To be shocked at the amount of litter on the theatre floor?

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Been to see the Pantomime this afternoon.
As we left couldn't believe the amount of rubbish that had just been discarded on the floor.
Ice cream containers, drinks, sweet wrappers etc.

There were people standing at the front with boxes for the litter. WTF is wrong with people?
Take it home or put In the bin.

Someone's got to go round now and pick it all up.

Honestly it was so disgusting. How slobby.
It's like the theatre volunteers are just servants.
I think if I was the theatre I would have announced it to put rubbish in the bins at the end also.
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I was at the theatre yesterday and it's basically full of people who think they're at the cinema. Buckets of popcorn, sweet wrappers, and crisps rustling all the way through. Etiquette and good manners are a thing of the past.

For what it's worth, I blame the theatres just as much. They should stop selling all the popcorn and sweets - that way they won't have half as much cleaning up to do! As always, profit wins over ambience or customer experience.

Jason Manford did a post about this recently. It really is shocking seeing all the mess left behind, especially when you see staff waiting with bin bags.

I think they need the extra income to keep the theatre going to be honest.
I blame slobby people.

It doesn’t take a lot of effort to drop your rubbish in the bin I was shocked when I got off a plane recently after a long haul flight how much rubbish was on the floor. I wouldn’t mind but they do come around with rubbish bags.
I think it is general decline in standards of behaviour of our society.

To, blame the people but the theatre trying to stay open!

And before anyone makes a comment about the sort of people who go to panto, I notice it at whatever show we go to see, even when it's no kids or very few kids. DH knows that we take it rubbish out of the theatre and the cinema even when we see it all left around us. The exception is having a spilled a box of popcorn on the floor in the cinema, I was hardly going to be on hands and knees picking it up. Took the box and told the staff what row it was and apologised.

It totally differs with the show you see. Pantomime or a musical at Christmas...everyone is rustling quality sweet and crunching malteasers. A more serious play at the National Theatre or the Royal Court, and you get none of that.

The public can be absolutely disgusting and lazy. I work in a maternity unit and the amount of utter rubbish they have around there beds, tables, chairs etc.

There are bins provided in each bay of beds.
I've seen shitty baby nappys on a table next to food and one day a used sanitary pad.
They never fail to surprise.

Yep. Disgusting. I made sure we picked ours up!! No reason not to.

I’ve never left rubbish behind anywhere, in my whole life.

Yep, my mum cleaned in hospitals for over thirty years, including visitor/public areas. She didn't hold back on what filthy pigs she thought some of them were.

I've see proper Operas, ballets, tradition musicals as well as more modern popular ones and I still see this mess every time. Less so, I concede as I think there's an element of having your handful with kids at Panto but it's not like there's no cross over in behaviours

Being scummy is seen as a human right nowadays. People behave disgustingly wherever they are and noone can pass comment or stop them because they are entitled dicks who do not seem to have any sense that unless the whole of society has some common social rules we will all just be feral.

I went to cinema the other day and they put up a notice telling you to leave litter at your seats 'to help with recycling'.

We used to go to the panto with kids and really its the perfect time to teach the kids how to behave out and about. Neither me or the kids litter anywhere. Second nature to use a bin or take it home.

I was at a panto on Friday and they came around at the interval with plastic bags gathering rubbish to try and keep on top of it so it's obviously an issue.

I think the issue is exacerbated because theatres seats/rows are often quite small, they don’t turn the lights on fully, people are rushing to get out so people just get up & go. I’ve noticed in some of the newer wider cinemas there’s no rubbish left.

Which is fine, but they probably don't mean trampled into the floor like you see

We have Odeon Limitless cards so we go to the cinema frequently and it looks like a chimps tea party has taken place afterwards.

You have to pass the rubbish bin on the way out so some people are just clearly bone idle lazy or of the attitude that there is staff to pick up after them. Sometimes there is so much popcorn strewn everywhere that I am convinced some people tip it over deliberately as they leave.

Did people know though? At my cineworld they come clear cinema afterwards. There are no bins on the way out at all. Sometime staff are there ready eith bags other times not its not consistent.

Why don't they just announce it so people know to bring it down with them. I wouldnt of know that about a theatre show unless it was obvious

I’m always totally aghast at the amount of shit people leave behind on a plane, I don’t don’t understand the mentality of ‘oh I’m finished with this tube of Pringles and cup of tea, I’ll just throw it on the floor where there’s already not enough legroom instead of giving it to the staff who regularly walk up and down with a bin bag,’. People are lazy filthy pigs and I’d hate to see inside their houses.

They are like this at our local beach in the summer. Day after day. Makes me want humans to die out

Well I've had it in the west end at the ballet, the opera and a musical this year.

The endless rustling. One show the family behind me ate nosily and constantly throughout the both halves of the show. It was just vile.

I can hardly be bothered to go now. I used to love it but it's so expensive to sit and listen to people eating and talking. I know it has to be expensive as it takes a lot to stage and I don't begrudge that, but it's too much to gamble on whether you'll actually be listening to the orchestra and players or the rustle of sweet wrappers.

Surely such behaviour is also unacceptable at the cinema?

At the cinema we go to, it actually says to leave your rubbish on your seat so they can recycle it.

Those that don't go to the theatre often (stereotypically just going to a panto occasionally) may not know that the theatre is different.

Doesn't excuse the awful mess some leave behind, but I'm sure a lot of people may think they are doing the right thing by leaving it there.

I thought the same thing on a flight this year.

I was in middle of plane and as we walked towards the front to get off the floor was covered in bottles, tinfoil, sweet bags, tissues and masks!!!!
It was an absolute disgrace.

There were very few children on the plane and to be honest mostly people aged 50-80 ish. We were goin to Lanzarote in term time so it really was all older people who should have known better.
If it were a flight to Mykonos or something with drunk 20-something year olds, I'd get it, I'd still be disgusted but I wouldn't be shocked.