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When my oldest son was single he owned the townhouse he and his wife live in now, but he would put up a string of lights on the plants out front of his house, put up a fake tree and call it a day. My youngest son never decorated until he got married. Hallmark is so unbelievable on all levels. Don't you wish you lived in a town like most of these are set in? I can't make myself watch Hallmark lol.

The only time I can watch the Hallmark channel is during December.

I end my Hallmark Christmas movie binge on 12/26 w/ a re-watching of “Die-Hard”. LOL!

But, yes, this December, as we were watching a Hallmark Christmas movie, I said to my husband, “I would love to live in a Hallmark town!”
 
This past December, we were watching a Hallmark Christmas movie.

In the movie, the single, straight male lead had BOTH an elaborately over-the-top decorated for Christmas house AND yard. There were Christmas trees in every room of his house & lighted garland everywhere - all tastefully done. (But his job wasn’t some CEO-type job where he would have hired a decorator - he just had a regular job & a regular house in the suburbs.)

His yard was decorated w/ tons of white lights, & he had a swing in the yard in front of a fire pit w/ a Christmas blanket conveniently placed on the swing.

Unless the guy is a decorator (& he wasn’t), not in any world, except for Hallmark land, is a single, straight man going to have so many Christmas decorations all over his house & yard. And there’s no way he’s going to have a Christmas-themed blanket for his outside swing.

As a single, straight male, I can confirm. I don't think I even *own* a Christmas decoration (at least one that isn't a Disney ornament that I leave out year-round anyway). My gifts are sloppily wrapped with the same two rolls of wrapping paper I've had for about 5 years now - most things go in bags when possible. I don't have a "christmas blanket" but rather the same old horse blanket on my couch that I've had since I was like 5 years old - don't ask me the last time I washed it (I mean it wasn't that long ago - I'll sometimes toss it in the wash if the cat's not on it, which is like never).
 
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As far as eating/drinking on shows, I have read that due to so many takes it is hard to eat/drink 30 times for 1 scene. But still, it is obviously fake.
I've been getting a lot of Soprano scenes in my Youtube feed lately and just watched one last night with Tony and Paulie on a boat fishing and for 8 minutes Tony kept playing with a heaping pile of rigatoni on a plate. He did finally put a bite in his mouth but it was mostly just poking and stirring at it for 8 minutes. I was chuckling about it, then I see your post after work today.

I can't remember who it was, but in an interview an actress had to take a bite of a chocolate Twizzler for a scene and they kept having retakes. She said she was nearly ill from eating so many bites of Twizzlers which she hated to begin with.
 
Don't you wish you lived in a town like most of these are set in? I can't make myself watch Hallmark lol.

A lot of these movies are filmed locally and I was watching one last month and thinking “ I feel like I have been there recently ”. It was filmed at a local heritage village museum. It is not even a town but an attraction. We went to the Christmas event last year. 😂
 
For the Paul Masson Winery? When I was a kid I had no idea who he was other than for doing those commercials.

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Have you heard? Paul McCartney was in a group before Wings? LOL
 
When my oldest son was single he owned the townhouse he and his wife live in now, but he would put up a string of lights on the plants out front of his house, put up a fake tree and call it a day. My youngest son never decorated until he got married. Hallmark is so unbelievable on all levels. Don't you wish you lived in a town like most of these are set in? I can't make myself watch Hallmark lol.
I was married, so had to do the decorating thing. Divorced now my girls threatened me that they were going to come while I was at work and put up a Christmas tree. I knew they would be too lazy to actually do it, but they did threaten it.
 
I've been getting a lot of Soprano scenes in my Youtube feed lately and just watched one last night with Tony and Paulie on a boat fishing and for 8 minutes Tony kept playing with a heaping pile of rigatoni on a plate. He did finally put a bite in his mouth but it was mostly just poking and stirring at it for 8 minutes. I was chuckling about it, then I see your post after work today.

I can't remember who it was, but in an interview an actress had to take a bite of a chocolate Twizzler for a scene and they kept having retakes. She said she was nearly ill from eating so many bites of Twizzlers which she hated to begin with.

They also have spit buckets around so the actors don't always have to swallow the food.
 
Wealthy people always have a crystal decanter of booze with beautiful crystal glasses to go with it, sitting on a beautiful tray, readily available
in their home all the time - how many people actually do this :confused3
And then don't get me started about how many people have them in their office at work - to funny!!

My husband has this.

Of course, it's a crystal decanter that looks like a stormtrooper and the glasses have the Death Star etched into them. And the decanter is full of Trader Joe's Scotch whiskey. We bougie like that.
 
My husband has this.

Of course, it's a crystal decanter that looks like a stormtrooper and the glasses have the Death Star etched into them. And the decanter is full of Trader Joe's Scotch whiskey. We bougie like that.
OMG!!! Can I come over??!!!!
 
My husband has this.

Of course, it's a crystal decanter that looks like a stormtrooper and the glasses have the Death Star etched into them. And the decanter is full of Trader Joe's Scotch whiskey. We bougie like that.

Love it - sounds fun!
 
It's so unrealistic how smoothly everyone speaks in whole, complete, well-phrased sentences. They're so far removed from real back-and-forth conversations between people. Normally there are weird pauses because someone is trying to think of a word they wanted to use, awkward phrasing because so many of us think as we speak, the odd interruption/interjection, and of course, an absolute torrent of ands, ums, and uhs, which so many of us do subconsciously to signal we're not done speaking yet (we're just buffering at the moment, heh.)

(I do occasionally encounter people who are actually pretty good at speaking un-scripted thoughts smoothly and cleanly without ands, ums, and uhs, but they are few and far between, and quite a pleasure to listen to.)
 
Oh! How about when someone has a baby or is in hospital for any reason, the only people there are the friends/neighbors/coworkers, UNLESS the show is about a family, then EVERY SINGLE member of the extended family shows up.
 
My husband has this.

Of course, it's a crystal decanter that looks like a stormtrooper and the glasses have the Death Star etched into them. And the decanter is full of Trader Joe's Scotch whiskey. We bougie like that.
OMG, now I have to hunt for that! Not much of a drinker, but I do have several bottles of various stuff. I need a whole SW setup.

Sure! BYO lightsaber.
OMG, and now I'm dying! :worship:
 
Patients in the hospital, especially the ER, supplies and/or equipment is at the patients bedside. Need an ultrasound, have it right there. Need anthing, they do not need to leave the room and come back. Doctors and nurses all seem to work the same shifts and then able to go out to a bar together.
 
How about any single cough by a character means IMPENDING and UNAVOIDABLE DEATH
 












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