Unrealistic things in movies and tv shows that drive you crazy

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Anonymous wrote:The timeline to Dirty Dancing always boggled my mind. I get that Dr. Houseman could potentially set his own hours, but seriously, these people live at Kellermans all summer? Is that how Borscht Belt resorts operated back then??

That is some sweet PTO Jewish, White America received.

Weird fixation. You believe that Jewish people, who to you are ultra white, somehow conspired to get more PTO than everyone else?

The first part of your post was about how hard it is to suspend disbelief though you know it is fiction. The second part has to both hint at shadowy Jewish conspiracy and ignore Jewish history to frame Jews as white. To what end, my friend who felt this burning need to post but won't just come out and say it?

NP. Jews come in all races, so sure, some are "ultra" white. You know it's a religion, right?

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Dh says they always get gun noises wrong. Like you always hear guns being cocked even when it's a gun that doesn't need cocked. It's pretty funny once you start noticing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The timeline to Dirty Dancing always boggled my mind. I get that Dr. Houseman could potentially set his own hours, but seriously, these people live at Kellermans all summer? Is that how Borscht Belt resorts operated back then??

That is some sweet PTO Jewish, White America received.

Weird fixation. You believe that Jewish people, who to you are ultra white, somehow conspired to get more PTO than everyone else?

The first part of your post was about how hard it is to suspend disbelief though you know it is fiction. The second part has to both hint at shadowy Jewish conspiracy and ignore Jewish history to frame Jews as white. To what end, my friend who felt this burning need to post but won't just come out and say it?

NP. Jews come in all races, so sure, some are "ultra" white. You know it's a religion, right?

It's an ancestral group that comes with an ancestral religion. In Europe, antisemitism had a racial dimension. Most Jews will appear white because Mediterranean people generally do. But the American focus almost exclusively on skin color misses the larger picture where Jewish history is concerned and is a poor lens for understanding it.

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Have we gotten to the idea of a driver with another car chasing them, turning around to see if they're still behind him?
Not using the mirrors, actually tuning around while driving to look behind.

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Anonymous wrote:The entire "Girls" series. No way would Hannah land Adam Driver. Maybe if he was really drunk...

His character was a drunk! Then after he got into AA he starting dating much hotter women.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The timeline to Dirty Dancing always boggled my mind. I get that Dr. Houseman could potentially set his own hours, but seriously, these people live at Kellermans all summer? Is that how Borscht Belt resorts operated back then??

That is some sweet PTO Jewish, White America received.

Weird fixation. You believe that Jewish people, who to you are ultra white, somehow conspired to get more PTO than everyone else?

The first part of your post was about how hard it is to suspend disbelief though you know it is fiction. The second part has to both hint at shadowy Jewish conspiracy and ignore Jewish history to frame Jews as white. To what end, my friend who felt this burning need to post but won't just come out and say it?

Lighten up Francis. I knew that would set somebody off. These resorts catered to this specific demographic.

Did everyone's failure to suspend disbelief trigger you as well?

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Tires screeching on wet or dirt roads.

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Military characters with long hair or uniforms that are so ridiculously wrong it's laughable.

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I get hung up on historical dramas, where they reference ideas that hadn’t yet come into existence in that time period. Like a show that takes place in the time of Jesus or someone says just a second or just a minute — since clocks weren’t invented until the middle ages so they didn’t have seconds and minutes. They do things like this a lot in that Viking show where for example, one of the characters talks about something as being very risky or having bad odds or something. The science of probability was only created in the 1700s, so Vikings would not have been familiar with concepts like risk or odds. My husband says this weird quirk of mine tends to ruin a lot of TV watching and I’m the only person who worries about things like this.

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Anonymous wrote:A couple waking up together, talking, kissing, and having sex.
The morning breath, ughhh.

I love morning sex. You just don’t do it facing each other.

Gay male couples have a lot of perks

Uh, you do know that straight couples can do it from behind, and that gay male couple can do it face to face, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The timeline to Dirty Dancing always boggled my mind. I get that Dr. Houseman could potentially set his own hours, but seriously, these people live at Kellermans all summer? Is that how Borscht Belt resorts operated back then??

That is some sweet PTO Jewish, White America received.

Weird fixation. You believe that Jewish people, who to you are ultra white, somehow conspired to get more PTO than everyone else?

The first part of your post was about how hard it is to suspend disbelief though you know it is fiction. The second part has to both hint at shadowy Jewish conspiracy and ignore Jewish history to frame Jews as white. To what end, my friend who felt this burning need to post but won't just come out and say it?

