Comments on: Friday Night At The Movies http://sharkboy.ca/2008/01/30/friday-night-at-the-movies/ Chances Are I Already Hate It! Wed, 02 May 2012 23:54:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dead Robot » Dead Robot http://sharkboy.ca/2008/01/30/friday-night-at-the-movies/comment-page-1/#comment-690 Dead Robot » Dead Robot Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:18:38 +0000 http://sharkboy.ca/?p=320#comment-690 [...] The big video cube precariously balancing over the corner of John and Richmond has been on the fritz since the hand-over and can barely show the 3 story tall trailers it once broadcasted, not to mention being garishly covered in the eye-bleedingly sharp Scotia red. Lately at least one escalator is off or broken. The theatre use to boast about the incline of the trip up to the lobby but with the “down” escalator constantly in repair, the descent is dizzying. Although energy-consuming, the fancy show lights that project designs in the stairwells and floor haven’t been running, making amature DJs weep as they pass by hundreds of dollars worth of unused lighting equipment. The concession staff are not the most well trained in customer service, which comes as no surprise since they’re now programmed to welcome you to a Scotiabankpropertyandenjoytheshownextplease - it’s not a friggin’ bank! Let the minimum wage staff have some fun! Meanwhile the general manners of movie-goers that frequent the Scotia has dropped to sub-Neanderthal levels. Ironically the last movie I went to there without chatting or cell phone interruptions was Cloverfield. And using the upstairs washroom has become a hazard. [...] [...] The big video cube precariously balancing over the corner of John and Richmond has been on the fritz since the hand-over and can barely show the 3 story tall trailers it once broadcasted, not to mention being garishly covered in the eye-bleedingly sharp Scotia red. Lately at least one escalator is off or broken. The theatre use to boast about the incline of the trip up to the lobby but with the “down” escalator constantly in repair, the descent is dizzying. Although energy-consuming, the fancy show lights that project designs in the stairwells and floor haven’t been running, making amature DJs weep as they pass by hundreds of dollars worth of unused lighting equipment. The concession staff are not the most well trained in customer service, which comes as no surprise since they’re now programmed to welcome you to a Scotiabankpropertyandenjoytheshownextplease – it’s not a friggin’ bank! Let the minimum wage staff have some fun! Meanwhile the general manners of movie-goers that frequent the Scotia has dropped to sub-Neanderthal levels. Ironically the last movie I went to there without chatting or cell phone interruptions was Cloverfield. And using the upstairs washroom has become a hazard. [...]

]]> By: Normlr http://sharkboy.ca/2008/01/30/friday-night-at-the-movies/comment-page-1/#comment-614 Normlr Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:06:17 +0000 http://sharkboy.ca/?p=320#comment-614 Maybe if they had gone to an Afro-centric school they would have learned that selling drugs in public restrooms is a no-no. They don't teach that kind of stuff in white schools. Ya I'm bitter. Maybe if they had gone to an Afro-centric school they would have learned that selling drugs in public restrooms is a no-no. They don’t teach that kind of stuff in white schools. Ya I’m bitter.

]]> By: Phronk http://sharkboy.ca/2008/01/30/friday-night-at-the-movies/comment-page-1/#comment-613 Phronk Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:22:09 +0000 http://sharkboy.ca/?p=320#comment-613 That's scary as hell. I felt nervous just reading about it. That’s scary as hell. I felt nervous just reading about it.

]]> By: Lew http://sharkboy.ca/2008/01/30/friday-night-at-the-movies/comment-page-1/#comment-611 Lew Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:44:57 +0000 http://sharkboy.ca/?p=320#comment-611 I had a guy follow me after I left a bar in Chicago about 3am one night. I crossed the street, he crossed the street, after a few blocks and in the view of a security guard by an office building I yelled "What Do You Want?" He bailed. I was a more than a little nervous, as the guys I was in town working with didn't know where I was -- we had split from different bars earlier that night. Not a good feeling. Why people can't just get a job and earn their own money is beyond me. I had a guy follow me after I left a bar in Chicago about 3am one night. I crossed the street, he crossed the street, after a few blocks and in the view of a security guard by an office building I yelled “What Do You Want?”

He bailed. I was a more than a little nervous, as the guys I was in town working with didn’t know where I was — we had split from different bars earlier that night.

Not a good feeling. Why people can’t just get a job and earn their own money is beyond me.

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