That’s just Gaudere’s Law in action.
No, dammit!!
I remember a local news story a few years back about a blind, deaf dog who did something newsworthy, I forget what. But the banner at the bottom of the screen, instead of saying “Blind, deaf dog” said “Blind, dead dog”. Jeez, how does someone NOT notice that?
FWIW, I just got the Blue-Ray disc of “Laurel Canyon”, a newish documentary about the (country) rock scene in LA of the late 60s and early 70s as a Christmas gift from my sister. The blurb on the cover: “One of the great rock’n’roll documentaties (sic) of all times”. 
When I go to a coffee shop, 49 out of 50 times I just want coffee. It takes the person at the counter and I maybe 20 seconds at most to complete the transaction, and another 20 at most for them to pour the coffee into a cup and for me to be on my way.
But, if there are people in line in front of me, it can take 10-15 minutes just to get to the register, and then more minutes for someone to pour my coffee, depending on how they handle orders.
I really wish there was a “coffee only” line where those of us who don’t need anything prepared specifically for us could just get a pour of coffee, pay and be gone. (This message brought to you from a coffee shop where it took me 15 minutes from entering before I had my cup of coffee).
Something that is infuriating me right now, as I watch the car wash folks wash my car. Is car wash pricing schemes. The interior of our car is always a sh_tshow, as we have a bunch of kids, I don’t actually care about the exterior as long it’s cleaner than when I came in, I’m happy. But the pricing scheme always assumed you want to fork out for a plethora of waxes and shines to make you paint work glow like the day it was made, but don’t care if they do a token once over with a vacuum on the interior.
Really opposite is true for me, I would happily pay the same amount, or more, they charge for their dumb wax and shine package in they give the exterior a quick once over but spend their time getting every stale French fry my kids have lodged in the seat cushions.
Me too. If I haven’t already had a moan about this upthread, it’s when I’m stuck behind a couple or group on the office coffee run, and they’re having a committee meeting as to who wants what variety of time-consuming frothafrappamochalattecino with or without sprinkles, and all I want is a plain black coffee NOW!
I used to go to Dunkin’ Donuts for my morning coffee. What really annoyed me was the folks who wanted a dozen (or more) doughnuts, and awaited until they were up to the counter to look over what was available and decide which doughnuts they wanted. Why didn’t they do that whilst standing in line waiting for the five people in line ahead of them to get out of their way?
Here’s one: people who don’t know how to swipe a card. I get behind a coworker who has to punch in. It requires them to swipe their work ID (With a bar code, not a magnetic strip). This one person doesn’t understand that it won’t work if you pause, even slightly, in the middle of the swipe. I stand there and watch her get angrier and angrier with each failure at the “Faulty Timeclock” until, in her anger, she swipes in one fast motion and it works. This happens at the time clock fairly rarely, so not a big problem. But still annoying. I can’t say anything about it because that leads to accusations of Mansplaining.
But I also see it in the wild. The worst was being stuck behind an idiot trying to get into the parking garage. They were not a regular and so had to use a credit card. They would push the CC hard into machine in one motion but when they’d pull it out, they’d pull it with a slow, non-continuous motion which would not work. I went a little crazy watching that because I was trapped behind them with another car behind me. I was about to get out and do it for them when by some miracle they pulled the card out correctly.
Sounds like the people who queue up to buy something (let’s say clothes), then after they’ve handed over the items to be scanned, they get asked to pay, and spend a good 30 seconds trying to locate their wallet. What a novelty, having to pay for the goods you want. No wonder it catches them out.
In the Northern Hemisphere, the sun moves from left to right as it rises and sets. But apparently, many filmmakers or editors seem to think that if they need a sunset, they can simply run a sunrise backwards (or vice versa). (Obviously, all this is reversed if the film takes place in the Southern Hemisphere.)
It’s bad enough in dramatic films, but it’s particularly infuriating in nature documentaries, where you’d think they’d know better.
That left-to-right probably depends on which way you’re facing. I’m in the Northern hemisphere, and could very easily orient myself so that sunrise is on my right, sunset on my left, or have one in front of me and one behind me, etc.
I think @commasense is talking about the movement of the sun itself as it rises or sets. This has nothing to do with which way you are facing.
Then please explain how it is possible to see sunrise at one’s right and sunset at one’s left in the Northern hemisphere if commasense’s over-generalization is correct. They did not specify a POV.
Maybe I should have been clearer. The shots I’m thinking of are usually time-lapse, so the motion of the sun is faster than natural. If you see the sun moving from right to left as it rises from (or sinks toward) the horizon, that means it was filmed in the Southern Hemisphere or the film is running backward.
The thing is, if they flipped the image left-to-right AND ran it backwards, a sunrise would look like a correct sunset (or vice versa). By only running the footage backwards they’re being lazy and creating an erroneous sequence.
Or the sequence was filmed, for example, with the camera aimed north in the Northern hemisphere. If you are facing north, east (sunrise) is at your right, while west (sunset) is at your left.
If you aim a camera to the north in the Northern Hemisphere, you will not see the sun. The sun only appears to the south to viewers in the Northern Hemisphere.
Then please explain how I can look north in the Northern hemisphere and have the sun in my field of vision.
I think you need to explain how you can do that.
Here is an image of the sun’s motion as seen looking south in the Northern Hemisphere.
The east is to the left and the sun’s east-to west motion is also left to right. If you turn 180 degrees from this view, the sun will be behind you.
I believe @commasense is talking about facing the horizon, watching the rising or setting sun. If watching the rising sun, you will be facing east, and the sun will move southernly as it rises, which is left to right. If having the setting sun (west) it will be moving north as it sets, which is also left to right. Not the movement over the course of the day.
ETA: or maybe not. Now I’m confused.