Lighten up Francis. I knew that would set somebody off. These resorts catered to this specific demographic.

Did everyone's failure to suspend disbelief trigger you as well?

I think the thing is that all of a certain demographic (white-collar, professional, MC/UMC) of white America received this perk, so to specifically call out one group within it is a bit odd.

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Anonymous wrote:When bachelor/bachelorette parties are the night before the wedding. Who would be dumb enough to do that?

Uh, I did it. Admittedly many years ago, but yes I did it.
Pretty hungover the next day, too.

My dad had his bachelor party the night before my parents wedding, although he still tells stories of how this was not a wise decision.

My friend's husband to be did this, and broke his wrist. He wore a grey silk sling to his wedding where he looked green from pain.

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Anonymous wrote:I get hung up on historical dramas, where they reference ideas that hadn’t yet come into existence in that time period. Like a show that takes place in the time of Jesus or someone says just a second or just a minute — since clocks weren’t invented until the middle ages so they didn’t have seconds and minutes. They do things like this a lot in that Viking show where for example, one of the characters talks about something as being very risky or having bad odds or something. The science of probability was only created in the 1700s, so Vikings would not have been familiar with concepts like risk or odds. My husband says this weird quirk of mine tends to ruin a lot of TV watching and I’m the only person who worries about things like this.

Love this! I only notice something similar in terms of recent idioms*, but that’s so smart about the bigger ideas behind language use.

* Like in the recent Boston Strangler movie: Were they REALLY saying “don’t get it twisted” in the 1950s? Sometimes I look up a term and am surprised, but this one I realllly doubt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The timeline to Dirty Dancing always boggled my mind. I get that Dr. Houseman could potentially set his own hours, but seriously, these people live at Kellermans all summer? Is that how Borscht Belt resorts operated back then??

That is some sweet PTO Jewish, White America received.

Weird fixation. You believe that Jewish people, who to you are ultra white, somehow conspired to get more PTO than everyone else?

The first part of your post was about how hard it is to suspend disbelief though you know it is fiction. The second part has to both hint at shadowy Jewish conspiracy and ignore Jewish history to frame Jews as white. To what end, my friend who felt this burning need to post but won't just come out and say it?

Lighten up Francis. I knew that would set somebody off. These resorts catered to this specific demographic.

Did everyone's failure to suspend disbelief trigger you as well?

I think the thing is that all of a certain demographic (white-collar, professional, MC/UMC) of white America received this perk, so to specifically call out one group within it is a bit odd.

This. Let's also remember that the 1960s Jewish doctor dad was likely born in a tenement (or not much better) to immigrant parents who were themselves survivors of murderous mob attacks. Most of the most prestigious universities had quotas to keep him out. This insistence on associating Jews with "whiteness" and "privilege" is ahistorical.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I get hung up on historical dramas, where they reference ideas that hadn’t yet come into existence in that time period. Like a show that takes place in the time of Jesus or someone says just a second or just a minute — since clocks weren’t invented until the middle ages so they didn’t have seconds and minutes. They do things like this a lot in that Viking show where for example, one of the characters talks about something as being very risky or having bad odds or something. The science of probability was only created in the 1700s, so Vikings would not have been familiar with concepts like risk or odds. My husband says this weird quirk of mine tends to ruin a lot of TV watching and I’m the only person who worries about things like this.

Love this! I only notice something similar in terms of recent idioms*, but that’s so smart about the bigger ideas behind language use.

* Like in the recent Boston Strangler movie: Were they REALLY saying “don’t get it twisted” in the 1950s? Sometimes I look up a term and am surprised, but this one I realllly doubt.

Yes to both you, PP, and the person to whom you're responding, re: characters saying things which are, in a word, anachronistic either in concepts or in language!

I don't mind it at all in some productions when it's done consciously. My college student was just in a play that has a historical setting but intentionally uses modern language, and that was just fine, as it was on purpose and had a point to it. But the anachronistic speech grates when it's clearly just sloppy, lazy writing that doesn't even bother to try to make people sound somewhat "of their time." Things like using slang that sounds far too modern, like your example.

Of course there have to be some compromises for clarity; we likely coudln't fully understand the dialogue if some period pieces tried to use truly authentic vocabulary spoken in period accents. But I just appreciate so much when scripts and acting/directing choices make an effort, within bounds of comprehensibility.

A few years back we watched the series "Ripper Street" and I thought that it did one of the best jobs I'd seen, of a show where dialogue sounded as if the characters were all actually living in their period (the 1890s) not today.