I am a pedant.

[whiskywill]

I admit I am a pendatic so-and-so and I actually look for errors on television programmes, although it annoys my wife. Whilst watching "Back in time for dinner" which was set in the 40's, I spotted a pair of green wellies (introduced by Hunter in 1955) and a plate of Calabrese broccoli, which I believe didn't appear regularly in the UK until about 30 years ago. It is easy to check these facts so why can't the programme makers do it?

 

[lurker]

I do it all the time
Annoys the hell out of the wife, like you.

I think the under 30 year old snowflakes dont know or care how to check.
They cannot envision someone elses world other than their own. To them a period drama is no different to a drama in a "made up world" like the game of thrones

 

[NazNomad]

I'm the same ... looking for those mistakes makes most tv almost entertaining.

 

[SammyQ]

"Researchers" for historical dramas should do their jobs. Period. (Sorry, couldn't resist a pun).

Sam

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Because as an uncle used to say - 99.9% of people won't notice ... and 99.9% of the people who do notice don't matter.

 

[MrTeroo]

I admit I am a pendatic so-and-so

Are you sure?

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Dyslexics of the world lure, K.O.!

 

[sunnybob]

My own rage inducing moments are when an author writes about handguns and gets calibres and operating systems wrong.
O.K. it might be my specialist subject, but if the author HAS to get into really technical details, rather than just writing "gun" or "pistol", you'd think he would get the details CORRECT.

 

[dc_ni]

When someone is pretending to be welding and all they are doing is making sparks annoys me waaaay more than it should.

 

[AJB Temple]

It is drama. Fiction. Not a documentary. Therefore you are suspending disbelief anyway, so just try a bit harder.

 

[lurker]

It is drama. Fiction. Not a documentary. Therefore you are suspending disbelief anyway, so just try a bit harder.

[-X
Near enough is not good enough

 

[lurker]

It is drama. Fiction. Not a documentary. Therefore you are suspending disbelief anyway, so just try a bit harder.

Actually what the OP was ranting about, WAS a documentary.

 

[nev]

When someone is pretending to be welding and all they are doing is making sparks annoys me waaaay more than it should.

Or anyone working in any kind of industrial environment or fixing cars clubbing a random RSJ with an angle grinder to make make sparks!

or fixing a vw beetle engine under the bonnet! You'd think that even the least mechanical of actors would mention there is no engine to tinker with :evil:

 

[DrPhill]

I raised a laugh from my colleagues when accused by our persistent sysad: - my reply to "Now you are just being pedantic" was "It depends on what you mean by 'pedantic'"

 

[Claymore]

last year on Poldark there was very clearly vapour trails from aircraft crossing the sky and on the programme about the Bronte Sisters this year there was a satellite dish .......not that i look out for them lol

 

[selectortone]

I like it when IT experts/computer geeks in TV dramas can be seen fixing circuit boards packed with ICs with a big screwdriver. Yeah... that's the way it's done... (hammer)

 

[thetyreman]

I noticed on a documentary about cilla black set in the 1960s, they used a neumann tlm103 microphone, that was an epic fail, it should have been a Neumann U67 and also in abbey road studios.

 

[MrTeroo]

I just watched a cookery programme on the tv called the hairy bikers, I spotted immediately that they had a location manager and a make up artist in the place of two chefs.

Terrible attention to detail.

 

[Limey Lurker]

One of my distant ancestors was Which Tyler, Leader of The Pedant's Revolt

 

[acewoodturner]

My family think I am a pedant too, but I just like accuracy and hate sloppiness and a lack of attention to detail. A few years ago Nokia brought out a new mobile phone which was supposed to be really rugged and bombproof. They had a photo of it in a forest next to a Husqvarna chainsaw, both of them on the ground. Only problem was that the picture of the chainsaw had been reversed before being photoshopped and they turned it into a left handed chainsaw! Pretty ironic considering Husqvarna are also a Swedish company. I pointed this out to the Nokia rep on the stand at the exhibition I was at and he looked pretty embarrassed. Don't know if they ever scrapped that brochure or if someone got a bollocking, but it sure was funny. Wish I had kept the brochure now.