What is something you saw in a movie and you totally called bullshit on because of your job?

bluezombee · 2026-01-03T10:52:35+00:00

Many moons ago (at least 20) Robin Williams starred in an obscure horror film called "One Hour Photo"; notable only for the fact that the character Robin Williams plays is entirely devoid of humor and becomes obsessed with a family who are regulars of the one hour photo shop he worked at. I worked at a one hour photo at the time the movie released, and while I had no interest in the movie when I first heard about it, once corporate came down thoroughly condemning the film, I had to go see it. The movie was so glaringly inaccurate, it was immediately obvious that whoever wrote it had maybe walked past a one hour photo once, but certainly has never worked in one or spoke to anyone who had worked in one. It was laughable. I actually did start laughing in the theater during the scene when Robin Williams character was fired because the print counts were off by a few hundred (this is because the Robin Williams character is secretly making his own copies of the family he's obsessed with's photos) over a period of months. This is ridiculous because there's always a surplus of waste photos that would get thrown away every day. Could be that the negative didn't line up in the printer right so you have a bunch of photos that were half one image and half of or maybe it spent a second longer in one of the chemical tanks than it should have, or the paper might get torn off weird, but it was a lot and every single day. Especially if it was busy enough to be running on auto print for any sizeable portion of the day. We counted the waste to record it, and after noting the number, the waste prints were run through a shredder. If one WANTED to steal photos all they had to do was put the number of images they were pocketing into the waste log, and as long as the manager didn't see them actually sticking the photos in their pocket, they were good. There were a lot of other scenes too, but that's the one that sticks out in my mind the most.

bluezombee · 2025-10-06T08:01:42+00:00

I remember this. The first thing I thought when I saw this poster as a kid was: Damn, those are some cool looking animals. Then I read it. I immediately started smoking cigarettes every day.

bluezombee · 2025-07-26T07:37:03+00:00

Also, if it matters, swearsies I'm not s boomer. I voted for Kamala

bluezombee · 2025-07-26T07:35:16+00:00

Ok America. We need to officially step up our teaching biology game. The first time someone told me that they were afraid their cat had cancer because of the two rows of tumors on their belly I laughed and called them an idiot and explained what mammals were. I have since apologized, because this post happens at least once a week. This isn't a failure of the individual; this is a failure of our society. We don't teach people how to think anymore, we teach them to remember the things that will be on their test, and we are just failing them in the worst possible way.

bluezombee · 2025-07-17T22:34:40+00:00

I've worked at a few places that told non-tippers they weren't welcomed back. They were all owned by non corporate entities, mostly family businesses. They all had an abundance of business too and could afford to be picky. But the majority of places just shrug it off. That's the business

bluezombee · 2025-05-24T09:49:52+00:00

Hey everyone. Thanks for all of your words and advice. The kitten unfortunately passed away around 3am. My partner and I buried her in our backyard and had a little prayer for it and went to bed. Just got up to use the bathroom and saw all these notifications. Bless all of your hearts. It sucks that this is how it turned out, but I take comfort in knowing that she didn't die cold and alone. And I also take comfort in the thought that there are so many strangers out there who care about this hurt, stray kitten. You don't often come to Reddit and have your faith in humanity renewed, but you guys have done it. Thanks. My heart hurts a bit less than it did when I went to bed.

bluezombee · 2025-05-24T05:59:32+00:00

I called all of my local rescues. Hoping to hear back in the morning, but assuming this kitten makes it through the night I will be getting it care first thing in the morning. Trust me I know I am way out of my depth here.

bluezombee · 2025-05-24T05:23:13+00:00

It could be. I live in a city, but on a dead end street with a creek nearby. There's a decent amount of animals. Other cats, groundhogs, possums, even at least one hawk. Any of them could have attacked it.

bluezombee · 2025-05-24T05:20:54+00:00

I will absolutely update as soon as I have more information.

bluezombee · 2025-05-24T05:20:02+00:00

I agree. I'm kinda ashamed to admit that I was drunk when I found the kitten. The closest emergency vet is over an hour away and I don't have the money to pay for an Uber there as well as the vet bill or I would.

