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What's your pet peeve when it comes to tropes? What bothers you when you see it in a show or a movie? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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I'll go first. Mine is the instant knockout drug. Like Dexter's intramuscular injection that causes someone to immediately lose consciousness. Or in the movie Split where there's the aerosol spray in your face that makes you instantly unconscious. Or pretty much any time someone uses chloroform.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Here, I got you this gift." Hands wrapped gift to the recipient. Recipient: "What is it?"

Motherfucker I swear every movie character does this. It's like they've never received a gift before what the hell

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I do this irl

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I think your writers are on strike

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When you do this, what do people say? Do they say "Open it!" or do they ever tell you what it is?

What is the point of wrapping the gift if you're just going to tell the person what's inside?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't like the expectations around gifts in my culture, I don't like surprises, i despise consumerism, I am a minimalist, and I don't like gifts being wrapped. My friends know this.

Usually my response when someone hands me a wrapped gift is to frown and ask what it is and why they got it for me. The feeling is usually "damn it. How many wage slaves suffered for this thing?" And "ugh, now I have something else that I have to lug around and figure out how to find it a new home where it won't end up in a landfill"

If they want to give me something nice (eg cook me dinner or hand me a flower), its appreciated. But not on some strange cultural expectation or wrapped in a dead tree or uncompostable plastic single use trash.