Parents, please teach your kids to eat with their mouths closed.

[ROON]

OMFG IT ANNOYS ME SO MUCH.




I just had to listen to my best friend chomping away on a bag of jelly beans, extremely loudly, for about 25 minutes. How on earth can you let your kid grow to 18 years old and still not understand even the basics of manners. IT'S SO $*&#ING IRRITATING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Thank you for listening.
Josh

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I concur

[FL Knifemaker]

Also, proper telephone manors........

Hello Mr.***** this is *******, may I please speak with ******.

If I don't get that when I answer the phone, the person on the other end gets to listen to silence for as long as they stay on the line. After a few tries, guess what??? I get the proper dialog.

[Lorenzini]

I agree.
My roommate chaws his food so loudly, sometimes if I just watch him eat I start cracking up. Other times I just want to strangle him.
Seriously, was he raised in a barn? I don't know, maybe he was.

[RWP]

Dog owners too please.

[peterbright]

Originally Posted by RWP

Dog owners too please.

So cute...can he fit one more in there?

[heroincredible]

Another important lesson when eating is patience. Just because you get your food first doesn't mean you have to start eating it right away. Have the courtesy to wait for my food arrive so we can both start eating at the same time.

Oh and don't talk with food in your mouth.

[ROON]

Originally Posted by FL Knifemaker

Also, proper telephone manors........

Hello Mr.***** this is *******, may I please speak with ******.

If I don't get that when I answer the phone, the person on the other end gets to listen to silence for as long as they stay on the line. After a few tries, guess what??? I get the proper dialog.

Yeah that too!!!

Most of my friends have horrid phone etiquette too. Seriously, I call up my buddy Daniel, and I can't understand a word he is saying because he mumbles on the phone so much. Lots of my friends get off the phone having called someone for info and get angry because they did not receive the service they wanted. It's no wonder they don't get much info when they sound like;

"Uhhhhh hi, uhhh I was calling for uhhh, some info on x. Oh and uhhh y too. Yeah... uhhhh..."

The way I was brought up, I learnt to chew with my mouth closed, I use proper etiquette for whatever the situation is, and I'm always polite to people. I just don't understand how you could raise a child and not teach them those things.

Seriously, he just came back in with a vegetable pastie and chomped real loudly on that too. I'm going insane here. What makes it even worse, is that he thinks he chews with his mouth closed. I've asked him to close his mouth when chewing once before and I got a rather hostile response, saying that he does and he thinks people who chew with their mouths open are disgusting...

What the... ?!?!?!

[heroincredible]

Originally Posted by ROON

Yeah that too!!!

Most of my friends have horrid phone etiquette too. Seriously, I call up my buddy Daniel, and I can't understand a word he is saying because he mumbles on the phone so much. Lots of my friends get off the phone having called someone for info and get angry because they did not receive the service they wanted. It's no wonder they don't get much info when they sound like;

Oi! Whenever I call my girlfriends cell phone she either holds it too far away and I can't hear what she's saying (and she mumbles on the phone), or she starts breathing through her mouth when trying to talk and all I get is LOUD whooshy noises and can't hear her. And nobody at her house actually answers the phone. Its awkward hanging out there, the phone is ringing and everyone is too lazy to pick it up so I have to. That drives me nuts.

[ubado]

Originally Posted by ROON

OMFG IT ANNOYS ME SO MUCH. I just had to listen to my best friend chomping away on a bag of jelly beans, extremely loudly, for about 25 minutes. How on earth can you let your kid grow to 18 years old and still not understand even the basics of manners. IT'S SO $*&#ING IRRITATING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/rant]Thank you for listening. Josh

When someone is chewing with their mouth open... I always say....

"Ya know, food tasts better when your mouth is closed."
(eventhough it actually does taste better when open)

Yea, the person might get a bit pissy... but it's better than listening to it. IF someone is gonna be rude by having poor eating manners... then they deserve a rude comment.

The worst is seeing a beautiful girl chewing with her mouth open.

[Funkdrawer4]

ROON "OMFG" IT ANNOYS ME SO MUCH."

