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Post by Hit Girl on Jan 6, 2020 13:22:37 GMT -5
Detectives always investigate dark crime scenes alone with flashlights. They never turn on lights.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Jan 6, 2020 14:35:50 GMT -5
Re-watching 'The Wire' I don't know how McNulty wasn't fired like 20 times. A big theme of the show is the general incompetence of the BPD and the extreme lack of quality investigators. I always took it as they simply couldn’t afford to lose him. Also getting rid of an officer is notoriously difficult in most big cities, and “he pissed me off” would be a tough sell to the police union.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 6, 2020 14:36:23 GMT -5
Detectives always investigate dark crime scenes alone with flashlights. They never turn on lights. Not entirely unrealistic. The flashlight helps you focus on specific areas for things you might overlook if fully illuminated Secondly trace evidence could be on the wall or switch that would be wiped away otherwise contaminated by turning it on
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Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Jan 6, 2020 15:24:05 GMT -5
Murder, She Wrote. Just Murder, She Wrote.
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Post by ERON on Jan 6, 2020 15:41:15 GMT -5
House parties that have hundreds of people. I went to a few when I was right out of high school, but some of the time, people would go outside in the backyard. There was even one when there was about 20-30 people. But I've never seen or went to one where the furniture gets destroyed or the cops were called, or have some uninvited guests come. The whole "wild teen party" thing felt like something made for TV and movies. High Schoolers making out in the hallway. Sure, I can see hugging, but when I was in High School I saw no full-on smooching among any couples. High schools have elaborate social hierarchies and soap opera level dramas and relationships involving betrayals, power plays and blackmail. In real life, you have a few friends, a few casual aquaintences and the rest of the school you barely know or acknowledge. Man, where did y'all go to high school? At the high school I attended when I was a kid and at the high school where I teach now, that sort of stuff goes on all the time. Well, the wild house parties that inevitably end with weapons being drawn and/or the cops raiding the house don't actually happen at the school, but you get what I mean.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2020 15:43:50 GMT -5
People who deliver pizzas don't usually wear uniforms. They wear street clothes compared to those who are in the pizzeria.
College classes have multiple test sessions that tie into your grades so you can't just skip everything and cram for finals.
And restaurants having bad service, yet people keep going back expecting different results. A few bad reviews either change things or shut them down. Or, worse; they get a visit from Charles Styles and they fake a crisis to get more visitors.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jan 6, 2020 17:35:25 GMT -5
People who deliver pizzas don't usually wear uniforms. They wear street clothes compared to those who are in the pizzeria. Both Dominos and the Pizza Hut where I live have their delivery staff wear uniform, though some of that might be to do with the fact that they're usually driving branded company vehicles.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 6, 2020 19:04:05 GMT -5
People who deliver pizzas don't usually wear uniforms. They wear street clothes compared to those who are in the pizzeria. College classes have multiple test sessions that tie into your grades so you can't just skip everything and cram for finals. And restaurants having bad service, yet people keep going back expecting different results. A few bad reviews either change things or shut them down. Or, worse; they get a visit from Charles Styles and they fake a crisis to get more visitors. Depends on if it's a chain or not. Local places usually don't... but one near us do make the people making the Pizzas wear a company branded Polo... so maybe their delivery guys wear it too.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jan 6, 2020 20:26:10 GMT -5
People who deliver pizzas don't usually wear uniforms. They wear street clothes compared to those who are in the pizzeria. If they don’t, they’re probably using a delivery service and not sending their own employees out.
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Post by dav on Jan 6, 2020 22:25:49 GMT -5
Murder, She Wrote. Just Murder, She Wrote. You mean in Cabot Cove having numbers of murders rivalled only by Midsomer, or that they all seemed to be solved by a retired author?
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Post by y4j1981 on Jan 6, 2020 22:39:52 GMT -5
Murder, She Wrote. Just Murder, She Wrote. Worse if you read the books. I got bored and came across a "Murder, She Wrote" book. First chapter, Jessica (main character) and friends go in a vacation together (one friend is a cop). I forget where they went, let's go with Ireland, they go to see one of the castles and their is a large crowd and tons of local cops. Guy is up there with a gun, the cop friend who is on vacation wants to help but head local police guy says no. BUT..Jessica says She should go go up to talk with him cause she writes and is a good listener....and the local police guy says...OKAY!?!!! 😲 So in summary, no the visiting cop is not allowed to help BUT the book writer is!
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Jan 8, 2020 8:26:50 GMT -5
In any sitcom with a 'battle of the sexes', the women will win 100% of the time.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Jan 8, 2020 8:34:55 GMT -5
Hopefully, we've gotten away from the 'enhance!' bit where a blurry photo is blown up and now looks perfect.
And hackers being able to do almost literally anything with a few frantic keyboard strokes.
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Post by CMWaters on Jan 8, 2020 8:36:13 GMT -5
People who deliver pizzas don't usually wear uniforms. They wear street clothes compared to those who are in the pizzeria. Both Dominos and the Pizza Hut where I live have their delivery staff wear uniform, though some of that might be to do with the fact that they're usually driving branded company vehicles. Having a part-time job at Domino's...at least the ones I've worked at, you use your own vehicle with one of their signs on your car, not a company vehicle. The company vehicle thing may be for bigger cities, but not either city I worked in. Also, I don't know if this is a trope in TV shows really but I have seen this in at least 2 movies (the first Ninja Turtles and Spider-Man 2): the 30 minutes or it's free/less rule doesn't exist anymore (at least for Domino's). Too many drivers speeding/getting into accidents for that to stay.
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Post by Push R Truth on Jan 8, 2020 8:37:14 GMT -5
Murder, She Wrote. Just Murder, She Wrote. "Castle" was just "Murder, She Wrote" with less sex and drugs
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Jan 8, 2020 9:51:10 GMT -5
People open fortune cookies but never eat the damn things.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Jan 8, 2020 10:55:24 GMT -5
Every single SVU investigation being ridiculously convoluted and lengthy, usually involving them arresting/questioning the wrong person at first.
Just once, I wanna see them nail the perp 20 minutes in and go out for pizza and a beer where they all discuss the previous night's Mets game
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Jan 8, 2020 10:59:44 GMT -5
People open fortune cookies but never eat the damn things. I know plenty of people who open fortune cookies and not eat them
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Post by Sephiroth on Jan 8, 2020 11:00:05 GMT -5
Every single SVU investigation being ridiculously convoluted and lengthy, usually involving them arresting/questioning the wrong person at first. Just once, I wanna see them nail the perp 20 minutes in and go out for pizza and a beer where they all discuss the previous night's Mets game You mean Russian mobsters don’t smuggle rare monkeys in basketballs?
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Jan 8, 2020 11:05:53 GMT -5
Every single SVU investigation being ridiculously convoluted and lengthy, usually involving them arresting/questioning the wrong person at first. Just once, I wanna see them nail the perp 20 minutes in and go out for pizza and a beer where they all discuss the previous night's Mets game You mean Russian mobsters don’t smuggle rare monkeys in basketballs? Of course not. Russians don't play basketball, they'd use soccer balls.
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