biggest lies in tv

Esel

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

When helicopters or airplanes are attacking a giant monster or even just normal heros they get up close and personal. At which point they can be taken out by swatting or throwing something in the rotors.

The whole point of modern weapons is to be able to kill from a distance.

An A10 can put 80% of it rounds in a 12m target 1.2Km away, and it uses explosive shells so near misses can still be lethal. Other aircraft would be able to the same from a little closer in, ie. way outside handgun range.

Cruise missiles and Guided missiles are more accurate, and from further away.

"Small. Far away".

_Whimsical_

snowflaker wrote: »

Corrie love the paralysis...

Neighbours too, there's pretty much no one who's been unaffected. The surely have a neighbourhood wheelchair they lend out now as needed.
Thankfully they have an exceptional GP so they never need it longer than a month...:rolleyes:

ED E

Recent one: The Blacklist Redemption, traced the IP to Xs computer in your house. NAT you twats. NAT.

Almost as annoying as racking semi-autos after the firefight to be threatening...

Glenster

alchemist33 wrote: »

Back to 24...

If you're stabbed or shot , it only takes one hour of grimacing before you can completely forget about it and move on with your life, pain-free.

Tell that to Teri Bauer.

*Who is apparently not the same actress as carol from Walking Dead.

Sound Bite

The latest unemployed stranger to arrive into town is the best person to fill a previously unspoken about vacancy in the local school.

At least in the Austalian soaps anyway and they will always have a mysterous stranger following them.

DivingDuck

1. Massive transactions (i.e., buying or selling a business) can be done in cash, practically overnight.
2. When you move away from the area you have lived in for decades, you will only require a small carry-on suitcase for your belonings.
3. No matter how big your house, even those 3000sqft American ones with a living room the size of the average Irish 3-bed, there can never be a spare room and guests must sleep on the sofa.

These are the ones that stick out for me. They drive me mad, actually.

Glenster

That birds in Chester look anything like they do on Hollyoaks.

Brutes, the lot of them.

mikemac2

After a funeral if you put your arm around a girl and say a comforting word she must immediately go to bed with you, it's the rules

The best detective drinks whiskey in dive bars all day long. But if they get called to a crime scence they can drive there no problem

All car doors are bullet proof, crouch behind you and you are invinceable

Nobody ever prepares a lunch. You eat every day in the "caf" despite the fact you are on the dole

Paddy Cow

learn_more wrote: »

Eastenders is 'great drama'.

No matter how stressed someone is, they never curse.

No matter how poor someone is, they won't go on benefits. Some job (either in the market stall or the Vic) will magically materialise.

No one ever mentions condoms or birth control when having sex. They never get std's or pregnant. The whole Square should be riddled at this stage.

Women never get periods or pms.

coolhull

Whenever the hero gets beaten up by a gang of heavies, no matter how badly, a small plaster, strategically placed over the left eyebrow, is usually all it takes to heal his many injuries.

RiderOnTheStorm

DivingDuck wrote:

3. No matter how big your house, even those 3000sqft American ones with a living room the size of the average Irish 3-bed, there can never be a spare room and guests must sleep on the sofa.

This bugs me too!!

Also... When a character makes a phone call, there is ZERO time between dialing the number and the character starting to talk.... No connecting of the call, rings, party at other end saying "hello"...

RiderOnTheStorm

RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »

This bugs me too!!

Also... When a character makes a phone call, there is ZERO time between dialing the number and the character starting to talk.... No connecting of the call, rings, party at other end saying "hello"...

Same when someone knocks on a door or rings a doorbell. It's as if the other person is standing at the other side of the door and doesn't have to get up out of a chair and walk from another room.

kylith

No one takes of their underwear to have sex.

mikeym

Kevin Webster fixes cars in Cornation Street when actually hes the cleanest mechanic around.

coolhull

Nobody ever needs to bring in a bucket of coal, and nobody ever says, ''We'll need to order heating oil this week.''

Cortina_MK_IV

You can drive along a road as flat as a snooker table, cut to interior and the driver and the car is wobbling side to side like it is in a field. Also the driver can turn and talk to his passenger and not need to look at the road for 2-3 minutes. If there is a rear passenger, they sit in the middle of the seat and you must remove the rear view mirror so we can see them.

