What is a hobby that a particular superhero might suck at?
[The Story So Far: Every Wednesday at 12 noon South African time [6am EDT] an inspired and growing number of crazy people from all around the world take part in what is called a Hashtag game. @AFrikkinHashtag [say it out loud] is South Africa’s #1 Hashtag game and is always a lot of fun. The F.L.O.P. [or Fish List Of Prizeworthyness] is the collection of some of the best tweets from each week’s game and is what all seriously comedic Hashtaggers aspire to…]
After the serious tone of the week before’s game we decided we needed something just silly and fun for this week and boy did we get it…
With Regina Spacola aka @gigirules7 climbing on board with her crew we decided to take on Superheroes, in their spare time, you know when they’re not saving the world and all that. i imagine they must get bored and they must find things to do to keep busy.
But it is also likely that certain hobbies or pastimes would not work for certain superheroes [and we included supervillians in our thinking] and some particularly disastrously so… and so we invited you to share your ideas of #HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt…
So this was our brilliant co-host:
And we decided to set up the game with an intro tweet or two slash six:
Don’t know about this guy but i don’t see Hulk as an Anger Management Coach
Catwoman as a professional Dog Walker?
The Wolverine as a gentle Massage Therapist?
The Fantastic Four Thing as a Matchstick ship builder?
Or Cyclops as a Hypnotist [Look into my eyes…]:
Regina @gigrules7 was all over this game with possibly the most tweets by a co-host yet, and i couldn’t include them all, but here are some that grabbed me:
#HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt Aquaman was choreographing dancing sharks until the Super Bowl incident. pic.twitter.com/smu4IFc5eO
— Regina Spacola (@gigirules7) July 13, 2016
#HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt Wolverine was kicked off his volleyball team for popping the ball every time he served. pic.twitter.com/kQQsamtpsW
— Regina Spacola (@gigirules7) July 13, 2016
#HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt Flash lost all of his ballroom dancing partners, because he gave them whiplash from spinning too fast.
— Regina Spacola (@gigirules7) July 13, 2016
#HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt Thor tried cycling, but crashed when his cape got caught in the chain. pic.twitter.com/WBBg0vXZtJ
— Regina Spacola (@gigirules7) July 13, 2016
This was a game that jumped into life so quickly and never looked back and out of all the thousands of tweets that came through these are just some of the ones that spoke to us in that special way… and so make it on to this week’s:
FISH LIST OF PRIZEWORTHYNESS
Our Grendel got the ball rolling:
#HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt posing for selfies pic.twitter.com/QElnlLtiyM
— Gretel Armstrong (@SugarGretel) July 13, 2016
Andrew took it a step further:
The Invisible Man at selfies
— Andrew (@JLeytonNGTP) July 13, 2016
Johnsense, wow my eyes, make it stop:
Twerking pic.twitter.com/f3TH9UUdUN
— Johnsense (@Johnsense38) July 13, 2016
K Dawg said what we were all thinking:
#HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt Fashion. Your underpants should be under, not over. pic.twitter.com/dERD20mtvT
— Kesha Tedder (@KeshaTedder) July 13, 2016
Our favourite Bunni got literal:
Surfing the net #HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt pic.twitter.com/rc5NWgZFyt
— Bunniboila (@bunniboila) July 13, 2016
Mitchell proved that great mimes think alike:
The Incredible Hulk: building those little models of boats in glass bottles.#HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt
— Mitchell Bader (@MitchellBader) July 13, 2016
Coco saw some issues:
Wolverine – working in a magnet packing factory #HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt
— CoCo (@ithloopwithcoco) July 13, 2016
Sami took it in another direction:
Poison Ivy’s Organic Fruits And Vegetables Garden
— Sami Paige (@SamiPaige) July 13, 2016
Johnny was all about the claws:
Try as he might, The Black Panther can’t make a balloon animal to save his life. ? #HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt pic.twitter.com/Dvxa8bY4bv
— Johnny Dangerously (@Enjoneer01) July 13, 2016
pH1 blew our minds #WhyDidWeNeverSeeThatBefore:
#HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt
erm… Cosplay? pic.twitter.com/LBc4KgD8Rg— pH1 (@pH1Online) July 13, 2016
Rex stated the obvious:
The Hulk is not very graceful on ice skates. #HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt
— RaspberryRex (@RaspberryRex) July 13, 2016
Johnny proved he is a bright spark:
The Human Torch can’t seem to get a handle on origami. Always turns out the same. ??? #HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt pic.twitter.com/iPIILFcXPq
— Johnny Dangerously (@Enjoneer01) July 13, 2016
Superman ironically tweeted this #DisclaimerPossiblyNottheRealSuperman:
Pranking people… pic.twitter.com/xaR3OTjQmm
— Superman (@SupermanTweets) July 13, 2016
Brian thinks Hulk should stay above water:
#HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt Hulk not find scuba mask that fit. Hulk sad….
