To want to drop kick noisy eaters?

[Bambino81]

They drive me absolutely craaaaaaazy.

Fair enough if it's a young child still trying to master the art of table manners but adults that do it? >.

They MUST know they do it. It's just disgusting.

There's someone sat near me right now, she's not even eating and she's making smacking noises.

REALLY?!?!

If anyone wants me, I'll be hiding in the toilet...

My BIL is the absolute worst. I wait until he is seated and then choose a seat not next to him, and not directly opposite. I turns my stomach. It's funny because he is well mannered in every other way. It makes me feel sick hearing his lips smack together and hearing all the clacky, chompy saliva, and watching the gurning mouth movements What is quite bizarre is that his wife is really fussy and fastidious, and yet she seems oblivious to it.

All of DH's family seem to have a bit of an issue with either getting food all over their cutlery handles or their hands, and not noticing, or getting mayo or gravy on their chins or top lip and NOT BLOODY NOTICING!!!!!

Can't they see/feel it? It drives me bonkers!

I have teenaged boys and on occasion the (admittedly closed-mouthed and perfectly clean and well-mannered yet) manic speed chewing and food bolting from one, and the open-mouthed goldfish style of chewing from the other two has incensed me so much I've abandoned my meal and left the table.

Noooo! To double dipping - very bad form.

Oh thank goodness it's not just me, my SIL BIL and FIL smack their lips together while eating with their mouths wide open. I don't understand it, surely they can hear it? Surely it feels disgusting? I sometimes want to cry with the sheer rage inside my head. I can't say anything, we just don't have that kind of relationship.

Don't have any problems with double dipping but try to curb it if in public.

My DD is like this. She constantly makes remarks about people's eating habits. I have told her that she should really get used to them as otherwise she will have a very sad life if she keeps worrying about this. She worries before they eat, while they are sitting down, while they are eating and after they have eaten. There are more important things in life, really.

Now double dipping,nose blowing or farting at the table I really dislike.

Yeah it's an actual condition called mysophonia it is literally a hatred of sound, the best way I can describe it is if someone was sat next to you scratching their nails down a black board, the physical reaction you would have is similar to what I have if someone is sat next to me eating.

IloveJudgeJudy please please look at this website www.misophonia-uk.org/ and please believe your dd and not dismiss it, it truly is horrible, there is no getting used to it and in fact mine has gotten worse over the years, to the point of self harm (biting myself, scratching myself) because of the constant internalisation of anger.

Yanbu

Yanbu

Oh God my parents are terrible for this, especially talking with their mouths full. Which is ironic as DM is always pulling my boys up on their table manners (usually with a gob full of grub). My dad never used to do it but of late has become just as bad.

Why? Just why? There really is very little to be said that couldn't wait till between forkfuls. Argh! It gives me The Rage.

Not BU at all. Really makes me get irrationally angry. Unless its my DC's, then I find it quite cute, whilst they're really little anyway.

My pet hate is hearing men wee or worse fart in the loo. The door is closed yes, but I still hear you!

Hate it. Used to skip breakfast or take it away miles from the breakfast room to eat it because I couldn't stand the sound of slurping and chewing by one family member when I was a teen. Makes me heave.

Frownieface. Thanks for the link. However, I think that DD is just going to have to learn to live with it and not wind herself up over every little thing. she sits at table with us sometimes, just waiting to be offended - not just by people's eating, but by anything that she can take offence at.

I am also serious about most of the people on this thread. They really need to learn to tone down their reaction to people's eating as the others are not going to change. There will always be someone who eats noisily, somewhere. In some cases I think people are pre-winding themselves up before they even get to the situation. I know it's hard to live with, but we are all human and have to learn to deal with lots of different noises. Either that, or go and live on a desert island and, as most of us don't have to the funds to do that, we just have to learn to live with others.

Yes but if some people with perfectly normal teeth and mouths can eat a sandwich without the accompanying grunts and chomps etc being heard two rooms away, why can't others? It's just a case of thinking about how you're eating and monitoring the noises a bit... not too much to ask I would've thought.

People with denture issues etc, different story.

Don't start me on moaning noises when eating.. gawd, even worse..

I do slightly have that dysphonia thingy but I don't let it affect me or I'd have dumped dh long ago

I also think learning to eat correctly with your mouth closed is good manners. Noisy eating and being able to actually see half eaten food inside other people's mouths is just rude.

