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“It Only Happens In Movies”: 67 Things That Would Never Work In Real Life
Ah, the magic of the silver screen — where gravity-defying leaps, spontaneous synchronized dance routines, and romantic encounters in the pouring rain are all part of everyday life. But have you ever found yourself chuckling at the absurdity of these unrealistic movie scenes and thought, "Come on, it only happens in movies"? If so, you're gonna love this list, fellow cinephile.
With all the movie-themed content we've written on Bored Panda, we've learned a thing or two about movie clichés, and let's be honest, we love to hate them. They're the not-so-secret ingredients that keep us coming back for more, despite their often exaggerated, cringeworthy, and laughable nature. In a recent Reddit thread, movie buffs shared their favorite "only works in movies" moments, and boy, did they deliver! We've sifted through their submissions and handpicked the most hilariously unrealistic Hollywood exaggerations to share with you.
From weapons to the often overused villain monologue, the industry has a penchant for film inaccuracies that make us roll our eyes. But hey, let's not be too harsh; after all, these creative liberties are what make the world of film such an escapist pleasure. So, in the spirit of poking fun at these movie tropes, we've compiled a list of things that would never work in real life. Let's dive into this movie vs. reality showdown and chuckle our way through some of the most delightfully unrealistic moments in cinematic history!
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#1
DarkStar860 said: "Turning on the TV and hearing the relevant news story at that very moment." Daddict replied: "Only one time did a friend call me and say "Turn on the tv" and the information he was talking about was on. Hell, I even asked "What channel?" He said "All of them". That day, of course, was September 11th, 2001."
GuyYouMetOnline 2 years ago
To be fair, a lot of times the events being reported on are on the same or larger scale.
Rebeckah Watkins 2 years ago
I always think it's weird in movies that they hear the alarming news then turn it off.
a really far away planet 2 years ago (edited)
was four when it happened, remember vaguely as a kid my mom just saying "oh my god."
Amy Taylor 2 years ago
When 9/11 happened my co-worker called me very early (west coast) and very flatly said we weren’t working that day.. when I asked why she very flatly said the same thing.. just turn on the TV. I couldn’t stop crying.. I was SO scared. My brother’s dear friend Daniel Song worked in one of the towers and was killed. I still can’t watch any footage of it or tell my kids about it without breaking down crying.
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
No one watches anything at the same time anymore. It's a novelty that will never happen again
Eduardo Gómez 2 years ago
If I turn on my TV, most likely the first thing I will see is YouTube Kids.
FlatEarf2.0 2 years ago
It's also the day that America started its show to the world what happens when you attack innocent Americans on purpose...you end up dead wether it be days or years, America will find you and will get justice.
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#2
Ali8ly said: "I will leave my high-paying job in a big city, to work at a bakery in my hometown." Redditor replied: "Is your fiance Bradley, the powerful investment banker who verbally abuses you, totally against the idea? That's okay. Tommy the ranch hand who lives in a 10x10 trailer behind your mom and dad's house who is super hot will change your life. He only lives in the 10x10 trailer for fun, though. He's the heir to the fortune of the family who owns most of the region but is super humble and cool about it."
G R 2 years ago
i never saw any Hallmark movie, not being from the US. sounds like a rom-com on steroids
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ZuriLovesYou 1 year ago
Don't forget he's a single dad whose daughter is Ivy League smart and they bring up the dead mother every 2 minutes
Rebecca Phillips-Partridge 2 years ago
Lol...... Yep, only happens on Hallmark Channel!.... Hilarious guys!
#3
"Being an unattractive geek who suddenly transforms into a stunning beauty just by taking their glasses off and letting their hair down."
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
Doing that would make me look like someone’s sleep paralysis demon.
Paddling Panda 2 years ago
I hate this trope because it perpetuates the myth that glasses make people ugly.
Julian Slate 2 years ago
And the "unattractive geek" was the most stunning person in the first place
a really far away planet 2 years ago (edited)
okay okay but this is actually what happens when i take off mine lol
#4
"Sleeping with all your make-up on including false eye-lashes, and waking up looking great without destroying your pillow and your skin."
Zoe DiAnni 2 years ago
How about all the sex/cuddling with her bra on, that puppies coming off right away!
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
Or waking up with a perfect face because you have a full face of makeup on so it looks like you have none and are just that beautifuk
Mickeynsync 2 years ago
I can do that, but I only wear eye makeup and I have insomnia. So I don't move while sleeping because I'm always just laying on my back with my eyes closed. I hardly ever go into a deep sleep.
#5
midunda said: "Shooting a gas tank so it explodes. Or removing a bullet from yourself and then you're fine." Ok-Traffic-7714 replied: "And after the bullet is extracted, it HAS to be dropped into a metal cup so it makes that clank sound."
Nathan Wolfe 2 years ago
Shooting a gas tank to make it explode in theory could work. If you have the right kinda bullets. Incindiaries or tracers would likely work. But yes, the standard copper over lead? Nah.
alwaysMispelled 2 years ago
Yes. I am a cardiac nurse. The *clink* sound is what activates all the vascular repairs.
I’mSoEmotional 2 years ago
Or police never writing a single report even though simple crimes can often mean an hour of writing.
Brian Smith 2 years ago
Correct. have shot many propane tanks of various sizes and they NEVER explode. just relieves pressure quickly and or fly in the air
Cool_Alien 2 years ago
Added to this, actually hearing when skin is cut into, that wet, squishing cutting sound be it someone's hand or leg or vital organ.
Ernie Tabuena 2 years ago
In movies they act like you’ll die of lead poisoning if they can’t get the bullet out. You die from blood loss and having vital organs eg al shredded by the bullet. Two American presidents lived with bullets lodged in their chests because they were too dangerous to remove.
#6
"'It’s a date! I’ll pick you up at 7!' Great, but where are you going? You don’t even know her name, and didn’t ask for her phone number or address."
Nathan Wolfe 2 years ago
I only recently noticed that after a friend pointed it out in response to me pointing out how annoying it is that action stars never count their bullets. Glock19 that's been fired 30+ times without a reload? I don't see the extended mag, so nah.
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Paul Richards 2 years ago
Or they say call me and the never get their number, you just met moron!
noturmum 2 years ago
TED LASSO SPOILERS thisss ! ik it's a show but when I watched the latest ted lasso episode and what's his name said something like great! see you at (idk what time) I was like where? how do you know? do you even know her name?
Chaotic Neighborhood Yeetlord 2 years ago
I noticed literally the exact same thing!!
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L.A. Trefry 2 years ago
At least these days we can assume that they plan to text the details. Pre-text though, yeah, stupid.
Christina Keenan 2 years ago
He already knows where she lives because he has been stalking her
#7
"If you're a good guy, no bullet will do anything more than slow you down. If you're a bad guy, any gunshot wound is instant death."
Thomas Bentley 2 years ago
A TV show I like to watch said that: unless it is in a sensitive place, or a high caliber, most people don't even know they have been shot. So the falling down is the lie.
Robin Williams 2 years ago
As an EMT yes people do know they've been shot because they usually beg me not to let them die. The part they don't tell you about is the burning, bullet holes are bigger at the exit point if there is one
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Heather 2 years ago
My "favorite" is that getting through a situation like that means you are uninjured. Over a decade ago I was in a very popular tourist city in the US when some loser opened fire. There were horrific injuries, but there were also the goobers like me who hurt themselves getting away or to cover. So yeah you got that poor guy over there with the horrific facial injury, and then you have some woman over there who herniated two discs in her back and broke a couple of ribs dragging a drunk guy to the ground, and that dude over there who broke his nose and his knee running into a door while carrying his wife because she froze (understandable.) In a tv show everyone not shot gets up and wanders off like "whew!" In real life you got a whole lot of people saying, "I didn't get shot but I am definitely going to need medical treatment..."
jiajun xiao 2 years ago
Good guy gets shoulders shot all the time. But there are major arteries in the shoulders!
SCP 4666 2 years ago
"Only Imperial Stormtroopers operate so precisely" - suuuurrrrre😄
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Sheila Rough 2 years ago
President Reagan didn’t realize that he’d been shot. After the secret service threw him into the limousine,, on the way to the hospital, he thought the pain in his side was from the agent kneeling on him. It wasn’t until they got to hospital, saw the blood , that they realized one of Hinkley’s bullets got him
ZuriLovesYou 1 year ago
We're talking about movies here, pal. Not US presidents.
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Ingrid Jeffers 2 years ago
If the random side character/enemy soldier is thrown against the wall, bam, dead. If the hero is thrown against the wall? They get right back up.
