Also it'd be pretty easy to argue that LotR is set after we got potatoes. We've had them for quite a while! And then Ireland stopped having them, which was a tragedy.
It's interesting how much traditional British food is utilitarian in origin, really. A lot of it is just throwing everything together and seeing what sticks. Stews, black pudding, steak and kidney pie, pasties in general, haggis.
I'm pretty good at this, I managed to put away 6 double palates of stuff in 2 hours by myself, and unlike the normal Sales Associates it doesn't take me 5 minutes to do a goddamn price check
Getting super-powers can be a tricky bit of business. Sure, you could always wait for a magic space ring to just literally fall out of the sky, and if you’re confident in your ability to be a protagonist and not just a background character, I suppose you could always try to fall into a nuclear reactor and hope you get a new costume out of the deal, or train yourself to be a world-class karate detective, but if you can’t afford a rocket car to go with it, you might just end up wasting your time.
Or you could just wait for “Wizard” Holton, Criminal Scientist, to show up and offer you a big Box of Super-Powers that you can wear on your back. All things considered, that’s probably the best way to go.
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We open at a Pet Circus — which I can only assume is something that happened back before a lot of people knew about television and had to entertain themselves somehow — where Superboy is scheduled to put on a demonstration of super-pet tricks with Krypto. Unfortunately, Krypto hasn’t come back from space — this will be important later — and so Superboy is left to entertain the kids all on his own.
But while he’s busy juggling pet carriers, the show is interrupted by the arrival of “Wizard” Holton, who robs the box office with the help of a clearly labeled and mysteriously Krypto-sized Box of Super-Powers strapped to his back:
I'm going by what JRRT himself said, although I guess you can invoke Death of the Author and claim that Middle Earth is actually inside a doughnut factory.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I'm pretty good at this, I managed to put away 6 double palates of stuff in 2 hours by myself, and unlike the normal Sales Associates it doesn't take me 5 minutes to do a goddamn price check
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I feel old, at least
If only because so many of my online friends are a couple years younger
For whatever reason, most of my friends are either quite a bit older or quite a bit younger than me. I have maybe one or two friends my age, and I suspect dropping out of college and mostly hanging out with my younger brothers had a lot to do with that.
well it wouldn't get on my nerves except my boss seems to keep forgetting i'm over 18 (and therefore can work longer/later shifts), which is exasperating
it's like when people spell my surname wrong, i wouldn't mind so much if people got it right after being corrected, but i have to correct them every time
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
"Hi, Bobby Jee"
"I keep telling you, it's G. How can you mess that up it's just a single letter"
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It's like Kangaroos or cheetahs, it is associated in my mind with a specific place and it feels wrong to have it in Middle Earth.
Middle Earth does what it wants.
exciting?
Do your homework, people
do you want to be a child still?
Please don't die anytime soon, sweetie
I always felt like I was unusually young, tbh
it's like when people spell my surname wrong, i wouldn't mind so much if people got it right after being corrected, but i have to correct them every time
pfft