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Nice Plant #7: Get me off of this planet

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Brenthoven said:
Because you know, there aren't gift shops at Gettysburg, or the Alamo, or anywhere else where a lot of people died. (c) Fark
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The difference is, 9/11 still has survivors and is still fresh in people's minds. So naturally, there will be some outrage about commercialism.
 
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I am not saying any of it is right, just saying that other places do have gift shops.
 
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goldy_331 said:
There aren't any at the Holocaust Memorial or at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
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The Holocaust Memorial is a private enterprise. On the National Mall. But don't tell me there aren't places to eat and/or buy a souvenir very nearby. The Tomb of the Unknown is a tiny part of an enormous cemetery around which there are certainly souvenir and dining establishments. Anyone offended by the gift shop and café at the 9/11 memorial is free to skip them.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
The difference is, 9/11 still has survivors and is still fresh in people's minds. So naturally, there will be some outrage about commercialism.
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The article I posted quoted just a coupe of people. Not a representative sample. We live in an age of "outrage," where just about anybody can be "outraged" by just about anything, usually at the tops of their lungs. If you were to ask Americans whether they'd expect to find a gift shop and place to eat at the 9/11 museum, what percentage do you suppose would answer in the affirmative? 70%? 80%? Anyone "outraged" by a café and gift shop can just pass right on by and let the rest of the hoi polloi have lunch and buy a souvenir.
 
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Brenthoven said:
Because you know, there aren't gift shops at Gettysburg, or the Alamo, or anywhere else where a lot of people died. (c) Fark
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I've been to both of those places. Look, my bottom line here is we've been paying extraordinary deference to the families of victims now for over a decade. It's time for them to stop emotionally blackmailing us over every jot and tittle of our collective remembrances.
 
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Old Pio said:
Sit back, relax and have a big frosty mug of schadenfreude: $60M, 18 thousand seat Texas high school football stadium closed at least for this season because of structural defects. Serves 'em right for hiring Two Guys and a Truck as general contractors.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/05/2...ed-due-to-structural-flaws/?intcmp=latestnews
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The schadenfreude brew is quite tasty.

I don't care how big football is in Texas, no high school stadium should ever be that glamorous, or cost that much. Facilities like that just cause mediocre movies like Varsity Blues to become reality (assuming they haven't already).
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
The schadenfreude brew is quite tasty.

I don't care how big football is in Texas, no high school stadium should ever be that glamorous, or cost that much. Facilities like that just cause mediocre movies like Varsity Blues to become reality (assuming they haven't already).
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Friday Night Lights is closer to the mark. Ratliff Stadium in Odessa is, I believe, bigger but obviously older. Air conditioned press boxes, elevators and theatre type seating are not uncommon in Texas h.s. football stadiums.
 
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Old Pio said:
Friday Night Lights is closer to the mark. Ratliff Stadium in Odessa is, I believe, bigger but obviously older.
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Quoted by a nice young lady I met in Dallas a long time ago, and it wasn't an original quote:

"God. Family. Football. Not necessarily in that order."
 
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Brenthoven said:
Quoted by a nice young lady I met in Dallas a long time ago, and it wasn't an original quote:

"God. Family. Football. Not necessarily in that order."
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I was in Texas when they instituted "No Pass, No Play." And the only person who had the reputation and clout to get the reform enacted was Ross Perot. To say there was resistance is to miss the mark by several orders of magnitude. Texas, don't forget, has spring football (the second most popular sport in the state) too.
 
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Old Pio said:
I was in Texas when they instituted "No Pass, No Play." And the only person who had the reputation and clout to get the reform enacted was Ross Perot. To say there was resistance is to miss the mark by several orders of magnitude. Texas, don't forget, has spring football (the second most popular sport in the state) too.
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I was working on a project in East Texas and wondered what was going on at a stadium I passed, why all the people. It was spring football at the COMMUNITY COLLEGE!? :eek:
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
The schadenfreude brew is quite tasty.

I don't care how big football is in Texas, no high school stadium should ever be that glamorous, or cost that much. Facilities like that just cause mediocre movies like Varsity Blues to become reality (assuming they haven't already).
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MEDIOCRE! You take that back!!!! :p

Also, I have no problem with this. If the taxpayers in that district think that this is a good way to spend their money, let them flush it away.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
MEDIOCRE! You take that back!!!! :p

Also, I have no problem with this. If the taxpayers in that district think that this is a good way to spend their money, let them flush it away.
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I'm reminded of the scene in Hoosiers where Hackman is defending the notion that basketball players have a few months in their lives where they're treated like gods. Of course, in Hickory, the townspeople weren't selling out any future the boys might have beyond basketball to build themselves a palace to watch the games, were they?

Sad note: the young man who said "Let's win this one for all the little schools" before the title game, killed himself.
 
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