No, this isn’t about the fun toy from
ThinkGeek. It’s about me performing similar functions.
See, I have this problem with stupid crap in movies/tv/etc. It bugs me to no end. So if there is something completely stupid in a movie, I not only point it out to other people, but I think about it every time I watch that movie…or every time I watch episodes of a show that had something ridiculously stupid in it.
My husband and I just started watching
SGU on Netflix. No, neither of us had watched it before. Soooo there’s a couple of scenes in episode 2 (I think it’s episode 2) that just drive me batshit.
[and scene:]
Middle-aged male character sustains some bruising in a traumatic de-gating. He cluthces his chest and grimaces dramatically.
“My pills…”
Young, pretty girl helps him get a pill bottle out of his jacket pocket.
He pops one.
Now he’s all better.
[now I interject into scene--as a medical professional, I think he's probably popped a sublingual nitro tab that many people use to help ease chest pain. ok. cool. no prob.
skip to later scene:]
Same middle-aged man. Red-faced and yelling. Cuts off mid-yell to dramatically grimace again and clutch his chest.
“Where are my pills!”
*plop* Middle-aged man passes out face down on the floor.
Enter medic that lifts up middle-aged man’s shirt. Note: Large amount of dark purple bruising on ribs!
Medic looks to young, pretty girl, “I heard him say something about pills. What was he taking?”
[I think to myself, nitro!]
Young, pretty girl says, “Warfarin. They’re for his heart.”
[uhhhh....]
Medic says, “Oh he can’t take that, it’s a blood thinner. It will make him bleed internally.”
[end scene]
At this point, I’m annoying my husband. He wants me to shut up so he can hear the tv. I can’t contain myself, so I text a friend. She tells me to stop watching SGU. Urgh!
So that’s not how you take warfarin. I can’t even remember if the medic actually said that it was a blood thinner, or it was something I thought in my head. You don’t pop a warfarin when you have chest pain. It doesn’t even help with chest pain. And you certainly don’t just pop warfarin whenever you want to, even if you have a prescription for it. I won’t go into all of the details, but dang. You’d think they could’ve managed to not put something that stupid in a show.
But maybe not that many medical types watch stargate shows. Or maybe nobody gave a shit. But I do. I give a shit, and it really makes me nuts.
I suppose it’s a good thing I’m not all astrophysicist/rocket-scientist type or I probably wouldn’t be able to watch shows like this at all. =x