Kristin Rock Lane 2 years ago
The polar opposite is true in video games, in case anyone (no one) is interested. Your character can unload an assault rifle, stop, reload and keep firing at the other guy and his health will go down 3%. Whereas you get shot in the hand and it's Game Over, baby.
#8
"Single mom living in 9 million dollar house in San Francisco, on the secretary or teacher salary."
Richard Thomas 2 years ago
I remember this from the Princess Diaries, literally in San Francisco to boot
anon panda 2 years ago
In the book the mom is supported financially by Phillip
Load More Replies... Mickeynsync 2 years ago
A lot of trust fund kids grow up to get jobs, that they technically don't need. But they want to set an example for their children
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
Thankfully the titular Bad Teacher only had a nice lifestyle because of her rich fiancee, and as soon as he broke up with her she went back to being broke.
Amberlie Mikelsen 2 years ago
This one is a lot less believable if the single mom is in her late teens or early twenties (too young to have been married, let alone divorced) and also has no family to help her out (or the family lives in some trailer park halfway across the state/country)
Nathan Wolfe 2 years ago
House hunters. "I'm a stay at home teacher to two children, and Francis here clips coupons on the weekend. Our budget is $90 million." Like, HOW?!
#9
BigBearSD said: "Stalking a woman until she finally sees how great of a guy you are, and then you two ending up with a happily ever after." CarmenxXxWaldo replied: "In movies 'she's with the wrong guy I'm going to harass her until she falls in love with me'. Real life 'she's with the wrong guy I'm going to harass her until she gets a protection order and I violate it twice and get locked up and lose my job.'" GoneFullCircle replied: "Or the brokenhearted one manages to win them back with an extravagantly romantic yet creepy gesture like sending them an entire garden’s worth of flowers or holding a boombox over their head for hours in the middle of the night blasting a song they once listened to while screwing."
Julian Slate 2 years ago
90% of rom coms are creepy as hell if you start thinking about them too hard
Marley Nachi 2 years ago
yeah, codependency and narcicism being packaged as romance in movies and songs needs to change
G R 2 years ago
weirdly, in Titanic, she says "it's not your job to save me" and he says "You're right, you have to do it yourself"... then she says "Leave me alone" and leaves, and he doesn't do any romantic gesturers. He goes to the bow of the ship and sits there all sad, and she realizes that actually, her family is really ab sive, and she changes her mind.
Misty Miller 2 years ago
To be fair the boombox didn’t win her back over and she only broke up with him because her dad made her.
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
Yeah I'm Sure THAT gesture made him say "nevermind, marry my daughter please!"
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•The Comic Hero• 2 years ago
ghosting did a great mocking on this, before all the secret spy stuff comes in
Clifford Holt 2 years ago
The Say Anything boombox thing was not stalking. Watch the damn movie to understand.
Ophelia Payne 2 years ago
80's movies were all about stalking. No, you don't get the hottie just because you really, really want them.
#10
"Jumping through shattering glass windows and surviving without lacerations all over."
Sonja 2 years ago
Most cases where people in real life run into glass doors you heard a nice, loud pong and they stumble back leaving a nice blotch of body fluids on the glass
._. 2 years ago
Running through a screen door is very different tho (I speak from experience)
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PeepPeep the duck 2 years ago (edited)
My art school teacher taught me what to do as it happened to him, don’t move a muscle until medical help arrives, that way any glass lodged in your body in serious spots or unknown spots can be removed safely and you have more a chance to stay alive. He was pushed through a window by a drunk and had huge chunks stuck in him aparently
Nathan Wolfe 2 years ago
Movies use sugar glass. Doesn't fracture sharp and breaks pretty easily. I remember a movie a long while ago where a guy leaves his movie world, and complains that he tried to jump through the glass, but couldn't. Can't remember the name. It's an action comedy.
Chrys McHallam 2 years ago
That's Last Action Hero, with Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Stacy Buttface 2 years ago
This actually happened to me, I jumped through a window and had no deep cuts
Octopus 2 years ago
To add specifics, why, Marvel?? Every time there's a scene with a wide window or something, I'm like--oh, shattering glass will appear in three...two..one
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Nora Petricien 2 years ago
How does the glass even shatter ? Usually windows and glass doors are made with thick glass on like 3 layers, I don't see how Johnny's elbow is stronger than a glass meant to protect you from natural disasters
Jeremy Crocker 2 years ago
That's still fairly modern, older buildings and houses still have single layers. It's why you often see ads for whole house window replacements. Places over 50 years old that haven't had their windows replaced most likely have single pane windows.
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Mela (qu33nwh0) 2 years ago (edited)
Fell through a bottom panel of a glass window as a kid.. not a scratch. My family were shocked. Mum put me in a bath with Dettol thinking I must have had some tiny cuts and that would both disinfect them, and identify them. No screaming, wasn't a single a cut.
Arturo De la Rosa 2 years ago
i mean if it's like skyscraper tempered glass and you run into it your would bounce back 9 out of 10 for starters. if the glass is thin enough but not laminated you would be badly injured and if it is laminated as long as you don't land on the bits with exposed skin it could work kind of like in movies..
Seth 2 years ago
I forget which Jackie Chan movie it was, but he jumps from the roof of a bus through a window on a building. He was supposed to jump through the window they'd swapped with sugar-glass, but he messed up and jumped through the real window next to it. They still got the shot (he's a professional after all) but he was badly cut up.
Steven Grim 2 years ago
I ran through a large window when I was four and only had a small cut on the bridge of my nose. The furniture store at the mall had large arched windows and two doors the same shape. I got confused and ran right through one of the windows.
#11
Ruminations0 said: "Running for a very long time and then being able to talk normally." gozba replied: "Tom Cruise can do that. But he learned to regulate his breath by doing certain things with his mouth in the closet he’s living in." StealthyBasterd also replied: "I thought it was the middle tooth that regulated the air intake."
G R 2 years ago
i don't get it. Tom Cruise is in the closet? and even if he was, so what? why is that funny?
Load More Replies... Heather 2 years ago
Giggling about the Tom Cruise thing... hate that guy. I normally feel terrible when people have to conceal who they are like that but he has a bunch of organizational supplied "volunteers" to do everything from modify his cars to provide him with a selection of women to be his romantic interest for publicity purposes. Just demented stuff.
G R 2 years ago
Heather what do you mean? i have friends who have legit reasons to be terrified of coming out. Have you ever come out? do you know how terrifying that is? who are you to order other people around what to do with the most sensitive stuff in their lives? people are allowed to do stuff on their own time, when they are ready, when they feel comfortable. you don't know what others are dealing with. It took me years to be open about stuff in my life - and i know people older than me who still conceal lots of things about themselves and it's their right.
Load More Replies... GuyYouMetOnline 2 years ago
It depends on several things, such as how hard you were running and how used to such effort you are. I used to jog a lot, and it never took me long after stopping to be able to talk pretty normally. Longer than it often takes in fiction, but not by that much.
Any Housewine 2 years ago
Driving a speeding car or s liesurely jog/bike ride and every turn takes you down a road or neighborhood on the other side of town repeatedly during rush our .
Sharon Tracey 2 years ago
The only time this worked, to me, was in a Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode where Buffy and some of the cast ran somewhere to get the bad guy and when they got there Buffy wasn't even winded whilst the other runners could barely breathe when they caught up. It was done for a laugh to show Buffy's superior stamina. It was a really, really funny sight gag.
G R 2 years ago
Tom Cruise is a real person, not a character. If he's in the closet, it's his personal business and i don't see why it would be funny. I know people who had legit good reasons to be terrified of coming out.
Jessica N 2 years ago
It's a reference to a video clip and his scientology brainwashing. Just because you don't get it there's no need to bE OfFeNDED
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#12
"Keeping someone from falling by holding onto one of their hands. Bonus points if they let go of a ledge and someone grabs their arm before they fall more than a few inches."
Rebecca Phillips-Partridge 2 years ago
Yep ... This one is the epitome of the unrealistic.... And how many many MANY time has it been forced on us?
Matt Hubbard 2 years ago
I've done this while mountain climbing though. The slipped and I caught them by one arm. Swing them back so they could grip the edge again.
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
How about in a little princess when she falls from the roof and catches a slippery wet bar in the rain instead of falling to her death?
