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To think if you're a tap you should sit at the end of the row?

52 replies

HullEnzia · 27/10/2011 07:55

grrr another cinema one.

Why do taps insist on sitting right down the aisle meaning everytime they get up, everyone else has to get up too!? It's SO annoying. Lost count of the amount of times I had to get up yesterday during Johnny English.

Taps - why bother going to cinema at all??? surely you miss most of the bloody film anyway?!

OP posts:
Pekka · 27/10/2011 20:27

YANBU. I try to get an aisle seat because of my restless leg, so that I don't bother other people when I have to go take a walk.

LynetteScavo · 27/10/2011 20:29

It's the cinemas fault for serving coke in 3 liter cups.

Where else in the world would you have a drink that big, apart from the cinema?

If there were an earthquake while you were watching a film,and the roof fell in, you could probably survive for at least a week, if you'd purchased a coke.

lady007pink · 27/10/2011 20:45

What is a TAP?

GetOrfMo1Land · 27/10/2011 20:51

Grin lynette

SugarPasteZombie · 27/10/2011 20:54

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Onemorning · 27/10/2011 21:20

YABU. And a miserable baggage.

microserf · 28/10/2011 13:40

agree with onemorning. YABU.

Hassled · 28/10/2011 13:44

I've never begrudged shifting my bag and popcorn for people who need a loo break. That's because I'm too busy getting incenced by the talkers and the rustlers. I usually leave the cinema in a spitting ball of rage and fury.

hocuspontas · 28/10/2011 13:45

What about the selfish bastards who hog the aisle seats and NEVER need to leave their seats? I bet they never give a thought to those who need them. Hmm

hauntedstateofmind · 28/10/2011 13:50

Has the OP made up the expression "tap" or has anyone heard it before?

I have tried Google but had no luck. Just stuff about the Portuguese airline, TAP computer protocol and tap dancing.

So I did further research

Under tap the Urban Dictionary has:
Referring to having sex with a female. Comes from the party term, 'to tap a keg'.. where one inserts a tap into a keg and drinks what comes out.
and

  1. To begin to harvest 2. Gently hit or touch 3. Proceed to sex, fuck 4. A type of spigot head 5. A type of water.

So can anyone shed light on this?

worraliberty · 28/10/2011 13:51

I went to see Johnny English a couple of weeks ago and there was a group of about 12 or 15 kids...aged between about 9 and 12 in there with not an adult in sight.

The proceeded to climb over seats, walk up and down the aisles calling to each other, shining the torches on their mobile phones around, standing up randomly for 5 minutes at a time to look for each other and just generally being noisy, annoying little shites.

They were asked to pipe down by numerous people and then warned by the Manager...but after about 40 minutes, the staff came and threw them out. One little boy (the random stander upper) hid on the floor between seats and had to be lifted to his feet by a member of staff.

So we missed the first 40 mins of the film. After it ended, we came out of the cinema to see an angry Husband and Wife claiming their children were thrown out because (wait for it!) they were 'travellers' Hmm

Well he was soon put in his place by just about everyone filing out of the cinema and told in no uncertain terms why they were all thrown out...and travelling had nothing to bloody do with it.

DorothyGherkins · 28/10/2011 14:03

I always think that when you are in the cinema and theatre, the funny little dance you do trying to stand up out of your seat, without dropping your coat/bags/sweeties/childrens coats&bags etc to let the person through who wants to go to the toilet is all part of the experience. I think everyone should learn to do it efficiently and with good grace, because one day, you might be that widdly person with the weak bladder. Now, what I DO object to is when you go to a pop concert, you ve paid mega bucks for a seat, but you are constantly up and down up and down for the people that want to buy another drink, and another one, and another one! Why would they pay all that money for a seat and miss half the performance - I never want to miss a second! So no, I never mind letting anyone get past for the toilet, but if its yet another drink, please wait till after the performance!

DrinkYourWeakLemonDrinkNow · 28/10/2011 14:10

I agree Hull. But then I am a bit of a camel and can hold on for ages Grin

Just to qualify that: 'camel' as in withholding liquid, not 'camel -toe' which is another thing entirely and no relation.

Pascha · 28/10/2011 14:10

Good lord. I have never sat at a pop concert in my life! The mosh pit's where the action is baby

duvetdayplease · 28/10/2011 14:13

I've heard the expression tap before, yes.

I still think YABU even though I understand what you are talking about. It is annoying, but they presumably can't help it.

WeShouldOpenABar · 28/10/2011 14:15

why should i never go to the cinema because i have a nervous bladder - If you trap me i immediately need to pee because im panicking and worrying about people like you judging me everytime i need the toilet
I book aisle seats always if im booking or someone i can be open with is booking but I dont have to explain myself to every friend of a friend who gets the tickets and puts me in the middle of a row
or at concerts and theatre you dont get a choice of seat , i worry about seating arrangements for a week before a show worrying about where ill end up, does that sound like fun to you and something i would do on purpose to ruin your enjoyment of a film
sit next to the wall and stop being selfish

creepypantsandzombierags · 28/10/2011 14:48

weshouldopenabar are you me?? I'm exactly the same.

Tap? What a ridiculous and insenstive thing to say. hullenzia you can have my first ever...fuck off OP.

Tortoiseinadarkspell · 28/10/2011 15:03

"stupid selfish obsession with the bog"? Really? This has to be a windup. Nobody in the actual world thinks that anyone chooses to go to the toilet frequently out of selfishness.

WilsonFrickett · 28/10/2011 15:10

You went to see Johnny English? That is BU.

WeShouldOpenABar · 28/10/2011 15:15

creepypantsandzombierags- I thought i was the only one Relieved Sob

Pippinintherain · 28/10/2011 21:07

WeShouldOpenABar so relieved to hear of someone the same as me. I hate it and hate the fact I know I'm annoying other people. As you say, it then becomes a vicious circle.

WeShouldOpenABar · 28/10/2011 21:39

pippinintherain & creepypantsandzombierags we should form a club "get out of my way i need to pee, oh wait im free to go? the urge has suddenly disappeared Blush oh now your in my way again I NEED TO GO" its a bit long for a club name the stationary will cost a fortune :)

DrCoconut · 28/10/2011 21:44

My mum has had bladder cancer and can't wait for long sometimes. She dreads being cooped up somewhere with no loo or trapped where she can't get out easily. Our local cinema used to issue a ticket for a film and you chose your seat but now they specify the seat number too. It's really embarrasing to have to admit that you may pee yourself if you can't have an aisle seat so maybe people just sit where they are put or with others in their party and hope they can hold on.

Glitterandglue · 28/10/2011 21:54

Alternatively, why didn't you sit right by the wall or in the middle as you knew you wouldn't need to get up? Selfish of you to take up seats closer to the edge that 'taps' could have been taking up!

Yeah, you know what, until you've experience incontinence problems and the social anxities those can cause, or alternatively learned to be a bit less self-centred, I advise you not to talk about this.

Pippinintherain · 28/10/2011 21:57

WSOAB Grin