Talker or shuusher?

In My Humble Opinion
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This subject really pushes my button.

Normally a pretty laid-back type of chap (see, from the UK - what a giveaway), talkers are THE people who could cause me to go postal (if I understand that correctly).

Is it just me, or do other people sort of ‘lose’ themselves in a movie? Dunno how to describe it, but it’s something which (a) doesn’t always happen, (b) has to happen at a movie theatre (not TV, however big), © can take a few minutes and (d) is instantly destroyed by any outside distraction (and you won’t get it ‘back’ for a few more minutes).

So, if you’re a talker, slurper, rustler, wheezer, or you just plain chew too loud, watch out.

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To go postal: To suffer a bout of insanity and shoot people around you, as happens with alarming frequency with some U.S. Postal Service workers.

Yup, I’d say you used the term correctly.

BTW: Do you know why postage rates keep climbing? It’s the high cost of ammunition.

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Shusher here. Actually, usually a glares, then a shusher, then I pick out either the back of your head or your ear with either of the laser pointers I habitually carry with me. One’s the normal red, and can usually light up a prominent human ear rather nicely. Just glows like nothing.
At this point, the talker’s friends usually get the point and tell their friend that they’re about to be shot. One time, I lit up a large dangly earring and it acted just like a chandelier prism. THAT was cool. Old bat freaked out and left.

The green one, on the other hand, freaks people out, and since it’s a longer wavelength than the red, can actually blind someone. I don’t advocate this in any way, shape, or form, but it DOES freak people out to watch a travelling green dot on the back of their friend’s head.

/slight hijack/
Has anyone else come up against the audio-assist devices they give hard-of-hearing people at the movies? It boosts the sound, but can be as annoying as hell if they get out of sync, as happened during Unbreakable. Now, normally, I wouldn’t have cared, but as anyone has seen this can attest, it’s a very quiet movie so the effect was amplified. Thank my lack of God for Milk Duds. Hard, aerodynamic and dark, so not really noticeable as a projectile. I swear, I’ve bought like ten boxes of Milk Duds over the last year and have yet to eat any of them.

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Shusher. If I’m paying $20 for the movie, $20 at the concession stand (what, $5 for a pop???) and another $20 for a babysitter, rest assured I did not do that so I could listen to a running commentary. I took my kids to see a movie at Christmas time, and it was a $70 afternoon. To the talkers: If I wanted to hear you, I would have phoned you. I don’t want to listen to you during the movie! I can’t hear the tv half the time at home because of the kids running around and playing. If I want to see something in peace and quiet, and with adults, I go out. Some people may have the lifestyle where they go out to the movies three times a week, but I go out maybe twice a year, and I don’t want the movie ruined because I couldn’t hear it.