every piece of text that goes up on this site.
So if you were to post something that crossed their line, it would be edited or removed. If you got really obnoxious, they might lock/ban the name Brother Haus. If you then made up ten new usernames and continued to post obnoxious stuff, they would treat you as ten new people, and give each one the benefit of the doubt before locking it. (That is of course if you were skillful enough to make people believe that ten new people were posting. If they decided that it was probably the same disgruntled you behind it all, they’d just lock all the new usernames and wait for you to get bored.)
Of course I don’t fit in; I’m part of a better puzzle.
{{I’ve never had to deal with any situations like this. Nor am I ever going too. But, employees of a movie theatre cannot stop people from talking. The extreme measure would be to call the law enforcement, and have them remove the person(s) who are disturbing the people who are following the theater’s policies. And I am in favor of that. }} (in reference to people talking in theaters)
Actually, the theater can and will eject persistent talkers, if you can find an usher or manager to do this. Of course, you’ve missed half of the movie by this time, but you’ve made your point. And quite possibly embarrassed the talkers.
I used to work in a theater, about a decade ago. One of the usher’s jobs is to occasionally stroll into each theater and look for people smoking, talking, selling dope, whatever. The usher is also supposed to check to see that the audio and video are running correctly. However, given that most ushers are teenagers earning minimum wage, this rarely happens.
hoo :(, Mommy he started it. Waaahh, waaahh, waaahh.). Why is this?