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Sneaking contraband into the cinema, what's the forum's position

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    #122
    Fat Christy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Fat Christy


    I always buy all my stuff in the shop beforehand, such a waste of money to buy it in the cinema.


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    #123
    allibastor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,520 ✭✭✭allibastor


    Shiraz 4.99 wrote: »
    Wife brought ours & 2 neighbours kids to the cinema yesterday as a mid term treat.
    Anyway, they stopped off at a local Centra to pick up the contraband before going in.
    One of the kids refused as his parents had taught him it was stealing.
    Rather than buy him his 1000% markup popcorn combo my missus let him go hungry while the other munched into their Manhattan & Haribo.

    What's the forum's opinion on smuggling food into the cinema ?, I'd be interested in hearing if there is a consensus.


    Was the kid from D4 by chance with a doctor daddy and do-gooder mommy

    By the way, I dont buy food in the cinema as is it expensive enough, I bought a coffee the other week and the lid was not the correct one, so first mouthful I had spllied the coffee all over me.


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    #124
    Dr. Lollington
    Site Banned Posts: 69 ✭✭Dr. Lollington


    Not all drunks are loud!! I can be silently sozzled throughout the film.
    You don't even have to get drunk, just a few beers to enhance the experience!


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    #125
    Generic Dreadhead
    Registered Users Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


    allibastor wrote: »
    I bought a coffee the other week and the lid was not the correct one, so first mouthful I had spllied the coffee all over me.

    AHAHAHAHAHA
    :pac::pac::pac:

    (hope you're ok)


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    #126
    Nick_1494
    Registered Users Posts: 96 ✭✭Nick_1494


    I hate booze at the cinema. It's a total pet peeve of mine. Go to a bar and drink! Or a restaurant or a club or comedy club or concert or any of the other 100's of places they sell booze. Hate eating in the cinema too, all that rustling and ppphhhsssstt of bottles pisses me right off. its 2 hours I think you can hold off for that long. I can forgive cinema bought food though. No bags and no bottle lids.

    Plus trying to watch Babadook with some lad beside me eating a 2 in 1 and enjoying his coors totally ruined the atmosphere.


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    #127
    Lia_lia
    Registered Users Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    Yeah, I always bring food/drinks into the cinema. That's what large handbags are for!

    Whenever I went to the cinema in my hometown I'd always get snacks for pretty much nothing, as I was friends with a good few of the staff there. Used to get popcorn, drink, nachos, sweets for about 50c :D Very rarely get popcorn cinema anymore, it's usually stored in binbags for a few days...and doesn't even taste great.


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    #128
    noodler
    Registered Users Posts: 26,272 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    I only buy there if I am on a date.

    Always bring something.


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    #129
    Lucy B
    Registered Users Posts: 97 ✭✭Lucy B


    Buy popcorn in cinema but would often bring our own stuff. Always hide it and feel like a loser for being nervous when handing ticket to guy, as if he cares!!


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    #130
    Mickey H
    Registered Users Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    Tasden wrote: »
    Best part of going to the cinema is the warm popcorn drenched in butter.

    I always thought it was the film... :D


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    #131
    The_Valeyard
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    Am I the only one who likes the big tub of coke in the cinema compared to the plastic bottles?


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    #132
    Yearning4Stormy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 129 ✭✭Yearning4Stormy


    Barely There wrote: »
    Fine to bring in sweets, crisps, popcorn etc.

    I draw the line at fast food and alcohol though.

    Agreed. Couple of years ago, I went to the flicks with my landlord - he brought two entire Mickey D's meals in with him... morto and stinking of grease by the end of the movie :confused:

    Anyway, my two cents: took my youngest to The Boxtrolls this afternoon. Bought two "halloween special" packs of chewie yokes and Cadbury's buttons in a garage on the way for €2, all in. She hardly made a dent in them and they go towards treat-or-treat for tomorrow night. Result all round. (Cinema price for one equally sized pack of Maltesers: €2.50 :eek:)

    In the interests of full-disclosure, I did treat myself to popcorn... nothing like movies popcorn.


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    #133
    Tasden
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,166 ✭✭✭Tasden


    Mickey H wrote: »
    I always thought it was the film... :D

    :o I have been known to go to any old film on bargain Wednesday if there's nothing in particular on that I want to see, purely just to sit and eat buttered popcorn and nachos


    If it wasn't for the food at the cinema I'd just watch movies online


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    #134
    RonanP77
    Registered Users Posts: 1,182 ✭✭✭RonanP77


    We normally get popcorn in the cinema but everything else gets smuggled in. Even if I could afford it I wouldn't pay those ridiculous prices.


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    #135
    yipeeeee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,605 ✭✭✭yipeeeee


    Odeon nachos and cheese.

    Best food ever.

    Isn't it the case cinemas make nothing off ticket sales only off food?


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    #136
    Tasden
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,166 ✭✭✭Tasden


    yipeeeee wrote: »
    Odeon nachos and cheese.

    Best food ever.

    My soulmate :o


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    #137
    stateofflux
    Registered Users Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭stateofflux


    Manhattan all the way!


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    #138
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Nothing more irritating than people munching on popcorn and slurping through straws.


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    #139
    CentimoSal
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭CentimoSal


    Is it still very rascal mc rogue to smuggle sweets into the cinema? I thought it was infact encouraged by staff - since it can't be policed...


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    #140
    Putin
    Registered Users Posts: 686 ✭✭✭Putin


    Apart from the occasional portion of popcorn, I always smuggle everything else in.


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    #141
    amdublin
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 20,648 CMod ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    When I'm bringing kids to the cinema it's off to the shop I go.

    When I don't have kids I'm all about the hot dog and ben and Jerry's and coca cola for moi.


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    #142
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    yipeeeee wrote: »
    Odeon nachos and cheese.

    Best food ever.

    Isn't it the case cinemas make nothing off ticket sales only off food?

    Mostly, yeah.

    From a staffing point of view though, our general attitude was that yes, we know you're sneaking in piles of food, but we'll get in trouble if we're seen letting it go.

    So at least have the manners to try hiding it when walking past the ticket check. Then everybody's happy. :D

    Although I will say, in a strange way, I always resented it when somebody went to the rounds of sneaking food in and yet chose to sneak in fruit. That just... ain't right.


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    #143
    RobYourBuilder
    Registered Users Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭RobYourBuilder


    CentimoSal wrote: »
    I thought it was infact encouraged by staff - since it can't be policed...

    Ah yeah, sure they love cleaning up the aftermath. They f*cking love scooping up the crumbs, wrappers and mopping up the fizzy drink spills after the flick.


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    #144
    Areyouwell
    Registered Users Posts: 397 ✭✭Areyouwell


    Putin wrote: »
    Apart from the occasional portion of popcorn, I always smuggle everything else in.

    Same here, the only thing I might buy inside the cinema is popcorn.


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    #145
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    RobYourBuilder wrote: »
    Ah yeah, sure they love cleaning up the aftermath. They f*cking love scooping up the crumbs, wrappers and mopping up the fizzy drink spills after the flick.

    One of the others I worked with was once handed a big cup of puke as the audience left the screen.

    It was nasty, but prompted a very spirited philosophical debate - is it grosser to be handed the cup of puke, or to have to clean it from the floor?


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    #146
    Rory28
    Registered Users Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭Rory28


    jill_valentine wrote: »
    One of the others I worked with was once handed a big cup of puke as the audience left the screen.

    It was nasty, but prompted a very spirited philosophical debate - is it grosser to be handed the cup of puke, or to have to clean it from the floor?

    Isn't the public lovely?


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    #147
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    jill_valentine wrote: »
    One of the others I worked with was once handed a big cup of puke as the audience left the screen.

    It was nasty, but prompted a very spirited philosophical debate - is it grosser to be handed the cup of puke, or to have to clean it from the floor?

    Jaysus. They couldn't have carried it the whole way to the loo themselves?


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    #148
    TotallyEpic
    Registered Users Posts: 554 ✭✭✭TotallyEpic


    My experience with Cineworld in Dublin, is that they don't really care. With the cost of the unlimited card, I'm a little more willing to buy some popcorn or ice cream, plus the 20% discount helps.


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    #149
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    Jaysus. They couldn't have carried it the whole way to the loo themselves?

    Shur that's why cinema workers are paid so highly. :rolleyes:

    To this day I can't look at Candy King pick n' mix the same. :(

    We did occasionally find used nappies in the screens, which raised so many, many questions.


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    #150
    cloud493
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    TotallyEpic wrote: »
    My experience with Cineworld in Dublin, is that they don't really care. With the cost of the unlimited card, I'm a little more willing to buy some popcorn or ice cream, plus the 20% discount helps.

    They don't, but the value is more than enough for me to keep coming back. Least the seats are comfy, the screen is generally clean and well run. Some cinemas are just appalling all round


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    #151
    Agricola
    Registered Users Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    There really should be different cinemas for people who actually give a fúck about the film they are going to see and the rest who just want somewhere to go to stuff their face.


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