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!

Families and friends sitting bunched up together around 3 sides of a table - especially in "reality" shows. It just looks strange

people can have a conversation in the SAME room as someone else but if they are stood at the back they cant hear them?? The room is not that big and they are not whispering. Drives me mad!

oh and babies who constantly have hats on indoors and appear to be about 6mths old a week after being born

In soaps when a character is holding 'their' small child, and small child starts babbling to someone off camera

"Yes that's right, I'm your mummy yes" they ad lib

If you want to hack into someone's PC, you can always guess their password if you know a little bit about what their into because everyone's password is that easily guessable.

'Can I make you some eggs?' What kind of bloody eggs - fried, boiled scrambled, coddled? They never say and they make it sound as if they are doing something very special.

In American films/tv shows

"Paper, or plastic?"

"What? I've bought a bunch of flowers, a massive carton of milk, a kilo of the worlds rolliest apples and a french stick. PAPER OF COURSE! Why would I want plastic??"

Because the plastic ones make great picking-up-the poop bags for dog walking.

Walford really should have been gentrified by now. The Queen Vic should either be a gastro pub selling dry pulled pork sandwiches for £12.99 or a Wetherspoons. The cafe should have been turned into a terrible hipster joint serving cold brew coffee and gluten free scones that make you gag. The beautiful terraced houses could easily be turned into a dozen hellish studio flats each for city workers.

Another tv thing I hate: relatives not coming back for funerals. I know it's a contract thing with the actors but it's so jarring. Back when I watched Hollyoaks they killed off some twins and their mum was 'too upset' to go to the funeral.

Precisely, but no, they just juggle the whole lot in the paper bag

I had to google "french stick." I was a bit concerned that it might take me to the dark side of the internet, but turns out it's just a large baguette.

French stick is very retro now probably, like 'plain' chocolate

Oh I thought paper or plastic was a reference to payment type

As with ubiquitously multi-talented doctors, so too with scientists ...

Blimey I'm not that old and I am totally familiar with french stick and plain chocolate!

I do a lot of screaming at the telly...

Women always give birth in bed on their back! Can't think of anything worse

Babies stay in car seats and don't make a sound, until their needed to in order to underline a dramatic moment. They never need feeding, changing or any kind of routine, parents don't have any kind of change in their social life!

Now for the hospital scenes/medical dramas... No one ever gets chest compressions right. Never seen one bedpan. All nurses ever do us carry a clipboard, or adjust a drip if they are really in the thick of things. And the screaming intubated person nearly made me abandon Supernatural. ( as if I could...)

Er about the nipples/boobs thing on American TV...I've read a book on the production of Sex And The City (really interesting actually, on sourcing locations, casting etc) and it definitely said it was up to the individual actresses regarding nudity. Sarah Jessica Parker was not comfortable so always wears a bra in bed scenes. The other actresses were usually fine with it hence I've seen more of Cynthia Nixon and Kim Cattrell's nipples than I have my own.

That went out on HBO.

There's a certain aspect of US TV that is really puritanical.

In Modern Family they actually blurred out Gloria's front when she was breast feeding and also the genital region of a male character who was wearing cycling shorts.

Oh, yes, the crime scene stuff. A detective digs out a bullet in a wall or somesuch using a penknife; or a detective picks up a bullet or shell casing using metal tweezers. Thereby introducing unwanted markings, making it difficult or impossible for the firearms people to match the bullet/casing with a suspected gun. It even happens in crime documentary reconstructions. But I guess using plastic implements wouldn't look so good.

Moonshine I too get annoyed with the failure to deliver the really important piece of info...really bloody bugs me...

I've been watching Friends recently and Phoebe turning up at Monica's before they all leave for work drives me mad but not as mad as the fact Monica appears to work 9-5 yet is a chef.

Yes, Wanda it's all about what looks good. Many years ago I was filmed doing something technical by the local news and I had a range of instruments that I was using.

They wanted me to use a certain one that would have looked most impressive on TV but I had to argue with them to use the one that was actually relevant to the issue they were reporting on.

I'm on a roll now. In CSI type programmes they totter about in sandals in labs, and don't suit up at crime scenes.

Occasionally they feature my area of expertise and they always get the science completely wrong. I feel like offering them a consultancy service.

When nobody seems to be looking after the baby/children that you know they have.

This happens a lot in soaps.

People are always in cafe's and pubs or wandering about aimlessly and it's very unclear who has the young children. You see half the family eating bacon sandwiches in the cafe and the other half wandering up and down outside and it's dark so you know school is over, but there's no sign of the children and nobody ever mentions a babysitter.

That drives me mad too waitingforme. Who visits a friend to be all quirky before breakfast?

I also love how the big comfy sofa in the cafe was never occupied until the Friends showed up. There were always people perched on bar stools and crammed into booths while those six took up two tables and several chairs.

Lawyers often seem to be able to do all sorts of law on TV shows, unlike RL. I love the Good Wife, but the fact that many of the lawyers do criminal law and also all sorts of different types of civil cases is a very unrealistic depiction of US legal practice, which tends to be highly specialized.