Most Bizarre Errors You Constantly See

[Vausch]

Pretty much every time someone says the phrase "Evolution is just a theory".

Look up the term "Theory" in a scientific sense, then you may talk. Otherwise, I present you a dunce cap.

 

[Vegosiux]

Pretty much every time someone says the phrase "Evolution is just a theory".

Look up the term "Theory" in a scientific sense, then you may talk. Otherwise, I present you a dunce cap.

Quite, in science, theory doesn't tend to be "just a".

'sides, by that logic they shouldn't have a problem sitting on an armed nuke, since, well, "atomic just-a-theory".

 

[Thaluikhain]

Pretty much every time someone says the phrase "Evolution is just a theory".

Look up the term "Theory" in a scientific sense, then you may talk. Otherwise, I present you a dunce cap.

Quite, in science, theory doesn't tend to be "just a".

'sides, by that logic they shouldn't have a problem sitting on an armed nuke, since, well, "atomic just-a-theory".

Yes they should, gravity is just a theory as well.

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Always bug the hell out of me when I see bad weapon discipline. Finger off the trigger and stop waving it around!

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Not to mention if movies and that are to be believed they move slow enough to just about dodge, rpgs, etc are freaking fast. normally you hear a double boom a second apart. one is the thing firing and the second is the explosion.

Ah! Agreed! Although it is 5 seconds before it explodes at maximum range. But you are right, at the 50m-200m max range you would realistically see it used in a game or film it would be a double explosion!
The one in Black Hawk Down is correct though, they did dodge it, however it was an evasive manoeuvre that effected the fellas targeting, not actually dodging the round.

Also... as it is a "tank busting" weapon, with a specifically designed shaped charge that melts through the tanks armour, creating a fragment inside that bounces around and killing everyone inside, it is annoying that in most games you have to shoot a tank 5-6 times to defeat it sometimes... and it will always completely destroy the tank inside out, just so you know it's dead. Also unrealistic! Watch the footage from Libya and you realise sticking a bomb (250-500lbs, much much bigger warhead than the 5lb RPG-7) through the top of a tank will sometimes barely show any signs of destruction!

 

[Ed James]

Where I live it's people not understanding that 'Hispanic' and 'Mexican' are *not* interchangeable terms! Drives me up the wall...

Oh yeah...likewise Muslim/Arab/Persian, and people not knowing where Africa and the Middle East are.

Official documents are the worst for that. In Britain the list of nationalities that come up when filling in something official are;
White
Asian
Black
Sometimes Indian/Pakistani
Then Mixed combinations of everything above.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Yes they should, gravity is just a theory as well.

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Always bug the hell out of me when I see bad weapon discipline. Finger off the trigger and stop waving it around!

See also: Leaning them against walls, sticking barrels into mud/sand/crap when there is no need to, banging magazines on hard things (usually quite hard) before inserting into the rifle... and EVERYTHING to do with the Law of Armed Conflict!

Also... silencers... AAAAAH!

 

[Thaluikhain]

Official documents are the worst for that. In Britain the list of nationalities that come up when filling in something official are;
White
Asian
Black
Sometimes Indian/Pakistani
Then Mixed combinations of everything above.

They don't have an all-purpose "other"?

See also: Leaning them against walls, sticking barrels into mud/sand/crap when there is no need to, banging magazines on hard things (usually quite hard) before inserting into the rifle... and EVERYTHING to do with the Law of Armed Conflict!

Also... silencers... AAAAAH!

Oh, yeah, silencers. And...what about carving a cross on the front of a bullet to make it more hurty or whatever?

And the clip/magazine thing.

 

[Moderated]

Yeah, lot of misquotes...but for some reason "Drink the Kool-Aid" is the one that gets me. It wasn't Kool-Aid, it was Flavor-Aid, or some other low budget imitation.

Don't tell me when you have off brand shit you call it by name. That would make you the weird one, not them(the people saying that, not the suicide cult).

 

[Dirge Eterna]

See also: L

And the clip/magazine thing.

