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To Find this Woman in the Cinema Rude

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LessMissAbs · 03/01/2014 23:29

Me and my friend were watching a film in the cinema tonight. She doesn't wear a watch and must have been checking her phone for the time - its a habit of hers to do this, or to ask people the time. I was sitting next to her and I didn't notice it.

There was an empty seat to her other side between her and a woman. The woman suddenly boomed out in the middle of the film, "If you want to play your phone, you can go outside and do it instead of in here".

It was mortifying, and she interrupted the film for me. I was really embarrassed for my friend, but we didn't say anything.

At the end of the film, as we were standing up to leave, I said to the woman "I don't really care if you were disturbed by a light during the film or not, I don't want to have to the film interrupted by your booming voice". She then started arguing back (she said something like "Oh you'd like to be a cheeky one, wouldn't you, and some other stuff) but we turned our backs towards her and her husband so that she was talking to ourselves, put on our coats and left.

Kind of ruined the film for both of us. Normally I find going to the cinema relaxing!

OP posts:
hobnobsaremyfavourite · 04/01/2014 22:15

not what I'm getting
(wanders off to sort out))
bloody laptop

hobnobsaremyfavourite · 04/01/2014 22:16

phone not laptop
bloody sinusitis addled brain

Maryz · 04/01/2014 22:23

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VampyreofTimeandMemory · 04/01/2014 22:25

maybe the problem is everyone's ridiculously stupid, huge phone screens nowadays.

howrudeforme · 04/01/2014 22:35

with nutcracker - it was no big deal - the friend was checking phone to get the time - I'd do it if I didn't have a watch. A quiet bit of light against a booming voice. The voice would disturb the film for many.
But I wouldn't have spoken to the woman after the film.

BoneyBackJefferson · 04/01/2014 22:40

hobnob

No problem :)

Play

Its not a joke, there where several similar ones at the same time, as Maryz says it is the level of entitlement that some people have.

Kevin Spacey (although its theatre again) stopped the play (Richard III) and told a phone user off. (similar to Hugh Jackman upthread)

The Alamo Drafthouse has removed people for mobile phone usage

and this is the response that they got. But they do take things more seriously over the pond.
RandyRudolf · 04/01/2014 22:57

Love the Alamo draft house vid Grin

LilMissSunshine9 · 04/01/2014 23:03

Randy that is funny as hell hahaha

hackneybird · 04/01/2014 23:18

Wonder where the OP is, she hasn't been on for a few hours. At the cinema perhaps?

hmc · 04/01/2014 23:31

Oh I don't know, I expect the Op grew tired of being called a knuckle head, a cunt, a twat, "one of those woman" etc by a group of posters who apparently pride themselves on being mannerly and courteous to others Hmm

Sparklingbrook · 04/01/2014 23:32

Happy 24 hour birthday bonkers thread. Thanks

KidLorneRoll · 04/01/2014 23:37

People who look at their phones at the cinema get right on my tits. As do people who talk. Into the dome, motherfuckers.

Maryz · 04/01/2014 23:46

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sparklysilversequins · 04/01/2014 23:48

Too true hmc.

LessMissAbs · 04/01/2014 23:53

The OP was at dinner with friends, what with it being the weekend and all. And now she is going to bed.

Tomorrow or Monday though I'm going to see the Desolation of Smaug mwahahaha!

OP posts:
sparklysilversequins · 04/01/2014 23:54

It's great, I went yesterday, enjoy Smile.

southeastastra · 04/01/2014 23:58

yep hmc, haven't seen you for a while! Smile

mn bonkers at it's very worst.

HaroldTheGoat · 05/01/2014 00:02

If MN run a cinema.....

Just imagine.

sparklysilversequins · 05/01/2014 00:04

It would be utterly joyless and they'd probably force you into strait jackets before you could be admitted.

HaroldTheGoat · 05/01/2014 00:07

Did someone really call OP a cunt? Grin

LessMissAbs · 05/01/2014 00:09

I'm imagining a full body search and being sent through a scanner, after removing your shoes.

OP posts:
Maryz · 05/01/2014 00:13

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ZombiesAreClammyDodgers · 05/01/2014 00:14

YABU.

playavsnow · 05/01/2014 00:20

Did someone really call OP a cunt?

Oh yes, and those were the tamer insults!

I can't bear to watch the second Hobbit film after what they did to the first Apparently there are more, similar such, additions in current film, and even a bloody love story Shock

Digresses

sparklysilversequins · 05/01/2014 00:26

They called her AND her friend cunts.