to read on my phone in the cinema?

[teaandakitkat]

Just that really, taking the kids to see Captain Underpants at the cinema this afternoon and am wondering if I can read a book using the kindle app on my phone? Or will the light annoy people? I would still have it turned off so it won't ring or anything.

My youngest is only 5 so I feel he's still a bit small to sit in the cinema without an adult while I sit in the cafe in the foyer, which would have been my number one choice.

just in case I dare to visit the cinema and get lynched by the MN perfect parenting mafia for trying to juggle a uni course and two deserving kids!

Who said anything about claiming to be a perfect parent?! It's got nothing to do with being a perfect parent (or parent at all, in fact! ) and everything to do with being inconsiderate and self absorbed!
You me of that priest in Father Ted who plays his banging music all night and drills holes in the wall when he's visiting.
"I've had MY fun, and that's all that matters."
Not everything's about you. Also not entirely sure what the fact you're juggling a uni course and kids has to do with using your phone in the cinema either. What's that got to do with the price of fish?!

You me of that - should read You remind me of that

Sorry OP I don't agree with the bulk of the posts on here if you genuinely weren't in a position to annoy anyone! And I GUARANTEE you wouldn't have been the only one surfing/checking their phone/otherwise causing a full on real life proper annoyance in the cinema!

So if I'm on the back row and no one is sitting behind me or surrounding me like I have stated previously I agree that am ignorant - ignorant in HOW I can be annoying anyone!?!?

Call me entitled/selfish/arrogant or whatever - I'm simply not bothered by names. But I fail to see how if I am not annoying anyone that I'm being selfish/ entitled!? Any reasonable arguments welcomed in light of the fact no one was affected!?

And has no one on here - and be honest - broken or bent a rule or two in their lives?! I'm not talking about breaking the law or doing something that would cause annoyance or harm. Surely sneaking a bit of much needed revision time (not reading Fifty Shades!) whilst trying to give my kids a treat surely cannot be the epitome of a crime worthy of a flogging!?!

Garbled? Fuck off

You know what it meant.

If you can't afford the cinema don't go - you can't say I pay a lot of money for this I can't have you make it bad for me. People will.

It's a public place and you will get disturbed.

It's tough shit.

If you can't afford to interact with other people as the cinema is a late public place, and ignore a couple of phones

What a stupid thing to say. 'interacting' with other people at the cinema is when you're all laughing/gasping/whatever at the good bits in the film. Which is fine. Part of the experience.

Selfish individuals flashing their phone lights/talking etc is not 'interacting' with other people, FFS. It's thinking your desires are more important than others'. It's massively arrogant and twattish.

And yes, your post is garbled.

If you can't afford to interact with other people as the cinema is a late public place, and ignore a couple of phones then maybe you should rethink priorities

Yeah, you'll find it is pretty garbled, so no need to tell me to f** off (nice
I'll spell out the post and the garbled bits for you then if you need me to.

• What on earth's a late public place?! (the garbled bit as not a clue what one of those is.)
• what has whether you've got lots of cash to splash or have saved to go to the cinema got to do with anything? Everybody has the right to enjoy the film as everyone will have presumably paid the same to get in. Doesn't make you more entitled than everyone else if you've got a bursting bank account.

If you can't afford the cinema don't go - you can't say I pay a lot of money for this I can't have you make it bad for me. People will.

People obviously CAN afford the cinema, as they're sitting there after paying the ticket price!
WTAF are you on about.

Despicable me 3 was shite, I was very disappointed, I loved the first one.

garbled, who cares really.

have fun being annoyed in the cinema over jack shit instead.

have fun being annoyed in the cinema over jack shit instead.

You sound lovely

thx hun

Okkkayyyy Isn't it funny how when selfish, inconsiderate aresholes are pulled up on their behaviour they must know deep down that they're in the wrong as can never come up with any coherent argument.
Just start making nonsense posts or statements and have to resort to name calling instead.
Either that or you're some bored,sad individual getting kicks out of being unpleasant on the internet.

If you can't afford the cinema don't go - you can't say I pay a lot of money for this I can't have you make it bad for me. People will.

The cinema is expensive whether you're poor or rich. It shouldn't be spoilt for anyone because of your selfish behaviour.

But I've seen you on other threads and you're nasty and entitled on those too so we shouldn't expect any different here, I suppose.

No point in expecting you to have better behaviour as we'll all just be disappointed.

"It's tough shit."

Is it fuck. Do that in a screening I'm in and I'll be telling you in no uncertain terms not to be an inconsiderate cunt, and then I'll be asking you to be removed.

Is it fuck. Do that in a screening I'm in and I'll be telling you in no uncertain terms not to be an inconsiderate cunt, and then I'll be asking you to be removed.

Is this you?

Yep. Definitely on a wind-up. Can tell when it's summer holidays round these parts.

Nope.

We don't pay a lot to go to the cinema. We like going to the cinema. But if you dare start flashing your phone, kindle whatever device about. Even if you think no one can see you in the back row . I won't care how many kids, uni courses, you have on your plate I will want you out. And I will get the management to throw you out.

Going to the cinema is about time spent with my family enjoying a film. Not to be spent having someone flashing a light around a darkened room.

We have all sat through our fair share of Cartoon and children's films. Yes most of them are not exactly what we would normally choose to watch but it is about teaching your children to sit quietly and watch a film and not to disturb others.

Sorry. this one?

'If anyone came into my cinema with a phone, I'd say OIIIII, CUNT with a massive light up distracting phone ..... NOOOOO'

Exactly

http://www.bbc.co.uk/5live/films/codeoff_conduct.pdf

Well I'd object too if I or others were "flashing" things about and disturbing others. I guarantee you'd not know what I was doing so no worries that I'd get thrown out should I be in a cinema near you Oliversmumsarmy!

Good luck with your eviction attempts though. I've been in cinemas this year alone where people have lit cigarettes, got fruity in the back row, talked through a film, took it upon themselves to sit in the VIP seats and not budging for the people who have paid for them and not one of them has ever been thrown out. Not one. The staff politely ask them to stop and if they don't there doesn't seem to have been much they can do unless they are actually breaking the law! I am so amazed at what emotion and even venom that has come from people in this thread. And it's not just from dissenting views like mine! I feel I have been polite throughout (and tried to lighten the atmosphere too) and yes my views don't go with the majority but come on it's really not the end of the world is it?

Waves to all the wittertainees!