Things I've learned from watching TV and films...
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Most prominently is that every read-out consists of letters appearing one by one -each accompanied with the sound of a telex machine printing a character.
Every single computer instinctively (
) knows what program/search engine you want to type data into and therefore has the appropriate pop-up box ready for you whenever you begin typing (and the correct data is instantly ready for you once you've finished typing.ETA:
Loved the way 'governor' consistently was pronounced gov'ner by 'Carl Lightman'
And yet none of them are English.
It's some kind of paradox.
That's okay because half the Yanks are really Brits.
Airbags seldom deploy, even when a car crashes into a river.
Ordinary people can be tossed across rooms and through windows without serious injury.
All authors are fabulously wealthy and live in lavish penthouses. All book editors and agents resemble glamorous female movie stars . . .
Ordinary people can be tossed across rooms and through windows without serious injury.
All authors are fabulously wealthy and live in lavish penthouses. All book editors and agents resemble glamorous female movie stars . . .
Whenever anyone has a nightmare, they sit BOLT UPRIGHT! when they wake up.
Dreams are very literal and related to the storyline. They're never incomprehensible weird shit where you're walking down the street with Bing Crosby in The Road to Zanzibar and then he turns into a popsicle and is eaten by a swarm of parrots with unicorn horns.
And all Nazis have English accents! Strange but true historical fact.
And you can find the most amazing things! On The Gates recently,
like Google is going to have the right answer! 
Dreams are very literal and related to the storyline. They're never incomprehensible weird shit where you're walking down the street with Bing Crosby in The Road to Zanzibar and then he turns into a popsicle and is eaten by a swarm of parrots with unicorn horns.
And all Nazis have English accents! Strange but true historical fact.
And you can find the most amazing things! On The Gates recently,
a guy found out that his neighbor was a vampire. So he Googles "how to kill a vampire"
You can be an out of work "artist type" and live in a huge warehouse loft type place.
The male hero types somehow always manage to own a pristine, mint condition, classic muscle car.
It's best when taking a cross country trip, to drive an old, most likely not road-worthy classic car. When you reach the middle of nowhere, you'll piss off some crazy guy who will try to kill you with his unstoppable truck.
Ditto cows.
When ever someone gets injured, a full size rag or towel will be available to be ripped in half or smaller.
All housewives are in sexually frustrated marriages, that causes them to have sex with the stranger who just arrived in town.
While, strangely, every address in Seattle has a view of the Space Needle. And people in Seattle routinely use the Monorail as a means of mass transit, even though it's really just a glorified amusement park ride left over from the World's Fair . . . .
And when the light it extinguished, the room never actually gets dark, just dimmer.
To be fair, Shia LeBouef's pristine mint condition muscle car was an Autobot.
Except in good movies where they speak actual German.
And all girls too.
See ? It's also true that 90lbs women have unbreakable bones and skin.
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