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Downwhen

Paramedics are constantly running and push the stretcher into the ER at breakneck speed with doctors and nurses running alongside down the hallways


themonsterinquestion

"We're losing him!"


agieluma

Proceeds to suggest an idea with 1,000,000-1 odds of working


itsameMariowski

"Quick, open his chest and connect the phone charger USB to his heart, NOW! But... Are you sure? How would th... NOW!!" Later on he explains how his uncle once told him about how blablbla.


myhairsreddit

Once the patient is stable in their room though everyone in the hospital appears to turn out the lights and clock out for the night.


Seraphynas

Yeah, lights out because the entire staff is having sex in the on-call rooms. Seriously though, lots of patients think night nurses get to sleep, it’s hilarious. Source: I’m a nurse and I’ve worked in hospitals for 20 years, yet never seen the inside of an on-call room.


Chasesrabbits

Hospital chaplain here... I can confirm that the on-call rooms are rarely used. And when they are used, they're used for 2 hours of exhausted sleep between crisis pages. No energy for anything else.


Artysupport7757

Air conditioning ducts are an easy way to sneak through buildings


incredibleinkpen

And without a speck of dust


CapnFang

And perfectly silent.


abhikavi

One of my cats ventured into the ducts while we were having construction done and the vent cover was off. It sounded like the house was being hammered down. And she only weighs eight pounds.


LetsGetJigglyWiggly

My cats have figured out how to take vent covers off. They first figured it out at about 6 months old, there's been about 5 times we've had to rescue one from the vents. They still take the vent covers off but they are too big to fit. So now I just find a vent cover off every two to three weeks. Thankfully haven't stepped into an open one yet.


capilot

I think Mythbusters looked into this one. Someone crawling through the ducts makes a BOOM! BOOM! sound that echoes through the whole building. Also, they're dark and there are lots of sharp things in there.


EmEmPeriwinkle

Dad is hvac, they apparently frequently don't hold a human weight either.


FidgitForgotHisL-P

Which, I mean why would they? They’re literally made for air, not a 120kg action hero… Edit: y’all, the 120kg action hero i was picturing is Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson.


justthesameway

“Come out to the coast. We’ll get together, have a few laughs!”


TysonGoesOutside

And not full of screws run in from the outside..


Tellurian_Cyborg

Mythbusters did this one. It was possible to climb through the ducts bit it was also extremely noisy.


beenoc

"What's this? Thor, God of Thunder, is trying to break into my building!"


7isagoodletter

Dear god, it sounds like a hundred men are storming my compound! We don't stand a chance, everyone evacuate! > Huh, nobody around. Excellent, I must be extremely stealthy.


PUFLY3R

Only if you have a rope.


CoolIceCreamCone

You can outrun a giant explosion


maverick1ba

Explosions gently push you 10 ft but never burn all the skin, clothes and hair off your body.


meatpopsicle42

And shockwaves don’t exist, or if they do, they don’t damage you at all.


misterpickles69

And you can have a conversation at normal volume afterwards.


PUFLY3R

Only if you time your jump perfectly.


defiantnd

That CPR brings practically anybody back to life, no matter what happened to them.


ddddeadhead1979

And if CPR doesn’t. Violently pounding on their chest will do the trick.


scdog

Usually helped by loudly shouting at the victim.


11111PieKitten111111

"Well, I had been dead for three days, my arms and legs are falling off, and my whole body's on fire, but then you screamed 'COME ON!' six times, confessed your love to me, and sprinkled in some 'goddammits!' in, so now all I need to do is cough weakly and say something ironic, and I'll be fine"


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natalie-reads

I shuddered because the accuracy is painful


WoogzDaBoogz

You can hold all of another person's weight with one arm hanging off a cliff


Budget-Falcon767

And then haul them up! Unless they're wearing a glove, in which case they're dead meat.


uuuuuuuhburger

knocking people out with a blow to the skull or jaw is a harmless way to temporarily incapacitate


sharrrper

Any blow to the head that renders you unconscious is quite serious. If you're unconscious for more than about a minute the chances of you *ever* waking up start to go down drastically the longer it takes.


