That hypocrisy is different from, say, modern America how, exactly?
Mythbusters more or less busted that. They found that few ducts were big enuf but if they were you’d make a hellofa noise crawling.
[Moderating]
This is not the place to debate modern American hypocrisy, or the lack thereof.
Genius/Alien/Time traveler builds amazing gadget by sticking bits of everyday devices together, like technology is legos and you just have to snap it together in the right configuration.
That’s another trope. If a woman is with a man and the story requires that she cheat on him and be with our hero, then the man she cheats on has to be a monster. Must hit her and treat her like shit so that we actually root for her when she cheats on him. She cheats for true love.
Men who cheat have a loving wife at home who never so much as raises her voice and is an all around wonderful person (think Michael Douglas’ wife in Fatal Attraction). When the man cheats it is fully out of selfishness and lust.
Yeah, and he was cheating on Anne Archer… that ruined any plausibility the movie had right out of the gate.
Cop show. One cop standing behind another sitting at a computer.
“Ok, give me a list of left-handed people who have a K, L or C in their middle name and sat within two desks of a Presbyterian kid in a state west of the Mississippi between 1971 and 1983.”
Clackclackclack
“Three results.”
You know good and damned well that sort of database would nine kinds of not exist.
Yeah. The only database I’ve seen like that covered only Methodist kids.
- That’s when Titanic sank.
Even today, people get pressured by family into marrying the “right” person. No, Rose’s mom didn’t literally force her at gunpoint to marry Cal. But it’s pretty clear from the scene where they discuss the marriage and Rose’s willingness to toss herself off the stern of the boat in the middle of the night that that was pretty much her only option at that point.
Who knows what happened to her mom, but Rose did have that big diamond in her pocket when they landed in New York. Although does beg the question how she managed to not have to pawn it.
Hell, at least Bridges of Madison County only presented the women cheating=romantic side of things. In Terms of Endearment, they went full on hypocritical with scummy cheating husband character and empowered cheating wife character in the same damn movie.
It vexes me every time somebody dies that the corpse has always kept the eyes open, then a friend comes, caresses the face downwards from the eyebrows to the nose and the eyes are shut. Never had the chance to try it out myself, but I refuse to believe that it works like that.
(now waiting for ignorance fighters on duty)
Since this has been bumped, there has been a recent interesting real-world case of omniscient database–a criminal suspect wearing a t-shirt sold only to a few people through Esty.