As the flipside to the question, pretty much any customer facing job like retail, sales, or food service have been spot on, especially if they are specifically calling those industries out. Superstore, Waiting, Office Space etc. are so damn accurate to the pain of working them.
To the original question, I think it was mentioned earlier, but anything with a gun is typically wrong. The struggling artist who can afford immense loft apartments in downtown cities. Ghost hunting/supernatural expeditions are so glamorized. They NEVER tell you how much time it takes to review everything.
I work in IT so appearently i can just type override to get into any computer system. Cool…
types three characters on a keyboard I’m in.
Guys… “sudo.” Four characters.
‘sudo’ does nothing on its own. ‘sudo !!’ is where the real fun begins.
sudo unencrypt passwords --cool
sudo rm -rf
in the ye olde days you could
init 1but that’s five characters.
I like the implication that it is possible, we know how to do it, but we’re chivalrous enough to only do it when the plot absolutely requires it
init=/bin/bash
You don’t need a huge wrench when working with the p-trap under the sink and water wont start spraying everywhere either as drains aren’t pressurized.
Sprinklers react to heat, not smoke.
Not all spriklers go off at the same time in most systems. Only the sprikler heads affected by heat.
The water coming out of sprinklers initially isn’t clear but dark, rusty sludge. Sometimes even black as ink.
And it reeks
Don’t drink the sprinkler water. Got it.
This is so informative.
Gaming is apparently hitting all the buttons on the controller all the time
Fighting games aren’t far off.
The smash bros tactic
Especially gaming in porn…
Also you can just pick up a controller cold and start playing without any load times.
All video games sound like Super Mario Bros or Call of Duty. Alternatively (if video is shown), all video games are violent zombie shooters with terrible animation.
Only children use handhelds and they are all GameBoy.
And handheld gaming is a full-body experience.
I feel called out lol
I miss when Reddit ads were stupid things like a picture of a seagull or a fun game
Not really a hobby but I do hunt, so I find myself rolling my eyes when I hear 18 or more shots out of a pistol, 9 or more shots out of a shotgun and 31 ot more shots out of a semi-auto rifle with a pistol grips. The other eye roll is the unnecessary cocking and re-cocking of the shotgun without ever firing a round. If everything in the show Archer is true, then I may be on the spectrum lol. Except there’s no fucking way I could dual focus counting rounds while shooting any gun even itmf its at the range and noone is shooting at me. Movie/tv tho im counting every one.
I hate hearing over 18 shots out of a glock 19. With the 19 round extended magazine in it.
The number of people who are “knitting” in a movie or on TV…maybe 40% of them are actually doing it, and that’s a high estimate (shout out to Miss Marple!). The rest appear to be wrapping yarn around one of the needles and then moving it vigorously, lol.
They also like to just smack the needles together! Smack smack smack!
People painting in movies, going over the same line like 7 times.
I’ve never noticed that! I can guarantee I won’t be able to unsee it
One thing that bothers me, and what everyone should know, is proper placement for defibrillator pads if you’re using an AED.
It’s not 2 pads on the chest, it’s one pad on the upper chest (almost shoulder) on one side, and the other pad goes lower on their side. You’re trying to have the current go through their heart (not skip over the top of their skin).
The AEDs found in public locations are all very easy to use and all have pictures for the proper placement. Just open it up and it will tell you everything you need to do. Have someone nearby look for one at the same time you’re asking someone else to call emergency services.
They should all have razors if you need to get a little hair off (in case the person is especially hairy for one of the pad placements).
It’s also very advisable to do a basic AED course. Its just a single afternoon, but it’s immensely valuable to have at least once practised with how to properly use an AED. Often they also show other techniques, like Rautek (dragging someone semi safely) or how to use the kiss of life (a mouth to mouth ventilation mask)
If they have a second set of pads with it; put the first ones on and rip 'em off quick, taking the hair off like a wax job. Then place the next set of pads
Oxygen tanks are not bombs. They won’t explode or shoot fire. The reason they’re painted green is because oxygen is non-flammable. (those red acetylene tanks however, are scary)
Now obviously any existing fire can be made much worse with oxygen, but it’s not enough on it’s own.
I was led to believe that shipping crates open up easily with one quick pry of a crowbar. In reality, those things are built with so many nails and screws that it takes more work to tear it down than to build it.
Waiting and Party Down were both great about depicting the experience of food service, but gay men and Latinos were criminally underrepresented in both.
What about the guy who kept trying to show his nuts to everyone? I assumed he was both Latino and gay.
One guy is way below par.
Not sure if it fits or is still a thing, but it used to be that 4 stroke dirt bikes made a 2 stroke sound. Also, all propeller airplanes had the sound of a piston engine, even if it was a turbine.
Saw a program on the TV last night with a clattery sound for a laptop with a rubber keyboard…
MRIs
Far too many movies and TV shows use the magnet to cover for their lazy writing by treating it like something that can be turned on and off like a light.
The magnet in an MRI is one of the coolest things in medicine, and writers get it wrong all the time. In the vast majority of cases, it’s always on.
In simple terms, an electromagnet works by running a current in a circle and creating a magnetic field. In an MRI, the current is flowing in what is essentially a closed loop of wire. However, in this case the wire is cooled with liquid helium so it becomes a superconductor.
They induce a current in the wire which creates the magnetic field (“ramp up” the magnet). Because it is superconducting, the current doesn’t stop. Once it’s ramped up, it no longer requires any external power. As long as the current is flowing the magnetic field remains.
There are only two ways to “turn off” the magnet.
One way is to “ramp down”. Essentially the opposite process that is used to get it running in the first place. That’s what they do if they need to stop it for service.
