25 - Ugh.

[thinkb4ublink]

It'd been nice if them super heroes put on a police uniform rather than goin' off on their own, but Gotham was a million years ago, so I don't know what I'm saying any more.

[Private to Hoffman]

Where'd you wander off to, anyway? [He doesn't like you, particularly, but in fairness, he doesn't like much of anybody, and he's curious.]

Comments

[themountie]

Yes, I'm not sure how I feel on that matter, myself... Although you and Mr. Hoffman did a fine job, Mr. Slater.

[thinkb4ublink]

[Hmph, is the response. He hasn't properly forgiven Fraser for the mother hen bit. But hey, existence acknowledged, so progress?]

[themountie]

[Well... he'll take it.]

Are you feeling all right?

[thinkb4ublink]

[Pause. He's still a bit worn out and not caring about much. So he shrugs.]

[lastmanstanding]

I was trying to get a group of people out and we had to call in a rescue.

Then I spent a good chunk of the rest of the time helping Leslie Knope plant flowers.

[thinkb4ublink]

Flowers. [Right. Not his problem.]

[lastmanstanding]

Well the other me who fell overboard did.

[thinkb4ublink]

Yeah, I know how it works. [He's still not intending on giving him a hard time, it's just very odd.]

[lastmanstanding]

[Hoffman shrugs] It was a little fun.

[thinkb4ublink]

Ok.

[ichoosefight]

Have you heard of Gotham? [ Because seriously. Seriously? ]

[thinkb4ublink]

You're honestly tryin' to tell me here that it's better that these guys answer to nobody and keep going off attracting the attention of less community-minded super-yobs when they could share their gismos and get help whenever they need it without havin' to growl?

Come off it!

[ichoosefight]

I'm not saying it's better, it's just how things are done there. You come off it.

[thinkb4ublink]

Yeah, just 'how things are done' is the most profoundly stupid explanation in existence, because it explains nothing and makes you come off like an ignorant toe rag.

Lots o' things are done the wrong, dumb way, haven't you ever watched 'Yes, Minister'?

[ichoosefight]

What is 'Yes, Minister'?

[thinkb4ublink]

Political satire. [He's about to be positive, brace yourself.] It's actually good. Made in the eighties, but it's stood up to the test of time.

[ichoosefight]

I thought political satire was kind of dependent on the era.

[thinkb4ublink]

Nope! This is as true then as it is today. Politicians don't really change, do they?

[ichoosefight]

I guess I wouldn't know.

voice forever;

[zeitgeists]

Some just aren't team players. What can you do?

[thinkb4ublink]

[Slater just shrugs. Like he said: it's been ages.]

[plays]

Throw up your hands. That's right.

[thinkb4ublink]

[Slater doesn't really care enough to respond to that, so he doesn't. It's a good life, being a misanthrope.]