I would love to see a pregnancy test commercial in which someone is giddy over not being pregnant. That’s more real, if you ask me.
I was at one funeral where we had to fill up the grave ourselves. On a reservation. I think some family members dug the grave, but I was one of those honored to fill it back up. Protip, don’t wear a suit to a traditional native funeral.
I saw a bit where the comedienne said if pregnancy test commercials were accurate, they would show a teenage girl curled up by the toilet crying.
If the bad guy grabs a hostage and holds them at gun point and says to the cops/soldiers pointing guns back at him “Drop your weapons or I’ll kill her” the good guys will ALWAYS drop their weapons. Then the bad guy will shoot either the hostage or the person who dropped their gun, perfectly explaining why you should NEVER do this in real life.
At this point, you would typically have part of your SWAT team crash through the skylight or a convenient window, which they never do IRL.
No, no, no, you’d want the most tired cliché of all:
The bad guy takes aim at the hero, drawls “Shouldn’t have trusted me…” and BANG!
Good guy checks his chest for a hole, camera cuts to bad guy, who topples over to reveal the female lead with a smoking pistol standing right behind him.
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(by the way, she was knocked unconscious a minute before, and, as an innocent bystander, had never handled a gun before)
I know the front is supposed to point at the enemy, but is this the front I am looking at or if I read this am I ok because the instructions should be read from someone behind it ?
I guess Darwin knows the answer in the end,
Sorry been looking at some ambiguous instructions recently due to an oopsie, and its surprising how people who are experienced with a certain thing can misinterpret what may seem to be an obvious statement .
This is my favorite subversion of that trope in media, from the video game Mass Effect 2:
I thought it was that the villain will have the gun in the general vicinity of their head but not actually pointed at them.
No, the hero shoots through the hostage, making sure that they don’t hit anything vital on the hostage but killing the bad guy.
A non-fatal example of that in media:
Thus ALWAYS to rapists.
I believe James Bond also does this in one of his movies, shoots the hostage who was wearing a bullet proof vest which stuns the hostage taker into releasing and Bond then opens fire with the target free.
In a well-known science fiction novel, before the villain can threaten to kill the hostage, the hero threatens to shoot the hostage first, leaving the villain at a loss…
The (various) cultures involved aren’t notably more “grave-robby” than any other ones I’m aware of. Funeral attendants are professionals.
This brings up something that might have already been addressed but I’m going to point it out anyway…when you fire a gun, the bullet can and often does go right through the initial target and hits someone else. This is especially true of a high-powered rifle, but even a pistol, especially at close range can have this effect.
So…in the John Wick movies (which I love btw), think about when John is going through a crowd of folks and selectively shooting only the bad guys. What are the odds that none of the bullets are going through a target and hitting one of the folks in the crowd? Especially as many people as John is shooting? Of course, what are the odds that John can hit so many headshots while in such a stressful situation (yet fail to hit someone walking on a different level on the subway…and with both firing, while no one around them notices because the ‘silencer’ is so quiet they just can’t hear the shot? 
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You are aware I just described my own culture as ‘grave robby’ for insisting on making sure the casket actually gets buried, right? It might not be a funny joke to you, but it’s not exactly subtle.
You were replying to a post commenting on a post of mine that didn’t involve you. Your culture wasn’t mentioned in the exchange at all.
There was a general discussion about burial customs, in which I’d just mentioned my Grandpa’s funeral, which also shared that same custom of throwing in earth- and if you knew one of my uncles, the thought would probably have occurred to you that it was to deter people from nipping back later too.
I honestly can’t see why you would take a joke I was making about my grandfather’s burial, inspired by my sketchy extended family, as a personal insult.
Now I’m thinking of a certain scene from Blazing Saddles.
Of course, the corollary to this, already pointed out in this thread, is the “ordinary objects are bulletproof” trope. People are always hiding from being shot at behind couches and opened (non-armored) car doors, none of which are remotely bulletproof. Or, the good guy will often grab a bad guy and use him as a human shield against bullets. I’m sure John Wick did that more than once.
I’m pretty sure earlier in this thread I pointed out a movie in which a shootout took place in the Guggenheim Museum with high-powered automatic weapons. The Guggenheim has a multi-story open central area with walkways around the inside that have waist-high wall railings (see pic below). The good guys would crouch down behind the waist-high railing walls to protect themselves from bad guys shooting at them on the other side. I thought, that was some real foresight on Frank Lloyd Wright’s part to specify that those railing walls be made bulletproof!
