Jackson Jambalaya

Who sez 'most people' buy either two or four tickets? You buy the number of tickets needed for your party. Friends and families don't come in odd or even numbers. And sometimes you can't get a date and go alone.

2:11 Agreed

What's wrong with you, Table for 5 please? KF has to find something to bitch about, and this was the best he could do. He's tried bitching about the financing for the improvements - at least the part that makes the users pay part of the cost - and didn't get the approval he wanted. So now, he has to second guess the professionals that do this kind of stuff for a living.

But, its KF. What do you and I know?

What do you and I know?

Nothing, apparently, but bitching.

But thanks for being a loyal reader of JJ.

4:04; You're slipping. You forgot 'start your own blog!'

The old seating plan preceded the ADA. New and remodeled projects require a certain aisle width plus you got more lard asses in the aisles now, which dictates the number of seats and each seat has to accomodate a certain width ass.

From the sound of expertise in their comment I'm guessing that 8:05 PM has specific direct experience trying to seat one or more wide lard asses of family/friends in Thalia Mara.

ADA means no disabled persons on the front row...ever?

I bet they were mighty proud they created an extra seat for a twelve seat center, and then along comes some knowitall jackass...........

Larooter enters the theatre to the sound of Conga drums in 3, 2, 1...

Front row center, pahleeze. Here's my disability placard.

Another observation. The renovation is ADA compliant but you gotta climb seventeen marble steps to get inside.

5:00 am is not observant and has never attended an event at Thalia Mara or else would know there are doors at ground level and climbing steps isn't necessary.

Those obsessed with weight and fortunate never to have health issues like an adrenal tumor which can lead to obesity, should know that narrow seats and aisles are uncomfortable for pregnant women as well.

I'm lucky to come from the genetically privileged in health and weight yet still manage not to make unkind assumptions about those I don't know.

6:07 Using lard in biscuits can also create the lard ass effect. Look at the stats or better yet just go to any Walmart the same day the Foodstamp credit cards are funded if you want to see lard ass on diplay in large numbers.

6:07 I'm sure you think you're a saint, but please can your sanctimonious drivel long enough to go read what an "enabler" is.

Then come back and tell us the number of Mississippians who have adrenal tumors (no fair looking in my patient files - that's a HIPPA violation). Then tell us the number of grossly obese Mississippians.

If you know what a numerator and a denominator are, then do the math.

PS I am also a saint; I am sincerely sorry you will have your fantasies and delusions destroyed. Very sincerely. :-)

Clearly, neither of us are saints.

But, one of us doesn't " judge books by their covers"! Nor does one of us make irrelevant and incorrect observations regarding Thalia Mara's seating changes.

How much weight does a person gain when they quit smoking and how many people no longer smoke? And, how many who quit smoking over the age of 40 are able to lose that weight? How many medications these days have the side effect of " unintended weight gain"? How many Mississippians suffer from thyroid problems? How have additives to our foods affected weight?

You don't know because you are shallow and unable to think analytically. Politicians depend on you and your knee jerk opinions.

When did you become able to judge those in Thalia Mara by looking at them? And, frankly, I hadn't noticed obesity as being rampant in the audiences!

Maybe you should spend less time in Walmart and more time in museums or at concerts.

And, while you're there, you might ask the cashier how the Food Stamp program works and what items can and can't be purchased.

7:22 am you can't enable someone who doesn't have a dysfunctional behavioral problem but who is ill. 6:07 am didn't encourage anyone who is obese from overeating to continue that behavior but rather suggested YOU can't tell by looking.

Besides, why didn't you also read that ridicule doesn't change bad behaviors but rather reinforces the bad behaviors?

I hope you aren't a parent.

No comments from Mr. Raff about wide lard asses? Will the extra 6 inches be enough?

Just updated post with new information.

Thank you 9:07 for letting us that there are many reasons for Ms. having the highest rate/percentage of obese citizens. I never factored in all of the new non smokers or the 51% of overweight people who have adrenal tumors. I am surprised to learn that most wide loads are not fashioned with food. Enjoyed the spunky monkey lecture.

Thanks KF

Didn't impress 12:14 pm who doesn't understand that lard between the ears is worse than lard on the rear. You can't get rid of brain lard.

I read this blog almost daily in for its investigative journalism that you cannot get anywhere else. I must stop reading the comments though, because people are unnecessarily rude and just plain mean to each other. Reading these kinds of comments makes me sad that this is the way people treat strangers.

Oh, pity the piper. 2:11 feels people are rude and just plain mean. And he/she is sad on top of that.

And to the person who said you can enter at ground level, how is that helpful when the venue is forty feet higher than ground level. There may be elevators or escalators but I have not seen one.

I hope my reply wasn't too mean.

... lard between the ears is worse than lard on the rear. You can't get rid of brain lard.

Since lard between the ears is terminal how are you addressing your problem? Will you eventually end up in a hospice?

Yes, 4:11 pm It is indeed sad to see those who are non-observant, ignorant, has depth perception issues( 40'? ROFLMAO) AND blind apparently.

2:11 pm My Daddy told me there are people of good heart and people of bad heart. You are the good and 4:11 is the bad. He said to avoid those of " bad heart". I was 5 then . Later , he'd have called them " toxic".

The dude is unhappy about wider seats because narrow seats are his only hope of getting close to people!

January 31, 2014 at 5:37 PM = DESPERATELY NEEDS OBAMACARE

This is in preparation for the "Polit Bureau" for "Republic of Kush."

"The dude is unhappy about wider seats because narrow seats are his only hope of getting close to people!"

That is funny as hell!!

To the goob who feels TM is ADA compliant; If you stand at sidewalk level, the venue at TM is roughly forty feet higher than your eyeballs. Maybe 55. Factor that! Will they outlaw wide-brim Sunday-go-to-meetin' hats?

I guess 12:17 am only gets to sit in the balcony.

12:17 am thinks the ceilings are 22' tall at ground level and the escalators are 40 ' long so now we know 12:17 am is a woman who was taught 6" is a foot!

Kingfish, I do enjoy your investigative reporting, especially when opinions are not intertwined with the facts. But I hate that readers are turning your fine work into a trashy tabloid with some of their comments.

Do you now? Perhaps you should stick to the factually devoid Northside Sun. You know, those stacked up on your coffee table. The venue where no opposing commentary is welcomed or allowed. That one.