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natureaker said
Pet peeve #5,435: when people won’t participate in class, and you end up having to help them with everything. Just pay attention in class and stop running around the classroom screaming “WHAT ARE THOOOOOOSSSSEEEE?” when you could be doing something productive

I hate inconsiderate people who deliberate talk loudly/make stupid comments when you’re trying to do your work especially if the teacher is out. My teacher (who has a very Beatley-surname that I can not reveal *plays mystery tune*) was gone out to a football match and so from 11am-1:20pm we were basically left to our own devices. Four people left to go down town and do whatever, which is fine by me, one person was reading which was nice and then 3 people (including myself) were working on our projects, then these two inconsiderate *beepers* start talking about random crap loudly and yappering on about who they followed on Instagram. I got so fed up of it that I went home, got my headphones and came back (I’ve managed to bypass the security-block and get on to Youtube, up your’s Department of Education censoring what I can see), and preceded to listen to Wings. I actually got an English project started and finished within those 3 hours and the 2 idiots had only talked about rubbish and weren’t productive at all. 

Gah, people.

Oh I have another one actually: Two t***s behind me (in the same class) were moaning about how they were only getting €1200 of a grant for attending the class  for the year (they literally do f**k all). They continued on talking about how “unfair” it was but at least they have the money for “going out” and “getting pissed” on the weekends. Meanwhile I get bloody no grant and I have to work part-time this year teaching people how to not fail their French exam- which takes about 4 hours of preparation work and then 1/2 of them don’t bother even looking at the sheets during the week . While they sit all nice and cushy on their grand and a bit for doing nothing, uhhhhh 

Necko said
This is probably more of a minor annoyance than a pet peeve, but an annoyance it is nonetheless.

Yesterday , I saw the new James Bond movie Spectre in theaters.  Before they showed the movie, they showed commercials.  And I mean commercials.  Not ads for upcoming movies that won’t be advertised on TV for several months.  I mean the kinda crap I could have seen if I had stayed at home and watched TV.  I saw an anti-smoking ad, an ad for Geico insurance, an ad for Safelite auto glass, an ad for a cell phone service provider, and an advertisement for a vaccine that people over fifty years old should get.  Part of the fun of going to the movies is seeing trailers for movies that won’t come out for several months, but I got none of that.  Instead, I saw a bunch of advertisements that don’t really belong in a movie theater.  This sucks because this isn’t the first time this has happened and I fear that this is the way that things are going.

Next, there will be intermissions during which more advertisements are shown.

Necko said
This is probably more of a minor annoyance than a pet peeve, but an annoyance it is nonetheless.

Yesterday , I saw the new James Bond movie Spectre in theaters.  Before they showed the movie, they showed commercials.  And I mean commercials.  Not ads for upcoming movies that won’t be advertised on TV for several months.  I mean the kinda crap I could have seen if I had stayed at home and watched TV.  I saw an anti-smoking ad, an ad for Geico insurance, an ad for Safelite auto glass, an ad for a cell phone service provider, and an advertisement for a vaccine that people over fifty years old should get.  Part of the fun of going to the movies is seeing trailers for movies that won’t come out for several months, but I got none of that.  Instead, I saw a bunch of advertisements that don’t really belong in a movie theater.  This sucks because this isn’t the first time this has happened and I fear that this is the way that things are going.

Of course, the more venerable amongst us have witnessed the gradual decline of the cinema-going experience – which often used to include not only trailers; but often one or more of a newsreel, a cartoon, a ‘short’ and/or a second feature.

trcanberra said

Necko said
This is probably more of a minor annoyance than a pet peeve, but an annoyance it is nonetheless.

Yesterday , I saw the new James Bond movie Spectre in theaters.  Before they showed the movie, they showed commercials.  And I mean commercials.  Not ads for upcoming movies that won’t be advertised on TV for several months.  I mean the kinda crap I could have seen if I had stayed at home and watched TV.  I saw an anti-smoking ad, an ad for Geico insurance, an ad for Safelite auto glass, an ad for a cell phone service provider, and an advertisement for a vaccine that people over fifty years old should get.  Part of the fun of going to the movies is seeing trailers for movies that won’t come out for several months, but I got none of that.  Instead, I saw a bunch of advertisements that don’t really belong in a movie theater.  This sucks because this isn’t the first time this has happened and I fear that this is the way that things are going.

Of course, the more venerable amongst us have witnessed the gradual decline of the cinema-going experience – which often used to include not only trailers; but often one or more of a newsreel, a cartoon, a ‘short’ and/or a second feature.

I was saying this to my friends, the last time we went to the cinema. “I want a newsreel, a ‘Riding with Buffalo Bill’ short and a new Mickey Mouse cartoon God -dammit!”.

There must be some good money to be made for any cinema that does a supervised “kid’s club” thing on a Saturday afternoon where they show some cartoons, then a film or two- keep children occupied for a couple of hours. I’d say the law would have something to say about it now though- *waves fist*

meanmistermustard said
I had too sit thru 30 minutes of adverts and film trailers. Last time I went it was half that and you didn’t get adverts for everyday consumer crap. 

And when did the world go deaf all at once?

It isn’t as bad over here, when I went to see the Back to the Future trilogy before each film there was about 5 minutes of TV ads and then 2 trailers, which were watchable but they showed the same ads before all three of the films, which was an almighty-pain.

Zig said
Just curious, did the advertisements fit the demographics of the audience?

I ask because you can usually tell who the advertisers are aiming at by the advertisements you see while watching certain shows on TV. While doing mundane household chores, Zag likes to put on old murder mystery shows for background noise – stuff like like Murder, She Wrote, Quincy, Columbo etc… Those shows are inevitably sponsored by those who sell denture cleaning products, adult diapers and erectile dysfunction remedies. I don’t know whether to laugh or be insulted. Which reminds me, do all viewers of animal training or rescue shows have bad skin? Advertisers seem to think so. 

Nope just random rubbish- this really annoying one for a bank that everyone hates, men’s-razors (Gillette teamed up with James Bond…apparently) and a perfume ad- really a mixed bag. The film trailers were Brooklyn, which is everywhere at the moment ’cause it’s an Irish film) and something else that I can’t remember.

Zig said

AppleScruffJunior said 
Nope just random rubbish- this really annoying one for a bank that everyone hates, men’s-razors (Gillette teamed up with James Bond…apparently) and a perfume ad- really a mixed bag. The film trailers were Brooklyn, which is everywhere at the moment ’cause it’s an Irish film) and something else that I can’t remember.

Ahhhhh, THAT was marketing money well spent.

Everything else stayed in there and the last one just slipped my mind- I shall ask my friends tomorrow and report back! 

I imagine you are all waiting with

antici