Sorry, I don’t want to be shitty, but I found his joke much better, because I understood and laughed right away without needing disclaimers, spoiler texts or to click any links, it was direct and to the point.

Oh yes for sure, this particular example is just pretty extreme, I think that might be part of why it wasn’t as well known in Europe? I only saw it years later myself. Maybe it’s just that Europeans weren’t as keen to laugh at their own stereotypes. Also I had just watched it the night before so the example was fresh in my mind. To be clear I laughed my as off watching it, it’s all good (though I do wonder if some of the humour would still fly today).

Yeah I score 0 but quite a few of these are more “because there was an old one there and I felt like trying it out” rather than because I needed to use them daily.

Folks literally still using cheques in France to this day!

Get off me lawn!!

Wasn’t that the case for like, all landlines?..

I can technically count myself one point, but that’s only because we didn’t have blockbusters in France (but I did rent VHS from other places)…

Yeah I mean I’m not advocating for it, don’t get me wrong! Just pointing out why it might not be all roses and rainbows highjacking human driven trucks.

The moustache gives it away.

Yeah but then you have to deal with a human driver, possibly you have to hurt them, at minimum you’ll have to scare the shit out of them. With a self driving truck you’re only hurting the corporation.

Easy on the rice though.

What’s also great about this is that every banana is exactly the same size so you know it’ll work with any banana!

I hear you! I work in the field and felt like giving context, it’s hard to know what’s common knowledge and not sometimes. The main point is, a lot of this stuff isn’t “mistakes” but either deliberate so as not to distract or just way more convenient for the production pipeline.

Unfortunately a lot of European countries have been going down that dark path, just not as far along as the US. I’m cautiously hopeful that the current events will help steer us back in the right direction but we’ll see…

insert any European watching Eurotrip, where London, Paris, Amsterdam and Rome are all shot in Prague

They probably didn’t even record any sounds when they shot the scene.

There’s a few reasons for this, firing the real siren on set is not practical due to the audio levels, they could maybe record it separately but that’s an extra thing to do, and why bother when “air_raid_siren_004.wav” is right there? Also audiences are used to “air_raid_siren_004.wav” and they’ll know immediately what it’s supposed to be, if you played the real sounds and it’s too unusual, it’ll make the audience think about it and take them out of the story. There’s so much stuff like this I’m filmmaking where if you stop to think about it critically for a second it doesn’t make sense, but that’s the point they don’t want you thinking about that, they want you thinking about the story and the characters. I know that’s frustrating when it’s your topic but I’m sure you’re glad they do it like this in any other case.

More space on the desk for 143 empty cans of monster.

I’m convinced this is how I’ll die, I regularly get it down the wrong hatch and some day that piece of chicken or whatever will just be a bit too big to get it out/in again… Now that I think about it, it hasn’t happened in a while, maybe just so I let my guard down…

Crazy how different people react differently to things, I don’t chew gum often but I did try it again when I started controlling my diet and for me it just seems to activate my hunger, like my brain thinks “I’m chewing something, time to prepare the stomach for receiving food!”.