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Miss_Marna t1_ja3ui0d wrote

Ages ago someone said they got bedbugs from the seating at Bowtie. Between that and this, I'm so thankful for video on demand. However, I do remember being young and hanging out at the mall/movie theater. Where do teens even go these days to hang out and crush on a love interest?

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Charles_Britt t1_ja3wne3 wrote

Nowhere. There is nowhere to go anymore. Social life for young people has been shredded to nothing.

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BureauOfBureaucrats t1_ja3yygn wrote

Yup. It’s pretty much all phones.

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Charles_Britt t1_ja3zjdu wrote

I cant help but see art from times past when a social life wasn't something you get if you're insanely lucky, and get super super super depressed and like actually want to kill myself. I thought once I became an adult I'd have this big wide world open full of people to talk to and places to go. Now I'm living on my own in the real world and its nothing but empty sidewalks and tapping your phone to buy cigarettes.

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Charles_Britt t1_ja40945 wrote

Again, that's hyperbolic. But it really is so much different. People are so much more hostile and so much less comfortable. Spaces that used to be full of people ready to socialize are now half as populated and everyone is scared of eachother.

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kneel_yung t1_ja4b3l4 wrote

Capitalists have to extract every penny out of you. If they don't, it's an inefficiency.

Why should there be a free place to congregate when a capitalist can profit off that experience? Why should a capitalist pay for a mall for you to hang out in when you can just buy stuff from your phone and have it delivered? Why should a capitalist pay for you to have a good experience when we've proven that we'll still blow money on dumb crap on the internet even if we're crazy depressed.

Corporations are earning record revenues right now because they have cover to raise prices. Why should we have any money? A capitalist is entitled to your money. You're only entitled to pay your taxes (so that corporations don't have to) and to pay out the ass for basic necessities like groceries and housing.

Those boats don't wax themselves. So shut your mouth and open your wallet.

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Colt1911-45 t1_ja66lly wrote

You can move to a communist or socialist country and stand in several different queues for hours on end to buy bread or milk or vegetables. You will get plenty of socialization in whilst standing in line, comrade.

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OrtizDupri t1_ja680rj wrote

Damn I wonder if people in America have to wait in line for necessities

https://www.nbc12.com/2022/11/04/food-pantries-brace-longer-lines-this-holiday-season-due-inflation/

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Colt1911-45 t1_ja7fkdi wrote

That article is about food pantries, not everyday shops. Do you not know anything about socialist or communist societies and how they actually function?

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OrtizDupri t1_ja7spx5 wrote

damn I’ve never waited in line at… a store

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Stitchmond t1_ja4bhs1 wrote

Don't they still go to high school football and basketball games?

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BureauOfBureaucrats t1_ja4c4ob wrote

Yes, but they’ll be on their phones while there. It’s not just the kids. The parents will also be on their phones. As will the staff, the opposing team, the mascots, Willy, and the class pet hamster.

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Soloemilia t1_ja3xp31 wrote

Yes. This.

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Charles_Britt t1_ja3ymxu wrote

Its so terrible. Im 20 yrs old now but jesus christ there is nowhere. Maybe thats hyperbolic. I go to group rides, parties, etc etc. But the social landscape people my age are facing is sooooooo much more barren than the one our parents were afforded. No wonder we all joke about wanting to kill ourselves. Everywhere we could find community or some kind of spontaneous connection has been churned up into ash and rubel.

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DustySleeve t1_ja47uwh wrote

Ive been tossing around this idea that yall were raised by post columbine basket cases who, ironically, drove their kids to find their third spaces in tribalistic hate corners of the internet based on inherited identity rather than proximity once iphones became widely accessible. Social bonds are precious and worth defending, but shit goes south fast without a level head around. Social capital is both everything and baseless without a sense of respect and true role models. Troll-y gamers come to mind. Anyway good luck youngn, we're all in this together, its all hands on deck to make it better

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KDRadio1 t1_ja57bze wrote

I’m closer to 40 than 30 but I was just thinking about this the other day. I remember how AOL (lol) chat rooms or even MySpace was on the internet, but seemed to partner well with in person socializing. I think maybe because it wasn’t so universally used, and maybe not as intrusive I don’t know.

I love the internet, I just wish it was still less algorithms and more intentional navigation. If that makes sense. It’s just so “noisy” out there now.

Anyway, I’m an introvert and even I am missing real human experiences these days.

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Charles_Britt t1_ja5c3pi wrote

I agree with you totally about intentional navigation. Feels like the internet is just 5 big websites that everyone goes to.

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10698 t1_ja3vyn0 wrote

That theater has had a bedbug problem for years. See the reviews.

