Yippee-IA, Motherf***ers! IRRATIONALLY ANGRY PT. 2: Irrationally Angrier

Something that makes me more irrationally annoyed than irrationally angry:

film posters where they have the names of the main actors listed across the top, and the same actors are all pictured immediately below, but the names aren't above the correct actors.

Yes!

OTMFM

They do it on purpose, for some reason. Maybe just to irritate people! Get more eyes on the poster, even if it’s just to point out and laugh at some of the stranger juxtapositions?

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61twEzxqOwL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg

0 for 5. it should be a match game.

Maybe it’s too on the nose if they line up, it’s like during a sitcom’s opening credits when the character looks at the camera

https://i.imgur.com/eLolXzh.gif

i've noticed this. i've never seen one where it lines up, so i figure they do it on purpose, but wouldn't know how to verify it.

it doesn't bother me for whatever reason

my best guess is that it's some old school superstition

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNTU0NmY4MWYtNzRlMS00MDkxLWJkODYtOTM3NGI2ZDc1NTJhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjU0OTQ0OTY@._V1_.jpg

I'm sure it's a contractual thing but still

ah, yeah, i'm sure that it's it

* that's it

Of course names on a movie poster aren't acting like a chyron and it doesn't always bother me. I think it's mostly when the names are floating immediately above the heads of the wrong people that I notice it and it makes me irrational.

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/mqsAAOSw2gxYn47M/s-l400.jpg unless this is one of those body switch comedies?

Definitely think it’s contractual, like De Niro’s name has to come first when read left to right, but he prefers that his left side is what shows on the poster.

Clearly Murphy and DeNiro are giving the stink eye to the poster designer for getting them backwards.

Actually, this is probably a type of equal billing. Like when there are 2 names at the top of the poster, and the name on the left is lower than the name on the right. One gets horizontal first billing, one gets vertical first billing.

For the movie Outrageous Fortune, half the posters had Bette Midler on the left, half had Shelley Long on the left--not just their names, but the key art was flipped too.

had to look that up...

Both Shelley Long and Bette Midler were promised top billing when they signed to do the film; however, neither was willing to give up top billing to the other. To compromise, Long received top billing in advertising west of the Mississippi River, and Midler received the honor in the east. This agreement extended through the original LaserDisc and VHS release of the title, with discs shipped to retailers in the west featuring Shelley Long and retailers on the east receiving discs featuring Bette Midler.[1]

I think I'd be even more aggravated if instead of every name being attached to the wrong person, just one of them was on the right person and the others were wrong. Never seen that though.

A nice mix here

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-preview.redd.it%2F468gB6XIV5iA7hflaSs0bcUafa7Pyaqw8YP3rnk7iz0.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D0f64c9631a36cd393dc51a4746d3f8a97a7f3222

https://www.blackfilm.com/read/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Triple-Frontier-cast-on-poster.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHB7dAJUQAEdVBX.png

oh god, that hurts as much as I thought it would

What's funny about that one is that they're all obviously Photoshopped together so there's no reason they couldn't have switched Hartnett and Franco

i think the hat might've obscured the guy at the back if both the hatted people were in the front.

the picture is aesthetics, the names are billing, two different things.

yeah, obviously, that's why it's an irrational annoyance.

I don't like people listening to or watching things on anything other than 1.0x - especially if I have to listen to it, I find it almost panic-inducing to even have on in the background (my wife does this for example and I really wish she wouldn't, but as it's in Chinese I can generally tune out) - but I suppose the irrational part here is that I'm annoyed by the thought that anyone anywhere in the world is doing it because it seems like infodumping into your brain rather than taking time to experience and consider, and if something is too dull or unimportant to pay attention to then it's surely better not to bother at all - and the shallow multitasked understanding of things gained from infodumps seems like a curse of the internet age on the world.

amen

i agree with this but my husband does it for his school lectures, and a certain point, i get it— he’s an intelligent guy who needs a piece of paper to get the job he deserves, listening to some asshole drone for 1.5 hrs instead of 2.25 hrs about management strategies in the healthcare context seems like it can be forgiven.

it still drives me crazy in a sonics way tho

Thread title purists

"That song's not really obscure, is it? And it wasn't a single, and you heard it in a supermarket."

