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To: Touch Not the Cat
Happens all the time in "urban" movie theaters.

Reminds me of when I was younger and lived in downtown Denver for a while after college. The city spent millions revitalizing 16th street with upscale shopping centers, restaurants and movie theaters in an area that was formerly home to pawn shops and porno stores. No sooner than it opened, it attracted the thugs looking for easy prey and goods to shoplift.

Shortly after it opened, some friends and I went to the brand-new theater to spend our money and take in a film. Unaccustomed to seeing movies in an "urban" setting, I was taken aback by the fact that people just wouldn't stop talking through the film. Cell phones ringing, whooping and hollering, just constant noise. Being wiser than the filmgoer in this article, I wasn't about to politely ask the noisy viewers to STFU. Instead, my friends and I left after 20 minutes into the film and demanded refunds. We told the manager exactly why. He gave us our money back. Needless to say, if I'm going to spend my hard-earned money seeing a movie these days, I'll choose a theater in the 'burbs.

I haven't been back in a while. It's a shame, really. All that money spent to turn a decaying part of town in to someplace beautiful and revenue-enhancing and the local denizens try their best to ruin it by scaring away all the people with money to spend.

29 posted on 04/17/2010 10:37:56 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Drew68

Well, it’s just like you say, except those same people act the same way in school, at home, at work, on the street, etc. and the beauty part is they wonder why normal people aren’t exactly thrilled to be around them. So it’s frowned upon to disapprove of them, political correctness stymies people from speaking out about it, and any direct action is viewed as inexcusable racist violence.

Couple that with the same toxic, ignorant, feral “culture” metastasizing into the default one for this country-fat, loud, ignorant, lazy, sociopathic,helpless-and we’ve got a problem-one that a great many people have known about for quite some time.


37 posted on 04/17/2010 12:17:46 PM PDT by Mac from Cleveland ("See what you made me do?" Major Malik Hasan)
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