{"id":4028,"date":"2025-07-04T21:41:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T20:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=4028"},"modified":"2025-07-04T21:47:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T20:47:37","slug":"meerkat-prompts-cinema-etiquette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=4028","title":{"rendered":"Meerkat Prompts: Cinema Etiquette"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but when I go to the cinema, I tend to sit down, open any snacks I have, and quietly watch the film. I don&#8217;t sit and fiddle with my phone, I try not to rustle packets, and I certainly don&#8217;t talk for the entire movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, my wife, daughter and I saw the new Jurassic World movie. The film itself was quite good, but the occasions was spoiled by two lads sitting behind us, who were chatting for the <strong>entire<\/strong> movie. What is the point of going to see a movie if you&#8217;re gonna talk the entire time? A cinema is not your living room, there are other people to consider, yet these guys seemed oblivious to how annoying and inconsiderate their behaviour was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another group kept playing with their phones. Bright screens and flickering lights are completely rude in a cinema, and this should hardly be an unknown quantity, yet somehow it remains something some people are incapable of managing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I should have done was said something, but I held to that British notion of maintaining a stiff upper lip in the face of annoyance. More fool me really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?page_id=122\">Back to Meerkat Prompts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but when I go to the cinema, I tend to sit down, open any snacks I have, and quietly watch the film. I don&#8217;t sit and fiddle with my&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,12],"tags":[160,15],"class_list":["post-4028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-tv","category-random-prompts","tag-movies","tag-random-prompts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MeerkatStressed.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4028"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4032,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4028\/revisions\/4032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}