If you don't like sic, just say so.

In the UK, you can only buy paracetamol and anti-inflammatories in packets of 16. They generally come in small square boxes, with the tablets in two blister packs. You can open the box either end; one end gives instant access to the treasure but the other involves unwrapping the instructions/list of side-effects etc which is an unreasonable faff.

Now, I'm aware of confirmation bias and all that (yes, the universe is against me) but I ALWAYS get the wrong end. I'm not above starting a spreadsheet to track this shit.

The other day I watched a youtuber making a batch of coca cola from the original recipe, and when he got to the part where the extract of coca leaves was required he said "this is illegal, so I have to substitute something with a similar flavour" - just wasting my time, his time, the viewers time, no idea why he bothered making the video, thumbs down.

'If you’re reading some strange science fiction and books about magic you can kind of get into Bowie’s head and see it’s sometimes quite a strange place.

'A dangerous place, a place you wouldn’t want to live too long.

'The levels of cocaine Bowie was consuming is not just illegal for a professor like myself, but it’s much too expensive – as well as unhealthy.

'So at the weekend I had a six-pack of energy drinks to try and simulate the experience of illegal substances. It made me very jumpy.'

x-posts And that is why I'm bringing a Costco sized bottle of 500 ibuprofen back with me when I go home in March. I hate those stupid small boxes with their no pills in them.

There are mints called ice breakers in the US where one side has a dispenser for one mint and the other has a larger one to dispense a few. The sticker on them is supposed to say something like "to share" on the side that dispenses many and "not to share" on the side where you get on. I used to get these frequently and I think 90% of the time the sticker was on wrong.

> I hate those stupid small boxes with their no pills in them.

this has saved so many lives from accidental (or otherwise) overdoses just by making it slightly harder to stockpile pills (paracetamol especially). it's worked so well that i got a bit o_O when i saw a 3-for-£1 offer in the pound shop recently. (uk law says 100 is the limit, but MHRA 'best practice' says 32)

Yes, I have heard this argument before I don't know how true it is. As far as I'm aware, there isn't a mass epidemic of people ODing on Tylenol in the US despite the fact that you can buy hundreds at a time. Very quick look says there are 200 deaths from paracetamol/acetaminophen in the UK each year and about 500 in the US.

Maybe the impact is on hospital admissions rather than deaths because that would make sense from a policy perspective in terms of the NHS and if that's the case then I can understand the logic. It's just that when you're used to being able to buy much larger quantities of something, and therefore having to do so very infrequently, it's annoying af.

I'm pretty sure the Ice Breakers thing is an intentional joke.

Wait, is it?? You have no idea how long this drove me nuts for. Every once in a while it would be on right but 8 or 9 times out of 10 they were wrong! If anyone has any on them now - check it. I'd love to know.

I would be so miserable without my big ol 500 count bottle of ibuprofen

i have icebreakers on my desk right now. one side says "many" and the other says "one" and the sticker is on correctly. i buy them often and as far as i can remember i haven't noticed the sticker ever being wrong, maybe they stepped up their sticker application game

Thank you for weighing in. I haven't had them in over 5 years but I stg the damn stickers were never on correctly.

i bet they changed "share" to "many" in the covid era, perhaps it was in that moment of reflection they decided to get the sticker on right

CaAL, do you know that Coca-Cola actually has historically been given a special dispensation to import coca extract?

Analogous to how NIH has historically gotten all the drugs they want (in order to study them, of course).

yeah that also annoyed me - even modern day coca cola has coca extract, but this "authentic original version" doesn't!?

Analogous to how NIH has historically gotten all the drugs they want (in order to study them, of course).

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Since Covid I pick up a couple of boxes of paracetamol whenever I'm in Superdrugs cos yeah it's annoying, you can go through a couple of packs in one bout of illness then you haven't got any to keep!

Creative AI is so boring

why does my upstairs neighbor need to shout AT THE TOP OF HIS LUNGS every time he sneezes?

Don’t get me started about neighbors clearing their throats like they’re expectorating baby Godzilla

xp It's cos he takes a deep breath and gets real high