#milton waddams

[djkerr]

What's everybody standing around for?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

My birthday's in November.

LOVE the attention to detail from the NCIS writers, paying homage to the red Swingline stapler in Office Space.

[mannytoodope]

Lumbergh: Milton, what's happening?

Milton: Yes

Lumbergh: What's happening?

Milton: I wouldn't...

Lumberg: I wanted to see you.  Do you know what'd be great?

Milton: What, no?

Lumbergh: Since you're down here, it would be great if you could take care of the cockroach problem we've been having here.

Milton: No, that's really not my job, and I haven't received my paycheck...

Lumbergh: So, for now, why don't you get ahead and get yourself a flashlight and a can of pesticide and crawl back...

Milton: Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me... that's the last straw.

[latakia-hill]

[michaelworthy25]

Hurricane Milton🌀

[artisticnerdery]

The Red Stapler

[mitchipedia]

Acting McHenry didn’t just boot Pelosi from her office—they’re re-keying the room.

McHenry’s got a Milton Waddams vibe.

[brightlotusmoon]

Me, rewatching Amphibia on cable:

Wait, Mayor Toadstool was Bill Dautrieve?! Wait, Bill Dautrieve was Milton Waddams! Why did I only just now connect those dots? Is it because I'm very high and pain free and able to philosophize easier?

Now I can't remember if Toadstool or Bill ever needed a stapler.

[fnovelso]

I Know It's Not A Red Swingline, But Milton Waddams Might Have Something To Say About Your Behavior

[thammit]

Milton Waddams

Office Space.

[midnightactual]

something that goes underappreciated in shōnen contexts is that power isn't everything

to guide your thinking on this: why don't soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, guardians, etc., look like Dwayne Johnson? well, because that's not their job. warfighters, and emergency response personnel more generally, build for endurance, not peak strength, because they need to be able to handle prolonged tactical and strategic situations, as part of a larger response apparatus. there is little to no point in training physically to be The Strongest™ if you can't sustain it

(and in real life a gun would kill Dwayne Johnson just as dead as it would Milton Waddams, so a strong physique isn't unto itself a strong survival adaptation for combat)

so, when you tune your thinking on things like this, shōnen manga situations are the ultimate in freakishness, because the setup is you inevitably have one bad guy who is super strong or has broken abilities, and so you have to raise your own local pet science project freak to beat them. it's not a generalist situation, it's a very niche one. but neither of those two freaks are actually optimal for combat or really built for most general-purpose scenarios—they're just black swan events. a Thing That Should Not Be is running amok, and so you create another Thing That Should Not Be to stop them. that's what Ichigo is, for example

Ichigo has a lot of experience by the end, but his experience is janky, his training is garbage, and his mentality is garbage: he's just raw power, and that's it. it's like giving Dwayne Johnson a minigun. yeah, maybe he can wield it whereas a normal person can't, and maybe even move and fire with it, but that doesn't actually make him more impressive than a given Navy SEAL. it just looks flashy

so, if you are the equivalent of a Navy SEAL, of course you're going to resent this Captain America wannabe coming in and doing brash, stupid things, and getting away with it because of a bunch of science hacks that made him overpowered

(to give another example: this also explains the early Halo canon of ODSTs hating SPARTANs. the SPARTANs did have grueling training, not just science hacks, but it's reasonable for the ODSTs not to know that. where it would become obvious is in actual combat) so, Yoruichi disliking Kisuke's science projects, and all the various enhancement ideas of Bleach scientists generally (such as Hollowfication) is I think quite rational and reasonable. they're cheating the system, and producing meatheads who only know how to brute force situations. there is no technique and nuance, but more importantly there is no grit (compare Rocky IV, Rocky Balboa vs. Ivan Drago)

we see this with Aizen, who at the end of the fight in Karakura is attributing everything to the Hōgyoku rather than himself and throws a temper-tantrum at being outsmarted; and with Ichigo, who never internalizes an ability to persist in the face of despair without motivation from Rukia. neither has any grit, because neither is actually a fighter, and neither is actually really in tune with themselves physically, mentally, psychologically, or spiritually. they're just lab experiments

