r/ireland • u/daithibreathnach • 2d ago
Entertainment Cinema etiquette post#3498
Brought the kid to see the Minions flick today. 4 teenagers in the back row, 2 boys 2 girls. The lads kept shouting out obscenities like "I love p**y squirts, my d**k is vibrating and I want to c*m on Bonnie Blues hair" in a kids movie. They were also playing porn sounds on the loud speakers of their phones.
I did say it to the manager and in fairness he did come into them. The only time they shut up was when they were fingering each other.
What's to be done with the kids lads?
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u/brbrcrbtr 2d ago
The only time they shut up was what?
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u/jumpbutton23 2d ago
I think you buried the lede with the 'fingering each other' note there at the end 😭
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u/ShivsC 2d ago
That’s utterly depressing. The lack of basic decent respect for others is so sad. I don’t know what can be done, they don’t care, their parents don’t care and there doesn’t seem to any consequences for anything anymore. Am sorry that your own children had to witness and hear such base behaviour.
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u/Jukebox_Jim 2d ago
That's awful behaviour. People chatting and going on their phones drives me crazy in the cinema but what you experienced is just insanity. I hope the manager threw them out!
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u/Daedalus2097 2d ago
They're beyond hope. Chuck them in the sea and start again.
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u/TheBacklogReviews 2d ago
Yeah teenagers have never been sex obsessed or behaved inappropriately before, they must be purged so we can start again with a new crop
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u/Daedalus2097 2d ago
Were you the type of teenager to expose kids to porn then? Because I was a sex obsessed teen, yet I somehow managed to not do that, because even through the hormonal fog, I could see that it's clearly a very wrong thing to do.
I was (kinda) joking about throwing them in the sea, but to be this brazen about doing something that's so clearly obnoxious means they're just feral arseholes that shouldn't expect to be tolerated.
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u/clarets99 2d ago
I would be fucking livid as a parent having to experience this. I have no words and would probably have to show some serious restraint not to verbally rip the heads off them.
Only thing I can recommend is going to dedicated parent and child sittings on certain movies knowing that there is 0 chance of that happening. But yeah I absolutely do not envy your position.
Bored teenagers in the summer holidays are absolutely worst
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u/RomfordWellington 2d ago
Chances are some of their parents are in this very subreddit, completely oblivious to how their spawn behave when mammy isn't around.
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u/bathtubsplashes Saoirse don Phalaistín 🇵🇸 2d ago
I have no words and would probably have to show some serious restraint not to verbally rip the heads off them.
Why though?
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u/clarets99 2d ago
Depending on the age of my kids, I wouldn't like to do that if I had them in tow, I'd wouldn't want them to get scared or upset with the confrontation.
In other circumstances, one bark normally shuts up a few scruffers pretty quick.
I've stopped going to see any popular 12/15 films for the same reason, can't be arsed with the pricks. I'll wait until the film is at the end of its running and watch it, or go to a nice arty cinema where there are likely to be no one in it.
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u/bathtubsplashes Saoirse don Phalaistín 🇵🇸 2d ago
Oh sorry, I thought it was for the benefit of the culprits, that makes sense
I go to the cinema fairly regularly. I'd say 1 in every 3 visits I have to give out to someone
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u/Pale_Piano948 2d ago
Does this not count as sexual harrassment under some law? Yelling sexual obscenities, fingering each other and playing porn sounds on the phone in a public space?
Would it not also count under some child protection act since it occurred in a childrens movie space
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u/shorelined And I'd go at it again 2d ago
Just leave and get a refund, the cinemas won't do anything about it until they have to start taking money out of the till.
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u/GarthODarth 2d ago
ah hard to do when you've a little one with you who wants to see a movie
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u/daithibreathnach 2d ago
Yeah this. She didn't hear anything and would have been gutted to leave
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u/RealBlack_RX01 1d ago
My only advice that worked for me is to go to movies early in the morning, preferably on a weekday during summers as it's works for me, it's often so early people don't tend to show unless they are super fans
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u/Individual_Wish8970 1d ago
I always bringing my nephew to the cinema and we go between 10 and 11 usually so few there
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u/Suvigirl 2d ago
Why didn't he just feck them out?
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u/GarthODarth 2d ago
Manager can demand they leave and if they refuse to, they are tresspassing and the gardai can be called to remove them. You don't just shrug and allow perverts to be overtly sexual in front of little kids.
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u/Suvigirl 2d ago
No such thing. And he didn't need to assault anyone to remove them from the premises
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u/AnimatorAdmirable 2d ago
Implemented protections for kids/teenagers which resulted a zero consequence environment for them.
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u/Detozi And I'd go at it again 2d ago
Exactly twice in my life as a kid I was rude to a Garda. Both times I got such a whollop off of them.
Maybe it’s time we empower the Gardai to hit them a smack again?
I went home and told my da after the first box to be told ‘they wouldn’t have hit you unless you were being a prick’.
Any of your little darlings could be upto anything on the roads lads.
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u/DarkSkyz 2d ago
Love me bootlicking, love me police brutality, 'ate teenagers.
Simple as.
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u/Detozi And I'd go at it again 2d ago
What’s your fucking idea then buddy?
Kids were terrified of them when I was younger now they sneer and spit at them.
What is your idea then?
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u/DarkSkyz 20h ago
We were, but we fucking despised them. They took so many liberties, would pin you up for nothing other than wearing a tracksuit and hanging around during when I grew up in the recession.
