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#1 Rai

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Posted 29 May 2010 - 12:30

1. All grocery shopping bags contain atleast one stick of French bread.
2. The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.
3. Medieval peasants have perfect teeth.
4. In action movies, people only go to the toilet when they need to kill someone or something.
5. Miniguns are man-portable.
6. When a car tire blow out the vehicle rolls and flips dramatically in the air.
7. cars always explode like there's 200 liter kerosene tanks in them./Cars always explode. -Completely related. |8
8. The Chief of Police will always suspend his star detective - or give him 48 hours to finish the job.
9. The good guy carries an unlimited number of clips until he faces off with the bad guy where he has completely run out.
10. Cars can jump ludicrously long distances and are undamaged and drive away.
11. You can work on digging a hole out of your jail cell for 26 years without anyone noticing as a poster has been put over the hole. (Shawshank Redemption)
12. Millionaires want to become police officers (Bad Boys)
13. That cute pizza delivery girl just has to check out your bedroom before she leaves (any porno ever)
14. Magic is more probable than a twin brother (The Prestige)
15. That everything can be solved 5 minutes from certain doom.
16. Aside from James Bond films, where the timer has a habit of stopping at 007 (Goldfinger)
17. Whenever you see Adam Sandler in a movie Rob Schneider is also there.
18. The meaning of Parlay is extremely varied (Pirates of the Caribbean)
19. Getting crazily drunk in Las Vegas isn't that bad of an idea. It always tends to work out.
20. Every single time you play a video game it will consist of nothing but button mashing and concentrated faces.
21. Willem Defoe is always an enemy, except in a particular movie called: "Clear and Present Danger.".
22. Being hit in the balls will incapacitate most bad guys, but it really wont do much good against the good guy (Casino Royale)
23. Prison's hold events where inmates drive cars in an abandon ware houses modified with guns and rockets for entrainment.
24. Girls are pretty.
25. No-one uses a standard OS, and the OS that they do use is likely to have highly annoying beeping sounds every time you do something.
26. Reversing the polarity will solve any sci-fi related problem.
27. Four adjacent pixels can be refined to a perfectly accurate, high-resolution image.
28. The Chief of Police is always black.
29. Any person waking from a nightmare will sit bolt upright and pant.
30. A single match will be sufficient to light up a room the size of RFK Stadium.
31. Artificial intelligences, how advanced they may be, will always go rogue at some point.
32. Additionally, when an artificial intelligence 'dies' it will keep on talking while it's voice gradually deepens and ultimately becomes inaudible/stops.
33. You're very likely to survive any battle in any war, unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweet-heart back home.
34. Terrorists always speak arabic.
35. A fist to the face doesn't actually hurt.
36. New York is the only city on earth worthwhile to attack.
37. The half-inch-thick roof of your car is the perfect place to store a rack of missiles.
38. There is a reason for the ejector seat in a car. It is never to get you out of the car.
39. Your car always has exactly what you need in it. But nothing else.
40. Sledgehammers cannot break car windows.
41. You can re-inflate absolutely shredded tyres at the flick of a switch.
42. A car has the ability to thermal image scan an ice palace (from above) and still manage to locate bodies in it.
43. Spikes can protrude through tyres and help the car climb walls.
44. You can open a fingerprint-encrypted safe by pressing the screen of a mobile phone to the gel scanner, after having picked up the fingerprint from said gel scanner. /James Bond car moment.
45. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating, but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.
46. If a large pane of glass is visble, someone will be thrown through it before long.
47. Word processors never display a cursor on screen, but will always say: Enter Password Now.
48. Whatever situation, there will always be a James Cromwell, but no-one will ever remember his name.
49. The guy always gets the girl. With the exception of 500 Days of Summer.
50. The black-guy is usually the first to die (Every B-movie in existence).
51. Everything explodes one way or another.
52. Bombs always stop at 1 second. With the exception of 7 seconds for Mr. Bond. :P
53. Evil Henchman have very bad depth perception.
54. Bad guys always reveal their entire plan, and sometimes the only way to stop it.
55. Punching and Kicking people makes very loud thuds.
56. Jumping off a 5-story building will most definitely not hurt you.
57. When someone or something says ''Ten seconds'' they actually mean ''Ten minutes''.
58. Guns are only inaccurate when in the hands of the bad guys.
59. Good guys always wins.
60. Terrorists are always Arabs or Russians with bad accents.
- Not always, Americans tend to go against more Americans again.
61. No one use Microsoft or Apple as their OS in their computers.
- True, but most bad guys tend to use Apple products atm.
62. Miniguns and M60 machine gun are light as a normal rifle.
63. Good guys die dramatically while bad guys just dies instantly.
64. There's always a moment where bad guys or good guys breaks a pane of glass or glass windows.
65. If the good guys wave their guns like a maniac, it never fails to kill something; But when the badguys do it, they cant kill even a single fly.
66. There would be big explosions even on tiny things.
67. If the car the good guy is driving flips over, it doesn't explode. But when the bad guys car flips over, it never fails to explode.
68. There are no drag or whatever when bad guys and good guys have a fist fight ontop of a fast train.
- Watch Mission Impossible, there is drag on that train. Enough to compensate for every other film ever made.
69. It's always M16 / M4 vs AK-47
70. It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts - your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.
71. When a person is knocked unconscious by a blow to the head, they will never suffer a concusion or brain damage.
72. No one involved in a car chase, hijacking, explosion, volcanic eruption, or alien invasion will ever go into shock.
73. When ever a semi trailer brakes it will jack knife dramatically.
74. You can always find a chainsaw, when you need one.
75. If you concentrate hard enough you can run up a wall. If you believe that this world is not real, you can do anything.
76. When a B2 goes down in Utah with 2 live nukes on board the military only sends one helicopter to investigate.

