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Slartibartfast wrote: Equality 7-2521 wrote: Why does anyone care what Rush says or thinks   No one cared about what Hitler though or said and look what happened.

Everybody cared. Read some history man.

Man sues movie theater for high snack prices.

The case will absolutely be thrown out of court, but this still infuriates me. If the cost of candy at a theater bothers you, how about you stop paying $15 to stuff your face with half a gallon of coke and case of goobers that you don't need. It's one thing if you complain about the price of necessary goods, but to cry and cry about how theaters are gorging you because of amenities you shouldn't be consuming anyway is ridiculous. I don't feel sorry for you. I wish I had a theater so I could charge you $20 for a small popcorn and watch a moron like you probably still buy it because you've been told you must eat the dry disgusting popcorn at a movie theater.

JJLehto wrote: Yeah don't feed. "Ya know that attitude is what led to the nazis" is one of the most overused/cliched "techniques" and usually there just to make people go

You know that sounds like just the thing a Nazi would say.

Equality 7-2521 wrote: Man sues movie theater for high snack prices. The case will absolutely be thrown out of court, but this still infuriates me. If the cost of candy at a theater bothers you, how about you stop paying $15 to stuff your face with half a gallon of coke and case of goobers that you don't need. It's one thing if you complain about the price of necessary goods, but to cry and cry about how theaters are gorging you because of amenities you shouldn't be consuming anyway is ridiculous. I don't feel sorry for you. I wish I had a theater so I could charge you $20 for a small popcorn and watch a moron like you probably still buy it because you've been told you must eat the dry disgusting popcorn at a movie theater.

It is actually possible to make it through a movie without an over-sized jug of Coke and a big ass popcorn.  Movie theaters are in trouble and don't charge ridiculous prices on concessions just for the fun of it.  It's been years now since I've gone out to the movies but the last time I think we did get a "small" C & P.   I think it was the Star Trek movie.  Just checked, that would have been mid 2009.


Edited by Slartibartfast - March 06 2012 at 12:34

The thing that keeps us away from going out to the movies isn't the high price of concessions or the sticky floors it's the quality of the movies themselves.  Knowing that they make money off the concessions, we'll buy something,   Kind of like tipping.

Exactly......I am not tipping the movie theater and don't need an infusion of junk food

Popcorn is a pretty unpleasant snack at the best of times if truth be told, that we only consume the damn stuff in the dark of a cinema when there is precious little choice of anything else should tell you something. And while we're on the subject of cineplex fine-dining, why the hell did we import from the USofA the dumb idea of eating nachos covered luke-warm orange snot that claims to be some form of cheese derivative covered with a paltry smattering of soft and tasteless jalapeños, when the import of drowned hot-dogs doused with indeterminate yellow & red nose-dribble in a stale bun had already proved that concession staff would struggle to gain employment in a sub-standard McDs?

Edited by Dean - March 06 2012 at 13:02

 

Dean wrote:   Have you ever tried asking for a coke without ice? It can't be done apparently.

Every try ordering a coke from a place that serves Pepsi or another cola product? Never a better example of the brutality of trademark enforcement (might not be that way in the UK).

I guess the Waldorf Hotel doesn't send around undercover agents and threaten restaurants with legal action for breach of trademark. 

The International House Of Pancakes has a Lorax breakfast special with green eggs and ham.  Wrong on so many levels.