To get angry at tv characters pretending to drink from empty cups!

[HitsAndMrs]

Soap characters especially. They drive me mad. I can see that coffee cup is empty so stop pretending to drink it.

Does anything wind you up like this?!

With a sudden song, everyone seems to know exactly what the person was going to sing, where they will stand and the perfect dance moves. Even the band knew and has the right instruments.

can you tell I'm watching glee

And the disappearing kids.

Someone will have a baby and then continue with their lives in a completely normal manner.

Like they've forgotten something but can't quite remember what...

Oh yes, the 6 month old newborns!

I spoiled the last Bond movie for DH by constantly asking where they'd got their new clothes from. DC and his heroine had taken flight and ended up in Tangiers or somewhere, ber in her silk nightie and him in his beige linen desert wear.
Every new scenario they were in a different country, suitably and immaculately clad but they had no suitcases!

Holby is really bad for the empty cup thing. They help themselves to what would IRL be a scalding too-hot-to-handle cardboard cup and proceed to wave it about willy nilly as they discuss their patient, then proceed to place it on a surface where it's emptiness is betrayed by the hollow sound it makes as it lands.

Another one with babies.

If you are adopting you seem to be able to fill in paperwork and collect the next day. Or even take baby straight from hospital as soon as mum has given birth.

There was a story line in hollyoaks that really irritated me. Tegan and Diane were in a custody battle over Rose. Yet Leela was able to pass Rose to Diane and then Diane gave Rose back to Tegan with no solicitor or child services getting involved. Because yes that would really happen

Arriving is that much less faff in movies. Movie: Come in, fling self on sofa. Me: Come in, wrestle key out of door, close door, bags, coat, gloves, shoes, lights, curtains... many more steps of faffing before sofa.

I was in a play once and had to neck a double shot of vodka in one scene. I insisted on it being real vodka, you know for authenticity and all that. I'm such a trooper!

DP gets upset about this. Now I notice it
I am more upset with him for going on about it so much

What about when they look in the mirror and stand to the side of it?

What about when they look in the mirror and stand to the side of it?

Probably so that none of the filming products get shown

Big Bang Theory has a communal meal scene in every episode, just about, and yet nobody ever eats anything! They just sit there pushing food awkwardly around the plates.

I really really hate when they have drinks in a pub or restaurant....and NEVER finish them!

I work in the theatre and for fairly obvious reasons they do this on stage but I cannot for the life of me work out why they do it on tv - one of my pet peeves...

I also don't get how babies seem to fall out of people and there are never any "truly" misbehaving children...

They're all skint - but still spend all night in the pub (ah, that's why they're skint) drinking "a pint". A pint of fucking what? Vodka?

No one has a bloody washing machine (this annoyed me in the 80s when there were times we didn't have a washing machine - but that was only because it had broken down). When was the last time you went to a laundrette?

Or they will be in the pub and ask for 'the usual.' How can the bar staff remember everyone's usuals?

I also hate that no one fumbles with their words...

Yes, Doublebubblebubble, the missing word fumble, and senseless communications, especially in kids.

Movie: "Mummy, I fell"

RL: "Mummy, you know the time when we did the dance before, you know at grandmas, when Jimmy didn't want to watch how the other boy was eating a spider and then fell, that happened at school today" What, someone ate a spider and danced? "No, I fell"

It makes me so angry when they are clearly drinking from empty cups or not eating their food. They must waste a lot of money in the Big Bang theory as they're Always having takeaways but never flipping eating it!

Yes to the "skint" pub visits. Also they always manage to eat out.

"I can't pay the rent"
"Let's go to the cafe"
"Ok"

Yanbu about empty cups
Yanbu about pushing food about on plates
Yanbu about never agreeing a time
Yanbu leaving with only one suitcase

It gives me the rage

Yes, the time thing does my head in! I just tell myself that they text each other with a time/meeting spot after the conversation...

And who just hangs up the phone at the end of a conversation, where's the 'Bye... yeah, yeah, bye then... yeah, see you later... bye, bye, byeeeeee'

YANBU about the empty cups, even just putting some water in so they could at least drink properly (rather than just holding a mug to their lips) would be an improvement. If I became an actor I would perfect my fake drinking technique and holding my mug at an angle where the camera won't see that it's empty!

To be fair, any half decent bar staff are going to know their customers "usuals".

My peeve is they decide to leave and it can be done in a couple of hours. Decide to leave, pack one suitcase, have goodbye party, leave. No-one has to leave their job, empty their flat, tell their landlord, book travel. They can leave the country in less time than it takes me to get my family ready for a day out!

Oh I can get out my pet hate now.

I HATE it when Sherlock plays his violin because he is so blindingly obviously NOT playing it. I get that Benedict Cumberbatch doesn't know how to play a violin, but you'd think an actor of his calibre would at least learn how to pretend to play one convincingly. I have to shut my eyes every time, it winds me up so much.

And breathe....