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[ SECRET POST #3521 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3521 ⌋

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[World of Warcraft: Legion]

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(Fallout 4)

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[Doctor Who - 12/Clara]

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(The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

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[Bojack Horseman]

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[Criminal Minds]

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[Elite: Dangerous]

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I'm jumping on the old bandwagon and watching Stranger Things, and right now I'm way more stressed about all the unattended kids making dangerous life choices than about all the actual Monsters and Creepy stuff.

What about all y'all? Tell us about the thing you were watching/reading when you knew you were supposed to be stressed out about Thing A, but couldn't stop worrying about mundane thing B.

I haven't watched it yet, but they all looked between 10-12 in the preview? What are they doing unattended that has you concerned?

RUNNING AROUND IN THE WOODS AT NIGHT

plus there are HIGH SCHOOLERS drinking ALCOHOL alone this is an unstable situation and I'm worried about it

Pretty sure I drank at like 11.

And traveled to another continent without any of my family at really just barely 16.

I honestly feel bad for kids nowadays. But I might be old.

No, you're probably just normal and I'm a very neurotic American Protestant raised by teetotalers :P

I don't know if this is sarcasm so I'm trying hard not to laugh, because I regularly ran around at night (well up to like 10-11pm in the summer) at that age, and I also drank at 16.

Travelled to Europe alone at 13 and across the country at 16. XD

Yikes

Re: Mundane Misplaced Stress

dethtoll - 2016-08-25 02:59 (UTC) - Expand

I got sips of beer when I was a kid (pretty sure that my dad's plan was to let us taste how gross it was so we wouldn't want any more) and my friend and I drank the kirschwasser (cherry brandy) my mom kept to put in her trifle when I was in my mid-teens. I know I was sixteen when I got tipsy for the first time: champagne and a presidente (brandy) and coke at my friend's quiceanera. When I was nineteen, I was on a six month deployment in the Navy and none of the ports we stopped at had a drinking age higher than eighteen.

By the time I was legally of age to drink in the states, I had already had plenty of experience in how to drink responsibly.

I have this all the time where I'm wondering 2 characters can be talking about momentous stuff but one of them didn't close the door. Or I'm hung up when they're out to order food and whether they get the food or not.

I also find myself often noting when detectives on shows aren't wearing gloves to touch things or are touching bodies or possibly contaminating crime scenes. I just focus on details like that a lot.

Just out of curiosity, how old are you?

The reason I ask is because back in the early 80s and earlier it wasn't uncommon for kids to be left to their own devices and group up together and get themselves into trouble (trespassing, etc.) In an era of helicopter parenting and "structured playtime" and a fear of strangers such a thing seems ludicrously negligent.

(not seen the show myself -- keep meaning to but who's got the time when I've got to stop another dastardly Illuminati plot against the cyberfuture?)

I was a latchkey kid growing up in the 90s. We were always running around the woods. My sisters and I would just disappear for hours out there.

i'm very young really i am 23

I figured as much.

Honestly i still worry about what happened to the little Black Widow in Agent Carter.

Omg I forgot about her.... BUT NOW I AM WORRIED. (She was probably picked up by the Red Room again or got to one of their bases on her own if I want to be rational about it).

Not exactly mundane except by comparison, but I remember I was watching some vampire show and one of the main characters was breaking into a house/crime scene looking for information ... by wandering in and poking around and pawing everything with his bare hands. And I'm just, yes, I know, vampires and stuff, mundane law enforcement is not the main issue on your mind, but if you're going for some recreational B&E will you at least put some bloody gloves on? Fingerprints! Fingerprints everywhere! Your fingerprints, in a house full of, among other things, printing plates for forged money. Yeah, that's not going to come back to bite you at all. Slightly less literally than the other things on your mind, but how much well you're going to be fighting the good fight from a cell should at least be a pertinent issue.

I mean...it definitely depends on the jurisdiction. Some police departments cannot afford to sweep crime scenes for prints.

True. This was a metropolitan area, though, judging by the equipment a reasonably big crime operation, and either way better safe than bloody sorry when it takes, what, twenty seconds to pull some gloves on? Especially if you're going to, say, lift and examine the printing plates themselves. If you're going to be mauling major evidence, at the very least pull your sleeves down over your fingertips. Yeesh.

I get very stressed out when characters are standing very close to other people, step a couple feet to the side, and launch into a very loud and confidential conversation about the big bad.

When a character with an injury is trying to avoid being caught and ends up going through the sewer, I can't help worrying about their wounds getting infected even though I know the story isn't going to go there.

The Sims never pull down their pants when they go to the Bathroom. They just...do their thing through their pants, and get up and walk around in DIRTY PANTS!

Also, whenever an animal disappears. I always end up having a case of "What happened to the animal? Is it okay? I hope it's not dead."

I'm worried about the fact that on Justified a national emergency has not been called for Harlan County. There is way too much crime and shootings for such a small town.

I completely get you and I also felt much the same way about Stranger Things. Not so much because I feel like drinking and running around in the woods is dangerous as such, but more because, like. The emotional weight of it was too much because all these people were going to get HURT physically and emotionally and I was just too worried about them. Like, Steve is a dickhead but Nancy's still into him oh noooooooo Nancy don't do it!!! that kind of thing.

This is actually a really, really frequent issue for me with watching things. More so than external threats, I just worry too much about characters and it's unpleasant and I find it really hard to watch things. If I have control of the remote and I'm by myself, I'll often just pause things because I can't handle it. This is why I spoil myself for a lot of series before I watch them, because it's easier if I'm not worrying all the time about what's going to happen.

also the fact that I'm this kind of person might also be why I have anxiety issues. anyway tl;dr I'm a weenie when it comes to emotional conflict and drama in TV or film.

LOL! Okay, I didn't run around in the woods at night because my parents were quite strict, but it wasn't uncommon for kids in the 80s to be pretty independent during the day like that. I had a friend who basically spent his summers roaming around the neighborhood on his bike, with his friends. He only went home for lunch and dinner.

I'm always concerned about women getting their periods. Marooned on a island? Living in a dystopian future? Going on a quest? WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GET YOUR PERIOD?

Mine isn't even a big deal, but I always wonder.

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