In France, they sell alcohol, porn, and shuriken to children,
no questions asked.
In America, you can buy KITT cars, but they're really expensive so hardly anyone does.
Hoverboards are real.
Two guys high on acid, one spots a giant lizard, so tries to kill it with darts (presumably, the nearest available weapon), hitting it repeatedly with his tiny harpoons. When he sobered up, he finds that his friend has bled to death, from hundreds of tiny wounds.
Even if you survive the lizard hallucinations, LSD is still best avoided, as you will have a flashback later in life and drive your car off the top floor of a multistorey carpark, or jump out in front of a tube train.
Ebenezer Goode was not about drugs, just a real fine geezer, who's very much maligned and misunderstood.
The Death Star was not just a special effect.
Father Christmas is real. Jesus? Probably a myth, like the Easter Bunny.
That empty patch of land up the road? Two houses were built there, but they were swallowed up on Christmas Day.
The French (again) put their tongues in your mouth when they kiss you - why?
My dad can do anything.

Once you grow up and realise that this is all bullshit, the world becomes a much less exciting place.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 19:19, 6 replies)

Perhaps I'm older than you.
But when I was a kid they would sell alcohol and porn (not sure about the shuriken) to kids no questions asked. Admittedly I only know this from my brothers, and some other people, who went on French exchange but I've heard enough stories and seen enough of the porn to know it's not all made up. Actually, don't they still allow anyone who can reach the bar to drink in France, or has the EU put a stop to it now?
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 19:31, closed)

All I heard
is that France is some sort of lawless wasteland. I've never been there unaccompanied by parents, so never had the chance to find out if it's true. All I ever saw were some risque postcards, and the occassional nudie playing card deck.
Shurikens were obviously too risky to bring through customs, and alcohol probably didn't stand much chance of making to the border. Someone did come back with a penknife, but it was hadly the flick-knife of rumour (besides which, I already owned a much larger one, obtained within England's shores).
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 19:50, closed)

I remember all the French exchange kids smoked.
We were only about 13 at the time too. My brother told me of nights spent at the bar drinking cider and smoking. The porn I saw was the result of a classmate going on holiday though because my brother and his mates were too embarrased to buy it.
I think you probably could buy flick-knives and I've certainly read stories about people hiding the. In busses and the like.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 20:00, closed)

Well, you've convinced me.
What about KITT? *crosses fingers*
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 23:38, closed)

Sadly not :(
Though whilst on holiday in Florida I did get a lift home from a drunken 17 year old girl in a Trans-Am and at the time it seemed like the car was driving itself.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 17:59, closed)

On a school trip to the south of france
I purchased a knuckle duster and a shuriken no questions asked, at the age of 13.
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Thu 19 Jan 2012, 12:27, closed)