while i was making tea, i had the TV on in the background for a bit of ambient noise and to stop my sister complaining about not ‘watching’ music channels. so anyway, the plot roughly was that they somehow got stuck somewhere without a mobile phone signal, hoping that this would finally be the end of the god awful show and the cast would all be eaten by sharks or whatever my ears picked up.
to break down this circus of lies into its individual stalls of fallacies i shall go through what i picked up on.
1. the ‘geeky’ one of the group somehow manages to couple together a phone and a wireless network card to triple (wtf?) the output of the mobile phone. the first thing that annoyed me about this was the obvious incompatibilities associated with integrating two wildly different pieces of hardware. the second was the simplicity of the process, little or no planning was used and the entire thing consisted of stripping some wire and taking the case off the mobile phone. finally even if the output of the phone was increased by 300% then the signal tower still wouldn’t be able to send any signals back over the distance, however low and behold it somehow worked and some guy in a pick up truck came to their rescue.
2. another point that the ‘geeky one’ did that annoyed me. they were trying to build a fire for the fish that they somehow managed to catch with their major lack of tools and fishing skill (one of the guys was casting off from about half way up the beach lol, but they still managed to get some fish that looked like chicken) they collected some firewood which mainly consisted of huge logs which wouldn’t have stood a chance in hell of being lit without some tinder of sorts. the collection of people then turned to the geeky one to solve their fire related problem, she asks for a mirror and by reflecting a wide arc onto the logs, they burst into flames. corrections for this sub-stall of half truths include a narrow arc is needed to concentrate the sunlight, a mirror will only reflect light whereas a magnifying glass would be needed to concentrate it and finally the logs bursting into flames, this would happen slowly as tinder would need to be lit first to get the fire going.
3. zoeys brother lost his shorts by a rouge badass wave, not sure how this could happen unless he was taking them off earlier which isn’t suspicious at all…
anyway, rant over. don’t watch zoey 101.
