Pedant Rant #2

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[Glow worm]

Another thing I've noticed they do now is start the sound from the next scene before the scene you're watching ends. So you'll get say a couple talking in their home, and right at the end of the scene you'll hear maybe a lorry or something (as the next scene is set in the street) and you wonder why there's a lorry in their front room. It happens a lot on Doctors. Ahem, er, apparently, so I'm told.

 

[machew]

What about the fact that CPR and De-fibrillation are always about 100% successful

 

[NormanD]

[QUOTE 1727277, member: 45"]It happens on Casualty a lot, but generally it's an issue across the board on TV and film-

"Ready? Right, on 3. 1......2......3"

BUT THEY DON'T MOVE ON 3! THEY MOVE AFTER 3! IT'S MORE LIKE "1......2......3......<MOVE>
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When we path slide a patient over it was always 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... <MOVE> and the word "MOVE" spoken.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

What about the fact that CPR and De-fibrillation are always about 100% successful

Yes, I've had that myth debunked. Loved the Vinnie Jones advert though.

 

[NormanD]

What about the fact that CPR and De-fibrillation are always about 100% successful

Defib and the patient flinches and flop about like a rag doll in the wind ... doesn't happen in real life

 

[benb]

Yes, that's why you should always count down to 0, so there's no ambiguity.
This would make a good comedy sketch, where someone gets shot because they went on 3, not after 3.

 

[machew]

 

[Night Train]

[QUOTE 1727277, member: 45"]It happens on Casualty a lot, but generally it's an issue across the board on TV and film-

"Ready? Right, on 3. 1......2......3"

BUT THEY DON'T MOVE ON 3! THEY MOVE AFTER 3! IT'S MORE LIKE "1......2......3......<MOVE>"

NOT "ON 3", "AFTER 3"!! YOUR CASUALTY WILL FALL OFF THE BED! YOUR SAFE KEYS WON'T MOVE IN HARMONY! YOU'LL BE SHOOTING BEFORE YOUR PARTNER HAS JUMPED OUT FROM BEHIND THE WHEELIE BIN!

Idiots, the lot of 'em.[/quote]
Mel Gibson and Danny Glover always had that problem in the Lethal Weapon films.

 

[NormanD]

The 1...2...3 thing also applies when, ahem, getting a leg-up onto a horse (from some lowly stable-yard servant of course ). The person attempting to get onto the horse needs to bound upwards to aid the process, but if you misunderstand each other about timing it never works. Oh ... how true that is, in so many aspects of life

Even better when you don't like the person you're legging up

 

[Arch]

When I work with my female colleague, we're both about the same height and similarly strength challenged, so some lifts that are easier with a male colleague are a struggle for us. We operate on a '1, 2, 3 ugh!" basis, often repeated when the first 'ugh!' turns out not to be grunty enough to work....

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

When I work with my female colleague, we're both about the same height and similarly strength challenged, so some lifts that are easier with a male colleague are a struggle for us. We operate on a '1, 2, 3 ugh!" basis, often repeated when the first 'ugh!' turns out not to be grunty enough to work....

This is utterly horrific, but, this is what I thought ofwhen I read this. Well, the phrases, not the song!:


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGZU61k1ibw


Please, someone just shoot me now!

 

[Headgardener]

This is utterly horrific, but, this is what I thought ofwhen I read this. Well, the phrases, not the song!:


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGZU61k1ibw


Please, someone just shoot me now!

Argh!!! I need some mind bleach. Wish I hadn't clicked on that now.

 

[swee'pea99]

I occasionally used to stumble in on my daughters watching the Chuckle Brothers. It always made me wince. Bit like when I poke my head round the door and 'er indores is watching East Enders...

 

[machew]

[QUOTE 1728770, member: 45"]The Chuckle Brothers are great.[/quote]
They have been on the telly longer than Last of the Summer Wine