Eating Manners

[citychap26]

Sorry, I need to vent... Why do people have to eat crisps so fking noisily? Do people not understand how annoying it is?

Also the guy I sit next to eats with his mouth open. WHY WHY WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry rant over.

[Fer]

They wern't crisps, they were Hola Hoops.

[blindswelledrat]

Because crisps are really crispy thus make an inevitable noise as they snap into many pieces?

[toast boy]

Eating with your mouth open is inexcusable, but how would you go about eating crisps quietly? Cover your head in sound deadening first?

[ZesPak]

Crisps is an onomatopoeia. They wouldn't be called "crips" if they didn't make a sound to eat.

[RB Will]

My other halfs family eat like farm animals, the noise is terrible. I have complained to the other half and she now eats normally, the rest of the family are still unaware though.

[cal72]

I have to eat my dinner at my desk in front of everybody and i very consious of how i am eating.
Manners should be normal only pigs are exscused.

[North West Tom]

My brother does this with any food. It is really disgustingly annoying.

[Steamer]

Apples can be tricky to keep quiet.

Its the feckers that make that 'Ynom, nommm, nom' mouth slapping noise after yawning that are in serious danger of becoming a biped pen holder.

[blindswelledrat]

ZesPak said:

Crisps is an onomatopoeia. They wouldn't be called "crips" if they didn't make a sound to eat.

An interesting typo leads to an equally interesting question. Is a 'crip' or 'spaz' onomatopoeiac because either is the startled noise they make when you trip them up?

[ZesPak]

blindswelledrat said:

ZesPak said:

Crisps is an onomatopoeia. They wouldn't be called "crips" if they didn't make a sound to eat.

An interesting typo leads to an equally interesting question. Is a 'crip' or 'spaz' onomatopoeiac because either is the startled noise they make when you trip them up?

oooh ffs

[marshalla]

Yet another symptom of the general lowering of standards in modern Britain.

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and here
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[blindswelledrat]

marshalla said:

Yet another symptom of the general lowering of standards in modern Britain.

Yet another ludicrous knee-jerk PH "Isn't Britain st because one person saw one other person with poor table manners once"
Back in the glory days of whenever you were a lad did crisps have silecers on them?

[joewilliams]

toast boy said:

Eating with your mouth open is inexcusable, but how would you go about eating crisps quietly? Cover your head in sound deadening first?

Place them in your mouth and close it before crunching them, rather than chomping on them like a horse.

Yes, I have thought about this rather too much. Drives me mad.

[cal72]

blindswelledrat said:

marshalla said:

Yet another symptom of the general lowering of standards in modern Britain.

Yet another ludicrous knee-jerk PH "Isn't Britain st because one person saw one other person with poor table manners once"
Back in the glory days of whenever you were a lad did crisps have silecers on them?

I see what you did there.

[captainzep]

marshalla said:

Yet another symptom of the general lowering of standards in modern Britain.

Which particular historical British era was your utopian 'fave'?

Just interested.

[citychap26]

joewilliams said:

toast boy said:

Eating with your mouth open is inexcusable, but how would you go about eating crisps quietly? Cover your head in sound deadening first?

Place them in your mouth and close it before crunching them, rather than chomping on them like a horse.

Yes, I have thought about this rather too much. Drives me mad.

Indeed, place in mouth first then chomp on them. Simples )

[B3Svert]

Perhaps steering this away from being able to blame noisy eaters on Blair/Brown/Clegg/Paedos (delete as appropriate), I was on a flight back from Athens last week and had the misfortune to sit next to some fetid who quite clearly thought that constant, frantic mastication of gum without once closing his mouth for the entire 3 hour 45 minute flight was in any way acceptable. .

Seeing as I am not 6ft 4, do not know martial arts and am not a caped crusader of VBRJ I chose to sit there seething.

[Simpo Two]

captainzep said:

marshalla said:

Yet another symptom of the general lowering of standards in modern Britain.

Which particular historical British era was your utopian 'fave'?

Just interested.

I'll go for either the height of Empire, Edwardian or inter-war eras.

[ZesPak]

Simpo Two said:

captainzep said:

marshalla said:

Yet another symptom of the general lowering of standards in modern Britain.

Which particular historical British era was your utopian 'fave'?

Just interested.

I'll go for either the height of Empire, Edwardian or inter-war eras.

That's about now I'd guess