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My friends and I are going to see the ‘Back to the Future’ trilogy on Wednesday in the nearest cinema (I can’t local as it’s half an hour away) and they won’t do a special deal for us to see them so I have to* pay €18 for them 🙁
Screenings in Dublin are only €5 total.
It’s hell living in the sticks, and being of low-income.
That and screw you distributors!
*I know I don’t have to but…come on, it’s BTTF 
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Offline To expand on what Wigwam said yesterday, I hate when my Comcast homepage (or other page) piques my interest with a Top 10 list for a category. But then it turns out to be a slideshow with each entry on a separate page containing only a sentence or two with lots of ads. Wish they would put everything on one page for me to read through and get on my life.
I understand where Apple Scruffs if coming from too. I pretty much quit going to movie theaters because of the ripoff prices for both tickets and food. Very few movies are so urgent that I can’t wait until they come out on video anyway. And prices should certainly be cheaper for older films. Also, you are at risk of sitting with some obnoxious people. And if you are like me, you’ll have to make at least one bathroom run during the film which means you’ll miss something. Wish they still had intermissions for this.
On the movie front, I may be one of the few people who still miss video stores like Blockbuster or your local mom and pop store. I don’t like using Redbox where you often have to risk standing out in bad weather. You might have to wait for someone ahead of you to finish. Or you can not leisurely browse if somebody is waiting for you staring at their watch. PPV is okay occasionally if really want to see film. But if you rent a DVD, you still get to experience all the extras such as deleted scenes. And when browsing an actual store, you might discover a good film you would not know about otherwise.
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11 November 2010
Offline Jolly Jimmy said
To expand on what Wigwam said yesterday, I hate when my Comcast homepage (or other page) piques my interest with a Top 10 list for a category. But then it turns out to be a slideshow with each entry on a separate page containing only a sentence or two with lots of ads. Wish they would put everything on one page for me to read through and get on my life.
YES. I don’t know specifically what you’re talking about, but I have a similar one for clickbait websites. There’s this one that gets shared on Facebook all the time called Answers.com (there are several variations and other sites under the Answers name). They always post lists titles that catch my interest. The thing is, I’ve learned from experience, and as soon as I see that Answers posted the list, I lose all interest and close the page. They always spread their ten-item lists over fifty pages. That’s not even the worst part, though. The stupid website has so many ads per page that even the fastest computer will run slow (one user counted as many as eighty-eight ads on a single page).
Apparently I’m not alone in this. Go to Google, type in “answers.com.” In the selections, you’ll find,
answers.com slow
answers.com sucks.
What’s really unfortunate is that quite a few other clickbait websites copy their format now.
By the way, I’ve been banned from commenting on anything Answers.com posts on Facebook because I used the term “clickbait” in a comment and they find that rather derogatory. It’s funny because they’re pretty much the precise definition of clickbait (Wikipedia says clickbait is “…web content that is aimed at generating online advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs and to encourage forwarding of the material over online social networks.” In other words, precisely what Answers.com is. Go figure.)
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Dental hygienists attempting to make conversation while cleaning your teeth.
‘How old are you? What grade are you in?’
‘Agg ahh ung ugh.’
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1 November 2013
Offline Silly Girl said
Dental hygienists attempting to make conversation while cleaning your teeth.‘How old are you? What grade are you in?’
‘Agg ahh ung ugh.’
“I remember when I was Agg ahh years old.”
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Offline Annadog40 said
Silly Girl said
Dental hygienists attempting to make conversation while cleaning your teeth.‘How old are you? What grade are you in?’
‘Agg ahh ung ugh.’
“I remember when I was Agg ahh years old.”
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times….
Another Pet Peeve: My friend is going to a “90s Kids Party” in some club next week and she comment about it so I said “what you’ll be pretending to be 3 again?”- all the kids who are your average-age undergraduates now were 2-7 when the 1990s ended so they obviously don’t have many memories of it. If anything they should be holding a “2000’s Kids Party’ and let’s face it, the 2000’s were pretty crap- terrible music for the majority of it, no real “iconic” film, the only thing the 2000’s had going for it was great TV!
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17 October 2013
Offline AppleScruffJunior said
My friends and I are going to see the ‘Back to the Future’ trilogy on Wednesday in the nearest cinema
I’m going to see ‘Back to the Future’ yesterday.
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Offline Wigwam said
AppleScruffJunior said
My friends and I are going to see the ‘Back to the Future’ trilogy on Wednesday in the nearest cinemaI’m going to see ‘Back to the Future’ yesterday.
