After Vatican II nuns started transitioning from the medieval gowns & attached headress to normal black/blue/grey dresses & skirts and smaller veils. Then the veils became optional. Now nuns don’t really dress any differently from other modestly dressed women.
Keeping them in a habit of some kind is convenient visual shorthand that make’s it clear they’re a nun. Some TV shows are more realistic. This season of Big Love has a Roman Catholic nun who doesn’t were a habit and the Law & Order shows have had nuns who didn’t were habits. Also IRL younger nuns are apparently more likely to were a habit than their elder sisters.
I’ve seen TV shows were just pulling a fire alarm was enought to set all the sprinklers off in the building. Including a show set in a high school! :eek: Just imagine a school giving any pissed off student the ability to cause thousands of dollars worth of water damage with the flip of a switch. I’ve also seen fictional fire alarms that while they didn’t set off the sprinklers sprayed whoever switched with ink. That is fake, right? :dubious:
Not quite the same thing but in the same vein, just yesterday I finished a book that touched on, among other things, the crack epidemic in the '80s and the media’s characteristically hysterical reaction to it. In response to an article that described a long line of teenagers of all races waiting in queue outside of a crackhouse, he said, “It’s doubtful that** this multicultural group of teenage crack enthusiasts** ever existed except in the imagination of a Newsweek reporter and his source” Maybe I had just had one too many Mojitos, but the bolded phrase cracked me up.
Maybe we can use “crack enthusiasts” as the next term for drug addicts after we get tired of the whole chemical dependency thing.
astorian, alphaboi867 - Our local convent a Domincan order still has nuns wearing full habits. 6 of them teach at the school in my parish.
My thing is that most people in the movies don’t seem to have pets unless the story somehow revolves around them. They don’t just have a cat on their lap or a dog at their feet while they’re ont he computer or watching TV.
I’ve rarely seen anything having to do with birth done accurately. The one I saw most recently was the birth of Jacob and his Evil Twin on Lost, where, on the ancient island (spoilered for anyone who hasn’t already watched the last season of *Lost *but thinks they might someday)
Fake Mom kills Real Mom immediately after both kids are born, and yet, without any domesticated milk animals or any modern tech or even another human being available to her, raises the kids with no physical difficulty (just moral ones once Evil Twin gets all restive and stuff).
Not having read entire thread but one recently that has been catching my eye is whenever a movie or TV scene shows an important electronic transfer the money is shown accumulating (quickly, but still) in the recipient account.
Like the bank has taken a bucket of quarters and is physically pouring the money in the other account.
I just watched Tremors the other day and noticed that- after the scene in the rec room, that couple should have been stone deaf.
As a corollary to hanging on the ledge, as anyone, ever, managed to grab someone who was falling and pull them up, especially with one hand? Worst example I just saw was someone doing to so in the rain. Never going to happen.
Ever sail a sunfish in heavy winds? You can NOT dog down the line you use to control the sail and it WILL develop some amazing tension on it. I have had mine up on her side, catamaran style, with my full weight supported by that little half inch line and leaning almost off the side of the boat. I had some amazing calouses on my hands from sailing when I was a young teen. I was 5’7 and 135 pounds, so it isn’t like i was a tiny little china doll. Back then I could have climbed the rope without knots with minimal effort. I could go up the usual gymnasium climbing rope like a spider monkey.
Having worked in a hospital, the error I always notice is the oxygen cannula wrapped around the head. Just try sleeping like that! It goes in the nose, around the ears, and is “zipped” up under the chin!
If it’s not hard for you, congratulations. But in most of the movies I’ve seen, the guy hanging is either an average Joe, or a 200+ pound guy. I think it would be pretty hard for them.
When I was in my 20’s, I was a gym rat. I weighed about 210, and could easily do sets of 15 chins. I could hang from a bar with one hand for maybe a minute, and that was good enough to win contests with most of the other guys who worked out there.
That was over 20 years ago. I’m nearly as strong now as I was then (still bench over 300, which is much stronger than an average guy), but I weigh about 30 pounds more, and my six-pack has become a keg. And I can’t hang on with one hand for even ten seconds.
Still, you could be right. The average guy might weigh 160 or so, and I haven’t been that light since I was 15, so maybe it’s easier at that weight than I realize.
I’d be interested if people reading this can try it, and post their height, weight, and results.
I sleep in something like that. I use a nasal mask for my CPAP machine, the strap goes around the back of my head, with a strap over the top of my head to keep it in place. Here are pictures of the actual mask.
My mother can’t watch any kind of medical drama without pointing out that the doctors are spending way too much time with the patients and doing all sorts of stuff should be done by a nurse/aid/tech and most doctors wouldn’t have a clue how to do in the first place.