.. the other day, just mindlessly browsing some sites while waiting for my samples to dry, when I saw a Gizmodo post about a leaked Iron Man 2 trailer. Naturally appealing to my inner geek, I clicked on the link which directed me to a Youtube video of said trailer.
Now, I was in the office of course and there was no way I was gonna have loud building explosions blaring out of my computer speakers so I fished out my trusty earphones, plugged them in and got down to some Iron Man action.
The damned video, however, was shot in a cinema by someone who had very shaky hands. The audio was utter shit as well. Not unlike your "cinema quality" pasar malam DVDs. It's all good though, because I could still make out what was going on somewhat.
Link to the Iron Man 2 trailer
Now I couldn't make out what the characters were saying because of the blurred audio so I turned my audio up, almost to the max. From the trailer, the upcoming movie was what I expected it to be, loud kabooms, wisecracks by Robert Downey and a brunette Scarlett Jo, what more could you ask for? When the Iron Man 2 title faded in at the end of the trailer, there were loud cheers by the people in the cinema.
Feeling wowed, I decided to watch the trailer again. Halfway into it though, one of my colleagues walked past me en route to the pantry and made a sound gesture with his hand, kinda like a talking mouth gesture. I didn't think too much of it until it hit me. Could it be? Oh no, oh hell no.
I quickly took off my earphones and found out to my horror that, yes, my computer speakers were bellowing out the audio from the trailer as well! And it was really loud! Scrambling for the mouse, I quickly turned the sound off.
Then I sat back and let it all sink in. So for almost 10 minutes, the entire office got to listen to some ignorant bastard watching some bootleg trailer video, complete with super loud explosions and background crowd cheers with the volume cranked up to the max?
And that ignorant bastard is me?
Fuck.
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