AIBU to think a lot of people are ignorant fuckers?

[MacarenaFerreiro]

My 11 year old was in a dance show last night. Not the Royal Ballet, just an end of term dance show with girls aged around 3 to 16 held in the local town hall. Audience made up entirely of parents, relatives and friends.

People behind us talked loudly through every dance as the girls were performing. Woman in front had one of those large SLR cameras with a massive flash which she kept using even after being told not to as it was distracting the girls on stage. Teenagers further along the row taking selfies and playing games on their phone during the show. Grannies standing up and waving to their little cherubs, blocking the view of anyone behind. People getting up half way through a dance to leave the hall - assuming to go to the loo.

My two kids had been warned before leaving home that I expected them to sit quietly and respect the fact that it wasn't about them having fun, we were there to support their sister. They were also shushed if they starting talking while girls were dancing.

When did we become such a nation of selfish, ignorant fuckers who think it's OK to chat through a performance for which the girls have bene practicing ALL YEAR and only bother about your own relative to the detriment of everyone else?

Oh, how annoying!

No wonder you're fed up. That was really rude. I hope and trust your DD wasn't put off at all.

She wasn't put off. I can totally appreciate that it's tedious to sit through 4 minutes of 6 year olds dancing to One Direction or something, but it's really not too much of an ask to keep quiet and show a bit of respect.

Good for her!

And yes, I absolutely agree.

Besides which, FFS, if they struggle to sit through 4 minutes of someone else's child, why bother come?

Yes self absorbed ignorant fuckers are everywhere unfortunately.
Most people are only interested in themselves and their immediate family.
I asked two parents at the side of me during the school play, to please be quiet and I was told to fuck off!! Yes just horrible people out there.

Agree OP. It's not uncommon for people to leave after their dc have performed either.

Another mum I know posted on Facebook that a dance show was "terrible and she wouldn't be wasting any more time or money going to any". I replied that I was impressed with the effort of the students and had enjoyed it. She then replied that she's from a dance background so she's used to a better standard. Yes, people are dicks. Seems to be an epidemic of selfishness.

This. Just this!

Yanbu. I hate the theatre atm. I remember when the interval meant - the interval, whereby you wait in a ridiculous long queue and down your drink as they call time. Now people walk in with half the bar, stuffing pringles down their faces and taking selfies etc. I hate the modern world.

I remember a school performance of Shakespeare at DS's school where the sister of the boy playing Henry V would not stop bloody texting, the phone going pip pip pip and distracting everyone around her. And her parents let her.

YANBU people seem so much more self centred and rude these days.
I went to see a circus show a couple of years ago and at the end all the performers came out to receive their applause, they were all assembled in the ring with the ring master encouraging us to applaud but 90% of the audience were getting up and filing out! The look on the performers faces said it all really, they thought the people leaving were so rude and so did I.

I know a mother who read a novel whilst wearing headphones throughout a performance. She borrowed a programme to see when her child was performing then went straight back to her book once they left the stage. She was in the front row too. So rude!

YANBU
I went to watch DD at in a dance competition a few months ago. Parents were attentive while their child was performing but chatted loudly and let their younger kids run about when others performed. So rude

I always used to roll my eyes at the announcements at the cinema telling you to switch your phone off thinking that people coudln't possibly be that rude.

But they can.

I will top any story.

We went to a dance show for my cousin, on a Sunday afternoon. There was a fight in the interval. Then the kid behind us needed a wee - his Mam made him piss in a pint glass and put it on the floor, where it got knocked over and ran towards us...

YANBU - that sounds awful. Dd's theatre school has managed to combat this. They have the show in a proper theatre and work really hard to be professional and make the performances enjoyable for the audience. No photography allowed. Having said that, I'd still be respectful if the show was badly produced, it's not the kid's fault!

*kids'. (proper apostrophe use is important)

Yanbu, absolutely agree.

YANBU. I can hardly stand to go to any performances these days. People talking, mobile phone lights constantly. It boils my piss like nothing else. Well except Cyclists bombing down pavements.

I find it too stressful when I'm trying to be absorbed by
Something on stage.

Bloody hell, Youreall. Where the hell were you?

I've been to a fair amount of theatre in the past few years and not noticed any bad behaviour at all but there was a positive epidemic of phone ringing in the play I went to last week (Brecht's Galileo, so I might innocently have assumed a knowledgeable audience). The ushers were all very stroppy about telling us all individually to turn our phones off before the show and by the end I could see why. It wasn't even the teenagers who were the main offenders - it was the older audience members and they tend to be much slower at grabbing it and silencing it instantly as well.

Totally agree with all the comments about negative, disrespectful behaviour by audiences at theatres.

Pissing in pint glasses! I've yet to encounter that one at the school play. Can't wait.

Wow YoureAll that's dreadful. Maybe "no pissing" needs to be added to the "shut the fuck up and turn your phone off" briefing.

See I will take selfies before a show starts.. but my phone then goes off, and we sit quietly. ( apart from me occasionally reminding my children to be mindful of others in hushed tones ). They may occasionally have a quite snack or drink but normally wait until the interval ( and we tend to do kids week performances) . My kids dance school is very strict on no cameras ( they film it) and most parents are respectful ( small dance school with a family feel)

OP that sounds awful I can be tolerant (to a degree) of young children being disruptive but adults not treating all the performers with respect is awful. They forget that all the performers are someone's child and they all deserve to be treated the way they'd like their child to be treated.

Bloody rude. Its not hard to have a bit of respect for others. Tossers.