Anyone else hate eating at restaurants?

I don't feel comfortable when people serve me at the table, especially silver service.
I always feel obliged to help clean the table too... very odd.

I am also into value for money not experiencing fashionable restaurants so i can name drop and boast.
 
Robboftw said:
Well, kwerk very often makes silly threads, have a look at his 'thread started' history.

This thread makes him look like, yet again, a whining recluse.

You disagree? Fine. What is the problem?

You've made yourself upset over something and you dont even know what it is :p
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If it makes you feel any better I'm not in any way emotional over this, but if that makes a disagreement too hard to understand if one of the participants isn't red in the face then it's fine if you stick to the ironic accusations.

Whether or not kwerk 'often' makes silly threads is irrelevant (regardless, I don't follow him and any of his 'extracurricular activities' quoted in this thread haven't been inflammatory or stupid), people are attacking his original post saying he is stupid (why is it stupid to dislike something and give reasons for doing so?), trolling (as said before, I could understand if this was forums.restaurantowners.co.uk, but it's not, is it?), or a loser (we won't even go into that one). They quote his posts and say these things, and there is a very large gap in between that says a lot about the people saying it and not the original poster.

And if you're not clear on what we're talking about, then maybe I'm not the only one who 'can't read'. All my previous posts are there to be viewed and disagreed with. In fact, you quoted one of them.

And your whole current 'everyone has their opinions' vibe is hilarious given your original interjection stating that people are justified in acting like this given what kwerk has posted and that I didn't 'even read what kwerk has posted' and was clearly foolish for not disliking him personally along with 'most' other posters here for his opinions (and yet even with that, apparantly I'm the one getting wound up and taking it personally here, right?).

And you've ignored my request to post what is offensive in his original post, so I guess it's fair to say you're going to backtrack on this one and return to the easy name-calling on the sidelines?
 
Of all the people on this forum, you'd guess it would be someone like kwerk would come out and make a big deal out of something that the majority of people take great pleasure in.
 
guyfawkes5 said:
If it makes you feel any better I'm not in any way emotional over this, but if that makes a disagreement too hard to understand if one of the participants isn't red in the face then it's fine if you stick to the ironic accusations.

Whether or not kwerk 'often' makes silly threads is irrelevant (regardless, I don't follow him and any of his 'extracurricular activities' quoted in this thread haven't been inflammatory or stupid), people are attacking his original post saying he is stupid (why is it stupid to dislike something and give reasons for doing so?), trolling (as said before, I could understand if this was forums.restaurantowners.co.uk, but it's not, is it?), or a loser (we won't even go into that one). They quote his posts and say these things, and there is a very large gap in between that says a lot about the people saying it and not the original poster.

And if you're not clear on what we're talking about, then maybe I'm not the only one who 'can't read'. All my previous posts are there to be viewed and disagreed with. In fact, you quoted one of them.

And your whole current 'everyone has their opinions' vibe is hilarious given your original interjection stating that people are justified in acting like this given what kwerk has posted and that I didn't 'even read what kwerk has posted' and was clearly foolish for not disliking him personally along with 'most' other posters here for his opinions (and yet even with that, apparantly I'm the one getting wound up and taking it personally here, right?).

And you've ignored my request to post what is offensive in his original post, so I guess it's fair to say you're going to backtrack on this one and return to the easy name-calling on the sidelines?
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Good lord.

Well, it has been pointed out (many times) what is wrong with his original post, and I do think his past posting history is very relevant.

This post sums it up quite well - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=18712162&postcount=110

It is clear to me he's just made this thread to get a reaction out of people in a negative manner. It is obviously not clear to you as you've just written a massive wall of text about it and you seem very emotional which is strange to say the least.

I'm going to assume you are friends with him or something along those lines, otherwise, I'll say again... relax :p

Still, thanks to you he's served his purpose. Gullible.
 
Personally i dont hate eating out, but equally I dont get why some people think its all that.
There are times you feel too close to others in restaurants, I dont mean just the local hoel either I have eaten in some really good ones they also had quite close tables.
Sitting too close to "strangers" whilst eating doesnt make a meal enjoyable for me.

I appreciate quality food and good company, that isnt mutually inclusive with eating out. With some thought and effort you can have as good, or shock horror actually better yourself, and I mean who actually washes up now a days, 5 mins and dishwasher is loaded. I remember 45 min washing up marathons at Xmas as a kid, now its 2 loads of the dishwasher, you hardly even notice.

