Monday, March 17, 2025

Explorers

 These great philosophers are explorers. Those who are great are those who have discovered continents. Those who are not great are those who have only thought of being solemnly accepted at the Sorbonne.

 There is a certain world, a universe of thought. On the face of this world geographies can be drawn. In the depth of this world geologies can make deeper engravings. The public, so to speak, always believes, and the philosophers almost always believe, that they are quarreling over the the same terrain. Neither sees that they are plunging into different continents. 

[Charles Péguy, Notes on Bergson and Descartes, Ward, tr., Cascade Books (Eugene, OR: 2019) p. 58.]

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knuttypoo
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3 years ago

I never go to theaters with reserved seating. It's a movie, not a damned sporting event.

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elvispolaris
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3 years ago

I swear that was the actor Seymour idiot that committed suicide supposedly….

On another note. Haven’t been to a theater since mandatory seating

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GrabMyBag
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3 years ago

Smaller theaters like that have you pick your seats when you buy your ticket. I'm sure this all started when the person who purchased that seat asked him to move and he acted like a child and that person asked management for assistance.

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xxx
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3 years ago

And they don't say a word to the guy with his nasty ass feet on the seat in front of him. It was going good until he put on his pedo raincoat.

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GrabMyBag
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3 years ago

Those are reclining seats. Like the ones you would have on a LazyBoy couch.

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Rateye
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3 years ago

yeah he's acting like the kneegrow in the coach seat behind you that got on standby.

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ASHER
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3 years ago

Usher is a power hungry phagot, you should of let it slide.

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Rateye
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3 years ago

yeah goodbye and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Must have been a special showing of Broke Back Mountain.

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José Maia Pin Yan
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3 years ago

Doesn´t he look the part...

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A man .. the DeplorAble
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3 years ago

Store food and weapons !
You don't want to be standing in "food lines" with these people .
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I "kid you" there won't be any food for those lines to be used for .........

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James Tran
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3 years ago

.... black leather trench coat....

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Fit Shawn
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3 years ago

been to tinseltown on beltway 8 back in the day? we had fools f'ng in the back rows!

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James Tran
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3 years ago

oh snaps... i remember that place...

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Rateye
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3 years ago

If you want to stick up for that fat phaggot in the red pajamas and rubber trench coat go ahead. I'm with the chic, Seems like you're
the one that would rather hear a fat boy fart instead of a pretty girl sing. You can sit on that fat bastard's lap for all I care only the co ck ain't gonna be in your mouth.

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Fit Shawn
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3 years ago

man i can't wait for dr strange 2!

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RW
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3 years ago

When I lived in Hong Kong, all the theaters had what's being called assigned seating. You selected what seat you wanted from a chart of the theater when you bought your ticket. You could even buy a ticket days in advance for a film you wanted to see. I loved that system as it prevented all the idiocy of people rushing inside trying to outdo others in a scramble for the best seats. It also meant you didn't have to stand in huge lines. As is, the only time theater staff would take issue with you (even in a mostly empty theater) is if you tried to switch from a cheap seat to an expensive one. For example, the seats closer to the screen were the cheap seats and the seats in the balcony cost lots more.
All that being said, if the theater in this case didn't have differently priced tickets and the theater was mostly empty so that it wouldn't matter where someone sat, then the theater staff were really being very anal jerks about it and on a power trip.

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Anonymous
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3 years ago

Excellent comment... This is called nuanced thinking.

There would only be two problems if this chose this seat... If he was so tall he was impeding someone's view who purposefully booked a seat with no one in front. Although that doesn't hold water, because the guy or anyone else could just go and book that seat he was now sitting in. Or if he was perving on someone. Although that's not a crime either. Point is, the theatre was empty, and discretion should have been used to allow people to sit where they want, with the caveat that if someone bought that actual seat at some point, then and only then would he have to move.

Ultimately, the theatre usher was been too strict with the 'rule' instead of using his discretion on this case by case basis to allow it, since it was a no harm no foul situation, and no one else knew or cared the guy what in an unassigned seat. It was an usher power trip. And he lost a customer, and probably lots of other people who will never go to assigned seating theatres as a result of seeing this.

