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Top 10 Deadly Activities That Are Perfectly Safe In Movies

Posted: 18 Mar 2013 09:00 PM PDT

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Movies, and particularly the action genre features a plethora of situations in which the protagonist carelessly walks away unscathed from situations that should – by all accounts – end his/her life. In the real world, most of the scenes enacted by the hero of the story would have a completely different ending.

Now, you might think to yourself “It’s okay, it’s just a movie” and it is perfectly true that Hollywood productions would be quite boring without the unrealistic scenes. And, at the same time, if the film is not labeled “reality show” people are very unlikely to attempt to recreate the scenes in their backyard, thus getting seriously injured.

However, would it hurt the producers – and we’re not talking about the science fiction genre here – to make the movies a tad more credible by cutting out some of the following blunders? Let’s elaborate.

1. Jumping out of a ten story window and landing in dumpster safely

Garbage in all its majesty is very different in terms of consistency, but it will definitely not act like a trampoline or the firefighters’ safety net when you plummet into it from a high altitude. You will most likely see this stunt when the protagonist is completely surrounded by the villain’s minions and the only way out is through the skyscraper’s window and down into the street. Through a game of chance, a dumpster just happens to be underneath and it breaks his fall, allowing him to emerge unscarred, albeit smelling badly. Unfortunately, in real life, the neck and spine of the hero would snap like a twig on contact due to the high velocity.

2. All protagonists can hold their breath underwater indefinitely

The current record for holding your breath underwater is 19 min, 12 seconds and it belongs to a Swiss free diver who trained for many years utilizing all sorts of gimmicks and tricks to subdue the brain’s natural instinct of breathing, including induced hyperventilation. You might argue that special services train agents are able to hold their breath, even up to the point of dying and that would probably be the only scenario where the protagonists unmatched breath holding skills are not ludicrous.

But not only does he not need air to live, he is also able to engage in heroic stunts that require loads of stamina and strength like saving all the secondary characters from certain death and pulling them to safety. So when you take into account that, on average, a regular person cannot hold his breath for more than 2 minutes, does that really make sense?

3. Your ammo clips never run out of bullets

It’s like the hero entered the infinite ammo cheat code, as he relentlessly fires wave after wave of bullets at the bad guys and if he ever needs to reload, that’s just because the producers wanted to introduce a dramatic speech. Now if you consider that standard pistol clips hold about 10 bullets whereas the military versions have around 15, where did the other 200 rounds come from? Even extended ammo clips that are clearly visible won’t have in excess of 30 rounds!

4. The gun should always be discarded if the immediate dangers have passed

After all, we know that nothing bad will happen after the nearest threat has been eliminated, so what would you do with a gun anyhow? And guns grow on trees, right? You can just reach up and pick a full basket of semiautomatics at any given time. That would pretty much summarize why tossing away your pistol when (more like if) you finished the clip doesn’t make much sense. If the protagonist was an actual soldier and he discarded the weapon in the field after running out of ammo, he would’ve certainly been sent back there to retrieve it.

5. Dodging a burst of automatic bullets is a piece of cake

The bad guys, no matter how many or how well equipped with automatic assault rifles, will never hit the hero. There’s 5 guys firing in bursts but the “invisible shield” of the protagonist magically deflects all bullets, while he’s taking them out one by one. This paradox was actually explained based on a study conducted on World War 1 soldiers. Apparently, they were missing the targets on purpose because instinctually they didn’t want to harm another human being. However, while those soldiers were basically civilians in uniform plunged in a war they did not fully understand or want to be part of, in action movies we’re talking about trained bad guys who kill people for a living. Also, they don’t seem to have a problem with hitting secondary/minor characters. Bottom line, you can’t dodge bullets in a firefight.

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Top 10 Things They Should Have Taught You in Sex Education

Posted: 18 Mar 2013 08:15 PM PDT

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Talking about sex and sexuality gives the teacher and the school system a chance to share facts, values and beliefs with the students. Sometimes the topic or the questions may seem embarrassing, but your child needs to know there is always a reliable, honest source they can turn to for answers—you.

This article examines top 10 things teachers should have taught you in sex education class, but never did for various unknown reasons. You’d be surprised to known where children get their information from, and it is not from sex ed classes.

1. Why porn is not the best source of education.

Young men in their teen years love the thought of watching pornography on the internet and on television. By the time they are 21, they’ve already seen several thousand hours of Internet porn and read through one or two Playboy magazines. Many of them are about to engage in their first sexual encounter, but have no practical instruction to guide you beyond those videos and magazines. Where’s the practical experience? The schools failed to provide it in sex education classes.

2. Masturbation is normal.

Think of how many problems, this could have solved if young people were just told it was alright to masturbate and self-love when they felt like it? Think of the frustrations, the shame, the confusion that could have been prevented, if they had just gotten to know themselves and felt like it was okay to try new things that felt good and did not hurt anyone for that matter as well?

On that note, think of all the girls who go ages not even knowing where everything is, let alone what will actually be good to do in bed, just because they have this strange notion that only boys have at themselves, while girls — what?

This should be the number 1 priority in sex education classes in school.

3. If you fail to communicate, you will have lame sex.

Perhaps the most important thing that should have been taught to kids in sex education is the idea that, if we don't vocalize what we need, like, and dislike, things are going to go awry during sex. We're never going to get what we want, we're never going have our dreams and passions fulfilled and we're going to spend more time complaining to our friends about our sex lives than actually living them out one by one. No one should ever be afraid of expressing what they think to their partners, and we certainly should not be ashamed about talking about it. If we could not, then women would be dating mostly guys who refuse to go down on their woman.

4. Women DO need more time to build their arousal.

Porn loves to show horny women who need no build up to have sex and an orgasm. All a female porn character needs to get horny is to open a door to a pool guy with a lousy pick-up line and an average body. In reality most women need more.

A few things to consider when building a woman’s arousal are:

Her pleasure. Women in porn often “fake” their orgasm – watch Seinfeld and you’ll understand what I mean. Sorry to burst your bubble, but that is almost always the case. In reality, let a woman know you care about her pleasure, as well as yours, and she will be much more likely to enjoy sex with you.
Her idea of safety. Women in porn don’t have to worry about whether they are at risk. But in life, physical and emotional safety is a big issue. Address her need to feel safe.

5. Odd positions seldom work.

Porn stars twists their bodies into positions that are not always comfortable for them. They do this so so that the audience can get in on the “action” — the penis going into the vagina or anus – in other words “a better camera view”.

The rule is this: if it looks or feels uncomfortable, change positions.

Every woman is different in what positions she prefers and is most comfortable with. Ask her, or watch for how she reacts while in these positions.

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