Kelsey Cirmotich 2 years ago
I think there's some equation involving mass and velocity that proves this would not end well for anyone
Arturo De la Rosa 2 years ago
Yep, most people would not be able to hold on, and even if you do hold on, pulling them back up is a skill reserved for climbers, weightlifters and some other rare athletes
#13
Fulla_Flava said: "Bonus if they’ve been in water when they spit a little out and they’re fine with never a mention of secondary drowning." Fflewddur_Fflam_ replied: "I don't think he knows about second drowning, Pippin."
Irish woman abroad 2 years ago
Or how about when they're underwater for a ridiculous amount of time, our hero/heroine does CPR on them (without breaking any ribs! A miracle) and more or less wills them back to life, with no brain damage or any other repercussions - I'm looking at you, Meredith Grey!!
Aranora 2 years ago
They also perform mouth to mouth without getting the water out of their lungs first
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#14
yParticle said: "Conveniently knocking someone unconscious so they're not bothering you for several minutes while you do secret stuff. Without killing them or serious brain damage. Actually lampshaded in Archer." shegedep replied: "The joke that hooked me on the show was when he’s excited to fight on top of a moving train, but the instant he gets up there the wind nearly knocks him off and sends his gun flying away."
Sara Cros 2 years ago
And being completely confident that they will remain unconscious for as long as it takes you to do the secret thing.
._. 2 years ago (edited)
Then if they DO wake up you immediately know and whack them in the head again (causing no brain damage, obvi)
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GuyYouMetOnline 2 years ago
The original Mission Impossible has a fairly realistic on-top-of-a-train fight, i.e. both characters spend more effort dealing with the physics of the situation than they do on actual fighting. The bad guy, who knew he'd be escaping out the top, even brought climbing gear to help.
LuLuBelle 2 years ago
Or how about killing someone by strangling them for 30 seconds. It takes about 5 minutes of seriously hard work to choke someone to death.
Kelsey Cirmotich 2 years ago
So faking death wouldn't actually work.... 😳
Load More Replies... Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
Or strangling someone and murdering them after only 5 seconds. It would take at least a full 2 minutes
Kelsey Cirmotich 2 years ago
I always find issue with the fact that it works every time on the first time! I've hit my own head pretty damn hard over the years but have never lost consciousness 🤷♀️
#15
TheAres1999 said: "Infection doesn't exist in movie land, so if you survive the battle, you're always fine!" VocalMortal1234 replied: "If you want to be sure, just pour a bottle of cheap whiskey over the wound afterwords to make sure it doesn't get infected."
Spencer's slave 2 years ago
Don't forget the knife sterilised by 10 seconds in a naked flame to cauterize a gaping bloody wound.
Bubbles and sparks 2 years ago
The same as fucxking every one without any form of birthcontrol and not getting an STD or getting knocked up or becoing a father... Missed chance to actually show some s@x education but than again, asking for a condom would be a movie moment killer ;p
Kelsey Cirmotich 2 years ago
And no one ever has their period. Especially during the apocalypse!
Load More Replies... I’mSoEmotional 2 years ago
And they are up and running 10 minutes later without a limp or whine from the pain!
#16
"Having an expert in a certain field (like history, archeology or science) who knows literally EVERYTHING about the subject instead of having just one particular specialisation."
G R 2 years ago
Brian May is expert in music and astrophysics, just saying
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Beruthiel45 2 years ago
Must be a librarian. They know Everything. Or at least, how to find the answers to Everything. I should know, retired librarian. 😉 😎
Craig S. (EvilSausage) 2 years ago
Well no this one makes sense kind of. For example, I have a friend who majored in history at a very good college, and I sometimes pick his brain on the subject. Well one day he confided in me that, while his knowledge of history is extensive, he knows less than I think he does. But what he knows looks more impressive than it is to someone like me, who hasn' studied it at any length.
Félix Silva 2 years ago
What's archeology, then? You say science like it's a super specific subject, but archeology is a science.
Afradite 2 years ago
I had such a Titanic "thing" in high school (early 2000s) I could've been considered a random expert like these TV people, however nothing ever came up and no one ever asked me anything. Ever. I think of that high schooler from tomorrow war and think of it sometimes. 🤣🤣 random useful information Kid, saving the world. Good thing he wasn't obsessed with the Titanic instead! 🤷🏽♀️
assdog 2 years ago
OK so not movie/film but all the P**n stars c**p shows that someone comes in with a 1744 weapon etc and the dude/girl basically knows everything about this one of a kind gun/clock etc! Like we know it's all staged but c'mon....teach them how to lie/act ffs. But i'm going to call my buddy ....just in case!
Bloobee bloobee bloo bloo bloo 2 years ago
I absolutely love the show Eureka and binge it often but that does bother the hell out of me. Everyone knows everything about everything. Even the young average girl that came is not a part of the geniuses ends up knowing everything about everything
#17
2020-RedditUser said: "Crawling through air vents as regular air vents are too small to fit a human body let alone hold the weight of one." Fulla_Flava replied: "Not to mention real-life vents are dusty grimy spaces with lots of sharp screws or rivet protrusions where the sections are joined. Also the grille rarely pops off so it can be opened from the inside."
Kathie Mihindukulasuriya 2 years ago
Saw Diehard cleaned up for Network TV, "Yippie ki-yi-yay, Mother Farmer!"
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Nora Petricien 2 years ago
Not to mention the noise it must make ! Walking on metal is already loud, imagine crawling into a tight metal space, your body hitting every single space there is around you
Lori Rommel 2 years ago
Also, crawling around inside ductwork made of thin, galvanized sheet metal would be really LOUD.
Marley Nachi 2 years ago
the whole building will hear the air vent sounds, even if someone could climb through them too lol
Christina Keenan 2 years ago
Breakfast club, sort of. Judd Nelson does fall through the vent into the library where the rest of the kids on detention are
#18
"Morning breath make-out sessions."
Bill McDowall 2 years ago
If you remove the word "breath" I'll join you. 😋
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Rabbit Of ill Portent 2 years ago
Fcukin a! Garlic is beautiful. Garlic is life.
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Patrick Smith 2 years ago
I guess if you're REALLY in the mood, morning breath is simply dismissed.
Melloro 2 years ago
Absolutely, there's just an unspoken no kissing rule. Look, it is what it is ok...
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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Hey. After 20 years of marriage we both stopped noticing. After 30, who cares?
Any Housewine 2 years ago
I guess most my pillow pets have lower hygiene standards or I’m so damn hot they don’t care.
#19
"CPR that lasts a minute and the victim wakes up and is fine."
Sonja 2 years ago
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Staying alive! Staying alive! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! ....
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Paul Richards 2 years ago
No broken ribs,hell the cpr trainer I just took my class from said you are gonna break ALOT of ribs
Petra Szili 2 years ago
I broke the training dummy's ribs more times than I would admit.
Load More Replies... Feathered Dinosaur 2 years ago
Or shocking people who went into cardiac arrest! No, you can't shock a heart into beating again! It just resets a heart that is beating out of control (arrhythmia)
Amberlie Mikelsen 2 years ago
I was taught to hum the song "Stayin' Alive" while doing chest compressions, and that if you don't hear an audible crack (of ribs) after the first compression you're not doing it right , also that it's best to have someone else do the mouth-to-mouth cuz stopping the compressions even long enough to breathe for them defeats the purpose
Petra Szili 2 years ago
Also it's like, hella tiring and you have to do it until the paramedics get there so it's nice to have backup.
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SMG329 said: "The way they talk while driving. I talk, but I never take my eyes off the road for as long as they do in movies." DarkStar860 replied: "Also, if you're in a convertible, you can hear them talking clear as day, with no wind muffling them."
Got Myself 4 Pandas 2 years ago
Was in a convertible few years ago on a country road, wind blowing my hair around, ended up swallowing a chunk of my own hair and almost choked to death - driver had to pull over before I projectile vomited everywhere - t'was traumatic
margaret s 2 years ago
I’m sorry that happened. Really. But it’s literally so funny, now that you’re ok, that it needs to be in a movie!
Load More Replies... Beruthiel45 2 years ago (edited)
I've recently watched a youtube content provider talking to their camera or phone and only glancing at the road every so often and actually taking both their hands off the wheel to gesture.🤯 I was waiting for the accident, my heart in my throat. Fine, talk while driving but stop looking at the bloody camera! 😱
Bloobee bloobee bloo bloo bloo 2 years ago
My daughter does that. I try avoiding conversations in the car with her so she keeps her eyes on the road
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
My mum does talk and take her eyes off the road- I am constantly trying to take over the driving because it scares me so much!
Rose the Cook 2 years ago
You do know those talking while driving scenes are filmed with the vehicle on a trailer being driven by another person, don't you?
Arunei Shade 2 years ago
The point is that it's not realistic, as no one driving irl would be taking their eyes off the road for as long and often as people in movies do.
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"Finding a parking spot in a big city immediately, without having to circle the block for twenty minutes."
Jake B 2 years ago
The Doris Day effect. She always got a spot in front of the store/apartment/house etc. For awhile in the 80’s people use to say I got a parking spot like I was Doris F&/))&$ Day.
Amberlie Mikelsen 2 years ago
This effect has been known by many names over the decades: in the 50s, it was James Dean; 60s & 70s was Sandra Dee, 80s & early 90s was Doris Day; in the late 90s it changed to simply the "Superstar Effect", since it was happening in literally every single movie in which a car had to park in a public place.
Load More Replies... Lynley Murphy 2 years ago
Actually - I have to confess that does happen - you need to "put it out there" as you leave and seriously 8/10 you'll get a parking spot pretty close if not right outside your destination
MattLikesGaming 2 years ago
Ive been on this earth over 5 decades and can say this has happened to me at least a dozen times. Its a blast when it does.
#22
"A revolver meant for six shoots twenty."
Pedantic Panda 2 years ago
Being a tad pedantic, I often count the gunshots of movie revolvers and then point out the error to my wife. And she's still with me.
Ingrid Jeffers 2 years ago
But when the villain walks on set, "click", oops it ran out of ammo.
Claire Armstrong 2 years ago
Lol, this is a HUGE pet peeve of my mans, he goes on about it in every movie it happens in! Other movies he'll go "the science doesn't add up"! I hate it when he does it but I accept it until he starts doing it with animations/cartoons! That's too far in my book!
Ivan Petrov 2 years ago
There is a 20-shot revolver. Only one though. Not one model - one pistol.
#23
"Pulling a sword out of it's scabbard and it makes a metal sliding on metal sound. If this were true, swords would get dull really quick."
Sonja 2 years ago
Sword sounds in general. No, knifes and swords usually don't make much sound at all unless you hit something. But no sharpness-swooshing sounds
Bisexual Axolotls 2 years ago
I've taken a swords class and I think I might be doing it wrong, because there are swooshing sounds.
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Zedrapazia 2 years ago
I have a family heritage sword at home from a great grandfather or something. It does make a sound when it's pulled out, but it isn't exactly metallic
Richard Thomas 2 years ago (edited)
Don't forget "audible sharpness" when the blade is completely still, that's when you know you're in an anime
Junior Farrell 2 years ago
Same with the click sound when a gun is drawn up. You will only hear that noise if you are loading the gun.
#24
Studio_Life said: "Shooting a lock to open it is my favorite. Sure shooting a lock will break it, but you just broke it in the locked position. Now it’s even harder to open." whitemike40 replied: "Also any type of electronic, just shoot the control panel and it resets everything."
Svelk929 2 years ago
also, i love how inconsistent the effects of shooting a door control panel are in Star Wars. Half of the time it'll open a locked door and the other half of the time it'll prevent the door from opening. Does the Empire not have electronics and fire safety standards??
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
Part of the time, it will disable the controls that extend the bridge.
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Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Mythbusters featured this in one of their episodes. They found it didn't work, but more important is the amount of ricochet it would cause
Wes Gale 2 years ago
Actually that lock thing is probably accurate. A lot of padlocks if you smack them hard with a rock or something they will pop open. They really aren't built well. So shooting one likely it would pop open, as the shackle is spring loaded and the only thing holding it down is the locking pin. Which is located right near the topiddle of the lock body, so shooting that would certainly cause the lock to come flying open
João Rocha 2 years ago
Actually shooting a lock either unlocks or locks the door, depending on what's intended by the shooter. I can't remember which James Bond movie he did both of those in about 5 minutes. Seems legit to me. That's how I get into my home and how I lock the door at night.
#25
Philcoman said: "Killing an enemy instantly with a single stab wound." Tyeveras replied: "Christopher Lee knew how to do that from working in the Special Operations Executive during WW2. He told Peter Jackson he knew what noise to make when Saruman got stabbed in LOTR as a result of his experience."
Evan 2 years ago
You ever read about him? He saw some really odd, random s**t, like the last public execution by guillotine in France.
Load More Replies... Amberlie Mikelsen 2 years ago
This one is actually possible if you put the knife in the right spot(s), but most people don't know those spots. This one should read "Killing someone instantly with a single stab wound to a random, non-vital body part"
#26
dzastrus said: "Closing a dead person's eyes by gently brushing your hand over them. That doesn't work. They'll just go back to being open again. Stop touching them, they're dead." CrazyCatLadyBoy replied: "This is why they used to put coins on dead peoples eye lids. It holds them shut until things kind of dry up and they stick there." MyNameIsRay also replied: "These days, morticians use metal contacts with spikes on the outside, that poke into the eyelids and prevent them from separating."
Margaret H 2 years ago
I'm not sure I wanted to know that last bit! I was fine with coins or metal washers.
Ray Arani 2 years ago
The more I learn about mortuary science the more I just want my body cremated after I go.
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Jp@nda 2 years ago
His name is Charon, I swear on his days off he used to drive a bus in Jersey
Load More Replies... Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
As the ones who found my dad (expected after battling interstitial lung disease for 3 years), my daughter and I were extremely thankful that he died with his eyes closed.
Kelsey Cirmotich 2 years ago
This has always bothered me!!! When my step dad passed I didn't want my mom and sister to see him looking like that with his eyes open and his mouth gaping open, but i couldn't fix it.. it's also crazy how fast rigor mortis sets in
#27
aperson7780 said: "Doing whatever you want in a courtroom as long as you are 'going somewhere with it.'" shegedep replied: "Any random person being able to walk up and present new evidence."
StrangeOne 2 years ago
A 1st year law student actively involved in a real murder case... and winning because she knows about the dos and don'ts of perms. Which was very smart of Elle Woods to notice. But that wouldn't fly in real life.
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
Omg I was about to comment "isn't this from legally blonde?" Now I feel stupid
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KyOatey said: "A hushed conversation immediately after shooting a gun indoors without ear protection." could_use_a_snack replied: "Terminator 2 (I think) 12ga shotgun in an elevator. I would think that would cause permanent hearing loss."
Svelk929 2 years ago
for all the faults in the later seasons, the Walking Dead did actually try to be realistic at first, i.e. in the first episode where the main character fires a revolver in the inside of a tank and it basically blows out his eardrums
SCP 4666 2 years ago
The moment when Rick Grimes shot an undead and you can hear the beeping sound
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Miss Tinker 2 years ago
I read somewhere that Linda Hamilton did in fact suffer hearing loss during a scene in which one of these guns was fired in an elevator in T2.
#29
AshamedCookie7382 said: "Stealth helicopters that make absolutely no sound until they reveal themselves." ThaneOfCawdorrr replied: "By suddenly appearing OVER THE HORIZON thwip-thwip-thwip You have to admit it's an effective shot."
#30
xrc20 said: "Walking up to a bar, just ordering “a beer” and not having to specify which one you want." fizzy_milkshake130 replied: "I work in a pub. you wouldn’t believe the number of customers who come up to the bar and ask for “a beer” and when I ask which one, they look at me as if I should know what beer they want."
Sonja 2 years ago
Well but I live in Germany. If you walk up to a bar and ask for a beer you get whatever pilsner is on tap or the first beer on the menue. Most bartenders don't make much fuzz. You get the first thing on hand and that's it
Kobe 2 years ago
Same for the Netherlands. They are not wasting time on you, so, ask for a beer and you get whatever is on tap. By the time they are explaining what else there all is - you think about want you want, they could have served 10 more people.... So yeah, you don't choose quickly, they will do it very quickly for you.
Load More Replies... Jp@nda 2 years ago
I ask for a lager and they know to give me a yuengling in any bar here in Philadelphia
LuLuBelle 2 years ago
Oklahoma just started getting Yuengling and I'm SO HAPPY now.
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Niall Mac Iomera 2 years ago
It's like walking into a restaurant and saying, "one food please"
Taryn Bailey 2 years ago
Sometime similar happens when people ask me for a pack of cigarettes at work, I ask which ones, they just tell me Marlboros. I have to remind them that we carry over 2 dozen kinds of Marlboros, which ones. I actually thank the people that are very specific when they first ask for them.
#31
SeedsOfEssence said: "Silencer being silent." Redditor replied: "I read a novel that actually got into that. The main character said that "Indoors a 9mm gun firing will still sound like throwing a phone book onto the floor, but at least the sonic boom is removed." Peptuck also replied: "Dresden Files? I think White Night specifically had that exact description when a mob assassin attacked the main character."
