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[–] PDFuego@lemmy.world 69 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 45 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (3 children)

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".

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

liek if u cry evrytime :'(

[–] urandom@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

I think he was always a dumb son of a bastard

[–] IggyTheSmidge@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 7 hours ago

Just wait 'til he turns 3 - that's when they gain the teleportation skill.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I do remember thinking something along the lines of: "... that.... sounds weirdly do-able.....?? .... Shut up, brain.... Unless......"

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 hours ago

I've spent more time than I care to admit to trying to shoot ki blasts and kamehamehas out of my hands

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 hours ago

I did it after seeing Hook in the theater