Post by Andy D on Oct 31, 2016 18:02:56 GMT -5
Gordon: What about escalation?
Batman: Escalation?
Gordon: We start carrying semi-automatics, they buy automatics. We start wearing Kevlar, they buy armor piercing rounds. – Jim Gordon & Batman; Batman Begins
What is it with the human race always trying to outdo themselves? I mean sure, you only have to look at the generational leaps and bounds in technology over the last 100 years, let alone thousands, and this point of bettering the current standards is a good one. But for most things it seems petty, childish. Take the 2Guys Annual Halloween Hospital Hangout and the need to better the costumes they do from the previous year, and it just seems pointless.
The actual party itself isn’t pointless though, going and hanging out with the kids stuck in hospital on Halloween and performing a “treat of trick” where we go and give the candy to those who are stuck bedbound. That’s the name 2Guys came up with after some kid said it was the reverse on how Trick or Treat usually worked. Hanging out in the hospital and making kids laugh and smile is generally a good thing and is a personal highlight of the year, despite having to endure the 2Guys and their constant “creative costume councils” where they’d try and think up of the bigger and better Halloween costumes for this year.
Of course, I say that hanging out at the hospital with the kids is a highlight of the year, but this year it was a bit more of a struggle. Less of the kids part and more of the Hospital part, since I’d been stuck there for the better part of a week as a patient. I’ve done some stupid things in my career that have got me a hospital visit, but I think the Pay Per View “Match” now becomes a large percentage of that list. Needless to say that I was not really big on spending more time at the hospital this year in any capacity. Still, for the happiness of little small humans, I put aside my pain and marched on to the children’s ward with candy filled buckets to hand out.
What was more ironic of the situation was the fact that Becks, who I managed to convince to come along, had been teasing me a few weeks ago that she would be dressing up as a sexy nurse for Halloween, to which I always retorted “Well in that case, this year for Halloween I’ll be horribly injured”. Turns out I took the concept too far and the joke wasn’t remotely funny after that.
Sure, I got the silent treatment for a while for damn well nearly killing myself (which is really unfair since Lunacy did a lot of the work on that front), but in the end, we became more amicable and she eventually still came to the party, dressed as a witch (and a very hot one in my biased opinion). It seemed that evil ‘creatures’ was the main theme for the 2Guy’s costume, as Menace was a vampire while Jackle was a werewolf. And to show you just how far these two are going to outdo themselves, Menace had a cloak/cape that was from actual Romania while Jackle’s costume contained actual dog hair. I do not understand the pointless escalation that they constantly seem to strive for.
It’s funny to think about, but the thoughts on my upcoming opponents seem to have a form of escalation to it.
With High Tide, we’ve had some battles in our time, some of the more notable ones towards the beginning of our career. Some I won, others he was victorious. High Tide was always just an opponent though, and while he could be occasionally brash or obnoxious when tanked up on Rum, I bore the pirate himself no true ill will. We fought, sometimes even for gold. But that was all it was, and after it was all done, we would go our separate ways until the next time.
Lunacy declared war, and I answered that declaration with one in kind. A war is a pretty apt description of our match at the pay per view, all be it one that lasted about half an hour (which by the way, is almost as long as the Anglo-Zanzibar war of 1896, which at 40 minutes is the shortest recorded actual war in history). I imagine we’re not done though, especially since he has a shot at reclaiming the title of Underground King. But his actions, his disrespect to the wellbeing of those around him (including the faithful) and his desire for mass destruction is not one I’m willing to continue onwards and if I have to keep fighting a war with him and his cronies, I will do. And when this war is over, I will stand tall knowing I did everything I could to stop this madman.
And then there’s Crazy Boy. What we have transcends mere warfare. A rivalry that has gone on for decades and looks to never end. The battles, the emotional and physical pain we have put each other through. Will this ever truly be over? Will we ever stop fighting each other? Oh Tyrone, what happened to the simpler days when we were friends, and you were super obsessed with gaining gold and I was apathetic but doing everything I could to help you win and you resented me for being apathetic… oh right, that’s what happened.
And here we are again. And I have gold once more around my waste. This must be the opportunities you love the most. The ones you cannot wait for. Not only do you have a chance to win gold, not only do you have a chance to defeat me, but you have a chance to do both at the same time. That must have you drooling in anticipation. But it’s precisely these times I have to step up, I have to prove a stronger challenge for you. You used to yell at me that I didn’t care about wining title matches, that I didn’t care about titles at all. It’s these matches I have to step up because that’s what you wanted me to do, all those years ago. And it would be an insult to you now if I were to just lie down and hand you the belt.
Why must we continue to fight? I do not know , but fight I will. Battle I will. Because that’s all we seem destined to do now, and I refuse to back down now.
Oh, and in case you were wondering what monster I went to the Halloween party as, officially it was a mummy, although the 2Guys were constantly making the joke that I wasn’t in a costume, I’d just wondered my way down from the traction ward.