Strings 2 years ago
Well, anything that traps the expanding gas CAN suppress the sound. And using subsonic ammo can eliminate the sonic boom. But there's only so far you can go (and for the record, they have suppressors for tank cannon)
Pineapple 2 years ago
I love randomly telling people that tanks can have a suppressor
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Rabbit Of ill Portent 2 years ago
Sin City comes to mind, where Josh Hartnett's character shoots the red dress broad on the balcony
#32
"Airport finales... running through security and customs to stop the love of your life from flying away forever... you can get shot down!!"
Margaret H 2 years ago
Yeah. And kids can run faster than security people. (I'm looking at you, Sam from Love Actually, straight through all those checkpoints.)
Ray Arani 2 years ago
I promise some kids can run faster than security people. Kids be fast as hell.
Load More Replies... LuLuBelle 2 years ago
Things were a lot more chill at airports before 9/11. So if it's an older movie, it could happen.
Eva Vinklarkova 11 months ago
The movie Love Actually is from 2002. First lines of the movie even mention 9/11.
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 2 years ago
Being able to get on the runways and chase a plane down before lift off, being able to steal them truck lift things and raising yourself to the windows, and being able to see in enough to know where the person you want to see is.
#33
"When your convertible stops, your hair is still perfect."
Edward Teague 2 years ago
These days if I want to feel the wind in my hair, I have to take off my shirt and run around with my arms over my head....
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Patricia Banks 2 years ago
My husband uses so much hairspray his doesn't move. I look like a leaf blower was aimed at me but convertible hair, don't care
Vic 2 years ago
I used 5 cans.. didn't work. I still see some open places, maybe I should get a proper roof instead..
Load More Replies... Ingrid Jeffers 2 years ago
Perfectly windswept. and if the girlfriend has her hair blown into her face, he tucks it behind her ear and it just...stays there?
#34
"Hanging up the phone before a definitive end to the conversation has been established."
Got Myself 4 Pandas 2 years ago
I genuinely believed Americans never wait goodbye at the end of phone calls for way longer than I care to admit because of this
Jp@nda 2 years ago
No, we say goodbye like four or five times in different ways just being polite. Only jerks do that
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#35
"Having perfect aim until it comes to the person you actually need to shoot."
FlatEarf2.0 2 years ago
That is a little more just go for it and hope for the best
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#36
Double-Elevator619 said: "Someone pushing a fruit cart across a street just as you’re speeding by. I’ve never seen a moving fruit cart otherwise. Or seen a fruit cart, actually." yParticle replied: "Or carrying a bare pane of glass across the street. It's usually well packaged and delivered as close to the site as possible." TheUnblinkingEye1001 also replied: "Yeah, why aren't these people parking on the same side of the street of the building the glass is being delivered? If movies have taught me anything it is that there is always a wide open parking spot right in front of your destination."
Vic 2 years ago (edited)
🤣🤣🤣 the guy is a legend, it was fun to see him in Legend of Korra..
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#37
"Guessing somebody's password in three tries."
Junior Farrell 2 years ago
It ain't 1234 or 2345... Then it must be 3456!
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Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
"Someone didn't bother reading my carefully prepared memo on commonly-used passwords. Now, then, as I so meticulously pointed out, the four most-used passwords are: love, sex, secret, and...god. So, would your holiness care to change her password?" — The Plague (Hackers, 1995)
#38
shegedep said: "Falling from a huge height and being totally ok cuz you caught yourself on a ledge with just your fingertips." Incorporeal999 replied: "Oh, yeah, I forgot about falling 50 feet and then grabbing a pipe or something. Good luck with that. Sometimes they land on their abdomen and don't crack a rib. Akin to jumping off a cliff but are saved because you crash through multiple limbs of a tree. Maybe it would improve your odds? One branch puncturing any part of you would suck."
Gabrielle braswell she/they 2 years ago
I actually fell 2 weeks ago 40 feet off a cliff and hit a bunch of trees and almost fell in a river if it wasn't for my boyfriend using his belt to pull me up into a tree and wait for paramedics. I broke my leg but it could have been so much worse I'm so thankful I'm alive
LuLuBelle 2 years ago
Looking at you again, John Wick. He falls off a balcony, bounces off a pipe, lands on the floor, then gets up, fights a giant dude, runs out into the street, gets hit by no fewer than 3 cars, and seems completely unphased. He should be basically a completely liquefied bag of disarticulated bones at that point, but he still manages to climb a ridiculously long set of stairs, twice, while taking direct hits from a variety of weapons. God I love that man.
Sonja 2 years ago
If you just fell from the tree the branches would most likely slow you down enough to survive but still you'd be bruised as heck
Tyranamar Seuss 2 years ago
Tree branches definitely slow you down. I fell from a tall tree once. Hit every branch going down. Shaken up, but fine. Not sure would work from a cliff though.
Load More Replies... Petra Szili 2 years ago
Actually unless something slows down the fall, there isn't actually much to keep your heart in place so it will just get smooshed into the inline of the chest, ripping the arteries and that's usually the cause of death with fall victims.
Clifford Holt 2 years ago
You just described the cliff scene from First Blood. It is survivable but it won't be pleasant nor injury free.
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
Like I Said earlier- A Little Princess. She fell from a 4th story roof and grabbed a metal bar in the pouring rain. In real life the bar would be so slippery she would have rocketed to her death even faster
Arunei Shade 2 years ago
Yeah trees definitely shouldn't be driving trucks hehe.
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Graceland1979 said: "Having enough spare time from work and/or school to go on long a** adventures." Ooze3d replied: "Or the guy working at a coffee shop or a diner with 40 people sitting and waiting for their stuff saying “hey Tom, cover for me, ok?”."
SweetCheesySpaghetti 2 years ago
Wake up. Work out while watching the news. Shower. Get dressed and do hair. Drive to wherever you park your car that isn't actually your job. Walk to your favorite coffee shop. Get coffee and muffin and take time to say hello to the people that you've grown to know so well that you know their personal business. Walk to work while chatting with your best friend on the phone. Get to your office ("hi jerry!"), walk in, sit at your desk with just enough time to turn on your computer monitor and Janet poked her head in to tell you that Mr. Barenstein is waiting in the conference room. WHO HAS 5 HOURS IN THE MORNING TO GET TO WORK?!
Amberlie Mikelsen 2 years ago
Unless they're waking up at 0300 and don't have to be at work until 0900, and then they don't get off work until midnight or later just to spend another 3 hours getting home? Where and when do they frakking SLEEP!?!?
Load More Replies... •The Comic Hero• 2 years ago
yo the mfs in the vampire diaries graduating like ????? they were never at school
#40
CatherineConstance said: "Relationships ending or imploding, often times for good, because one party gets caught doing something and says 'Let me explain!' and the other party is like 'No thank you, goodbye forever.'" Aurorafaery replied: "'Let me explain' followed by them making NO attempt to explain before that person storms off or “I need to tell you something” and then not mentioning that important thing again after you were interrupted for 5 seconds… rage-inducing."
#41
"Killing the criminals instead of arresting them, without questions being asked."
Kyl Glan 2 years ago
Statistically more likely for a white person to be shot than other races if you go my professional engagements, (professional engagements means not including things like seeing your local cop getting donuts).
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#42
"Not reloading guns and having infinite ammo (yeah I know John Wick did reload his guns, but most other movies didn't)."
#43
ImInJeopardy said: "Running away from an explosion and letting the blast push you to safety." roadfood replied: "Jump towards the camera!" GriffinFlash also replied: "Aim for the bushes!"
SweetCheesySpaghetti 2 years ago
AIM FOR THE BUSHES!!! hahahahahahahaha i seriously love that movie.
#44
Slytherian101 said: "Yelling at a judge and invading the judges personal space always works out ok." nonresponsive replied: "I once made a sarcastic remark at a judge during jury selection. I got read the riot act. We laughed about it after the case was over but was still quite something."
Julian Slate 2 years ago
Hot take: the judicial branch needs to be taken down a peg. Then again given recent erm... "decisions" that might not be that hot of a take anymore
Duncan 2 years ago
It's almost like there are no checks or balances when it comes to the supreme court. Gee, I wonder if the rich white men of the time wanted a way to ensure their laws were practically the word of God...
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#45
Chowdah-head said: "Stealing a vehicle by grabbing the keys that are under the visor." GreyWulfen replied: "Apparently this was a real-life thing on sets when multiple people would need to move different vehicles. Rather than try to track down keys they would put them on the visor for the next driver. Next thing you know it's a movie trope."
