People Eating Crisps

Crisps should be squashed into a sandwich - delish!!

I had a manager who did this too. Always in meetings, not on his lunch break. He's eat them very slowly, licking his fingers after each crisp. When they were all gone he would tear the bag wide open, lick a finger and rub it over the inside of the bag (presumably to collect any crumbs) then lick the finger and repeat using a different finger and different part of the bag. Then he would wipe his fingers on his trousers.

Gross

I saw someone do that in the queue at the Inland Revenue. For some reason it triggered this inner rage...wanted to thump the idiot!

I always say packet of crisps. I wonder if more people call it a bag or a packet 🤔

I have hyperacusis, and tbf I agree with this.

Nobody likes chewing noises, nobody actively enjoys watching people eat noisily with their mouths open, nobody enjoys the slurpy new Pot Noodle ad, because it's all bloody horrible. It's a perfectly normal human reaction.

I'm a tiny bit irritated that ALL annoying sounds are pathologised now. I've endured hyperacusis for YEARS, it's an unbearable condition but I do try to mitigate it with Loop earplugs etc. I do my best because I don't expect the world to revolve around my hearing issues.

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It's not perfectly normal to eat during a training course after lunch.

It was after lunch

People with misophonia cannot just "get a grip". Don't be so ablist!

Me too. It really ruins the experience for me. I only go if I am bringing dc.

I'm doing a course with 11 people and there is one woman who is constantly on her phone. We tend to have some chilled out time after lunch where the rest of us sit and chat before the session begins but this woman is too engrossed in her phone to join in our chat.

AIBU to take her phone and chuck it in the bucket?

There was someone on my bus commute who would regularly eat crisps and drink coffee as their breakfast. Not crisps then coffee but crisps, sip of coffee, more crisps, sip of coffee. What flavour crisps go with coffee???

As though that wasn't bad enough he would take a handful of crisps and then push them as far down his throat as is humanly possible, no just a nibble but like he was putting them right into his stomach.

I had that strange have to look argh don't look thing going on.

He had a moustache too which really didn't help.

Loop earplugs ftw

but this isn't just 'in public' its in a training course where people are supposed to be listening and working
eat crisps at lunch is fine, if people don't like the sound of that, tough
but don't eat them in a training course- if I was the trainer I'd ask them to stop
no, I'd tell them

The teacher ? ! It's the smell I hate more than the sound. I am old enough to remember when it was very rare to see someone eating outside my mother said it was common! Also smoking. But really maybe the constant snacking at any time is the reason why so many people not just the UK are heading towards obesity and all the health related problems it brings .

It is normal to eat food in public. Some food is crunchy. I get that some people have misophonia, but you can't really expect the whole world to alter their perfectly ordinary earing habits to suit you.

Yes! This would annoy me! I’m very sensitive to people eating noises. Especially crisps and cereal!! They’re the worst!!!

I get it thought that some people aren’t bothered by eating noises. I think there’s actually a scientific term for people who can’t tolerate eating noises.

You would hate me!
I squashed my crisps up today and scattered them all over my salad .

Totally with you OP.
I've just completed a part time course over 4 years. Main rule ... no eating !

It's noisy , can be smelly and it's just not the place to be doing this .

People don't need to eat while working or studying in company with others! Very inconsiderate.

That's so rude. I'd feel the same as you OP.

Go ahead and have a snack. But why would you go for something so noisy???

I really do have a problem with people who need to eat all the time and don't care where they do it. Yanbu OP.

Surely the only way to make it through a 'training day' is to eat. Biscuits all morning, then crisps all afternoon. With a break for lunch.

Bonus points if you take a bag of nuts with you

Crisps are the most disgusting thing to watch / hear / smell someone eat (because of course it's ALWAYS stinky cheese and onion).

Bus-crisp-eaters are the worst. It is a certain type of adult that eats crisps on a bus. They don't put the crisp in their mouth, they sort of snatch it greedily from their fingers with their jaws making a sort of a "nyom" noise. They are, of course, oblivious to how revolting they sound because they are wearing a huge set of headphones. Naturally the crisps will be a grab bag of cheese and onion, chosen deliberately to stink the top deck out. When finally finished, the packet will be noisily tipped up to the mouth to get all the crumbs. Next, the loud sucking of each individual cheese -and-onion-powdered finger and thumb. The final flourish: wiping the saliva and crisp powder covered fingers on the bus seat.

I really hope they all noisily sucked their fingers afterwards 😂