Well, I always had a fantasy of going all “Casey Reibeck” on their butt, however most likely they would at least be tackled by half a dozen guys who don’t take crap and have access to big sharp knives.
Ooh, ooh, that reminds me! In the movies, the inside of a burning building is always brightly lit.
I used to be a firefighter, and I can tell you that I was never able to see my hand in front of my face inside a room where there was any significant burning going on.
Not to mention having a full moon rise at midnight.
I once permanently damaged a relationship with a girl I liked because she was telling a story about a memorable experience she had, and mentioned a beautiful full moon rising at midnight. I don’t know what I was thinking when I told her that was impossible.
I’m going to. As soon as I get home. Seriously, I put it out there, and I want to see if I really can hang on to the pole with one arm for two minutes straight without spinning or shifting my weight and doing a bunch of tricks. It’s one thing to lift your body weight/climb a rope. I think to hang there as dead weight is a hell of a lot harder.
I will return and report, and if it turns out I’m completely full of shit, you have my permission to mock me mercilessly for a week. 
Sound suppressors on guns are still pretty damn loud. Nowhere near as quiet as the silencers used on movie guns.
I’ve always been curious. I agree, btw. I’ve known a bunch of chefs and none of them take any crap from anyone, as you said. The staff often tends to be a little cowed by the chef, but that’s just it - if the chef bellowed “GET HIM!” the guy would probably fall into the soup, that’s how many people would have jumped on him.
Who is Casey Reibeck?
You misunderstood me. The pole, I can believe. It’s much easier.
What I want you to try is a slender rope. Go to a hardware store, find a smooth nylon rope that’s about half an inch in diameter, and have the guy cut off about six feet for you. It should just cost a couple bucks. Make sure that its working strength (should be on the label or spool somewhere) is more than your weight.
Then tie it SECURELY to an overhead bar (at a playground or gym) with a couple feet hanging down, grab it somewhere on the vertical hanging part, and see if your grip isn’t instantly torn loose when you take the weight off of your feet.
If it isn’t, and you have a grip like that anywhere else, I would REALLY like to meet you.
Most people just lie about being a second cousin on the bride’s side
Steven Seagal in “Under Siege.”
I worked in a warehouse that had a pressurised sprinkler system - the pipes were steel and the water inside them was brown, stinky and slightly viscous (bacterial growth or maybe some kind of antifreeze) - until it had been flowing for a while, then the clean water came through.
We knew this because every once in a while, a forklift would collide with one of the sprinklers and set them off.
How come in movies whenever someone hangs up a phone on you, you hear a dial tone. Shouldn’t you hear silence for a few seconds and then the do do do sound?
Sometimes at 3AM you leave for a few minutes to go have sex with your friend with benefits. Not that I’d know anything about that.
ETA - I can’t stand to see those super fakey-fake old newspapers. When you look at old newspapers for a living the crap they mock up just screams at you. Boardwalk Empire is the only show I’ve seen recently that gets the right old newspaper look.
Every single thing in a buddy cop movie. Everything.
Cops can cause massive property damage chasing criminals, injure or come close to injuring innocent bystanders, shoot at bad guys with civilians in the way, stomp on every police procedure in the book, and get nothing more than a glare from the boss. And heaven forbid they ever have to fill out paperwork explaining what happened.
“You caused 2.5 million dollars in property damage and killed 14 people chasing that guy! The city is furious and people are rioting outside the station!”
“Hey, he was a scumbag! Besides, think of how much more damage he’d have caused if I hadn’t stopped him! More lives could have been lost! I saved us all!”
<angry glare> “Get out of here before I bust you down to desk jockey!”
Oh, and cops can easily identify any drug by tasting a small sample of it. :rolleyes:
Thank you!! Gah! Also: racoons. Same weird chittering noise. WTF animal actually produces the sound they use whenever a ferret is onscreen?
Oh. hell no!
She could…crush things.:eek:
And probably shoot a ping pong ball through a brick wall.
Oh, I see, I am misunderstanding you. Phew, I thought that pole exercise thing might hurt. 
Seems to me like rope is not all that grippy (unlike a chromed steel pole or a brass one) so I would think unless you looped the rope around your wrist, and risked having your hand yanked right off your arm, you are probably correct.
And in the movies they use the AED to bring people back to life. I could be mistaken about this but it is my understanding that the shocking with the paddles (CLEAR!) is to defibrillate, not to restart the heart. In the movies they don’t pull the paddles out until the patient flatlines.
And suck a golf ball through a garden hose.