Acting Pet Peeve

[slythwolf]

You know how, in a play or a film or a television show or even a commercial, two characters will be talking and one of them will interrupt the other? Of course you do, I mean, obviously.

But you know how almost everyone always delivers the interrupted line as if the character knew zie was about to be interruptedGod damn, does that ever drive me up

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[22by7]

I HATE IT TOO.
my mum watches a bunch of soaps and characters keep laying in expectant pauses. there is also fake stammering and mumbling. it makes my toes curl with irritation.

the school thing - happened to me all the time and nobody cared. and i did in fact tune out at a crucial phase. i still regret it, but it was incredibly demoralising.

[slythwolf]

At one point I got one teacher who allowed me to do group projects by myself. It was still me doing the work of three people, but at least I got credit for all of it.

[samantha_vimes]

but which she will resent and which will only teach her that for the rest of her life, if she lives up to her potential, that potential will be used to reward idiots who sit on their asses and stare at the wall in hopes that someone like her will come along to fix their grades so they don't have to ever learn anything or do anything for themselves, ever, ever, ever, in their entire lives.

If you hadn't said the next thing about it being an accurate life lesson, I would have. I was that same person in school, the one assigned to work with the lazy or dull, and it continues.

[vengence_on_ice]

it also steadily beats out of you any enthusiasm you might have had for any area of academic study whatsoever, because you learn to associate all of it with drudgery and other people taking credit for your awesomeness, which, if you happen to have undiagnosed ADD, only discourages your brain from hyperfocusing on the superfun awesome school stuff you used to really enjoy, causing you to suck more and more in all your subjects even though you understand everything perfectly.

How familiar that sounds. I saw no point in doing busy work when I already knew the material when I was in high school. As a result, I failed three classes, and I didn't care. Still don't, actually. Unfortunately, my laziness resulting from continual slacking off and still doing fairly well in school has come back to bite me in the arse. I now have to force myself to do the work, as they are the bigger portion of my grade, rather than the tests.