Here’s several just off the top of my head:
- When people throw pills into their mouths and don’t wash them down with water.
- When people don’t say “goodbye” before hanging up the phone.
- When people don’t lock the doors of their cars before leaving them.
- When people push food around their plates for several minutes without putting any in their mouths.
- When people are very obviously drunk or stoned and then miraculously sober or straighten up in the blink of an eye.
Feel free to add to this list.
#1 by Sean on 11 April 2010 - 4:11 pm
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6. When people drive, talking to the passenger, without looking at the road for long stretches of time.
#2 by Scott Bridges on 11 April 2010 - 4:14 pm
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Oh, yeah. That shits me.
#3 by Toaf on 11 April 2010 - 4:16 pm
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When phone numbers start with 555.
#4 by Darryl Mason on 11 April 2010 - 4:29 pm
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When people travel overseas in movies and NEVER stock up on duty free booze and smokes.
When people never interrupt long, emotional rants or confessions by saying, “Look, I know this important, but I’ve really got to take a piss. Now.”
When people hang out with wookies and are never shown having to help with the extensive brushing duties and the removal of assorted burrs and general grot.
#5 by regina on 11 April 2010 - 4:42 pm
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long passionate kisses that end with not a single smudge of lipstick on either person’s face. notable exception: ‘this is england’.
#6 by Scott Bridges on 11 April 2010 - 4:43 pm
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Fuck yeah. That was one disturbing kiss.
#7 by Dave Gaukroger on 11 April 2010 - 4:49 pm
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When nothing blows up or gets shot.
When there are no spaceships or flying cars.
When people have tidy houses.
George Clooney’s teeth.
But most of all, Australian movies that spend 90+ minutes torturing you with either pathetic attempts at comedy (The Nugget) or with some morbidly depressing story with no actual arc to the characters (AFI Award winners).
#8 by mutatedwombat on 11 April 2010 - 5:01 pm
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When everyone is better looking than me.
#9 by Scott Bridges on 11 April 2010 - 5:02 pm
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Happens to me all the time.
#10 by Andy B on 11 April 2010 - 6:27 pm
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When all cars come to a stop with a screech, no matter how slow or fast they are travelling or the road conditions at the time.
#11 by Bron on 11 April 2010 - 9:59 pm
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When they order a drink and then don’t drink it. And also in some films, when they don’t seem to have paid for the drink.
Lighting up a cigarette, smoking one puff then stubbing it out. You never see a cigarette smoked to the end. Always long and freshly lit and tres cool.
One minute this person’s head or hair or arm or whatever is in *this* position, next thing, it’s moved without them moving at all. Know what I mean?
When someone is driving, the scenery out the back window reveals twists and turns and corners, but the driver doesn’t move the steering wheel accordingly.
When objects take forever to hit each other despite being THAT CLOSE to each other. FFS, you’re less than 5 metres away, why haven’t you crashed yet?
#12 by Bron on 11 April 2010 - 10:00 pm
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They don’t talk like us. They never “umm, ahhh” or say something wrong (eg, “par cark”. Yes, I’ve been known to get that one muddled).
#13 by skeptic on 12 April 2010 - 10:44 am
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Following on from Andy’s comment at #10, when car tyres screech on dirt roads.
#14 by Ross Sharp on 12 April 2010 - 12:24 pm
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“Directed by Michael Bay”
#15 by Idlaviv on 12 April 2010 - 4:24 pm
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The ubiquitous ‘paid-for’ cigarette/apple props and body doubles.
#16 by Campbell on 12 April 2010 - 6:42 pm
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Actors.
#17 by Luscious on 12 April 2010 - 6:51 pm
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Women who climax in ridiculous positions within 30 seconds.
#18 by Rx on 12 April 2010 - 7:34 pm
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Canned laughter in sitcoms shitcoms me.
#19 by Simon N on 13 April 2010 - 5:31 pm
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Poorly mixed post-sync dialogue slapped onto any old shot in which the actor has their back to camera, for the sole purpose of explaining something that didn’t really need explaining but got the ADR treatment because test screenings are full of morons.
#20 by Raymond Bukk on 13 April 2010 - 7:32 pm
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Punch soundeffects. Ive been punched dozen’s of times and it does’nt sound anything like that crisp Snap in the movie’s.
#21 by Bron on 13 April 2010 - 8:00 pm
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Is that why you’ve ended up looking like that, Raymond Bukk? One punch too many?
#22 by Raymond Bukk on 13 April 2010 - 8:05 pm
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I never claimed to be an oil panting.
#23 by phyllis.stein on 15 April 2010 - 1:20 pm
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Driving up to the “spot” with the window down, (nice clear head shot through the window) and walking away leaving it parked with the window down, (& there’s always a parking spot).
#24 by Molesworth on 15 April 2010 - 2:15 pm
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Ben Mendelsohn.
#25 by Idlaviv on 15 April 2010 - 2:22 pm
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I understand why. But like a pro tennis player’s oversized dominant arm, I can’t stop looking at it:
1. Tyre burn-out marks from a previous take.
2. Hosed down roads/tunnels for a night-time shot.