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Pththya-lyi posted:(it was her buying the Charger that forced the family into a trailer) Just a reminder that they'd been living beyond their means for years at that point and Waifu had no idea because Zed had been deliberately hiding that information from her and insisting that everything was going fine. When the Charger broke the camel's back, he admitted they'd been on the verge of bankruptcy for years and he hadn't told her, and she apologized for HIS financial mismanagement exacerbated by his macho pride and stubborn refusal to admit fault. He then forgave her and she counted herself lucky to have such an understanding and tolerant husband. This is not me putting a spin on events for a joke, these are the actual events as they transpired in Muir's own comic, as written by him.
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Jerusalem posted:Just a reminder that they'd been living beyond their means for years at that point and Waifu had no idea because Zed had been deliberately hiding that information from her and insisting that everything was going fine. When the Charger broke the camel's back, he admitted they'd been on the verge of bankruptcy for years and he hadn't told her, and she apologized for HIS financial mismanagement exacerbated by his macho pride and stubborn refusal to admit fault. He then forgave her and she counted herself lucky to have such an understanding and tolerant husband. I'm sure glad that these characters were written so lifelike and when Sam divorced her loser husband to force him to change his ways and come to grips with the fact he can't manage money- oh Muiry Sue. Nevermind, continue on.
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Jerusalem posted:Just a reminder that they'd been living beyond their means for years at that point and Waifu had no idea because Zed had been deliberately hiding that information from her and insisting that everything was going fine. When the Charger broke the camel's back, he admitted they'd been on the verge of bankruptcy for years and he hadn't told her, and she apologized for HIS financial mismanagement exacerbated by his macho pride and stubborn refusal to admit fault. He then forgave her and she counted herself lucky to have such an understanding and tolerant husband.
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They don't teach history in school any more + they teach kids to hate America.
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Somehow, of all the artists posted here, Tinsley is the one who gets under my skin the most. I don't know how he manages to be simultaneously so bland and so lovely.
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The real problem with it isn't even Tinsley's dopey opinion so much that if the joke were in the hands of anybody else, they would have come up with funnier examples for the befuddled Jason to put in his Liberal Thesis. Calvin and Hobbes, which actively avoided being political, very specifically made this joke when Calvin used a bunch of academic buzz words to write a report on Dick and Jane and it was still much more biting political commentary and infinitely funnier.
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Tinsley is very mad at a world that doesn't exist, and if I didn't know better I'd say his comic strip was deliberately crafted as an argument against affirmative action by being incredibly bad.
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xthetenth posted:Tinsley is very mad at a world that doesn't exist, and if I didn't know better I'd say his comic strip was deliberately crafted as an argument against affirmative action by being incredibly bad. That's so stupid it's probably correct.
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Don't be so hard on him. I know when I had to take my fourth Hating America general education requirement and miss out an elective in Responsible Rithmatic, I, like Jason, gave up on even typing my papers, and merely handed them in on a handwritten sheet of lined composition paper with holes down the sides, as if I had never interacted with any level of education since the late 1980s.
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Samurai Sanders posted:They don't teach history in school any more + they teach kids to hate America. Hell he probably believes that "God's Not Dead" was a documentary on how evil college professors are trying to corrupt our youth by forcing them to be atheists because they got sad that their mom died of cancer and so foresake God and only through dying of internal bleeding in a rainstorm can you receive salvation as your estranged girlfriend, the student who totally owned you in class, a Chinese transfer student who never heard about god before, a Muslim girl who got beaten and disowned by her father because she was listening to passages from the bible in secret, and rear end in a top hat Dean Cain's wife go to this Jesus concert where one of the Duck Dynasty jagoffs tell everyone to tweet/text "God's not Dead" to everyone like a complete jackass. Sorry for the rant there but God's Not Dead is the most banal and hateful movie I have ever seen or heard about. A Serbian Film is more classy than God's Not Dead. E: On a related note I wonder if elementary history texts still have lies like "People didn't believe the Earth was round till Columbus came around to find America" or Paul Revere's ride just being him yelling "The British Are Coming!!!" or that Christians were fed to lions in the Colosseum achillesforever6 fucked around with this message at 06:44 on Jan 25, 2015 |
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I guess I shouldn't be surprised that he sees history (or maybe all education) as just a bunch of events to be memorized, that's a common mindset for old people. Hell, he could move to China where it appears history is still taught that way, and in a whitewashed patriotic way like he would like too!
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JT Jag posted:Tinsley is married to a teacher God, his poor wife.
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JT Jag posted:Tinsley is married to a teacher I thought she was a union lawyer
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Jerusalem posted:Just a reminder that they'd been living beyond their means for years at that point and Waifu had no idea because Zed had been deliberately hiding that information from her and insisting that everything was going fine. When the Charger broke the camel's back, he admitted they'd been on the verge of bankruptcy for years and he hadn't told her, and she apologized for HIS financial mismanagement exacerbated by his macho pride and stubborn refusal to admit fault. He then forgave her and she counted herself lucky to have such an understanding and tolerant husband. Yeah, but by the strip's logic it was her impulsiveness that put the family in the poor house, so my point still stands: Sam is like a precocious, fuckable child. VVV REALLY badly phrased, I realize that now. I mean that she acts like a kid or a teenager even though she's in her mid-to-late forties. And she's set up as the sexiest of ladies. It's not actually pedophilia, but it's close enough to it to freak me out. I'll show myself out.VVV Pththya-lyi fucked around with this message at 10:10 on Jan 25, 2015 |
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Pththya-lyi posted:Sam is like a precocious, fuckable child. 