YANBU!

DD1 nearly did on Sunday - DD2's bf (of 2yrs) has picked up the habit of scraping his teeth along his fork when eating, so within about 10 seconds of our meal beginning, DD1 snarled at him that if he didn't stop, she'd kick him.

He didn't stop and unfortunately the table was in the way so she couldn't kick him. DD1 has said that if he eats with us again, she'll serve his food in the dog bowl. Personally, I don't think I'll be inviting him again (as fun as it would be to see his expression when a dog bowl is put in front of him! Cocky sod would probably think it was funny though ).

DM has also got into the habit of talking with her mouth full...she'd never have allowed us to do it as children so I'm not sure why she now does it herself but it drives me insane!

I do not need to hear or see what people are eating, and there's no excuse for bad table manners!

My bf does the fork thing, hate it! When I tell him not too he honestly has no idea he even done it, bless him.

I don't put up with any poor table manners from the DCs and I have probably been hard on them compared to their friends' parents (judging by the uninhibited eating noises of the friends anyway). I don't think a parent is doing a child any favours sending her out into the world to make others cringe when they have a meal together.

Oh yes, the moaning! What is that all about?! My BIL does that too.

I am a real stickler for good table manners (bordering on a bit obsessive actually) and my DCs all had it drummed into the as small children how to behave with food/cutlery etc. Bizarrely, they have got worse as they've got older, not better. I am hoping it is just a sloppy teenaged phase as they have picked up bad habits by always being in a rush to be somewhere else, or to just get as much food down their gullets as they can in under a minute. That's another thing I cannot abide - speed eating.

I put a plate of beans on toast in front of my middle son and his friend when they were about 15 and then stood and watched with a face like this as they both mirror-imaged one another, hunched over the plates like pigs at a trough, slovelling, bolting, slurping and talking with their mouths full. I was just mortified. I did say something and I got a 'yeah, whatever' look and comment from them.

Sometimes at Sunday lunch it can turn into a massive family row because I just won't tolerate slovenly manners, bolting food or noisy slurping when they know better but I think it's turned into a bit of a me against them thing. They all end up saying 'for God's sake mum, can't you just back off and leave me to eat my meal in peace without constantly staring at me and picking fault?'

Although DH backs me up to start with, he says I am make it worse by going on about it, but I cannot possibly see how! I dread to think that others might find them a challenge to eat with.

YY to noisy colleague. I'd go and arrange files while she was eating. I also hated when anyone bought a tin of sweets in as the potential for irritating chomping increased x 100. I don't eat sweets but I'd wait till no one was looking and scoop out handfuls and chuck them in a bin on the way home.

Pretty sure I have misophonia. Earplugs are a part of my daily life.

It drives me up the wall! I notice it with DH although it irritates me less as I guess I'm used to it but my mum, bless her...grrrr! She will not infrequently call me when she's eating (or occasionally I catch her) which really riles me.

At the risk of sounding like a total cow I ask her what's she's eating and if it's not something that's going to be done with in the next 5 seconds will phone her back.

Hot drink slurping is another thing - if you can't sip without sounding like a wet 'n' dry vacuum cleaner wait for the bloody thing to cool down for goodness sake!

To be fair though I even irritate myself sometimes when something is naturally noisy/slurpy.

YY to noisy tea slurping and over-enthusiastic blowing of hot food as well. [hm

And as for ostentatious loud belching - uurrrgh! Filthy pigs. I know you sometimes cannot help a small belch, but if you feel it coming, cover your mouth and say 'Excuse me' in an apologetic way afterwards.

I know a few men who go in for very loud, very long, utterly revolting belches aftere very meal, and then sit back proudly as if we have all just witnessed their best party piece.

Thankfully none of the men in my immediate family do this, otherwise they'd probably have died in a DV incident of steak knife to the temple by now.

I also feel a bit queasy if it is obvious that I am on the phone to a person who is smoking, and I can clearly hear them dragging on their cigarette, with that horrible pah sound as it leaves their lips.

Aaaarrrggh - making myself feel sick with all these thoughts now.

I know a few men who go in for very loud, very long, utterly revolting belches aftere very meal, and then sit back proudly as if we have all just witnessed their best party piece.

That's just frickin revolting. Anyone who does that ain't welcome at my table...