British Expats - Pet Peeves?

When you go somewhere for a bite to eat where you seat yourself like the grocery store cafe and you see people on their own sitting in the large tables with 4+ seats.

Tw@splinters.

Sit in the billy no mates table for 2 in the corner you shart.

Around here people from different parties will readily share tables, but I get your point. That never happened in my experience in the UK.

Bob	Jun 17th 2016 2:06 pm

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Originally Posted by mrken30 (Post 11976715)

Around here people from different parties will readily share tables, but I get your point....

Around here, not so much....plus with a couple of kids and the missus, that last table for 4 when there were about 6 table for two's along the wall.

I was a bit grumpy during the grocery shop.

My wrath was well spread though, so this person didn't feel singled out :/

BubbleChog

Jun 20th 2016 7:33 am

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People talking in the cinema. WHAT THE **** IS WRONG WITH THEM!!! I never came across it as much in the UK as I do in the US.

The worst was when I went to see Tim Burtons Alice in Wonderland and the woman next to me spent half the film dirty-talking to Johnny Depp on screen; though the woman who insisted on growling/purring every time Black Panther came on screen during Civil War is a close second

mrken30

Jun 20th 2016 7:41 am

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Originally Posted by BubbleChog (Post 11978690)

People talking in the cinema. WHAT THE **** IS WRONG WITH THEM!!! I never came across it as much in the UK as I do in the US.

I remember one movie I went to see in the UK , the person next to me was talking on the phone through 90% of the film.

People using phones in cinema I also find distracting as they are quite bright.

Hence why I very very rarely go to the cinema these days.

Pulaski

Jun 20th 2016 7:46 am

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Originally Posted by mrken30 (Post 11978696)

.... People using phones in cinema I also find distracting as they are quite bright. ....

The cinemas I go to have an instruction message shortly before the film starts to not use phones for exactly that reason, and it ends with a warning that management will remove people who ignore this instruction. I don't go to the cinema a lot, but I don't recall ever seeing someone using a phone/screen.

Nutek

Jun 20th 2016 7:48 am

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Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 11978699)

The cinemas I go to have an instruction message shortly before the film starts to not use phones for exactly that reason,

Everywhere does that.

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I don't recall ever seeing someone using a phone/screen.

Lucky. It's the main reason I almost never go anymore.

Pulaski

Jun 20th 2016 7:52 am

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Originally Posted by Nutek (Post 11978700)

Everywhere does that.

Lucky. It's the main reason I almost never go anymore.

We're more civilized in The South. :)

sir_eccles

Jun 20th 2016 7:53 am

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I guess this counts as a pet peeve right now...

Nutek

Jun 20th 2016 7:54 am

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Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 11978702)

We're more civilized in The South. :)

You have a really unpopular flag though. :p

Pulaski

Jun 20th 2016 7:58 am

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Originally Posted by sir_eccles (Post 11978703)

I guess this counts as a pet peeve right now...

Stay cool! :shades_smile:

mrken30

Jun 20th 2016 8:07 am

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Originally Posted by sir_eccles (Post 11978703)

I guess this counts as a pet peeve right now...

Did your AC break?

Nutek

Jun 20th 2016 8:20 am

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Originally Posted by sir_eccles (Post 11978703)

I guess this counts as a pet peeve right now...

That's not too bad. It's still blue.

mrken30

Jun 20th 2016 8:21 am

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I thought it was supposed to be 160 to make sure its fully cooked, only 40 more to go

Jerseygirl

Jun 20th 2016 9:12 am

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Originally Posted by mrken30 (Post 11978696)

I was at the movies when the woman a couple of rows in front was on the phone...then she passed it to the woman behind and said 'she wants to speak to you'. :blink:

I have also seen baby strollers in the aisle...obviously the R rated movie was a must see for the parents.

BubbleChog

Jun 20th 2016 9:46 am

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Originally Posted by Jerseygirl (Post 11978760)

Taking kids to adult films is another peeve. I certainly didn't get a baby sitter so I could listen to someone elses kid yowl through a non-kid film

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