[eye-of-terror]

Why is fucking Milton Waddams trying to sell me a book on wokeness

[lesbiansexyman]

i want to have an office job

i will spell color as CMYK and use printer. i would watch The Office on NBC all night while drinking a styrofoam cup of water with my coworkers. i'll have shitty birthday cupcake every day that's worth nothing. i would go to office birthday parties every night. i am also more likely to meet Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Milton Waddams.

i wish i was employed :(

[mannytoodope]

[fangirlstarot]

TEN OF WANDS "I keep dragging around what's bringing me down" - Linkin Park

The Ten of Wands shows that you are taking on too many burdens and you are feeling the full weight of that responsibility on your shoulders. These tasks feel like they may be too much for you, making you feel exhausted, worn out and like you have to take care of everything and everyone. There's just too much that you are juggling and the demands from others keep on coming, leaving you overextended and struggling. You may have to learn how to say 'no' right about now and realize what share of the work is really yours and what is not so that you're no longer fighting uphill.

::Who's Who On This Card::

1. Buffy Summers from Buffy - Between being a slayer, student, daughter, sister, friend and assorted boyfriend troubles, Buffy often felt like she had the weight of the world on her shoulders. When her mother died and she had to take on all those extra responsibilities, it was almost too much for her. She once asked Giles in the show, "And the little slice of life that still belongs to me from -- I don't know -- seven to seven o'five in the morning, can I do what I want then?" You'll often find yourself asking the same thing during a Ten of Wands kind of moment.

2. Cinderella - I think the song that the mice sings in this Disney movie sum up the feeling of the Ten of Wands perfectly: "Cinderelly, Cinderelly, Night and day, it's Cinderelly. Make the fire, fix the breakfast, wash the dishes, do the mopping and the sweeping and the dusting. They always keep her hopping. She goes around in circles, 'til she's very, very dizzy. Still they holler, keep a-busy Cinderelly!"

3. Atlas from Greek Mythology -  Atlas was given the task of holding up the heavens as punishment from Zeus for leading the Titans in their battle with the Olympian Gods for control of the heavens. It can often feel like you too have the weight of the entire world sitting on your shoulders when the Ten of Wands comes into play. There was a part in this myth though where Atlas tricks Hercules into volunteering to hold the earth for a while, which points to the importance of delegating when things become too much for you. Delegating is also often suggested by this card.

4. Andrea Sachs from The Devil Wears Prada - This movie shows Andrea being pushed around by her workaholic (and somewhat sadistic) new boss Miranda Priestly. Andrea is pushed to work all the time, shoulder huge amount of blame, assume more responsibilities than she can reasonably carry out and seems to fight uphill against huge amounts of resistance the whole time. By the end of the movie, she has put the lesson this card suggests into action when she decides against struggling this much and drops those burdens to walk away.

5. Milton Waddams from Office Space - Milton is just another office grunt, struggling against office politics while work piles up as he is shown becoming more and more neurotic as more demands are made on him by those around him in the office. Life is never easy when the Ten of Wands pops up for you and you, too, may just want to set the whole building on fire if someone takes your red stapler one more time.

6. Chihiro Ogino from Spirited Away - This Studio Ghibli movie was about a young child losing their parents and then being forced into slavery where she had what seemed like a million and one tasks to do for those around her. There were plenty of demands hoist onto her without her say so as those who controlled her continued to ask too much of her and pushed her to her limit. When the Ten of Wands comes up in a spread, you may feel like you are being controlled by outside forces and carrying out too many unpleasant duties, but in the end of the movie Chihiro escapes and if you continue to push through, so will you!

[caramelsnowmusic]

Trump: Inauguration Day 2021.

[shirtoid]

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