Why do people insist on chewing with their mouths open and/or smacking their lips when they eat?

Do "they" not know that they are doing it? So annoying.

2010-04-23T05:36:39Z

Going to the movies is the worst! You have to sit there and listen to people smacking their lips and chomping on popcorn while you try to enjoy your movie. Thank God for DVDs and BluRays,

2010-04-23T05:56:48Z

Oh yeah. Forgot about gum... that is horrible. Sit there listening to a "cow through mud".

Time and Chance Eccl 9: 112010-04-23T05:25:59Z

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It used to be frowned upon as a "lack of breeding" but essentially what it means is a lack of basic training form childhood. If you visited their homes you'd find their parents exhibit exactly the same disgusting behaviour. Monkey see, monkey do. Simple. The saddest part of course is that they don't know they're doing it & so it falls to someone else brave enough to tell them, otherwise they will pass it on to their children and so it goes ad infinitum (forever)

?2010-04-23T05:48:16Z

One of the reasons why i hate going to the movies, all that chomping is horrible.

Desirayy(:2010-04-23T05:52:45Z

Ugh i hate that. and when people smack their gum and take it out and play with it !

Anonymous2010-04-23T05:28:10Z

ugh, that's disgusting, it's a habit I guess, I remind them everytime, I don't wanna see what's going on in their mouth

Charmed2010-04-23T05:32:36Z

Bad manners, I guess. Its disgusting, and it really bothers me when adults who should know better do it.

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