What is extremely common in TV or movies but almost never happens in real life?

On TV and movies, every animal that ever gets screen time makes its characteristic sound all the time. Dog barks, cat meows, cow moos, bird caws (though mostly the caw of a different bird, but a generic caw is sufficient for Hollywood), lion roars, horse neighs, you name it, the fact most animals enounce rarely in real life notwithstanding.

That probably comes from beagles, who won’t shut up no matter how much you try. For actual hunts, it’s a feature, not a bug.

“Buggerit!” said Old Foul Ron.

That is not my cow!

It’s kind of like “sneaking up” on suspects with lights and sirens all ablaze on your cop car.

Heh, most hounds. Dachshunds are notorious barkers, and one of ours was a spurlauter and was LOUD.

What does the fox say?

“Go away,creep. I have a boyfriend.”

Foxes never come up in the programs and movies I see… :wink:

TIL MGM’s Leo the Lion uses a tiger’s roar. Lions’ roar have less snarl and sound more like bulls’ bellowing.

Forgive me if this one was already mentioned.

When two people are about to make spontaneous passionate love, they dramatically sweep everything off a table or counter before getting to it.

Has anyone here ever had sex on a table? Or knows someone who did? I can never figure out how this works, logistically.

I suppose I could.

I’ll occasionally fix myself a glass of scotch and my MIL gave me a glass decanter she found on a yard sale for pennies (she buys a lot of useless stuff for pennies at yard sales…there’s like a whole ecosystem for that shit in our town. I bought a decent set of golf clubs for $20…but I digress). I’d use it for pouring scotch but I think it’s lead glass so I’m concerned about storing anything in it.

On a table, picnic table/bench, in the shower, in a sand dune. Mostly in my younger days. I prefer beds at this point in my life

Logistically, various positions make it easier.

I want diagrams!

I’m mostly joking. But as a romance reader I am occasionally downright flummoxed by the physics of sex in some of these books, where the actual composition of the union is so complicated that I have to read it multiple times to even understand what is happening. As a romance writer I would like to avoid that, but I also need a certain degree of inventiveness in my own scenes as well.

That would be so distracting I wouldn’t enjoy it. What if we fell off? Seriously.
Spice-how about on a balcony?

Diagrams might not help - even with them , I can’t figure out the logistics. :smile:

Maybe Venn diagrams?

Does a coffee table count?

I pictured this on a little end table, but perhaps you mean a big one that sits in front of a sofa. That one seems more plausible.

I picture it on a dining room table. Actually might be an advantage for a guy of the right height.

This is why you buy one of those adjustable height desks.