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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Jun 16, 2023 3:07:03 GMT -5
Foreigners might be shocked to find that France does in fact have towns and even cities outside of Paris and most of them aren't stuck in the 1940's. MOST of them.
On a more serious note, here's a very specific one: I live in Alsace, the easternmost region of the country, at the border with Germany. We have a local dialect (that sadly is being spoken less and less) with Germanic origins. HOWEVER, it is NOT the same as the German language; some words are completely different and quite a few are borrowed from French; the acent is also fairly specific. And yet, on the rare occasions that it's depicted (even by French productions made by people outside the region), it's often presented as just straight-up being German. One particularly hair-raising tell is when they have people say "Guten Tag", "Danke schön!" or "Auf Wiedersehen!" when we'd say "Bonjour" (or even more accurately, "Buschur"), "merci" and "au revoir". In fact, nearly all of our politeness words come from French, interestingly enough.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jun 16, 2023 10:50:55 GMT -5
I'm from Winnipeg. I'd post inaccuracies, but that would require a piece of media to actually take place in Winnipeg. There's that one Guy Madden film? |
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Post by Hypnosis on Jun 16, 2023 11:19:39 GMT -5
I'm from Winnipeg. I'd post inaccuracies, but that would require a piece of media to actually take place in Winnipeg. I was expecting a "You idiot!" after the first three words of that post. |
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Post by SmashTV on Jun 16, 2023 15:59:23 GMT -5
Rochester in Kent is rarely on film, but for the recent comedy This Way Up the main characters were walking to the station in the opposite direction to where it actually is.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Jun 16, 2023 16:29:01 GMT -5
I'm from Winnipeg. I'd post inaccuracies, but that would require a piece of media to actually take place in Winnipeg. I was expecting a "You idiot!" after the first three words of that post. I expected him to wax poetic about a trip to Cape Canaveral |
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Jun 16, 2023 16:30:26 GMT -5
Yeah no one lives in Delaware |
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Jun 17, 2023 14:07:20 GMT -5
According to A Time to Kill Mississippi does not have air conditioning.
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Post by ace on Jun 17, 2023 14:17:37 GMT -5
I don’t even need film and television. I can tell you a bunch from the way sports and the news cover Buffalo. It does not, in fact, snow all the time and is not cold all the time. We had two generational storms hit in one year this past year…but before that we’ve had very mild winters for years and years. The coast is getting hit worse than us outside of last winter. Summers are gorgeous for going to the beach or hitting the pool. Some of the best fishing in the country too. Yes, we have all four seasons and three of them are amazing. Winter is usually cold but beautiful. Guillermo del Toro shot a movie here and they had to bring in fake snow because they just assumed it would snow when they shot in the winter. But we have had such mild snowfall before last year that someone should have told him not to bet on it. Also Niagara Falls isn’t that close to the Bills stadium despite what every NFL broadcast wants you to believe. The stadium is a couple towns south of the city…Niagara Falls is a few towns north of it. Whole big city in between them too.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Jun 17, 2023 17:41:47 GMT -5
Having been to Mexico, it is in fact not some version of orange all the time.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jun 18, 2023 11:17:26 GMT -5
According to A Time to Kill Mississippi does not have air conditioning. It is odd,cause we are one of the most humid states. But there wasn't A/C in the public schools on the coast until 86 IIRC. Might have been later. Also piles of the smaller churches do not have A/C. Guess to save money. |
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Post by Hit Girl on Jun 18, 2023 11:36:13 GMT -5
Most films and TV shows cannot even get the name of my country correct, let alone know anything about my locality.
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Post by schma on Jun 18, 2023 14:06:36 GMT -5
I'm from Canada so...it'd be quicker to say the ones that got it right?
Also, my Argentinian friend loves to bring up X-men: First Class where Magneto hunts down some Nazis, they got the area completely wrong. What they depict as Villa Gisell is actually a place several hundred km away. They're not even similar environments.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jun 18, 2023 23:56:16 GMT -5
So far as I know the old Arena in town isn’t haunted or supernatural or whatever the f*** was happening in that shitty movie they shot scenes in. I never did the see movie but watched the trailer. It’s supposed to be a very scary intense part of the trailer and instead I’m going “I’ve walked down that hallway hundreds of times. I know that wall”
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Post by bibboid on Jul 1, 2023 22:45:30 GMT -5
At Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles you can NOT park right at the entrance and run in the front door. There are about a dozen handicap spots on the road near it but other than that you are parking down the hill and taking a shuttle bus up.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jul 2, 2023 1:44:31 GMT -5
At Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles you can NOT park right at the entrance and run in the front door. There are about a dozen handicap spots on the road near it but other than that you are parking down the hill and taking a shuttle bus up. Whoa!!! Can't use that term. It's barrier free, man. Sorry, I don't mean anything by it, we're being coached at work, it's barrier free, not handicap. It may take a while to catch on. |
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Jul 2, 2023 1:53:49 GMT -5
At Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles you can NOT park right at the entrance and run in the front door. There are about a dozen handicap spots on the road near it but other than that you are parking down the hill and taking a shuttle bus up. Hollywood seem to think you can just go to major tourist attractions on a whim.. And when you get there is no long queues and wait times. It hasn't been like that for decades. I went to the Statue of Liberty recently and you need to book at least 2 months on advance to go up the pedestal (the tower the statue stands on) and six months or more if you want to go up to her crown. Probably the most accurate portrayal was in the movie “Into The Wild” when the main character wanted to take a kayak up a canyon river.. But was told he would need to book a year in advance to do that. And that was set in the 90s. |
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jul 2, 2023 4:44:56 GMT -5
At Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles you can NOT park right at the entrance and run in the front door. There are about a dozen handicap spots on the road near it but other than that you are parking down the hill and taking a shuttle bus up. Whoa!!! Can't use that term. It's barrier free, man. Sorry, I don't mean anything by it, we're being coached at work, it's barrier free, not handicap. It may take a while to catch on. We're supposed to used "accessible parking" where I work. Yet to have a single person who qualifies to use them describe them as anything other than "disabled/disability parking", however. |
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jul 2, 2023 10:36:37 GMT -5
The last Resident Evil movie was partially filmed in an abandoned local hospital that's painted like a giant rainbow on the outside. Look up Sudbury General Hospital if you want a laugh
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jul 2, 2023 15:52:34 GMT -5
Whoa!!! Can't use that term. It's barrier free, man. Sorry, I don't mean anything by it, we're being coached at work, it's barrier free, not handicap. It may take a while to catch on. We're supposed to used "accessible parking" where I work. Yet to have a single person who qualifies to use them describe them as anything other than "disabled/disability parking", however. Barrier free makes it sound like they’re able to run free and play and frolic. |
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Post by bibboid on Jul 2, 2023 16:13:29 GMT -5
We're supposed to used "accessible parking" where I work. Yet to have a single person who qualifies to use them describe them as anything other than "disabled/disability parking", however. Barrier free makes it sound like they’re able to run free and play and frolic. The wife’s placard reads “Disabled Person Parking Permit” and as we pulled into a blue parking space today she referred to it as a handicap spot. And with the shape of her knees these days I don’t think she will ever run or play or frolic again. |
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