Why do characters on tv...

[Brazen]

What winds me up is no-one ever says goodbye when they end a phone call on TV or in movies. Never.

[Slargos]

What winds me up is no-one ever says goodbye when they end a phone call on TV or in movies. Never.

They do.

When they're about to do something they are pretty sure will kill them. I lends it an ominous tone.

Also as part of a game of "no, you hang up"

[CountDeMoney]

Also as part of a game of "no, you hang up"

I always win that one.

[Josquius]

Cameras add 20 pounds and subtract 20 iq points

[Grey Fox]

I've never heard a real gun shot.

[CountDeMoney]

I've never heard a real gun shot.

Then you've never lived.

[The Larch]

I loved "Homicide" but I've never felt like watching "The Wire."

You should, it's great.

[dps]

always run to see what happened when they here a gunshot?

in tv shows, every one has a gun, where as in reality, 25% of the US population owns 200% of the guns

I'm not sure if this is a troll, a spectacularly unsuccessful attempt at a joke, or what (given the wink smilie, I'm guessing an attempt at a joke), but gun ownership is probably more along the lines of 50% rather than 25%.  Actually, I suspect that it's a bit higher than 50%, probably closer to 60%.

[ulmont]

in tv shows, every one has a gun, where as in reality, 25% of the US population owns 200% of the guns

I'm not sure if this is a troll, a spectacularly unsuccessful attempt at a joke, or what (given the wink smilie, I'm guessing an attempt at a joke), but gun ownership is probably more along the lines of 50% rather than 25%.  Actually, I suspect that it's a bit higher than 50%, probably closer to 60%.

No. 

data from the 1994 telephone survey (National Survey of Private Ownership of Firearms—NSPOF) indicate
that just 35 percent (plus or minus 1.3 percent) of households own guns.

http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/165476.pdf

39 Percentage of Americans reporting a gun in their home

http://reason.com/archives/2001/05/01/gun-ownership-the-numbers

25 percent of all adults, and 40 percent of American households, own at least one firearm.

http://www.ojjdp.gov/pubs/gun_violence/sect01.html

[dps]

40% is closer to 50% than it is to 25%, but I'm guessing that there is some under-reporting of gun ownership.  Not so much for criminal reasons, but I figure that there are households where someone owns a gun that they're not telling the rest of the household about, and others where they have granddad's old hunting rifle up in the attic somewhere, but forget about it when someone asks if they have a firearm in the house.

[ulmont]

40% is closer to 50% than it is to 25%

But is not "a bit higher than 50%, probably closer to 60%."  Also note that the only source which went down to "adults" rather than "households" found only 25% of adults reporting as gun owners.

[Siege]

Dead bodies are cool.

No they are not.

[Razgovory]

I've never heard a real gun shot.

Really?  That's weird.

[Razgovory]

Dead bodies are cool.

No they are not.

It's really, weird.  They stop looking like people.

[The Minsky Moment]

That's because the only black people on Law & Order are the cops.  Talk about fiction writing.

Law & Order loves to explore the lives of black people in fictional places with whimsical names like Harlem, The Bronx and Queens.

Must be a Dutch writer on the show . . .