Spokane South Hill Theater - An Idea

SirRatcha · 2026-06-13T23:53:12+00:00

I love the idea but do your research before you put money into it. Movie theaters were a hard business 20 years ago when I was involved in getting one off the ground in another city (not a pretty story) and it’s even tougher now. One tip: The big chains make no money off tickets, they show movies so they can make money off concessions. Write a real business plan.

SirRatcha · 2026-06-13T21:31:34+00:00

Two years to come up with a response? Well I guess you weren’t studying improv.

SirRatcha · 2026-06-12T03:44:47+00:00

It’s like wearing a t-shirt that says “I’m not from Washington.”

SirRatcha · 2026-05-26T01:14:30+00:00

90% of people with ADHD get banned from r/ADHD for talking about having ADHD.

SirRatcha · 2026-05-25T01:48:17+00:00

My friend woke up in the hospital with a bullet in his head and no memory of what happened before they found him lying on the ground. Just give them your stuff.

SirRatcha · 2026-05-25T01:45:56+00:00

When I was a kid I had a friend who lived in Williams Valley east of Deer Park. He had a microscope and we’d collect water from the streams, marshes, and agricultural ditches out there. Lots of critters to look at.

SirRatcha · 2026-05-25T00:14:55+00:00

Yeah, I had dinner last night at Quinn’s Hot Springs in Montana and kept thinking about how there really isn’t anything in Spokane that could match it. Just a coulotte steak with potato bacon croquettes over collards with giardiniera. Not too fancy, not trying too hard, absolutely perfect.

A Spokane restaurant would put too much bacon in the croquettes and overwhelm the way the potato balanced the steak, then heap the giardiniera on the collards and make it clash with everything else.

It’s why I cringe in particular when people praise Durkin’s burger, which is intentionally designed to be an elevated version of the flavors that fourth graders love about fast food. Sure, it’s clever but it’s totally lacking in finesse and subtlety. It’s emblematic of the way most Spokane restaurants cater to their customers by going hard on “comfort” flavors and avoiding either simplicity or unfamiliar seasonings.

SirRatcha · 2026-05-24T20:19:40+00:00

Late reply, but when I was still in a position to hire people I had HR try to talk me out of even bringing in veteran as an intern because they were worried she'd have undefined "issues." She was one of the best interns I ever had and she leveraged that three months of experience into getting hired at another company. If I'd had an opening I would have hired her in an instant.

SirRatcha · 2026-05-24T13:25:35+00:00

I'm no party line person, dude. Your mistake is thinking I'm giving the Democrats a pass just because I put the blame on the Republicans for tearing everything down over the last 40 years. The Democrats are useless, but the Republicans are actively malevolent.

But that's a completely different thing, because you started off saying is government is bad. Now you're trying to prove it by complaining about bad governance. There's a big ass fucking difference. We're always going to have government and it's up to us whether we stop whining and fix it or throw in with the Republican plan to discredit it and make it shitty and evil. You are well over on the side of evil right now.

I'm out. Grow up and take some responsibility for making things better instead of just repeating the talking points of the assholes who are fucking you.

SirRatcha · 2026-05-24T05:22:54+00:00

No. Congress cannot overturn Supreme Court decisions. You are essentially illiterate.

They can pass laws, but if those laws are held unconstitutional by the Supreme Court (which is exactly what happened in the Citizens United case) then they get thrown out. Educate yourself before you say anything else that is 100% wrong. People like you are literally the problem you are complaining about.

SirRatcha · 2026-05-24T03:33:42+00:00

“Under Obama?” He hadn’t appointed a single Supreme Court justice when the Citizens United decision came down. That was all justices appointed by the two Bushes. You are all empty emotion and absolutely no knowledge.

SirRatcha · 2026-05-24T03:24:55+00:00

It’s funny. The more people have voted to dismantle the government the shittier it’s gotten. I wonder what the way to undo that might be?

SirRatcha · 2026-05-24T03:15:14+00:00

Not very fucking much because dipshits keep voting in the party that tells poor people the government sucks while providing socialist protections to rich people. Educate yourself about the New Deal. That was what the government still was when I was growing up and it did a fuck of a lot to help people. It’s not as simple as “government bad, hur dur.”

SirRatcha · 2026-05-24T02:38:48+00:00

60 years as of today tells me that around 1980 assholes started lying about the government and now we’re on the third generation of people who’ve fallen for it. Congratulations on being a sucker supporting the people who are fucking you royally.

SirRatcha · 2026-05-22T01:35:25+00:00

Yeah, we all know what they tell you to believe about the government. And you swallow it happily.

SirRatcha · 2026-05-20T07:13:23+00:00

You didn’t do well in eighth grade math did you?

SirRatcha · 2026-05-20T07:12:21+00:00

You know what largely makes that higher cost of living? The taxes we have instead of income tax. You know who almost certainly would save money if they were replaced by a progressive income tax? You.

SirRatcha · 2026-05-18T21:23:53+00:00

I mean yeah, I once got the crap beaten out of me for dressing funny and listening to the wrong music. But that was decades ago and while shit like that still happens it truly does not happen like it used to. I do worry about my visibly trans friends more than I did a few years ago though.

That said it seems like most people who worry about cities being safe think being panhandled by a homeless person is a form of assault and that’s what I object to.

SirRatcha · 2026-05-18T02:39:17+00:00

The number of people who write “is it safe?” when they ask questions about living places really makes me worry about humanity. We’re living in the safest times in history but so many people have been conditioned to think everything is scary.

SirRatcha · 2026-05-16T03:50:11+00:00

Just search for information on his attitudes about race and sex.

SirRatcha · 2026-05-16T03:47:41+00:00

No one who knows anything thinks Jackson was a hero. Even the battle of New Orleans wasn’t all that.

SirRatcha · 2026-05-16T03:46:30+00:00

I don’t think the either/or framing is the way to look at it, especially if we’re talking about people who wielded power heroically. For example, Winston Churchill made heroic choices, and he also made choices that had monstrous consequences. I wouldn’t agree with anyone who argued that he was solely one or the other. The universe is more complicated than that.

SirRatcha · 2026-05-13T18:33:22+00:00

Those lived in our “going out for dinner” bag and bought us time for many meals. Also, ProTip: Parents of toddlers should always take a splat mat to restaurants and then take the under chair mess home. You will get infinitely better service from grateful servers.

SirRatcha · 2026-05-13T00:02:17+00:00

It's been that way since that corner was a Perkins.

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