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

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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?!

Oh and saying stuff that in real life would get you slapped up...

Ha! China you sound like me..my poor DH doesn't even watch certain shows with me ..I'm like..'WTH Mr Yoni, that would not happen in RL ..and that hat the wrong way round..plus the cat was lying to the north!'

Having phone conversations where the (silent to us) person at the other end can't possibly have had enough time to say more than one word before the speaking actor responds as if a paragraph of detail had come their way. (I'm always trying to mentally fill in the other end of the conversation and usually only get to 'Well...' or something.)

I know you can't have too much 'dead time' on the screen but surely they could do some sort of business to keep viewers' interest.

Having phone conversations where the (silent to us) person at the other end can't possibly have had enough time to say more than one word before the speaking actor responds as if a paragraph of detail had come their way. (I'm always trying to mentally fill in the other end of the conversation and usually only get to 'Well...' or something.)

I know you can't have too much 'dead time' on the screen but surely they could do some sort of business to keep viewers' interest.

Oops.

Particularly in Americans films families are always walking into houses leaving the front door open behind them.

Depending on where you live, we do this. A lot of people leave their doors unlocked around the nice areas.

When I was growing up we all just wandered into each other's houses during the summer, begging for freezie pops and kool-aide before running through the neighborhood like feral children or staying in the basements to play video games. :) I haven't really seen many feral children in a while though, I guess they all plan meet ups with their phones and skype chats now.

It is surprisingly difficult to look like you are playing the violin. It is even difficult to carry the case or put the instrument down in a convincing manner, if you don't have years of experience.

My pet peeve is people not looking at the road while driving. This drives me crazy.

Another hater of the clearly empty suitcase. It wouldn't kill them to put a few housebricks in for a bit of verisimilitude.

Lamps!! They walk in to a dark house, flick one switch and every lamp in the place comes on!

American dramas where the women never eat. I saw one where a girl's night in consisted of them picking beetroot out of a bag of salad. Where the fuck were the pringles and malteasers?

People have babies and rather than it being the all-consuming, only thing you can talk about, sleep deprived hideous time that is is in real-life, they flit around (who looks after these babies who sleep all day?) and the baby is hardly ever mentioned by anyone.

My brother was an extra in eastenders once and had to eat in a cafe next to the main actors at the next table who were eating and talking.

There were at least 12 takes shot from multiple angles. If anyone had actually been eating then either the final cut would show the amount of food on each plate decreasing and increasing again as the view switched, or everyone would have had to eat 12 meals. Toying with it is a far better plan.

Always wearing shoes indoors, especially heels.

Buying food in a cafe then suddenly having to leave it

The continuity one I always notice is wearing a seatbelt in a car. One angle they are wearing it, the other they aren't.

In EE they always slurp their empty cups, which is very distracting.

And why don't they take their shoes off, even in the own houses? Walking around Walford in their dirty shoes, and even sometimes when they're sitting on their bad :/ Take your shoes off!

Use of minced oaths.

I understand it is pre-watershed but when someone discovers their partner is having an affair, they have a long lost sibling or are being framed for murder, they respond with 'flipping heck'. Steve MacDonald is a serial offender. I scream at the TV 'Fuck, the word you are looking for is Fuck'.

Arranging to meet up for dinner/lunch/drinks but not saying the time. They seem to telepathically know when to turn up

And when they sometimes show tea being poured into cups from the pot they hardly pour any in.

My pet peeve is people not looking at the road while driving. This drives me crazy.

Yes! I couldn't watch that Peter Kay Car Share programme without anticipating a collision pretty much the whole time. Much more stressful than a gentle comedy ought to be.

And everyone has everyone's telephone numbers, no wonder how much they hate each other, they always have their number saved on their phone.

I was in a play once which started with a suitcase in full view on stage, which an actor had to pick up and carry off. It always looked as though it was empty to me (and clearly to the props man as well). On the last night, the props man filled it with bricks

Eastenders is terrible for this, why don't they just put something in the cups?!

Never saying bye, just hanging up, so irritating

As Sherlock has already been mentioned, the tea drinking scene with Sherlock and Moriarty looks a bit odd to me. Real tea, but Sherlock seems to be making a meal of it. It's like the actor dislikes tea and couldn't bring himself to properly drink it.

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