The thing i mislike most is the silly little roller things they try to use on the tables at times to pick up your crumbs, I wonder if that requires a degree now since labour made 50% of the workforce attempt to get one ;) I'm like "just give it up man you've spent 5 minutes rolling the table and picked up 1 crumb"
 
Robboftw said:
Good lord.

Well, it has been pointed out (many times) what is wrong with his original post, and I do think his past posting history is very relevant.

This post sums it up quite well - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=18712162&postcount=110

It is clear to me he's just made this thread to get a reaction out of people in a negative manner. It is obviously not clear to you as you've just written a massive wall of text about it and you seem very emotional which is strange to say the least.

I'm going to assume you are friends with him or something along those lines, otherwise, I'll say again... relax :p

Still, thanks to you he's served his purpose. Gullible.
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In regards to the quoted post, quite a few people have said they share a few of kwerk's opinions and yet have not been attacked. And in case you needed a clue, 'Yawn...' and the aforementioned 'You don't have to be there' are barely ripostes of a toddler drooling, let alone any sort of adult opinion. This leaves aside that I congratulated people for disagreeing with kwerk reasonably and only had a problem with people insulting him, which your quoted post has nothing to do with. So, err...

And yet again you concern yourself with my emotional wellbeing, which is very touching and all that but I fail to see the relevance to what is being said here or anything at all given that I am not and have told you so, but your omnipotence that extends the need for evidence probably knows me better than I do, right?

But back to basics, it's funny how you skip the, y'know, actual observable evidence of any sort of intended offence and just proceed to your 'observation' that kwerk is 'clearly' trolling. So we have kwerk saying he dislikes going to restaurants and people insulting him for these opinions, which is justified since apparantly they are deliberately meant to cause offence since the notion of not liking dining out is so outrageous... apparantly.

I wouldn't give up the day job yet, Columbo.
 
Ah well, I tried but you've missed my point several times. I'm not spending all evening arguing over something so frankly pathetic.
 
kwerk said:
Does anyone else think eating at restaurants is over-rated? I don't know anyone who doesn't love it. I hate having to pretend I'm enjoying myself when I'm obliged to go out to eat.

  • I don't like strangers watching me eat.
  • I don't like watching strangers eat, especially fat ones.
  • Food is over-rated, I mostly want to fill my belly I don't really care what it tastes like as long as it's healthy. I don't like the idea of eating for entertainment.
  • I don't like spending a lot of money on something that I'm just going to poop out.
  • I don't like having to tip people just for doing their job.
  • They usually give you too much food and it gets wasted.
  • It's usually too loud, too dark, or too crowded.

Oh yeah and here everything is horribly over-seasoned and over salted to appease these diabetic land whale's diminished sense of taste from years of masturbatory gustation.
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OP, I agree with all these points!!!:D
 
Not sure where guyfawkes5 came from, mabye my imagination?

Either way i fully agree.

When you post in a thread with an insult you are trolling, tomorrow i will go through this thread and report everyone who has been trolling and then email the mod's.
 
I agree, by and large it is overrated. I still enjoy it most of the time though, apart from if I'm with my wife and there is poor service as then she gets all shirty with them (she's one of those nosy types always looking around the restaurant, if service is slow and people who ordered after us get served before it usually tips her over the edge...)
 
kwerk said:
Food is over-rated. I'd rather have a banana and spinach smoothie or grill a plain steak on my back deck than spend $50 on some over seasoned twoddle so I can pretend to be sophisticated. It's nutrition not entertainment.
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It's over rated or over priced? Two different things.
If you mean over rated, you've just said you think it is so, then went on to say what foods you prefer.

That's err.. wrong.


Otherwise, yes some restaurants have over priced food simply because of some social status the chef/establishment has. I hate that.
 
OP clearly has social issues. The 'eating in front of other people' problem means he has some kind of disorder or other. The only people I've known who've had that issue have had social anxiety/panic attacks/ana/some other thing. The large, large majority of people have no problem eating in front of others.
 
kwerk said:
[*]I don't like watching strangers eat, especially fat ones.
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I do agree with this point, though.

Seriously hate walking into a restaurant and being seated next to fat people. I'm not just talking grossly obese, but even just "fat".

I have NEVER sat near fat people and not felt like it's feeding time at the zoo as they shovel grub into themselves like someone's going to take it away any moment. Breathing hard, grunting, wiping their wobbling faces to remove the cheese and sour cream deposited by the sharing portion of nachos they are, of course, eating by themselves.

Disgusting. Fat people and children. Both should never be allowed in a proper eating establishment.
 
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