Is there a TV in any pub in soapland? Customers watching football/ horse racing?

KKkitty

Cortina_MK_IV wrote: »

You can drive along a road as flat as a snooker table, cut to interior and the driver and the car is wobbling side to side like it is in a field. Also the driver can turn and talk to his passenger and not need to look at the road for 2-3 minutes. If there is a rear passenger, they sit in the middle of the seat and you must remove the rear view mirror so we can see them.

Is there a TV in any pub in soapland? Customers watching football/ horse racing?

As regards the football or horse racing most soaps are filmed over a month in advance. The scenes you saw in any soap tonight were probably shot 6 weeks ago.

RiderOnTheStorm

Its not a lie, but how come cops on tv, when they see their perp / suspect / etc from across the street (and he hasn't seen them) they call out "oh! Police! Stay where you are!" (or words to that effect), and guess what.... The guy runs away! If they didn't say anything they could have walked over to him and put the long arm of the law on his shoulder...no chase, no drama.

garyskeepers

tv IS the biggest lie

team_actimel

KKkitty wrote: »

As regards the football or horse racing most soaps are filmed over a month in advance. The scenes you saw in any soap tonight were probably shot 6 weeks ago.

I think what Cortina_MK_IV meant was you never see them watching sports on TV, they all seem to just chat to each other. Whereas in real life some go to the pub just to sit with a pint and stare at the screen.

I was watching Spiderman 3 recently and Peter Parker put a coin into a phonebox and you can clearly hear it fall into the coin return slot, yet he still somehow manages to make a phonecall.

Lies!

gramar

Deleted User wrote: »

I was watching Spiderman 3 recently and Peter Parker put a coin into a phonebox and you can clearly hear it fall into the coin return slot, yet he still somehow manages to make a phonecall.

Lies!

I know! I mean a phonebox in this day and age!

RiderOnTheStorm

In cartoons of yonder year, when a character fell into freezing water, they would be frozen into a perfect cube of ice. Why didnt the rest of the water freeze?

Lots of lies in cartoons, tbh.

If you're a cartoon and you accidentally run off a cliff, you have 2 -3 seconds to turn around and scramble back before you start to fall.

keano_afc

No matter what your profession, you will never be required to leave the Street/Square/Village for employment. You will always have a job on our doorstep.

Capt'n Midnight

Candie wrote: »

If you're a cartoon and you accidentally run off a cliff, you have 2 -3 seconds to turn around and scramble back before you start to fall.

"I know this defies the law of gravity, but I never studied law."
— Bugs Bunny, High-Diving Hare

languagenerd

Whenever someone needs to use a laptop, they just open it and it's instantly on and ready to go - sometimes already on the website they want to look up.

It's entirely possible to send text messages and have it come up on the recipient's phone as "UNKNOWN NUMBER".

Police/ friends can track a phone to the exact building it's in within 20 seconds.

Women can get lost in the jungle/locked in a cellar/ trapped in a storm-drain/ whatever for weeks and still have perfectly styled hair when they're finally rescued. Make-up is usually still perfect too, just with some dark smudges on their cheeks.

Cortina_MK_IV

In the course of an investigation a detective will find a matchbook with the name of a club or hotel on it. This will be pivotal and save time on that old investigating cobblers leaving him more time to ride the female co-star.

Conall Cernach

Cortina_MK_IV wrote: »

In the course of an investigation a detective will find a matchbook with the name of a club or hotel on it. This will be pivotal and save time on that old investigating cobblers leaving him more time to ride the female co-star.

But how else will he know to go to the strip club so that we can see some gratuitous semi nudity?

Paddy Cow

languagenerd wrote: »

Women can get lost in the jungle/locked in a cellar/ trapped in a storm-drain/ whatever for weeks and still have perfectly styled hair when they're finally rescued. Make-up is usually still perfect too, just with some dark smudges on their cheeks.

All women have had laser hair removal and never get hairy legs/underarms. Rosita in the Walking Dead has been running around the apocalypse for two years in tiny shorts and not a hint of stubble to be seen :rolleyes: