How do you feel about PDAs?

I hate them, at that level. A sign of major insecurity in my opinion.

Oh please do explain more about the 'certain strata [sic] of society' to which you refer...

Snogging in public is unnecessary but the hands on the thigh wouldn't bother me, although how would you even see that if you were at a restaurant table?

Full on tongue swallowing snogging I just think why do that in public? We kiss each other (not snogging) ,hold hands , cuddle each other , etc but that's it. If I am out watching a band etc and I see people snogging it doesn't bother me in that setting weirdly!

But I voiced my opinion about a family member being gross at the dinner table with his gf to a couple of other family members and was pretty much told I was a prude. What's your opinions?

Small wins.

At least they weren't bent over the table, going at it like a couple from pornhub.

Holding hands is fine but groping each others thighs? No, go get a room.

It’s the same with kisses. A peck is fine but full on tonguey kisses? Grim. I don’t need to see other people do that

This is a very difficult question to answer because the majority of people will feel they don't have a problem with intermittent displays provided it's not OTT. But one man's eating French fries is another man's shovelling chips.
Tbh l don't particularly want to see any extreme public displays of emotions, whether thats romance, anger, attraction, pride, fawning etc.l'll assume we are talking romantic/sexual attraction so I don't want to see 'snogging' (unless it's on the dance floor/end of party) but handholding, a squeeze of the thigh, hand to small of back/waist I'm fine with.in a more relaxed home environment id be OK with sitting on laps or dropping legs over each other.
For me my barometer would be about how much it was affecting interaction with rest of group, so if s couple are gazing into each others jokes eyes and too touchy/strokey so they don't have eyes for others I'd be irritated. Someone have a kiss on the next table wouldn't bother me. I'd just be glad I wasn't next to the toddler (almost) in the high chair covered in mash ice cream and soil.
Where's your line then?

There's a certain strata of society that indulges in these and I think they're grim. I also think it smacks of exhibitionism and performative affection e.g. if people don't witness us doing PDAs then how will anyone know how in love we are?

'Get a room' or 'Oh look, dinner and an x-rated show' are the accepted comments on that type of behaviour.

Making out at the dinner table is for people too young to have a place of their own (or a hotel room) to go to, and too silly to understand not everyone needs to know 100% of the time how sexually attractive they find each other.

Not a fan of PDA, apart from very specific places we follow the bro code when out and about. I do think a kiss across the table, thigh rubbing etc in a restaurant is innapropriate, but I probably wouldn’t actually say anything.

PDAs in public make me feel queasy. If I’d have been the OP I have said something about the couple groping each other and eating each other’s faces. That’s vile and shows a clear lack of respect for others. Sound like a couple of dogs in heat!

Showing my age here, I was wondering why anyone would have a thread about opinions on personal digital assistants....

It's chavvy at the dinner table. They're desperately after attention 🤮

Haha me too. Was taken back to the little stylus thingy and having to tether it to your (probably) Nokia 6310 while it slowly downloaded the emails

That definitely sounds a bit much. I also hate it when couples on public transport start snogging the face off each other.

Definitely not being unreasonable. My cousin who is 30 is constantly doing this. Caressing his girlfriends thigh, hugging her and almost looks as though we should all think it's really cute.
It's inappropriate. Keep it for the bedroom, nobody else wants to watch the pawing.

Too much for me, but I guess you just have to look the other way. Sometimes I feel.public displays are about ownership and signalling to others. I don't like that .

@DeadbeatYoda 😂😂 definitely just meant loving affection!! Did make me chuckle though. Maybe I should have specified

I think it's nice to see a bit of affection but full on songs in public is too much

I know what you mean, all that bloody noise really hacks me off.

No, not acceptable at all to be full on kissing at a dinner table. It's usually a sign of insecurity. If you are so into each other, then the denial of not kissing and stroking during a meal will make the private time later better anyway. Private being the important word.

Arm round the shoulder, holding hands, quick peck type kiss - fine. I'm not really that bothered by a hand on a thigh either (if they're clad in jeans or something, maybe not so much if it's a naked thigh and the hand is caressing rather than still). Full on snogs with tongues, while you're seated with others at a table - just no. Have a bit of decorum FFS!

Affection is normal with over the top going for think the same as when people keep on going on about how wonderful their new partner is a lot

Are they trying to convince others of something? Of the people I know who put on a performance don't last

Again normal affection to me is different and perfectly fine

Over the top sucking each other's faces at the dinner table, i think gross

and making tv noise kissing always gross

If you mean you French kiss at a restaurant dinner table and rub each other's thighs then I can tell you your kids are not enjoying that as much as you are. This is about context. Affection is fine, foreplay is not.

What a daft thing to say. It's got everything to do with the person trying to enjoy their meal across the table from the people acting this way.
I always wonder when I see these 'keep yer nose out' comments: are they made for the sake of being obnoxious or are they made by the type of person who would behave just as poorly as the person described?