Also the neverending magazine, where you can fire 100 shots from a 30 round magazine. I love when you see a couple guys blasting away and then when the fights over their face is squeaky clean. When ever I used a weapon my face and hands were always covered in oil flecks, dust and carbon bits. Seeing them use insignia from the wrong service or mixing up the uniforms of each branch. Also using incorrect terminology in general.

 

[Lovely Mixture]

Frankenstein is not the name of the monster, it's the name of the doctor. How the hell did this error begin in the first place?

 

[Alfador_VII]

And the clip/magazine thing.

I must admit I genuinely have no idea what the distinction between these terms is, so I probably get it wrong. I tend to use them interchangeably for "metal thing with bullets in which plugs into a gun"

Frankenstein is not the name of the monster, it's the name of the doctor. How the hell did this error begin in the first place?

Fairly simply, Frankenstein is a cool evil sounding name, and the Monster itself was never given an actual name in the book. So you can see how the slightly awkward "Frankenstein's Monster" got changed to just using Frankenstein for the monster.

 

[Vegosiux]

Oh yeah another one that really clips my begonias.

"The reactor's going critical!"

Oh, well that's good. Means it's entering its normal operational parameters after all.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

Eh the one that I see most common on here is 'I could care less'.
My god it annoys me. The correct phrase is 'I couldn't care less' and I'm beginning to think those who use the other one are just trying to either annoy me or fool others into also doing it.

There are plenty more but that one bugs me the most.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Frankenstein is not the name of the monster, it's the name of the doctor. How the hell did this error begin in the first place?

Fairly simply, Frankenstein is a cool evil sounding name, and the Monster itself was never given an actual name in the book. So you can see how the slightly awkward "Frankenstein's Monster" got changed to just using Frankenstein for the monster.

Was not the creature called "Adam"? Presumably Adam Frankenstein, named after his "dad", though.

 

[EeveeElectro]

Frankenstein is not the name of the monster, it's the name of the doctor. How the hell did this error begin in the first place?

Fairly simply, Frankenstein is a cool evil sounding name, and the Monster itself was never given an actual name in the book. So you can see how the slightly awkward "Frankenstein's Monster" got changed to just using Frankenstein for the monster.

Was not the creature called "Adam"? Presumably Adam Frankenstein, named after his "dad", though.

Damn, ninja'd by a minute!

I'm sure he was called Adam after the first man (Adam and Eve), and I'm certain it was on QI! (So it must be true!)
I agree about Frankenstein's Monster, and how he's visualised as green, black hair and bolts in his neck. The hell? He was made from dead people's body parts if I remember.
I think that was for a Halloween or horror movie marketing thing, if I had to guess.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Official documents are the worst for that. In Britain the list of nationalities that come up when filling in something official are;
White
Asian
Black
Sometimes Indian/Pakistani
Then Mixed combinations of everything above.

They don't have an all-purpose "other"?

See also: Leaning them against walls, sticking barrels into mud/sand/crap when there is no need to, banging magazines on hard things (usually quite hard) before inserting into the rifle... and EVERYTHING to do with the Law of Armed Conflict!

Also... silencers... AAAAAH!

Oh, yeah, silencers. And...what about carving a cross on the front of a bullet to make it more hurty or whatever?

And the clip/magazine thing.

Clip/Magazine thing? I thought that was just to do with where you are from? Like Car Park/Parking Lot, Aluminium/aluminum, BBQ/Grill, Telly/TV, Tomato/Tomato, and Beer/weak-yellow-fizzy-thing-chilled-within-an-inch-of-its-life-that-tastes-of-nothing-or-rats-piss-if-you-are-lucky?

EDIT: Just looked it up... well... the more you know! I only use weapons with magazines, so that is what we call them in the British Armed Forces, but I can see how others often get it wrong!

 

[Soundwave]

My computer can't find steam, but it's right there, in the steam folder!

 

[JoJo]

One that annoys me whenever I see it is that it's not uncommon for certain species of hominid to be depicted as white-skinned, even though those particular species only ever lived in Africa and so you would expect them to be dark like the modern day inhabitants. To people's credit though I have this error less over the last few years.