#41

anyone is welcome to my meerkat movies discount

#42

Them meerkat lads saved me £160 on my car renewal this morning. Still resent paying £320 to only drive to charge my battery.

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#43

admiral gave me £25 because people aren’t driving much nowadays.

always hate having to phone to not renew my insurance, always get the hard sale, and I find it embarrassing to say ‘save your breath I want to go through the meerkats for theoretical rewards I will never use’

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#44

Ruined the whole film is clearly an overstatement but it is obviously fucking irritating and immersion breaking. If you think you might be getting super vital notifications you can’t possibly wait for then you clearly shouldn’t be in a cinema

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#46

If you tick the don’t automatically renew box then you don’t need to do that.

I say that but I don’t remember doing it today!

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#47

Lack of control over other patrons (eating, talking, snoring) puts me off going to the cinema more than the cost (which is loads if you have to factor in a babysitter).

#48

Massively massively more distracting to me than coughs or whatever, the glint just catches my eye and attention away from the screen, even rows in front and is so much more off putting to me that an occasional cough or whatever. Totally immersion breaking.

Remember there used to be a lot of hand wringing about the younger generation always being on their phones in cinemas but, in my experience it’s middle aged people who can’t possibly go two hours without looking at notifications. Boils my piss.

#49

we all joke about london being expensive but having museums to visit

but really the benefit is the small cinemas that are reasonably priced and aren’t full of dickheads

#50

think we should be telling our friends off if it’s going around tbf tbh

#51

Got an idea for a thread

#52

Cinema’s shite though, isn’t it. Should close them off and have everything released straight to streaming services.

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#53

Not sure this is a cromulent order of words but I’m sticking with it

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#54

I understand why they don’t it much, but I bloody love it when a film gets released on streaming services the same day as cinema.

#55

Cromulent. Count how many times you hear that said. Truth is it is simply ‘fine’.

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#56

For the majority of these things*, it’s factors other than money that come into play. In the main, it’s time, distance (I’m a good hour away from the nearest gig venues) and childcare.

*in spite of the on-running joke, I’ve never tried cocaine and can’t ever imagine doing so, even if it was free.

#58

Ahem

#59

wtf people saying they wouldn’t go to more hotels

you saying if a 7 star hotel was £1 a night you wouldn’t be in one every weekend?

#60

was hoping covid will revive the drive in cinema format, outside of london it seems to be a data harvesting scam. someone should put on drive in gigs

#61

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez

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#62

No, all my stuff is at home