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To get annoyed when people on tv

317 replies

LittleMissDonkeyonADustyRoad · 05/01/2015 14:08

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 Angry

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

And many more Grin

Please tell me I'm not alone!

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Gawjushun · 06/01/2015 19:27

99% of people who get paralysed in soaps will be up and walking a few months later. Usually they'll just step out of their wheelchair and suddenly be able to walk down the aisle, and about a week later they'll be walking perfectly. If they go to rehab, they just daintly bounce around on an exercise ball.

If you wake up from a coma you're instantly alert and fresh faced and go home the next day.

ipswichwitch · 06/01/2015 19:43

Resuscitation on TV really gets my goat. A couple of piss poor chest compressions, one breath (never with head tilt chin lift!) and the virtually dead person sits up and coughs, and minutes later is going about their business! Ridiculous!

Mrsjayy · 06/01/2015 19:47

Nobody in any soap works away from their street and they all have a drink or 5 at lunchtime

ElviraCondomine · 06/01/2015 20:34

95% of TV detectives would never get a conviction. Inspector Morse was always talking to suspects in a church, where they conveniently confessed to him. I have been know to start shouting about the Police and Criminal Evidence Act at him. On more than one occasion I may have cited specific sections.

For some reason my family doesn't like watching legal dramas with me either.

Nancy66 · 06/01/2015 20:49

When a character goes to make tea and puts the kettle under the tap and adds about a tablespoon's worth of water. Fill it up!

Ladymoods · 06/01/2015 21:05

It irritates me how people always want to get married immediately in soaps, it's never a long engagement, just get married as soon as is physically possible. WHY IS THIS??

Also, and particularly when I used to watch Hollyoaks, they all run their own business from a very young age.

Kiffykaffycoffee · 06/01/2015 21:13

In a factual programme (like Country File), when the presenter is shown how to do a task (eg making vellum from cow skin, or ploughing a field) by someone with 20 years' experience. The presenter then "has a go" and of course can do it perfectly, with no experience Hmm

bluecheque4595 · 06/01/2015 21:23

I get annoyed in soaps when a couple has a couple of kids and you know this and you see both him and her down the pub having fun together, I am always shouting at the telly "Where are your kids!???" And all the likely babysitters like mum etc are also accounted for and not with the kids.
Dont get me wrong, parents on soaps have every right to have fun down the pub but just a little explanatory line about where the nippers are would help me to stop fretting they are locked in a room somewhere poking screwdrivers into light sockets.

dustarr73 · 06/01/2015 21:41

Well in Corrie the kids are always at the childminders.She must work 24 hours a day.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.

DuchessofBuffonia · 06/01/2015 21:53

Like the 'where are the kids?' examples above, do they ever mention where baby Emma is when Rachel is on the plane to Paris at the end of FRIENDS? Every time I see that episode I wonder.

The hanging up the 'phone without saying goodbye always irritates me.

AliceLidl · 06/01/2015 22:04

Baby Emma went to Paris ahead of Rachel, with Rachel's mum.

I'm not sure why they went ahead, but I'm sure they say something about Emma flying earlier with Rachel's mum.

But they never mention how pissed off Rachel's mum must be to be in Paris with a baby and no Rachel because she's gone back to the ex that none of Rachel's family can stand.

BringYourOwnSnowman · 06/01/2015 22:14

i thought the baby was going later Alice

In Neighbours Jims wife went away and came back a different actress. When she came in he said 'darling, your back, you've done something different with your hair!'. He didn't mention the change in height, weight or colouring!

TiedUpWithString · 06/01/2015 22:22

'Its Tiffany. She's dead'.

Who the hell comes right out and says she's dead? Surely has died, or been in a horrific accident and killed etc.

Mrsjayy · 06/01/2015 22:33

Why is there always serial killers in hollyoaks if your kid wanted to go to college there give it a term and they will be dead and why are there no mingers they are all gorgeous

Gawjushun · 06/01/2015 23:18

There was a large girl in Hollyoaks for a while. Every storyline was about her being fat, starving herself, being turned down by a guy because she's fat etc. Seems to happen in a lot of shows when they get a token fat girl.

DuchessofBuffonia · 06/01/2015 23:30

Thanks Alice and BYOSnowman. Still seems odd that she wouldn't travel all that way without her baby on the same flight as her!

BrockAuLit · 07/01/2015 03:22

Another one: somehow, in action movies (and I'm including James Bond in this), the baddies are always terrible shots - a hail shower of bullets and they all miss. The hero has a pistol, fires once and practically gets them all at the same time. Ridiculous.

Woodenmouse · 07/01/2015 07:39

I get really annoyed at action films when the hero smashes a skyscraper window with a chair/gun etc or climbs down the side of the building and kicks through the window. Skyscrapers have reinforced Windows, you could drop a car on it and it wouldn't break.

bensam · 07/01/2015 07:48

May have been said already - when they're sat at the table with a plate full of food but no-one picks up a fork and starts eating.

sourdrawers · 07/01/2015 07:52

How about when someone gives someone else a cup of tea or coffee? They pour about a teaspoon's worth of liquid in the cup and give it to them. The receiver never touches it anyway, before walking off.

Mrsjayy · 07/01/2015 07:52

In old western films and action films they always had a babdage round their chest what was broken Confused oh and the hero usually had a lady mopping their brows

Mrsjayy · 07/01/2015 07:56

Oh yeah the fat girl all her stories are about food . They did it in waterloo road recently the girl was a normal character then they gave her a fat girl story.

wanderings · 07/01/2015 08:04

In TV land, the doorbell always rings with perfect timing after someone finishes a sentence or conversation. Several times. In one episode. (There's an episode of the Vicar of Dibley in particular where this keeps happening).

Wend74 · 07/01/2015 08:27

Empty drinks cups! Coffee cups are always empty on tv and in films
Drives me crazy! Oh and by the way a lot of the things mention above like driving to a bar and not using the (handbrake) parking brake are actually real In the US!

sourdrawers · 07/01/2015 08:28

On doorbells, the ringer usually rings, waits about a second and a half then bangs impatiently on the door usually shouting as they do it.

I'm hoping my local Tory MP does that on my door in the run up to the election, it'll give me an excuse to throw my piss-pot over him.