To be honest, I once had a situation where a crazy dude held a knife to my throat. Afterwords, someone made a dumb joke about it and it was the first thing that brought me back to being myself. It was stupid and made me chuckle.
Idk, I just don’t think this is all that much Danning it up as it is what he was trying to do didn’t work.
Yeah, sometimes you have to laugh about a terrible thing, or it starts to chip away at you internally. Which is why I’m in therapy, because somethings there just aren’t jokes for.
RedFloyd
There are always jokes. We just need to go darker.
Resident SnipeFish
Crucifixion joke, go!
SgtWadeyWilson
Oh, I have one. If only I could get out alive afterwards.
Screwball
Jesus walks into a motel, hands the manager 3 nails & asks “Can you put me up for the night?”
I’ve watched The Crow. Both versions actually, original with Brandon Lee was awesome plus gave me that line, remake-to-link-to-TV-series sucked so much exhaust, I’d happily hand it to Megatron & tell him it said he was a whiny bongo…
yea, but that’s exactly why most people don’t attempt it. trying something that doesn’t work is nerve-wracking and no one wants to be responsible for making things worse
I was in my 20s when my grandfather died. Me, my brother, and our parents were going through his apartment, seeing if anyone wanted his stuff (I got a hat and an umbrella, the umbrella broke last month after ~10 years of my use, I replaced the hat about a year ago after the first fell apart eventually).
I pointed out it felt a bit surreal, like a D&D “loot the corpse” session.
I’m *really* glad we 4 were the only ones there. It was very much “a bit tasteless, but a fair comparison, and it helped us all address how it felt rather…off.”
I’m very much the sort who tends to enter a “spiral of sad” where I start feeling bad about feeling bad, and attempting to crack a joke kinda jostles me out of that spiral, to settle on the appropriate level.
That does *not* go over well with folks who are not the same.
From the U.S., assuming straight through the core, it would actually be Australia
Yotomoe
I’d assume that if you could tunnel through the core there would be no australia.
Horerczy
Australia will outlive us all.
Tacos
The Drop Bear Uprising will ensure it.
RedFloyd
I for one, welcome our now Drop Bear Overlords.
RedFloyd
*new
SgtWadeyWilson
I like it this way better. It sounds like they used to not be drop bears, but now that they are…
Screwball
Until they land on ya & eat ya. Then it hurts, unless you got armour like mine. SO GLAD I GOT MY ARMOUR< those things can get SCARY…!!
Lurlock
Depends on where in the US. Most of it would just land you in the Indian Ocean…
saki
According to a map tunneling thing I found on google (gods I love the Internet), digging from Bloomington definitely gets you in the middle of the ocean.
Ana Chronistic
curved through the core, then
(dangit ’80s edutainment LIED to me!)
NelC
Yeah, you’d have to make it curved as most of the core is liquid, so you’ve got nothing to dig through. Stick to the mantle.
Agemegos
Here is a handy map. North America is antipodal to the Indian Ocean, except for small parts that are antipodal to islands such as Kerguelen, and its in the extreme north that are antipodal to parts of Antarctica. The antipodes of Australia are in the Atlantic.
Clif
Thank you. That’s quite helpful.
Clif
Apparently to reach China I’d have to dig at an angle.
I stand corrected. Apparently ALL of the US would land you in the Indian Ocean. Except for Hawaii which gets you into Africa. And nowhere will land you in Australia. And China is only possible for parts of South America. Apparently nobody had it right…
Kelly
Indian ocean for a lot of the US…
Disloyal Subject
Straight lines are boring though.
Agemegos
Brachistochrone!
Pope William T Wodium
Don’t think we don’t see what you did there.
Sunny
It took me a few seconds, but then I got it.
C Baker
Actually, from most of the US, it’d just be ocean. Miles and miles of ocean.
I’d recommend using a Tanto instead. Much easier. Give the Samurai sword (assuming you mean Katana) to your Second, so he can then cut off your head before you have a chance to moan in pain.
