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odile the human x-file ([info]gaminette) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2005-07-19 15:22:00


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children at children's movies
Gothamist posted a post about the wank (<--of the journalfen variety) that arose when a man was slow to remove his crying, wailing child from a screening of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.. In the comments are accusations of racism, a diatribe against the police state, gems of the "deal with it" variety, such as:
Once, I had tuberculosis and was in the back of the theatre. I was coughing up a storm and watching "the crow". Now it was a slight cough but people were still yelling at me to leave. But I stayed cause I paid my 8.50 and have a right to be in that theater. what do you expect people? Public theatre. Public noise. you expect other peoples sweat not to be on the chairs you sit on? You expect other peoples urea not to be on the toilet bowls? You expect other peoples nose hairs not to be in the popcorn you eat? well you expect too much.
and, of course, the ever popular "con" variety:
Oompa Loompa doompety doo
I've got a perfect puzzle for you
Oompa Loompa doompety dee
If you are wise you'll listen to me
Why must you bring your loud kids to movies?
They whine, bitch and moan, and cry "I have to go pee"
Why can't you try simply renting "Shrek 2"?
Or could you read your kid a book?
You get no, you get no, you get NOOOOO
YOU GET NO MOVIE TRAILERS
Oompa Loompa doompety da
If you're not breeding, you will go far
You will live in happiness too
Like the Oompa Loompa doompety do.
Well, I *was* planning on checking out Charlie & the Chocolate Factory at the Imax theater tonight, but, on second thought, how nice and shiny my new Constantine DVD is! *pets*


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[info]warchio
2005-07-19 08:41 pm UTC (link)
I don't know about what other people expect but me? I expect not to get TB germs coughed on me in an cinema.

(or nose hairs in my food but I don't eat popcorn so that's not a problem)

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[info]mistressrenet
2005-07-19 09:55 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, same here. Guess I'm an entitlement whore.

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[info]also_not_a_pipe
2005-07-19 08:54 pm UTC (link)
I'd been wondering where the wank was. But then I read the comments. And ahhh. Got it.

I went to see "Charlie" on Saturday, and even though I'm not particularly fond of children, I thought that the tiny little guy behind us who started calling "Me! Me! Me, Charlie, me!" during the scene where Charlie was doling out the Wonka Bar he got for his birthday was cute. I was more bothered by the woman with him who kept threatening to slap him if he didn't shut up. I mean, damn, lady, it's a kid's movie. Kids are going to be noisy. I'd rather have chattery kids than abused ones around me. If you have to slap someone, go for the adults at the end of the row who keep squawking "DAAAAAAANNNNG, YYYYYO!" whenever anything remotely interesting happened.

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(no subject) - [info]esorlehcar, 2005-07-20 04:25 am UTC
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[info]jrs1980
2005-07-19 08:56 pm UTC (link)
Holy...crap. People, please don't bring your TB-carryin' self to public arenas, like a movie theater where we'll all be sharing the same air for 2+ hours.

That whole post is making me very paranoid.

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[info]provetheworst
2005-07-19 09:26 pm UTC (link)
... You know, I expect sticky floors and noisy kids when I go to a movie. I don't expect TUBERCU-FUCKING-LOSIS. D:

... But yeah. Generally, people take children to watch children's movies. Gasp, shock, horror! Who woulda thunk it!!

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[info]cat_mcdougall
2005-07-19 09:29 pm UTC (link)
My two youngest children are 5yo. I have taken them to /children's/ movies. I... don't think Charlie is really for kids that young.

Would I take them to things like Madagascar? You bet I would. But that's different. And have I dragged them out the theatre (all four of them) when one was crying? Yes. It's polite and mannerly. And considering they wanted to keep watching the movie, they shut up.

And for the guy with TB dude! Get /out/ of the movie theatres! People like that are frightening.

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[info]kadath
2005-07-19 09:29 pm UTC (link)
Once, I had tuberculosis and was in the back of the theatre. I was coughing up a storm ...

OMFG. Plz to be dropping dead, kthx. TB is the the disease healthcare workers are most scared of catching. It's nasty, it's airborne, and it's tiny--it goes right through anything less than a HEPA filter. They make special masks to give to suspected TB cases to keep the germs in so they don't infect everybody.

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(no subject) - [info]bubosquared, 2005-07-20 09:47 am UTC
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[info]prettypinkkitty
2005-07-19 09:54 pm UTC (link)
...um. You can get vaccinated for TB, right?

I'm never going to the movies again.

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[info]amxjm
2005-07-19 10:09 pm UTC (link)
I must be tired. I read the thing with the guy with TB and somehow didn't readily see the big problem there, even though I've done a freaking report on it before. x_X

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[info]miss_kitten
2005-07-19 10:20 pm UTC (link)
"Ed" says:

That's why you download movies.

Wise in the ways of provocation, he is. Mmm-hmm.

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[info]esseilte
2005-07-19 10:22 pm UTC (link)
Stupid question...hasn't everyone been vaccinated for TB? Everyone I know has a scar on their arms from the BCG needle being stuck in at school. I thought it was a widespread thing?

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(no subject) - [info]kadath, 2005-07-19 10:22 pm UTC
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[info]jat_sapphire
2005-07-19 11:39 pm UTC (link)
In the middle of huuuuuumongous tl;dr post:
The state's legitimacy is exactly what's in contention. I argue against. If you want to argue for, then you'll have to appeal to something other than the very thing we're disagreeing over.


Hey, asshat, didn't I last see you in an abortion argument cited on otf_wank?

Please to sit next to TB-Man, kthnx.

