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• Cyborgs make a noise when their skin is removed.
• Countdown timers (like on bombs) beep every second.
• Scientists all wear white lab coats.
• Astronauts in space suits or divers underwater or people in biohazard suits always have bright lights shining onto their faces. from inside their helmets.
• All computers use a Virtual Reality Operating System.
• People going into a dangerous dark room never turn on the lights.
• When looking up a number in a phone book, people open the book, turn over 2 pages and find the number they want.
• Everyone turns off the TV immediately after seeing an interesting news article.
• When you get cut off on phone, you hit the receiver hook a few times.
• When firing bullets at someone behind a wire fence or mesh, all the bullets hit the fence or mesh.
• People manage to send whole, complicated messages in Morse code or semaphore in just a few seconds.
• There is a ramp just behind every parked car so if you are about to hit it, your car flies over the top of the parked car.
• Everything produces sparks.
• Liquid nitrogen freezes anything and it can be smashed after such cooling.
• You always leave half your drink in bar or restaurant.
• Cop cars are always going wrong way when they get a call and have to U-turn
• When someone in a helicopter tries to shoot someone else on the ground, they fly the helicopter over the target firing and then come round for a second pass. The pilot never thinks to hover and get a better shot.
• When someone sees people playing chess they immediately see checkmate next move which the players totally missed.
• Trucks don't stop when something is in their way, they just blow their horn.
• In a car chase, there's always another gear.
• Everyone who takes a photo has their own darkroom for processing.
• No-one expects copies to be made of blackmail photos - they just buy the negatives.
• A person being chased always trips.
• ... and their car won't start when they get in.
• Cars always explode with the slightest knock.
• All cameras, computers, photos are capable of infinite zoom.
• Ropes fray quickly until one strand is left which lasts until the hero(ine) is safe.
• As soon as a driver has his view blocked, he steers wildly from one side of the road to the other.
• Electric fences always produce huge sparks whenever touched by anything.
• When buying something, the person always has right change without even looking.
• You can outrun any fireball in a corridor.
• CRTs always have to show Lissajous figures.
• You can shoot a door control panel to open, close, lock or unlock it.
• You can always reroute power - even in Apollo 13.

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