Amberlie Mikelsen 2 years ago
It was... In the 70s & early 80s, cuz families tended to have 1 car and up to 4 drivers. The other big place to keep the keys in the car was either the ashtray (if you didn't smoke) or under the floor mat on the driver's side
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matt adore 2 years ago (edited)
To be fair, people used to keep spare keys in the visor or in the tire well for real. I know my parents did.This was the early 80's though. Depending where you lived, there was a lot more trust (like not locking your front door at night). By the time I started driving my folks told me to keep the spare key in my wallet... And keep the front door locked! Makes way more sense!
#46
"Punches to the head with little to no damage to the striker or the recipient of the strike. Bare knuckle punches are a terrible weapon that could damage the puncher as bad or worse then the person getting punched."
Sonja 2 years ago
If you don't know what you're doing you'd break your hand. Even if you know what you're doing you'll bruise your skin at least as much as your opponent gets hurt. Gloves don't do silch unless it's a boxing glove
Ray Arani 2 years ago (edited)
A properly thrown punch to the right spot will hurt the other person more than the puncher. But you don't aim for the hard parts of the head. Eyes, nose, mouth, throat, or anything soft. Temple but don't miss, skulls are hard, but a powerful overhand that radiates up from the ground/pivot foot landed against a temple bare knuckles can be a tKO. Overhands are easier to see coming though, I prefer a hook because if you miss you can shift to an elbow coming back.
Load More Replies... Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
Getting the s**t beat out if you and the next scene have zero bruises or visible injuries
Brian Smith 2 years ago
Likewise after a knock-down drag-out fight the winner walks away with maybe a bloody lip at worst. Even one bare knuckle punch to the face will leave a black eye, broken nose and/ or lots of swelling.
#47
"They never wait long for elevators."
Feathered Dinosaur 2 years ago
And when it arrives the elevator sadly is filled to the brim with enemy agents
naomy ramsey 2 years ago
Haha. I understand this one. As an introvert my elevators are always filled with enemy agents!
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#48
"Breaking high-rise windows by throwing a human body at them. It won’t work. At best, you can push out the frame (which is what happened to one lawyer who loved to demonstrate it to paralegals)."
#49
css01 said: "Odd number of hits to the head = amnesia. Even number of hits to the head = amnesia cured." KypDurron replied: "They make that exact joke on Family Guy when an amnesiac Peter gets hit repeatedly on the head. 'I was just lucky he had an odd number of objects.'"
Victor Trejo 2 years ago
They said the same in The Simpsons, on that episode when Homer becomes a boxer. Bart tells him this trivia before a big fight. I assumed that keeping track of the blows he received was what avoided amnesia.
#50
"Long speeches or monologues about the story of your life where in no one interrupts you or interjects."
Feathered Dinosaur 2 years ago (edited)
But that's in every villain's job description! Are you even a real villain without monologing??
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
"Unfortunately for you, Mr. Bond, the chair in which I invited you to sit was previously coated in industrial adhesive. And the chair itself is bolted to the floor. When the next earthquake hits, should you still be alive, it will crack open the container currently suspended above you. In the container are a number of highly venomous and carnivorous insects. They are hungry, Mr. Bond. Bon appetit!" *villainous cackle*
Load More Replies... Ingrid Jeffers 2 years ago
"it was years ago, in the jungle, when I was a young man" and they go on talking without backtracking or being like, "well actually, no, that happened later. Oh, sorry, I forgot to mention earlier..." and they never use placeholders like, well, "like" or "uh"
Beruthiel45 2 years ago
They all either went to sleep or are daydreaming about their vacation plans.
#51
"No one laughs at other people’s great quips. People don’t ever laugh, and just keep talking as if the funny person said nothing at all."
SweetCheesySpaghetti 2 years ago
I've always found it so uncomfortable that no one in comedy shows laugh. If an actor laughs while taping, they will literally cut and redo! People should be laughing their brains out.
Bloobee bloobee bloo bloo bloo 2 years ago
That always bothers me too. Keep some of the bloopers in there to make it more authentic
Load More Replies... G R 2 years ago (edited)
the characters in How I Met Your Mother actually do laugh at each other's jokes. and a llegedly, they did keep in the blooper in Pretty Woman - when she tries to touch the box in which an expensive necklace is, he closes it to catch her finger in it, and they both laugh - Richard Gere did that on purpose to mess with Julia Roberts, and they both laughing was so genuine and adorable, they just left it in the movie ucut.
#52
"Get on a bed with your shoes/ boots on. Why do you even have them on in your own house?"
Got Myself 4 Pandas 2 years ago
Guilty as charged - but usually only because I'm going back out again shortly and my boots take forever to get on/off so I'll leave them on until I'm home for the night - but I do shampoo my carpet regularly so I don't feel too bad
Baleygr 2 years ago
I do even get the floor. I'm doing that too (for a similar reason). But on the couch, table and bed? Yikes.
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Trish Ferguson 2 years ago
I personally don't like keeping My shoes on in the house because of people spitting on sidewalks you might walk through or dog pee. The invisible germs my baby might pick up
Ashley Deane 2 years ago
My husband REFUSES to take his shoes off in the house. He wears them all day every day
Amberlie Mikelsen 2 years ago
On the bed or other furniture, no. In the house, yes! I'm sorry, but I'm not removing my shoes in the house just to protect a frakking CARPET! Carpet is DESIGNED to be replaced every 5-10 years of REGULAR USE, this means with shoes on! Also, I sew; needles and straight pins DON'T come up with vacuuming, and IF they do they're 99% likely to puncture the hoses of the vacuum cleaner. I'm NOT gonna step on one barefoot! I also have a cat that likes to break things (in the process of training him not to) and my mom has a dog that is untrainable (also likes to demolish anything he can). I'm NOT stepping on something one of those two has destroyed barefoot!
#53
"Shooting a stick of dynamite and it exploding. That won’t do sh!t. My grandpa knows someone who has some dynamite who explained this (I wasn’t there). He said it’s the blasting caps you wanna be careful with, because even some jostling can make them explode. My grandpa told me the guy kicked around the box of dynamite he had like it was full of shirts. He was very careful with the box of blasting caps however."
Paul Richards 2 years ago
You sure don't want to do that with old dynamite though, older dynamite the nitroglycerin separates and becomes very unstable
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Wasn't the whole point of dynamite that it was more stable than other substances used?
#54
Odd_Adhesiveness4804 said: "One man defeating an army." gozba replied: "A man hitting the intended target with every shot (outside competitive shooting, that s**t is something else)." roadfood also replied: "But whoever is shooting at him always misses no matter how many of them there are or how many bullets they fire."
Petra Szili 2 years ago
My dad just read Battle Royale and had a mini rage about the second part. Quote: The author clearly never had a pistol in hand. These untrained high schoolers shoot moving targets like snipers. When I had my firearm training in the military I couldn't hit a paper target!
Frank Miller 2 years ago
There are many examples of men holding off entire companies with nothing more than a machine gun. Look at a couple of the medal of Honor winners from world war II and Vietnam.
Thomas Bentley 2 years ago (edited)
There was that roman guy, but he had three men, and that viking guy, but he got shiskhebabed in the balls, mad jack. churchill, and that guy who told his superiors to "hold the phone and I'll let you talk to the bastards". there are probably better examples, but I cannot think of them at the moment.
Julian Slate 2 years ago
Yeah mad jack Churchill was the real life Deadpool.
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Ursa_Mid said: "Car jumps. In most movie jumps the car is immediately destroyed and becomes undrivable." Objective_Tour_6583 replied: "Check out the most recent Fast and Furious trailer. They literally drop Vin Diesel's car from a helicopter onto other moving vehicles, and you can see the entire front end bend up about 20 degrees. Of course, he then drives away in Showroom condition."
SCP 4666 2 years ago
Car in action movies - gets completely destroyed yet drives perfectly fine. Car in horror movies - looks perfectly fine, won`t even start
Amberlie Mikelsen 2 years ago
Also cars in horror movies - look showroom new, and start on their own with no one within a block of them
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Bob 2 years ago
The indestructible 18 wheeler that has bullets sparking off the body. I'm a truck driver and I can tell you they are extremely fragile. Or when the air line is cut and now the truck is out of control and brakeless. Doesn't work that way. Loss of air pressure makes the brakes lock up.
