What is your opinion on the United Kingdom?

[mousefan73]

When ever they film a scene in a plane, in economy class, it seems TONS more roomy than in reality.

I also find homes are VERY well picked up... Kitchen counters have no junk lying around etc....


Most unrealistic have to be any home in any Hallmark Christmas movie.

 

[PaulaSB12]

People eat and drink but never go to the toilet. When they need to go quickly no one (unless its birth situation and make it funny) loses their car keys. Also sex is always ok never any case of not being able to perform.

 

[AurumPunzel]

In many medical dramas, there's defibrillating during asystole. I'd hate to imagine many doctors getting mad every time they see unrealistic depictions of resuscitation on TV or film.

 

[nursejackie]

turning your back to them

Yes! This drives me mad. When two people are meant to be having a conversation and one's facing the camera. Who does that? I'd be like ' why are you talking to the wall?'

 

[nursejackie]

Characters wearing coats in supposed frigid temps that are lightweight summer styles or wide open.

Or the opposite way around. I love the Golden Girls but they're always moaning about the hot weather and humidity in Miami yet walk around in sweaters.

 

[sam_gordon]

Yes! This drives me mad. When two people are meant to be having a conversation and one's facing the camera. Who does that? I'd be like ' why are you talking to the wall?'

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That's supposed to the POV of who they're talking to. When you watch an interview on the news and the person is looking at the camera. The reporter is just to the side of the camera.

 

[nursejackie]

That's supposed to the POV of who they're talking to. When you watch an interview on the news and the person is looking at the camera. The reporter is just to the side of the camera.

Sorry I should have specified I mean in dramas and films when the camera's not meant to be there and they've just basically got their backs to you whilst carrying out a full (usually dramatic) conversation.

 

[Tinkerbell58]

Or the opposite way around. I love the Golden Girls but they're always moaning about the hot weather and humidity in Miami yet walk around in sweaters.

I don't think I have ever seen any of the Golden Girls wear the same outfit twice.

 

[StevieTimes]

Watch the characters on the big bang theory eat. It's an art how much they just push their food around without taking a bite.

 

[tarheelmjfan]

I've given up on catching up, before posting, so I'm going to reply as I go.

As for the Chinese container debate, we used to have containers like they show on tv. A couple years ago, the Chinese restaurants in our area all switched to plastic containers, with plastic lids. I much prefer that. You can't beat free reusable containers. (I say free, because the food prices haven't gone up.) Like others have mentioned, white rice still comes in the paper containers.

Now to my gripe about Chinese food on tv. It always looks so good & makes me want to order it. A restaurant two blocks from us gets rave reviews from NYC/NJ snowbirds. They always share where they're from & say the food tastes the same as Chinese food in the city. To me, practically all of their food tastes the same & none of it tastes fresh. I expected more from NYC, Chinese food based on tv shows. I actually prefer PF Chang's.

Talking in restaurants or in the street about something private or top secret that should be just between the two people, but, can heard by everyone in a 100 yard radius.

Every one leaving their front or back doors open so people can come and go at all hours.

Immaculate houses even when they have toddlers and kindergarteners.

My parents never locked their doors. My sisters always have at least one door unlocked. My home is locked up like Fort Knox. The difference in my home & theirs is they live in rural NC. I live in South Florida.

I also know a few people who have immaculate homes with little kids, until you see the play room.

 

[tarheelmjfan]

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.

My dad was like that. We took many road trips, when I was growing up. The only time he ever used a map was when he was planning the route we would take. He would often pretend to be lost, but he never was. He could look in the sky & know which direction he was going.

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.

When we lived in the Tampa suburbs, it took me awhile to understand the roads. When we got to the interstate exit that was less than a mile away from our home, we went south to go south & to go north. I had never lived in a place like that. The roads where we currently live are much less confusing.

 

[KatMac]

I’m not sure if it’s ok to post this (if not I assume moderators will delete it), but have you noticed how fast couples get through sex on tv? I’m a lesbian and therefore no expert on the subject of what straight couples do, but I’m always astonished when watching shows like Outlander and Bridgerton. Wham, bam over-in-three-seconds ma’am. For the sake of all you straight ladies, I sincerely hope that’s not normal!

Another thing, a lot of shows, like Revenge, show people drinking wine ALL the time. Never water or soda or juice. Just wine.