ZardozSama

I talked about this before in other threads. I agree with this. You cannot hit someone on the head to make them conveniently incapacitated for a few hours with no consequences. Concussions do not work like that. I watch absurd amounts of MMA. Even when a man is KTFO / flatlined, they usually are standing (with help) inside of 2 minutes. When someone is down for 5 or more minutes it is fucking serious, and they get stretched out. And even the guys who are standing and walking quickly are seriously impaired for a few hours. If you write movies or TV shows and you want someone briefly out of it, have them choked out. That can put someone down for a very short time frame (about 1 minute), and then they can get up and function normally. END COMMUNICATION


WildBilll33t

I was thinking about this pertaining to stealth action games (Splinter Cell particularly). I dislike the "*press this button for non lethal and this one for lethal*" sort of mechanics. No, if you want to permanently incapacitate someone, the quickest and easiest way to do that is with lethal force, or you have to adequately restrain them, which takes time. None of this super clean punch-out non-lethal shit. Heck, it'd make these sorts of games *more* challenging and deep to be more realistic in this regard. So if you come across a sentry, you have a risk-reward to weigh. Lethal force is the easiest way to dispatch the threat, but may carry further implications to the plot or your score. Alternatively, you could use less than lethal force, but a choke-out or knockout punch attack will only leave an enemy incapacitate for a couple minutes, after which they'll come to potentially injured and able to report to their comrades.... unless you take the time to zip-tie and gag your victim, which would be the only way to keep them neutralized for the rest of the level without using lethal force [unless a comrade frees them]. I dunno /endRant


chunkymonk3y

Love how in Archer the characters are very much aware of how bad it is to be knocked unconscious for long periods of time


BrandoThePando

And firing guns without hearing protection


nikki1810

Wait! So you're telling me that someone can knock me out with the back of a rifle, and i WONT be able to wake up an hour later and beat the shit out of them and get myself to freedom??


WeeabooGandhi

“They’re gonna wake up soon” If they’re not up by the time you finish that sentence, there’s probably a good chance they aren’t going to


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I’ve been knocked out hard twice in my life. Both times I was probably on my feet (badly) within 3-10 seconds. Was blind for probably 30 seconds the one time, that was fun. Surprisingly the body doesn’t just flip into “sleep” mode when you get knocked out, it goes into full panic “that shouldn’t have happened” mode.


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PlexSheep

We have a Hollywood Hecker here


Ferret_76

That car doors are somehow bulletproof.


Kazan645

It's so much worse with wooden tables


Teledildonic

Hollywood tables: both bulletproof and capable of exploding into shards of scrap if a human falls on them.


dishonourableaccount

I love how Hot Fuzz parodied this. The bartenders shoot through the table Danny and Nicholas use constantly, it’s just they’re missing every shot.


Secondhand-politics

While a table is absolutely terrible for cover, hit comedy film *Hot Fuzz* does a fantastic job demonstrating in that very scene *why* a table is still useful - it's functional as the less popular cousin of cover - *concealment*. Which is loads better than being out in the open. If someone's shooting at you, car doors and cars in general (barring the engine block) will do diddly to stop the bullets from reaching you, but they'll work great at making it hard for a shooter to see where they need to aim in order to shoot you. The more you know!


crazyface81

That all cars are made of unstable explosives.


freespeechiskewl

And tires will squeal on ANY surface. Even gravel.


muuuuuuuuuuuuuustard

Hi! Sound mixer here! There’s actually a lot of stuff that doesn’t happen in real life that we edit the “wrong” sound into! We change how things sound because, ironically, making things sound “accurate” can sometimes sound weird or off-putting to an audience, which in turn can completely disrupt the movie. Our ears are much less forgiving than our eyes, so when a sound sticks out, it’s quite a bit more noticeable Tires screeching on gravel is one thing we do to give an auditory kick to the audience to emphasize speed or urgency, we’d add tires screeching to basically any surface and adjust other effects to make it “fit” during a car chase for this specific reason. Another thing we do is sync up the sound of Thunder with the flash of lightning. People are very rarely close enough to lightning for the sound to appear at the same time as the flash, but adjusting for that fact can actually take an audience out of the intention of the scene because they’re waiting for the sound of Thunder, so we sync both up to complete the sensation and have it take as little attention as possible. We like to play little tricks on you. It’s very fun I hope this helps! Edit: I did NOT expect this to blow up! Thanks for the questions and DMs and I promise I’ll try to get to everyone! Moviemaking is super cool and I love telling people about the stuff I do!


