Cities should not pay for new stadiums

Re:Cities should not pay for new stadiums by User23 on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @10:10AM (#30685498)

That’s why Opera has so many long boring bits. Attendees weren’t expected to pay attention as if it were a High Mass. It was a social event, a place to see and be seen, as well as trade gossip and so on. The performance itself was somewhat analogous to the TV on in the background at a bar.

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Re:Cities should not pay for new stadiums by passerby1 on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @02:07AM (#30695819)

When did it become trendy to parade one's illiteracy and narrow-mindedness?

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Re:Cities should not pay for new stadiums by CRConrad on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @02:15PM (#30702133)

Was it ever not?

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Re:Cities should not pay for new stadiums by whatshisface on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @10:54AM (#30686084)

How would that work with the arrangement of having rows of seats all facing the show? At a modern theater there's hardly any way to talk to anybody.

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Re:Cities should not pay for new stadiums by ghaff on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @11:22AM (#30686429)

Sure, going to either an opera or the latest Marvel blockbuster is often a social event to some degree. But the idea that the entertainment itself is just background noise like a few musicians at a cocktail party is just bizarre.

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