Yeah, polling these days is garbage.

Well, he was an honest man. He wasn’t gonna lie to a 5-year-old.

Grandfather once said to me, "I'm going upstairs and hug your grandma."

Mama always said that you can tell a lot 'bout a person from 'is shoes...

Life is like a box of chocolates. Stay out of the sun or melt into a pile of gross slop.

Greasy, disappointing and still managing to be over priced?

... Yes, it is!

Life's a fillet of fish!

ow the edge

a reminder that life is an unrepentant hellscape where everyone & everything you know will eventually betray you.

You know, this election is what has finally broken me of any confidence at any point of pre-polling data. I mean, it's always been sketchy, but this is just... aaaargh!

I was going to make an Auspol election thread in P&R, but the outcome so far has made me feel physically ill.

Haven't been here in a long time.

I have heard that, it's rather disappointing. Ah, maybe they'll just leech each others stores of "awful racist vote" and not go anywhere.

I voted. Boy there are a worrying amount of parties which sound like fascists.

For those in Australia, it is a federal election today. Go Vote! It's Mandatory!

Humor? I 'ardly know 'or!

I was intemately familiar with humour... but she just wanted to be friends...

BZT Time out! Time out! Time ooooooouuuuuut!!!

Yes. Are you familiar with humor?

You are familiar with The Room, yes?

nah, tuxedos are formal wear

*...while dressed in a tuxedo*

*casually tosses kryptonite island at Lex*

O hai Lex.

You're just a little chicken! Cheep cheepcheep cheeEeeeEEEeeeep!

YOU ARE TEARING ME APART

So I guess I shouldn't try to tie in The Room.

I was just talking cheesy in a dated filmmaking sense, not mind-bogglingly god-awful.

Well, certainly The Last Airbender is worse at being a Superman movie.

Is that better or worse than The Last Airbender? I mean, they're both terrible, but....

And the worst Superman movie is "Dragonball: Evolution".

the best Superman movie is "The Iron Giant." You cannot convince me otherwise.

At least even in the first Christopher Reeve movie, when he caught Lois that first time, the background kept scrolling down for a second to indicate it wasn't a sudden stop.

I guess you had to have been there. I did like the beginning a lot, though; the stuff on Krypton and in Smallville. The movie just got so cheesy once it got to Metropolis, though, it's kind of painful

The performances, the cinematography, the significance of a comic book adaptation being treated like a real movie. Silly stuff like that.

Yeah, I've never really understood what people loved so much about it. Other than the score, of course, which was one of Williams' finest

and it's not even the dumbest part in that movie.

Flying Lois around was fine; it was all the Can You Read My Mind nonsense that ruined the scene

The recent Shazam! movie had Billy bumbling his way through learning his powers. But all or most of it was genuinely funny.

But yeah, in retrospect it makes me cringe the way he caught and carried the helicopter in his public debut in the first film...

(she wasn't in III long enough to be flown around)

You mean the Donner movie, the Donner/Lester movie, and The Quest for Peace (for which I don't know the director)?

At least he didn't try to fly lois around like in the Donner movies.

My favourite is still from the first episode of the 90s Superman animated series, where Clark initially tries to catch the falling plane by its tail... which snaps off in his hands because physics doesn't work that way.

I think it'd be boring if a hero could use their powers perfectly right off the bat and not have any unforseen consequences (though I also don't keep up with a lot of superhero stuff, so not familiar with those scenes)

Overseas, Kamen Rider Gaim did something similar after Kouta(the main character) got his transformation belt. He tried to do a whole bunch of mundane things with it cause he thought it'd make him better at them and they all go horribly wrong.

superspeed causes enormous friction on fabric. the 1990 Flash had the same issue and it was mentioned in "The Incredibles" too...

Arrow didn't have one (though Oliver got hurt a lot in flashbacks), Supergirl already had her powers, LoT gang also already had their powers mostly and in Black Lightning discovering your powers seems to be more associated with emotional trauma than anything comedic

In the Arrowverse shows... I guess The Flash accidentally ran so fast he shredded his clothes? (totally not a chance to showcase Grant Gustin's "I'm not Glee kid anymore!" physique)