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[–] logos@sh.itjust.works 71 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Sticking my finger in the barrel of a cops gun so it blows up in their face.

[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 21 points 4 weeks ago

Then a large boxing glove pops out of the flower on my chest, and knocks the fucker to the next county.

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 64 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Gonna see if i can cross over to the apartment opposite me by not looking down. This could be a miracle for transportation!

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

If that doesn't work let's try next floating while following the smell of a pie.

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[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 19 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

I thought about it, but I think that's powered by not knowing you're in the air. The fall is triggered by the realization that you aren't on the ground, not the action of l looking down. I'm just a layman though. A comic physicist can correct me if they want.

[–] troglodytis@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago

A comic physician could draw a bridge under ya

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[–] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 61 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Letting her know I like her by launching my eyeballs out of their sockets and dropping my tongue completely to the floor.

edit: Forgot the old-timey car horn sound.

arOOOOgah!

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 18 points 4 weeks ago

Don't forget Turing your face into a wolf and howling about it.

[–] WR5@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

The prompt was about things we don't already do in this reality though?

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 59 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Pulling a giant hammer out of my pocket

[–] mech@feddit.org 49 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Hire a bird to paint a realistic-looking tunnel with my workplace behind it on my garage door, and drastically reduce commute times.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 weeks ago

Damn! You beat me to it!

[–] WaitThisIsntReddit@lemmy.world 29 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm going to blow into my thumb and make my dick huge.

[–] WR5@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

In a similar thought, I was thinking of asking people for help making my thumb huge...

[–] harcesz@szmer.info 21 points 4 weeks ago

Carry around a ACME black hole, just in case.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 17 points 4 weeks ago

Launching out of a cannon and floating to safety at the end by opening a very small umbrella.

[–] Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 17 points 4 weeks ago

Having a little hat with a propeller that allows me to fly

[–] moondoggie@lemmy.world 16 points 4 weeks ago

Imma buy a LOT of anvils

[–] Kepion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 4 weeks ago

Amazed nobody has said float through the air on the waft of a delicious pie yet

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 14 points 4 weeks ago

I don't think anyone has mentioned buying some invisible paint!

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 13 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Have a conversation with my now-talking dog.

Honestly I think having someone pull a giant mallet out and squish me like a pancake would fix me.

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 weeks ago

Painting a door on a wall that actually works

[–] AniZaeger@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I work as a slot technician. One of our jobs is moving slot machines with hand trucks. When setting them down, one typically counterbalances the weight of the machine with their body. I wanna get catapulted across the casino floor, fly through the air while screaming like Goofy, and hit the wall leaving a silhouette-shaped hole.

Thankfully, the only injury I should sustain is little coins going around my head.

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[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 12 points 4 weeks ago

Farting so hard I fly

[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 11 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm going to Costco and buying a palette of bananas.

I can probably cut my commute time by 80% and sow mass chaos in the process.

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[–] callyral@pawb.social 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Draw a tunnel or a door on a wall and see where it leads. Perhaps into the room on the other side, maybe into a pocket dimension.

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[–] Una@europe.pub 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Standing in air and looking down for a sec

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Probably don't want to look down.

[–] Una@europe.pub 11 points 4 weeks ago

Nah, no worries. I can't die, I'll just make huge human shaped hole and crawl out of it hurt.

[–] 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org 10 points 4 weeks ago

Jump from the highest building in town and use my pants as a parachute.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago

This depends on whether it's permanent or transitory. I don't want to be half-way through a stunt...

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 weeks ago

Cut down a tree by standing on a branch and cutting the branch from the tree.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 weeks ago

Not reading the book on gravity, for starters. 🤌🏼

[–] lenz@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

Dress as a scientist with a labcoat, and build something really quickly by pulling tools out of nowhere as a giant cloud of steam covers up what I’m doing, revealing a giant scientific looking device that is labeled “restore normal laws of physics for everyone except me”. Push the button. Now I am the only one running on cartoon logic. I have hopefully prevented others from destroying the Earth by exploding giant bombs or whatever. Or racists from coming up with a “kill all non-white people” virus. Or a variety of other horrors.

Then do things like build an anti-corruption ray and fire it at major government buildings. Panacea-ray to be given to hospitals. Climate-change regulation machine. Etc. Lots of different rays lmao.

Come up with plan to reduce suffering in the universe and harness cartoon physics into technology without someone being able to exploit this awesome power for evil. Do not do this alone. Gather others. Watch cartoons for ideas. Think this bs through a lot more.

I think I’d build a time-stopping device with immunity necklaces to place around the necks of the smartest and most compassionate people on Earth (which I’d use another tracking device to find) to give everybody time to think through ideas on what to do. That way everyone in the hospitals could stop dying while we think through ideas, giving us time to save them. Probably end up giving others the cartoon physics power after building a device to find the best candidates for the responsibility, and shooting them with the anti-corruption ray.

Probably shoot MYSELF with the anti-corruption ray to keep myself from going insane with power.

Fix the world, then later, fix the universe. End involuntary suffering. End involuntary death for those who do not wish to die. Fix entropy. Have fun forever.

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[–] Human@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 weeks ago

tunnel through things using paint

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago

Phone call someone and during the split screen physically jump into their side of the call.

Step #1: Integrate "AI" into all ACME products; including anvils and dynamite.

Step #2: Draft press release that we expect to have solved the "roadrunner conundrum" by the end of the third quarter.

Step #3: Repeat Step #2 for a couple of years.

Step #4: Fail to deliver on the promise of Step #2.

Step #5: Exit the business with my now substantial fortune, leaving the Wyle E. Coyote holding the bag.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I'm flattening myself into pancake to fit through the crack of a door, and then walking off a cliff without looking down to fly. I may also want a drink, so I'll just reach off camera and grab one.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

If it counts, I'd love to have a portable black circle disk thing like in Toontown so I could return home in an instant.

If that doesn't count, I wouldn't mind having falls only cause me to accordion and not take much, if any, damage if I land on my feet paws.

Edit: Instant, not instance.

Also, realized being able to grab things from thought bubbles visible only to me would be nice. Need to defend myself? I now have a, hopefully, fully loaded glock whenever I need one.

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Run down the beach to see how far I can get across the lake before I start sinking.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago (10 children)

Boing! Boing! Jumping off a roof so I can bounce bounce bounce, I can't jump for shit IRL and I want to.

Also maybe some NSFW stuff I am not about to detail.

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[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

And have it drift where hurricanes hit hardest.

Alternatively, with some help:

So it can float away from Canada and Mexico.

[–] AccoSpoot@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Get into a chase with ICE.

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

I'll stand by ready to paint a tunnel onto the side of the brick wall

[–] LordMayor@piefed.social 6 points 4 weeks ago

Use a seesaw-style lever and fulcrum to give free rides into space. I want a turn, too.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

I'm gonna get a stupidly-hot wife despite being a fat layabout piece of shit with a clear neurological condition.

I guess that's not really physics related, so I'll also add "gracefully float towards delicious food on a wafting scent trail". I could toss a burger down a canyon and use the scent trail to lower myself down safely. Like a Portal gun, but for fat layabout pieces of shit with clear neurological conditions 👍

[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

Picture this. The flintstones car, to help the environment.

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