What is your opinion on the United Kingdom?

[RangerPooh]

Magic sirums that bring people back to life. ‘Days of Our Lives’, I’m looking at you Dr. Rolf.

Wardrobes filled with higher end clothing, clearly not Target or Kohl’s. Characters wearing coats in supposed frigid temps that are lightweight summer styles or wide open. Not actually bundled up like an arctic explorer.

Being the CEO or another high ranking position for a global company with little to no college education.

 

[sam_gordon]

I used to work for a family company. The owners had been married about 20 years, and the husband had never seen the wife without makeup. Ever. She would put on fresh makeup and do her hair before bed, touch up if she got up in the night, and remove and replace in private in the morning. She was an attractive woman, and I think she would have been attractive without makeup (her sister was, and they looked almost identical), but I guess she must have felt insecure without it. I sleep on my side or stomach, with my face all mashed in the pillow, so it wouldn’t work for me. My hair, first thing in the morning, looks like I slept with a finger in the electric socket.

That reminds me of an amazing scene from Season 1 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Maybe it was not uncommon amongst woman from a certain era.

I was thinking the exact same thing. I tried to find the clip on Youtube, but couldn't.

Here's mine, ladies, tell me if I'm off base...

Women waking up after "a night of passion" wearing a bra. Who puts their bra (but not a shirt) back on after sex?

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Any birth on TV.

Scream. Cry. "This is your fault!"

Granted, I've only been to two births...

 

[disneyseniors]

I didn't read through all of these, but here's my 2 cents worth.
As an RN, I find it so funny on the medical shows. I have seen nasal cannulas for oxygen on Upside Down, LOL.
I have seen multiple tv docs and nurses doing CPR wrong. No you don't bend your elbows, and you should know where the heart is!
Also one had the IV not even in the arm, but laying on it. I guess they forgot to tape it?
My family gets tired of me saying, I have never seen that before in the hospital, or it's not done like that.
A major one is: The nurses dont' have time to have a quick affair in the hospital with a hunky doctorl That one makes me laugh. I wish We were so busy we only said hi and goodbye to the doctors.
Oh well, but sometimes I wonder if the general public really thinks we have time to dally with someone, or gossip with others.

 

[design_mom]

I didn't read through all of these, but here's my 2 cents worth.
As an RN, I find it so funny on the medical shows. I have seen nasal cannulas for oxygen on Upside Down, LOL.
I have seen multiple tv docs and nurses doing CPR wrong. No you don't bend your elbows, and you should know where the heart is!
Also one had the IV not even in the arm, but laying on it. I guess they forgot to tape it?
My family gets tired of me saying, I have never seen that before in the hospital, or it's not done like that.
A major one is: The nurses dont' have time to have a quick affair in the hospital with a hunky doctorl That one makes me laugh. I wish We were so busy we only said hi and goodbye to the doctors.
Oh well, but sometimes I wonder if the general public really thinks we have time to dally with someone, or gossip with others.

It's funny how stuff like that impacts you, isn't it? My sister-in-law is a nurse and I've heard her yell at the TV multiple times something like "You could at least turn that machine *on* before you pretend to check it!" (I would never have noticed.)

My husband and I are both graphic designers and we get frustrated by the "image enhancement" stuff. Or "let me fix that photo" (click one button and it's done). Image editing software is great, but it's not magic.

My father-in-law is a big car guy. One of his big frustrations (mainly on older cars where the gear shift is on the steering column, so visible in the shot) is when they're "driving" but you can clearly tell that the car is in park. (Again, not something I'd ever noticed till he pointed it out.)

 

[RUDisney]

Last time I yelled at the TV was during The Spanish Princess, season 2. One of Queen Katherine's ladies said something about them putting someone's head on a spike on Tower Bridge. Tower bridge wasn't built until the end of the 19th century and Katherine was queen during the early 16th century. Heads were put on London Bridge for the population to see.

 

[Sparkly]

Hospital dramas where they have time to sit and chit chat with each patient. Yeah, right!

Fight scenes where they stop and go on long, dramatic monologues prior to the action beginning as if the villain wouldn't just attack straight away.

A certain BBC soap concerning the east of London where they all move into each others houses, no concern given to if the standard 3 bed terraced London house would realistically fit all these people. You never see them complain about sleeping 2/3 deep to a bedroom or queuing an hour to use the bathroom in the morning either. And if a character takes over somebody who's left or has died's house, they never redecorate and leave it exactly as it is, even if it makes no sense.

From the same programme, people who are supposedly broke and yet always have cash for a drink in the pub or breakfast in the cab that they'll take 2 mouthfuls of and leave in a huff or because their dog caught on fire or something.

I could go on all day...

 

[FigmentSpark]

The one that bothered me... and this is very specific... was The Flash. Every week, they'd catch these uber evil supervillans and they put them in their hadron collider (or whatever it was) for safekeeping. These guys with incredible superstrength and power were safely locked away in there. Who fed them? How did they go to the bathroom? Why would you put them all together to conspire against you?

I stopped watching after season 1 because I just couldn't get past that, even though it was a minor thing in the whole show.

 

[ArielFlounderSebastian357]

The way people can remember multi-part directions or military battle maneuver orders after hearing them just once. I would be all, "Can you repeat that?" or would have to write it down. I noticed this while watching the Mandalorian: Go to the planet blah blah blah and look in the yadda yadda yadda forest for what's-her-face. Tell her that boca something sent you.

Some historians speculate that the reason General Lee lost the Battle of Gettysburg was that his orders were not followed correctly or were misunderstood. I have no idea how solid that theory is, but after watching some films about the battle, I can totally relate.

