Jesus Fucking Christ

[DavidB6937]

Had to sit behind a bunch of young girls on the train this morning. A few soundbites;

"I went to Latitude and my mate got fingered up against a tree. She's only 15. The guy wasn't happy but just said don't tell anyone."

"That guy treats people so bad but he's so fit that I'd let him anyway."

"Do I need to fill out this form for the residential? Oh don't worry I'll just ask Chat."

"You're going to a Noah Kahan concert? Why? You're going to get murdered."

"Surely if a guy wants to do that to you then he really likes you. Why else would he?"

"Shit I've lost my lip gloss. I only bought that yesterday."

"Wingstop was AMAZING. I wouldnt go back."

"How do people get this train every day? It's SO tiring."

"There's that ABBA building. Are they there all the time?"

"I lent this guy my sunglasses but he didn't ask me out so I got them back."

"We can't go to McDonalds for breakfast. I'll have to diet all week."

I don't want my kids to grow up.

[gmoney]

6 hours ago, JLM said:

Haha I know I’ll get myself slapped for my enraged mutterings one of these days.
 

My worst one was a dude in front of me on an escalator who was occupying both sides and not moving. I was cutting it extremely fine to make my train and had to get past him. I tried “excuse me” several times, I tapped him on the shoulder, none of it worked so I ended up physically climbing over his bags. I made a point of not standing on them but he still shouted “you could have just waited!” And I was so stressed and pissed off that I blurted out “you could learn how to use a fucking escalator!” Usually that would be internal or at a low mutter, but this time it was a full 180 degree head turn to shout it at him. I felt certain I was about get a kicking after that one. Didn’t look back again until I was on my train, didn’t even find it satisfying as I was so sure I’d made a terrible mistake. 
 

The general public’s baffling lack of cinema etiquette continues to drive me nuts. This year I’ve already had:

-  A group of about five people filming and taking pictures for the first ten minutes of the film for their group chat to prove that they were indeed at the cinema.
 

- A massive group  of about ten people who turned up late and were having full volume conversations about who brought which snacks.
 

- Some arsehole who was chatting during the opening credits of the film and then argued for several minutes about whether the film had officially started when someone told him to shut up. Well it definitely has now, you utter prick. Thinking that the opening credits don’t count is insane to me. What if it’s a cold open, what if the opening song/credits/like are meant to establish some kind of tone or get you in the mood for what’s to come? Once the BBFC certificate appears that is your last call to shut the fuck up. If you’re still chatting or on your phone after that then I hate you. 

I actually told the snack admin late comers to shut up. It was too late to go through the stages of British passive aggression  because the movie was already well under way. Had to stand up and hit them with “the film has started, can you all SHUT UP!” Then the wave of terror as I braced for a possible confrontation, which thankfully did not come. 

Then this weekend seeing The End of Oak Street there was a guy sat behind me who went on two snack runs and one toilet trip during it. Every time he got to up he’d put both hands on the back of my chair and make me jump, then upon his return his mate filled him in on what he’d missed at normal speaking volume. Not even an attempt to whisper or lean closer. It’s only a 90 minute movie AND they’d both been there throughout the trailers, so could have gone to buy food at any time. Mind boggling and infuriating behaviour.

 

 

 

 

When I went to see The Odyssey there were two young women near-ish me who clearly got bored and restless about 40 minutes in, then got up and left. Fine. But after being gone for about an hour they came back to their seats to totally ignore the film and chat. Completely unhinged. A couple behind them eventually snapped and told them to shut the fuck up, which they did. Cinema was in a the middle of commercial shopping area, plenty of cafes, seats you can sit and have a chat in, that aren't in a big room full of people trying to watch a film.  

Edited August 24 by gmoney

[TheBurningRed]

I have no issues telling people to shut the fuck up in the cinema and will shut that shit down quick. I find others join in and then they will get embarrassed and usually stop.

I know that a lot of people are addicted to their phones these days. But I went to see Spider-Man the other day and the bloke in front of me kept going on his phone. Being nosey I had a look over his shoulder a couple of times. Tesco club card app. Is that important now? And is it important to go on your solitaire app and turn the brightness up. 

Also, picking up from the comment about people not knowing how to use escalators properly. Same with stairs. Vauxhall station the other day and it’s rammed getting down the stairs. A woman just stops on the second to last step blocking people to look on her phone. Excuse me didn’t work so my wife had to give a barge as she was holding everyone up. I asked if the bottom of the stairs was the best place for stopping and she shrugged.

Starting to think smart phones aren’t a good idea. 

[Chest Rockwell]

38 minutes ago, TheBurningRed said:

know that a lot of people are addicted to their phones these days. But I went to see Spider-Man the other day and the bloke in front of me kept going on his phone. Being nosey I had a look over his shoulder a couple of times. Tesco club card app. Is that important now?

