You Know What Really Grinds My Gears? Now with 3x more gears...

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

You can keep your pervert porn theatres to yourself.

I’m detecting high levels of both judgement and insecurity in this post.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

This is legitimately what keeps me away from the movies now: ####heads. Mostly ####head teenagers. Obviously had to go to a theatre to see Avatar because that's the only way to watch those movies, but we on multiple occasions had to tell the half-dozen high school girls sitting two rows behind us that this wasn't their living room couch and to shut the #### up.

I guess I should go see Oppenheimer in 70mm as that's probably an older crowd and hopefully wouldn't suffer from the same problem, but it was just such a bad experience and leaves such a sour taste in your mouth.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Calgary/com...nheimer_70_mm/

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Oh, for ####'s sakes. Why do people have to behave like animals? Have some god damned shame. How are theatres not dealing with this, given that it can't possibly be a good experience for the 90% of the people in there who aren't being total a-holes and only incentivizes those people not to go? I guess the other alternative is to just hold "old people only" showings, i.e. over 30.

I know for a fact I'm going to end up going to see Dune part II in IMAX. Am I going to have to get up beforehand and yell at everyone that they'd better stay quiet or I'm going to personally give each of them the Gom Jabbar?

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

sit in a movie theatre in marginally comfortable seats surrounded by people (people are the worst) and have to pay too much to watch the film and eat/drink

of

sit in my basement on my comfortable couch, watching the movie in glorious HD, while being able to eat what and when I want and!!!! being able to pause it to go pee or get more drinks/food.

I genuinely lol'd at that sentence. Glorious HD! The finest tech of the 2000's!

[FormerPresJamesTaylor]

Still enjoy going to the movies but it has to be done properly. No opening weekend/week, especially for a big movie. Watching Deadpool opening weekend that time cemented that rule, as the socially awkward autistics were out in force. Literllay dancing during the credits.

Also, I like the fact that I can't pause the thing. It helps me focus, leave my phone off, and I actually finish a movie in an hour and a half, not over five nights as I get distracted by random stuff.

All in glorious HD!

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by FormerPresJamesTaylor

the socially awkward autistics were out in force.

Um... Jesus.

That's... kinda not cool.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by jayswin

I genuinely lol'd at that sentence. Glorious HD! The finest tech of the 2000's!

Nailed it

[Mr.Coffee]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Oh, for ####'s sakes. Why do people have to behave like animals? Have some god damned shame. How are theatres not dealing with this, given that it can't possibly be a good experience for the 90% of the people in there who aren't being total a-holes and only incentivizes those people not to go? I guess the other alternative is to just hold "old people only" showings, i.e. over 30.

I know for a fact I'm going to end up going to see Dune part II in IMAX. Am I going to have to get up beforehand and yell at everyone that they'd better stay quiet or I'm going to personally give each of them the Gom Jabbar?

Movie theatres, for their survival, may wanna consider putting an usher in each theatre and very strictly enforcing no talking / no cell phone. Like soup nazi level.

First time phone light shows? You’re ejected, goodbye. You talking? You have to leave, no warnings. Refuse to? Security dispatched and lifetime ban from theatre.

[RichieRich]

Microsoft auto updates when they auto-reboot and then simultaneously Firefox when it did NOT restore all my open tabs... some of which I'd had open for far too long (a few months) so I wouldn't lose the info but also I was too lazy to save the tab and so I'm whining about first world problems. DAGNABBIT!!

[81MC]

For #### sakes if you’re going to have a fire in your backyard, at least do it right and make sure it’s burning hot and clean. Half our neighbourhood smoked out, my house stinks and I gotta sleep with the windows closed because asshat can’t not burn green ####.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by 81MC

For #### sakes if you’re going to have a fire in your backyard, at least do it right and make sure it’s burning hot and clean. Half our neighbourhood smoked out, my house stinks and I gotta sleep with the windows closed because asshat can’t not burn green ####.

Maybe they like the smell of evergreen needles burning and dislike you....

[jayswin]

81MC has had like 500 neighbourhood gear grinders. I can live with a lot of things and try not to get too upset, it helps feel better when living in a city. (not that you can't still have the odd thing here or there, but you gotta understand that you can't just be mad at everything all the time when living amongst 1.5 million people).

[Locke]

Originally Posted by jayswin

81MC has had like 500 neighbourhood gear grinders. I can live with a lot of things and try not to get too upset, it helps feel better when living in a city. (not that you can't still have the odd thing here or there, but you gotta understand that you can't just be mad at everything all the time when living amongst 1.5 million people).

I like to think of him as an ornery 'Mr. Wilson.'

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by RichieRich

Microsoft auto updates when they auto-reboot and then simultaneously Firefox when it did NOT restore all my open tabs... some of which I'd had open for far too long (a few months) so I wouldn't lose the info but also I was too lazy to save the tab and so I'm whining about first world problems. DAGNABBIT!!

Press ALT then select the History menu that shows up. Find "recently closed windows" and you can reopen them if it hasn't been too long.

[FormerPresJamesTaylor]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Um... Jesus.

That's... kinda not cool.

One of them lost their wallet

[TheIronMaiden]

People over 25 getting balloons for their birthday has to be one of the cringiest things out there.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

People over 25 getting balloons for their birthday has to be one of the cringiest things out there.

I had a guy in his 50's ask me if the company gave employees the day off on their birthdays.

####ing loser

[Mr.Coffee]

I mean, that just sounds like a guy wanting a day off and trying to find a reason to justify it. I doubt he's off "celebrating".

[The Fisher Account]

When someone sends me a photo, and it’s a ‘Live’ iPhone photo… I am so sick of seeing a two second clip of me, blinking and then smiling

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

People over 25 getting balloons for their birthday has to be one of the cringiest things out there.

I keep reading this as "people getting over 25 balloons for their birthday" and I'm like, "That's a #### ton of balloons".

Not great at reading comprehension, but I liked it this way than the other way.

Most people over 25 getting a balloon is because they have friends and families that enjoy humiliating them. Like the friends and families that love the restaurant singing and embarrassing them in front of the whole restaurant.

Birthday person hates it. Restaurant hates it. The only person enjoying this is the person smiling like an arsonist at a fire. ~Brad Upton, paraphrased.

Originally Posted by The Fisher Account

When someone sends me a photo, and it’s a ‘Live’ iPhone photo… I am so sick of seeing a two second clip of me, blinking and then smiling

NGL, you described this like a photo in the Harry Potter universe. I thought it sounded kinda cool.