I'm envious of people who can do directions based on North, South, East and West. Like go east for 1.4 miles you can't miss it. Sorry I'd need a compass and some way to tell me distance

 

[RUDisney]

I'm envious of people who can do directions based on North, South, East and West. Like go east for 1.4 miles you can't miss it. Sorry I'd need a compass and some way to tell me distance

I'm one of those people who can sense the direction in which I'm going. I drive my DH crazy because he has no internal compass. I don't know why I can do that or where I got it. Distance, however, is another thing.

 

[Moliphino]

I'm envious of people who can do directions based on North, South, East and West. Like go east for 1.4 miles you can't miss it. Sorry I'd need a compass and some way to tell me distance

I know how my house is oriented, but it would still take me a minute to translate that to which direction I'd be going if I turned left or right out of the driveway.

 

[ArielFlounderSebastian357]

Not just to go cups of coffee, mugs of coffee or hot chocolate, obvious nothing in the cup. Due to not having any fluid in the cups, it’s so obvious their sips are fake. Also, when they drink from a bottle of beer, faking sips.

Yes! I see this a lot with coffee and walking and talking scenes. If you're swinging that coffee cup around like that with actual stuff in it it would be spilling out plus the coffee is hot but also when the characters are just sitting down like on a couch or something. Most people are careful with containers like that, but in shows and movies they seem to have wild abandon haha. And it's usually really clear something that should have some weight to it has none at all.

 

[Wendy31]

I thought of another one...

Why don’t characters ask each other the obvious questions or give each other pertinent information/details?

Many times, I’ll be watching a tv show or movie & think, “Y’all could have saved yourselves a whole bunch of trouble and/or angst if you would have just talked to each other & told everyone involved all the pertinent details of what was going on!”

 

[ArielFlounderSebastian357]

I'm one of those people who can sense the direction in which I'm going. I drive my DH crazy because he has no internal compass. I don't know why I can do that or where I got it. Distance, however, is another thing.

I know how my house is oriented, but it would still take me a minute to translate that to which direction I'd be going if I turned left or right out of the driveway.

I couldn't remember the term but yes internal compass is right!

If you told me you are facing north I could figure out that east is this way but really only for visualizing a general direction because once I start moving I feel like I get messed up especially if the road curves around; all hope is lost for me then.

I do agree with the getting out of the driveway, definitely.

 

[luvsvacation]

I’ve started binge watching law and order suv when I was quarantined and clearly you have to suspend reality a bit...of course they don’t have the trial the next day after the rape/murder. But the thing that gets me is when people are having a conversation and someone walks into the room with the next line and seems to know exactly what the others were already talking about Like 2 guys are saying “he might just get away with this cause we can’t find any dna” and another guys rounds the corner with a file in hand and says “we just found some”

 

[sam_gordon]

I'm envious of people who can do directions based on North, South, East and West. Like go east for 1.4 miles you can't miss it. Sorry I'd need a compass and some way to tell me distance

I used to be really good at it, but as I've used GPS more and more, my skills seem to be deteriorating.

 

[Wiltony]

I'm envious of people who can do directions based on North, South, East and West. Like go east for 1.4 miles you can't miss it. Sorry I'd need a compass and some way to tell me distance

This is always an interesting dynamic when I travel to Florida. I live on the front range in Colorado, so it's always very clear where West is (the mountains), so I'm pretty much always oriented wherever I go. In Florida, I always have a hard time finding my bearings due to the horizon looking the same in pretty much every direction.

 

[sunnyshari]

It’s always strange to me when best friends in a high school have their lockers beside each other and all of their classes together. My daughter is lucky to get 1 or 2 classes with any friend much less all of them.

 

[MrsPete]

With gifts, the top of the box is wrapped separately from the bottom of the box.

I have some really nice, heavy boxes that I've wrapped separately. Why? Because we use them year after year.

Incomes that don't match their jobs. You aren't living in a million dollar house while you work part time at a coffee shop.

Yes, and two similar ridiculous things:
- Character with little-to-no experience or education is elevated into high-power, high-income, high-status jobs.
- Characters with these high-power, high-income jobs seem to have unlimited time at home /with friends.

And then when they get there, all 50 of them they brought with them can't shoot straight enough to hit the broad side of a barn door and they all get killed by the good guy who is standing out in the open just picking them off left and right.

Yes, it's a well known fact: hired henchmen and villains cannot shoot well, and the boss-man villain is always the last one standing.

People fall madly in love or become best friends after one fun outing together.

My husband and I have often laughed that our relationship cannot possibly survive. We didn't start out right: we did not meet in a crisis, were not pushed together in some improbable way, and have never once saved the world.

How about any single cough by a character means IMPENDING and UNAVOIDABLE DEATH

Similarly, having sex once = pregnancy. Every single time.

Women waking up after "a night of passion" wearing a bra. Who puts their bra (but not a shirt) back on after sex?

And after two kisses both parties are, um ... breathing heavily and in the throes of passion.

I'll add these things:
- Characters go out way more often than people in real life, and they go to fancy-fancy dress restaurants every other week, it seems.
- Characters make a VERY big deal out of everyone's birthday.
- Characters who've never shot a gun, never been in a fight, never had sex ... become experts at these things instantly.

 

[mousefan73]

Letting their high school kids sleep over at their boyfriend/girlfriend's house. I have lots of friends with high school kids. No ONE would EVER do this!!!

Depends on the country. In Germany it is kinda standard starting at 16... freaking me out as my kids are approaching this age.. Thank God single still so the subject is mute, at the moment.