Ridiculous things from Hollywood movies
- Undercover policemen are forced to reveal themselves if you ask them “Are you a cop?”
- If the person on the other end of the phone line hangs up, you hear a dial tone.
- Having sex the night before will severely impact your athletic performance the next day.
- You can fall safely from any height as long as you land in a large body of water. Or sand.
- In the Dark Ages, entertainment was most about watching jousting and swordfights.
- Bomb squads always get close to the bomb and start cutting wires as their first resort.
- After a gunshot wound, removing the bullet should be the top priority.
- Shooting a car’s gas tank with a bullet will make it blow up immediately, but a car door makes a good shield that can even resist machine gun fire.
- Camels were common beasts of burden in Egypt when the Great Pyramids were built.
- Meteorites are too hot to touch right after impact.
- Gunfights were common in the Wild West.
- If you have the right attitude and temperament for it, you can do any job, even if you have no experience with it at all.
- Vikings wore horned helmets.
- If you work hard enough, you can control your rate of falling after being thrown off a skyscraper.
- Full plate-mail existed in King Arthur’s time.
- Arrows, if shot parallel to the ground, do not get influenced by gravity.
- How good a computer hacker is is determined by how fast they can type.
- Machine guns can fire continuously for more than a minute.
- Chinese men wore their hair in one long queue for thousands of years.
- All Chinese can converse with each other.
- The correct time to use a defibrillator is when the patient has just flatlined.
- Social groups in the United States are racially diverse.
- All frogs go “ribbit.”
- When arrested, you have the right to make one phone call.
- Computer programs can accurately sharpen and enhance pictures or video that start out at low resolution.
- It’s important to pump a shotgun between each shot.
- In a pinch, an umbrella is a perfectly workable substitute for a parachute.
- Most banks have cash in the form of sequential bill numbers, which are somehow easier for the police to track.
- The first step to making a sword is to melt some metal.
- All deserts have cacti.
- Only geniuses can solve Rubik’s Cubes.
- All animals, when befriended by a human, act like dogs.
- Spacesuit and underwater diving suit helmets are designed to illuminate the wearer’s face.
- Lead is denser than gold.
- Deep-rooted long-term psychological problems can be cured by a single insightful incident.
- Gunshots to the shoulder or leg are easily recovered from.
- Souffles are extremely sensitive while being baked and the slightest sound can cause them to collapse.
- Knocking over a fire hydrant with a car will release a large jet of water.
- Freudian “couch” psychoanalysis is still the most common way of diagnosing psychological problems.
- Native Americans dress differently and still tend to live in their old cultural dwellings.
- Policemen use chalk outlines at crime scenes.
- All smart people can easily identify different species at a glance, including knowing its scientific name.
- Silencers make a gunshot as soft as punching a pillow.
- Black holes suck things towards them harder than, say, a star with the same mass.
- Truth serum exists.
- The air around lava and flames is perfectly safe to be in.
- Drill sergeants are allowed to swear and inflict physical abuse on recruits in boot camp.
- All Americans eat Chinese food with chopsticks.
- Quicksand sucks victims into it.
- Amnesia is easily cured by blunt-force trauma.
- Every state in the US has a parole system for prison inmates.
- Horse hooves sound the same no matter what surface the horse is running on.
- Tourniquets are the best way to stop bleeding, like from a gunshot wound.
- St. Bernards carry alcohol around their necks.
- Most chemical acids are green. So is nuclear waste.
- Swords and knives make a sound when unsheathed, even if the sheath is made out of leather.
- Interrupting an eating predator will make it stop eating and chase you instead.
- Laser beams are visible.
- Every computer is connected to the Internet, so a hacker can reach it.
- Most pirates talked in the same West Country “arrr” accent.
- All heart attacks are signaled by chest pain.
- Volcano lava often flows faster than most humans can run.
- All fire sprinklers in a room are connected to each other; if one of them goes off, they all go off.
- It’s possible to start a modern aircraft in less than 8 minutes.
- The average distance between asteroids in an asteroid belt is less than a million miles.