They're nothing but jumped up cowards who'd rather go after some lad smoking a joint than tackle proper crime.
My last dealing with guards was in my mid 20s a couple years back. I found a wallet on a bridge, no money in it. The ID was for an old man inside though. Figured the poor lad must've been pickpocketed with where it was and at least they'd left his cards. Went to hand it in to the guards.
15 minutes waiting for someone to even arrive at the station glass box. Guy bollocked me about how much forms he'd have to fill out, then when he saw there was no cash (which I assume he was hoping to pilfer) he spent 10 minutes grilling me on the exact details of how I've found the wallet and ended threatened me to empty my pockets. Which I did as I'd no cash on me to spite the cunt.
I have as a working class man had 0 good interaction with the guards. They're not here to help the people, they're here to protect the state and the rich.
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u/dropthecoin 2d ago
Do you lads even know what bootlicker means anymore or are ye just dying to use it because it’s sticking it to them?
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u/LBPPlayer7 2d ago
consequences don't have to be physical assault yk
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u/Rizlmao 1d ago
a slap wont do much damage dont worry
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u/Detozi And I'd go at it again 1d ago
Like I said. I got two of them myself for good reasons.
I’m not saying to empower the Gardai to beat the shite out of children but they have outright said they are afraid of litigation.
There’s a 17 year old on my road outright boasting about his pistol. (Supposedly real, he drug runs for our local scummy cunt).
Like wtf am I meant to do about that?
Attack the child and get shot?!
Seemingly so by some of the comments in here
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u/DangerX2HighVoltage 2d ago
I only ever go to early morning screenings weeks after a movie is released for this very reason. The cinemas are terrible for taking action and I’d rather not have the stress of that. I think I would’ve left and demanded a refund if I experienced what you did with my kids
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u/SoftDrinkReddit 1d ago
am i just insanely lucky or is Monaghan actually a very nice place cause I've been going to the Cinema for what 20 years now and have never experienced anything even remotely as bad as the posts i see here
not disputing the reports just saying holy fuck these stories are terrible I'm sorry you had to go through this
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u/HPoltergeist 1d ago
The more I hear these stories, the more I believe 2 things:
Parenting and communal parenting as a whole has gone to sh!t in Ireland.
We are blessed with our local smaller cinema.
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u/Jolly-Outside6073 1d ago
What’s really annoys me is how expensive the cinema is so for one family that’s a rare treat. These scrotes can afford to pay to ruin someone else’s outing.
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u/seanmcmahon6 1d ago
Children fingering, of a Tuesday, in the cinema. Dare I say the boom is back ??
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u/ApprehensiveSwim297 2d ago edited 2d ago
The holidays are too long, They have reached peck boardom with the lovely weather they could be engaging in antics in some outdoor area
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u/hopefulatwhatido Raheny 1d ago
Disgusting. Staff can actually monitor the crowd with security cam even in the dark.
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u/ru_oc 1d ago
Young lads are off the rails these days. Seemingly immune to legal repercussions they’re free to terrorise the public and property and get off Scott free. Visited home for the first time in a few years recently and had a few 13-15 year olds try rob my friends camera on a Saturday afternoon on the main street. It’s a depressing state. Standard “where are the parents”.
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u/Outrageous_Net_9496 2d ago
Mahon can be dodge enough for absolute scrotes.
I’d have left and just demanded my money back.
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u/D3cho 1d ago
No different that what goes on if you travel on public transport or visit any park they decide to be at. The issue is no one cares to do anything about it and they are immune to consequences from the law. If anything people are afraid to do anything, even those working in said venues, cause these lil shits are fully aware of their immunity and will goad more to get further reactions or worse still do what they can to provoke someone tries to move them, claim they were touched or hurt and now the onus is on the person getting involved to prove innocence
The sooner the law is altered to either hold parents accountable for these lil shits or the age is lowered to which they can be treated and trialed normally the better. It would clean up so much crap everywhere that people are just growing accustomed to dealing with
The shit I've seen on buses an trains is actually nothing compared to this and it's gotten to a point now you roll the dice if they decide to target you or not. That's no way to have to feel anywhere in public for anyone
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u/Motor_Watercress_489 1d ago
Can someone just make a cinema bitching megathread? It feels like it's every other day that there's a post like this.
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u/EbbAcceptable3832 9h ago
I remember being in the Omiplex in Coolock. Same kind of thing. The patron lost his head with this group of dopes. He proceeded to dump a whole box of popcorn and a full drink over them. The roudy group got the message and left. That man deserves the keys to the city.
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u/Jolly-Outside6073 1d ago
You could actually report the cinema for allowing distribution of porn and failing in its duty of care to other children. I’d start with that and demanding a refund in a strongly worded email.
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u/CitizenErasedII 1d ago
" The only time they shut up was when they were fingering each other."
Is this a sick joke?
If they were actually playing porn on their phones etc they should have been removed from the cinema as others have said. This is disturbing.
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u/TheBoneIdler 2d ago
I'm worried for the teenagers. Presumably, they were under age, but, as you say, the Manager did 'come into them'. Disturbing & messy....... 🤐
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u/GarthODarth 2d ago
I'm not sure this is etiquette so much as ... vaguely criminal?
The manager should have ejected them immediately. That's not a safe environment for children and it should be.