this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2024
85 points (93.8% liked)
Asklemmy
43826 readers
844 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy π
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Indeed, what better way to get to know someone than to sit next to them for 2.5 hours in silence
There's also the intermission periods, you know. Have you never struck a conversation before a movie, before the second act, or while in line to get snacks or tickets? Also, some movie theaters allow talking during the movie if it's one of those smalltown theaters that plays movies from a century ago.
Iβve never once been to a movie that had an intermission in 25 years. And no, itβs mostly small talk and then the show starts
In all the movies in all the movie theaters I've been to, every movie always starts out with a commercial prelude to the movie, when all the lights are on and there's nothing important to interrupt. I'm not saying any conversation of note happens during that time, just that it's the closest I've come to genuine platonic success.