• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 hours ago

    What is with the trope of using a glass to listen through a wall or door? Surely it doesn’t work, right? Do all of these people have glasses with no bottom?

    It’s like when you see in TV/movies when someone gets tied up and “gagged” by just putting a sock in their mouth with no tape or anything. As if the person couldn’t literally just spit the piece of cloth out.

    Takes me out of it completely, every time.

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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      1 hour ago

      …it having a bottom is how it works.

      the vibrations carry through the glass and into your ear that is pressed against the bottom. it works.

    • Meow@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Maybe that sox is a warning that if he spits it. He is going to get beaten the shit out of himself.