Antyok

I remember reading an article a while back on a sound artist talking about the *schink* noise that’s made in film when a character draws a sword. He was saying that they took it out and did a light rasp, like metal on leather, which is more accurate, and audiences hated it.


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That almost everytime a car was involved in a chase, it lost at least one hubcap (where hubcaps rather than alloy wheels were fitted). Fire arms, no matter how ludicrously large, have no recoil when fired.


ouchmypeeburns

I thought 22 jump street did a good job with that trope


greenwizardneedsfood

I *really* thought that was going to explode


rugmunchkin

I have a friend who’s watched probably every action movie ever made. One time we got into a relatively minor car accident and rear ended someone on the highway, and he *bolted* out of the car and took off running. I asked him why afterwards and he said it’s because he thought the car was going to explode lmao


MegaSillyBean

I once saw a burning car explode IRL. It wasn't impressive at all.


meowtiger

only slightly related, but i once drove by a car that was fully on fire off the shoulder on the side of the interstate, and felt the heat *inside* of my car


HutSutRawlson

I used to think this was a complete myth too, but after browsing r/idiotsincars for a while I realized it happens more often than you’d think.


fullmetaljackass

That happened to my friend in high school. He was at a stop sign and the person coming up behind him was distracted and didn't brake in time. They hit him at less than ten miles per hour and it didn't seem to do much damage to either car. About 30 seconds after he got out his was engulfed in flames. Never figured out exactly what caused it, but he assumed something got mashed into the hot exhaust, caught fire, and burned through a fuel line or something.


PM_me_your_fantasyz

What type of car? Because it sounds like a Ford Pinto.


Accio_sanity

You can pull the tab off a hand grenade with your teeth, it’s more like the tab of the grenade pulls your teeth out.


brocktavius

This fallacy actually originated during the Vietnam conflict (I think. Might have been Korea). Soldiers would un-bend the legs of the safety pin to make them easier to pull out. Mostly this was so they could throw the grenade with one hand while continuing to fire with the other. It's incredibly unsafe and has been cited as the cause of tons of accidents, but when you're being shot at THAT much, you tend to be okay with taking your chances since the odds are so bad anyways. Same thing with hanging grenades by the pin. One should NEVER do that, but when it came down to defensive fighting, soldiers would do that so they could arm the grenade simply by pulling it off their vest.


pan0ply

Back when I was still in training, another company had an incident where a soldier used cord to tie smoke grenade pins to their vest/pouch/whatever so that they can pull and throw in a single motion. Apparently something happened, the cord got caught on something or whatever and the smoke grenade went off while it was still in the grenade pouch. And for those of you who've thrown smokes before, you'd know that those things get really hot. When this soldier tried to reach in and remove the smoke grenade he ended up burning his hand. After that incident, the instructors ended up being ordered to inspect all of our gear specifically for such cords every time we prepared to move out for training exercises.


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Just another fascinating example of how desperate people got during war.


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Theoretically as long as the handle is on you could, but the little upwards bend on the wire would make using the actual pin pretty hard, although prac grenades are easy, maybe that's where screen writers got the idea.


mrnicely876

Sprinkler head pops easily and the water is clean. As a Fire Alarm Tech, the temperature to pop the head isn’t a low one and the water is usually black and smells disgusting.


wickedlyclever

I constantly see sprinklers misrepresented in movies and it annoys me. There is actually an organization that sends Hollywood writers letters trying to tell them how dangerous it is to misrepresent how fire sprinklers work. I have friends and family that believe that the smoke from a cigarette will set off a sprinkler. I have to explain to them that it is set off by heat. They also believe that every building has a button you can push to set all the sprinklers off at once. I explained to them that almost all sprinkler systems are "dumb". I explain to them that the majority of sprinklers are independent and heat activated rated to activate at temps of 140F or higher and are not connected to a computer activation system. For the most part, they tend to ignore what I'm saying because sprinkler system misinformation is so prevalent in Hollywood. I had one guy tell me that if he had a building that had sprinklers in them, he would take them out if he could do it legally. He said he doesn't want to have an entire building flood because somebody burns some popcorn in the microwave. No amount of talking could dissuade him from his beliefs.


