Posted on 10/03/2013 7:57:32 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
So are you going to jump on to every nanny state thread and make fun of people opposed to unlimited free trade, or is this a limited engagement?
Oh, and you guys forgot to invite AmishDude to the thread.
Only when I feel like it—I’m not hijacking your thread, honest.
The staff is polite and professional, the place is clean and while the concessions are outrageous their reward program is such that you generally get a free beverage or popcorn every couple of visits.
I hope FedGov doesn't spoil it.
I am in advanced stage Glaucoma and facing blindness soon. Consequently, I have been learning how to cope with blindness while I still have my sight. Just recently, I found a movie that I rented that relayed the action on the screen and was excited as I have listened to a movie, then watched it later to see what I missed. I missed much. The words often had an entirely different meaning when viewed with the action.
With that said, I never dreamed movie theaters would have headsets for me. If a theater in a town within traveling distance had a few screens out of the 14 that did, I would be thrilled to have the chance to attend a movie... any movie. I can’t imagine mandating theaters install the headsets on all screens and expecting all customers to pay extra to accommodate my disability. I wouldn’t expect all theaters to have any headsets for me, for that matter.
This Country has lost it’s “collective” mind. Purely and simply.
Exactly. Back in the day, Disney couldn’t get every theater to install their humongous sound system for the “Fantasia” movie.
Last movie I saw on the big screen was “Star Wars III”, in Kenner, LA., a few months before Hurricane Katrina roared through.
My afternoon ticket was $8.00. My cup of coffee was $5.00, and that was just a cup of coffee, no Starbucks wowee factor. My nachos were $5.00.
I have had no compulsion to visit the movie theater, in the town across the river.
“My afternoon ticket was $8.00. My cup of coffee was $5.00, and that was just a cup of coffee, no Starbucks wowee factor. My nachos were $5.00.”
A few years ago they put up a huge multiplex a few towns away; I was shocked and sure it would fail. The place is expensive, yet somehow packed all the time. I can only deduce that despite all of the technology, some people just want to “go out”.
I only go to the movies when the kids want to see something; I highly recommend the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” movies for kids. No racial overtones, the intact family (with THREE children) attends Mass, good laughs, all in all probably the last vestige of how life was and could be if we make it so.
Kenner has a movie theater? Thought you would have had to go to Lake Charles or Jennings for that.
I breed & raise horses. NOT big numbers, but when I have one for sale, I worry that I will get some sort of handicapped person showing up & demand that I allow them to ‘try out the horse’. Except for those MUCH OLDER horses used for handicapped kids & which require a minimum of 3 persons to get the kid the chance to be on a horse for Equine Therapy, I have not even known of or owned a horse I could even consider have a wheelchair roll up to. They would spook, I am pretty sure.
I think this has already been a problem with riding stables, where such a demand cannot be accommodated.
I already watched small businesses in Calif get driven out of business because of ADA requirements. For some time in Calif, they were trying to demand that every house built was built to ADA requirements. Sloping entry. MUCH wider doors. Different showers & tubs & toilets in the bathroom. Elevators for 2 story homes. That finally got hammered down. It brought home building to a stop. It cost a considerable amount, and buyers of new homes didn’t want these ‘additions’.
I am waiting for all commercial buildings to be told they have to add more bathrooms to accommodate Transgender people. Jerry Brown would sign such in a heartbeat.
Joe Biden told a guy in a wheelchair to ‘STAND UP
, CHUCK’ at a campaign appearance.
It sounds like it wouldn’t be that expensive to install on digital screens. Asking theaters to upgrade a film projection screen to a digital would most likely be a burden though. If they could afford to do that, they probably would’ve done it already so they could show 3D movies.
Raymann wrote:
“Kenner has a movie theater? Thought you would have had to go to Lake Charles or Jennings for that.”
Nope! At the junction of Airline Highway and Clearview Parkway, (just before or just past of The Garden of Memories), where once stood a Walgreens pharmacy (haven’t been back, so not sure), to turn towards the river, you would happen upon a shopping mall that had a multiplex cinema theater!
“The place is expensive, yet somehow packed all the time. I can only deduce that despite all of the technology, some people just want to “go out”.”
I see that here in the Boston area, although a larger and larger component of these cash-flush types appear to be tourists - you can usually tell by the intact families, their dress and lack of tattoos.
What we’re starting to see now is also the young people who are fortunate enough to be working are really sought after by businesses; previous generations would marry and save for a home, but now those things are off the table for many so they’re still in the market for new cars, expensive drinks and such long past the point where my generation was (I’m just past 40). Kind of sad to watch people talk about their pets as normal people talk about children, and how many of them cohabitate with no marriage or children in their plans for the future.
Good points, as usual Kearny.
Gamble and buy into the marriage/kids thing or go materialistic. Yep...
It’s amazing the sheer numbers of people (including couples) that have pets filling in for human children. I love it when “mom and dad” take “the kids” for a walk.
Gag...
The last movie I saw on the big screen was "Annie" back in 1982. and that was because my wife at the time bought the tickets as part of a PBS fundraiser.
The only ones I recall seeing before that were "Ben Hur" with Heston and "Easy Rider".
Thanks.
I take no delight in pointing these things out; in the larger scheme of things I find it very depressing. The demographic consequences in my area are shocking; many of my children’s friends are foreigners (from Egypt, Bangladesh, Latin America) who all have siblings and no pets.
You’re welcome.
It is very, very depressing. And like you’ve posted numerous times in other threads, the 2050 number is fiction; the demographic bomb is here now.
Unless folks choose to disbelieve what their eyes and ears tell them. And when you’re talking about people that seriously refer to their pets as “babies” and “kids”, they probably do.
On another note, is this the year the Giants fire Coughlin? They look really bad.
And what’s up with NJ having a special election in October? Odd, no? I really hope Booker loses badly.
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