Perception Of Things That Have Completely Changed Due To Media - Try to keep modern politics to a minimum

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I was just thinking about how Nimrod was completely changed from being a great hunter in the Bible to an insult because Bugs Bunny sarcastically called Elmer Fudd that. Hell, as a kid I just thought it was a synonym for idiot.

I also realize that alot of old school comedy doesn't work anymore, because things they were making fun of just became the truth. There's a bit too many examples to list and I am very drunk. I just thought it would be interesting to see if anyone else had any more examples of shows or cartoons or whatever drastically warping the meaning of a phrase or word.
 
This might not be exactly what you're looking for, but I love how comedy movies and shows made changing a diaper look like the most difficult thing ever.
 
I don't know where it came from but people keep using the word factoid interchangably with the word fact even though a factoid is an unverified claim presented as a fact. It's even mentioned in the definition as a Usage Problem.
 
Eagles don't have a majestic screech. They sound more like a seagull.


The "eagle screech" is from the red-tailed hawk.

 
I know it's my own thread, but I thought of another one. Apparently the rumor of lemmings jumping to their deaths by nature was due to an old, inaccurate documentary. But people hadn't really heard of lemmings before that, so everyone just took it as fact. At least a decent game was made out of it, I guess.
 
Whatisgoingon dijo:
I know it's my own thread, but I thought of another one. Apparently the rumor of lemmings jumping to their deaths by nature was due to an old, inaccurate documentary. But people hadn't really heard of lemmings before that, so everyone just took it as fact. At least a decent game was made out of it, I guess.
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That old myth comes from the documentary film "White Wilderness" produced by Walt Disney in which the filmmaker drove a bunch of lemmings off a cliff (for fun I guess) and filmed it while pretending they jumped because they were "victims of obssession".
 
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As a little kid, I used to think spaceflight works like in Star Wars. Like WWII dogfighting physics, having a rocket on all the time to maintain constant velocity, etc. Took me awhile to learn that force is applied to change velocity, and that some way to radiate excess heat away is needed because there's no conduction or convection in a vacuum.

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The Simpsons set nuclear power back 50 years.
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My dude, modern romance and long term relationships were destroyed by Hollywood faggotry. Years of "happily ever after" bullshit is one of the many reasons dating is a joke. Not to mention all the other anti-father or family sitcoms or movies.
 
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"Hey, man, what if we made the villainous character drink milk? It's like... contrasting something associated with innocence with wickedness, or purity being corrupted. Very subversive and artistic."

Milk is now evil.
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I thought that it was just because they couldn't show alcohol anymore.
Same with having villains no longer smoke.
 
Jocks and cheerleaders being all evil bullies and the nerds are innocent good people. Someone made a thread on twitter some time ago about it and people responded that the popular kids were in fact the nicest because that's why they were popular in first place.

OTOH, we've seen enough of certain nerds today to know that they weren't different in school and they totally deserved to be bullied.

Media representation of science and scientists has made people believe that not only they're never wrong, but that their intentions are always pure and selfless. Same for journos.
 
Melee combat, sword fights, even brawls being these long bouts of parry, riposte, block, jump, feint, quip, etc.

Sure it makes for fancy action scenes but strenuous combat quickly tires people out. Especially in medieval combat of knights with the weight of heavy armor and weapons.
 
Tasty Tatty dijo:
Jocks and cheerleaders being all evil bullies and the nerds are innocent good people. Someone made a thread on twitter some time ago about it and people responded that the popular kids were in fact the nicest because that's why they were popular in first place.
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Very detached from reality. Being nice is not what makes someone popular in school.
 
Hypercop dijo:
Very detached from reality. Being nice is not what makes someone popular in school.
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Being nice doesn't necessarily make you popular, but being a person who's beloved by the rest of students is often due to them being nice enough. Look how many athletes who are absolute assholes people dislike.
 
Coolio55 dijo:
I thought that it was just because they couldn't show alcohol anymore.
Same with having villains no longer smoke.
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I'm pretty sure the trope originally came from A Clockwork Orange, in which the milk Alex DeLarge and his gang drinks is literally laced with drugs so the symbolism was about the youth being tainted (Malcom McDowell was almost thirty during the filming, but his character is supposed to be a teen). ACO is of course an iconic Kubrick classic, so over the years other filmmakers have also used milk with their antagonists (Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men, Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds, Homelander in The Boys) , so now we have retards in social media saying shit like "if I see you drinking milk, I just know you evil". Just goes to show how much strength the power of association has, no matter how small of a thing we're talking about.
 
ToroidalBoat dijo:
As a little kid, I used to think spaceflight works like in Star Wars. Like WWII dogfighting physics, having a rocket on all the time to maintain constant velocity, etc. Took me awhile to learn that force is applied to change velocity, and that some way to radiate excess heat away is needed because there's no conduction or convection in a vacuum.

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Understandable. Hollywood believes things never advanced from WWII, which is why you see modern jets/planes strafing like it's '43.
 
GaryStu56 dijo:
Hollywood believes things never advanced from WWII, which is why you see modern jets/planes strafing like it's '43.
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Even Star Fox (SNES and N64) has that Star Wars influence in how the Arwing flies in the space stages. Like an airplane. But in space!
 
trolled across concrete dijo:
I'm pretty sure the trope originally came from A Clockwork Orange, in which the milk Alex DeLarge and his gang drinks is literally laced with drugs so the symbolism was about the youth being tainted (Malcom McDowell was almost thirty during the filming, but his character is supposed to be a teen). ACO is of course an iconic Kubrick classic, so over the years other filmmakers have also used milk with their antagonists (Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men, Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds, Homelander in The Boys) , so now we have retards in social media saying shit like "if I see you drinking milk, I just know you evil". Just goes to show how much strength the power of association has, no matter how small of a thing we're talking about.
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I think it goes at least as far back as the (maybe) poisoned glass of milk in Hitchcock's "Suspicion".
 
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