33 Examples When Folks Were Reading Something And Caught The Author In 100% Ignorance

Come on! Completely possible! If the body part where the pulse is being taken is small and just been amputated. Just expect the heart rate to fall very very quickly thereafter too if you don't do something to stem the blood loss.

I need five minutes to just stare at the sheer absurdity of that nonsense.

This!

I don't know about this. I have yet to find a bra that actually fits me and mine are tight and a pain in the patootie to wear. There are tons of women who take off their bras first thing after getting home from work, but in 80 years I bet we read things like "Bras never hurt. They were never tight and no one ever minded wearing them."

French royalty wore their corsets so tight that they couldn't raise their arms properly, and most upper class women could not bend or twist or sit naturally due to corsets. Freedom to move like a human was only for the working classes. The higher the rank, the more you were restricted physically and socially. So sure you could breath, but this modern apologist bs about how they were super chill is pure romanticism

If I remember correctly most of the time they were harmless but there were some cases where they caused injury due to misuse

sure...i have heard this before...maybe the pre-victorian era corsets didn't hurt, but i am sure they were as annoying AF...i mean just think how annoying a modern day bra is...they MUST'VE been annoying ...and they must've been hot...

If you bite each other and neither of you dies, it's kinky.

As a herpetologist,yeah. Or like J.K Rowling writing that a snake winked at Harry. Snakes don't have eyelids.

Well, I keep a healthy distance between me and snakes whenever I can.

What if the snake bites you and you die ?

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Yes, this one annoys me too, particularly because it's been used for decades and many people actually believe that a knock-out is a harmless and temporary injury.

And having knocked someone out you cannot instantly wake them up with a bucket of water to the face.

That's why it's called Blunt force trauma

In one of the fantasy series I read, the town guards refer to knocking people out with a sap as giving them a 'nap tap'. One of the main characters eventually dies from one too many nap taps.

I find that suspension of disbelief always has to happen with this. I've been rereading Animorphs, and this is constant to their moral clause of not killing humans - by cracking them on the side of the head with a huge bone blade =.=

The Nazis confiscated much of the food in Paris to feed their troops. A person would have to be in line very early in the morning to get just a loaf of bread. Meat of any kind was practically nonexistent. Many people today don’t know the sacrifices people, especially Europeans, had to make during WWII.

I read something set in the early 80s in Paris and the couple got the Eurostar home. I'm not that old (37) and I remember the thing opening

Maybe they were optimistic and everyone just pretended their grilled rat was duck.

Back in Golden Hollywood, script writers could get away with fake tech speak because audiences had not been exposed to the huge amounts of information, scientific or medical, that we are today. Pseudoscience sounded technical enough for most everyone. We are no longer as gullible as our parents and grandparents.

Hacker: "We need to access their system but this program has multiple layers of encryption more complex than anything I've ever seen! (Tappety Tappety Tap) "Ok, we're in!"

The last sentence has very Harry Potter vibes to me and probably would work.

"Root access to the network." Right.

I never knew "activating gluten" was a thing. From the internet: "Kneading, stirring, or mixing the dough causes the gluten strands to develop and strengthen. The more the dough is mixed, the more gluten is developed, resulting in a more elastic and stretchy dough." From that, yes, makes perfect sense you would not want to knead pie crust! Learn something new every day.

My mom read a book where the characters were eating a giant trifle and went on and on about the "exquisite crust". FFS do you even know what a trifle is???

Same with psych wards. Usually they're just a normal part of a hospital, no spooky dungeon / asylum. And often there are two different wards (open vs. closed), depending on the severity of your condition. If someone is a danger to himself or others or psychotic, he will be kept in a closed ward where you can't leave without permission or supervision. Open wards are pretty much like normal hospital routine and you can leave as long you don't have scheduled therapy at the time and sign out.

Theory: writers are poorly paid, and have terrible insurance if they have any. So they get the therapists that take the poor people for a scam ride. And I can promise you, all that wacko, unprofessional behavior goes down every day in cheap offices. I was the transcription office for two psyche mills. They hired nutcases.

My therapist told me that if there was a victim of murder and the phone was locked that investigators wouldn't go through it. A little off topic in a way but I was bamboozled. Like alright boiis, phone is locked. Guess we need to head on home.

Not a book, but I think the worst hacking scene is from NCIS, where two characters are both using the same keyboard to go faster.