is a cunt.
Remember VHS tapes? Remember the biggest inconvenience of getting a rental movie was having to rewind the tape because the previous cunt didn’t bother? After that, it was press Play and after a few moments your movie would start. Yes, the picture quality wasn’t always the best. Yes, you might have to dick around with the tracking control to get rid of the black and white bands of picture interference. But you didn’t have to wait long before the opening credits were rolling and you could enjoy the show.
Fast forward (see what I did there?) to today and we have big screen hi-def TVs, multi-channel surround sound systems and hi-def digital discs of your favourite movies. You’ve paid good money for a movie, it’s spinning up in the disc player and you’re moments away from immersing yourself in a visual and audible feast.
Not so fast.
Fucking trailer of another film you’re not interested in. So you’ve basically paid to be advertised to, thus wasting your time and money. Oh wait, the player won’t skip past it either because the main menu option is temporarily disabled on the remote. Bastards! Use fast forward, that’ll fix ’em. Oh wait, another trailer. And another. And another. Finally you get past that crap. Time for the movie you actually paid for? Nope.
A full screen of stills and action sequences from the movie and somewhere buried in there is the option to actually start the movie. Finally, we’re off, right? Nope.
Full screen whine about piracy not being a victimless crime. Yeah, I know. I paid for the fucking disc so can I watch my movie now, please? Nope. Next we get a screen telling us the views and opinions expressed on the disc do not necessarily represent those of the studio who released the film. Really? I honestly thought Liam Neeson was the official spokesperson for Sony Pictures. Do fuck off.
Movie time now? Nope. Next it’s an announcement from Interpol about copyright theft. And you can’t skip that either. Just to make sure you’re even more irritated, the same fucking message comes up next in French, FFS! Can I watch the movie now? Nope.
Full screen telling me the movie’s rating. I don’t care.
Next, full screen telling me it’s a Universal Pictures release. I don’t care.
Next, it’s some animated graphic about the production company. I don’t care.
Next, it’s some logo bollocks about the distribution company. I don’t care.
Next, I’m told it’s a Steven Spielberg movie. I don’t care.
Next, I’m informed who the producer is. I don’t care.
Next, I’m told who the producer worked in association with. I don’t care.
On and on this goes.
I’ve actually timed this on some discs and if you sat through all this crap, it’ll be 15+ minutes before you actually see the first frames of the movie you paid for. That’s pathetic, very annoying and an absolute cunt.
Nominated by : Immigration Yank.
Slightly off topic, but someone on here might know.
You fucking tube. I cannot begin to tell you how much I loathe and despise Google. But that to one side, you’re probably aware that watching a video on YouTube is annoying. Aside from the moronic ad breaks, in the top right corner Google display links to other videos – that’s annoying. Then as the video is almost finished, Google display ’tiles’ over the top of the video you’re watching advertising other related videos. Often those fucking tiles obscure something important in the video you’re watching. It’s absolutely maddening.
Anyone know how to stop that shit from happening? Also, anyone know the address of the cunt who came up with that shitty idea so I can go round there and be thoroughly unpleasant to them. Maybe take a couple of my pals along, Smith and Wesson.
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Download the video so you can watch it offline.
You can use this:
https://en1.y2mate.is/yt-app/
It has a lot of popups but eventually it will show a “Download MP4” button.
There used to be a site called KeepVid but it was closed a few years ago.
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Thanks Anton. I’ll look into that.
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It will fill your cache with shite
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It won’f fill your cache with shite. It’s good if you think something will be deleted from YouTube e.g. Buggernation Street.
It has a few irrelevant pop-unders. You can use it in an incognito tab if you want where the cache will be deleted on exit.
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Good morning and good evening sir.
Youtube ads etc really are bloody awful.
The answer is an installable app for the firestick or Play store enabled TV called Smartube..
It mimics youtube perfectly but is fully customisable and removes all adverts.
https://seo-michael.co.uk/how-to-install-smarttubenext-firestick/
There’s plenty of guides on “how to” via the Web etc.
It’s highly recommended..
Oh yes & fuck Google the money grubbing cunts.
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Thanks Unkle. I looked for smartube on my Android mobile and don’t see it. I’ll try the same from a telly to see if it pops up. Cheers – IY.
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Hello Immigration Yank,
I find that classic art films and classical music concerts on YouTube don’t have adverts. That’s the advantage of being in a minority
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If the occasional add comes along, I switch off the sound, close my eyes and ruffly gage when its time to open them again.
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And by minority you mean cultured and sophisticated. I’m right there with you.
Every Christmas I search on YouTube for a full choir rendition of A Sussex Carol. Christmas radio over here would never play it and I need to hear it otherwise it’s just not Christmas. Never an ad or other interruption to a beautiful performance.
You can take the man out of East Sussex, but you can’t take the East Sussex out of the man. 🙂
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For us it’s The World Of Christmas LP by King’s College Cambridge Choir. Been a family ritual for decades now. Every year we play it, without fail. Also 1958’s. Christmas with Mantovani.
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You all must’ve noticed that when viewing something on YouTube, the bar at the bottom telling you the length of time the article you want to watch, if it doesn’t have yellow dots along it means there won’t be any adds. Each yellow mark is where adds will appear.
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I like google subtitles, they are incredibly off tangent and add to the entertainment.
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Get an ad blocker on pc, get brave browser on phone.
Don’t use the yt app, just use brave on both.
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The overlay tiles are user side.
In the editor you just add either promote my next/last video or a sub tile.
It’s up to the user at what point the tile shows up.
Google is a pile of cunt.
All replies to IY.
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Who the fuck watches DVD’ s or Blue Rays anymore? You can’t rent them. So you must own them. So you’ve probably seen them before. The wait shouldn’t surprise you.
Meanwhile in 2026 we stream our shit and it starts immediately. If you want to be a cheap cunt and watch shit for nothing on you tube expect a few ads. I give up on this site. It used to be a bit funny. Now it’s just whingeing drivel. And a lot of thinly disguised racism.
If you don’t like it, off you fuck – NA.
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Stream? Ads?
Get on the torrent schooner and ride the high seas of Napster.
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