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Author Topic: "Coning" - Proof that many teenagers are complete idiots Cameron Glendinning Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 845 From: West Ryde, Sydney, NSW Australia Registered: Dec 2005 posted 09-18-2011 01:29 AM                     Frank, sorry but money had changed hands that makes someone a customer, legally once you sell something you have no right to demand how THEY chooses to use a product (without a signed contract etc), you must refund money to refuse service. As for threatening paying customers, how do you get away with it? When kids do sneak through the rear fire exit to see a movie at the cinema I work in, all I can do is call the police, I can not touch them or take the law into my own hands! Coneing is stupid but Mc D is profiting from this silly fad, I'm sure head office dont care why sales of soft cones are increasing  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 09-18-2011 01:34 AM                        I don't get why, once someone does it, everyone else has to do it (and videotape it). Are teenagers really the Carlos Mencia of Youtube? They figure their audience will never have seen it done anywhere before and shower them with LOLs and admiration? Reposts suck. Do something original. Grab it with your cleavage or something. Also, I imagine soon that McD's will start putting plastic lids on the cones so it doesn't matter how you grab it.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 09-18-2011 01:44 AM                     quote: Frank Cox What would you do? Hand it over like nothing is going on, have a mess in your drive-through lane and encourage people to continue to do this because you're "participating"? Or take action to stop it? I'd take action to stop it (and in doing so just give them their money back). I also wouldn't say to myself "They're recording me. Better threaten them with assault." quote: Joe Redifer Are teenagers really the Carlos Mencia of Youtube? I'd say teenagers that are more like him on youtube are people who post comments. Every time I see a funny video, if I happen to scroll to the comments I'll see tons of them that are nothing but direct quotes from the video you just watched. This would be like if Carlos Mencia only created transcripts of better comedians rather than copying/embellishing their act.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 09-18-2011 02:04 AM                     "I didn't ask for the damn cone" (Jump to 1:30) This is probably what made coning so popular recently. Its why Joe does it.  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 09-18-2011 02:12 AM                        If someone is deliberately making a mess in my theatre or otherwise being disruptive, I'll ask him/her/it to settle down or leave. If they refuse to leave upon my demand, I'll call the police. Nobody has ever taken things to that point; I had one person tell me that he was going to call the police on me but when I offered to lend him my phone to do it, he suddenly changed his mind. (Actually someone did once; details below.) There is a fine line between "forgetting", making a mistake, getting carried away, and being an asshole. If someone works his way up to that fourth category, why should they expect any courtesy from the people they are abusing? I'll give you a refund if your baby is acting up (because I want to get rid of the disruption as quickly as possible and it may not be your fault though I would really rather you didn't bring a baby here at all), I might give you a refund if you're absolutely incapable of controlling your kids, but I won't give you a refund if you're jumping on the seats, waving a beer bottle around and yelling at your buddy down the aisle. (Yes, that's happened before.) If you don't like it, you can discuss it with your lawyer tomorrow. In the meantime, get the hell out. I did have to get the police here once to deal with a problem. A mentally disabled girl came here along with a small group and two helpers/assistants/supervisors/whatever. She got over-excited and out of control and was screaming and running up and down the aisle and back and forth in the lobby. The two helpers walked out the front door and disappeared when this started. (Thanks guys!) I called the police and it took three of them to corner her, grab her and drag her out. The show started a bit late that night.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 09-18-2011 02:18 AM                     quote: Frank Cox What would you do? Hand it over like nothing is going on, have a mess in your drive-through lane and encourage people to continue to do this because you're "participating"? Or take action to stop it? I'd take action to stop it (and in doing so just give them their money back). I also wouldn't say to myself "They're recording me. Better threaten them with assault." quote: Joe Redifer Are teenagers really the Carlos Mencia of Youtube? I'd say teenagers that are more like him on youtube are people who post comments. Every time I see a funny video, if I happen to scroll to the comments I'll see tons of them that are nothing but direct quotes from the video you just watched. This would be like if Carlos Mencia only created transcripts of better comedians rather than copying/embellishing their act.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 09-18-2011 04:19 PM                        Looks like Chris Slycord is the Carlos Mencia of other Chris Slycord posts.  |  IP: Logged David M. Leugers Film Handler Posts: 43 From: Fairfield, Ohio, united States of America Registered: Jan 2005 posted 09-23-2011 08:04 AM                     What an idiot does to him/her self and to their own property, I don't care. The problem with this stupid coning is the ice cream all over the drive through. This is a form of vandalism. So is the growing problem around here of teens tossing their bags of McDonalds garbage out the car window as they drive down the street. Funny ...  |  IP: Logged

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