30 Mistakes Movies Make When Portraying Various Professions, As Shared By Folks In This Online Thread

How about "TO THE AIRPORT, AND STEP ON IT!!"? as I remember from the old movies.

I'm a private detective and have jumped into taxis on numerous occaisons and said those words!

that is a real shame.

So you're putting your 2 and a half years up as evidence that nobody ever in the over 100 years of the modern taxi industry has ever been asked to follow a vehicle? Ever? Not even possible?

I think that is illegal, at least here (or at least its some sort of agreement that no taxi owner allows that, would help against stalking etc)

I have a horse-expert friend. Watch a movie involving horses with her, and every few minutes or seconds, she'll say "Different horse!". Apparently moviemaker are always changing horses, and assume audiences can't tell one horse from another. Well, i cant...

My mom's horse always grunts and neighs when given his oats snack. He hears her in the barn making his food and he gets all excited. That's likely how the animals on set are made to be more vocal.

sound effects are seldom realistic...but they are important for feeling of inmersión in the story telling

You've never owned an Arabian horse😄🐎

My horse neighs whenever I arrive in the morning. I love that he greets me :)

Clikkidi-clakkedi - I'm in!

Have you tried turning it off and on again??

I read a survey that most people in IT or computer related careers use Google daily.

Female coder here, I've never worn cargo shorts. I basically wore men's sleep shorts and a t-shirt (wfh). Putting on jeans was when I was leaving the house.

It is as varied as the medical industry. You have PC techs, programmers, database admins, network installers, network maintainers, ISP people etc etc. Most do not do all of it, nor learned it

And they never use a mouse...

I imagine scientists watch these scenes and wish it were that easy

Or they believe it failed, but it really didn't.

Or one person calculates out some miraculous thing on a chalkboard...

Just saying I was an intern at a very promonent lab and got to visit certain areas and let me tell you, no matter how expensive the equipment there was aluminum foil wrapped around tons of pipes and not everything looked immaculately pristine. Also, due to power constructions by local government they could only operate "the big guns" during specific times so as not to screw the whole surrounding area and completely overload the power

If their hearts are restarted they may have broken ribs, and people whose hearts are restarted with a defibrillator are fairly likely to have burn marks. In the movies they always seem to be miraculously fine.

When doing CPR training I was told that there is only a 5% chance of reviving someone.

Im not even going to go there. That's not how cpr works. Even on your own 15 day old child. F**k that s**t. That's not how any of this works.

TIL...They wont come back..they will just go. Either way I wouldn't be so keen to come back to some yelling psycho shaking me like a ragdoll

Wait, are you telling crying on them and giving a long-winded speech about your relationship with them won't help either?

Mental health care has improved over the years.

I wish I could have had you when I was in the psychiatric hospital. Went through a traumatizing event where another patient called out one of the workers for not paying attention to something and overall being a "high and mighty" b***h. He threatened to kill himself to make her look bad. She screamed "HA! I'd like to see you try!" And he ended up hanging himself with his bed sheet. Cops didn't ask any of the other patients or myself what happened. One patient tried to get the cops to listen and ended up restrained in a room in the back. That nurse was still working there last I heard.

Mental health workers have one of the hardest and most thankless jobs on the planet, and don't get nearly the credit they deserve. My ex's brother was committed to probably the finest facility in the state, and even walking in there with my ex and two techs was absolutely terrifying. Not all wards, mind you, but the locked ward was intense.

I've met bad mental health 'professionals' and other bad regular medical professionals. They're definitely out there, especially due to the fact that people with mental health issues gravitate towards that field. The most screwed up person I know has her master's in psychology. God help anyone that has the misfortune to go to her for help.

As a mental health professional, I rarely see one portrayed who is appropriate and uses good clinical judgement. Mostly they are shown to be buffoons who are inappropriate, impulsive or judgemental. Maybe the shrink the Sopranos, but she lost it and the first one who treated Monk.

What about the guy you've never met before who's wearing a red shirt. That guy goes right.

Well they got that wrong then so good to know that