My parents made me wings from scraps of wood and fabric and I'd run along the sidewalk trying to take off.
It never worked though.
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Bruh last time I tried to fly…it went fine? I got on a plane and flew. Eat shit sex pest.
I'm pretty sure trying to fly is a pretty common experience, and many of those people tried really really hard.
I did. I settled on doing it with mechanical help.
RIght! What kid didn't jump off a chair/table/stairs hoping to fly, it fails. Then you get a cape, because Superman wears a cape so OBVIOUSLY you needed the cape..., then jump again and it fails. So you try again a few times, maybe with a super hero pose when you jump. Then someone yells at you to stop doing that...
I can't tell the difference between Andrew Tate accounts and Andrew Tate parody accounts. Wonder if he's trying to lay the groundwork for an insanity defense?
To be the devil's advocate, I think by fly he meant personal development, like actually trying to do something with your life. Idk don't ask me, I'm a gamer
You're most likely right, but didn't he also say that it's gay for a man to sleep with a woman for enjoyment?
I don't seek him out, but when I see screenshots of stuff he's said, it's usually some vacuous nonsense like this.
The secret is that you have to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
I tried hiring myself out as a distraction for people just before they hit the ground but the air horn and firecrackers aren’t working, maybe I just don’t have the legs for it
I remember reading that for the first time at 13 and thinking it was the smartest fucking thing I had ever read. It makes perfect sense too. Sadly my aim is impeccable.
It's basically how orbiting works in a roundabout way. You just needed to go faster!
in a roundabout way
Very good.
Tell that to a whale or bowl of petunias that suddenly materialized in the atmosphere of a planet with gravity
Not again
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Uh, yeah I tried. I jumped off my roof with cardboard attached to my arms and flapped. It didn't work. 😔
90% of people quit RIGHT before they learn to fly.
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that must have been another
of your dreams
a dream of mad man moon
When I was really young I was very confused as to why my plastic shopping bag always seemed to fail as a parachute. Reckoned I needed more height.
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Pretty sure everyone my age who saw the episode of Dragon Ball Z where Gohan teaches Videl how to fly all sat there that day and fuckin tried our hardest.
One of the consequences of getting older is that you forget what its like to simply not know things.
My two year old son is constantly climbing up stuff and tumbling off it without any regard to the possibility that gravity might be holding him back. Every time he lands hard, he looks at me with tears in his eyes, as though the whole world has betrayed him. If you could just fly by not understand gravity, everyone under the age of six would be levitating constantly.
Although, in Andrew's case, it might be less "getting older" and more "getting repeatedly concussed".
Well, it's not enough to not understand gravity, or Isaac Newton would be the most hated human of all time. You have to fall and miss the ground, for example by being distracted in just the right moment.
And from that point you can just fly all the way to the restaurant at the end of the universe.
liek if u cry evrytime :'(
I think he was always a dumb son of a bastard
Just wait 'til he turns 3 - that's when they gain the teleportation skill.
I do remember thinking something along the lines of: "... that.... sounds weirdly do-able.....?? .... Shut up, brain.... Unless......"
I've spent more time than I care to admit to trying to shoot ki blasts and kamehamehas out of my hands
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I mean, no scientists have ever done a double-blind study on the effectiveness of parachutes at height. There's a possibility that landing safely is just a placebo effect.
Landing safely is just survivor bias. No dead parachutist ever reported a failed parachute.
Wait... you guys can't fly ?
With the Scrolls of Icarian Flight, flying is not the problem, but the landing.
Tarhiel's dumbass just needed to cast another scroll before landing. 🤦♂️
Please stop posting the bullshit this disgusting person says. He does not deserve the attention.
Key and peele are prophets.
You go first Andrew!
I only just noticed who the OOP was
Got whiplash seeing it was him.
I tried as a kid when a hurricane hit (it had run out of water by then so it was safe)
Franz Reichelt, the Flying Tailor, seemed to be pretty sure he could fly when, in 1912, he tried testing a wingsuit he designed himself. By jumping from the Eiffel Tower. He could not fly.
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I have researched it and come to the conclusion I don't have enough money. Take to the seas instead like Neptune intended!
Distasteful Tate repost aside, this is extremely similar to the first note you encounter as a player in Divinity: Original Sin.
But I get a ~~stupid-looking~~ sweet hat off that body, plus scrolls containing a new and hilarious way to commit suicide!
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Oh gross. Don’t post tates shit.
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