http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/03/museum-event-turns-ugly/ Mon, 21 May 2012 20:38:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/03/museum-event-turns-ugly/#comment-2521 Fri, 03 Mar 2006 17:01:47 +0000 http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/03/museum-event-turns-ugly/#comment-2521 This gives lushes and drunks a bad name! This gives lushes and drunks a bad name!

]]> http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/03/museum-event-turns-ugly/#comment-2520 Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:11:50 +0000 http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2006/03/museum-event-turns-ugly/#comment-2520 Comment from (one of?) the blog's Milwaukee reader(s): Those people are idiots. I refer not primarily to the drunks (that's obvious) but to the sponsors. Milwaukee has a well-deserved reputation for cheapness, and a pretty well-known fondness for drinking. So you sponsor an event called "Martinifest," you offer a one-price-fits-all admission (i.e., the more you drink, the better the "value" of what you paid) - oh, and then you oversell it so the place is crowded, bartenders run out of mixer and pour vodka straight, and serve everything in impossible glasses that you can't walk with or set down so people are pretty much compelled to just chug them down - well, I grant you that no one was forcing these idiots to keep drinking, but the organizers were bone-stupid in not anticipating such a reaction. It's laudable that the art museum makes use of its facilities for public events (brings in revenue and creates potential interest) but clearly some rethinking is in order. (Oh: no, I wasn't there - but it's interesting that this story's been picked up beyond the local media) Comment from (one of?) the blog’s Milwaukee reader(s): Those people are idiots. I refer not primarily to the drunks (that’s obvious) but to the sponsors. Milwaukee has a well-deserved reputation for cheapness, and a pretty well-known fondness for drinking. So you sponsor an event called “Martinifest,” you offer a one-price-fits-all admission (i.e., the more you drink, the better the “value” of what you paid) - oh, and then you oversell it so the place is crowded, bartenders run out of mixer and pour vodka straight, and serve everything in impossible glasses that you can’t walk with or set down so people are pretty much compelled to just chug them down - well, I grant you that no one was forcing these idiots to keep drinking, but the organizers were bone-stupid in not anticipating such a reaction. It’s laudable that the art museum makes use of its facilities for public events (brings in revenue and creates potential interest) but clearly some rethinking is in order. (Oh: no, I wasn’t there - but it’s interesting that this story’s been picked up beyond the local media)

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