The cinema is better on your own somehow

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Your da

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Going to McDonald’s, or more specifically queuing for ages out of the car park, onto the road, to get a drive through burger at like all times of day… particularly when the place is right next to a supermarket. Baffling.

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Ceremonies (religious / royal / political)

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Can’t really suspend disbelief enough to ever be actually scared by a film really. The best horror films have good allegorical stuff in though, or just do a good job at building tension and stuff. Otherwise they’re just fun sillyness imho.

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Pcbe

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This, but for films generally. If you’re watching a hollywood film, you know that within two hours everything’s going to be OK, so I find myself just waiting for the inevitable resolution to it all.

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This made an hilarious joke in my head. It really doesn’t work on any level

Sorry

Made sense when there was only 1 machine with audio/visual capabilities within a 50 mile radius, but now it’s just about nostalgia (and to a lesser extent better acoustics I think). I do concentrate more on films in cinemas and that usually means I enjoy them more to be fair, despite hell being other people.

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Rubbing oil/butter into the skin of a chicken before roasting, popping lemon/herbs into the cavity, cutting out the backbone if I’m spatchcocking it, threading pieces onto skewers for kebabs… I do a lot of chicken touching.

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I put two and a half limes in the cavity of the last chicken I roasted

you might think that sounds ott but it was fucking delicious

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I only do the first one of those with any regularity but tbh it doesn’t make any difference what you use to rub the stuff in, you can use a spoon or something and nobody’ll ever know

I’m not going to rub butter into a chicken with a spoon.

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it’s very Chris Morris-sounding

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100% behind this. I think, in the last decade or so I’ve only visited the cinema with someone else was for a film I knew we would both laugh at each other throughout (Justice League) or that I had already booked tickets for and a friend went “oooh, I want to see that too” (A one off screening of The Thing, Bladerunner 2049)

It doesn’t help for me that most films I want to see are not showing in my home town, so it’s hard to twist someone’s arm to go on a 40 minute bus trip to see The Two Popes when it’ll be on Netflix the next day.

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That’s up to you, but it’s not unreasonable to not want to touch lethal bacteria-laden slime with your hands!

Reminds me of my favourite line from The Day Today:

" the Home Secretary announced that he personally will be going into the tunnels this weekend – armed with a special gun"

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Standing up to wipe ones bottom after :poop:

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Booze

Expensive drink that you have to pretend isn’t disgusting until you start enjoying it that makes you feel bad for eight hours for like a sweet spot of an hour or two of benefit if you’re lucky.

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