# Inaccuracies that bother you most and least **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 28, 2022, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inaccuracies-that-bother-you-most-and-least/967050 "2022-06-28T16:04:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2022, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inaccuracies-that-bother-you-most-and-least/967050/241 "2022-07-01T17:34:51Z")
A fair point, but I don’t believe that is the reason. No one asks for that degree of verisimilitude. What is missing is the timing, personnel, positioning, proper drugs, authenticity. How hard they push us rarely the issue. It need not cost much to do much better. However, it is entertainment and so it does not really bother me. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inaccuracies-that-bother-you-most-and-least/967050/242 "2022-07-01T17:40:29Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Sometimes we watch TV with the closed captioning on. It really brings to your attention how often [dog barks in distance]. I am known among my friends for collecting dogs-barking-in-the-distance in fiction (in fact they sometimes even send them to me), but I hadn’t thought to check subtitles! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2022, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inaccuracies-that-bother-you-most-and-least/967050/243 "2022-07-01T18:07:36Z")
Does a second-hand coyote count? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-5ogRtt-Rjg/hqdefault.jpg "The Big Bang Theory - "I Think I Broke Your Son"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5ogRtt-Rjg) ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2022, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inaccuracies-that-bother-you-most-and-least/967050/244 "2022-07-01T19:53:12Z")
Maybe the reason is that red-tails sound like hawks, and bald eagles sound a lot like seagulls. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2022, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inaccuracies-that-bother-you-most-and-least/967050/245 "2022-07-01T20:24:56Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > I’m no expert on CPR, but ISTM that one reason TV and movies may not do it accurately is that if they’re doing on a live actor (as opposed to a dummy), it could do some real harm. I’ve heard that recipients of CPR can have ribs broken and other significant injuries (that are nevertheless obviously preferable to death). Yeah, what we were told is don’t worry about it, just consider the dude dead, and hope for the best. ---
**Author:** ![echoreply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/echoreply/32/3641_2.png) [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2022, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inaccuracies-that-bother-you-most-and-least/967050/246 "2022-07-01T22:43:46Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Sometimes we watch TV with the closed captioning on. It really brings to your attention how often [dog barks in distance]. I was watching something recently, I think _Disenchanted_, and the closed captioning said “[Wilhelm scream]”. The one I have been noticing lots in CC is “[scoffs]”. Also, closed captioning must be taken from the script, because the spoken dialog is frequently slightly different than the CC. I don’t really think of those as goofs, but it takes me out of the show a bit, because then I’m thinking about whether the written or spoken dialogue is better. Frequently it is the spoken, which is a little window into the show making process. This doesn’t really bother me. > [@BigT](#): > > As a computer guy, I don’t care that the UIs aren’t accurate, as I get the goal is to be clear to the audience. Yeah, I don’t mind extra big fonts or icons so the audience can see what’s happening. One I did really appreciate, and it got lots of attention at the time, was _Matrix 2_ (or 3 maybe) where they did some hacking and the screen showed an actual `ssh` exploit that would have been a zero day for the timeline inside the matrix. They have to mockup some sort of animation to run on the screen, if they’re going to show it. Replaying a screencap of something that was real was probably easier to do that generating some fake thing that would have looked fake to those who know. Which gets back to the OP, the ones that bother me are the ones that are just lazy. Just as much effort to get it right or wrong, with no real difference in the cinematics, and they get it wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2022, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inaccuracies-that-bother-you-most-and-least/967050/247 "2022-07-01T23:16:45Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > in which the telescope actually has a gigantic magnet that can grab a planet and hold it still for us to study How rude! What if the planet is ding something and doesn’t want to be held? Superman is a dick. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inaccuracies-that-bother-you-most-and-least/967050/248 "2022-07-01T23:46:09Z")
The aforesaid cartoon: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/mA4s1QeGlwI/maxresdefault.jpg "SUPERMAN CARTOON: The Magnetic Telescope (1942) (HD 1080p) | Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA4s1QeGlwI) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2022, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inaccuracies-that-bother-you-most-and-least/967050/249 "2022-07-01T23:52:32Z")
