One thing I’ve noticed is when they show men in the military, (in uniform), many times the person’s hair is much too long, and it seems to be accepted as normal.
I’ll do it if the reception’s bad, just to look at my bars and/or make sure the phone’s not suddenly disconnected.
Yep. I was trying to make a point about them being common in California, specifically where much of the entertainment industry is located, and so made a conglomerated list. Sorry if I wasn’t clear. It was 2:34 AM.
Bakery boxes and Chinese cartons were the only items mentioned multiple times, including by you immediately before me. Did you desperately need to be the last and final word on paper food containers or something?
I take issue with this. I used to know people who got stoned regularly and still resorted to making bongs out of milk jugs and water bottles.
You know those sitcoms that had bachelor auctions? And wackiness always ensued?
I’ve never seen or heard of a bachelor auction in real life.
How about how people always yell “HE’S GOT A GUN!!!”? Isn’t it likely that in real life, that would virtually guarantee that somebody is getting shot?
In film and television shows, extras get paid about $50 a day. Few want to have a real military cut just to earn $50, so many casting agents simply live with what they get and pick the guys with the shortest hair who show up that day. A lead actor, getting paid a lot more, will have no problem getting the hair cut. Plus, some extras who will be on a film for several weeks and get a larger paycheck will probably be convinced to get the haircut as well. Not an excuse for bad casting, but that is probably why you see it.
and the opposite: there’s a guy holding a gun pointed someone, and intsead a shooting, you get 3 minutes of small talk between the characters, as they calmy re-hash the enitire plot of the episode.
Bickering people trapped together in basements, elevators, storage rooms etc. After they are rescued, they are the best of friends with no more issues with each other.
I used to order “lager,” knowing that in Philadelphia I’d get a Yuengling unless I specified something else. I’d want to see how many taps the bars are running on TV before I thought it was odd that someone would just order “beer.”
Here in my town it was called “Pecker Point”. It was a large turnout on the side of a road that was up on a hill overlooking the city. The official purpose of the turnout was, of course, to provide a place for people to pull off the road and enjoy the view of the valley and town, but at night it was an ideal makeout spot. It’s fallen into disuse in the last ten years or so, due to new houses being built on the sidehill right above it, removing the privacy the spot once enjoyed. I don’t know where the kids go now.
And in contrast, I knew an apartment of super broke college students who relied on their minimum wage food service jobs’ free food for more than half their meals each week who had a gorgeous iridescent glass bong, several glass pipes, and an electric bill that hadn’t been paid in months.
We were just watching The Wire, and I was struck by something - for once, somebody said something really funny and somebody else in the scene laughed. That never happens on TV! In real life, if there’s me and you and our buddy Bill and I say some badass hilarious putdown to you, Bill is going to crack up laughing. That’s the point! Why am I trying to be funny if nobody’s going to laugh?
Actually, one thing I really liked about The Drew Carey Show was that they regularly laughed at each other’s jokes.
They weren’t WASPs (they were Jewish), but this makes me think of Rachel and her parents on “Friends.”
Anytime you see a man without his shirt on in almost any TV show or movie since about 1995, the man’s torso will be entirely free of hair except for his armpits.
I don’t know any men, myself included, who habitually shave/wax their chest hair.
People who wake up from a nightmare with a gasp and sit bolt upright in bed.
On a related note, people who wake up in the morning looking perfect, sit up straight and stretch their arms above their heads.
It makes, say, Joss Whedon characters look undeservedly smarmy when they don’t laugh at each other’s jokes.
Believe me, I’m aware some stoners have extravagant bongs, but some don’t. Some alcoholics drink from fine crystal, some drink from the bottle.
ETA: …and I finally realize I’m kind of fighting the premise of the thread, which is “things you personally don’t encounter regularly,” so I’ll take my plastic bongs and pink bakery boxes and go home.
Same here - NZ soap Shortland St everyone that has a computer has a Mac. I’ve always assumed that Apple has organised product placement. I am a merchandiser & I see one of my products on the same soap all the time.
& this is mainly Shortland St as wll but I have seen it on other shows. People walking off jobs without giving proper notice. I’ve worked most of the last 36 years & have only known one real life person to do that.