yeh, that was the reason i got.
Why no going out to lunch at convention??
by Pistoff 16 Replies latest social family
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SAHS
I have to agree with ?Big Tex?:
. . . it is another means of control. The Society is very much into control, and where (and what) people eat is another in a long list of things they control.
They want to control what people do during the sessions, as well as on lunch, after the sessions, and everything else. They would control your dreams if they could. That?s the key word:
CONTROL!
?SAHS
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Englishman
So just drive a mobile fish & chip van around and around the stadium.
The smell of salt & vinegared cod in batter will have 'em drooling and then leaving in droves to buy some!
Englishman.
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seattleniceguy
Hey E-man,
That's not a bad idea. The ice-cream people already make a killing selling to dubbers outside the local DC venue. I bet if you got the word out that food was available right out on the street, you could rake in a good little chunk o' change.
SNG
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czarofmischief
mmm... fishnchips...
The official reason I heard from my father, who worked on conventions and stuff, was that the presence of so many worldly people at the concession stands might detract from the spirituality of the event. That seemed a little odd to me then, and now seems intolerable (how could the very people we wanted to join us detract from our spirituality?) But the agreement was inked with the idea of keeping those people out.
But the agreement we signed included closed concession stands. When the stadium operators noticed tons of dubs going out to the local arby's to eat, they felt that they were missing out on making a few bucks, understandably. So they complained and tried to renegotiate the deal. This prompted dubby attempts to control when and where the dubs went out to eat.
So it's a collison of control freaks and reality.
CZAR
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Epsilon
I dunno the "official" reason, but we used to go to the Cow Palace in San Francisco. If I could have left that long, boring ass convention I would have taken SF any day.
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MerryMagdalene
One of my fondest Seattle convention memories was when I was 19 and got the nerve to slip away from the "festivities" at lunch-time, so tired of being so good and so controlled all the time, and I spent a couple hours eating fish and chips, drinking beer, and watching tv in a pleasant restaurant. It still amazes me that the guilt factor never once kicked in and it was pitifully exhilarating.