— Brian Barker (@b_oaktree) July 13, 2016
Andrew saw one downside of being Spiderman:
Spiderman at keeping pets…….he always gets bitten
— Andrew (@JLeytonNGTP) July 13, 2016
Doc another one:
Spider-Man web designer#HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt
— Doc theoretically (@DocDarnell) July 13, 2016
Steven found Magneto’s weakness:
#HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt
Magneto can’t throw darts— Steven (@steve_d24) July 13, 2016
Sean spotted a Human Torch issue:
Ice sculpting #HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt @AFrikkinHashtag @gigirules7 pic.twitter.com/7gFclMftci
— Sean Johnson (@SeanDoubleJ) July 13, 2016
Jason found an issue for the Wonder Woman:
Diana Prince tried ballet but anytime she did a pirouette she turned into Wonder Woman. #HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt pic.twitter.com/XsSqro85W3
— Bipolar Standup (@jasonhazelwood) July 13, 2016
Bunni was back with this deadlock:
Professor X & Jean Gray playing Guess Who?#HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt
JG: Is it Robert?
X: Yes
JG: Your turn
X: Is it Susan?
JG: Yes.— Bunniboila (@bunniboila) July 13, 2016
George cautioned The Hulk against taking up pottery:
Pottery for ‘The Hulk’ always brought the inevitable result #HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt pic.twitter.com/S24hPfCCIt
— George Henderson (@seomac) July 13, 2016
Heart found this complication:
#HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt copyright law pic.twitter.com/eW3qMzQBVw
— Your Haploid Heart (@IngSocBob) July 13, 2016
Grendel spotted this:
#HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt Batman at karaoke pic.twitter.com/D2Zriw3cKC
— Gretel Armstrong (@SugarGretel) July 13, 2016
While Coco had this awkward revelation:
Being prom queen #HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt pic.twitter.com/LiGISsA5R3
— CoCo (@ithloopwithcoco) July 13, 2016
Quinn and Grendel preferred Groot as the strong and silent type:
#HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt
Giving advice
“I am groot” (I am sorry)
“I am groot” (maybe you should talk about it.
“I am groot” (feel better)— ѺÜїΩΩ (@quinn_smiles) July 13, 2016
#HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt Groot inspirational speaker pic.twitter.com/KWNnOIThL2
— Gretel Armstrong (@SugarGretel) July 13, 2016
While United discovered a pet peeve:
#HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt
Batman hates cricket. It irks him when they call it “the Batsman” instead of “Batman”— UnitedBeforeJose (@Ruin111x6) July 13, 2016
Peter brought evidence:
#HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt Thor at texting pic.twitter.com/hgEpd7ZCy8
— Peter Lim (@ThePeterLim) July 13, 2016
And Beeka was not sure about Thor’s mallet skills:
#HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt
Croquet pic.twitter.com/5sBzetxN8C— Beeka (@_jungleballs) July 13, 2016
So well done to everyone who played and thank you for some great LOLs… there were however, four tweets that stood head and shoulders above the others and even remembered to wear their underpants UNDER their PANTS… and they are this week’s:
F.L.O.P. FOUR:
[4] Andrew wins misdirection pointage:
Rearing Chickens pic.twitter.com/AnaLKThDWC
— Andrew (@JLeytonNGTP) July 13, 2016
[3] superDork was right on the money:
Rogue-CPR trainer #HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt
— superDork (@DustynGiebel) July 13, 2016
[3] While Heart revealed this chilling evidence:
#HobbiesSuperHeroesSuckAt shaving… pic.twitter.com/PFpYBLueAg
— Your Haploid Heart (@IngSocBob) July 13, 2016
[1] But for me this week it was Dreamweasel who spotted this quandary and is our TOP F.L.O.P.:
Spider-Man can’t go metal shows, because making the “devil horns” accidentally spews webbing all over the place
— Dreamweasel (@Dreamweasel) July 13, 2016
Thank you to everyone for playing and for Regina Spacola for being an amazing Co-Host alongside us. Huge shout out to the Unnamed Crew who do so much behind-the-scenes work to keep the game at the top of it’s…um… game…
Thanks for keeping it for the most part the FAMILY game we try to make it so that everyone can have fun – remember always the big four we are looking for are FUNNY and CLEVER and MISDIRECTIONAL and RANDOM [but related] and so keep them coming.
Tomorrow’s game is Pokemon GO themed in keeping with the craziness that has people both outside and on their phones and if you don’t know much about that [like most of our @AFrikkinHashtag crew] then i suggest you Wikipedia list it cos it is going to be a fun, fun, silly game.
Til then, keep the WIT in the Twitterer and don’t be stealing anybody’s tweets. Or um, speeches, yo. Especially when she is the first lady.
love brett “fish” and No_bob and the crew…
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