# Please stop smacking your lips.... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 19, 2002, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-smacking-your-lips/143832 "2002-12-19T17:24:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Siemsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Siemsi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siemsi)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-smacking-your-lips/143832/1 "2002-12-19T17:24:12Z")
…and licking your fingers. WTF??? Why oh why do I have to be in the presence of people with bad table manners? Why? I eat at my cube quietly…CLOSING my mouth while chewing…I also refrain from licking my fingers. Okay…licking fingers AT HOME while eating cheese popcorn, by YOURSELF is okay… Why must I succumb to these disgusting sounds right next to me…not to mention the fucking farts that mysteriously come from your direction. Please stop smacking your fucking lips while eating. I know food is good…but gezzzzz. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-smacking-your-lips/143832/2 "2002-12-19T17:56:08Z")
Mysteriously? I think they’re from his anus. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-smacking-your-lips/143832/3 "2002-12-19T18:09:54Z")
> [@](#): > > Why oh why do I have to be in the presence of people with bad table manners? You’re not. > [@](#): > > I eat at my cube quietly. Unless they’re in your cubicle with you. He is in his cubicle. You are in yours. He can lick his fingers and smack his lips in the privacy of his own cubicle. So can you. Although you’re right, he should at least learn how to fart silently. Print [this](http://www.uhaul.com/storage/policy_images/gascan.gif) and [this](http://www.togel.com/html/news/picts_cs20/12/ny002.jpg) out and stick 'em on his door. ---
**Author:** ![Siemsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Siemsi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siemsi)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-smacking-your-lips/143832/4 "2002-12-19T18:11:56Z")
Duck Duck Goose, BTW…our cubicle are is open…four cubicles in one area…so I guess it’s not really a private cubicle. Give me a break…smaking lips while eating anywhere is a no no. ---
**Author:** ![Siemsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Siemsi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siemsi)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-smacking-your-lips/143832/5 "2002-12-19T18:13:08Z")
Duck, BTW…loved those signs…I just may have to leave them on his chair.😃 ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-smacking-your-lips/143832/6 "2002-12-19T18:27:48Z")
People slurping soup or otherwise making noise while they eat drive me crazy. I can’t stand it. ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-smacking-your-lips/143832/7 "2002-12-19T18:32:03Z")
Try having someone sucking and biting on a lollipop or other hard candy in a cubicle behind you. This is, of course, after a lunch replete with smacking and open-mouth chewing noises. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-smacking-your-lips/143832/8 "2002-12-19T18:39:12Z")
Can you imagine what the medieval banquets must have sounded like? ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-smacking-your-lips/143832/9 "2002-12-19T18:50:52Z")
My wife does the lollipop-crunching thing. Drives me batty. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-smacking-your-lips/143832/10 "2002-12-19T20:04:16Z")
> [@](#): > > Mysteriously? > > I think they’re from his anus. Oh, my fucking SIDES! I love you, lieu. I am staying temporarily with some friends until the first of the year, and he has atrocious table manners. I’ve lost my appetite several times trying to eat at the same table, it’s so nasty. Smacking, mouth open chewing, talking while chewing. Then after, as if that we’re enough, this weird toothpick chewing/sucking in/smacking sound. Holy Christ, get me out of here. ---
**Author:** ![Siemsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Siemsi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siemsi)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-smacking-your-lips/143832/11 "2002-12-19T20:14:10Z")
Zette, I’m the same way…a perfectly good company paid for lunch and I threw most of it away. Disgusting. Sorry, but come on now, people! I should tape him and play it sometime. ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-smacking-your-lips/143832/12 "2002-12-19T23:58:40Z")
My dad grunts and snorts and sucks down food with sounds resmbling a full grown hog. I consider it a diet plan for me, because I cannot eat when he’s in the same room. The noises are far too nauseating. He can’t even take a breath without grunting, and this is entirely due to the fact that he has a very sedentary lifestyle and does NOTHING BUT EAT. Yes, I’ve advised him to see a doctor. The doctor has told him if he continues these habits, he will be dead very soon. He refuses to change his life, so he will probably lose it. Horrible. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-smacking-your-lips/143832/13 "2002-12-20T15:45:12Z")
An old cow-orker used to smack his food when he ate which, of course, made me want to smack him upside the head. It was like he was trying to suck every last bit of taste out of each morsel and it sounded like you were trying to eat next to a vacuum pump. I soon found ways to avoid ever eating with him again. ---
**Author:** ![Tehanu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ee7513/32.png) [@Tehanu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tehanu)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-smacking-your-lips/143832/14 "2002-12-21T01:29:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sailor \* > \*\*People slurping soup or otherwise making noise while they eat drive me crazy. I can’t stand it. \*\* Amen! I cannot be in the same room with someone making loud noises while eating. One thing that **horrifies** me is when I see someone hold a plate up to their face and lick it off… Did your parents not teach you _manners_??? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-smacking-your-lips/143832/15 "2002-12-21T16:26:59Z")
Soup slurping is my number one pet peeve. I swear I have to leave the room and take a valium.