Which brings up a funny tech support bit from the Big Bang Theory.
I am sick and tired of semi-auto pistols running out of ammo and going ‘click click click’ with the slide locked back. Worse, when it’s full auto and goes "clickclickclickclickclick.’ :mad:
I remember the first time I went to Chicago. I was standing on a street corner downtown with a buddy of mine, and the guy in front of us looked a little familiar to us. Turns out we all went to high school together in southern Indiana.
I do not live in Baja Canada, but we do have to scrape windshields a bit here. I have a completely different problem with that scene from Fargo, perhaps because it does not get quite that cold here. My problem is that Jerry drove that car to the meeting with Wade. The meeting lasted no more than an hour. And he goes outside again and has to scrape a millimeter of ice off his windshield. Does that actually happen? In an hour? Because, here, that would have been an overnight accumulation. An hour’s worth of ice on an already warm windshield is a light frosting that comes off with a few light strokes. Do you guys have some kind of mega-monster-aggressive ice that attacks like that on a clear-ish day?
I’m from Saskatchewan, not Minnesota, but that doesn’t seem out of place to me.
You’ve driven for an hour, so the windshield is warm. Then you stop and go inside for an hour, while it’s snowing. The snow hits the windshield, melts slightly, then starts to freeze. This particularly can happen if the snow is a bit wet to start with.
Then you come out, get the scraper, and scrape off that layer of snow-ice.
Fargo meeting/ice-scraper scene
The actual conversation we see lasts about three minutes. Pad that with a few minutes to come inside, take off and hang up his parka, then a few more minutes to put it on an leave. I think 20 minutes is pretty generous. It is not snowing when he leaves, nor is there any additional snow accumulation on the roof or trunk of black car or anything else outside (lights, planters): it does not look like it has been snowing. Where the hell did all that ice come from?
I live in the upper Midwest and never leave my keys inside a vehicle with the door closed. My spare set is inside the house / at home which would not be convenient. Thus I scrape the windows before climbing in. Actually the past two winters I use a sunshade that is outside the vehicle on my windshield negating the need to scrape it. I idle while buckling up and flipping radio stations and adjusting the heat. This is all the warmup a vehicle typically needs. That and drive city speeds for the first mile or so. Typically the air is not frigid coming out of the defrost by then. Any longer idling is a waste of fuel.
Not following this; how does a sunshade keep frost from forming? 
It’s different where I live. During our cold snaps, that’s not usually enough time to warm up the car.
Since I have no experience…
How are they generally wrong, or, how is Elementary’s still wrong?
Also, did you see the* Closer *episode where Flynn gets attacked after a meeting, and if so, how was that one?
It may have been raining/misting. And yes, it does rain/mist when it’s that cold.
I’m assuming he puts it on the outside of the windshield.
What keeps it from flying off? Where I live, there’s wind, and lots of it.
Maybe be ties it to the mirrors. I don’t know, you’d have to ask him. I’m just assuming that’s what he does because he said: ‘I use a sunshade that is outside the vehicle on my windshield’ (bolding mine).
There’s a controversy going on here in Sacramento where people with Police Department parking stickers sitting on their dashboards were intentionally using obscuring plastic on their license plates and parking where they weren’t supposed to park.
Sandra Bullock’s movie The Net always drives me up the wall when I think about it. The Bad Guys ™ have inserted a virus into every computer system in the world to take them over, and in the process, erase all records that Bullock’s character ever existed. No bank accounts, no rent records, no social security, nothing. Finally the bad guys are defeated and their virus just … backs out. Everything it had ever damaged just seems to automatically get reverted without any special actions by anybody else.
Don’t do it in the states where you can get a ticket - Warming Up Your Car Could Get You a Ticket in Md., Va., DC – NBC4 Washington
the special superfriends squad of fbi heroes … where a whole department of the fbifor the entire country is just 5 maybe 6 people all working on the exact same thing , ie criminal minds bones …o0h and almost every show using the fbi as city/state police
One of the early scenes in Body Heat—the scene with the outdoor concert—was filmed during an unseasonably bitter cold snap in Florida. William Hurt and Kathleen Turner had to keep ice cubes in their mouths between takes so that their breath wouldn’t be visible. Once you know this, you can’t unsee it. I feel particularly bad for the extras in the concert audience, who were furiously fanning themselves while they were actually freezing. 
No show has ever gotten public education right. Not one. After the debut episode of Boston Public a few years ago, my wife asked if that stuff really happened in schools. My reply was “Sure. Every one of those events happened. In three dozen different schools in twelve different states over a period of four decades. Not in one high school in a single day.”
You’d think that the writers, having most likely gone to public schools, would know this.
I suspect what actually happens in a normal high school in a typical day would not make for riveting TV, though.
That said, with really good writing, I think you make something the critics would love, but as a commercially successful product? A bit harder of a sell.
It’s not actually against the law in the state of Michigan. There’s an ordinance against it in the city of Roseville, Michigan.
Also in Michigan and cops are the worst offenders with regard to this.
We have a cover that goes on the outside of the windshield and has flaps to hold it in place (open door, insert flap at edge of door, close door). It’s flexible plastic, not stiff cardboard like the usual inside-the-windshield sunscreen.