Noisy eaters

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Earphones are your only savior.
I am overly sensitive to these things, so i never know it really is bad or if its just me. I take out my earphones as soon as i get to the office, and they generally stay in till i leave

 

[Cube3]

I hate the noise it makes, but I HAVE to get the last of my Kauai smoothy.... slurp slurp.

On another note, my brother-in-law is 30 and chews with his mouth open..... pisses me off so much.

 

[Maverick Jester]

Oxymoron

 

[thestaggy]

You are the one who has chosen to take offense, you are the one with an issue, not them. People are people. If its an issue, move away from them.

So making a racket while eating is considered as part of good etiquette?

I can hear my colleague eat/drink through a drywall and it is disgusting. Even worse when he walks into my office while eating to talk and I can see bits of food and juices from his food fly all over the place.

 

[Tinuva]

So making a racket while eating is considered as part of good etiquette?

I can hear my colleague eat/drink through a drywall and it is disgusting. Even worse when he walks into my office while eating to talk and I can see bits of food and juices from his food fly all over the place.

Your mistake is, not everyone believes it is necessary to have good etiquette. With that, you can't change other people, unless they want to change, but you can change yourself and do something to resolve it for yourself.

 

[Nick333]

I think quite a few of the posters in this thread are noisy eaters, considering the defense they are giving for "them"..

Nope. I had the sort of up bringing that included knowing which utensils to use with which course. Personally. I'm not being defensive, I'm just annoyed by your arrogance. In 30 odd posts you've shown yourself to be opinionated, yet, not very good at critical thinking, as well as elitist on more than one occasion. Since, I don't and never will have to get along with you I don't feel the need to be diplomatic in sharing my opinion.

So, you wont even consider that you might just be an *********? Anyone who disagrees with you must be getting defensive because they're noisy eaters?

 

[Nick333]

Your mistake is, not everyone believes it is necessary to have good etiquette. With that, you can't change other people, unless they want to change, but you can change yourself and do something to resolve it for yourself.

The mistake is believing that everyone shares the same sense of etiquette or even should. What westerners generally consider to be social etiquette is a victorian conception. Victorians were a bunch of stuck up, pretentious, *********s.

 

[Mortymoose]

I lived and worked with some Chinese folk back in the day, eating the menu backwards and it was considered good manners to eat with your mouth open, talking and slurping, the louder the better..... However when I met Head Office that had to change.... now I eat outside with the dog!

 

[Tinuva]

The mistake is believing that everyone shares the same sense of etiquette or even should. What westerners generally consider to be social etiquette is a victorian conception. Victorians were a bunch of stuck up, pretentious, *********s.

Thank you for making my point even clearer Your statement, are in fact much closer to correct than my statement was.

 

[Nick333]

Thank you for making my point even clearer Your statement, are in fact much closer to correct than my statement was.

Yep. I was just bouncing some ideas off what you said.

 

[Grant]

Noisy food packaging drives me nuts.
The other day I have the munchies, scratch around, find a box of rusks. All pleased with myself I make coffee & break into the box.
Bejesus - a perlemoen poacher still under water miles away could have heard the plastic packaging inside the box being torn open !!
I often wonder if some food companies actually search for the noisiest packaging available to mankind for their products !

 

[Mortymoose]

Noisy food packaging drives me nuts.
The other day I have the munchies, scratch around, find a box of rusks. All pleased with myself I make coffee & break into the box.
Bejesus - a perlemoen poacher still under water miles away could have heard the plastic packaging inside the box being torn open !!
I often wonder if some food companies actually search for the noisiest packaging available to mankind for their products !

If that was on saturday, then we heard you up hear in Nam, ssssh! You woke the baby up!

 

[thestaggy]

The mistake is believing that everyone shares the same sense of etiquette or even should. What westerners generally consider to be social etiquette is a victorian conception. Victorians were a bunch of stuck up, pretentious, *********s.

Oh, so you criticise someone else for being all uppity and ''talking down'' to others but it is then okay to compare those that dislike noisy eaters to ''stuck up, pretentious *********s", just like the Victorians? Mud-slinging is never a good thing.

Also, we live in a Westernised society, so yes, we will tend to behave in a Westernised manner and expect the same from those around us.

 

[_Jakes_]

If I were a noisy eater, tough **** if you don't like it, why should I go eat somewhere else if there is no company policy against it....

My company doesn't have an explicit policy against taking a dump next to my workstation..............

 

[Tinuva]

My company doesn't have an explicit policy against taking a dump next to my workstation..............

So do it!!! Just remember...you also going to have to enjoy the smell, that mask won't save you

Edit:
Need to add, anyone try that next to me, their mask is the first thing I will destroy and smile, and then force them to clean it up.

 

[Nick333]

Oh, so you criticise someone else for being all uppity and ''talking down'' to others but it is then okay to compare those that dislike noisy eaters to ''stuck up, pretentious *********s", just like the Victorians? Mud-slinging is never a good thing.

Also, we live in a Westernised society, so yes, we will tend to behave in a Westernised manner and expect the same from those around us.

Well, no actually, I said victorians were pretentious *******s. And the implication is that people who expect others to conform to their arbitrary and subjective preferences are *******s. The rest of us tolerate minor annoyances from our fellow humans because we recognise that our arbitrary and subjective preferences a such and don't expect the world to be annoyance free. It's a sign of maturity and class.

You might also notice that western culture has very, very few rules of etiquette anymore. Presumably because we recognise that arbitrary rules are oppressive and pointless.

Despite another posters clumsy analogy, eating noisily is nothing like taking a s#1t in a public area. Other than it smelling bad, it's unsanitary. In fact that's why it smells bad to us.

 

[GreGorGy]

My company doesn't have an explicit policy against taking a dump next to my workstation..............

Your company doesn't have a policy against killing your co-workers either. That does not mean that your country is free from such policy. I'd think decency laws come in to play when shifting next to the desk.

 

[ichigo]

I eat with my mouth closed and try to drink without making a noise but alas I always make a noise so cant change the way it works.

 

[Celine]

it would seem that there are some in this thread who consider "smacking" there mouth when eating appropriate. well it isn't it is annoying. did your parents not teach you how to eat properly? it would seem not. you eat with your mouth closed and don't make a noise when you drink. it's called etiquette. no one wants to hear you when you eat or see what you are eating so keep your mouth closed and don't spit your food all over other people. in that case don't mind me when i smoke in your presence.

 

[bwana]

it would seem that there are some in this thread who consider "smacking" there mouth when eating appropriate. well it isn't it is annoying. did your parents not teach you how to eat properly? it would seem not. you eat with your mouth closed and don't make a noise when you drink. it's called etiquette. no one wants to hear you when you eat or see what you are eating so keep your mouth closed and don't spit your food all over other people. in that case don't mind me when i smoke in your presence.

Where?

Basic grammar vs social etiquette… tough call.