 

[tarheelmjfan]

Am I the only one that's reading the replies & thinking I'm that person or I know that person? Getting hot & bothered after a kiss or 2, yep. Not needing to run to the bathroom or brush my teeth some mornings, before getting out of bed , yep. Hating to be bundled up & refusing to wear a heavy coat, even though you're freezing, yep. That's when you prove how fast you can run from the car to the heat indoors. A kitchen counter that's usually bare, yep. I hate clutter. I also know people who meet up with friends or coworkers 3 or 4 days a week for drinks not including their weekend socializing. Unfortunately, I'm not one of them, but I wouldn't mind to be. (Obviously, this was pre-Covid). There are also more replies that I'm missing that I don't find unusual. Reading through the replies I think perception is heavily based on personal experience. Some of the medical, law enforcement & Hallmark movie situations are probably the only things that don't apply to someone's real life.

The thing I roll my eyes at the most is the female, law enforcement officers who have a passionate night in bed, receive an unexpected call & jump out of bed ready to leave home in less than 10 minutes totally put together including perfect hair & makeup. What about a shower?

 

[jdb in AZ]

On Blue Bloods, Danny was escorting a gurney down a hospital corridor, yelling "Clear the Floor!" The floor was already clear, and hospitals are supposed to be quiet zones.

And when Grandpa Reagan had his heart attack on Thanksgiving, neighbors showed up with hot food (without coordinating a time frame for the family to be home to receive it.) The family took the food to the hospital cafeteria, when they dined with lit candles in a hospital? Fire code violations, anyone?

When Linda was an E.R. nurse she'd check on her patients the next day, in their rooms, but she was still their nurse? Why hadn't the patients been assigned to a surgical/specialty area of the hospital?

I really need to stop watching stoopid reruns.

 

[bdcp]

I’m not sure if it’s ok to post this (if not I assume moderators will delete it), but have you noticed how fast couples get through sex on tv? I’m a lesbian and therefore no expert on the subject of what straight couples do, but I’m always astonished when watching shows like Outlander and Bridgerton. Wham, bam over-in-three-seconds ma’am. For the sake of all you straight ladies, I sincerely hope that’s not normal!

Another thing, a lot of shows, like Revenge, show people drinking wine ALL the time. Never water or soda or juice. Just wine.

LOL. I'm a straight woman, married almost 40 years, met my husband at 18 and he's my one and only ever, but I will say, no not normal at all. Just like everything else on tv.

 

[Donald13]

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”

Watching it now during the pandemic is absolutely maddening. Masks on, masks off. One piece of plexiglass on the ground between the lawyers. The glass piece in front of the person testifying. It all does nothing. And the story lines are always ridiculous

 

[Mysterian]

The magical defibrilater. You know, the one that magically saves flatlined patients.
Beep beeeeep beeeep beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee............(flatline)
Oh noes!! what do we do???!!! OUTTA MY WAY NURSE!!!! Kiss the paddle for good luck nurse? Dr. Rubs paddles, places them parallel CLEAR!!!! ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT. Normal sinus rhythm dr. You did it!!!! Patient sits up and is drinking tea 5 minutes later.
Several problems here.
1. You don't rub the paddles together.
2. You can't shock a flat lined patient because it won't work.
3. You don't place them in the exact same spot on either side perfectly parallel to each other.
4. Only about 15% of patients survive CPR. In medical dramas, the vast majority of them do.

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[Mysterian]

When playing a video game, actors always frantically smash any button their hand may be near. That's how you know they have no idea what they're doing.

I've been gaming for 35 years now, I've NEVER had the slightest inkling to do that......ok I might lean into a turn when doing a racing game of something, but the just the sheer.....aggression seen on-screen is just ridiculous.

Along with the mention of fast hacking, I remember in Men in Black when Tommy Lee Jones uses his keyboard, his hands are fluttering just above the keys in a nonsensical pattern. He's not even typing. To be fair, I don't think TLJ has ever used computers.

 

[FigmentSpark]

I'm still waiting for that software they use that takes a massively blurry security cam video still and cleans it up so much a clear photo is available within minutes, if not seconds. It's actually been easier to get better security cams than the software to clean up the photos.

 

[RedAngie]

Eat directly from a chinese food box, sometimes right from the fridge. I have literally never seen a single person do this in real life.

OK. I admit to sometimes doing this. Never with chopsticks, however, like shown on TV or movies.