Disloyal Subject
I’ve always been fond of the wakizashi. Capable of either task, though less specialized, and non-nobles were allowed to have them.
Agemegos
Depends on circumstances, I say. In civil life, yes, the wakizashi is the appropriate utensil for the job. But on the battlefield strict etiquette requires that one ought really to be wearing ones tachi and tanto rather than one’s katana and wakizashi. So there, naturally, the tanto would be appropriate.
296 thoughts on “Hero”
Ana Chronistic
“ARGH MY HOODIE IS EATING ME ALIVE BECAUSE I AM A HORRIBLE PERSON”
Inkblot
I know Walky’s pain.
DarkoNeko
Walky’s the kind that can’t stop talking when he starts to panic eh ?
Volkai
With rare exception where talking was replaced by action, I think, yes.
gkheyf
yup, he does intermittent talking too much and shutting up. see him interacting with depressed billie
TrueVCU
Or he just shuts down entirely. See: the courtship of Dorothy
Bantha
Walky is the Felicity Smoak of DoA.
Deanatay
WOW HE TOTALLY IS
Haven
If he’d just stopped with that first sentence…
inqntrol
Classy Walky.
SmartAlec105
Yeah, Walky is being quite a Danny here but at least he’s aware of what he’s doing.
Idon'tcarenomore
My thoughts also.
At least he is aware of the fact that he’s eating his foot.
Big Box
You could even say he’s…
…walking it back.
Rutee
He is danning it up quite spectacularly, isn’t he?
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Walky, no.
Walky, stahp.
Stahp using words, Walky. Please stahp. 😛
Touchfuzzy
To be honest, I once had a situation where a crazy dude held a knife to my throat. Afterwords, someone made a dumb joke about it and it was the first thing that brought me back to being myself. It was stupid and made me chuckle.
Idk, I just don’t think this is all that much Danning it up as it is what he was trying to do didn’t work.
Clayton
Campfire time?
Twinkle Toes the Berserker
Yeah, sometimes you have to laugh about a terrible thing, or it starts to chip away at you internally. Which is why I’m in therapy, because somethings there just aren’t jokes for.
RedFloyd
There are always jokes. We just need to go darker.
Resident SnipeFish
Crucifixion joke, go!
SgtWadeyWilson
Oh, I have one. If only I could get out alive afterwards.
Screwball
Jesus walks into a motel, hands the manager 3 nails & asks “Can you put me up for the night?”
I’ve watched The Crow. Both versions actually, original with Brandon Lee was awesome plus gave me that line, remake-to-link-to-TV-series sucked so much exhaust, I’d happily hand it to Megatron & tell him it said he was a whiny bongo…
gkheyf
yea, but that’s exactly why most people don’t attempt it. trying something that doesn’t work is nerve-wracking and no one wants to be responsible for making things worse
Huttj
I was in my 20s when my grandfather died. Me, my brother, and our parents were going through his apartment, seeing if anyone wanted his stuff (I got a hat and an umbrella, the umbrella broke last month after ~10 years of my use, I replaced the hat about a year ago after the first fell apart eventually).
I pointed out it felt a bit surreal, like a D&D “loot the corpse” session.
I’m *really* glad we 4 were the only ones there. It was very much “a bit tasteless, but a fair comparison, and it helped us all address how it felt rather…off.”
I’m very much the sort who tends to enter a “spiral of sad” where I start feeling bad about feeling bad, and attempting to crack a joke kinda jostles me out of that spiral, to settle on the appropriate level.
That does *not* go over well with folks who are not the same.
AnvilPro
At least someone’s had a good day
David Alexander McDonald
WALKY, THIS WOULD BE A GOOD TIME TO, YA KNOW, TAKE A VOW OF SILENCE.
0kami
Goddammit, Walky.
David Herbert
Turns out the Kenny trick doesn’t work as well outside of South Park. I should know, I tried it a bunch as a kid.
Cthulhu's Intern
Maybe some bastard will kill him, so he’ll achieve his goal of shutting up.
