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[–] [email protected] 18 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

The trope of chalk outlines around bodies was never a real thing that cops did.

It was invented by Hollywood in the 50s to suggest the presence of a corpse or murder without showing a corpse onscreen, which would have caused the show to be classified out of its desired classification or be censored.

Cops never did that because it would contaminate the scene and wasn't actually useful to them

[–] [email protected] 181 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'd take more of this over family guy any day. Man the popular demand has bad taste.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

comedy is not zero sum, you can have two things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Budgets exist, we can't shoot every show. So yeah.. its not a zero sum game but its got a ceiling and it's not that high. Especially when nowadays even reality TV trash like Mr Beast Games has a budget of $100 million.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

but they literally just released a new Naked Gun movie, and you have Wayan Bros, Sacha Baron Cohen, Chris Morris, Jordan Peele, Armando Iannuci, Parker/Stone, Rogen/Franco, Ben Stiller, Edgar Wright, Steve Coogan, Charlie Brooker... as modern satirists with strong visual styles that play on genre as a medium.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 day ago (1 children)

people painting lines on football fields may have a word

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Those are just large fields of murdered line people. Tragic we play games on those crime scenes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

*pours Gatorade out for the fallen victims*

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Dude doesn't have a chalk roller? He's pretty shit at his job if he doesn't know how to use chalk on grass like a sports arena would.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bucket of white paint .... just throw a few gallons over the body .... instant outline

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

That's so stupid. Just gently tip a bucket around the edges of the body, you'll waste a lot less paint.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

I'm not gonna lie, if I had to get this done and had limited options available (e.g I just have the bucket of paint), I'd give that method the old college try. Depending how desperate I am, I might just splash the paint around a bit with my fingers as I pour it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I'm a Doctor not a Stadium Employee!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just really like that the wife shows concern for him. Idk... it's a small detail but at least someone cares...

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

she looks concerned as soon as she see's him. she's not concerned for him. she's concerned from him.

dude's a wife beater.

edit: dv all you want, now that your eyes are open you can see the hand-wringing worry on her face and nothing will stop it. 🫠

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

Well that sucks. Disney has ruined me.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Fun fact: it's not chalk (at least in Spain). I had to clean these marks, not from a corpse (the guy didn't died) but from the blood splashes and bullet holes, and I had to use solvent to take them out, the industrial cleaning products did nothing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Simple and fun. Good job.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just be glad theu didnt drown!!