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December 18

Video editing software similar to Final Cut Pro for Windows?

Thanks Nicholasprado (talk) 00:00, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

http://alternativeto.net/software/final-cut-pro/ - Cucumber Mike (talk) 08:02, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

shades wearing

Is there any psychological reason behind why some celebs (e.g. Cee Lo Green) like to wear shades? Especially when its like so dark and they're still wearing them. Bonkers The Clown (Nonsensical Babble) 10:38, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Flash bulbs, stage lighting, and spotlights are bright? And some have medical reasons. Dismas|^(talk) 10:57, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

I mean everywhere they go! Is that indicative of something, if not a medical illness? Bonkers The Clown (Nonsensical Babble) 11:44, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

This is one of those questions that is better Googled. You will find plenty of suggestions. Since you ask about psychological reasons, I would suggest (1) they think it looks really cool and (2) it forms a psychological barrier between them and the world.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 12:57, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Yes. Decades ago, one of Snoopy's guises was wearing sunglasses and calling himself "Joe Cool". ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 13:15, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Ah, thanks everyone. By the way I found something quite useful: Why Some People Wear Sunglasses Indoors Bonkers The Clown (Nonsensical Babble) 13:25, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Why do they wear them "when its like so dark"? Because they just like like wearing them. HiLo48 (talk) 16:17, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Elwood Blues: "It's 106 miles to Chicago; we've got a full tank of gas, a half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses." Jake Blues: "Hit it." ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 06:03, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

According to Larry David, only two types of people wear sunglasses indoors: blind people and assholes. The only research you have to do is figure out how many blind celebrities there are and work backwards from that. Matt Deres (talk) 14:09, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Ah, but you forget the all-important cohort of blind assholes. Ray Charles, for example, cheated on his wives frequently and had many children, out of wedlock, to multiple women. StuRat (talk) 22:49, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Quarterback Jim McMahon wore sunglasses much of the time, but he had had an eye injury that prevented one of his pupils from closing. That kind of situation is probably fairly rare. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:34, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Roy Orbison stated that early in his career, he forgot to bring his regular glasses to a performance and had only his prescription sunglasses with him, so he had to wear them. He liked the way he looked and decided to keep wearing them.    → Michael J Ⓣ Ⓒ Ⓜ 15:47, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

• So, Larry David knows from assholes? μηδείς (talk) 01:39, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Road to Perdition anachronism?

In the first 5 minutes of Road to Perdition, we see the son go up to get his father (Tom Hanks) for dinner, and while he's watching him empty his pockets onto the bed, we see the father take out what appears to be a very modern handgun, even though the plot occurs in 1931. Was this a filmmaking accident, or what? DRosenbach ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 20:04, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Is it this type of gun? It looks to me like a M1911 pistol which was introduced in 1911. --Saddhiyama (talk) 20:07, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

It looks something like that. I suppose I'm just mixing this period with the wild west and assumed people used revolvers in the 30's. Thanks! DRosenbach ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 20:33, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

I am no gun expert either, but you don't have to watch many episodes of Boardwalk Empire (a tv-series set in the same era), to realise that they did indeed also use revolvers, possibly even more frequently than pistols(?), at that time. --Saddhiyama (talk) 20:40, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

"Automatics" have a failure mode that revolvers don't have: incomplete ejection of the spent shell causing a jam. That's one reason they didn't put revolvers out of business. —Tamfang (talk) 11:03, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

The Internet Movie Firearms Database, which is quick to pounce upon even minor gun errors in films, says the gun is an M1911A1. It also shows a number of the revolvers that various characters use. -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 22:34, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Wow, I guess I should have expected something like that existed on the internet. It seems like a great resource. --Saddhiyama (talk) 22:48, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

There's also the Internet Movie Car Database, which does the same for all kinds of vehicles in films and TV programmes. But there isn't, that I can tell, a similarly comprehensive database that lists filming locations, which is a shame. -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 22:53, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

In general, firearms and other military items can appear anachronistic because of the extraordinarily long lifespan of the more successful military designs. Consider the venerable 1891 Mosin–Nagant rifle, still in use as a sniper rifle. Or John Browning's 1921 .50 BMG bullet, still a staple of machine guns and anti-materiel rifles. If they're true to their plan, the Russians will be operating the Tupolev Tu-95 bomber nearly 90 years after it first flew. -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 02:49, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

The M1911 was and still remains a seminal handgun. Although it was replaced by the 92FS in 1985, it remains in use in some American special forces and SWAT squads. But generally you're right, most sidearms were in calibers that would be considered "small" today. The 1911's .45 certainly is not. The .38 Special was the most common police round after WWI by far. (Gun Digest 2011, page 24) The .38/44 made some progress, but I still think the 38 special was probably the most common round at the time. Shadowjams (talk) 03:12, 20 December 2012 (UTC)