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[info]serpentis
2005-07-19 11:41 pm UTC (link)
Once, I had tuberculosis...

It's like he's just got the sniffles or something, rather than a disease. It's like saying 'once I had syphillis,' or 'once I had cancer of the eyeball.' Like he's just caught it, few paracetamol, be right as rain tomorrow.

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(no subject) - [info]littleshebear, 2005-07-19 11:46 pm UTC

[info]marlo
2005-07-20 12:02 am UTC (link)
You know, when I've watched news clips from Asia, there are people everywhere wearing surgical masks. And I'm talking pre-SARS, too. It's a common thing to do when you're sick, or when you're worried you might get sick from someone else. Why can't people do that over here? ESPECIALLY TB guy. Dear lord.

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(no subject) - [info]jaseroque, 2005-07-21 08:17 am UTC
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[info]smo
2005-07-20 12:45 am UTC (link)
Never. eating. popcorn. again. O.o

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(no subject) - [info]crickets, 2005-07-20 06:34 am UTC

[info]oxydosic
2005-07-20 01:44 am UTC (link)
It's called common fucking courtesy, asswipe. One, no one needs your contagious disease, and two, people deserve not to have their experience ruined by your hacking. If I'm coughing up a storm I STAY HOME because gee, i think people besides me ought to be able to enjoy the movie.

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(no subject) - [info]sepiamagpie, 2005-07-20 10:57 am UTC

[info]sesana
2005-07-20 02:30 am UTC (link)
I'm guessing Late Adopter has children s/he can't get to shut up. Yes, kids do scream and yell on playgrounds. A movie theater!=a playground, and if you think it does... Well, that would explain why the kids won't shut up during Shrek 25, wouldn't it? And incidentally, if there's one kid in the theater screaming its head off so loudly that the adults can't hear the movie, it's a good bet the other kids can't either.

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[info]lemone
2005-07-20 04:35 am UTC (link)
Ok, about the TB guy. Now I understand and concur about the whole contagious disease thing, but ah, if you were sick as hell wouldn't you feel kinda shitty and not really want to go to the theater to begin with? Whatever happened to making it a Blockbuster night? Or HBO?

That is what's weird to me.

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(no subject) - [info]kadath, 2005-07-20 04:31 pm UTC

[info]crickets
2005-07-20 06:26 am UTC (link)
Once, I had tuberculosis

Once more, with feeling:
...and when you didn't prop your lungs up and stay at home like most sane folks with two functioning brain cells to rub together, you were rightly beaned for it. Take your precious 8.50, preferably all in large, well-handled and germy coins (they're public!), and shove it where the sun don't shine.

*shakes head* Good grief, what a twit.

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[info]monkeywrench
2005-07-20 10:06 am UTC (link)
But I stayed cause I paid my 8.50 and have a right to be in that theater.

If I were there I so would throw drinks and popcorn at this guy.

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[info]cpip
2005-07-20 11:57 am UTC (link)
I admit it, I have to call "bullshit" on the TB person, simply because I can't believe it. It breaks my brain to believe it.

So therefore, I don't.

Wadin' in that happy river...

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(no subject) - [info]innsmouth_eyes, 2005-07-21 05:43 am UTC

[info]eilan
2005-07-20 03:46 pm UTC (link)
Once, I had tuberculosis and was in the back of the theatre. I was coughing up a storm and watching "the crow". Now it was a slight cough but people were still yelling at me to leave. But I stayed cause I paid my 8.50 and have a right to be in that theater. what do you expect people? Public theatre. Public noise. you expect other peoples sweat not to be on the chairs you sit on? You expect other peoples urea not to be on the toilet bowls? You expect other peoples nose hairs not to be in the popcorn you eat? well you expect too much.

Am I the only one taking that as sarcasm?

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(no subject) - [info]kadath, 2005-07-20 04:33 pm UTC
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[info]gal_montag
2005-07-20 06:36 pm UTC (link)
Once, I had tuberculosis and was in the back of the theatre.

Why the hell did you go to the theatre to spread your infectious disease, you ass?

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*puts on gas mask*
[info]ingrid
2005-07-20 07:21 pm UTC (link)
How I long for the days of locked sanitariums ... on islands ... next to the leper colonies ...

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Re: *puts on gas mask* - [info]iczer6, 2005-07-20 09:54 pm UTC
Re: *puts on gas mask* - [info]ingrid, 2005-07-20 10:03 pm UTC
On the subject of coughing
[info]moonjaguar
2005-07-21 04:17 pm UTC (link)
TB person sounds like they were exaggerating/kidding. A friend of mine contracted TB and when he was in the coughing-his-lungs-out stage, he was barely in any mood to watch TV in his apartment, let alone go to the movies.

I have asthma and sometimes I will start coughing my lungs, liver, stomach, heart, thyroid and brains out and it takes time for it to quit. I haven't had that happen in a theater but I'll walk out of the living room where people are watching TV or leave a classroom because I don't feel that people need to be distracted (or wondering if I have something contagious) by all my noisy harg!harg!harg! That and I can go get a drink of water and if necessary, use my inhaler.

However if I'm on public transit, fucked if I'm getting off the bus because that means I'll have to wait another half-hour/forty-five minutes/one hour for the next one. I'll cough into the crook of my elbow (foodservice cough-- turns your face away and you don't go hack!hack! on your hand and go serve somebody their food or take their money).

And I thought it was common sense for people to take crying or misbehaving kids out of the theater. I notice that moving them to a semi-quiet space tends to calm them down (though my nephew was a real pistol when he was a kid)!

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