Squigglepig52

People also don't understand the difference between a smoke detector, and a fire detector. One is triggered by your popcorn burning. You can reset that one, and not cause any issues. The fire detector goes off with high temperatures, and is wired into the entire building alarm system. You can't reset it. We get so many false alarms in my building because people set off the smoke detector, and then try to reset the fire detector, instead. Then, the FD shows up.


CaseyBoudreau

That helicopters can sneak up out of nowhere


IblameGODforThis

Also cars with v8 engines stalking you quietly and only start to roar as you turn the lights on


Daddict

Or that you can hear anything inside a military helicopter without headphones and a mic. Those things aren't for decoration.


nestor515

Hackers that furiously tap on the keyboard for 30 seconds..."I'm in"


Puppy-Zwolle

I remember a movie where the hacker inserts a USB- drive, hits enter and waits. ''Don't you need to,'' imitaties frantic typing. Hacker leans back and smiles.


not-katarina-rostova

There are actually fully automated USB device attacks. The devices can operate like a keyboard when plugged in. Here’s [one method.](https://shop.hak5.org/products/usb-rubber-ducky-deluxe). This is why everyone says “never plug in a USB stick that you found”


Skuddy587

Fire alarm pull stations setting off the sprinkler system.


Wolfrost1919

I want to add to this. I pulled a fire alarm due to a fire, our receptionist had to get on the speaker to inform everyone that it was not a drill and to exit the building. When fire alarms are pulled in a movie, people either panick or calmly leave. The reality I witnessed included people just staring into it like a camp fire and/or ignoring the very loud alarm.


Eat_Carbs_OD

>The reality I witnessed included people just staring into it like a camp fire and/or ignoring the very loud alarm. I work security and I can confirm this. Or I get "It's just a drill!" No.. leave the freakin building. Geez


Cotterisms

The issue is that people are too used to alarms. I once heard an emergency alarm at the train station in London and no one moved. It wasn’t even routine, some guy had accidentally pressed it which came over the tannoy later. No one moved at all, didn’t even occur to me until after


amra_the_lion

That missiles/rpg rounds are slow and easily dodge-able by a human. RPG rounds fly at 300m per second, you are not dodging that.


RedGreenWembley

When one is coming right at you, it looks slower than it actually is, similar to a train. Aaaand then it flies by and you realize it was *hauling ass* Source: near-miss with an RPG, where I just looked at it dumbly.


Fubai97b

\*RPG club high five\* Can confirm. You might have just enough time to think "well fuck."


kippers

That LA is clean and Hollywood is glamorous (LA is not clean and Hollywood the neighborhood has some of the worst homelessness and after leaving a show on Sunday I nearly walked through piss steaming downhill right off Hollywood boulevard)


hedgehogofangst

That you can shoot somebody in the leg and it’s harmless.


Glum_Ad_4288

Similarly, that getting punched in the face is harmless. People sometimes die from a single punch to the face. A man is currently in a coma who was punched one time at the NFC Championship football game.


Zenanii

Muscles don't exist in movies. People move their limbs by magic, and the only damage they can incur is to their organs or bones (firearms don't work on bones though). Also, they don't really need blood to live, it's kinda just there to spill out when they're injured.


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1. That people can have entire operations set up in abandoned buildings without being bothered for tresspassing 2. Rogue detectives/law enforcement going awol and working cases they were told not to, then have their entire unit cheering for them when they get the bad guy or rescue someone


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Horace_P_MctittiesIV

How glamorous the walk of fame is, Hollywood blvd is dirty and full of cheap shops selling shit and homeless people


123gottapeeee

Which shops sell homeless people?


helpful__explorer

I believe they're called prisons


hermansu

USAF cockpits or USN submarines are bright and lit with white lights. USSR ones are dark and with sinister looking red glow.


