When I drove to my covid shot appointment I passed a swanky apartment complex that had a spin class outside going at it. It was lead by this absolutely gorgeous black instructor who looked radiant in the sun and looked like she was enjoying it unlike the 6 women she was leading who all looked like they were inches from 7th degree burns and death. I laughed out loud.
The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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That was what I looked like when I used to do spin class. It was mortifying. I am so pale and by the end of a class I looked both sun-burned and actual-burned with some gasping for air added in for good measure.
Just had an odd idea about Superman run through my head. You know that scene in the Christopher Reeves movies where Lois figures out Clark is Superman and he uses the amnesia kiss on her?
What if that is the real reason no one knows Clark = Supes. People figuring out his secret identity is incredibly common, he then just Amnesia Kisses them to erase the memory.
The comics just don’t show that because it would just be him constantly kissing everyone he comes into contact with.
What if that is the real reason no one knows Clark = Supes. People figuring out his secret identity is incredibly common, he then just Amnesia Kisses them to erase the memory.
The comics just don’t show that because it would just be him constantly kissing everyone he comes into contact with.
Unintended consequences of the amnesia kiss?
(Also, yikes - this is from 9+ years ago? I am officially old...)
This is even more hilarious when you carry it further. Lex Luthor is a pretty bright guy. He did develop a cure for kryptonite poisoning, after all. So he is probably constantly uncovering Supes' secret identity and forcing a confrontation like the following:
LL: (Dressed as an Uber Eats driver and standing over a weakened Superman he has tricked with an Applebee's delivery bag with kryptonite inside) "And now I have you right where I want you, Superman... or should I say 'Clark Kent?'"
S: (eyes widening) "You... monster!"
LL: "Yes, just wait until Braniac and the rest of the boys hear who you really are! They'll pay a visit to your family and then... Mwaah-haaa!"
S: (Manages to drop delivery bag into nearby history museum mailbox which happens to be painted with lead-based paint, recovers, grabs LL and flies off)
LL: "Argh! Foiled again! But just you wait until I tell everyone about your..."
S: (Among clouds, turns LL to face him and just MASHES face bestowing the amnesia kiss) "Mmmmmmm....waah!"
LL: (blinking) "...Huh? What? Where am I?"
S: (wiping mouth) "On your way to jail after your latest scheme to unmask me failed yet again, you scoundrel!"
LL: "Grr. Just you wait, Superman. As soon as I get out, I'll find out your secret identity, and then YOU'LL SEE!"
S: (makes appt in calendar 30 days in the future "Usual date with LL")
--Patrick
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these kinds of threads always remind me of my favorite superman comic.
Dorkly did it, too.
Yet the games Steam tried to sell me lol.
So I was thinking, I am pretty sure time travel exists. It's just everyone that utilizes it dies.
Think about it, when you bend space / time you will be opening a portal into that past point in space. We are on a rock hurling itself at high speed around a sun, which itself is hurling itself at high speed around a galaxy core, which itself is flying at high speed away from whatever universal core started the Big Bang. We are not at the same point in space / time as we were five minutes ago, and we would be LONG past whatever point we were one thousand years ago. By going back in time, we would appear at a point in space far ahead of whatever point the Earth was at that time, thus of course suffocating in a vacuum. If we attempted to go into the future, we would have the same issue, only this time the Earth would be long gone from that position in space.
So sleep well, our timeline is fine. Also I might be watching too much Loki and The Tomorrow War. Good night.
Think about it, when you bend space / time you will be opening a portal into that past point in space. We are on a rock hurling itself at high speed around a sun, which itself is hurling itself at high speed around a galaxy core, which itself is flying at high speed away from whatever universal core started the Big Bang. We are not at the same point in space / time as we were five minutes ago, and we would be LONG past whatever point we were one thousand years ago. By going back in time, we would appear at a point in space far ahead of whatever point the Earth was at that time, thus of course suffocating in a vacuum. If we attempted to go into the future, we would have the same issue, only this time the Earth would be long gone from that position in space.
So sleep well, our timeline is fine. Also I might be watching too much Loki and The Tomorrow War. Good night.
That's why you should always use a variable gravity lock system when traveling through time.
There are only a handful of stories I've read that address this, and one of them wasn't even about time travel. It was a murder mystery.
--Patrick
I am old uber nerd that knew that back in 1989...
I was watching Yankee Doodle Dandy, and it triggered me...
Just about any representation of WWI chokes me up. I teared up a bit when they announced the sinking of the Lusitania. Then when they started singing Over There, I bawled like a baby.
I don't know if it is that I studied it so much in college or the stories my great uncle told me about his time "over there." He was shot three times, gassed, then they found out he could handle a team of horses and put him on an ambulance.
Just about any representation of WWI chokes me up. I teared up a bit when they announced the sinking of the Lusitania. Then when they started singing Over There, I bawled like a baby.
I don't know if it is that I studied it so much in college or the stories my great uncle told me about his time "over there." He was shot three times, gassed, then they found out he could handle a team of horses and put him on an ambulance.
A certain smol drummer girl has put me on notice to do something with the surf guitar band story idea in my head. She may try to stuff me in a shoe locker if I don't.
She's the drummer for the 'Meet the Tsunamis' idea I had a while back. She popped back into my head on the drive home from work this morning.
He also played agent Eaton in Raiders of the Lost Ark!
It'd be his birthday today, he unfortunately passed away in 2005. RIP
Fuck cancer!
It's what Takeshi Terauchi would want!
Internet.
Dr Pepper & Cream Soda Zero. Soda has reached its peak.
I bought some of that 2-3 weeks ago. They didn't have diet, so I let myself only have one swig of it a day until it was gone. It was amazing!