Originally Posted By barboy ///LOL, can you spot the oxymoronic words in the above phrase? /// It must be over my head as I'm missing it. Can you spell it out for me? Thanks jd. Just taking a stab here; but are you saying that PF Chang is so bad that it isn't real food thus, there was no way I could have dined there in the first place? ///You know a corporate chain restaurant cannot hire based on appearance like that/// In this context I'd say you are right. But one can if appearance is directly related to the type of work required. Hooters hires young, fit, females to serve. But anyway is it really asking too much just to have one Chinese looking server per shift?
Originally Posted By Mr X On the flip side, a non-Asian friend used to work in a Chinese restaurant and would CONSTANTLY get screwed on her tips because she "wasn't part of the scenery".
Originally Posted By jdub >>But one can if appearance is directly related to the type of work required. Hooters hires young, fit, females to serve.<< Hooters is a glorified strip club, with nasty food instead of nasty fun--so as I understand it, those are not food servers, but actually "models."
Originally Posted By barboy ///Hooters is a glorified strip club, with nasty food instead of nasty fun--so as I understand it, those are not food servers, but actually "models." /// I agree with the whole thing.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***Hooters is a glorified strip club*** Huh? Wha? I must have been going to the wrong Hooters all these years! Where can I find the stripping variety??
Originally Posted By FerretAfros "I don't care if Emeril Lagasse is showing us how to build a pizza on screen" What if it's Rosie O'Donnell and Colin Mockery showing us how to make sourdough bread? Would that be an appropriate thing to put into a theme park?
Originally Posted By jdub Appropriate, no; boring, yes. Even MORE inappropriate when, at the end of the FauxTour, I am sold stale baked goods!
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Well Disneyland showed the moon landings in Tomorrowland (I know, big difference and part of the theme). But the Olympics are a far bigger deal than the super bowl or World Series. It would be better in the Esplanade outside the park, but this one does not bug me as much as other issues in the Disney parks.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORGOCH: Heck! There ain't 'nuff rides in Ping Pong Dizzyland ta have nothin' ta even clash WITH!!! I say start buildin' the Haunted House, Peter Pansey's Flight, Snow Ball's Scary Meltdown, Pirates a the Scary Bean, Snoozin' Floozie's stumble thru, Indy Bones Adventure, Scar Tours, The Little Meter Maid's Fish Sticks Tricks, Trash Mountain, Big Thunder Thighs Railroad an' that's just gittin' started!!!
Originally Posted By pitapan16 I actually thought of something similar. WHat if there was a terrorist attack during the current Olympics? You are there at HKDL with your kids and suddenly the swimming is interruoted by images of carnage, death and destruction. That'd be a lovely thing for the kids to take away from DL, wouldn't it?" -Unlikely event. Paranoia man.
Originally Posted By Malin <<< I actually thought of something similar. WHat if there was a terrorist attack during the current Olympics? You are there at HKDL with your kids and suddenly the swimming is interruoted by images of carnage, death and destruction. >>> As no coverage of the Olympics is being shown live, it would be hard for that to happen.
Originally Posted By Mr X That was just a knee-jerk, hyperbolic idea anyway...as though the world wouldn't have better things to worry about in an Olympic terrorist attack than whether or not a few families had their "Disney day" ruined by the carnage!
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< Still, I don't find that the showing of the Olympics in a Theme Park as being offensive or bothersome. It's not a holy land, just a park. >>> "It's not a holy land, just a park." This line has been bugging me. It doesn't speak one way or the other to the issue at hand, but rather is a straw man argument made to by implication mock a differing opinion. Let's try out some other ideas. People like thrill rides. Let's put in a big-iron coaster that does a loop right above the castle, and has bunny hops around the hub. Some people might say that this would destroy the ambiance of the hub and castle, but it will be okay. After all, it's not a holy land, only a park. Or, what about importing some of the amputees that beg for money on the streets of Shenzhen and parking them on Main Street? There are lots of people with money that visit the parks, and they'd probably be able increase their quality of life through additional donations. After all, it's just a park, not a holy land. You may not mind the broadcast of live sporting events at the hub, but others do (and I realize that that was not the case in this situation, but at least for me that's what I was commenting on due to the ambiguous way it had been described earlier in the thread). And there are legitimate reasons for doing so other than thinking that the park is a "holy land."
Originally Posted By bean "14 NEW! SuperDry Sun 8/17/2008 8:34a <<< It's the Olympic for heavens sake, not Saturday morning cartoons. Many people are interested ... I see it as not even note worthy. And I would guess most everyone else as well. If you're going to be in the entertainment business one needs to entertain. In a few days the Olympics will be over, the screens gone and life will continue, as normal. >>> Replace "Olympics" with "Super Bowl" in the above. The same arguments could be made - do you still agree? ' no comparison at all. you are actually comapring an event that gets the whole world together to participate in union with a football propaganda that gets more viewerships for its comercials than the game they play. Overreacting over a few screens that were showing an event that the Chinese people felt extreme proud over seems silly
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Well I was at DLP during 9/11, standing in Main Street during the 2 minute silence the couple of days later. Changed my perspective a little, I love DLP even more now.
Originally Posted By barboy ///Overreacting over a few screens that were showing an event that the Chinese people felt extreme proud over seems silly/// bean, maybe you could tell us why screens showing olympics ***in a Disney park*** are appropriate; I'm not talking about screens in Kowloon or Hong Kong Island outside HK Disneyland's gate but on Main St. or any Disney section or land. Maybe you can tell us how those screens advance the story or enhance the Main St. ambiance.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< Well I was at DLP during 9/11, standing in Main Street during the 2 minute silence the couple of days later. Changed my perspective a little, I love DLP even more now. >>> That's a bit different. It's not piping in live sportscasts just so people can keep up with them, which is what I was responding to (and as I've said on several occasions, was not actually the case at HKDL but is what I was responding do based on ambiguous descriptions). After all, at that point in time, "We're all Americans now" at least according to Le Monde. How times have changed.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo I agree. But I honestly did not have a big problem with HKDL piping in the Olympics in the hub - anymore than gift giving machines, moon landings or rededication monitors being in there. I do not consider the Hub Main Street, but more of a central showcase. There is no way one can compare the super bowl with the Olympics (though maybe screens near IASW would have been more appropriate).
Originally Posted By barboy ///There is no way one can compare the super bowl with the Olympics/// as to a global following you're right--- they are very different. But as a distraction (the way I see it) or as an attraction(the way some others around here see it) in a Disney park I believe we can compare them.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: Once again, my sisters and I tend to agree with you, barboy, duckling. A distraction is a distraction and a conflicting theme is a conflicting theme.
