defunct_punk@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoWhat do movies always get wrong about your job/hobby?message-squaremessage-square253linkfedilinkarrow-up1171arrow-down11
arrow-up1170arrow-down1message-squareWhat do movies always get wrong about your job/hobby?defunct_punk@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square253linkfedilink
minus-squareAngry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 days agoRowing and sailing they get right because they are upper middle class activities, form which screenwriters are almost exclusively picked I constantly get surprised looks from the people I deal with when they learn I don’t know anything about sailing.
minus-squareGoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoSailing, maybe, but rowing doesn’t have to be upper middle class. I’m solidly lower middle class, if that, and I get by. With the club, it’s about the same as a gym membership subscription at the end of the day.
minus-squareAngry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoStill in the ‘acceptable in a polo at the lawn party’ crowd That said, if someone told you “I was on the rowing team back at university” you’d have decent odds his name would be Chet or similar.
Rowing and sailing they get right because they are upper middle class activities, form which screenwriters are almost exclusively picked
I constantly get surprised looks from the people I deal with when they learn I don’t know anything about sailing.
Sailing, maybe, but rowing doesn’t have to be upper middle class. I’m solidly lower middle class, if that, and I get by. With the club, it’s about the same as a gym membership subscription at the end of the day.
Still in the ‘acceptable in a polo at the lawn party’ crowd
That said, if someone told you “I was on the rowing team back at university” you’d have decent odds his name would be Chet or similar.