UncleJon_TheMadScientist 2 years ago
Like in the Schwarzenegger movie Commando the car chase scene with yellow Porsche one minute the whole side caved in one second pristine the next then crumpled again
#56
"Driving from suburbs to the downtown area in less than 10 mins, no obstructions, traffic always flows, and a nice, wide open parking spot right in front of the destination."
realenancy170 10 months ago
A traffic jam started all the trouble in Falling Down. Great movie. Defense!
#57
Imaginary-Bluejay-86 said: "Leaving a full beer at the bar." AfterSolution4762 replied: "Happens more often than you’d think. Worked as a glassy at a nightclub at 18, people would leave behind full drinks all the time. People always gave me this blank look when I would tell them about it and how angry it made me that people would just do that... anyways 11 years later, it turns out the reason they had a blank look on their faces was that they didn’t care and the reason I’d get so mad, is because I’m an Alcoholic."
Sonja 2 years ago
It happens often and healthy people know their limits. It happens that you want that drink but when it comes you take one sip and realise you don't want it anymore, especially when it's alcohol and you already had a few. A normal person won't drink that drink knowing they'll get sick if they do, an alcoholic doesn't feel when it's enough and always empties that drink and gets angry when others don't do the same because they don't understand healthy limits. That's why they're alcoholics.
G R 2 years ago
i'm with you on alcohol but food? It's frustrating that characters say oh yeah,you ordered that,you always eat so much, wow, and then the person doesn't even touch their burger or icecream..just leaves it there on the table at the end of the scene.
Load More Replies... Jp@nda 2 years ago
Who cares? Honestly? I'm in recovery and it's my issue to deal with, I'm not making light of it but I can't get mad at someone for doing something they choose to do when I'm the one with the problem that needs help. So I got help, and now I can be around it and be perfectly fine.
matt adore 2 years ago
Buying a drink you don't necessarily want is essentially paying rent to be in the establishment. As a bartender, I've had people come in to catch the game or news or whatever and not purchase anything. Sorry, this is a business so if you aren't making a purchase, please leave so paying customers can have your space. Be a good and respecfrull patron!
Bloobee bloobee bloo bloo bloo 2 years ago
Back in my bar days when the lights were turned on and heading out of the bar I’d notice all kinds of full drinks sitting on tables and wonder how people could just waste the money and the drink like that
No One 2 years ago
Alcoholics always drain their drinks before leaving. Other people? Not so much.
Duane Streeck 2 years ago
WRONG.... I don't hardly know one single person that doesn't ALWAYS finish their drink.... I know a lot of people that drink and they aren't even close to being alcoholics....
Load More Replies... Far Cough Khan 2 years ago
or throwing a full venti out of the car on a chase. or a box of donuts. always donuts.
Amberlie Mikelsen 2 years ago
I used to tend bar, and am also a recovering alcoholic (in recovery before I got the bartender job). I'm also a woman. I was taught this extremely young; if you're at a bar and have to go to the bathroom or get asked to dance, take your drink with you. NEVER TOUCH YOUR DRINK IF YOU THINK SOMEONE ELSE MAY HAVE TOUCHED IT! If someone offers to buy you a drink, order one that's either served flaming or comes in a sealed bottle. Too many times, I've witnessed people being drugged by both patrons and other bartenders. Those horror stories you hear as a teenager about date r@pe are REAL, PEOPLE! DON'T BECOME A STATISTIC!!!
#58
"Having a person be an expert in multiple unrelated disciplines. 7 doctorates and speaking 17 languages are total bs."
Paul Richards 2 years ago
You know why you know who he is, because he's a unicorn. There are so few people like him, if any
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StrangeOne 2 years ago
There's people I work with who speak 10 languages. They've just been around different languages to pick it up. How they memorize them all is beyond me.
SCP 4666 2 years ago
There was this man named Emil Krebs who spoke over 90 languages. After his death they examined his brain and found his speech area was unusually well developed
Load More Replies... Matthew Walton 2 years ago
No, I'd buy that. Now if they had all that and were also under 70, now you're staining my suspension of disbelief.
Sheri Muntean 2 years ago
I knew a couple of people who knew 5-13 languages. And a CPA, psychologist with a PhD in metaphysics and was a personal trainer...
Bloobee bloobee bloo bloo bloo 2 years ago
Again I’m looking at you Eureka. One of the geniuses randomly happens to even know Welsh for no reason at all
#59
"When you put everyone's faces up on the wall and connect them randomly with strings to solve a big mystery."
Sonja 2 years ago (edited)
That's a Mindmap or Mindcloud and it's regularly done within planning sessions in all kinds of projects to visualise connections and impact. It's a valid technique for problem solving and you can look up how it's done. It's not neccessarily done with strings on a wall, usually you use whiteboards or Flipcharts but the principle is well known, works great and is indeed a valid method of problem solving or project planning. Neither in movies nor in reality are the connections random. The lines are used to visualise existing connections.
El Cucuy 2 years ago
I think the point wasn't the technique but how long it takes to connect the dots and solve the mystery.
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Amberlie Mikelsen 2 years ago
It only looks random if they don't show you how those connections were made. There's always a method to the seeming chaos, but the OP is right on one point; having one image of this one at the end, with no prelude of the good guys (or bad guys in some rare cases) using the method, is actually stupid.
Far Cough Khan 2 years ago
and when you connect the pictures with red markers, it gives out a picture that says the clue.
#60
"Choking someone to death… usually in under 30 seconds. Yeah… it takes a lot longer than that and most people, even strong people don’t have the capability of just crushing everything in one quick squeeze."
Sonja 2 years ago
Not much though if the blood flow is stopped by pressuring the sides of the neck. It only takes about a minute or two, then you'll fall unconscious. That's why erotic asphyxiation is so dangerous
Julian Slate 2 years ago (edited)
In high school I had a friend who was a very bubbly small Japanese girl with strong "smol bean" energy who once casually gave me a detailed explanation of how to rip someone throat out. She was in martial arts her whole life, apparently. Fun guy to be around, but at times slightly terrifying.
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Niall Mac Iomera 2 years ago (edited)
Choking someone out is actually incredibly easy if you know what you're doing. You can cause unconscious in about ten seconds.
Sarah E Cofer 2 years ago
Actually what youre seeing is the bloof supply to their brain being cut off which can cause serious brain damage in less than 15 seconds. Strangulation does that when the hands apply pressure over the jugular vein. Its not just about airflow. Strangulation can also cut off oxygen to the brain that is sent via bloodflow and is more deadly and damaging than simply restricting your airways. Your heart will keep beating for a couple of minutes while deprived of oxygen but your brain cam not survive that long without oxygen filled blood flowing to it.
#61
"Ending a phone conversation without saying any variation of “bye”."
EmCWolf 2 years ago
Nope! Most people here say goodbye on the phone unless they're being rude and/or in a big hurry. I've only hung up without saying bye a handful of times, most often when I was upset with whoever was calling (like scammers) 😅
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Annita Stephanou 2 years ago
My daddoes that; it's nerve wracking. Like, I am about to say something and because he said his piece, he just hangs up
Ray Arani 2 years ago
Yeah, this has been normal in America since everyone got cell phones. We had to learn and practice phone etiquette when I was growing up in the nineties both at home and even in school, then cell phones happened we slowly stopped using it.
EmCWolf 2 years ago
Only if you're a jerk. I always say goodbye to whoever I'm calling, and so do my family, friends, and coworkers...
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"When you’re looking at someone who’s far off and across the street and then a bus drives by and they disappear."
Amberlie Mikelsen 2 years ago
Witnessed this phenomenon on multiple occasions in real life. 75% of the time, the person just went into whatever building happened to be behind them. 20%, they got into a car between the bus and them. 4%, the bus stopped without you fully realizing it and they got on the bus. It's the remaining 1% (when there's no car and no building and the bus didn't stop) that's a little spooky.
BlocksBuilds 2 years ago
This literally happened to me yesterday. My parents where on the other side of the street, a bus drove by and they where just gone.
#63
mut1n3y said: "Activating the Fire alarm and setting off the sprinklers." ChronoLegion2 replied: "Or putting a lighter near a sprinkler, even though most sprinklers don’t double as smoke detectors. And the water will be clean, not stale and smelly."
GH P 2 years ago
Sprinklers have a mercury switch that bursts if the temperature goes up too high - that's what sets it off.
R. H. 2 years ago
Alcohol in a bulb in the spray head that breaks and allows a valve to open. They use to use a lead like alloy as a fuse link to hold valves closed.
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MagmaKat 2 years ago
Likely because the water has been sitting unmoving in a metal pipe for years. Water doesn't go bad but what it's in can make it go stale and collect particles
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"Casually walking away from the cops that are questioning you because you're in a hurry."