I saw it when the three were shown for their 50th Anniversary in 5D.
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29 August 2013
Offline Again – people taking personal experience as universal truths.
I was debating the academic merits of an article with someone and they pulled out the “well, that’s been my experience as well so I think the author of the article has it spot on” piece of “evidence”.
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Offline Silly Girl said
Dental hygienists attempting to make conversation while cleaning your teeth.‘How old are you? What grade are you in?’
‘Agg ahh ung ugh.’
Similarly, restaurant servers who stalk your table waiting for you to stuff your gob with food before they pop up out of nowhere to ask you how everything is. Once, after a few cocktails, this happened. With a mouthful of food, I held up my index finger as if to say, “one moment please”. While she waited tableside I chewed my food as slowly as possible, swallowed and said “the food is great, but my server’s timing is awful”. Of course, I ordered no dessert as I was not interested in any mystery toppings or fillings. I did make up for it by tipping generously though.
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4 August 2015
Offline Continuing the theme of too much talking from Silly Girl and Zig:
I have waited in check out lines at supermarkets and such where the checker and customer in front of me seem to know each other and engage in lots of idle chiit chat thus holding up the line. I also see this when customer has a baby or young child and checker feels compelled to try and talk to it.
To be fair, sometimes it is the customer’s fault for trying to engage in meaningless conversation and checker is too polite to tell him or her to shut up.
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My mom does that every time we go grocery shopping where she used to work. She talks, and talks, and talks, and finally stops after a good 5 or 10 minutes, and I get really annoyed and in my head I’m thinking “Shut up, nobody cares about any of this crap you’re talking about!”
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Offline People reposting misinformation on Facebook. Seriously. It’s getting worse and worse and worse. Stop it. Go to Snopes or do some sort of fact-check before you repost. The following are things I’ve corrected people on lately:
No, HIV-infected needles aren’t being hidden in gas pumps.
No, Donald Trump never said that Republicans were the dumbest group of voters.
No, there isn’t a haunted house so scary that nobody’s ever finished it.
No, that photo doesn’t show a time traveler.
No, those pictures of Earth in “1978” and 2012 don’t show what they claim.
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Offline Glasses. Or, more precisely, where the feck are my glasses?
Me, a few hours ago, having imbibed a little, and ready to sleep, take off my glasses and put them down within reach. An hour ago, wake up, and where the feck are my glasses. Not a sodding idea! Not sitting on the side with my tobacco and papers where they usually are. Search all around the area, pull the duvet off and shake it, check under, check over, check all around.
Can’t see the sodding things anywhere! Where the feck are my sodding glasses?!!!
Of course, it doesn’t help that my sight is shocking without my glasses. I need glasses to find my glasses if I put them down somewhere I don’t usually.
Maybe a trip to the opticians to get a new pair of glasses is going to be needed so I can find my glasses…
I know they’re here somewhere… just not sure where…
And it’s all just a blur!!!!
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29 August 2013
Offline Necko said
People reposting misinformation on Facebook. Seriously. It’s getting worse and worse and worse. Stop it. Go to Snopes or do some sort of fact-check before you repost. The following are things I’ve corrected people on lately:
No, HIV-infected needles aren’t being hidden in gas pumps.
No, Donald Trump never said that Republicans were the dumbest group of voters.
No, there isn’t a haunted house so scary that nobody’s ever finished it.
No, that photo doesn’t show a time traveler.
No, those pictures of Earth in “1978” and 2012 don’t show what they claim.
Indeed – I had a long “discussion” about something the Pope supposedly said and gave up eventually.
Believe what you want to believe.
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Offline Where are my glasses??
*crunch*
Bugger. Yes, happened to me once 🙁
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Offline trcanberra said
Where are my glasses??
*crunch*
Bugger. Yes, happened to me once 🙁
I did that to my old ipod touch. Cost £80 to get it fixed, well fixed in the sense of they just give you a different one out of a large box.
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Offline I’m sick of people saying George was no saint. No, he wasn’t a saint. We never said he was a saint!
And where the heck is my growly-face smiley?!
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Offline Not even George said he was a saint, he’d be the first to agree he wasn’t. Tho he’d also tell his dissenters 
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1 November 2013
Offline Silly Girl said
I’m sick of people saying George was no saint. No, he wasn’t a saint. We never said he was a saint!And where the heck is my growly-face smiley?!
Of course he isn’t a saint, if he was then the pope would of declared him as such. Has George preformed two miracles?
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