They were bringing coconuts to England because the swallows weren't big enough to do so.
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Sergio@piefed.social 1 day ago
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
This is my curse, as well. Your film is set in the desert surrounding ancient Egypt. WHY ARE THERE CACTI?
oppy1984@lemdro.id 22 hours ago
I get it, my dad worked in corporate aviation, my aunt worked in commercial aviation, and I worked in cargo aviation. I also have a little second hand knowledge of military aviation. Anytime there’s something with planes in TV or film, I cringe… well except for Airplane! but that should go without saying.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 21 hours ago
Airplane! is the best aviation movie ever made, you cannot change my mind.
HalifaxJones@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Lolol who did this?! That seems like a real big fuck up
Eq0@literature.cafe 22 hours ago
That’s a pretty big one! (Isn’t it?)
bumblefumble@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Here’s the thing. You said the common loon is a North American bird…
Barabas@hexbear.net 1 day ago
That situation is the most I’ve ever been involved in internet lore. My partner showed me a Reddit post of a jackdaw where the top comment was Unidan calling it a crow and I told her to correct him (in a friendly way) because jackdaws are one of my favourite birds and I want people to know what they are. This was only a few weeks before he had his meltdown over the subject.
Kind of funny to know that it bothered him enough that he would implode his entire internet persona over it.
ikilledtheradiostar@hexbear.net 1 day ago
He works at the container store now. What a weird career.
dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
Wow what an interesting read that was!
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 day ago
Is it on the same planet? Yes. No one's arguing that.
As someone who is a geologist who studies continents, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls common looms North American. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.
If you're saying "North America" you're referring to the tectonic grouping of the Americas, which includes things from North America to Central America to South America.
syreus@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/unidan
I feel old now.
blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 day ago
I have no idea of this person is expert enough to tell the difference, but there are loon species in Europe that sound pretty similar to the common loon.
tetris11@feddit.uk 1 day ago
For anyone wondering, yes it is exactly that bird sound you are thinking of:
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Watch Deadpool vs Wolverine. The entire woods scene was so clearly filmed in a European woodland, it ruins the whole film.
muhyb@programming.dev 1 day ago
OP’s gonna crush when they learn they didn’t film Star Wars on Tatooine.
sepi@piefed.social 1 day ago
They did film on Tatooine. They couldn't film on Endor so they had to go to Romania. That's why everybody looks like that.
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I thought nostalgia-baiting ruined the whole film. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
starlinguk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There is no such thing as ‘a European’ woodland.
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Yeah there is, it’s in the growth patterns where you can tell the trees were either planted or allowed to grow in an arrangment that maximised yield, and historically but not recently regularly trimmed for wood and sticks without chopping them down.
Asia and Africa (other than Japan, which did it with evergreen trees) historically used other materials (mainly grasses/palms), and in the Americas they used different construction methods both pre- and post-colonisation, so you don’t get (as many) old managed woodlands.
pyre@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
wait what does this mean
Denjin@feddit.uk 1 day ago
I’ll give you one Canadian dollar for each Loon call you can find in a film not set somewhere that Loonies are not endemic.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Alas, they’re the universal spooky bird. They show up in fucking Avengers Endgame.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
You’re all complaining about the minutest detail, but if you watch the 1965 film Battle of the Bulge, you’d have aneurism. A battle famously occured in Europe during one of the coldest snowy winter, and the finale was filmed on dry semi-arid landscape. The Allies used M4 Sherman tanks in larger numbers, but the film used M24 Chaffees as if they were more ubiquitous. You don’t need to be nerd on WWII but having the basic knowledge of conflict would make one cringe of the film’s deliberate errors. Ridley Scott’s Napoleon was somehow more tolerable and given a pass because Scott never intended the film to be taken aa seriously.
Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 1 day ago
The ornithology police are always on duty
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
neoAVES police.
Nougat@fedia.io 1 day ago
CinemaSins would be proud.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 day ago
If I were a filmmaker, I’d be so tempted to troll the ornithologists by putting in, say, a faint but distinctly recognisable kookaburra call in a scene in the Peloponnesian Wars or something. And add another layer of trolling by having the scene filmed somewhere where there are no kookaburras.
Denjin@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Short list there…
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 day ago
If feral Australian giggle chickens were as common worldwide as, say, feral lorikeets, you’d know about it.
gigiocor@lemmy.eco.br 22 hours ago
They already do this by putting the sound of screaming piha in any movie placed in a rainforest
sepi@piefed.social 1 day ago
Calm down there, satan.
tetris11@feddit.uk 21 hours ago
For anyone wondering, the Kookaburra call sounds like Mel Blanc doing a woody woodpecker laugh
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spzvae_BUGA
tetris11@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Or just a guy sitting in a tree playing a flute.