To get twitchily annoyed when someone playing a piano in a movie...

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... isn't actually playing it? Not so bad if the camera angle doesn't show their hands but, if hands are on display, it is NOT OK to just flap them vaguely about over the keys and think no-one notices.

AIBU or was it a mistake to open the Baileys early..?

Medical stuff drives me nuts.

Anyone in a coma just wakes up. There's never any rehab involved, they just snap out of it and are perfectly able to chat and drink a cup of tea. Occasionally they'll have a small head bandage with a wound that conveniently disappears the next day.

Labour always starts with waters breaking and contractions within minutes. Baby is born in five minutes.

Shocking asystole.

Anaesthetising through an oxygen mask

Everyone is always nursed in a side room off a corridor, even when you're ventilated (badly). And there's never a nurse in the room.

and what's with just having had sex but she is still wearing a bra.
That's the one my DH complains about!

Oh yes, the Prince of Thieves geography - I've met Americans who know it's bonkers which shows how bad it is.

I'm fairly sure Bill Bailey proper played the piano in the piano episode of Black Books. Well except for the bit with the spoons. I mean he's stupidly talented, but not that good!

Why do people never ever shut doors on screen? No wonder they stay dressed during sex. Anyone could wander in!

I think string playing is worse than piano playing - particularly violin / violas as its such an unnatural position to get into - and it is actually really difficult to get your bow going straight - again, because it is an unnatural movement. Piano it annoys me when they're moving not even in time with the music - or at totally the wrong end of the keyboard.

As an HCP I can't watch medical dramas and have to bite my tongue watching medically bits in films.

I used to work in A&E so can't bear progs like Casualty where they sort their personal lives out whilst they're in there. It just isn't like that! You don't have time - get them in, patch them up and send them on their way.

Or cardiac monitors showing a cardiac arrest with a complete flatline. That's more likely when the leads have come off...

Cannulas in arms that have no needle. Oxygen masks with tubing not connected to anything. People that have been in major accidents with no bruising or swelling, just a few artfully arranged scratches and dried blood.

Pobble (love the name btw ) one of the midwives at DD2's birth reckoned I could have been a 'movie birth' had I not happened to come in coincidentally for a check up (6cm without contractions, 8cm with maybe 2 contractions I felt, they had to break my waters & DD2 arrived 40 minutes later - she reckoned had they not broken my waters I could have got to 9 or 10 without feeling much & then it would have been very very fast)

DH's particular bone of contention is the ANZACs in WW1 - or rather when they only show the Australians, in a location the Kiwis were. He goes on more general WW1 rants too.

Mine is Irish accents, or the inability of 90% of films to get them even close to right.

I pause tv and films to look at knitting patterns, DH to look at military uniforms. We're a good match

YANBU - also drives me up the wall. My other big one is giving birth (I'm turning into my mother) and KNITTING: don't just waggle your needles and occasionally fiddle with the yarn!

Horses in films wearing tack that is totally modern always cracks me up. That and famous actors hanging on for dear life.

Period films where the ladies have their capes draped prettily over their horses' bums. Surely people didn't do this.

I'm watching this compellingly awful Spanish series called Isabel on Sky Arts set in the late 15th century.

The heroine, who is the most joyless God-bothering prig going, has the whole thing: long flowing cape and reins with bunting on them, even when she's travelling incognito to escape the clutches of her evil half-brother.

swimming under water - I know it's possible, but I can't do it, so I just makes me cringe.

and if it's a search type thing, or trying to get out of the car I always think "yes, but what river or lake is ever that clean?"
I don't think you could see further than your arm...

YY Sidge. And people who've had a sustained kicking that would probably leave you with a head like a purple beach ball but just have a graze on their cheekbone which is strangely attractive.

Don't know about the medical terminology on ER but what always irritated me was they would rush the seriously injured from the ambulance bay through the waiting room filled with the mildly ill. Surely they'd have a separate entrance/waiting area?

I loved The Pianist. So he learned the fingerwork too? Brilliant.

Surely they'd have a separate entrance/waiting area?
yeah, our A&E does.

And what about all those bare-fisted punch-ups in which they don't seem to hurt their hands very much (except in comedies)

Howard in Big Bang Theory is genuinely playing AND SINGING when he does that 1st date anniversary song for Bernadette when she's in the isolation ward - very impressive!

I just watched that - he is, isn't he.

I agree OP, it's infuriating!

Wilson I went to see Sunshine on Leigh with my aunt and cousin, I lived in Edinburgh for eight years and my cousin has lived there for two. My aunt has visited half a dozen times. All three of us did a head tilt and asked why she was going that way. If she'd just walked straight there he would never have caught her!

The bra thing is because otherwise the actresses would be showing their breasts, and some don't want to. Hence Sarah Jessica Parker's weird vintage cone bosoms in SATC.

Not quite the same as "getting it wrong" but I hate it when the actors go to a restaurant, order some food, then sit there jawing and never bloody eat it

Or the action films where someone is on the run and doesn't sleep, pee, eat or even have a drink of water for about 4 days solid!

Well yes obviously that's why the bra thing - but AFAIK the only real women who wear bras in bed are nursing mothers to keep the pads in place .

Totally Toria, if she'd only gone the right way she would have been at Dunbar by the time he got there

Bill Bailey doing it

Although I suspect that even Bill faked it with the