To get annoyed when people on tv

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Don't wash their hands after going to the toilet

Don't wash their hands after touching raw chicken, especially when they just rub their hands on a towel

When they don't close the door after going in and out the house

And many more

Please tell me I'm not alone!

When someone opens a laptop that is completely closed and whatever the person was last looking at is there on the screen.

@ sourdraws and her piss pot.

Re the changing actors - do you remember when the original Becky came back to Roseanne and they cracked loads of in-jokes about it? Never seenit happen in another show.

I suppose this is areal life one but on programmes like Grand Designs & Property Ladder when they're recounting the final spend and they say "well we went over our original budget by £75k but it was worth it for the better finish" and I just think HOW? How on earth can you just pull an extra £75k out of your back pocket?

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Exactly why I stopped watching grand designs. One evening recently I had it on and it made me feel sick how much money this couple had just lying around. That kind of "oh well what can you do" attitude about 10s of thousands of pounds.

Hairdos.

All females on tv have this amazing ability to do really complicated hairstyles in seconds. Updos, curls- you name it, those women can do it, all by themselves, with no swearing/constant rebrushing etc.

Quite incredible.

I can't remember hearing a please or thank you in Coronation Street. (Don't watch the others).

And when they change an actor nobody ever notices.Eg Nick Tilsley was a lovely young actor with big muscles and hes replaced with a geriatric who looks as old as Gail does.

This made me laugh. He does easily look the same age as Gail.

This thread was in my mind last night while watching Emmerdale. Someone bought a drink in the pub, but no money seemed to change hands.

People often seem to hand over the exact amount when purchasing things in shops or pubs, in soaps (when they do pay).

The door thing drives me mad too-
"Shout the bloody door you're letting all the heat out/in"

Air freshner ads
"Just open those mahoosive picture windows you're standing in front of eejit"

Crime scenes where the SOCO's are carefully gowned & gloved up & the DI in charge of the investigation saunters over & peers at the corpse
"You're contaminating the crime scene dickhead that 'll be used against you in court."

(the exception being Scott & Bailey where all the officers were paper bagged up because a real police person helps write it)

Main character sets toddler up with toys & colouring bits & saunters into next room to have lengthy chat with other character
" FGS check on the baby, she'll be all over the nice cream sofa with those pens!!"

When they use the remote locking on cars, they always bleep. I have never owned, nor heard of anyone else's cars doing this in RL.

When they don't say goodbye on telephone calls. Who does this?

When they know every number they need to dial - they never have to look it up in their address book. I only know four off the top of my head, and two of them are my own!

And they often don't lock cars! Or leave the windows down! So annoying.

Nobody drives round for ages looking for a parking space

when they call people on the phone who pick up immediately

Women waking up with flawless hair and makeup
Women whose job it is to be badass going around running and fighting in high heels
Unemployed people in soaps never claim JSA

When someone calls "Turn on the TV!!", the character turns on the TV and what do you know, the important news is just starting. Not half way through, or coming up after the commercial break - Arrested Development has a great gag about this trope; I tried to find it on Youtube but no joy. It's well worth watching though

People putting their feet up on settees with their shoes on
Ds and I hate that. Also yy to characters falling effortlessly into employment especially on Corrie - I am considering moving there.

This thread has had me in stitches.

I know these have been said, but my annoyances in TV land are:

• Never saying goodbye on the phone
• The never giving anybody chance to answer the door before banging widly
• The never making proper plans. At best its see you at the pub/restaurant for dinner. No actual time
• The kids just not being around and both parents being out
• People working in very close proximity to work
• Having random people's phone numbers in their phone. I dont have everyone from school in my phone, but in TV land they will have someone they barely know as a contact
• random people at weddings/funerals. Who are these people that turn up to strangers weddings/funerals? You never see that character talking to them yet there they are at said character's wedding/funeral.

We recently watched The Haunting at Radcliffe House and we want to know how they managed to get decent internet. It was mentioned how they had no phone line, but a house in the middle of nowhere, on its own so not in a villlage (I believe it was just outside a village) had great internet. I live in a rural village and my internet is OK at best.

Also silly decisions that people make especially in horror films. I know it wouldn't make a good film if a character did the sensible thing that most people would do and it would last about 5 minutes. Im trying to think of an example, but can't. It is something that I have often thought though. Scary Movie (the first one) does parody it.

Makeover shows. Especially those done in an hour or a day or whatever. You cannot tell me they wouldn't hit snags? They must shove it all back without half the appliances working or plumbed in and then they wheel in the happy home owner who is probably thinking "fuck... what the hell have they done and are they going to finish this job properly".

This thread is hilarious. Agree so much on the driving/turning round and chatting for 2 minutes thing.

When buying a drink no one looks at the money. Hand over money, barmaid doesn't look at it, she puts hand in till to get change whilst looking the other way and hands back change, not knowing how many coins she's grabbed. (if indeed anyone gets any change!)

Love this thread!
I gave up watching soaps (well most television) a couple of gears ago, but I have been shaking with laughter at some of these. What annoyed me most is the way everyone has the number for every mobile/home/school/office etc. Not least of all the ones you think... "why on Earth would Darren Miller have Pat Butcher's mobile number?" Let alone know it off the top of his head.
Another thing that annoyed me, was the way someone will shout "taxi" and whizz off while the person who was chasing them (only 3 seconds behind) won't have heard the shout and suddenly decides to stop looking. After a cursory glance both ways

years not gears !

Oh got another one.

I also hate the bag thing, when people have a handbag in one shot, but then they walk off and don't have the bag?

Similarly with luggage etc, there was one episode of Gavin and Stacey where they get back from London and her suitcase macigally disappears, drives me nuts!

Continuity errors really get me!

I have another one,someone earwigging someone elses conversation.Home and Away does this,the phone rings some one answers then another character earwigs and then asks about who was on the phone.They are all so nosy.

They all manage to up and go to Australia or wherever BECAUSE they're broke - how do they get there! Everyone's gone out with everyone else in the community and it's all fine and no one ever gets annoyed abut it. So many irritations.

When people run away, they always run up a staircase. Why would you do that when you know that you are running to a dead end? I always end up shouting "run down the stairs idiot".

Oh God I can't believe I forgot this. I had to stop watching a show 3 episodes from the end of the entire series because one of the main characters suddenly had a fat lip and no one explained why. So I didn't know if it was the actor who had it or the character. I humoured it for about ten minutes, and then couldn't watch it anymore. It was just irritating the shit out of me.

YYY to the side lamps coming on at the flick of a single switch

And to the car parking spaces and double bleep car key fobs. NEVER heard that sound in RL.

But also all the young single waitresses/out of work actors/20 year old 'just arrived in the city's' in US film/drama live in mahoosive airy fucking Manhattan loft apartments that would cost $2million plus. And they are all chocka with £2000 giant fridges, cool neon/retro signs and vintage mismatched china.

Where's your pokey flatshare with a skanky kitchen and flowery toaster?

I want one of those double beep fobs. Mine just goes CLUNK. It's well shit.