The other thing that works for him is his variable physicality.  Most of the time he seems like a fairly normal-sized squishy human being, but then there are occasional flashes where it becomes obvious how physically powerful he is. I don't just mean that he's the hero and therefore will always win a fist fight in…

@avclub-04d524031f29c89d78cae864bd6f0de7:disqus A whole sociological group of O'Briens? That much suffering is too horrible to contemplate.

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This place is rapidly exhausting the supply of metaphors and similes for things that reflect low standards.

Thanks guys (which I'm using inclusively of women and minbari).

Hang on, I want to do one of these.

What about a three piece suit made out of human noses?

Thank you. I was trying to remember where I'd recently heard that bit of Tennyson, particularly in the context of being British. Skyfall, of course.

Dammit. And I thought I was being so clever.

Oh pointy birds,
Oh pointy pointy,
Anoint my head,
Anointy nointy.

Let's all just back slowly away before anyone mentions Ghostbusters.

It's easy to tell us apart. She's the interesting one with actual thoughts and opinions about stuff. I'm the one whose comments consist almost entirely of jokes or humorous ranting. Which is basically the idiot's version of being interesting.

Another one of the reasons I love this site. It taught me the word "diagetic".

Come to think of it, the other thing I like about par'Mach

Hang on, I didn't realise that paddlin's were an option here.

Actually, @avclub-f7b8cee00172e6b5d95f347eef898419:disqus, why don't we try distraction for a bit.

Yes, you have. In this case, in lower case after the spoilery statement.

The full import of @avclub-79557cb93066f4470b8cee6e9110f757:disqus 's statement has just struck me.

Lurky, I was just about to write that Annacatt had to just be fucking with us on that one.

@avclub-b894e4330aeaa46a373292d17c62984d:disqus - I love that image. It'd continue the tradition of utterly useless Betazoid observations made just as the torpedoes hit.

*sniffs, pushes up glasses*
You're clearly not familiar with the Dark Sun setting.