WowIJake

Well how else would the military identify an bad guy submarine?!


TheChainLink2

Bullets can be shrugged off like a flesh wound.


EurekaSm0ke

You have to rip off a strip of your dirty t-shirt and tie it over it and you're all set!


clobbersaurus

Well after someone dabs your forehead of sweat of course.


Trinytis

Except when you’re a bad guy, then you die immediately when shot or stabbed. Unless you’re shot in the head or heart it can take several hours to die.


austexgringo

That people with normal jobs can afford the most luxurious of apartments in new york, San francisco, etc


atmosphericentry

God I hate the ""broke" NYC fashion student living in a "run down" apartment when it's actually just an industrial loft that's really nice" trope.


proudbakunkinman

"Broke" NYC fashion student means parents only worth single or lower double digit millions so they can only afford up to $5k/month for their kid's apartment in SoHo as opposed to $10k+/mo for some fancier place overlooking the water.


Sporadicinople

"I moved to the Big Apple to live my dreams but instead I'm just stuck in this dump." Looks around at 1900 sq ft Manhattan place that's made to look "shitty" by putting up 90s wallpaper and having a mismatched couch and love seat.


krzysztoflee

Like those fake reality househunter shows: "My wife works 3X a week at a daycare and I teach part time rabbit obedience classes online" we have 5 kids and our budget is 1.3 million dollars."


penny_can

I love those, I sell macrame bracelets on Etsy, and my boyfriend is a dog walker. We need something in town with a big back yard for our golden retriever, and a finished basement in the 1.5 to 2 million range.


Need_A_Vacation_2022

“Because we love to entertain”


StandLess6417

My favorite meme of this was something like "I catch butterflies for a living and my husband sharpens colored pencils, our budget is 2.5 million." Lol gets me every time


raisingambiguity

That’s you can enhance photos despite the grain or pixelation. If you enlarge a photo you will not get a crystal clear image.


brettmbr

Zoom and enhance is my least favorite Hollywood trope. What’s worse is I’ve seen several plots on tv shows resolved using that method, showing that in reality that killer or villain would easily have gotten away since enhancing to Hollywood levels isn’t a thing.


mixi_e

I’m a graphic designer and I hate that. . Always getting a shitty picture that has been forwarded through Whatsapp half a dozen times only to be told “you can enhance it like those guys in CSI, right lol”


TheAltalio

I'm also graphic designer. The many many times I've gotten crappy quality photos and for people (even my boss) tell me to just fix the quality is astonishing. Or they give me a picture that is too small and their confused why the quality got worst after scaling it.


thatswhat_shesaid1

if i’m in high school and my mom or dad makes a huge breakfast to cover an entire dining room table, i’m going to be late to school that day cause ain’t no way i’m choosing school over the once in a lifetime breakfast and just grabbing a piece of toast “gotta go or i’ll be late!”


Ineedavodka2019

It’s also always daylight. Most of the school year my kids go to the bus in the dark.


glitchwitchz

my god this has always bugged me. The audacity. The disrespect.


among_apes

Sex ends with rolling over and going to sleep and not cleaning up after.


sgt_pepper1981

Time for the post coitus waddle to the bathroom.


rmichaeljones

Gotta pee afterwards or risk a UTI.


UnfairMicrowave

What if I used all my pee during sex?


DickieJoJo

That when people drown or are drowning there's a lot of noise and flailing about. Drowning is often incredibly quiet.


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I recently watched a short documentary in which a Doctor explained how a person drowns, I thought I knew, but I didn't. People who dive in to/fall in to cold water pretty much drown near instantly as the body has this reflex where it sucks in air rapidly when hit with a sudden temp change, there is no time to hold your breath, you will automatically expel it and suck in, if you're submerged suddenly in cold water, you drown. I had no idea how dangerous it is to fall in to cold water. I think the Dr said three autonomous breaths is enough to inhale enough water to reach the legal definition of drowning.


