You're in a desert, walking along when you look down and see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you. You reach down and flip it over on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over. But it can't.

[SwimModSponges]

Not with out your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?

[Vamped]

 .... well I guess I have no choice but to eat it after its done baking 

[SwimModSponges]

 

[Top Gun]

 

[Doom Metal Alchemist]

Tonight, I dine on turtle soup!

[Gina Szanboti]

I'm afraid if I help it, it will take me to a desert kingdom where I live in luxury until I'm tired of it and ask to go home.  When I get back everyone I knew is dead because time passed differently.

Wait a minute.  ::helps tortoise::

[Distinct Lunatic]

I know to never trust a random tortoise walking in the desert,

[Dark_Cloud_Overhead]

This came up in an episode of Agents of Shield tonight. As soon the character started saying it I remembered seeing this thread earlier in the day and was like 😄

I had totally forgotten it was from Blade Runner, but now that I remembered I totally get the joke see why they used it.

Edited June 11, 2020 by Dark_Cloud_Overhead

[Lasty]

because it's a dream or a hypothetical scenario designed to undermine my confidence in my moral fiber or I'm really hungry