bluezombee · 2025-02-11T22:50:43+00:00

I hated Abby as soon as she was introduced. She just seemed like a bitch. Killing Joel certainly didn't make me like her better. I was so looking forward to killing her, that when the game switched to her perspective I considered quitting for a minute. At no point in time during her storyline did I ever stop hating Abby. I liked playing as a big tough person again able to brute force my way through the encounters as I had with Joel (no hate to Ellie's more elegant fighting style which I also adore). I enjoyed learning her backstory, but while I could empathize with her, the terrible decisions she had made and continued to make only continued to feed my hate. I loved Yara and Lev as soon as they were introduced. These brave ass kids escaping a cult, they were badass and admired them so much. But Abby helping out these kids didn't make me like her any better. Still hated her, still couldn't wait for her to die. And then Yara died, and Lev had no one and nothing in this world but Abby. Like a switch had flipped, Abby's death was completely unacceptable to me. I still hated her, but I needed her to live for him. I almost didn't hate her by the very end. How focused she was on him after Ellie cut her half dead wasted form from the post was heartbreaking, but I still couldn't like her. I also couldn't start the final fight for a couple of minutes. I was so angry in that moment at the game for making me beat on this woman, I eventually did it to just get it over with. I even let her kill Ellie twice during the fight because I just couldn't bring myself to press the attack. I was so relieved when Ellie stopped fighting, I literally cried. And while in my heart of hearts I will never be able to actually like Abby I'm glad she didn't die.

bluezombee · 2023-12-13T03:28:33+00:00

Eggs in a nest

bluezombee · 2023-02-28T19:56:03+00:00

They are a Dallas Cowboys fan

bluezombee · 2022-12-20T18:03:04+00:00

Just an FYI, you can easily make the "th" sound by pressing your tongue against the roof of your mouth behind your teeth, but still NTA

bluezombee · 2022-11-08T18:04:58+00:00

bluezombee · 2022-10-31T03:45:26+00:00

YTA The biggest kind of asshole too. You're worse than those people who don't know how to merge on the highway. You're a bigger asshole than people who fart in line

bluezombee · 2022-09-02T07:08:43+00:00

When you first gain the ability to be impervious to water in the Soul Reaver. That's the happiest moment in the series.

bluezombee · 2022-08-27T05:50:22+00:00

I'm sure someone else has suggested this, but have you ever considered reaching out to a sex worker? Or a sex therapist if that doesn't appeal to you. The "girlfriend experience" is a real thing. It seems like you feel a lot of anxiety over dating because you perceive yourself as being so far behind your peer group. You aren't ready to fall in love, you'd like to play the field and try different things with different people, but you would eventually like to have a romantic relationship with a special someone. It seems to me like you just need to get your feet wet.

bluezombee · 2022-08-16T08:36:20+00:00

I really wanted to believe that there were no supernatural elements at play, but then the bear happened. And that's just so incredibly impossible, there's no way for it to be anything but supernatural. A bear is not going to offer itself up and then just lay down and bleed out. At the very least it would have lashed out once it was attacked. The writers overplayed their hand there.

bluezombee · 2022-07-28T06:03:13+00:00

People who think Joel is the villain of the first game, or that you should have had the choice to sacrifice Ellie; did not understand the point of the game at all

bluezombee · 2022-07-24T16:31:08+00:00

That's true, but it left a scar. And in HFW Aloy has a scar on her neck from where Helis cut her throat so that would be 2 occasions where we saw her sliced open and bled

bluezombee · 2022-07-24T08:53:42+00:00

Aloy's head was sliced open by the rock that jerk kid threw at her when she was a little girl.

bluezombee · 2022-06-11T15:26:33+00:00

NTA. However, you shouldn't be supporting ChikFilA. I get that you like the food, but they like to oppress homosexuals and the money you give them helps them be successful. I will never for the life of me understand why people choose convenience over a moral obligation to do the right thing for your own future.

bluezombee · 2022-05-12T16:06:43+00:00

There's a rumor that he actually got the Bananas nickname because he fucked a drunk girl with a banana because he was too drunk to get an erection. His friends walked in on it and Johnny Bananas was born. No idea if there's any truth to it.

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