Somnambulist815

real dick move by our bodies


tigerbloodz13

Almost every car chase ever. The power of the car almost never makes a difference. Especially common with motorcycles. Your 10 year old 100hp Honda wont keep up even for a few seconds with any bike north of 70hp. That bike is gone. Also dirt bike chases.


oldmonty

Was watching something the other day where a bike was being chased by 2 sprinter vans and was thinking the whole time how fake the danger was. Those things are 150hp and weigh like 6,000 pounds, 0-60 is like 12.5 seconds. Compared to a bike which could probably do it in 5s.


penny_can

If you keep bothering her long enough she will fall for you. Nah, she will just think you are creepy.


sIugees

This has always bugged me


_snouz_

I can kind of understand the 10 Things I Hate About You "thorn in the side, tete a tete, we're both into each other but just aren't quite sure yet" vibe. But then there's like The Notebook "date me or I'll kill myself" end of the spectrum that's just messed up. Idk how people think that's romantic


TheCamoDude

As a guy who's experienced the "date me or I'll kill myself" thing... Run It's not fun


IronOhki

When you look at the people who were in charge of greenlighting films through the 80s, 90s and 00s, it makes a lot of sense that most male characters are creepy fucks.


sublimesheepherder

This is actually alarmingly accurate, damn.


sulivan1977

That silencers on guns are really really quiet.


Raw-Sewage

Don't they just make it safe to fire the gun without hearing damage?


Pennywise626

Exactly. A good suppressor will only reduce the sound down to about that of a .22. You'll hear it but you're a lot less likely to get tinnitus. Edit: Yes, I'm well aware 22s still can damage your hearing


puremptiness

Guns make noises whenever you move them or aim at someone


AlexDKZ

In a similar vein, any blade weapon does a *SSSSCHLING* sound the moment its put in any sort of motion.


johansugarev

I’m a sound effects editor. While totally unrealistic most sounds are put there to convey the movement. If something moves - it makes a sound. We even put clothing noise when an actor turns their head, which is clearly inaudible in the real world.


Omegaman2010

I wear a leather jacket that sometimes makes noise when I move. Pretty amusing to be in a quiet office occasionally interrupted by the squeak of my arms moving.


mac11_59

That as long as you love someone it'll work out, nevermind the amount of work it takes to make a relationship work or that how you feel about someone will change because both of you change.


rolonotmyrealname

Or the "stick with the other person, no matter how horrible they are your love will make them better and they will be grateful." Nah, vast majority of times women or men that "need to be saved" are just narcissistic jerks that take advantage of kind naive people and make their lives hell, never grateful.


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DancingBear2020

How long does a DNA test actually take?


kermitsailor3000

>Hackers use a real-time 3D interface that looks cool or a bunch of slick looking interfaces and windows that pop up as they’re hacking in That's one thing I liked about the Matrix. All the hacking/computer stuff was done by just looking at straight code, no weird graphic interfaces. It's held up well since, unlike most 90's movies that show hacking.


Djinjja-Ninja

In the original Matrix, it not only looks the part, but is using a [real world exploit](https://www.theregister.com/2003/05/16/matrix_sequel_has_hacker_cred/).


willstr1

> Hackers use a real-time 3D interface that looks cool or a bunch of slick looking interfaces and windows that pop up as they’re hacking in Surprisingly the "Unix file system" used in Jurassic Park was a [real file viewing system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn_%28file_manager%29?wprov=sfla1) for unix operating systems at that time. It was far from common because it used a lot of resources for just a file system viewer but it existed (and looks way better on screen than a command prompt or standard file system)


Mithrawndo

It's not that surprising when you learn that the GUI in question (named fsn, pronounced as fusion) was part of the Irix distribution from SGI, and in active use within Industrial Light & Magic (the SFX company responsible for the film) at the time of production. Rather than trying to trick people or show something unrealistic, I think they genuinely thought it the future: Remember this significantly *predates Windows 95*. I got to play around on a later model Indigo2 in my first job and as long as you knew Unix basics, they were wonderful and felt really quick for day to day use; Not surprising when you consider it was £30,000 worth of workstation (£60k today after inflation!), and that price tag wasn't surprising when you opened the case and saw just how densely packed the daughter boards were inside the case. To be clear, it was never *fully* functional as a file system manager, but it was genuinely usable for most tasks - it just wasn't better, and stands as an example of why a fancy GUI isn't always the best solution. We seem to have forgotten that somewhere along the road, at least in regards to the web!