The same way you get them to not speak life this^

My daughter is 13 and has done this all her like(mouth open eating)All I can do now is tell her she's doing it and she will stop ,for about a minute.???

[ROON]

Originally Posted by heroincredible

Oi! Whenever I call my girlfriends cell phone she either holds it too far away and I can't hear what she's saying (and she mumbles on the phone), or she starts breathing through her mouth when trying to talk and all I get is LOUD whooshy noises and can't hear her. And nobody at her house actually answers the phone. Its awkward hanging out there, the phone is ringing and everyone is too lazy to pick it up so I have to. That drives me nuts.

LOL @ whooshy noises. It's annoying when that happens.

Another thing that bothers me is people that speak far too loud on the phone. I'm a student at an arts college in the city, so whenever someone calls me when I'm outside I have to ask them to speak up a bit because it's kinda hard for me to hear. But whenever I ask they start yelling real loud. I just wanted you to speak up, not deafen me.

[ROON]

Originally Posted by Funkdrawer4

ROON "OMFG" IT ANNOYS ME SO MUCH."

The same way you get them to not speak life this^

My daughter is 13 and has done this all her like(mouth open eating)All I can do now is tell her she's doing it and she will stop ,for about a minute.???

Heh, funny you say just for a minute.

Same guy that caused me to start this thread always has the TV up really loud when he's playing my Xbox. I always politely tell him to turn it down, because my parents are sleeping most of the time when he plays, and its so loud that the people next door could probably hear. He's usually pretty cool with it and apoligises, turns it down to a reasonable level...... for about 5 minutes.

He did it last night, he was playing a game where he was shooting up a disco, so there was loud music, and the subwoofer on our surround sound was going doof doof doof. So I ask him to turn it down because it's 1am, everyone was asleep. I go for a shower... and during the middle of it I can hear the doof doof again... over the noise of the shower... upstairs, when he is downstairs.

So once I get out I say "Dude, it sounds like there is a real disco down there or something, could you turn it down a tad?" and he does... I go and play some PC games. 10 minutes later, yet again I hear the doof doof. So I go downstairs, by this time, I've lost my patience. I walk down, unplug the surround, press mute on the TV's speakers, and go upstairs again... Giving him a greasy look as I pass him to go up the stairs.

I think he finally got the message.

[heroincredible]

Originally Posted by ubado

The worst is seeing a beautiful girl chewing with her mouth open.

No, the worst is seeing a beautiful girl smoking. While I have no problem with smokers, its quite an unattractive activity.

[Funkdrawer4]

I hate it when my dog smokes

[ROON]

Originally Posted by ubado

The worst is seeing a beautiful girl chewing with her mouth open.

Originally Posted by heroincredible

No, the worst is seeing a beautiful girl smoking. While I have no problem with smokers, its quite an unattractive activity.

Both of them are equally unattractive.

[Matt_W]

Haha, chewing with your mouth open is a deal breaker with me, as are:

Not holding your cutlery properly, or using them properly.
Hunching over your food.
Talking with your mouth full.
Not waiting for other to receive their food.
Eating noisily.
Eating with your elbows on the table.
Oh, and not pronouncing letter in the middle of words eg. saying wa-er instead of waTer.

...Yeah, my parents did a real number on me and now I have deeply ingrained issues in this area.

[Lorenzini]

[ROON]

Originally Posted by Matt_W

Haha, chewing with your mouth open is a deal breaker with me, as are:

Not holding your cutlery properly, or using them properly.
Hunching over your food.
Talking with your mouth full.
Not waiting for other to receive their food.
Eating noisily.
Eating with your elbows on the table.
Oh, and not pronouncing letter in the middle of words eg. saying wa-er instead of waTer.

...Yeah, my parents did a real number on me and now I have deeply ingrained issues in this area.

If other parents were as smart we wouldn't have this problem and I wouldn't have posted this thread.

[Apocalypse Dude]

I've got a friend who used to chew really loudly while looking over my shoulder watching me play gameboy. It was quite disgusting.