Nykky 2 years ago
If you aren't suspected of anything and don't have a warrant for your arrest, you can walk out of an interrogation too. Dudes...just read your rights. And for Frith's sake, learn to say "I invoke my right to a lawyer." If you say that specifically, you are demanding a lawyer legally, and if you are continued to be questioned, the case can be thrown out.
Danalalala 2 years ago
Very true! There have been tons of false confessions after hours of interrogation because people didn't know they have the right to walk out or demand a lawyer.
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"Breaking formation as soon as the battle starts and still somehow winning."
Thomas Bentley 2 years ago
Ask the normans, the english did that and got their asses handed to them.
Maggie Fanelli 2 years ago
Also every bad guy waits their turn to attack the main character instead of all jumping him at once.
#66
"Everyone being home for dinner at the same time! It was easy to do when kids were small but now that they are older and have activities, forget it."
Nora Petricien 2 years ago
What do you mean ??? Just how early do you have dinner ? So are your kids out at like 8 ? Who even makes activities that late ? And surely it's not everyday tho.
Sheri Muntean 2 years ago
If they're in HS/adult sports or drama they can go super late - 9-11pm
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Sonia J-Coffee 2 years ago
Mom's happily makng dinner in 3 minutes after a long day of work and commute ... and nobody eats at all.
Shawnna Clement 2 years ago
In the US it's not uncommon for sports practices to last until 8 PM or later. My son stopped playing sports because he was tired all the time and didn't have time to study or socialize with kids outside of sports.
#67
ChampignonOfMurkwall said: "Justice." MagicSquare8-9 replied: "Similarly, vigilante justice that somehow always swift and accurate without a massive surveillance system and information network. I don't care how super Superman is when it comes to physical strength, he's not known for his brain, and chances are he had miscarried justice on a regular basis. Batman is even worse, he does not even have X-ray vision."
Sonja 2 years ago
Superman doesn't kill people. He takes them to the police though. So there's not much problems. They can easily get exonerated if he's wrong. Same for Batman who indeed has a surveillance network and fights mainly corrupt cops and also doesn't kill people. So this is clearly written by someone who just doesn't like that kind of movies. The collateral damage they cause on the other hand is definitely an issue
Dee Osbourne 2 years ago
Superman and Batman both kill in mainstream and alternate universes, it's just not a common practice.
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What do you think ?
Sonja 2 years ago
I don't like that in most action movies huge damages are done in very lively areas and no one cares for collateral damage or even kills that must have occurred. It's never even mentioned! And then the hero finally catches the evildoer who has killed tons of people and there's no indication they'll stop and it's even pretty likely they'll just turn around and do it all over, but despite having killed several of their henchmen on the way all of a sudden they find their conscience and let them live for part two. So it's just fine to kill innocent bystanders, henchmen and people whose evil doings might have happened under pressure or blackmail, but killing the mastermind behind it is somehow bad?
Tyranamar Seuss 2 years ago
Let's be honest. Some of this stuff would be really boring to watch. I don't need to see the car circling the block 20 times. The great thing about movies is the6 can cut out all mundane b******t.
CT 2 years ago
Leaving the room without closing the fridge. Leaving or returning home/apartment without closing the front door
Debbie 2 years ago
Especially in winter, also, going outside in just a sweater an scarf in winter and not seeming cold. Only be cold when the nice guy (who you still hate /don't realize you love) at that point comes by and offers you his coat. He is unaffected by the cold. (Yes Hallmark...)
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Ivy at Eve 2 years ago
In Crimi's. Where were you the night of (date at least 2 years in the past)? Oh that is easy, I was with... frm 6 to 8 and then went home. I remember it well because the bus got a flat that night and I watched a match. (Team) lost by the way. I mostly don't even remember dinner frm last night.
Baleygr 2 years ago
Right? Thank you! That's what I always think too. They know exactly what they have done when I barely know what I did today on an exact time. It's ridiculous.
Load More Replies... Bloobee bloobee bloo bloo bloo 2 years ago
The other thing that gets me is scratches around a key hole always means someone was trying to break in. I hardly ever get my car key in on the first try and if there isn’t a light near enough to the house door it’s not an easy feat to get the key in
Lauren W. 2 years ago
I have a few: -When someone in a movie gives an IM injection of some medication it somehow works instantaneously! Even IV meds don't work that fast. -Holding the draw on a bow for a long time as you aim or threaten your target. You have to draw, aim, and release the arrow within a second because it requires strength to pull back on it. The longer you hold, the more tired your muscles, the more they tremble and the worse your aim. Katniss and other movie character archers are probably using bows with a draw weight of only 5lbs to be able to comfortably hold it for as long as they do. -When people get shot in the head at close range or by suicide it always looks nice and neat with just some blood spatter coming out the back. Bullets hitting the skull at that speed and the compression wave that ripples through the brain matter causes it to basically explode. In real life, a lot of the time, the person is left unrecognizable.
Beruthiel45 2 years ago
Now I have an image of the skull being a high speed blender in my head. Omg.
Load More Replies... Stardust she/her 2 years ago
I hate it when movies don’t follow through on Chekov’s gun. Makes part of the story useless
Bianca “Honey Bee” Galindo 2 years ago (edited)
#68.I saw a movie where a lady committed a murder,they knew she did it but she still was let go,scott free with no farther reprocations.I would of thought she would of atleast been refined to a Phychatric program,smh (shaking my head)
Sonja 2 years ago
I don't like that in most action movies huge damages are done in very lively areas and no one cares for collateral damage or even kills that must have occurred. It's never even mentioned! And then the hero finally catches the evildoer who has killed tons of people and there's no indication they'll stop and it's even pretty likely they'll just turn around and do it all over, but despite having killed several of their henchmen on the way all of a sudden they find their conscience and let them live for part two. So it's just fine to kill innocent bystanders, henchmen and people whose evil doings might have happened under pressure or blackmail, but killing the mastermind behind it is somehow bad?
Tyranamar Seuss 2 years ago
Let's be honest. Some of this stuff would be really boring to watch. I don't need to see the car circling the block 20 times. The great thing about movies is the6 can cut out all mundane b******t.
CT 2 years ago
Leaving the room without closing the fridge. Leaving or returning home/apartment without closing the front door
Debbie 2 years ago
Especially in winter, also, going outside in just a sweater an scarf in winter and not seeming cold. Only be cold when the nice guy (who you still hate /don't realize you love) at that point comes by and offers you his coat. He is unaffected by the cold. (Yes Hallmark...)
Load More Replies... Ivy at Eve 2 years ago
In Crimi's. Where were you the night of (date at least 2 years in the past)? Oh that is easy, I was with... frm 6 to 8 and then went home. I remember it well because the bus got a flat that night and I watched a match. (Team) lost by the way. I mostly don't even remember dinner frm last night.
Baleygr 2 years ago
Right? Thank you! That's what I always think too. They know exactly what they have done when I barely know what I did today on an exact time. It's ridiculous.
Load More Replies... Bloobee bloobee bloo bloo bloo 2 years ago
The other thing that gets me is scratches around a key hole always means someone was trying to break in. I hardly ever get my car key in on the first try and if there isn’t a light near enough to the house door it’s not an easy feat to get the key in
Lauren W. 2 years ago
I have a few: -When someone in a movie gives an IM injection of some medication it somehow works instantaneously! Even IV meds don't work that fast. -Holding the draw on a bow for a long time as you aim or threaten your target. You have to draw, aim, and release the arrow within a second because it requires strength to pull back on it. The longer you hold, the more tired your muscles, the more they tremble and the worse your aim. Katniss and other movie character archers are probably using bows with a draw weight of only 5lbs to be able to comfortably hold it for as long as they do. -When people get shot in the head at close range or by suicide it always looks nice and neat with just some blood spatter coming out the back. Bullets hitting the skull at that speed and the compression wave that ripples through the brain matter causes it to basically explode. In real life, a lot of the time, the person is left unrecognizable.
Beruthiel45 2 years ago
Now I have an image of the skull being a high speed blender in my head. Omg.
Load More Replies... Stardust she/her 2 years ago
I hate it when movies don’t follow through on Chekov’s gun. Makes part of the story useless
Bianca “Honey Bee” Galindo 2 years ago (edited)
#68.I saw a movie where a lady committed a murder,they knew she did it but she still was let go,scott free with no farther reprocations.I would of thought she would of atleast been refined to a Phychatric program,smh (shaking my head)
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