5 Daily Annoyances That Must Be Part of a Secret Experiment. The Truth About Romantic Relationships: Charted Slideshow. 5 Insane Theories About Why We Haven't Discovered Alien Life. Human beings are obsessed with the possibility of life on other planets.
Countless movies, books, and television shows are centered around alien civilizations, and there is an entire subculture of people devoted to the idea that aliens not only exist, but have already visited our planet for the inexplicable purpose of livestock mutilation and the molestation of the barely-literate. However, we can say with a candor close to absolute certainty that nobody on Earth will ever see warp drive starships or quad-breasted space women from the Crab Nebula, because for a number of reasons, the chances of us ever meeting any aliens are slim to none. Why? Well ... #5. Getty Our concept of alien life is firmly rooted in the idea that it would be comparable to life on Earth. Behold, inspiration for decades of uncomfortable Comic-Con costumes. 5 Ridiculous Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies) Where You've Seen It: Boondock Saints, Die Hard, Reservoir Dogs, all the movies on this list.
The Myth: Movies treat the cocking of a gun like an exclamation point. When Hardass McBadCop interrogates the lone surviving henchman, you can safely assume that, at some point, he's going to make his gun go "clickety-clack" to let the poor schmuck know he means business. The sound of a clicking gun is so ominous that the MacManus brothers use it to close out their fruity little prayer in Boondock Saints: The Problem: That "click" is the sound of a hammer being cocked back, and movies seem to be saying, "This means the gun is ready to fire now, baby! " For instance, the guns our hunky Irish assassins are using up there (the Beretta 92F--the same gun John McClane uses in Die Hard), is made so that pulling the trigger also cocks the hammer for you, to save you the extra step and the extra two seconds during which you could get shot. They've hacked your car!
It gets sillier. Bullets Explode Everything. 24 Warning Labels That Must Exist in Movie Universes Slideshow. 33 Teachers Who Got The Last Laugh. World Maps. 19 City Planning Ideas Too Awesome to Exist. Pretend Drug Dealer. Guys Aren't Complicated. Deadly Words Women Use. Autocorrect Fails. 25 Invasions of Privacy We'll Probably See Next Slideshow.
More Sensible Slogans. Studies for Awkward Teens. We've demonstrated before that, even according to science, being a teenager sucks.
So one could logically assume that if being a normal teenager sucks, then being a shy teenager must be even worse. But if we ever got the chance to go back in time to visit our lonely teenage selves ... well, first off we'd deal them an epic backhanded mouthslap (butterfly effect be damned). But once they recovered, we'd tell them to keep their chin up, because ... #5. No Sex Now = Greater Life Satisfaction Later Getty Adolescence is the period in everyone's life where the idea of sex metamorphoses from a mysterious concept to an uncomfortable and alarming reality to a baited hook perpetually hanging above your head.
Getty"Franklin Kimble: Right in the asshole. " Douches. People do bad things.
Rules of Public Transportation. #3.
Standing in the Wrong Place There aren't many great places to stand on a bus or train; by the time you're forced to stand, the thing's going to be packed enough that no matter where you position yourself, you'll be in someone's way. The only thing you can do is minimize the number of people you're inconveniencing with your big standing ass. And there are a few simple rules for doing that: 1) Don't Stand in Front of the Doors. Everyday Gadgets that Lie to You. Back in the old days, we didn't have all these gadgets to tell us how full something was or how hot the day was, we just looked at the thing or noticed how much we were sweating.
Why the Computer Guy Hates You. By my calculations, about 96 percent of all computer repairs are done, not by the local computer guy or the Geek Squad, but by The Friend Who is Good With Computers.
Often that friend is nothing more than an average computer user who knows how to look up error messages on Google, but it doesn't matter -- once they become known as TFWIGWC, they will get the call every time something goes wrong. And they will fix it, probably for free, because TFWIGWC pities you. Still, any time a bunch of TFWIGWCs get together and share their computer repair horror stories, you learn that there are certain things their "customers" do that make them want to ram their head through a wall. So, before I touch your computer, friend who may or may not do me a favor in return for this free repair job, here's what you should know: #6. This computer is yours. Fat is Unacceptable. How NOT to Apologize. Saying "sorry" acknowledges that you're a conscious agent of change in the universe, and that you screwed it up.
It also recognizes that others are real people whose feelings are important. Or that they're capable of hitting you. Either way, important. How to get People to Watch TV. 6 Stages of COD Addict. By Nathan Birch & Justin Massoud November 26, 2011 Few game franchises have has as many hardcore devotees as Call of Duty.
How did the series become so popular?