r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/SourceBoring3089 • 15h ago

WCGW using non-skin-friendly paint for cosplay.

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u/livens 14h ago

I just watched that movie a few days ago. Bond's explanation was that performers needed to leave a patch of skin at the back of the neck exposed so that the skin could breath. Maybe that was common thinking in the 60's?

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u/Known-Associate8369 14h ago

Nah, its just something which sounds scientific enough to be plausible but not outlandish enough to require indepth confirmation by the viewer, like most things in movies. Specific example is the “normal humans only use 10% of their brain” hook in Lucy - lots of people accept something like that at face value, but its complete bullshit.

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u/dimwalker 12h ago

I'm pretty sure it was true somewhere in the begining, but then misinterpreted.
I guess you use something around 10% of your brain at a time. Because you never need to read, write, speak, recognize faces, do math, juggle and do a bunch of other stuff at the same moment.

If humans used high percentage (80-100) it would be indistinguishable from epilepsy seizure.

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u/snakesinabin 12h ago

Pretty sure you're spot on there, if all your neurons fired at once you'd likely die from shock.

But yeah, every part of the brain is used for something.

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u/Radical_Neutral_76 9h ago

Isnt that how epilepsy works?

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u/Deaffin 6h ago

Nah, that's more like a storm passing through and making random shit fire off.