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Posted 29 May 2010 - 12:35

In action movies, people only go to the toilet when they need to kill someone or something.
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Posted 29 May 2010 - 12:48

5. Miniguns are man-portable
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Posted 29 May 2010 - 12:53

When a car tyre blow out the vehicle rolls and flips dramatically in the air.

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Posted 29 May 2010 - 12:54

cars always explode like there's 200 liter kerosene tanks in them.
it's time to wake up

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Posted 29 May 2010 - 12:56

Cars always explode.
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Posted 29 May 2010 - 13:05

The Chief of Police will always suspend his star detective - or give him 48 hours to finish the job.
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Posted 29 May 2010 - 13:10

The good guy carries an unlimited number of clips until he faces off with the bad guy where he has completely run out
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Posted 29 May 2010 - 13:53

Cars can jump ludicrously long distances and are undamaged and drive away.

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Posted 29 May 2010 - 14:29

You can work on digging a hole out of your jail cell for 26 years without anyone noticing as a poster has been put over the hole. (Shawshank Redemption)
Millionaires want to become police officers (Bad Boys)
That cute pizza delivery girl just has to check out your bedroom before she leaves (any porno ever)
Magic is more probable than a twin brother (The Prestige)
For there can be no death without life.

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Posted 29 May 2010 - 14:33

That everything can be solved 5 minutes from certain doom.

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#12 Libains

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Posted 29 May 2010 - 14:36

Aside from James Bond films, where the timer has a habit of stopping at 007 (Goldfinger)
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Posted 29 May 2010 - 14:44

Whenever you see Adam Sandler, you can expect Rob Schneider to shout "Yew can dew et!" at some point in the movie.
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Posted 29 May 2010 - 14:46

Whenever you see Adam Sandler in a movie Rob Schneider is also.

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#15 Libains

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Posted 29 May 2010 - 14:47

The meaning of Parlay is extremely varied (Pirates of the Caribbean)
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Posted 29 May 2010 - 14:49

Getting crazily drunk in Las Vegas isn't that bad of an idea. It always tends to work out.
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Posted 29 May 2010 - 14:51

Every single time you play a video game it will consist of nothing but button mashing and concentrated faces.
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Posted 29 May 2010 - 14:56

Willem Defoe is always an enemy.
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Posted 29 May 2010 - 15:01

Being hit in the balls will incapacitate most bad guys, but it really wont do much good against the good guy (Casino Royale)

Scope, not true - Clear and Present Danger = good guy.

Edited by AJ, 29 May 2010 - 15:02.

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Posted 29 May 2010 - 15:06

Prison's hold events where inmates drive cars in an abandon ware houses modified with guns and rockets for entrainment.

Edited by Major Fuckup, 29 May 2010 - 15:09.


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Posted 29 May 2010 - 17:59

Girls are pretty.
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Posted 29 May 2010 - 18:13

No-one uses a standard OS, and the OS that they do use is likely to have highly annoying beeping sounds every time you do something.
Reversing the polarity will solve any sci-fi related problem.

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Posted 30 May 2010 - 12:21

four adjacent pixels can be refined to a perfectly accurate, high-resolution image.
it's time to wake up

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Posted 30 May 2010 - 13:35

28. The Chief of Police is always black.
29. Any person waking from a nightmare will sit bolt upright and pant.
30. A single match will be sufficient to light up a room the size of RFK Stadium.

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Posted 30 May 2010 - 17:46

artificial intelligences, how advanced they may be, will always go rogue at some point.

additionally, when an artificial intelligence 'dies' it will keep on talking while it's voice gradually deepens and ultimately becomes inaudible/stops.
it's time to wake up



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