Dealbreakers
 

Yes. Outrageously priced food and drink.

Dealbreakers
 

So? It was empty, right? Did you lose the deposit?

This happened to me once at a theatre, and the movie was so bad that the bottle rolling down got more laughs than any of the lines in whatever completely non-memorable movie it was (think Hot Shots Part Deux or something).

Dealbreakers
 

Yes, it was empty. No, we don't do deposits down here -- just chuck them in the trash. It made me have a flashback to age 15 and being escorted from a theater and threatened with a call to the police. I had my son with me and I didn't want there to be a scene if the usher busted me. It was just weird.

Yankees/Red Sox Fracas
 

Personally, I don't care who wins the Yankees/Red Sox series...

As long as one of them hurries their asses up and kicks the living shit out of the fucking Cubs.

There is nothing, I repeat nothing, more obnoxious in this world than asshole Cubs fans on those very rare occasions when the Cubs are actually winning...

You clueless people suck*
 

This post makes a profound point, though not the one I think you think you're making.

Edited to fix quote

Dealbreakers
 

No, I think going to the theater is fun, too. However, some possible justifications:

Hates people talking during the movie
Wants to talk/smoke during the movie
After years of movie rentals, he feels oppressed by a specific start time
Germ-phobic
Demophobic
Broke (hey, those fuckers are expensive these days, even before popcorn)
Has a better sound system at home
Has been banned for life for puking in the seats
Afraid of the dark
Moral objection to not being able to eat sushi in the theater
As yet undisclosed movie snobbery, and he will not see ANYTHING that receives a general release
Already have a date with 10 neighbors to see Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Funny, that. After telling neighbors how good Bubba Ho-Tep was, a bunch of them immediately complained that they hadn't gone along since they loved horror films/Bruce Campbell/ass-sucking mummies, and didn't know anyone else did. So we have quite the neighborhood horror posse, now.

You clueless people suck*
 

Actually, attendance should probably be measured by % of capacity of stadium filled since most older stadiums are much smaller, e.g., Wrigley and Fenway. Yankee Stadium is quite large for an older stadium.

If we go by overall attendance %, i.e., % of capacity filled at home and on the road, the Cubs are #1, with San Fran #2 and Boston #3. Yankees are 4th.

(See espn.com stats page - I tried to cut and paste but had trouble with the format).

Welcome to the Board, Friend.
 

Welcome to the board, newber. We're glad to have you! Don't be afraid to jump into the fray with the rest of us, very few people here bite. :D I have a suggestion, though. Since you are new, you probably do not know a lot of the ins and outs of the board yet. A little tradition we have here, is to sprinkle most of our posts with a shout-out to one of our board friends. Usually, we try to sprinkle this into the middle of the text, like this (Hi, Thurgreed!). It's just a friendly way of saying heidy-ho to your new chums on the board. If you have any questions, PM me, and I'll be glad to give you a list of our friendlier posters. Again, welcome aboard, new neighbor, and have fun. I'm sure you'll learn soon enough that we're a swell bunch of folks.

Your new pal,
spookyfish

You people suck*
 

You suffer from selective reading. I already admitted Clemens was almost as nuts as paigow. In fact, he's my least favorite Yankee starter because of how he used to nail Jeter on the regular when he pitched for Toronto. So, what you just made up, doesn't apply in this case.

That said, he doesn't threaten to bean people in the skull right after attempting to hit someone in the head.

TM

Dealbreakers
 

I rarely see anything in the theater because I cannot stand having people talk during a movie.

Things rarely anger me, but talking during a movie just pisses me off. I nearly slugged the guy next to me, who decided to talk on his cell during the opening credits of 28 Days Later.

When I do see a movie, we go opening night if possible, so fewer people will have already seen it and will have fewer reasons to tell their friends "I love this part."

We attend the theater in our neighborhood because it has the most generous stadium seating (true aisles, great legroom, no kids kicking the back of your seat). If it's not playing there, I have to really really really want to see it.

You people suck*
 

I think I suffered, although the word hardly seems appropriate, from not having read the rest of posts in the thread. Or, you suffered from my ketching up. Sorry.

Someone (Bob Ryan?) writing in the Boston Globe the past few days pointed out that the Red Sox always let their stars get away with too much. Right now it's Pedro and Manny, but it used to be Roger. He had to leave the team to get a grip. To the extent that he has a grip now.

Can I ask, what the hell was the Gerbil thinking? What was he going to do with Pedro once he got him?

You people suck*
 

What with the flinging of the elderly, the cleating of groundstaff, the threat of criminal charges, I have got to start watching more baseball--they've finally learned something from reality shows and made it more compelling to watch. I'm hoping they vote out Giambi on the next episode.

You small market team owners suck*
 

Mommy, he mocked me! He waved a Red Sox towel! He started it! Why am I the only one getting in trouble? I had to hit him til my hand split and stomp my cleats into his chest!

What the fuck is this, a second-grade playground? Any overpaid Peter Pan asshole who can't hold it together in the face of routine fan taunting should be stripped of his goddamned contract and forced to actually work for a living.

P(and I hold my own team's crying toddlers to the same standard)J

Dealbreakers
 

quote:
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Originally posted by barely_legal

Does anyone here just refuse to go to movie theaters for any reason?
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I don't understand going to movies on dates. Even though I no longer date, I very rarely see movies in the theater. I think this is because I see this as non-social behavior (like something I do when I am hung-over or sick).

Lifting the Curse: Cubs v. Red Sox
 

Here's an excerpt:

"If the Cubs lost to the Red Sox in the World Series, no doubt Cubs fans would feel awful. At last, got to the gates of heaven and they crashed shut. That's rough. But how would I feel if the Red Sox lost to the Cubs?

I have previously suggested that I feel toward the Yankees as I would toward someone who'd shot and killed my dog. Given this, what would it feel like if the Cubs beat us in the big one? It would feel as though some pleasant, absent-minded guy had accidentally run over my dog in the street and not really noticed, and then clumsily reversed back over the dog as it yelped in its death throes. Then he started whooping and guzzling beer with friends, while still standing over the dog corpse. And all the while he still seems like a really nice guy who was hard to blame or dislike."

The article is on the front page of www.slate.com