Popcorn
Dunno if it's common, but my heart sinks when I'm in the cinema and someone sits near me carrying a skip full of popcorn and a vat of Fanta, then proceeds to crunch their way through it while I'm trying to watch the film. Then they insist on slurping up the last drop of their fizzy, sugary caffeinated beverage through their straw as loudly as possible. Then they unwrap their sweets very, very slowly, as if that's somehow going to deaden the sound.

At least when people talk you can tell them to shut up, but they get their food in the foyer. Who ever starved to death during a film FFS?
(lolwhites, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 11:01, 10 replies)

FANTA
I love that fanta stuff :)
(jigsaw Meh... Is it Friday yet?!?!?!, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 11:03, closed)

Fine
Just don't slurp it anywhere near me or I'll be forced to stab the straw through your eyeball.

Nothing personal.
(lolwhites, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 11:06, closed)

And whenever it lands on a surface everything gets really tacky.
You could say it's fanta-stic!

ithankyou, I'm here all week.
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 11:07, closed)

cinema's are usually so empty these days,
there's really no excuse for sitting next to people.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 11:05, closed)

Sweet wrappers
IIRC the clicks that create the sound are caused by buckling transitions in the wrapper- and as these are releasing the same energy however rapidly in succession they come you can't make them quieter.
My prefered method is to click them underneath my jacket or behind my back- so there's at least _some_ deadening from the sound for everyone else.
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 11:06, closed)

That's right
I believe I saw this on Tomorrow's World many years ago. They concluded that since you're going to get the same number of clicks no matter what you do you're better off opening it really quickly in order to minimise the annoyance.

I tried this in a cinema the following week, but must have pulled a bit too firmly on the ends of the wrapper to unroll it, because the sweet was fired off into the darkness and made someone in one of the front rows get quite cross.
(richardm, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 14:25, closed)

THIS YES
this is why i refuse to visit the cinema now.
(Fuckpig "That's not even a pound a midget.", Fri 17 Oct 2008, 11:13, closed)

I don't understand
Why people find it impossible to go for two whole hours without food and drink. I just don't get the mindless cud-chewing behaviour of the cinema-going masses.
(misspiggy In danger of having to get a job, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 11:30, closed)

Popcorn
Couldn't agree more, they drive me mental too.
(sewer urchin wants a hug, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 14:49, closed)

Not only that
but you pay through the nose for something with no nutritional value whatsoever... I hate working in a cinema :(
( MetaFarad loves to TANZEN!, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 23:46, closed)