Antisocial scum...

af_thefragile · 01-11-2012 7:33pm #1

A few days ago I was watching a movie at the cinema. Unfortunately it so happened I was sharing the row with a group of what I could only describe as juvenile scum. Before the movie began they harassed the people around them, fought with the cinema attendant (using distinctively foul language) when asked to move one seat so that a group could get seats in a packed theatre, be a general disturbance throughout the film and when the film was over, they didn't leave before chucking their trash onto some unsuspecting unfortunate cinema goer below.

Although I managed to phase them out during the film and enjoyed the film, later it made me wonder what goes on in the head of these pricks when they partake in such behaviour? Why can't they not behave like responsible citizens and not be such an absolute waste of air and space. And mostly why do we as a society put up with such waste of DNA.

What can be done, if anything can be done, to fix these disordered youth into living a responsible and respectable life?

MadsL · 01-11-2012 7:37pm

Oh, a scumbags in cinema thread. This will end well.

Naturally...*gets popcorn* bah dum tish.

King Of Wishful Thinking · 01-11-2012 7:38pm

Welcome to Cineworld, full of inconsiderate, brainless twats.

steddyeddy · 01-11-2012 7:39pm

Ag science in UCD spring to mind and their getting their education payed for by the taxpayer!

Mocha Joe · 01-11-2012 7:40pm

What you go see?

steddyeddy · 01-11-2012 7:40pm

Ag science in UCD spring to mind and their getting their education payed for by the taxpayer!

01-11-2012 7:40pm

Go to a film with a complicated storyline. They won't be there!

AnonoBoy · 01-11-2012 7:40pm

I think we should embrace them all and hug out the badness.

(Woah that pot brownie is stroooong!)

Drakares · 01-11-2012 7:41pm

Problems at home. Generally down to the parents.

suicide_circus · 01-11-2012 7:42pm

af_thefragile wrote: »

. And mostly why do we as a society put up with such waste of DNA.

because the alternative was tried in the 30s/40s and it got an awful press

af_thefragile · 01-11-2012 7:43pm

Mocha Joe wrote: »

What you go see?

Skyfall, reason why the cinema was packed. Or else would have moved far away from those twats. They looked about 12-14yrs old.

NegativeCreep · 01-11-2012 7:45pm

steddyeddy wrote: »

Ag science in UCD spring to mind and their getting their education payed for by the taxpayer!

Why?

shopaholic01 · 01-11-2012 7:46pm

af_thefragile wrote: »

Skyfall, reason why the cinema was packed. Or else would have moved far away from those twats. They looked about 12-14yrs old.

They're young, I imagine they found their behaviour amusing. Probably delighted with themselves at the cinema without their parents.

Karona · 01-11-2012 7:47pm

I don't know why the people working at the cinema let them stay at the film.

tommyboy2222 · 01-11-2012 7:47pm

steddyeddy wrote: »

Ag science in UCD spring to mind and their getting their education payed for by the taxpayer!

:pac:

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 01-11-2012 7:48pm

"Shut the fcuk up or I will rip your face off, ya little cnut" usually works, but you have to say it to the loudest or "alpha male" of the group. Then the rest just give him stick and it usually settles down.

I have done this a couple of times and it worked, but be prepared to give a dig if they react.

Or else sit there and say nothing and get your head wrecked.

bijapos · 01-11-2012 7:50pm

Stand up, walk out and demand your money back from the cinema unless they throw the pr1cks out. That the cinema tolerate stuff like that only gives them more reason to act the bollix and it's up to them to stamp it out.

bootybouncer · 01-11-2012 7:50pm

smoke grenade and assault rifle the bowsies I tell ya

Mocha Joe · 01-11-2012 7:50pm

benwavner wrote: »

"Shut the fcuk up or I will rip your face off, ya little cnut" usually works, but you have to say it to the loudest or "alpha male" of the group. Then the rest just give him stick and it usually settles down.

I have done this a couple of times and it worked, but be prepared to give a dig if they react.

Or else sit there and say nothing and get your head wrecked.

I don't believe you have done that. I've never seen anyone do that.

My name is URL · 01-11-2012 7:52pm

The cinema... how quaint

Abi · 01-11-2012 7:58pm

af_thefragile wrote: »

A few days ago I was watching a movie at the cinema. Unfortunately it so happened I was sharing the row with a group of what I could only describe as juvenile scum. Before the movie began they harassed the people around them, fought with the cinema attendant (using distinctively foul language) when asked to move one seat so that a group could get seats in a packed theatre, be a general disturbance throughout the film and when the film was over, they didn't leave before chucking their trash onto some unsuspecting unfortunate cinema goer below.

Although I managed to phase them out during the film and enjoyed the film, later it made me wonder what goes on in the head of these pricks when they partake in such behaviour? Why can't they not behave like responsible citizens and not be such an absolute waste of air and space. And mostly why do we as a society put up with such waste of DNA.

I believe because the opposite is their top agenda. They're not civilised normal people, they're fúcking scum.

What can be done, if anything can be done, to fix these disordered youth into living a responsible and respectable life?