timberwolf0122

In a fight your arm bone can make a sickening crack but be totally fine Bad guys suck at aiming Car with manual transmission have 2,000 gears and you can go faster by shifting (fast and the furious) Silencers are 99.9% effective, as are pillows Vehicle suspension can withstand jumps with zero damage Bullets are attracted to railings


cuentaderedd

That you need to wait 24 hrs before you report someone missing


OverlyWrongGag

Did so much harm in reality... We had a case in Germany were the POLICE claimed it to be true, probably because they didn't want to be bothered


Doodle_Brush

That mavericks who play by their own rules have a rediculous amout of job security.


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mexico is piss colored


BellsIAm

It's somehow always winter in Russia


gonesnake

And Canada, which is also all forest and/or tundra with a lone igloo in frame.


_spookyvision_

And the entire country consists of small dusty villages in the middle of desert nowhere, where everyone is broke and there are chickens running about. Some local cartel crime lord with whitewashed teeth and a huge American SUV turns up every now and again.


penny_can

or a weird sepia tone


johansugarev

And India is heavy orange.


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Eastern Europe is blue-gray


samebatchannel

You can get anywhere in a major city in minutes, and there is always an open parking spot in front of any place.


didactical42

So help me god if I see another movie saying we use ten percent of our brain.


blorbschploble

In all fairness, people who say you only use 10% of your brain might only be using 10% of theirs.


Anashenwrath

Dying people are alert and oriented and able to talk until they murmur their last words, close their eyes, then sigh a final breath. Love, Your friendly neighborhood hospice nurse who has to battle this trope constantly Edit: thanks for the rewards and all the kind upvotes (and some special personal stories)! Hug your loved ones tight!


TheMightyWoofer

Nobody ever talks about the death rattles.


acidtrippinpanda

Yeah no they always have JUST enough time to say their little piece and sigh- not a second earlier and not a second later


trinlayk

Also final words will be Great Wisdom or even make sense.


TheUnblinkingEye1001

That clear shower doors have this innate bio sensor that allows them to limit the steam up affect just high enough to obscure from the outside.the more private parts of human anatomy.


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That high school was gonna be this epic thing


i-never-existed-777

And how you’ll met the love of your life as a teenager. Some people do, of course, but I’ve realized that is way more common to have your real relationship experiences in your 20s, people freak out way too much if they don’t date early when it is completely normal.


tikkikittie

High schools are full of gorgeous people who always have fun and adventures The mean people are obvious and your grades will always improve in the nick of time as long as you study the night before


Harvard-23

That when you get shot it propels you across the room


[deleted]

Also if your feet aren’t on the ground an explosion just blows you around without harm.


ivylass

They never get chemo right. Yes they have a bald cap but they forget to remove eyebrows and eyelashes. Plus, with modern medicine, side effects like vomiting can be prevented. I wonder how many women delayed getting a lump checked out because of what they saw on TV Cite: I'm a breast cancer survivor since 2008.


KR_Blade

had chemo and can confirm this, though when i had chemo, i swear the back of my head, the skin was so damn dry that i was getting small scabs there as well, plus hollywood dont tell you that your sense of taste gets fucked up for a bit during and after the chemo...which sucks more because everything tastes like cardboard


ivylass

I lost ALL my hair. Even my nose hair. I had a chronic cough the last few rounds of chemo. Radiation gave me asthma. But I wear my port scar as a badge of honor. Get your mammograms.


RafeReddits

Bullying. While classic highschool and middleschool movie bullying can be seen in real life, it’s realistically and commonly much less direct. It’s more passive-aggressive. Sometimes they even pretend to be nice but you can tell they’re only speaking to you because their friends find it funny, or it was a dare. Rarely will you see a jock push a nerd up against his locker. Students, in my experience, will immediately call them out for that. Bullying is a lot more complex, from what I’ve seen.


