Don't talk to me when I'm eating.

Maybe this is ilx construction worker lunchtime.

I really hate it when people talk to me when I'm chowin' down

On the other hand, if they pontificate while I'm eating, I can at least get something useful done instead of having to stand there and pretend that I give a shit.

>Apparently in the construction industry it's a big thing and there's total silence during lunch.

Frankly, that sounds like a truly civilised approach. The office here is totally open plan and it recently feels like my sitting down with lunch is a signal to co-workers to immediately ask loads of work related questions. Today I had hot soup and was bearing down for imminent OM NOM NOM when a colleague decided to open a lengthy debate about configuring a particular piece of kit. So hot soup was soon gazpacho. Fuck's sake!!

oh i hate that, that's why i avoid our canteen. FUck off talking about work whilst i'm eating.

and lol @ "OM NOM NOM"

FUck off talking about work whilst i'm eating ever

eating annoys me and i enjoy someone around to distract me.

eating annoys me

Do not understand.

I feel bad about not being the "chew, converse, have some wine, slow down, converse more, take a bite" kind of eater...usu I have my nose in a book and am also v hungry and chowing down. Not very sociable.

err so how do you do when you go to the restaurant with someone ?

I never eat out, actually! Would like to start doing more but so little time...

today at lunch i heard someone eating VERY NOISILY with obvious OPEN MOUTH just like "chonk smack tsk burp" and i was like jesus f on a stick! some people! and i turned around to glare at them and it was this very well put together japanese girl with her hair up in a bun and perfect makeup and pearl earrings, and she looked at me over the rims of her glasses and took another bite like "smack chonk scchlurp" jesus

It's part of an "art de vivre" !
spending hours at a restaurant or at someone's place, with friends/family, just talking, eating, drinking, smoking... this is how we do (french) !

^^^
I think I might fall in love with this girl if I saw her.

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you forgot the arguing part

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Aww Tracer, I like that.

Yeah, Alex, I am probably 95% of the time eating alone.

guys it wasn't cute, easting with your mouth open is only justifiable if you are on active military duty or eating fried chicken around members of the same sex

yeah agreed. i have a weird phobia of chewing noises. it really bothers me!

arguing is of course key (especially on politics) !

lip smacking is near the top of my pet peeves list except its not really a pet peeve cause its actually wrong and indefensible

Well I do agree on the bothering aspect when it's daily lunch with colleagues (which I don't do, by the way. I prefer eating alone except when it's business lunch but I only like this because it's mostly in great restaurants !).
but I make a great difference between things when they're related to work or not (eating, drinking, partying etc).

loud eaters, like Tracer's, make me want to barf.
as for finding it annoying - i just do. i don't find it all that pleasurable and would rather spend my time on something else.

(eating that is)

i feel like a jerk for hating eating noises, it's just one of those things. the horror of watching my parents eat corn on the cob, etc.

dude I've been working with smacks his food like a 7 year old eating fruit loops in front of sat morning cartoons. This guy is Princeton educated, Stanford Law grad from a well-heeled Southern family. I mean how did he get this far with those kinds of manners?

ooh i totally agree! i don't like talking while i eat. just let me eat!

and EATING NOISES are like my biggest pet peeve ever.

Smells offend me more than sounds in regards to others eating.

I doubt either Princeton or Stanford have table manners as part of their admissions standards. Or their curriculums.

i was really rude to a semi-important manager type, who came up to me and tried to make work-related conversation while i was eating my sandwich and reading my book in the lunch room.

i really wanted to react like Bad Santa: "I'm on my fuckin' lunch break, ok?"

yeah i really really hate it.

I will only talk when I'm eating if there are plates of booze being served.

i was really rude to a semi-important manager type, who came up to me and tried to make work-related conversation while i was eating my sandwich and reading my book in the lunch room.

At my last job-job, sales reps would do this and I'd get downright ugly with them. The general manager, I had to pretty much endure it. My immediate supervisor did it once and I asked him if I could clock in before we had the conversation.

Noisy open-mouthed chewers are a horrible blight on humanity. Different food smells are usually pretty interesting.

eating fried chicken around members of the same sex

Perfect.