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

[digs]

@Lumpy

But Hollywood has given people an unrealistic view of danger. Most people don’t know or aren’t willing to admit that some situations are practically unsurvivable

I fully expect that, if I were to fall off a cliff and be hanging onto a tiny tree branch growing out of the cliff side, I’d be thinking “Hey, I’ve seen this setup before. Nothing to worry about…”

[Mama_Zappa]

@msmith537

Looking for my first job, I remember having to travel all over the Northeast. Price Waterhouse flew me down to Virginia from a want ad I responded to in the newspaper (years later I would work for PwC as a manager). And you sort of applied for a “job”

Hah! I wonder if we’ve ever run into each other! Likely not, as the Virginia office was the private sector and I was public sector.

I worked for PW - was hired on “for a job”, not for a specific slot. I was actually “on the bench” for several weeks before they assigned me to a project.

Some time after that, they went to the practice of only hiring for specific project slots.

[nearwildheaven]

That’s about as likely to happen as an anvil (ACME brand, of course) being dropped from a hot-air balloon by a coyote.

[msmith537]

@Mama_Zappa

@msmith537

Looking for my first job, I remember having to travel all over the Northeast. Price Waterhouse flew me down to Virginia from a want ad I responded to in the newspaper (years later I would work for PwC as a manager). And you sort of applied for a “job”

Hah! I wonder if we’ve ever run into each other! Likely not, as the Virginia office was the private sector and I was public sector.

I worked for PW - was hired on “for a job”, not for a specific slot. I was actually “on the bench” for several weeks before they assigned me to a project.

Some time after that, they went to the practice of only hiring for specific project slots.

Unlikely. I worked out of the PwC office in New York and I was only there not quite a year sometime later in the mid-2000s.

[Mama_Zappa]

@msmith537

Unlikely. I worked out of the PwC office in New York and I was only there not quite a year sometime later in the mid-2000s.

Yeah - we never bumped into each other then!

[DrDeth]

@Lumpy

. But Hollywood has given people an unrealistic view of danger. Most people don’t know or aren’t willing to admit that some situations are practically unsurvivable,

For example- if you follow Bear Grylls survival hints- you will die. He was doing some crazy acrobatic stuff that 95% of us can’t do, and even more if you are in a survival sitrep. And- no, you dont drink your urine. You can eat bugs but better if they are toasted in a fire first.

[The_Other_Waldo_Pepper]

@Lumpy

But Hollywood has given people an unrealistic view of danger. Most people don’t know or aren’t willing to admit that some situations are practically unsurvivable

Per the thread title, I’m under the impression that — if I’m ever being followed by armed pursuers — I just need to cross the street and give a look to my would-be assailants right before a vehicle inevitably passes between us and, man, I’m gone.

[Nars_Glinley]

@digs

I fully expect that, if I were to fall off a cliff and be hanging onto a tiny tree branch growing out of the cliff side, I’d be thinking “Hey, I’ve seen this setup before. Nothing to worry about…”

And it’s nice to know that if you fall or get pushed off of a building that you can hang on by your fingertips until you either pull yourself up or the bad guy has a change of heart.

[nightshadea]

@Mijin

Or the cough medicine variant.

Someone has a cold in the first act of an 80s or 90s sitcom → they get recommended something to take → say they feel much better but are acting weird → other lead character reads label and asks “how much of this have you had?”

In the real world, yes, cough syrups often contain significant alcohol and you can go over the driving limit from drinking them, so you have to be careful. But I think you reach toxic levels before you could actually get drunk on them. Most of us prefer to have our headaches, nauseu and vomiting after a good drinking sesh.

that’s called roboing because a certain make of robotussin was used by teenagers to get a buzz from … and and as a tween I as sick and mom wasn’t home one night and I was tired of feeling bad so I started chugging from the bottle ,not something you’d wanna do really

[msmith537]

@The_Other_Waldo_Pepper

@Lumpy

But Hollywood has given people an unrealistic view of danger. Most people don’t know or aren’t willing to admit that some situations are practically unsurvivable

Per the thread title, I’m under the impression that — if I’m ever being followed by armed pursuers — I just need to cross the street and give a look to my would-be assailants right before a vehicle inevitably passes between us and, man, I’m gone.

You could grab some random coat and hat from wherever and just disappear.

[CalMeacham]

@nearwildheaven

That’s about as likely to happen as an anvil (ACME brand, of course) being dropped from a hot-air balloon by a coyote.

No hot air balloon or coyote, but, as I wrote in a piece for the SDMB e-zine Teemings, there were situations in which you did have to “Watch out for Falling Anvils”

I tried to dig it up via the Wayback Machine, but couldn’t find it.

[The_Other_Waldo_Pepper]

Was it this?

[CalMeacham]

That’s it.

Howe did you dig it up? I tried googling by the title and the title paired with “Wayback Machine”, and tried going to the Wayback Machine site and using their search function. None of that worked.

[The_Other_Waldo_Pepper]

@CalMeacham

Howe did you dig it up? I tried googling by the title and the title paired with “Wayback Machine”, and tried going to the Wayback Machine site and using their search function. None of that worked.

I checked the first issue, and saw it had a piece called “Watch Out For Falling Anvils”, and dropped my plan of checking the second issue and the third and so on; dumb muscle would’ve gotten it in the end, but dumb luck got it right at the start.

[CalMeacham]

@The_Other_Waldo_Pepper

I checked the first issue, and saw it had a piece called “Watch Out For Falling Anvils”, and dropped my plan of checking the second issue and the third and so on; dumb muscle would’ve gotten it in the end, but dumb luck got it right at the start.

But how did you get tom the first issue? I couldn’t even do that.

[The_Other_Waldo_Pepper]

@CalMeacham

But how did you get tom the first issue?

I went to archive.org and typed in teemings.com.

[DesertDog]

@scabpicker

Hehehe, we call the parking spot closest to the door of the establishment you want to visit “The Kojak spot”.

AKA Rock Star parking or Charlie’s Angels parking.

[Loach]

@nightshadea

@Mijin

Or the cough medicine variant.

Someone has a cold in the first act of an 80s or 90s sitcom → they get recommended something to take → say they feel much better but are acting weird → other lead character reads label and asks “how much of this have you had?”

In the real world, yes, cough syrups often contain significant alcohol and you can go over the driving limit from drinking them, so you have to be careful. But I think you reach toxic levels before you could actually get drunk on them. Most of us prefer to have our headaches, nauseu and vomiting after a good drinking sesh.

that’s called roboing because a certain make of robotussin was used by teenagers to get a buzz from … and and as a tween I as sick and mom wasn’t home one night and I was tired of feeling bad so I started chugging from the bottle ,not something you’d wanna do really

I’ve always called it robo-tripping. Dextromethorphan (DXM) has hallucinogenic properties if taken at high doses. You pretty much have to down an entire bottle at once. It’s not something you do by accident. It has to be much higher than the therapeutic dose. I’m no doctor but I believe it’s much more dangerous if you take a version with acetaminophen. The dose then becomes formula for liver failure.

[Mijin]

Seems a mix of things. Family guy had stewie getting drunk on cough syrup, while the south park guys very explicitly got high.

[nearwildheaven]

Is anyone here following that bizarre story out of Oklahoma where two women, one of whom was involved in a long-term custody dispute, were murdered, and one of the suspects is the paternal grandmother of the children?

Her initial plan was - I kid you not - putting an anvil on a truck and finding a way to catapult it into their car as it was driving down the highway.