Driven to MadnessCaptain Placid asks: What annoying things do significant others, workmates and other people in general do that drive you up the wall? Do you want to kill your other half over their obsessive fridge magnet collection? Driven to distraction over your manager's continued use of Comic Sans (The Font of Champions)? Tell us.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 12:11)
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Hardcore 'shippers.For those of you who don't know, "shipper" is the name given to people who obsess over the relationships of fictional couples. You can't read anything about a TV show these days without someone mooning over some shitty couple on it. Fair enough if you enjoy them, but the idiots who go too far and fight and throw insults around and go absolutely mental if you think their favourite couple is a bit crap drive me up the wall. The comments sections on TV review sites are often a mass of people tearing shreds out of each other over people who don't even exist. It happens in the movies too. Look at all the dumb little teen girls lashing out over Bella and Edward and the werewolf.
What's wrong with these idiots? How pathetic does your life have to be for you to act like that? Do they forget the characters are fictional? I'm assuming that they have no chance what so fucking ever of getting any romance or even a shag themselves so they have to fixate over fictional characters getting some instead.
I don't understand it at all and it drives me nuts.
(, Sat 6 Oct 2012, 2:47, 3 replies)
I know what you mean:"I think Jake should dump Stella and go out with Ray. He's clearly in love with her"
Jake? Who's Jake?Dump Stella? Ray? What?!!? Oh. they're not real people, they're characters from some dumb-ass soap opera you happen to be watching.
And yes it is annoying. What's also annoying is so called 'News Papers' like the Sun reporting storyline from soap operas as if they are an actual news story. Investigative journalism at its finest. Not!
(, Sat 6 Oct 2012, 9:34, closed)
It's a sign of hating your life.People take refuge in fantasy when their own life is full of shit.
Contrary to your assertion I find most of them have relationships in real life, many have children -- it's the realisation they are tied to a life of drudgery with a person who they despise that makes them yearn for something else.
There are a lot of hapilly-married coupkes with kids but I'd wager there are as many couples seething with resentment and looking for a fictional universe to escape to. This explains Harry Potter "for adults" too.
(, Sat 6 Oct 2012, 14:22, closed)
Escaping into a fantasy universe is one thingBut most soap operas seem to be full of drudgery, tedium and misery.
(, Sat 6 Oct 2012, 18:26, closed)
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