Good luck with that. They're not out for the approval from the civilized or listening to adult opinions. They live for themselves, their own entertainment and their peers. In conclusion, they don't give a fúck about anybody except themselves and the attention they get / approval and praise from their peers.

phasers · 01-11-2012 7:58pm

This is why I don't go to chain cinemas.

Go to the IFI or The Screen, I've only ever had one incident with noisy patrons.

Some woman, about 25 or so, wouldn't stop yakking. I told her to shut up, she said "Did she just tell me to shut up?", all indignant, then clammed up for the rest of the movie. Good times.

Jesus Wept · 01-11-2012 8:01pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGKO9cXXsLA

Abi · 01-11-2012 8:02pm

phasers wrote: »

Some woman, about 25 or so, wouldn't stop yakking. I told her to shut up, she said "Did she just tell me to shut up?", all indignant, then clammed up for the rest of the movie. Good times.

If she wanted to talk over a movie she should have done it at home, not where people have paid in to watch it. Dozey bitch.

mark renton · 01-11-2012 8:09pm

af_thefragile wrote: »

Skyfall, reason why the cinema was packed. Or else would have moved far away from those twats. They looked about 12-14yrs old.

12-14 they were children for god sake - thats what kids do

Are ye being a little dramatic?

Fr_Dougal · 01-11-2012 8:11pm

You wouldn't download an Antisocial Scumbag...

ButtersSuki · 01-11-2012 8:12pm

OP, you should call Joe Duffy and tell him "dat da chillers ruined da fill-um for me Joe so day did an all an anyways". Be warned though, you may need to be available for a few days to tell the same story on air again and again and again......

Royal Legend · 01-11-2012 8:14pm

benwavner wrote: »

"Shut the fcuk up or I will rip your face off, ya little cnut" usually works, but you have to say it to the loudest or "alpha male" of the group. Then the rest just give him stick and it usually settles down.

I have done this a couple of times and it worked, but be prepared to give a dig if they react.

Or else sit there and say nothing and get your head wrecked.

Usually when they think you are physically threatening them they will either shut up or push ot to see if you will give them a smack or not.
When they get to the point of whether you give them a smack, you will normally get one who says "go on them, I'll sue ya" the correct response to this is that you have no intention of hitting them, but will kick the sh1t out of their father, this has worked for me in the past

King Of Wishful Thinking · 01-11-2012 8:14pm

Mocha Joe wrote: »

I don't believe you have done that. I've never seen anyone do that.

How often do you go to the cinema?

I've done it hundreds of times, all with varying results, from it working and people apologizing as they hadn't realized they were so loud, all the way to having a row outside the cinema in a local shop.

Usually people when they see you telling someone to shut up, will join in also and that's when it is most effective.

A quiet night when there is not many there and you tell people to give it a rest with the chatting and that usually has no effect as you will be the only one complaining.

Chair kicking bugs me even more than talking. I am so careful not to kick someone's chair as I know how distracting and highly annoying it is, so I have no idea how people can be so up their own arse as to kick a chair non-stop and even sometimes go so far as to hang their feet over the seat in front of them, that is right beside a seat were someone is sitting, don't they know that you will see this with the corner of your eye and so effect your viewing?

I don't know, inconsideration needs to be kicked out of some people, it's so ingrained.

Ghost Buster · 01-11-2012 8:15pm

john47832 wrote: »

12-14 they were children for god sake - thats what kids do

Are ye being a little dramatic?

No. It really really isnt what kids do.

af_thefragile · 01-11-2012 8:18pm

john47832 wrote: »

12-14 they were children for god sake - thats what kids do

Are ye being a little dramatic?

Well if they're behaving as such scum at that age, imagine what they'll be like when they grow up in 10yrs time?

Or maybe I just come from a time when kids were taught how to behave properly in public spaces by their parents...

mark renton · 01-11-2012 8:19pm

Ghost Buster wrote: »

No. It really really isnt what kids do.

Its a complete overreaction, he got to watch the film, then starts dissin' the kids

NegativeCreep · 01-11-2012 8:19pm

This is why I download my films and watch them in the comfort of my own room

Scruffles · 01-11-2012 8:20pm

Abi wrote: »

If she wanted to talk over a movie she should have done it at home, not where people have paid in to watch it. Dozey bitch.

or perhaps she coud turn her extrovert affliction into a career and become an audio describer for blind cinema goers.

Lawrence1895 · 01-11-2012 8:21pm

john47832 wrote: »

12-14 they were children for god sake - thats what kids do

Are ye being a little dramatic?

So the 12-14 year old kids show no respect to others? Like to annoy those, who want to watch a film in peace? All of them?

Retrovertigo · 01-11-2012 8:23pm

If someone sitting close to me is making enough noise that it's distracting me from the film I have no problem telling them to shut the fcuk up. I havn't paid to listen to someones commentary over the dialogue.

af_thefragile · 01-11-2012 8:25pm

john47832 wrote: »

Its a complete overreaction, he got to watch the film, then starts dissin' the kids

I am not dissin the kids. I'm just stating what I saw and to me it is just unacceptable and inconsiderate behaviour.

