In addition to arty types, they’re incredibly popular among physicists. Hardly anyone in physics uses Windows any more; it’s all Mac or some flavor of Linux.
You don’t do that in real life? Sometimes that really does bring back a lost connection.
I’ve often wondered why this didn’t happen more in movies/TV, as it would certainly be dramatic. I’ve known people to do this and I have planned to have that as an option if it ever happens to me (which isn’t to say I’d definitely do it.)
Well, they either shoot you and hope to survive the crash (maybe they bothered to put on their seat belt?), or you don’t crash and eventually stop somewhere, and then they shoot you. Not looking good for you either way.
An arc of my favorite webcomic, JACK, featuring just this scenerio (warning: adult themes, furries).
As long as I am in the front seat, I can blow your brains out grab the wheel and hit the brakes just fine. Not from experience, at least the brains blowing bit.
Wings did that, but with a plane hijacking instead of a carjacking. It was just Brian, Antonio, and the wouldbe hijacker on the plane. Brian just threatened to crash the plane and went into a dive and the hijacker caved.
When I go to one local public library there are normally about 5-7 people there with laptops and normally 1 or 2 is a Mac. As far as I know I don’t know anyone who owns one.
I know 2 or 3 people who own Macs. Just sayin’.
“People”? You’ve known more than one person who’s had a gun pulled on him/her while driving? And at least two of them have tried this? Really?
Jamie Fox did it in Collateral.
Here’s one:
Whenever a bunch of people are camping out in Injun Country (or whatever), one guy, generally the “take charge” caracter, declares that he’ll be taking the first watch. Immeidately everyone else nods their appreciation, as if he’s doing them a big favor.
Hello? First watch is the *best *watch! You finish it, and you go to sleep for the night! If he really wanted to do some heavy lifting he’d volunteer for the *middle *watch.
Spit-takes.
Using a person’s first name and last name, as in “I love you, John Smith.” “Maggie Jones, will you marry me?”
Someone gives a character a gift, and they say “What is it?” They don’t tear into it until the giver replies, “Well, open it!”
No matter what they’re cooking, it’ll always involve chopping carrots.
Women leaving their bras on during sex.
And, if it’s a horror movie:
After hitting/shooting/stabbing the person who’s trying to kill you, you throw away the weapon in disgust, turn your back on the bad guy and collapse into tears.
Forgot another one:
If someone ever coughs in a film or television series, it is a given that they will die of TB before the end of the show.
Most people I know cough occasionally, and not one of them has ever died of TB.
As disappointing as it is to report, I’ve never seen someone flipping pancakes with a snow shovel like in the movie Uncle Buck.
I love the 24 take on that.
Jack: “Shoot him again.”
This is how it was done in my house for all the years I was growing up. My mother would NEVER let us put a jug or carton of milk on the table during a family dinner…it always got poured into a pitcher first. Never, ever. And for the record, I grew up in the Sixties and Seventies.
Food sitting in the refrigerator uncovered, unwrapped. You see this often in commercials. I have never seen anyone put food, except for fruit, in the fridge without some container or plastic wrapping to protect it from fridge cooties.
Waking up from a dream and repeating the last words said in it, often with flailing limbs and head shaking.
I know why they do this, but it still bugs me. On TV, there’s always quite a bit of ambient lighting in nighttime bedroom scenes. Some shows are worse than others. I was watching the Golden Girls today, and all the characters were in Sophia’s bed. The room was brightly lit like it was the middle of the afternoon. On some shows, you feel as if it’s merely twilight outside.
People walking around the house/apartment with shoes on.
Which marathon were you watching; Hallmark or WE? :o
If we’re thinking of the same episode (where the heater broke & Rose turned the AC on) they didn’t even bother closing the hall door or turning the light off. The Mary Tyler Moore Show suberted the “TV darkenss” trope in the episode where a blackout happened in the middle of one of Mary’s parties. It really was too dark to see anything or anybody (except for stars outside the widow).
I see a LOT of this in my everyday life. Myself at most I’ll change shoes to something unmuddied/comfortable but I’ll be wearing shoes.
I’ve never seen anyone take their prescription medication by chugging it out of the bottle…pills, I mean