I skipped a good three pages and I apologize if the subject has changed. I wouldn’t go in the garbage to get a used popcorn bucket but I have no problem using someone else bucket. If you can share with a friend, you can share with a stranger. You don’t know if you friend jacks off or not. I admit I’m not 100% brainwashed, I mean civilized. If you walk in early enough you will have a nice selection of buckets and cups to choose from that hasn’t even been tossed (lazy people) . One time I found 10 dollars, it’s become a habit. Besides that popcorn and soda is going to taste the same as it would in a fresh bucket or cup. I know I got some wolf in me. Yet and still, Nay is my vote… 
Really? She didn’t seem to mind at the time.
Only if it’s right on top and there are no bugs on it. I have my standards.
well, one small bug us not so bad
I wouldn’t do it, but not believing someone on a message board when your only reason to do so is your own prejudice makes you a much shittier person. The only purpose of telling someone you don’t believe them is to hurt them, and at least the OP would not be hurting anyone.
If popcorn is necessary for a movie then rent the movie for a dollar when it’s released to the public and watch it at home with your own popcorn.
Movie theater popcorn is better than any popcorn I can make at home
Oh well, in that case, that’s all the justification you need to steal it. :rolleyes:
Seriously, where did you get the idea that “If I don’t do X, I won’t get what I want” means “I am within my rights to do X”?
If only there was an electronic encyclopedia that updates itself continuously with terabytes of information like the computer on Star Trek.
Then we would be able to search the data using a string of words such as "how to make movie popcorn at home". 
I say nay and ugh, but not in that order.
Then I guess it’s worth more money too?
That won’t work if you’re lazy as well as digustingly cheap.
Oh bullshit. :rolleyes:
The guy started a thread. We’re entitled to comment on what he said. And I think the whole, “well, I don’t REALLY do that!” is backpedaling. And if someone does so, we’re gonna call him on it.
I voted a resounding “no” on this poll. The closest I’ve ever come to this is in college. It was very common for students in my dorm to leave their pizza delivery boxes on top of the enclosed recycling bins, even though they often left much of the pizza in the box. On Sunday mornings, I would sneak the leftover pizza into my dorm room fridge. Yeah, looking back it was really stupid–but that’s what you do when you’re a dead broke college student.
Look, seriously: What is wrong with you?
In the first place, I don’t especially like popcorn. I don’t dislike it, but if Inanna had intended us to eat popcorn while waiting for Megan Fox to do something stupid and suggestive she would not have given us nachos.
In the second place, that’s just gross.
I thought it was rather odd-
But I wasn’t trying to hijack the thread, either, so I didn’t try to reemphasize it…
Management was NOT in on it at the theatre I worked at. I don’t think. I hope.
But it was a mass conspiracy among the employees- I found out about it because someone assumed I already knew about it. I let them know kindly that I would bust the shit out of them if I ever could find any evidence. As an employee, I always brought my own, as they did inventory the cups and bags for cost, but cared not at all for the stuff that went in it, like popcorn or soda.
I’ve almost done this.
Back in high school, when I had no money and fewer principles, I’d pick up popcorn bags that had been left behind by other patrons on my way out of the theater, empty them, and save them for my next trip to the movies. I wouldn’t pick them out of the trash.
I’m not going to defend this practice. I’m not proud of it. But I did do it.
But I don’t think that it’s particularly unsanitary. The bags weren’t in the trash, they were on seats, or in cup holders, or standing up on the theater floor (the same place I would put my own bag of popcorn when not eating it). And, while I may have been sharing germs with strangers, it would only be the germs that stayed in the empty bag for a few days to a week between theater excursions. I bet you get worse in a public pool, or shaking hands with new acquaintances.
FWIW, I was not one of the OP’s supporters in the poll.
Never mind where they’ve been - a grease-infused paper bag provides a lovely substrate for any number of pathogens to properly colonize before you returned to the theatre.
(Glad it worked out for you, though.)
Or people who, say, sneeze into the popcorn they’re done with.
My understanding is that most germs passed by sneezing don’t survive for days outside the human body. Even if they do, this can’t be worse than someone who sneezes into their hand and then touches the door, or sneezes behind you in the theater, or just sneezes, in general, near you. This sort of stuff happens all the time, but there aren’t any three page threads full of astonishment that someone would dare to touch a doorknob without donning gloves.
I’m not saying that eating out of other people’s castoff popcorn bags is as sanitary as eating off of freshly sterilized china. I just think it’s very unlikely to be a significant risk. People are really terrible at estimating the risk of infection, and part of that is that we seem to consider “stranger’s germs” as far far more deadly than those of people we know. A kitchen hand towel probably has more pathogens in it than this bag would, and we regularly use those to dry our hands when they’re “clean”.
I agree that it’s gross to eat off of someone else’s popcorn bag. But that’s a social distinction, not a biological one. I just don’t think it’s particularly less sanitary than sharing a bag of popcorn with someone you know.