The usher made it into a thing, not the customer. Whatever happened to 'the customer is always right', and customer oriented service. Nowadays it's 'anytime as a lowly peon I have power over someone for anything, I'm going to flex it'. Fuck the cuck usher

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Anonymous
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3 years ago

Follow the illogical Communist rules. Sir, we assigned you that nice seat in the very right back corner where you have to look wonky eyed and tilt-headed the whole time. We appreciate your $25 ticket and $30 for treats, but YOU WILL SIT WHERE WE TELL YOU TO SIT. AND YOU WILL SAY AND NOT SAY WHAT WE TELL YOU TOO AS WELL. THE GOVERNMENT DOES IT. SO CAN WE.

But if you own a Christian bakery, you MUST bake cakes for gay weddings. Because WE TELL YOU TO.

It's all about ENTRAINMENT to OBEYING illogical DICTATES on every level.

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DiskNave
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3 years ago

what stupid BS. I would have told the guy if the person with that seat number shows up you are going to have to move but until then .....no problem

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Joe Schmoe
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3 years ago

Right, that's what normal people do OR you could just go back to first come first serve.

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GrabMyBag
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3 years ago

Well first of all the management would not come in and ask him to move unless someone complained that he was sitting in the seat that they had the tickets for.

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Albert E.
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3 years ago

Just grab the fat fucker by his hippy-dippy hair and drag him out like a rabid dog. Where the head goes, the fat ass body will follow. What a DICK!!! And he can vote in this great country of ours. THAT is what's sad. Guarantee he votes democrat.

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Anonymous
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3 years ago

You're so far backwards, you're probably a tranny Albert you fag. Demonrats are all about following illogical rules, it's Libertarians that understand freedom.

Now go bake your gay wedding cake. DWEEB

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Bo Bo
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3 years ago

Empty theater and management is enforcing theater seating. What a bunch of Ass holes.

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swaggerrrr
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3 years ago

everybody gets treated the same way dipshit. if they make the expectation for him then they would for everybody and whats the point of assigned seating. how stupid can you be trying to justify this

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George Spelvin
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3 years ago

If assigned seating is the system, use it or go somewhere else.

Concert halls, Broadway theaters, restaurants taking reservations, airplanes, sleeper trains, sports arenas, car rental agencies, private marinas, .....they all use assigned seating or equivalents.

Heck, when I rent space at gun shows the tables are assigned ahead of time. I did a trade show at the Javits in NYC and my location was assigned weeks in advance.

Its not a new concept.

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Troggy
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3 years ago

Any sympathy I had for his arguing points were shattered the moment I saw he was the 'It Places the Lotion in the Basket' guy. EDIT: I paused it before he turned around. Now he's Junior the Gorg Giant from Fraggle Rock https://muppet.fandom.com/w...

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Hashid Madrawrs
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3 years ago

I was waiting for him to come out with the tran sgen der card.

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A man .. the DeplorAble
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3 years ago

Buy a small pool .........
You can use that pool water !!

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GrabMyBag
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3 years ago

From personal experience in a theater that has preassigned seating, I can say with 100% confidence that management does not come in to the theater EVER to assure that you are sitting in the proper seat unless someone comes out to complain.

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ASHER
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3 years ago

If the place going to be full, then I agree with you.

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ASHER
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3 years ago

Dude just my opinion, not trying to start a range war.

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Hodja Nasreddin
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3 years ago

The rules are to be complied with.
If you allow this little disobedience, society will collapse eventually.
First you allow sitting in wrong seat in theater and next thing you know is negroes driving in buses sitting in front with white folks or walking into whites only stores.

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Hodja Nasreddin
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3 years ago

Exactly right.
Although it might not matter where he sits in this case, what is the reason for him to sit one seat to the right?
And why on Earth would he refuse to sit in his seat?
Only to cause a confrontation, what an asshole.

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irvpost
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3 years ago

Actually there are several places that permit you to do just that with unimproved vacant land. You can actually become the owner of the land, Florida used to be one.

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irvpost
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3 years ago

I was wondering how many people he had chained in his basement. But I suppose he would have been so outrageous.