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* In older fiction involving air travel, airline stewardesses are often shown panicking and/or fulfilling a [[Damsel in Distress]] role in a crisis, presumably because the writers had taken their "beaming glorified cocktail waitress" get-ups at face value. In fact, flight attendants were always trained, clear-headed professionals, who would immediately take action to maximize air passengers' safety during an emergency. Hiring pretty young ladies and having them serve coffee and flirt with businessmen was just the early airlines' way of making their presence less alarming to travelers, who might otherwise be scared off by speeches about what to do in the event of a crash.
* Sadly, the [[MythBusters]] have drifted into being Pirates Who Don't Do Anything in real life. Jamie Hyneman's actual business is ''M5 Studios'', and he and his crew worked for years as very successful special-effects artists and product modelers. Jamie has since admitted in interviews that M5's activity has been declining since [[MythBusters]] hit it big, because companies that would have hired them don't want their products taking a backseat to the show's schedule, which as the show chugs on through ever larger projects is exactly what has happened.
* In summer of 2010, 10 Russian spies were caught in America. However these aren't your badass Cold War Russians, as these spies were hanging around in Hoboken and raising families in suburbia. Though the spies were doing all sorts of James Bondian things, like bag switch offs and burying messages, there isn't any evidence that any of their information was of actual value. Most embarrassing are [https://web.archive.org/web/20101011222806/http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Suspected-Russian-Spy-Anna-Chapman/ss/events/us/062910annachapman the] [http://gawker.com/5575882/the-facebook-adventures-of-accused-russian-spy-mikhail-semenko photos] of the spies. The first of these were posted of ''facebook.''
* On several video game sites, it's often joked that so many so-called "gamers" spend more time discussing and arguing about games online than actually playing them.
* The popular stereotype of the "artist" who just sits in the coffee shop "waiting for inspiration" and complains about how hard it is to be an artist. It happens sometimes, but bonus points go for wearing turtlenecks and/or berets.
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