Was on Saturday to a kids play with my partner and her 10yo niece, at the Olympia Theatre. The place was packed with parents and children;everyone enjoyed, it was really fun however, once the play ended I was truly shocked by the litter left on the ground & seats. Pop-corn thrown everywhere, juice bottles, crisps bags, wraps etc.

How on earth are these parents growing their children? Why is so hard to pick-up your trash and bring it to the bin?

This is the kind of education children get from their parents?? These kids will be future grown-ups; why teach them this behaviour is normal ?! How can you as a parent be so f ignorant ???

Sample photo: https://imgur.com/a/AycfKoi

Edit: Perhaps some cannot see the bigger picture. A behaviour like this will apply in any aspect of the kid’s life ( i.e: it is normal to litter on the street, why shouldn’t be if the kid did it in the presence of own parent ?! Or even disesteem towards a person whose job is to clean the premises etc )

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  2. this is what incites you to post your rage on the internet? I mean it is sort of a refreshing change from housing, travellers, scrotes, and climate change.

    Edit: downvotes? I guess excuse me for interrupting your neckbeard circlejerk.

  3. Yeah completely selfish and rude. I understand not picking up individual bits of popcorn and crisps that fall, but at least put your wrappers and drinks in the bin.

  6. Worked in a cinema, this is by no means the worst of it, and tbh I’ve seen worse left behind by people you’d think would be of a sensible age. Grown men and women throwing their overpriced stale cardboard around as if it were free.

    Kids are often bored of the movie selection, or have never been in a cinema before and don’t know how to act in there. It’s Mary who’s using her oap ticket and after painting the floor in salted popcorn I’m annoyed at

  7. Did this leave your trash mentality exist in the culture before Mc Donalds introduced it. Im old enough (50) to remember when there was just one McDonalds in Ireland (Grafton St). And I remember that aspect being such a novelty, that you would leave your rubbish on the table for someone else to clean up. Any old timers remember it different?

  8. Like parents like children. I love the Irish but as a foreigner who started living in Ireland 3 years ago, i cant believe how much Irish people litter all around the town.

  9. I remember going to Blade Runner 2049 and there were a bunch of cunts who came in late, started throwing stuff and shouting and roaring. Ended up getting thrown out. Was really annoying

  10. Only yesterday I saw a bunch of people doing a gender reveal in a nice beauty spot. We passed them and they had balloons and a few mins after passing them we heard the pop and a big cheer…. On the way back confetti literally everywhere. They all fucked off but left all their confetti all over the place. Infuriating, since they ironically went to a beauty spot for lovely insta worthy pics and all that faux shite but left the place in bits.

    Way to ruin it for the wildlife inhabiting the area too…. Bunch of muppets

  11. It is 100% socially expected that you will leave your 10€ popcorn packet on the floor of the cinema – they don’t have bins with capacity for everyone’s litter in most cinemas

    Think OP needs to chill, I don’t think spillages in the dark room that is a cinema screen are reflective of most peoples thoughts on littering

  12. I live near a river and a meadow and the kids come from all round to leave their fucking shit everytime the weather goes past 20. There is bins and they’re fucking empty everytime. Just rubbish everywhere flying into the river. Little fucking cunts.

  13. Individualistic society plus late stage capitalism means that people have become overwhelmingly selfish. That’s why our environment is fucked.

  15. Tbh if i accidentally drop a few popcorn on the floor or somethin else, i wont bother picking it up. But i will throw the leftovers, with the packaging, to the bin before I leave.

    However, many people eat their popcorn and let’s say they were half way through with them when they decided they were done , or the movie finished… they just throw the whole thing then on the floora! Like thry dont put it down gently, no it’s like throwing a football to them.

    And tbh i didn’t just see it here, all over the continent too. Not just kids and teenagers, people of all age did it

  16. I’ve travelled the world, live in Melbourne and as I type this I’m in Singapore about to fly Dubai > Dublin in a few short hours.

