...to think people who chew with their mouths open should face a wall when eating?

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Especially if it's because they've got a cold - the accompanying CHOFF CHOFF noises are reminiscent of a beaver trying to chew bubble gum without letting it stick to it's teeth!

Sucklers and slurpers should also face the wall when eating, so that the genteel amongst us can nibble our finely shredded salads (no dressings, obviously) without gagging intermittently at the sight of mushy croutons being sprayed across the table.

And if you're going to give your darling children a jam doughnut at least cut it into small pieces and make them eat it with a fork or a cocktail stick or something and suck the jam out first or else... face the bloody wall!!

Hanging's too good for them.

The ones who attract my most venomous thoughts are those who eat when they're talking to you on the phone. Scum.

Oh I so agree. Also gum chewers - CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP while they talk to you. How bloody rude.

YANBU, I can't stand this!

I hate this too. Also people hunch over food and eat as fast as possible. So uncouth.

YANBU... I loathe open mouthed eaters.

YANBU my dad eats like this.He ends up with food all over his chin and down his top. And the noises he makes are so ugh thaat i want to retch.

My d bro does this, he receives a flick to the ear for his sins. Mucky swine that he is

Crunch, crunch, crunch and then wipes her mouth on the carpet. An animal she is, an animal (nice tail though).

YADNBU, there is absolutely no excuse for sloppy table manners. It is disgusting, along with sniffing, my other aversion!

oh yes, disgusting. And grown adults who carry on a conversation with their mouths full. Gross gross gross.

YADNBU

That Is All

They should all stand in a field if they are going to chew like cows

My dd does this nibbiling on her front teeth thing It drives me insane and can feel every nerve tingling when she does it . She is an adult and i have been saying to her to stop since she got bloody teeth im sure she does it to wind me up now !

YANBU

My DH does this. It's repulsive. He blames an unspecified nasal issue. I blame his slack brain slack jaw.

I went to a friend's Christmas party, sat at the table with her colleagues.

The most senior of the colleagues proceeded to eat and talk her way through the meal.

She has a slow, drawling local accent so is tedious at the best of times, add to that a gob-full of turkey and stuffing I don't know how I managed to keep myself quiet, well there was a lot of bum clenching and wine drinking and looking the other way.

Apparently she does it all the time, yet nobody has challenged her.

She must have ignored my disdain because I was aware, when I was looking at her I had a very obvious catsbumface look of horror

There ought to be better manners portrayed on TV. Even in period dramas like Upstairs Downstairs or Downton Abbey, the upper classes are shown talking while eating at the same time. They would not have done it. Well, I don't do it, anyway.

If we were to have etiquette programmes about simple things like this, the message might get across to those who lead disgusting lives at the moment.

*just to add, said person is 50+ so this is not a generation thing.

It's just bleurgh!

I went travelling with a girl who ate with her mouth open when I was 22. We were supposed to be gone for 4 months. We parted company after three weeks, mainly because of her table manners. She thought I was a stuck up bitch and I didn't care. Gross!

YABU.

They shouldn't face a wall; they should be made to face a mirror.

YANBU in the slightest OP. It's such disgusting behaviour. MY DP has table manners sometimes, then other times he gulps his food, hunches over his plate, chomps with his mouth open and talks with mouth full. It makes me absolutely murderous. When I say it to him, he thinks I'm being a fussy mare but it honestly gets on my last nerve. My parents talk with mouths full - FGS, I'm not going anywhere, I will wait while you chew and swallow first!

Gives me the rage

YANBU.
Had nephew over (13) a while ago, who chewed open mouthed so noisily, so badly, me and DH were a bit open mouthed at him (obviously without foods in our mouth ;)), SIL just innocently said "what?" to us, so she clearly doesn't even notice it! Eats like a dog who hasn't eaten in days. But ewwww.

It's not the sight of it as much as the sound. Yuck.

YANBU

Knew a boy at college who did this and would blow his nose at the same time. eugh.

I think tea-slurpers need sorting out too. And people who scrape the fork/spoon repeatedly against the plate/bowl when they're coming to the end of their food. They sound like they're mining for tin!

Ariel - I'm with you on the sound.
Can avoid looking, but can't avoid hearing.

Also noisy breathers annoy me too.

Hate people eating crisps with or without their mouth open. Just the sound really gets to me. I know I ABU, so I just have to grit my teeth until they finish them