I don't expect the kids to sit all upright and tight lipped throughout the movie but neither would I pass off harassing other movie goers, arguing with the cinema attendant in foul language when asked just to move over by one seat and throwing their trash onto someone's head as behaviour that can be passed away as "just what kids do".

PizzamanIRL · 01-11-2012 8:25pm

In groups they all just show off and try to be funny.

On their own, they're little quiet mice.

mark renton · 01-11-2012 8:26pm

af_thefragile wrote: »

Well if they're behaving as such scum at that age, imagine what they'll be like when they grow up in 10yrs time?

Do you not think "scum" is a bit harsh and judgmental to be calling a child?

af_thefragile wrote: »

Or maybe I just come from a time when kids were taught how to behave properly in public spaces by their parents...

Yes, public place, your going on like it was in your living room

Siuin · 01-11-2012 8:29pm

They used foul language?
That's fúcking awful

af_thefragile · 01-11-2012 8:31pm

Siuin wrote: »

They used foul language?
That's fúcking awful

Well, its not very civilized to see 12yr old kids using foul language now is it?

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 01-11-2012 8:35pm

Mocha Joe wrote: »

I don't believe you have done that. I've never seen anyone do that.

I actually have done it. I was fed up of tolerating fcukwits in the cinema, ruining the film for everyone. I used to just sit there like everyone else and listen to them abuse people, throw stuff at people and fight among themselves. Why should anyone sit through that and not say anything?

Nowadays, once the film has started and the messing is continuing, pipe up and nip it in the bud at the start. It has never escalated further than verbals.

Royal Legend wrote: »

Usually when they think you are physically threatening them they will either shut up or push ot to see if you will give them a smack or not.
When they get to the point of whether you give them a smack, you will normally get one who says "go on them, I'll sue ya" the correct response to this is that you have no intention of hitting them, but will kick the sh1t out of their father, this has worked for me in the past

Ha, as I said above I havent had the need to hit anyone, I would always let them throw the first punch, then you are defending yourself.

01-11-2012 9:27pm

Kids!
What the devil's wrong with these kids today
Kids!
Who could guess that they would turn out that way
Why can't they be like we were?
Perfect in every way
Oh, what's the matter with kids today?

admiralofthefleet · 01-11-2012 9:35pm

it wasnt in arklow was it? me and the missus had the misfortune to be surrounded by about 100 15 year olds last week while watching paranormal activity 4.
i lost it eventually and scared the life out of some little fat young one because i screamed at her so hard to be quiet. some of them got thrown out eventually

starviewadams · 01-11-2012 9:35pm

Kids who mess in the cinema are ''antisocial scum'' now?!

Staedtler · 01-11-2012 9:36pm

af_thefragile wrote: »

(using distinctively foul language)

I'm sure you have never heard such "distinctively foul language" in your entire life.

af_thefragile wrote: »

Why can't they not behave like responsible citizens

Double-negatives aside, a citizen, by definition, is an inhabitant of a city or town.

af_thefragile wrote: »

What can be done, if anything can be done, to fix these disordered youth into living a responsible and respectable life?

The loudest proponents of responsibility and respectability in a modern day society are usually the children of parents who had neither.

Death and Taxes · 01-11-2012 9:42pm

Feck it anyway, reading the thread title I thought it was about the Quinns or RIRA!:D:D:D

mauzo · 01-11-2012 9:52pm

I went to the cinema last year, the guy sitting beside my then boyfriend told him to stop eating his popcorn so loudly!

Its not as if he was baiting into the popcorn, I couldnt stop laughing.

Felt like going out and getting nachos and crunching on them. Fair enough if he was being really loud, but he wasnt! Id have been the first one to dig him in the ribs if he was!

As long as they are quiet during the movie, I dont care what happens before or after!

msg11 · 01-11-2012 10:06pm

NegativeCreep wrote: »

This is why I download my films and watch them in the comfort of my own room

To be honest, I could do the same but I opt to go to the cinema a place where the movie is designed to be watch from the display to the sound, best place to watch a film and I go quite a lot.

Never came across scum in cinema, if I was getting abuse I would give some back.

What really got on my tits the last time I went was the guy sitting in front of me, his huge ****ing head was right in my line of sight of the screen and he was sitting perfectly straight? What do you say to him, Fat Joe told us to lean back ?

Maybe even start playing this song behind him ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T20aIntlGVo

Yamanoto · 01-11-2012 10:10pm

Staedtler wrote: »

I'm sure you have never heard such "distinctively foul language" in your entire life.

All about context though.

It's one thing casually dropping the odd expletive into a conversation among friends, quite another to hear same nastily directed at a cinema attendant going about his / her work.

Staedtler wrote: »

Double-negatives aside, a citizen, by definition, is an inhabitant of a city or town.

Oh do **** off you awful **** :pac:

mathepac · 01-11-2012 10:20pm

steddyeddy wrote: »

Ag science in UCD spring to mind and their getting their education payed for by the taxpayer!

An English language degree free with Corn Flake tokens?

Antisocial scum...

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