What is your opinion on the United Kingdom?

[ronandannette]

The secret government organization who is set out to get people.

Pretty sure that one's real, at least if FB is still the iron-clad reliable news source we all trust it to be...

 

[starvenger]

Or like their really huge apartments in Manhattan? Places like that would be majorly expensive!

I remember on Friends there was an explanation that Monica's apartment was an illegal sublet of some sort.

 

[RUDisney]

I love fried rice, cold, from the refrigerator!

 

[easyas123]

I've never gotten Chinese food in a "Chinese food box." The only thing I have ever gotten from a Chinese restaurant in a Chinese food box is rice.

Same here!

I've never had Chinese take away in those nifty square boxes. Plenty of those round foil or board bowls with plastic or foil lids, and foam way back when it was still used around here, but never the boxes....
I feel like I'm missing out on a integral bit of life

 

[Disney Frenhines]

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.

 

[Disney Frenhines]

I love fried rice, cold, from the refrigerator!

Pizza!!!!

 

[1GoldenSun]

They also suffer grievous injury, have their gunshot/stab wound/etc operated on at a kitchen table with pliers and whatnot, then are up and running around fifteen minutes later. Like hurling themselves down fire escapes and jumping from moving vehicles wouldn't bust open the dental-floss stitches your buddy just gave you.

 

[ronandannette]

Didn’t say that. I go in order orange chicken or sweet and sour tofu. I get a styrofoam/paperboard to go box. If I order rice THAT comes in the typical Chinese food box.

Must be a regional thing. Here all Chinese take-out comes in round foil pans with cardboard lids, even the rice. I've only ever seen those little boxes with the wire handles on TV.

 

[easyas123]

Must be a regional thing. Here all Chinese take-out comes in round foil pans with cardboard lids, even the rice. I've only ever seen those little boxes with the wire handles on TV.

whew! I'm not one of the only ones then

 

[bcla]

Ever see the old wine commercial with Orson Welles? He was definitely really drinking it take after take!

For the Paul Masson Winery? When I was a kid I had no idea who he was other than for doing those commercials.

Of course there's the infamous outtakes from that frozen peas commercial he did in England.

 

[BrianL]

For the Paul Masson Winery? When I was a kid I had no idea who he was other than for doing those commercials.

Of course there's the infamous outtakes from that frozen peas commercial he did in England.

That's the one! Funny stuff - but what was some commercial director gonna say - he's Orson Welles!

 

[Wiltony]

It drives me crazy in many movies and TV how frequently and easily the bad guys seem to be able to track down and find the protagonist. They've been gone for hours, no hidden "trackers," good guy has been on the run to escape the bad guys, we think they're safe, then BOOM BAD GUYS SHOW UP BEHIND THEIR CAR OR AT THEIR SAFEHOUSE OUT OF NOWHERE. Such a difficult suspension of disbelief for me and really frustrating that the writers can't think of some way to make that more believable.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

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.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

It drives me crazy in many movies and TV how frequently and easily the bad guys seem to be able to track down and find the protagonist. They've been gone for hours, no hidden "trackers," good guy has been on the run to escape the bad guys, we think they're safe, then BOOM BAD GUYS SHOW UP BEHIND THEIR CAR OR AT THEIR SAFEHOUSE OUT OF NOWHERE. Such a difficult suspension of disbelief for me and really frustrating that the writers can't think of some way to make that more believable.

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.

 

[DisneyAuntie12]

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

Children never randomly whine, cry, throw up, complain that their feet hurt, say they didn’t want this toy they wanted a VR set argh, interrupt the adults 20 times, etc.

Deep problems are solved with very short reassuring conversations. Then the person who solved the problem is applauded for being an amazing friend /spouse / parent / employee etc., even though you’re like “Really? Really? They’ve had this problem for all these years and no one ever told them to “Look on the bright side” before? And once they heard that I or some other super common advice it just solved everything for good? (Especially true of Hallmark and Lifetime movies, where the New Mommy helps the kids get over the death of the old one in 30 seconds flat, and then they all do a dance.)

 

[starvenger]

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

 

[bdcp]

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!!!

Actually they do. I've seen discussions on boards about it. You know the "well, they're going to do it anyway" type conversations. I have a neighbor who did with her son and his gf. I thought she was nuts to do so, but not our kids.

 

[Wendy31]

This past December, we were watching a Hallmark Christmas movie.

In the movie, the single, straight male lead had BOTH an elaborately over-the-top decorated for Christmas house AND yard. There were Christmas trees in every room of his house & lighted garland everywhere - all tastefully done. (But his job wasn’t some CEO-type job where he would have hired a decorator - he just had a regular job & a regular house in the suburbs.)

His yard was decorated w/ tons of white lights, & he had a swing in the yard in front of a fire pit w/ a Christmas blanket conveniently placed on the swing.

Unless the guy is a decorator (& he wasn’t), not in any world, except for Hallmark land, is a single, straight man going to have so many Christmas decorations all over his house & yard. And there’s no way he’s going to have a Christmas-themed blanket for his outside swing.

 

[bdcp]

I remember on Friends there was an explanation that Monica's apartment was an illegal sublet of some sort.

It was rent controlled because her grandmother who had originally rented it was still on the lease even though she was dead. And, yes, it was illegal as none of them were on the lease.

Also, Penny on Big Bang Theory in no way could have afforded her apartment alone working at Cheesecake Factory with inconsistent income to boot, not to mention buying food and wine, clothes and furniture, etc. Rent alone in Pasadena on a one bedroom apt with an elevator (didn't work I know) would have eaten up most if not all of her take home pay. I know they had her not able to pay bills sometimes, but it would have been all the time.

This is all very common on tv shows and movies. In reality, most young singles in NY have multiple roommates or are crammed into 200 sq ft walkup efficiency with an almost nonexistent kitchen. But, tv and movies are entertainment and you just have to suspend reality.

 

[bdcp]

This past December, we were watching a Hallmark Christmas movie.

In the movie, the single, straight male lead had BOTH an elaborately over-the-top decorated for Christmas house AND yard. There were Christmas trees in every room of his house & lighted garland everywhere - all tastefully done. (But his job wasn’t some CEO-type job where he would have hired a decorator - he just had a regular job & a regular house in the suburbs.)

His yard was decorated w/ tons of white lights, & he had a swing in the yard in front of a fire pit w/ a Christmas blanket conveniently placed on the swing.

Unless the guy is a decorator (& he wasn’t), not in any world, except for Hallmark land, is a single, straight man going to have so many Christmas decorations all over his house & yard. And there’s no way he’s going to have a Christmas-themed blanket for his outside swing.

When my oldest son was single he owned the townhouse he and his wife live in now, but he would put up a string of lights on the plants out front of his house, put up a fake tree and call it a day. My youngest son never decorated until he got married. Hallmark is so unbelievable on all levels. Don't you wish you lived in a town like most of these are set in? I can't make myself watch Hallmark lol.