people really do suck!

[Mad Maggot]

God, I just have to vent!

The thing is, I love movies. I love, love, love them.

Like everyone around, I have friends, pals, mates and acquaintances. And pretty much each and every of them has this extreme urge to ask me to “get” them “something to watch”. I usually pick like two movies and giving them to the person who asked me to bring them, I usually say, “Please, no scratches and don’t keep them long”, which I think sounds a bit nerdy, but should be working fine. However, it’s not! Everyone knows how much I care about movies and especially about my movies… I don’t know how it is for other people, but I enjoy it when I have my film collection in order and each DVD stands on its rightful place on the shelf. Love it.

And of course it often happens so that if I bring a movie to somebody in my university, half of the class will want to see it afterwards. I hate doing that, but of course I let people take it home and watch, but I also expect it come back to me… eventually! I don’t keep record of who gets the movie after who and when a month passes and I notice that a certain DVD isn’t there, I naturally ask people where the hell it is. Nobody answers. In the end, some prick ends up having it while thinking he gave it back to me. Yeah, right.

Back in September, a uni classmate asked me to bring her FIVE SEASONS of Sex And The City, which is 13 disks… My jaw dropped when I heard that, but I gave them to her nevertheless and told her that when I come back from Germany (in the middle of October), I must have them back the same day. Well, it’s the middle of November now and I’m still waiting. And freaking out!!! To say the least. Why are people such bitches!? My god, this makes me so mad!

I also gave somebody Being John Malkovich and some other movie and now she says she gave them back to me, which of course she didn't (because there’s no way I could’ve forgotten about it and absolutely no chance that I put it somewhere else)… Fucking shit, huh?

Also, when I was at school, people didn’t return me Big Daddy (okay, this is an awful movie, but it was MINE) and Bridget Jones’s Diary on tape and a Papa Roach CD. I might sound like a geek, but movies is probably the one thing I care so whole-heartedly about and I expect people to respect that, especially if they’re taking what I treasure most. However, people suck.

[Backstabba]

This happened with a copy of "Audition"...where my 2 friends kept saying the other friend had it..took me a month to get it back..

I have let my grandma borrow Minority Report, LOTR The two towers, Magnolia, The thin red line, and The manchurian canidate remake...haven't gotten them back yet..

Another friend borrowed American History X, and Battle Royale 1 & 2....2 months ago...

My dad has Swingers, Ransom, and The machinist....

.......AND SOMEONE has Wake up ron burgandy...but I DON'T KNOW WHO....

[gorysnoopy]

This is why I don't lend ANYTHING out.

Now if only my husband could follow my example.

[bigred760]

I lend stuff out, but if those people take their time with it - never again. Most of the time the people take a day or two to watch the movie they've borrowed and then bring it back. Haven't had many problems with lending stuff out.

[electriclite]

The same rule that applies to CDs definitely applies to DVDs.

I lent someone from my art class disc 1 of my Best of U2 1980-1990 and a week or so later HE DROPPED OUT OF THE SCHOOL, as well as my CD.

You should never lend discs unless you've got a ledger book on hand with the name of the DVD the date it was borrowed, whom it was borrowed by and that person's signature. Then when you get it back that person has to sign the ledger again and provide the date that it was returned.

Sure it sounds anal and prissy, but hey man, you're being fucked around with by more people than a Tranny in the meatpacking district after 1 am. They carry knives for a reason, so you you should at least carry a ledger.

The best part about it is that the people who are willing to go through the formality are the exact kind of people who you can trust lending your DVDs to, the ones that complain and throw a big fuss are obviously the ones you shouldn't lend a quarter to in the first place.

But if you don't like the idea of keeping an organized list of the people who have borrowed your movies, THAN DON'T LEND THEM OUT.

It's obviously too much stress and enerrgy on your part for something that doesn't pay you back properly.

And it goes without saying, if somone STOLE my entire collection of Sex and the City DVDs I'd raise HOLY HELL!

[bigred760]

Originally posted by electriclite
And it goes without saying, if somone STOLE my entire collection of Sex and the City DVDs I'd raise HOLY HELL!


If somebody stole my entire collection of Sex and the City DVDs, I'd say: "Wha the hell am I doing owning the entire collection of Sex and the City"? :D

[electriclite]

Originally posted by bigred760
If somebody stole my entire collection of Sex and the City DVDs, I'd say: "Wha the hell am I doing owning the entire collection of Sex and the City"? :D


Actually I think it'd be more like "SHIT! I'm out $300!!!" ;)

[bigred760]

Originally posted by electriclite
Actually I think it'd be more like "SHIT! I'm out $300!!!" ;)


Yeah . . . that too.

