The Funny/Stupid Pics Thread

[Askold]

That's just mean.

[Eiki-mun]

That's just mean.

I would file it under the "well-deserved meanness" category.

[mellenORL]

"Ruthless Soccer Mom" is a stereotype for a reason. Specifically, middle to upper middle class married mothers with no lack of resources, no social barriers, etc. I've dealt with many of the same type over the years I worked in restaurants. They can be hideously rude, self-entitled and disruptive demon spawners. Especially when comparing them to working class single moms, who have a very good excuse to act out - but rarely ever do - I say to the OP, Troll onwards, proud lol-ster.

[RavynousHunter]

"Ruthless Soccer Mom" is a stereotype for a reason. Specifically, middle to upper middle class married mothers with no lack of resources, no social barriers, etc. I've dealt with many of the same type over the years I worked in restaurants. They can be hideously rude, self-entitled and disruptive demon spawners. Especially when comparing them to working class single moms, who have a very good excuse to act out - but rarely ever do - I say to the OP, Troll onwards, proud lol-ster.

Yup, there's a large number of people who feel that, because they managed to successfully insert tab A into slot B, they are entitled to special treatment and exemption from rules.  Just because you managed to do something that literally any moron could do by accident doesn't mean you should be treated like a queen/king.  While certain considerations and accommodations are fine, you and your kids are subject to the same effing rules as the rest of us.  In the words of Adam Buckley: "You are not special."

[Svata]

Honestly, if I were to do it, I'd buy the three seats behind me as well, otherwise you get the pissed parents letting their kids kick the back of your seat.

[RavynousHunter]

Honestly, if I were to do it, I'd buy the three seats behind me as well, otherwise you get the pissed parents letting their kids kick the back of your seat.

Makes me wonder how much it'd cost to, literally, reserve an entire room.  It'd be glorious to see the shitfit entitled soccer moms would pitch when they realize them and their brood can't sit anywhere without your permission.  Do that with the latest super-marketable kids movie and just spend the entire time with noise-cancelling headphones, playing shit on your phone, just to grind that salt a little deeper into the wound.

[pyro]

Isn't there a cheaper option to request a private screening?

[RavynousHunter]

Isn't there a cheaper option to request a private screening?

Got me, dude.  I'd just as soon get a VIP seat, since they're, as far as I know, 21 and up only as they come with bar access.

[Eiki-mun]

Honestly, if I were to do it, I'd buy the three seats behind me as well, otherwise you get the pissed parents letting their kids kick the back of your seat.

Makes me wonder how much it'd cost to, literally, reserve an entire room.  It'd be glorious to see the shitfit entitled soccer moms would pitch when they realize them and their brood can't sit anywhere without your permission.  Do that with the latest super-marketable kids movie and just spend the entire time with noise-cancelling headphones, playing shit on your phone, just to grind that salt a little deeper into the wound.

Assuming a theater has about 20 rows of seats, which seems a fair assumption to me, you're looking at around three thousand dollars.

[mellenORL]

Oh, fuck yeah. I'd drop 3 grand and fill the seats with busloads of poor and/or homeless families. Watch the white soccer moms turn blue trying to control their rage in front of their kids...for maybe 10 seconds... then it's "Katie Kaboom" time. XD

[pyro]

Oh, fuck yeah. I'd drop 3 grand and fill the seats with busloads of poor and/or homeless families. Watch the white soccer moms turn blue trying to control their rage in front of their kids...for maybe 10 seconds... then it's "Katie Kaboom" time. XD

Katie would grow up into someone like that, and probably at about 21, too. :-)

Got me, dude.  I'd just as soon get a VIP seat, since they're, as far as I know, 21 and up only as they come with bar access.

It almost certainly depends on the theater. The one near where I live lists a minimum cost of $400. I'm willing to assume it never reaches $3,000.

[Askold]

I still think that representation of minorities in fiction is important but this is still funny.

[Even Then]

A cast with no cishets in it is tokenism, now. Got it. Now please excuse me, I must make one of my characters cisgender and heterosexual. You know. So I don't tokenize non-cishet people.

(I don't want to turn this into a whole thing, but DAMN that's some bad logic.)

[Askold]

I think you are missing the point. Trying to fit every single minority and category into the cast is tokenism.

Even if a few minorities are missing from the cast of story X the story can have more diversity than on average but trying to fit every damn one of them into it is tokenism. (Who was it here who wrote a short story that tried to have as many minorities as possible and was still attacked for the lack of one specific minority?)

[pyro]

[pedantic] Actually, a cast made up entirely of vanilla lesbians is one made up entirely of queer people, just like the original-original poster wanted it. No need to squeeze every possible variety in. [/pedantic]