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Bicyclops posted:The real problem with it isn't even Tinsley's dopey opinion so much that if the joke were in the hands of anybody else, they would have come up with funnier examples for the befuddled Jason to put in his Liberal Thesis. Calvin and Hobbes, which actively avoided being political, very specifically made this joke when Calvin used a bunch of academic buzz words to write a report on Dick and Jane and it was still much more biting political commentary and infinitely funnier.  Calvin and Hobbes often went for the same targets as Tinsley does, but with wit, charm and intelligence. Tinsley, by contrast, has had so little exposure to actual education that he can't even fake it. Pththya-lyi posted:Sam is like a precocious, fuckable child. Kegluneq fucked around with this message at 10:38 on Jan 25, 2015 |
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Hitler B. Natural posted:Highly likely. A lot of Australians think the system is more complicated than it is, and politicians have no reason to disabuse them of that notion. Here's a series Patrick Alexander (of ChickenNation and, more pertinently, Smartephant and the rear end, and a registered Green) made at the last election in a futile attempt to explain how it works. The IRV method looks nice on paper, but it actually does really weird mathematical things. A shift of opinion towards a candidate can actually cause them to lose an election! Of course, no one actually talks about it because they'd have to change the voting system and no one wants to talk mathematics.
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Gyre posted:The IRV method looks nice on paper, but it actually does really weird mathematical things. A shift of opinion towards a candidate can actually cause them to lose an election! Of course, no one actually talks about it because they'd have to change the voting system and no one wants to talk mathematics. There's literally no voting system that doesn't have some fundamental problem.
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Kegluneq posted:For the record: Are you saying that Watson was a bad man? I thought it was just making fun of assignments, which I did hated writing myself. Rincewinds fucked around with this message at 11:14 on Jan 25, 2015 |
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All I'm seeing here is a giant pile of disembodied vulvas.
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Rincewinds posted:Are you saying that Watson was a bad man? I thought it was just making fun of assignments, which I did hated writing myself. I'm in a PhD program in Writing Studies and I still think half the time people are blowing smoke up their own asses by over-writing. Some people try to use impenetrable language to intimidate others out of critiquing their weak points. I've got friends in the sciences who feel the same way about their own fields. It's a pretty reasonable critique of academia.
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Rincewinds posted:Are you saying that Watson was a bad man? I thought it was just making fun of assignments, which I did hated writing myself. He's mocking academic intelligentsia there, which Tinsley also does but from a really stupid political perspective (same goes for pokes at popular culture). Watson actually makes valid points through a sympathetic viewpoint though, whereas Tinsley is always no better than 'those liberals/some gizmo'. Xander77 posted:Please do? I've been agitating for one for a while.
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Kegluneq posted:He's mocking academic intelligentsia there, which Tinsley also does but from a really stupid political perspective (same goes for pokes at popular culture). Watson actually makes valid points through a sympathetic viewpoint though, whereas Tinsley is always no better than 'those liberals/some gizmo'. Also, Watson goes full-bore ten-dollar-word bullshitter on the topic of overwriting and you can feel the research that he actually did on the subject- Calvin looks so happy with himself in the last panel!- whereas Tinsley just slaps traditional American history touchstones together and puts all of his words into a pair of bored-looking characterless assholes.
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Bill Watson, longtime colleague of Mr Hebdo.
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Jerusalem posted:Just a reminder that they'd been living beyond their means for years at that point and Waifu had no idea because Zed had been deliberately hiding that information from her and insisting that everything was going fine. When the Charger broke the camel's back, he admitted they'd been on the verge of bankruptcy for years and he hadn't told her, and she apologized for HIS financial mismanagement exacerbated by his macho pride and stubborn refusal to admit fault. He then forgave her and she counted herself lucky to have such an understanding and tolerant husband. Wow, poo poo, I must've missed those ones. I only remember: Their house was stolen by the feds when they got accused of being responsible for the Boston bombing, and Zed slipping out of a truckload of police chains while delivering sick burns to a police force that realized they just couldn't compete with Zed's freedom powers. Then they end up in the trailer, because despite not being formally charged or convicted of anything, the government still had their house and wasn't giving it back. (In a competent bizarro version of DbD, this could have been something decent about civil forfeiture.) Then they were in the trailer for awhile, until that rascally Obama sent his thugs to harass the freedom lovers just trying to live in peace, at which point Don Portago declared the property to be an embassy or some poo poo, granting Zed and Waifu diplomatic immunity and letting them steal an armored vehicle, because that's the way things work. And then Sam Elliott sent Zed a letter and here we are.
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voltroon posted:All I'm seeing here is a giant pile of disembodied vulvas. You know those are seed pods, right? Explanatory Oglaf link - NSFW depending on your employer's feelings on seed pods/vaginas. Rest of the comics can get very NSFW.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:There's literally no voting system that doesn't have some fundamental problem. Interesting! I'm not that good at following proofs, but I think I get the general idea. The question is more then, "what is the optimal voting system (that most humans can follow) given that it cannot satisfy all three constraints"? If you look at IRV I think the plotting shows that it most definitely isn't the optimal system due to its weird math, and plurality sucks too because it crushes out smaller parties.
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Broken Loose posted:Are we mispelling Watterson for a reason?
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the_steve posted:Wow, poo poo, I must've missed those ones. No, no. This was the first time they lost their house and moved into a trailer. Before they got bailed out by an extremely convenient plot device again. I mean the first time. It all blends together.
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Gyre posted:Interesting! I'm not that good at following proofs, but I think I get the general idea. The question is more then, "what is the optimal voting system (that most humans can follow) given that it cannot satisfy all three constraints"? If you look at IRV I think the plotting shows that it most definitely isn't the optimal system due to its weird math, and plurality sucks too because it crushes out smaller parties. I'd go for Condorcet, with Smith/IRV to resolve circular ambiguity.
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Xander77 posted:Yeah, that... that was a joke I made.
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