You get a like and I am a Batman fan. Batman can get kind of dumb and not the campy dumb which can be fun.
He works best when they make him a detective and using his brains over his brawn/physical skills but that never translates well to the screen audience.
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I think itās no accident that the best incarnation of Batman (not unpopular opinion alert) was the Animated Series. It took him pretty seriously, but from the starting point of being a cartoon. You canāt have both. Either heās live acted but silly, or serious, but a cartoon. Well, a silly cartoon would probably work (Iām looking at you Baman Piderman)
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They did a lot of showing him sitting in the cave studying the evidence and putting the clues together just as much as they had him fighting the bad guys. I think it worked because they had some writers who understood both the genre and the character really well. Also one thing I like animation over live is you can just make stuff up and not have it look like a bad costume/make up job.
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I was literally typing the same thing TobinL just said when he posted it. Batman is at his coolest when heās the Worldās Greatest Detective, outsmarting the bad guys, not punching them or blowing stuff up. My favorite single Batman scene ever written was an animated Justice League episode in which Bats was captured and immobilized but still able to out-think all of the baddies who had him prisoner.
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I suddenly find myself sort of in agreement with you, after running afoul of their āexchangeā policy. My skirt was too big (their measurements are NOT accurate, the skirt was huge and I double-checked my waist measurement before I ordered). To āexchangeā an item for a different size, you have to re-order the item (now at full price, naturally) and then submit a separate email request saying youāre exchanging it, and theyāll refund you any price difference.
As a gift card only.
Welp, wonāt be shopping there anymore after I spend the money I already gave them.
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Oh, G-d, why canāt TB make food that way again?
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we socialist Europeans with our nanny-states have it really hard. instead of learning the way of the free business world, our betters decided we have the right to send back every ordered item without justification within 2 weeks
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Iāve gotten the letter for jury duty at least a half a dozen times. Half the time, Iāve actually had to go in. All but once, Iāve sat around for half a day and got sent home. Only once did I get selected for a jury, and that was a murder trial.
Over the course of a day, a man had a series of arguments with the staff of a party store across the street from him. Eventually there was a fistfight out in the parking lot, where the man lost one of his teeth. He went home, stared in the mirror, stormed back to the party store and stabbed the worker to death.
There was never a question of whether or not he did it. We were eventually shown security camera footage of the incident. The defendantās lawyer (who I guessed was probably a public defender) tried to make a case for self defense, that heād grabbed a knife in the store. The tape didnāt bear that out, but I donāt blame the lawyer, he was doing his best.
During jury deliberations, I found myself arguing the unpopular opinion (see? Back on topic) that it was premeditated, even if only the thought of a moment, and therefore first degree murder. There was a block of four jurors who wouldnāt hear of it. They felt it was more a crime of passion, not thought out, and therefore only (?!?) second degree murder. I finally backed down, and we delivered the verdict of guilty to second degree murder.
After the trial, we were put back in the jury room, where the judge and lawyers thanked us for our service. And as it turned out, the other crime the defendant had served time for but was never identified? It was another murder. I still remember the shock on the faces of those four jurors when they heard. I kind of wish Iād argued harder, but I did the best I could.
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White wines are good for cooking, cleaning, and making me sneeze. Same goes for any dry red.
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āThey taste a bit like urine, but not too much,ā she said. āItās delicious, you should try one sometime!ā
Think Iām going to pass.
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Mystery Incorporated is the best Scooby Doo series.
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I know, right? That was the era of the late, lamented Bellbeefer. Basically all the stuffins of a taco (meat, cheese, and shredded lettuce) on a hamburger bun instead of a taco shell, TB hasnāt made them since the 70s or so, but you can still get 'em at Del Taco. Itās no longer on the menu, but order a ābun tacoā and theyāll give you a Bellbeefer.
Goddamn, those are good. I get three of 'em, with crinkle fries and a Mr Pibb, and Iām in fast-food heaven!
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Pibb Xtra is not Mr Pibb.
Are the rumors true? Are there golden lands where Mr Pibb is still sold?
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And in the UK we have the Brexiters trying to take all that away from us. For our own good.
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Thereās no such thing as a good Scooby Doo series.
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I donāt like Dr. Who.
Iām sorry! Iāve triedā¦
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Sorry. Didnāt mean to jinx you. 
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For the non-Michiganders in the audience: party store = convenience store that sells primarily alcohol, cigarettes, soda and snacks.
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