Any movie made in a city I have lived in.
From “The Friends of Eddie Coyle” to “Boondock Saints”, it just drives me crazy when I see something like someone walk out of a triple decker in Dorchester and walk up a street in Southie.
I do not know how people in LA can watch movies - I couldn’t when I lived there.
BTW. The Fighter - the opening scene with the brothers walking down the street was all on one street, but Top Donuts doesn’t have that many tables in it.
This was mentioned in another thread, but it bears repeating: the people crunching in the Kit-Kat commercial. I grab the remote as soon as that one comes on! Is that crunching sound appetizing to ANYONE??
Me too also with the clapping and chanting “Stephen, Stephen. . .” Even more annoying are the 20-something assholes in the audience who have to have the last “woo-woo” or scream so they can go home and watch their DVR recording to hear themselves and tell their friends alllll about what a real cool person they are.
Any FakeOS stuff. Especially if the entire screen gets taken over for a small error message.
IP addresses with numbers over 255 (and yes, I know that an IP address wouldn’t have that either, but you never know they may have a subnet mask up there. I’m talking 514.479.367.964 and stuff). Yes, I know you are trying to do the 555 telephone thing so you haven’t got someone’s actual IP address up there, but it still irritates the tits off of me.
I was excited to watch the new Sherlock Holmes on BBC last year. Until Martin Freeman walked past ringing phones in Brixton. Not one, but *two *of the ringing phones were coming from old BT red phone boxes.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
As if! I couldn’t take the rest of the programme seriously. If they wanted to show a part of London where it’s all twee with old phone boxes, don’t go to Brixton. FFS.
That, and when somebody fires a gun (especially several times) and then is coerced to hand it over to a cop…who grabs it by the barrel.
This.
I seem to be catching this more and more. There’s a current ad on TV that says something about how their product leaves less germs. I can’t hear it without yelling FEWER!
Yeah, that fewer/less thing has been bugging the shit out of me for a year or two. It would appear that fewer has been outright banned from all commercials, so okay, don’t alienate the unwashed masses by using your high-falutin’ grammar. I could deal with that.
But it’s taking over the entire language. A couple days ago on PTI – a sports talk show – at one point Tony Kornheiser said “less” instead of “fewer” and it almost drove me over the edge. Part of his schtick on the show is to brag about how he’s an English major instead of a Journalism major. They introduced a segment “What’s the word?” to ostensibly show off his fancy vocabulary. And yet he incorrectly used “less” where it should have been “fewer.” Gaaaaaahhh!!!
Happy to see that I’m not alone in this pet peeve. I shout “FEWER!!!” at newscasters, characters in series, commercials, you name it. It’s childish and pointless, really. One day I’ll blurt it out in a movie theater and be pelted by half-eaten Ju-Jubees.
Yep! The Kit Kat crunchers! Also, the Steak n’ Shake hat and the DQ lips!
OMIGOD- I had no idea so many people were bothered by the fewer thing… this is so gratifying. All over the world, people are yelling “FEWER!!” at their TV sets. I’m loving it. MY PEEPS!!
Does anyone hate the Jack in the Box ping pong head as much as I do? I know he’s been around for years and I have hated him all those years.
Just to follow-up… I’m looking at this on my computer now and not my Blackberry and clearly the spacing did come out. Okay. No more periods between paragraphs.
Returning you to the regularly scheduled program…
Please don’t continue ON (GRRR!) … or I’ll have to start in… less semen, fewer sperm, less food, fewer groceries, less love., fewer kisses, less meat, fewer sandwiches, less land, fewer crops, less rain, fewer raindrops, less wool, fewer sweaters…
I just gritted my teeth through this entire thread. Here is every single (unattributed) use of both fewer and less in that thread:
“fewer games”
“less discrete strategic points”
“far less cases”
“less racist”
“less than accurate”
“less players”
“less [players] on a team”
“a lot less parity back then and a lot less teams”
Of the 9 uses of fewer/less in the thread, 5 were incorrect. We’re rapidly moving to where less will become correct through widespread usage, since that’s how language evolves.
Meh. I could care fewer.
Well played.
Focus group testing shows that this image plays very well with the wives/mothers the commercials are aimed at (who make most of the brand choices in shopping).
Apparently a lot of women like to feel that they’re the only competent person in the household.
I can’t put into words how much I despise the…wannabe DJs, I guess?..who post songs on file-sharing programs, but at some parts of the songs, sometimes for quite a while, they talk/shout over the song at a WAY higher volume, saying things like “wooo! [artist]!!! wooo!!!” What is the point of that??? I swear it’s almost enough to make me want to stop stealing music. Almost.
My daughter is almost 11, and I feel your pain. However, you didn’t mention the absolute worst of those shows: That’s So Raven. I don’t think they show the old episodes anymore, and thankfully my daughter doesn’t like it anymore anyway, but for a while she loved that show.
They used to even have some commercial on the Disney Channel that featured a montage of nothing but screaming clips from shows. I’m not exaggerating, that’s exactly what it was. My daughter knew she better mute the TV REAL quick when that came on.
I don’t know, wouldn’t that be something that real DJs do? I mean, I guess it doesn’t make much difference and it can be annoying either way (one reason I don’t listen to the radio…other than the incessant ads and the playlist of like 4 songs), but I’m talking about these random people who have nothing to do with anything, but still have some inexplicable need to insert themselves into a song before posting it on Limewire. Radio DJs are irritating too, but they’re like a cool breeze next to some of these idiots. At least the radio DJs were actually hired by somebody to annoyingly talk over the music. It’s like the difference between watching commercials on regular TV, and downloading TV shows and finding that some asshole decided to insert his own incredibly loud, obnoxious, amateur commercial.