Especially on cell phones. The speed dial on my cell is silent - no BEEP BOOP BOOP noises at all.
And fast-forwarding a VCR in a movie (or TV) always makes that speeded-up voice sound. None of the VCRs I’ve owned over the years ever did that.
Women do this? What are you rinsing away? Cooties?
I want the kind of cell phone Fox Mulder had – the one that can get a signal inside a buried boxcar in the middle of the desert.
For that matter, menarche is a vital plot point of Carrie.
Hmm, it looks like this could be the basis of it’s own thread.
I don’t know if it’s regional, but everywhere I’ve been (mostly the southern US), it’s considered very rude, or as an act of anger, not to end a call with “bye” or “talk to ya later,” or whatever. I find it convenient to have a signal that the call is finished. Kind of like the old “over and out” in bad war movies.
On a related note, whenever a taped phone conversation is played, the voices are always absurdly clear, as though the characters were taped sitting directly across from each other. Real taped phone conversations are so muffled and distorted as to be almost inaudible, as anyone who’s watched “American Justice” or similar programs knows.
People talking on the phone in movies also never talk over each other.
But you were outside not in an enclosed space.
Makes a world of difference.
Scotty used the mouse when in 20th-century San Franscisco in Trek IV.
Of course, he picked it up and attempted to speak into it, but he DID use it…
And on airplanes, there’s no wind or engine noise at all, as if they’re sitting in an office.
Take more than .002 seconds to disengage themselves after having sex. As soon as it ends, or as soon as the couple is surprised by somebody, the guy immediately rolls off and, depending on the situation, either says something romantic or leaps up to yell something in protest.
In About Schmidt, there’s a scene when the title character goes grocery shopping and comes out of the store with nothing but frozen pizzas, much like you’d expect someone who’s recently become a bacholar again to do.
Try to use the internet, only to realize, for whatever reason, they can’t connect, and not when it’s convientent to the plot(like in The Recruit).
It just seems that for some people, they act like their laptops are wireless and that wireless networks exist everywhere.
And what about the afterbirth?? Even when they show the birth as being painful and/or taking a (kind of) long time, it always ends: baby comes out, mother holds it in her arms smiling and tired. Come on, it’s not like giving birth is a new concept to human beings, does everyone just forget there’s the placenta to deal with? This drives me crazy!
I don’t think anyone wants to watch 10 hours of footage of a woman giving birth. 
That works if you want to depict him as a nerd; you plant him behind a jury-rigged box, with “kewl” stickers and neon lights for decoration, and a thousand wires snaking out the back.
Good luck getting Tom Cruise to play that part, however. 
Speak for your… nah, I got nothing. But they don’t even show that time has elapsed. It’s often a plot point that “oh my god, my water broke! We have to get to the hospital! The baby’s going to be here any minute!” No, it’s not. You’ve got a long wait ahead of you and there’s no need for a highspeed deathdefying ride to the hospital. Take a minute and grab your toothbrush.
Of course not, but they shouldn’t show it as if it’s in real time. A quick cut away and cut back hours later would do the trick.
Well I have seen movies that played off of misunderstandings though. Woody Allen did it, e.g. “I have a gub”, and “He didn’t say 'No, did you?” - he said, “No, JEW”. And in My Cousin Vinnie - “What’s a yout?”
Oh yeah - and This Is Spinal Tap, when she keeps saying “Dubly” instead of “Dolby”.
They could use that “cut to a sped up clock” device. Or play the Jeopardy music.
Well, no, but the film and t.v. industry clearly show a transition from just fine thank you to horrible agony of approximately one nanosecond. Followed by the actual birth immediately after. Just bogus all around.