The other way is to quench the magnet. You hit the emergency stop and vent off the liquid helium. Without the helium, the wire warms and resists the current and the flow stops.
Quenching a magnet is a magnificently dramatic process. Someone hits the panic button, and there is a loud roar as the helium escapes. Clouds of condensation form around the exterior of the building as the cold gas escapes. In the event some construction crew screwed up and accidentally sealed the vents, there could be an explosion from the rapidly expanding gas.
If writers want to use an MRI as a plot device, have an accident and require someone to quench the magnet to save a life. You’d have the immediate drama from the accident and the quench, and then you’d have the long term drama of the hospital trying to figure out where the money to fix the MRI would come from.
If actually love to see a rapid ramp down portrayed in a movie like that. Sounds dramatic!
I used to install and maintain MRIs (as well as some other medical imaging modalities) and this seems to be wrong any time I’ve ever seen it in media.
- people will be shown in the magnet room with steel wheelchairs/patient tables/chairs/etc. or even their phones. None of that should be entering the room at all.
- the images shown on the diagnostics will be like a radiogram or PET or something that would not show from an MRI.
- the scan only takes a minute for a “picture”, when in reality having an MRI scan can easily take an hour. You may have some people taking only 15 minutes or so, but those are the quick ones. Clinicians will order a whole list of scans and each one takes several minutes.
Years ago where I work a resident decided to be helpful and move a patient into the room with the MRI.
Of course, the patient was supposed to be transferred off the ferrous metal gurney before coming into the room. The resident didn’t know that.
The MRI pulled the gurney into the room and it slammed into the scanner. Luckily it didn’t actually flip up and crush the patient.
They told the patient to stay where he was and they loaded the gurney down with a bunch of full five gallon water bottles. Once they had enough weight on it, they transferred the patient off the gurney. A bunch of guys pulled the gurney out of the room, amazingly without any damage to the scanner.
Yes I had two separate occasions of having to remove a ferrous table from a magnet. One was able to be removed with 5 of us pulling (using a tie strap for safety to make sure it didn’t fling when we repositioned it), but the other we had to ramp down the magnet to remove from the room.
How about small things like paperclips and staples? My guess is that it won’t be too hard to pull but not so easy to get a good hold.
Unfortunately they did get in the room sometimes. For the most part, techs are really good about keeping the magnet room clear and not bringing ferrous items inside. However, even when things like that did get inside they really aren’t a problem to just pick up with your hands (or sometimes our titanium tools like pliers or a screwdriver to get a better grip on them). The pull is strong, but based off the amount of ferrous material so those things that are just a few grams are not really notable.
I had an MRI recently for a Kidney stone, and I don’t remember it taking very long.
I remember reading an article from a few years ago a cop brought a handgun into the room after ignoring staff warnings… Then, hit the quench button.
EDIT: it was last year. https://ktla.com/news/local-news/lapd-officer-lost-gun-in-mri-machine-during-mistargeted-raid-report-says/
It wouldn’t be nearly as fast, but why would you not just stop the condenser pump so the helium stops cycling through, causing the freezing, instead of venting it off? Sure, venting it off would be faster, but in the lack of an actual emergency, you’d think you could wait like 5 minutes.
If it’s not an emergency, then you let the vendor follow the procedure they have in place for shutting down the magnet.
Edit:
For example: We had a flood in an MRI room. The vendor was called out to ramp the magnet down so that they could deal with the flood.
The magnet in an MRI is one of the coolest things in medicine
Literally and figuratively!
that is SO cool, can you write dick wolf
That is insanely interesting never knew that
I had no idea that once the current was in the magnet, no more power was required to keep it going.
Superconducting magnets… superconductors are one of those areas where science gets weird.
using a red-tailed hawk call whenever a bald eagle is shown
also I like to try and figure out where they filmed based on the birds I hear in the background
It’s actually very rare that Hollywood makes non-nature movies that use correct animal sounds(and it’s often not correct in animal focused ones either). For birds they especially tend to use sounds that are exclusive to North America, even if the setting is in on another continent.
There’s the classic of kids asking why they’ve never heard the “ribbit ribbit” sound in nature: The pacific tree frog only lives on the west coast of North America.
And let’s not forget almost every single time you see a bear “roaring”, it’s almost always mixed in with lion roars and such. In real life a black bear “roar” sounds more like a cow going “moo”.
laughing kookaburras as background “monkey” sounds in the Amazon jungle also get me
God, yes! Once I learned about that I can never focus on the movie when they’re playing that clip. Sort of like the wilhelm scream, but in a ‘big sigh’ moment rather than a humorous one.
On any planet with trees, kookaburras are always the alien animal sound.
And loon calls in totally the wrong biomes, even continents!
Thank you so much! Recently I have been trying to recall what bird made that sound in so many games and movies over the last decades. For some reason it is often put into jungle or lush biomes in games. And it has really annoyed me that I didn’t remember what it was called.
Having served in the U.S. military, I cannot unsee the fact that movies and TV shows ALWAYS fuck something up with the character uniforms-- Army rank on Air Force cadets, upside-down rank, badges pinned on the wrong side, the character is a Sergeant Major but they’re wearing Major rank, the character is wearing ribbons for wars they weren’t even alive to have served in, and so on.
I almost wonder if they intentionally screw that sort of thing up so they’re not “ripping off” real soldiers’ customs.
… But I’m being way too optimistic I think LOL.
There’s so much like this in media where I’m like “You could have just asked? Like so many people could have happily walked you through making this authentic!!”
I hadn’t considered your first point, maybe that’s it! I also wondered if maybe they just thought whatever they did looked “cooler”, so they went with that? Because yeah, you can totally hire a consultant for that kinda thing, or heck, just look it up online!
