# SHOCKER! Things work differently in the movies. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 3, 2016, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778 "2016-05-03T14:42:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/241 "2016-05-20T18:36:01Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > And back to bars, I cannot think of one where nobody actually gets drunk. > > And bartenders and waitresses are never your friends. They want your money and that’s about it. As told by the Simpsons: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/oDjdMrWrWGc/maxresdefault.jpg "The Simpsons: A Boozehound Named Barney") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDjdMrWrWGc) ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/242 "2016-05-20T19:53:55Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > When you go into a restaurant, bar, corner coffee shop, or hamburger joint with a funny Japanese owner named “Arnold” it actually costs money which often you dont have and if you do go to those places it will quickly drain your bank account. Plus the owners dont really like people taking up booth or table space if they are not buying anything even if they are clever fun people who always having an interesting adventure. > > And back to bars, I cannot think of one where nobody actually gets drunk. > > And bartenders and waitresses are never your friends. They want your money and thats about it. I have several very good friends who are bartenders. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/243 "2016-05-20T21:26:11Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > . . . And bartenders and waitresses are never your friends. They want your money and thats about it. I’ve met lots of waiters who have been perfectly friendly. It’s part of the “hospitality industry.” Maybe they’re putting on a bit of an act, and wouldn’t give me the time of day if they were just another customer, but I think you overstate the case. (Also…they want your money…and being friendly is a damn good way of increasing tips.) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/244 "2016-05-20T22:47:34Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > I’ve met lots of waiters who have been perfectly friendly. It’s part of the “hospitality industry.” Being friendly is not being a friend, which is the point. Bartenders are friendly because it’s part of their job, not because they like you in particular. (And no, that hooker isn’t coming on to you because she thinks you’re attractive.;)) > [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > I have several very good friends who are bartenders. Do you know them outside of work? You may have friends who are bartenders, but is your bartender (who you don’t know otherwise) your friend? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2016, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/245 "2016-05-21T00:16:20Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > (And no, that hooker isn’t coming on to you because she thinks you’re attractive.;)) Aw, man. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2016, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/246 "2016-05-21T01:29:24Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > And no, that hooker isn’t coming on to you because she thinks you’re attractive.😉 But at least it means she wants my money badly enough to put a little salesmanship into it. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2016, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/247 "2016-05-21T16:45:03Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > I have several very good friends who are bartenders. As in you know people who just happen to be bartenders or after a few times of being at their bar you became friends to the point where you would get together outside the bar? My experience is because of the nature of the bar business (working late at night and working weekends) they tend to only be friends with other bar workers. Oh they can be right friendly alright but when you are at their bar they want to see you buying a drink. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2016, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/248 "2016-05-21T17:55:04Z")
If you are standing there holding a weapon, the police do not ask you nicely three times to please drop it and wait thirty seconds for you to make up your mind. This is one thing they do in Law and Order that drives me nuts. The one time I witnessed such an encounter, the policeman said “Drop that chainsaw or I will shoot.” And you knew he meant it, and would shoot in about two seconds at most. The guy dropped the chainsaw immediately. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2016, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/249 "2016-05-21T23:25:12Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Most writers do not solve an average of two murders a month due to incompetent law enforcement officers. (“Murder She Wrote” ran for 264 episodes!) I always thought it was a good thing that Jessica Fletcher traveled so much. If she’d stayed home, Cabot Cove probably would have had a population of about eight. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/250 "2016-05-21T23:44:51Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > I always thought it was a good thing that Jessica Fletcher traveled so much. If she’d stayed home, Cabot Cove probably would have had a population of about eight. I always thought that she must have been a serial killer who was a genius at framing others. Wherever she was, at home or traveling, someone was murd ered. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/251 "2016-05-22T02:55:17Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > As in you know people who just happen to be bartenders or after a few times of being at their bar you became friends to the point where you would get together outside the bar? > > My experience is because of the nature of the bar business (working late at night and working weekends) they tend to only be friends with other bar workers. > > Oh they can be right friendly alright but when you are at their bar they want to see you buying a drink. Back in West Texas, my bartender ended up being my girlfriend for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/252 "2016-05-22T15:21:18Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Most writers do not solve an average of two murders a month due to incompetent law enforcement officers. (“Murder She Wrote” ran for 264 episodes!) > [@Seanette](#): > > I always thought it was a good thing that Jessica Fletcher traveled so much. If she’d stayed home, Cabot Cove probably would have had a population of about eight. > [@davidm](#): > > I always thought that she must have been a serial killer who was a genius at framing others. Wherever she was, at home or traveling, someone was murd ered. The MAD Magazine parody of the show was titled,“Murder, She Hopes” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/253 "2016-05-22T15:35:44Z")
> [@Gordon\_Urquhart](#): > > Part of my job responsibilities involve working with digital images of varying quality supplied by customers. Every once in a while, in an attempt to increase the size of the image while simultaneously increasing the DPI resolution of the images, I lean into my monitor and dramatically say, “Enhance.” > > It doesn’t work very well. It’s “sudo enhance”, actually. ---
**Author:** ![phantom\_lamb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@phantom\_lamb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phantom_lamb)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/254 "2016-05-22T19:04:43Z")
I often see people in movies jumping straight _through_ a glass panel/window as a means of desperate escape (and they’re fine afterwards). Now, granted, I’ve never seen anyone attempt that in real life, but it _seems_ like the kind of thing that wouldn’t work. Does glass really break into billions of tiny, harmless pieces upon impact with a body? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/255 "2016-05-22T19:04:56Z")
> [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](#): > > It’s “sudo enhance”, actually. It’s actually “sudo -u God enhance”. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/256 "2016-05-22T19:57:34Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > I always thought it was a good thing that Jessica Fletcher traveled so much. If she’d stayed home, Cabot Cove probably would have had a population of about eight. > [@davidm](#): > > I always thought that she must have been a serial killer who was a genius at framing others. Wherever she was, at home or traveling, someone was murd ered. The most successful serial killer in history. Never caught, only suspected a couple of times. The only person possibly more clever was the psych professor that kept 6 other people in captivity for years on a small island, performing various forms of psychological torture on them. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/257 "2016-05-22T20:27:52Z")
> [@phantom\_lamb](#): > > {…} Does glass really break into billions of tiny, harmless pieces upon impact with a body? Sometimes, [toughened or tempered glass.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toughened_glass) CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![phantom\_lamb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@phantom\_lamb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phantom_lamb)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/258 "2016-05-22T20:46:34Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Sometimes, [toughened or tempered glass.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toughened_glass) > > CMC fnord! It seems really obvious, yet I actually didn’t know that. Ignorance fought. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/259 "2016-05-22T21:01:29Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Back in West Texas, my bartender ended up being my girlfriend for a while. I married a bartender, but she wasn’t my bartender. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778/260 "2016-05-22T23:54:00Z")
Mentioning the jumping through glass thing, “The Americans” actually did it right last week. Someone was trying to escape and got tackled right as he reached a door with big glass panes. He fell through the door and got impaled on a huge chunk of glass, right through his midsection. He proceeded to bleed out in moments, while the captors stood looking on with an “oh shit” on their face. They wanted him alive. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocker-things-work-differently-in-the-movies/753778.md?page=14)