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[–] [email protected] 172 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

Malcolm in the middle was always excellent for showing exaggerated examples of realistic family meals. For breakfast the kids are all eating some kind of sugary cereal and maybe some orange juice and dad is running as fast as he can to grab coffee and go burning himself in the process. Or on the occasion they make a nice weekend breakfast, the older boys grab most of the food and there's almost nothing left for Dewey. If that show could manage to come up with a multitude of family meal scenarios over the course of the show, why can't people writing movie scripts write one single semi-realistic scene? This trope bugs me just as much as hanging up without concluding the call.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

That one gets me too. Everybody in movies just hang up on each other all day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I've made the full switch from thinking that hanging up without an extended goodbye ritual was weird, to embracing it. In business calls especially, the conversation has ended, and we've concluded the planning for the next conversation. It's past time to hang up.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've gotten in a habit of concluding business calls with "It shall be." I think an ominous aura is an important part of business.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Congratulations on inspiring me to do the same forever

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