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[–] PDFuego@lemmy.world 98 points 3 weeks ago (5 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 67 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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".

[–] IggyTheSmidge@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

It's not true teleportation, it's just incredible acceleration. It's easy to mistake one for the other, if you make the mistake of blinking.

I can also note that their top speed is still limited. They can't run on water, for example. (Guess how we found THAT one out!)

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 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 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

liek if u cry evrytime :'(

[–] Rug_Pisser@piefed.zip 4 points 3 weeks ago

And from that point you can just fly all the way to the restaurant at the end of the universe.

[–] urandom@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I think he was always a dumb son of a bastard

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 16 points 3 weeks 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 6 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Dbz is the first thing I thought of. Powering up and screaming while all the other kids laugh at you. Idk how I ever got a girlfriend

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

I did it after seeing Hook in the theater