I dunno, how much of a body would survive re-entry?
OOOOoooooh. That’s taking prickishness to a new level.
Its Piss Off Man!!!
More abrasive than a speeding sander! More uncomfortable than a crowded locomotive! Able to lose 10 Face Book friends with a single ‘hi’! Piss Off Man! Who, adopting the secret identity of a mild-mannered wage slave, fights a never ending battle for Truth, Justice, and The Right to Stay.
“…was it something I said? Awww, c’mon…”
cue clips from the episode
"Fear not, I am Piss-off Man! Stand back; my conversation ray will draw out all of that villain’s angry retorts… " zing!!
“I know…! I’ll drive them into a blinding rage. They’ll be easier to convince then, because they wont be thinking…!” whrrrrrrrrrr!
“Hmmm. Hate is close to Like passion-wise. So if this woman is top-of-her-lungs screaming at me at 3in from my nose, she must really like me…!”
“Stand behind me! Absorbing this level of Hateful Invective could be damaging to most normal people!”
“Oh…it was nothing, really. Why I’ve seen angrier and more entitled people jockying Mercedez through traffic at the Tappan Zee…”
“There all that hate is out of her. See the glowing Carebear emblem on her shirt? Look, she sees it too. Wait, looks like she’s winding up for a 2nd wind…”
struggling “Must…not…make…friends…” triggers reserve pack cycling for alienation plasma discharge
wraps cloak of anti-sociability around 100% fashion-proof jacket & leaves quietly
I would love the ability to instantly transport objects from one place to another. I could go into any bank and transport their money into my purse. I could make anybody lose anything.
I think that would be cool.
I’d like the ability to correctly pick lottery numbers. I’d use the power once, make a major score, then retire to a tropical island and watch the world go to hell without me being involved.
No, I wouldn’t give you any numbers.
I think I know what I’d ask the genie for, and what I’d do with my super power…
Time Travel. The perfect super-power for a chronic procrastinator like me. Deadline coming? No big deal, I’ll get it done yesterday.
Of course, I wouldn’t have a job because I’d check out the winning numbers on the next $200M+ Powerball jackpot, and once I got my hands on that, I’d just fly around the world attending any concert, sporting event, etc, that struck my fancy. Heck, I think I’ll go to Woodstock just to see what all the fuss was about. The possibilities are endless.
But one thing is for sure, I’d never bother contributing anything worthwhile to society. Not my style.
I’d have the psychic power to cause people to have incredibly awful judgement. Like convincing the 72 year old 4’10" 250 pound woman that a tube top is just perfect for her. That way, I’m being a huge prick to EVERYONE.
A lot of the powers here seem to be about justice and schadenfreude. Making deserving assholes suffer and such. But if you want to be a huge prick you have to do it to folks who don’t deserve such things. For example: I’d like to make it so that when someone threw a cigarette butt out of the car window, it would teleport onto their back seat. But this isn’t really being a prick since you’re doing it to someone who deserves it. If you want to be a prick, make the cigarette teleport onto the back seat of a non-smoker.
Just remembered a good one: whenever I encountered a person WITH NO INDOOR VOICE, I’d change their hearing so that it physically hurt them when they spoke loudly. I have loud friends, you see.
I think I’d take the side of the animals. All that remains to be decided is which continent I want to give back to them.
Wow, I’d love you if you could do that for me! Doesn’t seem like a Huge Prick power at all! Almost everyone I know with no indoor voice (myself included) is that way because of poor hearing. Ah, to be able to hear…
My Huge Prick power? Mind reading & Mind control. Many a woman would be suddenly decide that they want to get tested for diseases, and then have an affair…
X-ray telescopic vision, check.
Girl’s dormatory, check.
Prick.
The OP said “be” a huge prick, not “have.”
I’d want mind control. Then I’d make the politicians I particularly loathe call press conferences just before early voting began, and admit, in front of the cameras, the most awful thing(s) they’d ever done, and their most perverted sexual fantasies.
Oh, you’ve given me a great idea about how to be a jerk with this. So, I get this power, and I win the lottery, and I let it be known that I have the power and that it works. And then, I give winning numbers only to people who are already rich. Oh, I’ll give numbers to non-rich, but they’ll always be wrong.
Being able to fly, with a little invisible safety bubble around me to fend off rain/wind/thrown objects/bullets. I’d fly over a major expressway at rush hour (in Chicago) and laugh at the people stuck in traffic.
Or give them numbers that only win the $10 prize. “Hey, it’s a winning number. STFU.”
I think Patrick Stewart said it best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg_cwI1Xj4M
This is what I was going to say, minus the sex fantasies. Just forcing politicians to tell the unvarnished truth about political matters. And political commentators. And CEOs.
With my new superpowers I ensure that all cellphones used in an obnoxious fashion in public places or at any time behind the wheel disintegrate into piles of smoking ash.
All drivers throwing cigarette butts out their car windows are compelled to eat them (the butts, that is).
The biggie, though, is that I gain the capability to instantaneously add my own comments and video to television commercials for products and political candidates.* Want to sell bogus glop using deception? Fine, SuperJackmannii, the Pissant of Steel will have final say on the matter.
*There was a National Lampoon story a long time ago about a person who was able to do this. The government hunted him down.
I’d like the ability to do this too, but only if I also had the power to force the general public to consider these confessions with a rational viewpoint: “OK, so that politician once punched a guy in the face in a fit of anger. How does that affect his ability to lead this country?”