> [@echoreply](#): > > The one I have been noticing lots in CC is “[scoffs]”. Yes! I think I have a whole different perception of what scoffing is now. 😄 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inaccuracies-that-bother-you-most-and-least/967050/250 "2022-07-02T00:30:57Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Superman is a dick. Superman wasn’t the guy with the telescope. That was a semi-mad (sort of simply “antisocial” ) scientist. Superman was trying to turn it off. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inaccuracies-that-bother-you-most-and-least/967050/251 "2022-07-02T00:34:10Z")
I wonder if any kids were electrocuted back in 1942 trying to emulate Superman after seeing that cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inaccuracies-that-bother-you-most-and-least/967050/252 "2022-07-02T00:35:55Z")
Yes, but [Superman is still a dick] ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inaccuracies-that-bother-you-most-and-least/967050/253 "2022-07-02T00:37:16Z")
Editing doesn’t seem to work on mobile. The link should be [www.superdickery.com](http://www.superdickery.com) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inaccuracies-that-bother-you-most-and-least/967050/254 "2022-07-02T00:46:10Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Superman is a dick. > [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > Yes, but [Superman is still a dick] Two men are drinking in a bar at the top of the Empire State Building. The first says to the other, “I discovered last week that if you jump from the top of this building, the winds whipping around the skyscrapers will stop your fall around the 10th floor and blow you into a window that is always open there.” “Yeah right,” says the second guy, so the first guy goes over to the window, opens it and jumps out. The second guy rushes over and leans out the window, watching the first guy fall. As he watches, he sees the first guy slow and then get blown sideways and into the window, just like he said he would. He turns to say something to the bartender, but the bartender just shakes his head and wipes out a glass. After a minute, the first guy walks in from the elevator. “See? I told you it would work!” The second guy says, “No way! It must have been a fluke! There’s no way that could happen again.” So the first guy goes back over to the window and jumps out again. Just like before, the wind slows him down and whips him into the 10th story window. “That’s unreal!” he says to the bartender, but the bartender just shakes his head again and keeps cleaning. When the first guy gets back to the bar, the second guy finishes off his beer and says, “My turn!” Before anyone can stop him, he lunges out the window and passes right by the 10th story window and splatters on the sidewalk. The bartender looks at the first guy and says, " You know what Superman? You can be a real dick when you’re drunk." ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inaccuracies-that-bother-you-most-and-least/967050/255 "2022-07-02T02:42:09Z")
At my elementary school there was a transformer we climbed on and played on all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inaccuracies-that-bother-you-most-and-least/967050/256 "2022-07-02T05:58:07Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > They must have fallen into the giant gorge Chris Pine’s Captain Kirk encounters while driving across…Iowa. In the future they pit mine potatoes. ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inaccuracies-that-bother-you-most-and-least/967050/257 "2022-07-02T11:16:03Z")
Never mind [scoffs]…why is “uhh” always shown as “urm” in Brit shows subs? ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inaccuracies-that-bother-you-most-and-least/967050/258 "2022-07-02T21:23:14Z")
Rhotic vs. non-rhotic pronunciation. > **[Why Do Americans Say ‘Uh’ and ‘Um’ and British People Say ‘Er’ and ‘Erm’?](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/67573/why-do-americans-say-uh-and-um-and-british-people-say-er-and-erm)** > > British people do not read 'er' and 'erm' in the way that Americans would read those words. > British people do not read _er_ and _erm_ in the way that Americans would read those words, with a fully articulated _r_ . Most British dialects are non-rhotic; the _r_ is not pronounced in words like _her_ or _term_ . So how would a British person pronounce _er_ and _erm_ ? Basically, as “uh” and “um,” with perhaps a bit more tension in the vowel. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inaccuracies-that-bother-you-most-and-least/967050/259 "2022-07-02T22:18:00Z")
I worked with a guy from England and he was trying to tell me about Cadbury chocolate. I couldn’t understand what he was saying. After a couple tries, he forced himself to pronounce the “r”. I could tell that he was really struggling. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inaccuracies-that-bother-you-most-and-least/967050/260 "2022-07-02T22:30:39Z")
‘Cadbuwwy’? In one of the Harry Potter movies, a character says, ‘Oh, Won-Won!’ I think it’s in one of the Discworld books where the ‘Igor’ character says ‘Marster’, which is obviously pronounced ‘Mah-stuh’. I asked here once abot Woudln’t It Be Loverly. My question was whether it was written to be pronounced ‘luv-uh-lee’, rather than the way I remember it being sung, ‘lover-lee’. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inaccuracies-that-bother-you-most-and-least/967050.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inaccuracies-that-bother-you-most-and-least/967050.md?page=14)