[War Movie Mania]

Sort of off subject, but I recently bought a new DVD from Best Buy and when I got home I was going to watch it with my girlfriend...

So I go out of the room for a sec and ask her to take it out of the packaging for me, and when I come back there is a big scratch in the cover of the DVD!

Needless to say, I was a little upset. But she didn't even understand and just asked me what the big deal was? Apparently she just used the old 'brute force' method to get the DVD out of the packaging.

Maybe it's just me but I like to keep my DVD's in perfect condition, they are collectibles in my eyes.

[Danger^Cart]

Don't blame your girlfriend, especially since she is giving you sex, and this is ill advised in any situation.

I blame the fucking people who package it, for not making it easier to open. Apparently you can buy little gadgest that get them open easy, but quite frankly, you shouldn't have to. What is the point of wrapping them up tighter than a nuns vagina?! It serves no purpose. All it takes is a quarter inch extra plastic, in the shape of a tab. Not to mention, ONE FUCKING LAYER! I don't understand why they have to fold those things over one another fifty thousand times. I bought a DVD, not a flipping samurai sword, one fold is enough!

Rant face disengaging in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1....

Rant over.

[Backstabba]

Ugh, on my new DVDs "The devils rejects" and "Saw uncut" because of those goddamn security stickers theres still goo on the dvd cases...:mad:

[Mad Maggot]

Originally posted by electriclite
And it goes without saying, if somone STOLE my entire collection of Sex and the City DVDs I'd raise HOLY HELL!

Well, nobody stole it from me (just yet), I'm just amazed at how long people can keep somebody's else things and not feel guilty about it.

[Moviefan02000]

Originally posted by Backstabba
Ugh, on my new DVDs "The devils rejects" and "Saw uncut" because of those goddamn security stickers theres still goo on the dvd cases...:mad:

That's been happening to me a lot, as of late :(

[electriclite]

Originally posted by Mad Maggot
Well, nobody stole it from me (just yet), I'm just amazed at how long people can keep somebody's else things and not feel guilty about it.

I've been through that kind of situation before, and it always leads to the word "stole", or eventually anyway.

You gotta get bitchy hon, cause if more than one person is doing this to you, its because they've been given the impression that they can.

I learned very quickly that most people percieve you being nice, and friendly as being a "push-over". These people are really taking advantage of your good nature. That's when your bitchy side should be let out to play. Then they don't really know how to play you, and that means that they usually won't.

[KcMsterpce]

I have about 500 DVD movies, and they way I do it is that I loan out ONE MOVIE to someone at a time. If they give it back in a timely manner, then I can somewhat trust them on something else to borrow in the future.

However, if it's a hard to replace movie, I won't loan it out unless I ABSOLUTELY trust that person.

[poopontheshoes7]

I dont let my best friend borrow my dvds. Never!

[Mr. Durp]

Originally posted by Mad Maggot
God, I just have to vent!

Everyone knows how much I care about movies and especially about my movies… I don’t know how it is for other people, but I enjoy it when I have my film collection in order and each DVD stands on its rightful place on the shelf. Love it.



i find this so funny. i am the same exact way. i don't know why, but there are few things as pleasing as seeing my whole dvd collection organized in its entirety.

when i was in high school, i lent a buddy of mine 12 cd's for him to burn. he put them in his locker. they got stolen. granted, he felt horrible and bought them all back with his own money, it still wasn't the same. even though they were the same cd's, it just felt we didn't have the same history with each other. since then, i only lend out my dvd's and cd's (i don't really even have cd's anymore) to people i trust - close friends. probably about 5 people, not including family.

and by the way, "big daddy" is hysterical. don't even try to play it off like it's an awful movie. it was adam sandler's last great one.

[Ki'esha Foxx]

That's why I lend out absolutely nothing! Not even to my closest friends because I know that somehow along the way whatever I've lent them will end up in someone else's hands, whether I know about the transfer or not. The last time I lent something to a friend was two years ago. It was a book in a series I was reading at the time and my friend asked to borrow it. It wasn't a long book, less than 150 pages, so I did. She was moving to Korea or Vegas (I forgot where) in two days and figured she'd be done by then. She was, but forgot to bring it to school on her last day. She still has it, but I'm not that upset over it now. I told her don't worry about it; keep it as a birthday gift. After that, I lent out nothing. I guess I'm just a paranoid weirdo who hoardes her things like they're the most precious things on the planet...wait. They are! Because they're mine. . . . I'm done now.