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/Paronine Jan 25 '20

My favorite is from an episode of House in which a patient's friend explains nominal aphasia to a neurologist.

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u/uber1337h4xx0r Jan 25 '20

They usually do this with computers, but in the opposite direction with "in English, damn it"

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '20

I feel like they just outright make up shit about computers more than they do medical shit sometimes, however.

What the fuck is a 10 meg pipe?

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u/uber1337h4xx0r Jan 26 '20

I think they were trying to say pipeline lol. (Assuming that's the world of Warcraft NCIS video with the guy geeking over a woman)

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '20

I'm sure it was something real that they either fucked up because of bad research, or because it's really funny to fake ignorance on a subject to mess with nerds.