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lady_lowercase t1_ja43trn wrote

realistically speaking though, if the folks who consistently patronize the theater have bedbugs, what can the theater do? i'm a mechanical engineer, not a businessperson or investor or financially savvy in any way (nor do i know how to make business decisions)... what i want to ask without a thousand people jumping down my throat is: is this just the cost of doing business in richmond?

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bberin t1_ja4g8db wrote

That’s wild. My husband and I go to bow tie 2-3 times/month between March and September and have somehow managed to avoid them, but it sounds like we may be living on borrowed time

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10000Didgeridoos t1_ja6mq4k wrote

If it was a truly common occurrence, it would be shut down by the DoH immediately until fixed.

It's not common. Thousands of people go there daily and bed bugs aren't a thing. Any place you ever go with shared seating with the public and rapid turnover is liable to have them get on someone eventually. All it takes is the person before you having them, leaving one or two on the seat, and then they hop on you when you go to the next movie time 30 minutes later. They can't visually inspect and bug bomb movie theater seats in between shows.

I swear this is some dumb urban legend that started because it happened to one or two people once at some point in the last decade, and then just has been retold so many times people think it's happening all the time. There is no large entertainment venue anywhere that would get away with a literal bed bug infestation, especially for fucking years on end.

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Court_of_Appeals t1_ja7nd5z wrote

I don’t totally disagree but when we called Dodson to come treat us after our run in there, they said they used to have a running contract at bowtie for treating them and then management changed and it stopped. Sooooo idk man.

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choicebutts t1_jab38h3 wrote

It's been discussed in the last few years, it's not an old urban legend. I googled and found three references to bed bugs and Movieland here, in 2019, 2021, and 2022. Richmond is known for having a serious bed bug problem.

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fannypax OP t1_ja3uolt wrote

I wasn’t that person specifically I think, but my family HAS gotten bedbugs from them before.

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WakeNikis t1_ja3xnuy wrote

How do u know it was from bow tie?

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fannypax OP t1_ja3xsjm wrote

I didn’t have bedbugs one day, went to the movies that night, and in the morning bedbugs.

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420learning t1_ja4hbqs wrote

As someone who had bedbugs in my first shitty apartment, it wouldn't be an overnight thing... by the time you see signs of them they've been there a minute

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bkemp1984Part2 t1_ja51ih4 wrote

Not to say OP is wrong or that it isn't an issue at Bowtie, but yeah, I bet 9 out of 10 people who say they know where they got them are wrong. Like you said, it takes a while for them to multiply and become apparent a lot of the time. I bet also someone who notices bed bugs after having been to Bowtie but has never heard of Bowtie having them would be less likely to think they got them there.

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420learning t1_ja62t7y wrote

Bed bugs were a phase of my life I'm happy to forget lol. When we first had them the apartment manager tried blaming us, then suddenly more tenants were reporting them. One day an apartment door was open that they were cleaning out and from outside the room I could see the signs of them on the corners, turns out a guy was pretty much bed ridden and they were going to town, when he passed the bed bugs migrated to the rest of the unit. I was pissed since we had been battling the apartment folks trying to get us to pay our own treatment, turned out they knew about this situation.

Also, they're pretty incredibly hard to get rid of. Sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite is horror words

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Court_of_Appeals t1_ja7n54l wrote

I was that person lol. In a way it genuinely sucks because bow tie is the closest theater to me and has the best selection. I even got a movie pass again recently but it’s been hard to use with bowtie not being an option for me. But dealing with bedbugs was an absolute nightmare and I can’t bring myself to go back right now. Maybe after a year I’ll suck it up and just strip everytime after I go. Idk.

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10000Didgeridoos t1_ja6n8jw wrote

Bed bugs don't instantly reproduce and don't travel in packs on people. We get them on homeless and poor patients fairly often where I work and at most you might see one or two of them drop off onto the floor or the chair they are sitting in.

Like you don't go to a movie and then bring home a dozen engorged bed bugs that just came off another person on your clothes, especially without noticing at all, and then discover many of them less than 24 hours later. That isn't how they work. Google results say it takes several weeks for them to lay eggs and for those to hatch and go through the several life cycle stages before becoming adult, blood sucking bugs.

It's possible but it's more likely they came in from somewhere days or weeks earlier. You can pick them up from any public chair you sit in if someone with bed bugs on their clothes sat there before you.

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ryseing t1_ja3zbuc wrote

The bedbug thing is real, this city needs a decent theater.

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OopsImACrow t1_ja4cl5y wrote

Short Pump mall or CaryTown. nothing to do here except shop.

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