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People Pretend to Be Disabled to Skip in Line Orlando Informer Blog, fatchoi/iStock/Getty Images Like death and taxes, waiting for rides at Disney parks is inevitable. But there are always people who try to cheat their way around that. The most common is by trying to get an assistance pass -- you know, the ones that are supposed to help those folks who have a legitimate disability. Xyno/iStock/Getty Images Kicking visitors to catch "fake cripples" proved controversial. When I was there, we couldn't really question people: If they claimed to be allergic to the sun but were wearing a tank top and shorts, we still gave them the special pass. And somehow, that wasn't the worst. Francesca Rizzo/iStock/Getty Images They even tell the kid she has cancer so she won't blow their cover. Really, Disney World is not a place to get a clinic on good parenting ... #2.
Joe Raedle/Getty Images News/Getty Images Parents want to have fun at Disney just as much as anyone else. . #1. If Product Names Were Forced to Be Accurate Slideshow. 4 Plasma Technologies That Put Video Game Weapons to Shame. #2.
Z Machine The Z Machine sounds like an evil invention by a sleepy Batman villain and looks like something Michael Bay would cut from a movie for being too awesome to exist with current special effects. Which is why physicists built it with real current effects. Sandia National LaboratoriesMore lightning than Zeus attacking Thor for rubbing him with cats. The PBFA-Z (Particle Beam Fusion Accelerator, Z-pinch version ... you don't need an acronym when all the words are this awesome) is the largest X-ray generator in the world. Anyone can create high temperatures by adding more current -- people with Christmas lights and desperately misplaced senses of personal achievement learn that every year -- but the Z Machine is designed to do it more than once, which is a far harder challenge.
4 Lead Singers That Sound Shockingly Bad Without the Band. Have you ever listened to a song and thought, "I bet if someone stripped away all the music, this singer would sound like a cheese grater scraping against another cheese grater, but the second cheese grater is sentient and screaming"?
And then, because you hate yourself, wondered if there was a way to hear the singer's studio-recorded voice all by itself? Well, you can, you masochistic weirdo! There are tons of incredible vocal tracks available on the Internet. The 5 Most Unintentionally Horrifying Children's Video Games. #2.
Metroid Fusion -- Facing Your Demons, Discovering They Live Inside You Nintendo The Metroid series was always a bit darker than the other Nintendo games, but they were still Nintendo games. The "disturbing enemies" had a few more spike-shaped pixels than you were used to, and that was pretty much the extent of the horror. You could play any of the early Metroid titles and be pretty confident of maintaining the sanctity of your underpants, no matter how big a wuss you were. In Fusion, Samus is once again stuck in a decrepit space labyrinth where some poor architect accidentally replaced all the door keys with missiles. 4 Insane Things Nobody Tells You About Riding a Motorcycle. 6 Famous Symbols That Don't Mean What You Think. A Day in America According to a (Baffled) Foreigner. 6:45 PM: Perplexed by prices I arrive at the till with my Hungry Man, trying not to look at the obvious misprint that follows the word "calories" on the box. The price sticker says $3.50, which is causing me some trouble because I'm not actually sure how much money I have.
There are plenty of coins in my pocket, but some of them say "Dime" on them and don't say anything else. I'm going to assume they are five cent pieces because they're the smallest, although Christ knows British currency is no yardstick for this. I should just be glad I'm in a country that uses the decimal system: Until 1971, Britain's currency was base-16 and the principal unit was the Goat. 17 Images That Will Ruin Your Childhood. Nostalgia is a sucker's game.
We imagine all the toys and TV shows from childhood as perfect and awesome purely because our immature brains hadn't developed the ability to joylessly pick things apart for their flaws. The songs we liked at age 10 weren't any better than the Justin Bieber stuff the 10-year-old girls love now. 15 Grossly Misleading Movie Posters. Aliens, as we all know, was the brave story of a woman trying to retain her beauty and confidence despite her crippling case of acid reflux disease. Right? Ewoks: The Battle for Endor - Ghana If you never saw the made-for-TV Ewoks: Battle for Endor, let us just assure you that it doesn't feature a deformed Han Solo blowing away sword-wielding ape-demons.
Something that awesome never even comes close to happening in this movie. 5 Horrific Serial Killers (Who Are Free Right Now) #2.
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