"I know exactly how this works!"
Sep. 13th, 2023 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyDetective Whatsherface: Oh, do you?
Me: Oh geez.
Injured best friend: Yes, and I know exactly what you're trying to do to get me to talk and accidentally tell you where my best friend is and all the crimes we accidentally committed and everything blah blah blah
Me: If you don't shut up, you're going to actually tell this woman something you really shouldn't!
Her: blah blah blah I know better than to talk to the cops....
Me: You've done nothing but talk to a cop since she walked in! Just be quiet! You're paralyzed in a hospital, pretend you suddenly passed out! Or do whatever you like, just stop talking!
JFC. I have rarely been more annoyed at somebody in fiction who is talking to the police when they really shouldn't. (Which is always.)
Here's some free legal advice, from somebody who watches a lot of procedurals: don't talk to the cops means don't talk to the cops.
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I don't know, I think "Are you okay?" has been too weaponized to deploy. The other suggestions may still work, though. (Also)
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Me: Oh geez.
Injured best friend: Yes, and I know exactly what you're trying to do to get me to talk and accidentally tell you where my best friend is and all the crimes we accidentally committed and everything blah blah blah
Me: If you don't shut up, you're going to actually tell this woman something you really shouldn't!
Her: blah blah blah I know better than to talk to the cops....
Me: You've done nothing but talk to a cop since she walked in! Just be quiet! You're paralyzed in a hospital, pretend you suddenly passed out! Or do whatever you like, just stop talking!
JFC. I have rarely been more annoyed at somebody in fiction who is talking to the police when they really shouldn't. (Which is always.)
Here's some free legal advice, from somebody who watches a lot of procedurals: don't talk to the cops means don't talk to the cops.
The Medieval Back-to-School Shopping List
‘Please write me,’ she scribbled on a random egg in 1951. Someone just did.
Here’s why mathematicians are so interested in cake cutting
War of words as Nigerian English recognised by Oxford English Dictionary
An Attempt At Unrhymed Verse -- Wendy Cope
Who's The Boss: 30 Cat-astrophic Takeovers Of Dog Beds
Stained glass sundials (Whatever hour the clock says, it's always later than you think!)
The Revolutionary Influence of the First English Children’s Novel
How to Ensure the Last Gas-Lamp Theater in the World Doesn’t Blow Up
Driver with Adult Bull in Passenger Seat Pulled Over by Nebraska Police: ‘Some Citable Issues’
Visualized: Seaport Trade Traffic by Country
The Orphans of Flight 723
I don't know, I think "Are you okay?" has been too weaponized to deploy. The other suggestions may still work, though. (Also)
Tennis ball wasteland? Game grapples with a fuzzy yellow recycling problem
LED lights are meant to save energy. They’re creating glaring problems
‘There Was Definitely a Thumb on the Scale to Get Boys’
Connected cars are a “privacy nightmare,” Mozilla Foundation says
The Sierra Club hired its first Black leader. Turmoil over racial equity followed.
DeSantis backs Florida surgeon general in urging residents against new Covid vaccines (Oh ffs. Also and also.)
The Serial Killer Hiding in Plain Sight
Scorching Heat Is Contributing to Migrant Deaths (Yeah, but this was the hottest summer on record, and what're the odds that it happens again next year?)
