Tarzan films notwithstanding, Kookaburra birds are not found in Africa.
Adding to this. There is always a parking spot right in front of where they need to go. If there is a car chase, both drivers know how to drift around a corner. Two adults can sit on the hood of a car looking at the stars without denting or bending the metal. A car can go over a jump several feet in the air and not be damaged.
I don’t mean to junior mod, but a lot of these responses are just listing movie tropes…
I deduced that Last of the Mohicans was filmed in the Carolinas, not upstate NY, when I heard Carolina Chickadees in the background, not Black-Caps.
True today.
But this arose because in days past, it was necessary – to trace a call, a person had to check manual relays to see through what switching station the call had come, and then alert the next station on the path, where a similar check would be made. In today’s world of voice over packet-switched data, that’s not necessary – although today spoofing an origin number is trivial. But why bother? Buy a cheap cell phone, use it once, and throw it away.
This subject has been done here about 50 times. Each one has the same list, too.
Doesn’t matter. People like doing this over and over.
This is a good one - also I would add the consistent replacement of Bald Eagle calls with the call of a Red-tailed Hawk, to the point where people without much knowledge of birds hear an actual Bald Eagle and respond: “they sound like that??”
I’ve see body tape marks on the streets of NYC in the early 80s. That was the only time I saw them so I actually had to ask my grandmother what they were. Which isn’t to say it was a recommended practice even back then, only that it was apparently not rare.
I’ve written over 10 articles for Cracked, and let me assure you, the fact checking is extremely strict. Not only does the writer/pitcher have to provide a legitimate cite or source (ie primary source, no blogs, tabloids etc), but these facts are then checked first by a moderator upon article acceptance, then by the editor assigned to your article, and then again by another editor who’s job it is to fact check everything a final time, and look for errors, inconsistencies and general spelling/grammar errors that seep in.
Of course, things slip through the cracks, they always do - but for a freelance writer, it’s one of the most difficult places to get an article accepted - one of the reasons they pay so well.
But yes - it’s a great place for finding quirky stories and facts.
When coma patients are depicted in movies and TV shows, it seems like they’re usually completely unconscious until they suddenly wake up fully lucid. Maybe there’s a minute or two of mumbling with their eyes closed but then they’re alert and ready to have a normal conversation.
I don’t know whether it ever actually happens that way for real or not, but this was not the case for the only coma patient I’ve ever been around (a relative who’d been in a car accident). She was completely unresponsive for a few days, and then the “waking up” process took weeks. She could speak intelligibly long before she could speak coherently; for a while she was just repeating the word “orange”. She got to the point where she could speak in meaningful sentences while she was still suffering from anterograde amnesia (inability to form new long term memories), so she’d ask where she was and what had happened, seem to understand the explanation, then forget and ask again…and again…and again.
Funnily enough, since she wasn’t forming memories during this time she later told me that from her perspective it was like in the movies – she felt like she’d been unconscious for an indeterminate period of time and then “woke up” largely recovered.
The issue is with assuming one (even if reasonably well-done) study is absolute proof of anything. [/ot]
No hospitalized patient ever sleeps in any position other than the Sleeping Beauty, at least while there is a camera in the room. Unlike the L-shaped bedsheets, which most people realize aren’t real, people actually are surprised that someone wearing tubes will try to turn in his sleep. It’s a relatively common reason for bed restraints.
Yes, but did they did do it after a drowning?
When I was in the Coast Guard, an HS (corpsman) once commented that every training film he ever saw for CPR had you reviving an attractive young woman. In his experience as an EMT before he enlisting, you do most CPR on a middle age male drunk who vomits in your mouth if you revive him.
As an ET I always those "How long before you fix this piece of electronic equipment? Two hours, sir!" was unrealistic. As one senior ET told the O-3 who asked this "15 minutes once we find where the problem is. But finding where could take minutes or hours".
POWs have a duty to escape. No they don't. It's usually far riskier to be behind enemy lines and besides, many think they have done their bit and some "shirker" at home should do their bit.One natural history society has a competition each year for “greatest range extension of a bird based on a call in a movie or TV show.”
My favorite was in Charlie’s Angels where they supposedly were able to tell exactly where Bosley was being held captive by hearing the call of a pygmy nuthatch in the background of a phone call. Pygmy nuthatches are found over much of the western US, and besides that they depicted it by showing a tropical Troupial. I’m sure it was done deliberately as a goof.
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In old TV westerns, the hero was magically able to shoot the pistil out of an opponent’s hand, a real-life impossibility. In a lot of 70s cop shows, the only fatal gunshot wounds were to the head or heart, and anything to the arms, legs or gut was a boo boo fixable with a few stitches and a band-aid. IRL, these types of gunshot can hit a major artery and cause a bleeding-out in seconds.
Goddamned Boomer flower children can’t hold on to their pistils.
Cue YouTube clip of potential suicide in chair having pistol shot from his hand.
Vikings almost always did not have horns on their helmets
Pilgrims did not dress as they are depicted in Thanksgiving presentations. They also approved of sex for married people.
Many politicians until recently had high-pitched voices (Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, also George Patton). Before microphones and loudspeakers a higher pitch voice could be heard by more people.
IRL any vehicles or umbrellas supplied by the funeral home will likely be black, but yeah most mourners (at least at the funerals I’ve been to) don’t have black mourning clothes sitting at home.