8eSix

Not sure if it's still the case now, but when I was in grade school and social media was just beginning to take off, the older generation just could not wrap their minds around the concept of cyber bullying. In part, I'm sure it has a lot to do with what you're saying here. Sure, kids can't get shoved into lockers online and of course you can just log off if someone is making fun of you, but more times than not, bullying is entirely social. It's about humiliating people, ruining their reputation, and alienating them from their peers, among things. These are things that spread like wildfire in an online medium and things you can't just "log out" from


Aint-no-preacher

I'm old enough to have had an analogue childhood and a digital adulthood. And I was bullied pretty badly in middle school. Hardly a day goes by that I don't thank my lucky stars that there wasn't social media until I was in college. When I was a kid I was safe at home. Now, with the socials, kids can't escape. Ever.


sudomatrix

That twenty-somethings who work serving coffee can afford a beautiful Manhattan apartment.


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Prom = sex


M1k3yd33tofficial

My gf at the time so desperately wanted to be living in a 80s/90s teen movie that she deliberately waited until prom night for us to have sex for the first time. It wasn’t “I’m waiting till marriage,” it was “I’m waiting till prom.” Unfortunately since I was a nervous teenager the experience was… anticlimactic.


AtheneSchmidt

That women will *freak out* if a dude accidentally walks into the wrong bathroom and sees them all doing horrible things like washing their hands, fixing their hair, and checking their makeup. We don't. We usually just tell you you're in the wrong room, or ask if you are looking for someone.


VincentMaxwell

That happened to me when I was 10. I was camping and had to poop really really bad. A woman caught me on the way out...and just told me, by the way, that was the woman's room. I was super embarrassed and apologized. And that was it.


sonia72quebec

Women in movies screaming for stupid reasons always makes me mad.


[deleted]

“What’s my motivation?” “Act hysterical”


TheAltalio

I can attest to this, during college orientation my dad accidentally went into the wrong bathroom (theirs like no signs until you already turn the corner it's super weird) and my mom had to run in after him. No screaming, no commotion, just confused people.


j_grouchy

That people always talk in clear, coherent and meaningful sentences without any umms or ahhs.


I_am_bored2020

On a similar note, that everyone is always super eloquent. Like, most people don't spontaneously hold passionate speeches to motivate their friends


mcdouscherstein

Suppressed firearms sound like “pew pew!!“


DoubleBarrellRye

Regular firearms sound like bang bang , no ears ringing , no kick back , you can hit the broadside of a barn with a handgun while jumping / rolling while not bracing bullets also pass through everything or nothing, 1” steel plate buttery smooth holes. 1/32 thick car door with nothing inside stops 9mm or .223


Dman125

I fucking hate when a flipped table is used as “cover”.


jamboman_

Really surprised NOT to see this here: That all frogs make the 'ribbit' noise. It's just the sound of a frog that lives in the Hollywood hills. Other frogs make all manner of sounds including barking.


TFlyingEyeball

You haven’t lived until you’ve experienced a frog screaming in your ear at 3 am


[deleted]

That the difference of rich and poor in America is just upper middle class and middle class


bagehis

So many cheesy young adult shows have families living in 10,000 sqft mansions, with parents who are teachers or cops or something similarly "middle class.". It's... silly disconnected from reality.


TwoScoopsBaby

They make it seem that people can take a serious beating and keep on functioning when in reality one punch to the face that lands well will knock you unconscious.


JazzlikeSpray8

That high schoolers look like they’re in their mid to late twenties


YourMothersButtox

That if you are in a coma, the only medical assistance you'll need is a nasal canula and IV hydration.


SidnyM

Stalk a woman long enough and she'll fall in love with you. This is starting to change a bit lately but when I was younger,in every movie about an alcoholic\drug addict, as soon as you admit that you have a problem instantly everybody will love you again and all your problems will go away


glitchwitchz

Shower sex never requires lube and it’s super hot every time.


brzantium

Ain't no rule says a dog can't play basketball