I'm still not sure how picking someone up at the airport would even qualify as an infraction.

Is picking someone up at the airport an indictable offense?
reason #8732 not to fly to the US...

barely thigh high things, not even barriers, things like those island square benches, or stuff like that, and if you want to talk about smart, how about just opening a door rather than stopping, assessing it, leaping off 2 walls and diving through a tiny window above the door without knowing what's on the other side.. if you think you're capable of that and it's smart, you really shouldn't be worried about catching your toe on a short little obstacle, especially one which you pretty much have to go out of your way to encounter.

Parkour is no remotely about quickly and efficiently..it's about showing off and pretending that's what it is about. It's like the pro wrestling of running.

if I had a penny for every back to the future quote someone felt the need to dredge up..

hurling yourself quickly and efficiently past whatever obstacles are in your path while maintaining as much momentum as possible.

If this were true, then we wouldn't see all these videos of people doing weird 2 handed hops over things that are either not directly in their path or barely thigh high.

If news companies want to make money they should do more than reprint the same stories that everyone else is running from the wire service.

Getting reporters to actually work and dig up stories and write about interesting angles, so that they provide unique useful stories, and then they might have something worth selling.

They're jarring because compared to other TV shows, they're using them in a way that is not natural.

Why would cops on a crime scene use video chat? If they had to show someone back in a lab something immediately in a way that needed interactive explanation or real time feedback from the person they were talking to. They wouldn't use it to simply say "hey, we're gonna drop by your lab in a few minutes"

It's also about the shots. Whenever they pull in somewhere they make sure they have a nice long shot of the chevy logo, it's obviously being done for product placement and not story elements. Normally in a show they'd only do that if the character was rolling up in some kind of incredibly fancy car and they wanted to show off how rich/lucky the person was.

or how they basically try to replace the use of the word google as a verb.. google has become synonymous with search the same way kleenex has with tissue. Even if you're using a non-kleenex tissue, a lot of people will call it a kleenex. Their attempting to make "bing" a thing, just grates hard.

Windows phone? same as the car logo. Normally in a show if someone does something on the phone, they don't even show the interface, unless it's for effect in a dramatic situation. In Hawaii 5-0 they make a point of getting the character to hold up the phone and it zooms in to show the only person on the planet who seems to be happy using windows 8.

There might be more natural ways to work at least some of those things in without the need to hit viewers over the head with them.

they should care, because it makes me even less likely to get a windows phone or give money to the company.

In Hawaii 5-0 the product placement is ridiculously heavy. A character can't walk 2 feet without needing to hold up their windows phone and make an unnecessary skype call, and it's apparently impossible to catch a bad guy in anything but a chevy. They are how to do it wrong.

I think once you're done with it, he'll just see if there is any left.

He's a pretty shit doctor.
I've continued to watch in the faint hope that it will get better, and thankfully with a regeneration coming up, maybe..just maybe..

someone somewhere still has to have the physical media, I'd rather have it myself.

He is apparently channelling old grade 6 math text books as searching for "$8 for a ticket and then $5 for a popcorn" gives a top result of an elementary school text book and some blog posts from 2008....

no it's really not. The first one was awful, and the second was no better. The games were buggy and broken and remained so. The company did little more than pay lip service to it's customers while shovelling DLC at them.

It takes nothing away from industrious dads. I'm not saying he wasn't industrious, I'm saying they're implying he managed this because he was an industrious dad which is just false. He was an entrepreneur, trained in the field, and had friends /contacts that worked in the field and let him use equipment.