Batman: Escalation?
Gordon: We start carrying semi-automatics, they buy automatics. We start wearing Kevlar, they buy armor piercing rounds. – Jim Gordon & Batman; Batman Begins
What is it with the human race always trying to outdo themselves? I mean sure, you only have to look at the generational leaps and bounds in technology over the last 100 years, let alone thousands, and this point of bettering the current standards is a good one. But for most things it seems petty, childish. Take the 2Guys Annual Halloween Hospital Hangout and the need to better the costumes they do from the previous year, and it just seems pointless.
The actual party itself isn’t pointless though, going and hanging out with the kids stuck in hospital on Halloween and performing a “treat of trick” where we go and give the candy to those who are stuck bedbound. That’s the name 2Guys came up with after some kid said it was the reverse on how Trick or Treat usually worked. Hanging out in the hospital and making kids laugh and smile is generally a good thing and is a personal highlight of the year, despite having to endure the 2Guys and their constant “creative costume councils” where they’d try and think up of the bigger and better Halloween costumes for this year.
Of course, I say that hanging out at the hospital with the kids is a highlight of the year, but this year it was a bit more of a struggle. Less of the kids part and more of the Hospital part, since I’d been stuck there for the better part of a week as a patient. I’ve done some stupid things in my career that have got me a hospital visit, but I think the Pay Per View “Match” now becomes a large percentage of that list. Needless to say that I was not really big on spending more time at the hospital this year in any capacity. Still, for the happiness of little small humans, I put aside my pain and marched on to the children’s ward with candy filled buckets to hand out.
What was more ironic of the situation was the fact that Becks, who I managed to convince to come along, had been teasing me a few weeks ago that she would be dressing up as a sexy nurse for Halloween, to which I always retorted “Well in that case, this year for Halloween I’ll be horribly injured”. Turns out I took the concept too far and the joke wasn’t remotely funny after that.
Sure, I got the silent treatment for a while for damn well nearly killing myself (which is really unfair since Lunacy did a lot of the work on that front), but in the end, we became more amicable and she eventually still came to the party, dressed as a witch (and a very hot one in my biased opinion). It seemed that evil ‘creatures’ was the main theme for the 2Guy’s costume, as Menace was a vampire while Jackle was a werewolf. And to show you just how far these two are going to outdo themselves, Menace had a cloak/cape that was from actual Romania while Jackle’s costume contained actual dog hair. I do not understand the pointless escalation that they constantly seem to strive for.
It’s funny to think about, but the thoughts on my upcoming opponents seem to have a form of escalation to it.
With High Tide, we’ve had some battles in our time, some of the more notable ones towards the beginning of our career. Some I won, others he was victorious. High Tide was always just an opponent though, and while he could be occasionally brash or obnoxious when tanked up on Rum, I bore the pirate himself no true ill will. We fought, sometimes even for gold. But that was all it was, and after it was all done, we would go our separate ways until the next time.
Lunacy declared war, and I answered that declaration with one in kind. A war is a pretty apt description of our match at the pay per view, all be it one that lasted about half an hour (which by the way, is almost as long as the Anglo-Zanzibar war of 1896, which at 40 minutes is the shortest recorded actual war in history). I imagine we’re not done though, especially since he has a shot at reclaiming the title of Underground King. But his actions, his disrespect to the wellbeing of those around him (including the faithful) and his desire for mass destruction is not one I’m willing to continue onwards and if I have to keep fighting a war with him and his cronies, I will do. And when this war is over, I will stand tall knowing I did everything I could to stop this madman.
And then there’s Crazy Boy. What we have transcends mere warfare. A rivalry that has gone on for decades and looks to never end. The battles, the emotional and physical pain we have put each other through. Will this ever truly be over? Will we ever stop fighting each other? Oh Tyrone, what happened to the simpler days when we were friends, and you were super obsessed with gaining gold and I was apathetic but doing everything I could to help you win and you resented me for being apathetic… oh right, that’s what happened.
And here we are again. And I have gold once more around my waste. This must be the opportunities you love the most. The ones you cannot wait for. Not only do you have a chance to win gold, not only do you have a chance to defeat me, but you have a chance to do both at the same time. That must have you drooling in anticipation. But it’s precisely these times I have to step up, I have to prove a stronger challenge for you. You used to yell at me that I didn’t care about wining title matches, that I didn’t care about titles at all. It’s these matches I have to step up because that’s what you wanted me to do, all those years ago. And it would be an insult to you now if I were to just lie down and hand you the belt.
Why must we continue to fight? I do not know , but fight I will. Battle I will. Because that’s all we seem destined to do now, and I refuse to back down now.
Oh, and in case you were wondering what monster I went to the Halloween party as, officially it was a mummy, although the 2Guys were constantly making the joke that I wasn’t in a costume, I’d just wondered my way down from the traction ward.
