Historical Inaccuracies

I will admit, I am a bit anal when it comes to historical fiction.
For example, the Tudors? Can't watch it cause I yell at the tv cause of all the inaccuracies.

But just a minute ago I read something in a book that made me just go

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And it's not that the book takes place 500 years ago, it takes place in '92.
What is it that annoyed me?

A girl takes a cellphone out of her clutch bag.

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SERIOUSLY?!

Has no one ever seen a cellphone from 92?

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Hell, the Matrix was made in '99 and the cellphones were freaking gigantic back then.

UGH, it just annoys the hell out of me. Like come on, it's not as though it was a bazillion years ago, it was 23 years ago.
January 23rd, 2015 at 03:34am