To wonder of today's kids are incapable of going to the frigging TOILET before a film starts

[Pharoahnuff]

Wwbt to cinena. Unending stream of kids trotting to loo even within first 15 minutes.
Please don't suggest they all have medical conditions , an allergy to velour seating.
PARENT TAKE KIDS TO PISS FIRST.
Oh and grandma don't take photos of the kids in the middle of the film you freak

And breathe.

And yes I do sound a bitch/ unreasonable whatevs

Yes, and don't buy them three gallons of pop in a huge bucket with a straw. That may help.

That, and the never-ending munching and talking, is the very reason I haven't been to the cinema for 28 years. Last film I saw was ET !

Parents. TOILET. Your kids

Best to wait for the film to come out on dvd if it bothers you this much...

Mind you, we went to a comedy show locally whee access to loos was past the stage a d adults just got up abd went in the first half of the show.

Thanks for bothering to post that distended

Sorry, forgot to add YANBU Pharoah. Hate the cinema. Costs too much and you have to sit in close proximity to people you don't know for hours. Plus it's too loud, and the trailers go on too long.

And dont sit in the middle of the fricking cinema if you know your kid is likely to pee all the time. Sit on the end of a row FFS

Has been up and down up and down up and down with people needing to pass this afternoon

Oh
and SHUT THE FECK UP.

Talk when you get outside

Oh
AND STOP FECKING TEXTING TURN THE BLOODY PHONE OFF

And breathe

That's a good tip Distended but sometimes the DCs like to go to the cinema.

I hate the cinema too.
It's full of other people.
I always wait for the DVD.

You could recreate the cinema experience at home. Throw popcorn all over the floor, rip the seats in the settee. Then get someone to kick the back of your chair every ten seconds whilst talking loudly.

Ha Sprkling, have learnt from that one- we always get there early and sit uin the back row to stop the little feckers kicking the back of the seat.

And why do people throw popcorn everywhere- do they do that at home?

I hate rudeness and no manners

YANBU they also need to use the loo during Cubs, it's only an hour and a half, go before you come out ffs. When I was reading in school, after lunch, there was a succession of kids traipsing off to play use the toilets, disrupting the class on the way out and on the way back. This never used to happen, you got used to going at lunch and break as the teachers were so strict you needed to be bursting to get out of the class. I know it's not good to hold it in but no one seems to have any discipline anymore. Not life or death but it pisses me off for some bizarre reason.

I once started a thread wondering why there's no expectation in cinemas to put rubbish in bin. Was laughed out of town.

Really Pharoah? So chucking it all on the floor is correct etiquette? I did not know that.

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I'm a secondary school teacher, and my students try to tell me that it is essential for their health that they go to the loo during lessons. I think if they didn't insist on constantly drinking (also not allowed...) they'd probably be able to last the hour. And then their parents complain...

the last time I took mine to the pictures they announced they were bored 10 minutes into the film. 'That's a shame I say, because we are locked in now' They all believed me

"the teachers were so strict you needed to be bursting to get out of the class" - nothing to do with teachers being strict; just no parents claiming its against human rights to stop their pfb going the toilet!

my child once threw up in the entrance to the cinema, film hadn't even started

now THAT is rude

I hate the cinema because of children, food and rude ill mannered people.
However I have discovered Curzon cinemas, which have wine and cocktails, great films and a better class of cinema goer.

I'm depressed now - I've promised to take DCs to the cinema tomorrow!
DD insists on going to the loo as she leaves the house and again when she gets to the cinema OP.

This happens at school ALL the time. No matter how much you encourage them to use the loo before a teaching session starts i.e. before registration after play, before or after lunch, someone ( usually the same ones) always want to go, and it disrupts teaching, and they miss a chunk of information. We had a theatre group come: the amount of kids who decided they wanted to go to the loo in the middle of it was, frankly, embarrassing. And it wasn't just the KS1 children...one goes,and it starts (for want of a bettter word) a stream. And you daren't say no, because you'll get a parent screeching complaining that you didn't let them go,what right do you have etc,etc...

We have 1/2 hr drive to cinema from home. Always used to get there early so had enough time for DS to go to the loo at the cinema before going in to see film. Never bought those buckets of coke to drink either, so no need to go to loo during film. I find it annoying too having to stand up and let people past constantly during the film.
Oh and you forgot to mention the children who can't keep their feet still who are wearing trainers with flashing lights in the heels - equally annoying. Anyone who kicks the back of my seat gets the 'look' first, followed by actually being told to stop it if it continues - usually resulting in a dirty look from adult accompanying said child - but I'm happy to put them in their place too! Likewise with constant chatterers.