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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

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ORIGINAL: gungadin09

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Okay, it made me laugh, but i would be tempted to avoid the Alamo Drafthouse simply because it's classless to publicly make fun of your patrons, no matter how silly they are. This is funny as hell, but i don't think they should have run the ad.

Okay, at first i thought it was an ad they had run on t.v. or something, like, see this stupid bitch, we kicked her out, aren't we cool? But, no. The theater's showing it inhouse and before R- rated movies only, as a way to emphasize their texting policy (which the girl apparently thought was NOT emphasized enough). So, go for it, Alamo Drafthouse.

pam

I find it quite ironic that those who think the initial message was tacky in the first place are thinking it is okay to use it as any form of advertisement (PSA or otherwise). They are still trying to use ridicule to make a point, and personally I wouldn't want to go to such a theater.

I wonder if this gal might have legal recourse if she knew they were using her voice on their recording this way....

I wonder, would you want to call in a complaint to this chain seeing how they have treated others who have done so?

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I honestly can not recall ever hearing cursing from peers til junior high school.....I still believe that any child who uses curse words at the age of 6 is only parroting what they ehar at home.  I have seen too many examples that prove this to be true in my 20 years working in elementary schools

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I honestly can not recall ever hearing cursing from peers til junior high school.....I still believe that any child who uses curse words at the age of 6 is only parroting what they ehar at home.  I have seen too many examples that prove this to be true in my 20 years working in elementary schools

I read the word "fuck" off a public school restroom when I was seven. I went home and repeated it there... it did not go over very big, to say the least. I had never heard that word at home. So your thesis that kids hear it at home first is bullshit from my own life experience...

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I would call in a complaint to them in a heartbeat.  I would do it respectfully and I would bet I would be responded to respectfully.

I do not think you can judge how they treat "others" by their response to this one hothead with a filthy mouth.

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It may be bullshit to you, but I see it all the time.  We all can only judge based on what we see, so I am good with you disagreeing with me.

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ORIGINAL: gungadin09
The ad made me laugh.

Okay, it made me laugh, but i would be tempted to avoid the Alamo Drafthouse simply because it's classless to publicly make fun of your patrons, no matter how silly they are. This is funny as hell, but i don't think they should have run the ad.

pam

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It may be bullshit to you, but I see it all the time.  We all can only judge based on what we see, so I am good with you disagreeing with me.

You say you have been working in public schools for 20 years, and you are saying that in all of that time no worldly child ever corrupted other children? I do not buy that for one second

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It isn't as if the theatre posted a blog about a texting patron who got her self tossed out.
The woman broke the rules, and there were consequences.
She then chose to make the call and say what she did.

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ORIGINAL: angelikaJ

Likely had she not been texting in the first place, she would have seen the warning on the screen.

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I find it quite ironic that those who think the initial message was tacky in the first place are thinking it is okay to use it as any form of advertisement (PSA or otherwise). They are still trying to use ridicule to make a point, and personally I wouldn't want to go to such a theater.

i think it would be tacky to use ridicule to sell tickets by selling people on the idea of how hip they are. i see nothing wrong with using ridicule (and i think it was done tongue in cheek, and not in the spirit of meanness, or trying to up the ante) to make a point about their policy, which was NOT being made clear enough by the theater's earlier (and probably more passive) efforts to hit that point home. Say what you like about the ad, i bet it got people's attention in a way the other ads probably did not. And if it pisses some people off by using ridicule to make a point, hopefully it AVOIDS pissing more people off by making them aware of a policy that they would have been kicked out for if they hadn't known.

I wonder if this gal might have legal recourse if she knew they were using her voice on their recording this way....

i have no idea, but i suspect they had their lawyers check on it first.

I wonder, would you want to call in a complaint to this chain seeing how they have treated others who have done so?

Her story differs dramatically from theirs. If theirs is true, then i don't think she was treated badly. If hers is true, then they were completely within their rights, but may not have handled the situation as well as they could have. i would have a different opinion about the whole thing if i thought this was their way of selling "cool". But i think it's their way of emphasizing their policy by using humor instead of lecturing (which seems to have been ineffective.) i do NOT think their motivation was retaliation against the complainer, and i tend to believe their version of the story more than hers, especially since her version contradicts itself.

i think she deserved a warning before being thrown out of the theater. She may, or may not, have received one. If she didn't, then ridiculing her to make a point might be over the top. But if i were in her shoes, i would NOT have left that kind of message, and then expected my complaint to be taken as seriously as one that had been better thought out.

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania
I also find it ironic that there are so many people on here that believe it is a sign of stupidity to talk this way, yet think it is okay to ridicule stupid people. In my experience stupid people cannot help the way that they speak. So, if as those on this thread assert, this gal is "stupid", you are basically saying it is okay to humiliate stupid people

Anyway ya slice it, responding to tacky by being tacky is just more tackiness

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I still believe that any child who uses curse words at the age of 6 is only parroting what they ehar at home.

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I still believe that any child who uses curse words at the age of 6 is only parroting what they ehar at home.

And you'd be wrong. My parents didn't swear at all. My father was a career diplomat...he just didn't use dirty words unless it was in a joke. And my mother? I've heard her say "fuck" 2 or 3 times in 52 years. But at age 6 I was cussing in English and Hindi (no sorry, I don't remember any of it), in fact when we returned to Canada I took great delight in swearing at my teachers in Hindi. When I was 8 I was cussing in English, French, and Khemer.

I remember in grade 5 in Quebec City, we had an English class, and in the reader the word "tabernacle" appeared in the story. When the teacher reached that part and had to read that word out, she blushed seven shades of red and the whole class burst into gales of laughter.

Kids don't learn to swear at home, they learn at the park and playground, where they learn most of the important life skills.

I am amazed at the self delusion of some of the adults on here...do you really honestly think your little darlings talk the way they do in front of you when they are out with their friends? I have this bridge I don't need anymore, I can let it go pretty cheap.....

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Does your opinion of whether the theater was right to run the ad depend on whether you think the girl was telling the truth?

pam

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I actually just hung up from a friend of mine and we enjoyed remembering the names of several of the kids that came to school using the bad words.  We also remember how their parents acted when called in to have the issue addressed.

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I don't agree with most of the posters, it seems a bit over the top of the theatre to throw her out for using her phone as a light, and even if she were texting, if it was on silent then I don't see any reason to throw her out.

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And where do the kids that teach the bad words at that age learn them?  Obscenities just come to them in the middle of the night.

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It just means we see different worlds.