World, shut your mouth
I go to the cinema or venue to watch a film / see a band.
I do not go to hear your braying, irritating conversation.
Saw the Bootleg Beatles at Christmas and some complete prick talked all the way through "Blackbird" thus ruining it for everyone in his radius.
I do go up and complain to people, but to be honest it's putting me off going to gigs or the cinema, as it means I spend moments with my rage building up / hoping to God the culprits shut up, and then I have the confrontation, which I don't enjoy, then I have to spend the rest of the gig / film worrying that I'm going to get "done" on the way out by the knuckle-scrapper who thinks that's it's fine to talk over whatever the rest of us have paid to hear.
Plus the fact I get uber-annoyed that I seem to be the only one who has the cojones to complain in such situations. Sometimes I get congratulated by fellow-sufferers sitting nearer than me to the culprits, but who somehow lost the power of speech when it came to telling someone how to behave with basic human decency.
( I_Was_Mordred, Wed 7 May 2008, 7:41, 2 replies)

Last year
I finally plucked up the balls to tell someone to shut up in the cinema.
Cunt was talking on his mobile.

I asked him politely first.
Ten minutes later he was at it again. So I turned round and said "Will you please shut the fuck up".

He retreated into the seat a bit... and then I realised he had a mate with him.

I couldn't enjoy the rest of the film because all I could think about was getting jumped on the way out.

But when the film finished, I turned around to see their scrawney fucking arses high tailing out the door just as the credits started. Hahahaha!
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Wed 7 May 2008, 11:13, closed)

I can't understand
why they don't disable mobile phone signals in cinemas.

Not that that would stop most of these cretins - they'd just gabber amongst themselves.

After a couple of recent experiences, it is seriously putting me off going to see films or bands. A quiet comment every now and then is fine; a continual conversation audible to everyone isn't.
( I_Was_Mordred, Wed 7 May 2008, 11:23, closed)