    It is my observation Irish children are not taught with enough emphasis to clean up after themselves. This needs a constant reinforcement in the education system to spur a cultural change. Coupled with very heavy fines.

  17. I was at a gig there on Monday and there was no mess that I could see granted I was seated so a lot of people would’ve been adults and there was no alcohol allowed outside of the bar so that might have cut down on it too

  18. Worked in a cinema and adults can be as bad but the weekend kids shows were always the absolute worst.

    Dirty nappies were also not uncommon

  20. Slightly, off topic, but if you’re partner is on here, and is the one that told me about Gansta Granney, tell her her I said thanks, my daughter loved it.

    (Im pretty sure the person that told me about it said they were bringing their niece)

  22. Was at this show with the young lad, every row was full of litter, parents did not give a crap. Saw a parent walking with some boxes then give up and leave them on the chairs.

  23. Fair play for giving a shit. If it’s any help, there are some others like you. Keep on giving a shit. We need more people who give a shit.

  24. Not long back from Porto in Portugal. The streets there are spotless, as is the airport and everywhere else I went. Dublin is filthy by comparison, it’s a depressing kip.

  27. It’s the same in the cinema. I think it’s related to the extortionate prices paid for snacks there, that people expect clean-up is part of the price gouging

  28. Wonder how many were giving off on Travelers while doing this. The hypocrisy of some is astounding

  29. I used to work in the Bord gais and family shows were always the worst to work at (especially matinees) because what was normally a 10 minute job turned in to 20 minutes as we had to go through each aisle, picking up rubbish. The popcorn boxes and drinks bottles from our kiosks was bad enough, but the families who brought a full picnic in and then left it all behind so you’d be having to pick up banana skins, frube wrappers, orange peels etc were always awful. And we didn’t even have to hoover, the cleaners did that and god bless them they always flew through it. But it was always shocking to me how many parents couldn’t seem to figure out that they were teaching their kids it’s ok to leave a mess behind because someone else will pick it up

  30. I worked in a cinema for 2 years. This was our job to clean this up. It was fine. We got money for it. I literally had a brush in my hand anyway and a scooper. It takes less than 5 minutes to clean a screen. I sometimes found cash notes and it was the most fun job that I ever had. Don’t worry guys. Outrage over.

  31. i work in my local cinema and it’s always just as bad as that. Even yesterday during a Jurassic world screening a lad came out to give out and demand a refund because HE dropped his nachos and nobody was there to clean them up….
    40 minutes into the movie!

  32. What is so hard to understand this is an issue in principle ? It is morally wrong to act like that.

    In some Redditor’s opinion, just because “cleaners are paid to clean / it gives them jobs, etc” you are entitled to leave a mess behind. Your logic is “if we have the resources to repair something why not cause damage to it just because we can ?” Or, why not breaking and stealing from this jewellery shop so we can keep police jobs in place ? – Do you even realise how dumb this sounds ?

    Why do you think the Nordic countries are so clean?! Do you believe their system evolved from littering rubbish everywhere ?

  33. Tbf it’s dropped boxes of popcorn, from most likely a very young child. Naturally clean up after yourself where ya can, but it’s literally just a quick sweep from staff and clear

  34. We brought our kids on Friday night to what I presume was the same show. Kids got the goodie box, popcorn, drink etc… Put all the rubbish in the bin in the bar after but noticed that I was pretty much the only one doing that. I also spend half of the show terrified I was sitting in piss coz the smell around us was atrocious

  38. When that comedian Des did a minimum wage job in abrakebabra he brought up how Irish people don’t tend to clean up after themselves. It has always be shockingly bad. 🙁

  39. I saw much worse in December 2019 during a screening of the Room. It’s not the kids, it’s the whole ass adults.

    What got me was the unholy amount of popcorn crushed into the carpet and left there. Do these people know you’re meant to eat them?

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