Was it @Tamura?

[WyattSheepMask]

Cinema etiquette has been going downhill for ages, but post-Covid it’s definitely got worse. There seems to be a proper “I’ve paid for my ticket, I’ll do what I want” mentality these days

[DavidB6937]

Phones are bad enough but I think it was when someone put their bare feet up on a chair that I was really done.

[TheBurningRed]

It’s how Tarantino would want a film of his to be enjoyed. 

[Carbomb]

A friend and I decided to spend a bit extra to go and see Endgame at the Leicester Square Odeon, as it's a big finale. £35 a ticket. 

Someone two seats to my right was constantly on her phone, not even watching. My friend never has any truck with this - he just said loudly "TURN IT OFF!" The guy with her who was sat next to me, looking at me as if to ask if it was necessary, and I just had to say "Come on, people have paid a lot of money to watch this". Thankfully, nobody kicked off, and she did put the damn thing away.

But it's a regular problem, and it's also why I don't tend to go to suburban cinemas unless they're fancy ones like Everyman, Arthouse, Picturehouse, or Odeon Luxe - I've seen plenty of dickheads kicking off at people. And I live in a part of London where the wankers talking in Cineworld or Vue might easily be tooled up.

[DavidB6937]

6 minutes ago, Carbomb said:

But it's a regular problem, and it's also why I don't tend to go to suburban cinemas unless they're fancy ones like Everyman, Arthouse, Picturehouse, or Odeon Luxe - I've seen plenty of dickheads kicking off at people. And I live in a part of London where the wankers talking in Cineworld or Vue might easily be tooled up.

I did tell two teens to shut up because they were talking so loudly. Well, I threatened to go and tell the staff because I'm a snitch and they said well go on then, so I started walking down and they suddenly pussied out and shouted sorry and never made another sound.

I did make sure they left the cinema first after that. Wasn't taking any chances them being behind me in a dark room.

[Tim Healys Chutney Spoon]

£4:89 for an energy drink at a Service station. I know they have a mark up,.but fucking hell!

 

Can't wait til Sunday at Wembley! 🙄

[deathrey]

I've just paid £13.50 for a cheese toastie at Twycross Zoo!

[Jazzy G]

3 hours ago, DavidB6937 said:

I did tell two teens to shut up because they were talking so loudly. Well, I threatened to go and tell the staff because I'm a snitch and they said well go on then, so I started walking down and they suddenly pussied out and shouted sorry and never made another sound.

I did make sure they left the cinema first after that. Wasn't taking any chances them being behind me in a dark room.

When I went to see Spider-Man the other week all the families with kids were so well behaved, but two seats down from where I was sat there's this woman asking her boyfriend what's going on and who that is every five minutes. I should have known I was in for a bad time when she piped up with "there's no emotional bits in Spider-Man" during the little "switch your phone off so you can enjoy the movie" clip with Tom Holland before the film started. 

[Rabzeen]

Can we add the state of peoples driving to the list of people becoming more selfish about as well. Seems so much worse round my way over the last year with drivers not waiting for people to cross the road. I watched a driver have a go at someone on a zebra crossing the other as they had made them have to stop to let them across. 

[BomberPat]

I barely go to the cinema any more, and if I do it tends to be cinemas that are more on top of punter behaviour, and which are less likely to attract too many dickheads, so thankfully I've skirted most of the behaviour people have been talking about.

But escalator etiquette is the one that absolutely gets me. I spend far too much of my time while getting around London either muttering under my breath or outright shouting "stand on the left", "let people off the train first" and suchlike. When I met my Dad at Kings Cross a few months ago, there were massive queues getting on to the escalators to the Tube, and these two women pushed past saying "excuse me", looking like they were trying to get past the queues and down to one of the other lines, so I stepped aside to give them room, and they immediately barged past me on to the escalator in front of me. I had a bit of a go at them, saying they just pushed in front of about two dozen people in the queue, and I only let them go by because they were acting like they were trying to get past, not in front of them, and their defence was that they "hadn't realised there was a queue". "What, you didn't see the massive line of people that you just pushed through to get to the front of?". It doesn't matter, but what always annoys me is that they will then go away and tell their mates that someone was rude to them, not that they were incredibly rude and selfish and got caught in the act.

Don't get me started on people deciding that the bottom of an escalator, or right in front of the ticket gates, is the perfect place to gather their extended family and all their luggage for a chat. Or people queuing in pubs.

[DavidB6937]

15 minutes ago, BomberPat said:

Don't get me started on people deciding that the bottom of an escalator, or right in front of the ticket gates, is the perfect place to gather their extended family and all their luggage for a chat. Or people queuing in pubs.

People also stopping at that point to look at something on their phone too, or in the middle of the platform when you're trying to walk behind them, or in the middle of the concourse as if they think they're the only person in the entire bloody station. WHY.