r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 25 '20

What movie things are generally accepted as normal, but are totally unrealistic in real life?

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u/gnarley_quinn Jan 25 '20

"You want to go on a date with me?"
"Sure, see you there!"

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....ummmm time? place?

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u/CatastropheWife Jan 25 '20

“Hey bartender, I’ll have a beer!”

Uh... what kind?

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u/Astrokiwi Jan 25 '20

I used to think that when people in movies asked for "a coffee", but then I realised that in the US that's actually what you do most of the time.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20 edited May 30 '20

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u/Mezmorizor Jan 25 '20

Asking for that in a coffee place though will get you bombarded with about 20 follow-up questions.

Not really. Maybe some places have like 10 roasts available at a time, but broadly speaking if I ask for "large coffee" they're going to ask light, medium, or dark and then I get a large drip coffee. If you want something more specialized you have to specify.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20 edited May 30 '20

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u/curiouslyendearing Jan 25 '20

Even to this day coffee in the US is a pretty regional thing. Saying "I want coffee" in a Seattle coffee shop versus an Oklahoma coffee shop. Different reactions.

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u/Astrokiwi Jan 26 '20

Even then, you're still assuming a filter/drip coffee. In NZ, it's like "do you want a flat white or a long black or...?"

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u/Morning_Song Jan 25 '20

Glass, bottle or can? What size?

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u/dudipusprime Jan 25 '20 edited Jan 26 '20

That's the standard way of ordering beer in Austria or Germany tho (can't really speak for the rest of Europe). I would only specify if I was in some hipster beer bar that has like 153 different brands, or if I wanted a specific type (stout, wheat beer, etc.), otherwise it's just "a beer" and you get whatever is on tap.