Tacos
But then he’d just get reborn from his mom because she took part in some Cthulhu ritual.
Dr-Calamity
This why I carry around my shame shovel.
So I can just keep digging that hole deeper and deeper
inqntrol
Until you reach China.
Ana Chronistic
From the U.S., assuming straight through the core, it would actually be Australia
Yotomoe
I’d assume that if you could tunnel through the core there would be no australia.
Horerczy
Australia will outlive us all.
Tacos
The Drop Bear Uprising will ensure it.
RedFloyd
I for one, welcome our now Drop Bear Overlords.
RedFloyd
*new
SgtWadeyWilson
I like it this way better. It sounds like they used to not be drop bears, but now that they are…
Screwball
Until they land on ya & eat ya. Then it hurts, unless you got armour like mine. SO GLAD I GOT MY ARMOUR< those things can get SCARY…!!
Lurlock
Depends on where in the US. Most of it would just land you in the Indian Ocean…
saki
According to a map tunneling thing I found on google (gods I love the Internet), digging from Bloomington definitely gets you in the middle of the ocean.
Ana Chronistic
curved through the core, then
(dangit ’80s edutainment LIED to me!)
NelC
Yeah, you’d have to make it curved as most of the core is liquid, so you’ve got nothing to dig through. Stick to the mantle.
Agemegos
Here is a handy map. North America is antipodal to the Indian Ocean, except for small parts that are antipodal to islands such as Kerguelen, and its in the extreme north that are antipodal to parts of Antarctica. The antipodes of Australia are in the Atlantic.
Clif
Thank you. That’s quite helpful.
Clif
Apparently to reach China I’d have to dig at an angle.
Agemegos
My pleasure.
fogel
That’s a cool map. (Interesting how so little land is opposite other land.) Thisvlvapp is a good compliment to it: lets you find tge exact opposite point to your particular location http://www.labnol.org/internet/find-the-exact-opposite-point-on-planet-earth/5065/
Lurlock
I stand corrected. Apparently ALL of the US would land you in the Indian Ocean. Except for Hawaii which gets you into Africa. And nowhere will land you in Australia. And China is only possible for parts of South America. Apparently nobody had it right…
Kelly
Indian ocean for a lot of the US…
Disloyal Subject
Straight lines are boring though.
Agemegos
Brachistochrone!
Pope William T Wodium
Don’t think we don’t see what you did there.
Sunny
It took me a few seconds, but then I got it.
C Baker
Actually, from most of the US, it’d just be ocean. Miles and miles of ocean.
Yotomoe
I carry around a samurai sword sow I can just commit Seppukku.
Cholma
I’d recommend using a Tanto instead. Much easier. Give the Samurai sword (assuming you mean Katana) to your Second, so he can then cut off your head before you have a chance to moan in pain.
Disloyal Subject
I’ve always been fond of the wakizashi. Capable of either task, though less specialized, and non-nobles were allowed to have them.
Agemegos
Depends on circumstances, I say. In civil life, yes, the wakizashi is the appropriate utensil for the job. But on the battlefield strict etiquette requires that one ought really to be wearing ones tachi and tanto rather than one’s katana and wakizashi. So there, naturally, the tanto would be appropriate.
Twinkle Toes the Berserker
You’re all sword nerds. I like you.
Kamino Neko
God help him, he’s trying.
He’s terrible, but he’s trying.
Plasma Mongoose
So very trying…
m-m
+1
Kamino Neko
Bravo, good sir, bravo.
Idon'tcarenomore
Excellent!
Screwball
Indeed…
DarkoNeko
Trying all the time~ in this institution~
Jerry
I can’t help but wonder whether that’s been Sarah’s constant expression since she heard what happened.
Mr. Mendo
Walky’s not good at adulting, yet.
Plasma Mongoose
Is that anything like adultery? 😛
Mr. Mendo
If it’s even half as fun… 😉 LOL
m-m
He’s not even kid-ing well.