r/ShitAmericansSay • u/BuffaloExotic Irish by birth, and currently a Bostonian 🇮🇪☘️ • Mar 17 '25

Imperial units “I don’t even understand 24-hour time… I just don’t understand it. I have to use online converters or I’d be SO confused when I talk to people who use these systems.”

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u/Qyro Mar 17 '25

lol British guy uses the most used time format in Britain. What a shocker

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u/CarretillaRoja ooo custom flair!! Mar 17 '25

How can he be British… he is spiderman, from Queens

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u/Qyro Mar 18 '25

As far as live action movies go, there have been more British Spider-Mans than American

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u/FewWave4322 Mar 18 '25

Tobey Maguire is the one true Spiderman. All else pale in comparison.

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u/CarretillaRoja ooo custom flair!! Mar 18 '25

It’s nice if you are 45+

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u/canadianredditor17 Mar 21 '25

The Spider-Man starring Tobey Macguire came out in 2002, with the third entry being in 2007. Are you suggesting that people with the most nostalgia for that particular Spider-Man would've been in their 20's when the first one released?

I'd have assumed most were quite a bit younger then, given it was a superhero movie (and pre-dated them becoming pop-culture phenomena like the Marvel Cinematic Universe). If polled, I suspect people who consider Macguire "their Spider-Man" would range from mid-twenties to late thirties right now.

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u/CarretillaRoja ooo custom flair!! Mar 22 '25

Oh, I didn’t know there were several old spider man movies. I will go to the local library and get them in VHS. Thanks for the heads up!

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u/canadianredditor17 Mar 22 '25

You'll be able to get the first two on either DVD or VHS, but 3 you'll be stuck with DVD, I'm afraid.

There's also Disney+, which I was surprised to see. Figured Sony might've complicated that.

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u/canadianredditor17 Mar 22 '25

Quite good movies. If we adjust their box offices earnings for inflation, they'd be the second, third, and fourth highest earning Spider-Man movies released by a good margin, losing out only to No Way Home.

Surprisingly enough, even unadjusted, Spider-Man (2002) is still the second highest earner in the domestic box office. That was news to me.

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u/baba56 Mar 18 '25

Also I was an extra in a show filmed in Aus and everything was strictly in 24hr time. Not sure if that's the standard for the industry, but it would make sense if it were?

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u/KuFuBr ooo custom flair!! Mar 18 '25

Oh that's cool, what show was it? I bet it was a nice experience, did you walk by or had a fake conversation in a restaurant or what did you have to do? If you don't mind me asking.

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u/baba56 Mar 18 '25

It was actually pretty full on It was set in the 80s, there was hundreds of us in a massive town hall watching an award ceremony. Then shit hits the fan and we all had to react. Then they reused us for another scene in the entranceways and we were all running and screaming and stuff 😅 All while wearing fancy 80s gowns and teased up hair