The difference between the two is shrinking rapidly.
And their own atmosphere releaser that transmits the sounds of the ship’s engines to travel through the vacuum of space.
Unless they’re stoners. No stoners have more than 4 functioning neurons. Most also wear long hair and marijuana leaf T-shirts or earrings- they’re never “good kids who happen to toke up occasionally”.
A sham marriage to a U.S. Citizen will always allow you to stay in the country, once you dodge a few questions by a witless INS bureaucrat anyway. It’s automatic that if you marry a citizen they have to let you stay. Nobody ever gets into any real trouble for entering into such a marriage even if caught, though usually they fall in love anyway.
Which also allows them to bank and turn as if they were aircraft
It’s remarkable how much all American cities look like Toronto and Vancouver.
That’s one that gets up my nose - someone comes in exclaiming about how famished they are (and may actually be literally starving), and has one bite of the food put in front of them. Or, they’re eating normally, then push their food away after a bite because they just learned something that has them all bummed-out. Just eat your freakin’ dinner already.
Well, if they’re Siamese cats…
That’s another one that bugs me - it’s okay to cheat or treat your decent spouse like shit if the other person is your true love. Well, as long as the new person is your true love, we’ll just overlook this marriage of 15 years and the three kids and you can get on with being with your true love.
Heck, alien worlds look like Vancouver!
If they’d start exclusively using Siamese cats in movies calling for feline appearances, this one would actually be true.
Outside the ship there is none. Nevertheless, the gravity-planes of any two spacecraft that meet and hold station will align, as if they were submarines. This holds true even where it advantageously might not, as when Kirk is outwitting Khan by his superior mastery of 3-dimensional movement.
Intelligence agencies and criminal organizations have technology decades ahead of everyone else and unlimited budgets.
When such an intelligence agency learns of a threat to the nation or even the whole planet, they always send no more than a small team and usually just one guy to deal with it. Calling the military and having them casually obliterate the villain’s headquarters is out of the question.
Indiscriminate gunfire only hits innocent bystanders when the bad guys are the ones shooting.
Surprisingly small objects like a blanket held in the hands can let you survive falling out of an airplane. Or a flat piece of debris if you land on snow or water.
Governments always react to sufficiently unusual people by kidnapping them and experimenting on them. They never ask to study them first or try offering money.
When in church, avoid the aisle between the pews. That’s where the monster will come up through the floorboards, flinging the pews aside.
Latin chanting is to be feared! If you hear it, flee immediately!
When you go overseas, the establishing shot will feature one of: the Eiffel Tower; Big Ben; the Colluseum; the Sydney Opera House.
Regular people (not bad guys) are really easy to beat to death. If you get enough practice, you could punch a woman twice and kick her once, and she’ll die. Men aren’t much more of a challenge - you can kill a dude by hitting him with a soup can.
Bad guys, on the other hand, are really hard to kill, even if they’re entirely human and without supernatural gifts. Double tap to the head, just to be sure.
Being a good guy/gal means that God is secretly helping you even the odds, even if God isn’t mentioned. That’s why you can take on ten ninjas or zombies, most of whom will politely wait their turn to have their asses kicked, all by yourself. If you add good guys, this increases your odds even more, because two good guys can take on 30 bad guys, and three can take on 50 etc.
Stalking is endearing if the guy is really sure he and his [del]victim[/del] intended are meant for each other. Likewise, it’s not a big deal to try to seduce someone with a significant other, because you are meant to be together.
Despite being rather cold seven months of the year, tarantulas are naturally occurring species in Maine.
And (as someone else pointed out in their LJ) alien planets tend to look a lot like Vancouver.
It is easy to fly a commercial plane if someone walks you through it on the radio
Mythbusters did a show where someone talked them through landing a jumbo jet (simulator) and they both found it was pretty doable.
I should mention that our very rich families are also dysfunctional.
And if you’re female, you will have 500 candles lit around the perimeter of the tub.
Last year I had to go on a course for work which involved us driving out to the countryside on a dark and misty night to an isolated cottage miles from civilisation. When we arrived, we discovered the power was out, and no-one could get a signal on their mobile phone.
I confess to being somewhat disappointed that we didn’t then all get gradually bumped off one by one, while we desperately tried to work out which one of was the killer.
Tea, actually.
There is one which I really don’t understand how come sports commisions haven’t caught on:
not only do attractive (which normally includes “thin and/or athletic,” in holly-speak) females never get wounds on exposed skin, but they can jump, run, or vault over a whole flight of stairs with stilettos on with no damage or need to slow down. If one heel breaks and the setting is not a romcom, it will not break until after the lady in question has already stopped running - either having evaded her pursuers, or grabbing her pursued just as said heel breaks.
Given the information above and how many men love high heels, why don’t female athletes wear stilettos? It should raise ratings!
Actually… yes, if it’s a PIN. And the town they live in and where the factory is located, if it’s a no-numbers-required password. I’ve taught computer courses and helped people set up their accounts and I would say that first-time users choose their town over 90% of the time; an additional 5% use their SO’s name. I tell them to change it to something which doesn’t appear in their company file and stick a number someplace.
If you’re smart, you’ll either be mentally disturbed or a douchebag.
If there’s a problem that only research can solve, you can montage all you want, but the real answer will be found by hearing a chance comment while doing something completely different.