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That standing on an escalator is a form of mental illness. Who are these people, who have so little to do with their lives that they spend chunks of their journey just standing, not looking at anything, not talking, just standing. You two, Standing Jerks, have you been to Thailand? No? Then gentlemen, you have more reason to move than I, and yet you remain too fat and stupid to let me pass. I think people calculate that because walking up or down them causes you to move faster than you normally do, it qualifies as hurrying. This is conflating speed and haste – it requires exactly the same amount of effort on your part to walk up or down them as it does on a regular staircase, and the distance traversed by doing so is exactly the same. To stand still, for the thirty seconds it takes to reach the top, is exactly the same as walking halfway up a regular flight, stopping for thirty seconds, then carrying on. And it’s just as irritating to those who can consistently muster the effort to put one foot in front of the other behind you. ![]() I could believe some percentage of people were simply so weak or overweight that climbing stairs represents a level of effort they’re not willing to exert unless absolutely necessary. Except that precisely as many people – easily 90% – stand utterly stock still, a look of bovine blankness on their unthinking faces, on the way down. That’s easier than walking! You’ve got gravity on your side! I think it might actually be easier than standing. If you’re so utterly loathe to heave your slovenly limbs forward, and have so much time to waste that even walking at a relaxed pace seems dizzyingly frantic to your glacial metabolism, why don’t you simply stop, a few steps from the bottom? Why walk, why not remain utterly motionless for another thirty seconds? What’s the hurry, Flash fucking Gordon? I thought you needed regular breaks of abject inactivity to endure with the overwhelming chore of traversing plush, air-conditioned facilities that cart you around on conveyorbelts like slabs of fatty stewing steak? Are you sure you can cope?
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It’s that bi-annual tradition of looking through the top twenty search results that lead people here, noticing that they’re all wildly misleading, and in the spirit of giving people what they want, or at least what other people once wanted, trying to address those curiosities. In descending order of wantedness! “That wonderful ability – the power of persuasion – and all this time you were the girl next-door.”
There is no preceding “ah”, but you are spelling Sylar right so I’ll let you off. The line precedes an extraordinary moment in that episode, but… this is going to be another Can I Just Say? Can I just say that Sylar already has the power of persuasion: he was about to make an FBI agent shoot herself in the head in his first proper scene, until he was himself shot. It’s not inconceivable that someone with mind-control could still admire the functionally very similar ability of vocal persuasion, but his lust for it in that scene is hard to understand. Ditto for his obsession with obtaining Claire’s power, when he’s already demonstrated many times that he’s impervious to physical harm just like her.
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Jazmeister: "[...]I remain hopeful that all continuity issues regarding Sylar's powers will somehow be resolved[...]"
This is a great idea for a post. One of my search strings is "Mouth Shitting". I want to play TF2. Why the hell don't I then? Right, bye then. | ||||
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Before we go any further, that there is not a first time for everything. Some things never happen. That is kind of the point. There is a first time for everything that happens, but the irritating and sophistic catchphrase is generally used to argue against the notion that a given thing may never happen. Some things don’t. There is not a first time for these. They don’t happen. Just to be clear.
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Jazmeister: Crappy TV shows should be HL2 mods instead.
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I prefer travelators to escalators, myself. Though that's mainly because the rubber track travelators have a bit of give and wield in them so you can bounce up and down and send shockwaves down their entire length. And because the surface sinks a little, you can walk down them with a huge, lolloping stride as well, as if you were Cúchulainn in Tir Na Nog; which annoys the hell out of my girlfriend when I do it on the travelators in Heathrow Terminal 4, though that's just a bonus.