People Eating Crisps

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I am doing a course, there are 11 people in this course, we have just come back AFTER lunch and the person next to me is eating a large bag of crisps, the person behind me also is and the teacher has just opened a bag and is chomping them. I feel like im in a farmyard, I want to bang all their heads together and grab all their crisp packets and throw them in the bin, AIBU . i have my period, maybe this could be adding to it or is it normal to find this soooo irritating

Eat Skips. Or Quavers.

Or Wotsits. Then you get the orange powder all over your fingers and can smear it across the desk. 😃😃

I don't know why the eating of food outside of homes and restaurants is such a big deal. We aren't royal or trying to pretend to be so why can't people eat food in public? I also have another similarly cocteau opinion, some of my colleagues apologise if they're about to eat a smelly lunch. I think food should have an aroma. Food that doesn't have an aroma is weird.

I really hope they all noisily sucked their fingers afterwards 😂

Crisps are the most disgusting thing to watch / hear / smell someone eat (because of course it's ALWAYS stinky cheese and onion).

Bus-crisp-eaters are the worst. It is a certain type of adult that eats crisps on a bus. They don't put the crisp in their mouth, they sort of snatch it greedily from their fingers with their jaws making a sort of a "nyom" noise. They are, of course, oblivious to how revolting they sound because they are wearing a huge set of headphones. Naturally the crisps will be a grab bag of cheese and onion, chosen deliberately to stink the top deck out. When finally finished, the packet will be noisily tipped up to the mouth to get all the crumbs. Next, the loud sucking of each individual cheese -and-onion-powdered finger and thumb. The final flourish: wiping the saliva and crisp powder covered fingers on the bus seat.

Surely the only way to make it through a 'training day' is to eat. Biscuits all morning, then crisps all afternoon. With a break for lunch.

Bonus points if you take a bag of nuts with you

I really do have a problem with people who need to eat all the time and don't care where they do it. Yanbu OP.

That's so rude. I'd feel the same as you OP.

Go ahead and have a snack. But why would you go for something so noisy???

People don't need to eat while working or studying in company with others! Very inconsiderate.

Totally with you OP.
I've just completed a part time course over 4 years. Main rule ... no eating !

It's noisy , can be smelly and it's just not the place to be doing this .

You would hate me!
I squashed my crisps up today and scattered them all over my salad .

Yes! This would annoy me! I’m very sensitive to people eating noises. Especially crisps and cereal!! They’re the worst!!!

I get it thought that some people aren’t bothered by eating noises. I think there’s actually a scientific term for people who can’t tolerate eating noises.

It is normal to eat food in public. Some food is crunchy. I get that some people have misophonia, but you can't really expect the whole world to alter their perfectly ordinary earing habits to suit you.

The teacher ? ! It's the smell I hate more than the sound. I am old enough to remember when it was very rare to see someone eating outside my mother said it was common! Also smoking. But really maybe the constant snacking at any time is the reason why so many people not just the UK are heading towards obesity and all the health related problems it brings .

but this isn't just 'in public' its in a training course where people are supposed to be listening and working
eat crisps at lunch is fine, if people don't like the sound of that, tough
but don't eat them in a training course- if I was the trainer I'd ask them to stop
no, I'd tell them

Loop earplugs ftw

There was someone on my bus commute who would regularly eat crisps and drink coffee as their breakfast. Not crisps then coffee but crisps, sip of coffee, more crisps, sip of coffee. What flavour crisps go with coffee???

As though that wasn't bad enough he would take a handful of crisps and then push them as far down his throat as is humanly possible, no just a nibble but like he was putting them right into his stomach.

I had that strange have to look argh don't look thing going on.

He had a moustache too which really didn't help.

I'm doing a course with 11 people and there is one woman who is constantly on her phone. We tend to have some chilled out time after lunch where the rest of us sit and chat before the session begins but this woman is too engrossed in her phone to join in our chat.

AIBU to take her phone and chuck it in the bucket?

Me too. It really ruins the experience for me. I only go if I am bringing dc.

People with misophonia cannot just "get a grip". Don't be so ablist!

It was after lunch

It's not perfectly normal to eat during a training course after lunch.

🤣🤣🤣

I have hyperacusis, and tbf I agree with this.

Nobody likes chewing noises, nobody actively enjoys watching people eat noisily with their mouths open, nobody enjoys the slurpy new Pot Noodle ad, because it's all bloody horrible. It's a perfectly normal human reaction.

I'm a tiny bit irritated that ALL annoying sounds are pathologised now. I've endured hyperacusis for YEARS, it's an unbearable condition but I do try to mitigate it with Loop earplugs etc. I do my best because I don't expect the world to revolve around my hearing issues.

I always say packet of crisps. I wonder if more people call it a bag or a packet 🤔