batbrobeyond:

jetgreguar:

disneytrivia:

In the scene in The Incredibles where Helen (Elastagirl) is flying the plane, her use of radio protocol is exceptionally accurate for a movie. The terminology used hints that she has had military flight training. In the director’s commentary Brad Bird says that actress Holly Hunter insisted on learning both the lingo and its meaning.

• “VFR on top” means she is flying in the regime of Visual Flight Rules ‘on top’ of a cloud cover.
• She requests “vectors to the initial”, or directions on how to get to the initial landing approach.
• “Angels 10” is her altitude call, ten thousand feet. This is a military term. Civilian flights use the term “flight level”.
• “Track east” is her direction of travel.
• “Buddy spike(d)” is a US military brevity code meaning “friendly anti-aircraft radar has locked on to me, (please don’t shoot)”.
• “Transmitting in the Blind Guard” is a call on the emergency frequency where 2-way communication has not been established.
• “Abort” is also a military brevity code, a directive meaning “stop the action/mission/attack”.

god i love when actors/ voice actors are intent on using correct lingo for things like this

its so easy to BS this sort of thing and sometimes it might work but it’s vastly more impressive when they actually use correct terminology 

She also uses the handle “India Golf Niner-Niner” or, in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet, IG99.

The Iron Giant (1999), also directed by Brad Bird.

the-yolocaust:

the-yolocaust:

has anyone ever finished a game of monopoly

i now know why

vvebkinz:

when i was 9 i went to a baseball game and i thought it would be really cool if i caught a baseball there but i didnt so when i got home i took one of our baseballs and wrote game ball on it so i could tell everyone i caught it and then i modeled with it

wearelosechesters:

askfemgermania:

wearelosechesters:

wearelosechesters:

kennedyclintonkat:

wearelosechesters:

wearelosechesters:

maybe post limit is a good thing

omg a wine blog started following me because of this post i don’t know what they’re expecting

follow for more wine-related humor

FIONA I’VE BEEN LAUGHING AT THE WINE BLOG FOR 5000 YEARS

you fuckers didn’t

i s2g if this gets 9k notes i’ll

please stop reblogging this it’s a pagne in the ass

diD YOU JUST

sorry that pun wasn’t that grape

everyholmesneedshiswatson:

john look over there

thats were your heterosexuality lies

dont touch it

it might come back

we dont want that

lordofthejohnlock:

#021 - Oh, John already knows all about the booty, Sherlock.

hobbits-in-the-shire:

crowleys-trainee:

animeasuka:

tall:

pocketpinya:

boomette:

look at that guy on the left he is so photogenic i bet there is a stock photo of him laughing with a salad

fixed that for you

oh my god i found the post that started it all

dOES NO ONE MENTION THE FACT THAT THIS POST STARTED A MEME

the internet forgets nothing

it seems they were centuries ago that this happened

neophyteredglare:

edgay:

im quitting tumblr

ok see u tomorrow

kennedyclintonkat:

brella:

tragic backstories explain bad deeds but they do not excuse them

• tragic backstories explain bad deeds but they do not excuse them

eggsammich:

itsanearhatloki:

weepcest:

there should be a word for platonic crushes

like when you want to be someone’s friend so hard

why isn’t that a thing

there is

THIS IS BRAND NEW INFORMATION TO ME

imathreepatchproblem:

valeria2067:

unsurelocked:

WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE IT

me: *focusing on ben’s beauty* *reads “wait until you see it”*

me: see what?

me: *tardis*

me. SHIT

softtitty:

70% of me is bad jokes and the other 30% is the hole where my soul should be