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Rand Brittain posted:I think it's because precise adherence to Victorian-era Christian sexual morality, in a person who is obviously highly oversexed in a nonstandard way and doesn't appear to have any actual religious faith whatsoever, starts to feel less like a code of conduct and more like a fetish. I just don't get it.
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Manuel Calavera posted:Compu-Toon  Mikl posted:Here in Italy it's... sort of a thing. Some schools do a so-called "work experience" in which for about a week, instead of going to school, students go to whatever workplace (usually they pick from a list the school provides), and do actual work. Usually office work, so they don't fall afoul of OSHA's local equivalent.
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Hobnob posted:Oh I see what you did there. The Classic Dinette Set is better safe than sorry.  Working Daze could have been worse, I suppose.  Super-Fun-Pak-Comix is probably reading too deep into things. 
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Evil Mastermind posted:He's just so inconsistent about everything; some relationships are these weird chaste pure things where nobody ever progresses beyond makeouts, some are situations where the people can't keep their loving hands off each other, and then you get the whole idea that even the slightest hint of anything sensual by a woman turns men into Tex Avery cartoons unable to perform any actions beyond drooling. A lot of modern sexuality theory has these same contradictions. It's how feminists can be stereotyped as both ribald sexual hedonists and pornography-hating prudes, sometimes even by other feminists, without anyone noticing the irony. This kind of thing happens when the people writing down these rules are more interested in reading about sexuality in theory than actually exploring it in real world. It's All Right Chief Dharma   Eh OK that's not only unnecessarily political it's also a pretty blatant anachronism but screw you guys I think it's funny and I make the translations.
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"Hmmmm...I want to memorialize Carrie Fisher in my cartoon, and I have to be quick about it because God forbid I put thought or effort into a tribute to someone who was a major part of one of my favorite things in the world and who died suddenly and unexpectedly. Hey, I know! I'll put a faded out picture of her in the background and cover her face with my cartoon characters and huge word balloons so you won't be able to tell who it is! Perfect!"
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Aardmania posted:Dick Tracy I recognize Blue Morpho, but not the others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOLMu_Tryuw
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RandomPauI posted:I recognize Blue Morpho, but not the others. Bottom left has gotta be billy quizboy
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Bottom left has gotta be billy quizboy He looks too off-model, and the Blue Morpho in the back was probably dead by the time Colonel Gentleman was that ooooo...wait...hm...what if.... I've got it, this is a flashback that takes place in the 1980s when cars were boxy and people could still smoke on flights. I don't know why Blue Morpho is slumming it on an airliner when he has a flying car AND a private plane but I'll let it slide.
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Some Guy TT posted:A lot of modern sexuality theory has these same contradictions. It's how feminists can be stereotyped as both ribald sexual hedonists and pornography-hating prudes, sometimes even by other feminists, without anyone noticing the irony. This kind of thing happens when the people writing down these rules are more interested in reading about sexuality in theory than actually exploring it in real world. color me naive but i dont think the reason for this phenomenon is because sociologists and gender scholars are finally taking the time to talk to people about their sexuality
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Strontium posted:Intelligent Life this is like someone's dad trying to understand transformers
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann Hmm..opening up and setting up a big business venue -- sure, that's a heck of a milestone. A marriage -- yep, I'll allow that. Your university-aged daughter spending a touristy week in NY with a fairly tepid itinerary -- is that really in the same league?
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Say Nothing posted:I used to edit 9 Chickweed Lane panels into Junji Ito manga, but eventually, I realized It was just making Junji Ito more disturbing. I really enjoyed those by the way
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Ms Boods posted:Hmm..opening up and setting up a big business venue -- sure, that's a heck of a milestone. It feels like Luann is a multi-chapter video game where you only see the cut scenes and miss out on anything resembling gameplay. The recap would make this the start of a new chapter.
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Evil Mastermind posted:The Classic Dinette Set  Arlo and Janis  Arlo and Janis Classic (Oct. 22, 1994) 
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I haven't been able to get through all the new posts yet, but a big thank you to all of you who posted during the holiday season! There's nothing I like better than to see 300 unread posts in this thread. I hope you missed my posts. If not, well, to hell with 'ya. Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (click for huge)   And He Did. (October, 1915)  Guess If They Are Married! (March, 1916, click for big)  Outbursts of Everett True (March, 1916)  The Gay Thirties (April, 1935, click for big))  They'll Do It Every Time (March, 1940, click for big)  Mopsy (August, 1940)  Tweedy (October, 1956, click for big)  Jaf (1969)  Feiffer (1970, click for big)  Andy Capp (December, 1970, click for big)  Wee Pals (December, 1970, click for big)  Pyton  Richard's Poor Almanac (click for big)  Dick Tracy (October, 2009, click for big) 
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SomeMathGuy posted:Pearls Before Swine Meets Goons' New Year's Resolutions  why break my 15 year streak?
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Tiggum posted:My sister does this and I've never understood it. If you want to watch the movie, get the DVD out. Don't watch it with ad breaks.  Something about the minimal effort required to get up, find the DVD, put it in the dvd player, remember how to switch the TV from HDMI source to DVD source, and press play, as opposed to "Oh! It's on already! Let me just watch it now/DVR it and never watch it later." It's kind of funny coming from someone who grew up in a time before remote controls were a thing, I guess in some ways it makes sense. Also, holy poo poo, does imgur ever suck loving rear end what the christ
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Countblanc posted:color me naive but i dont think the reason for this phenomenon is because sociologists and gender scholars are finally taking the time to talk to people about their sexuality Sexuality research has been a thing for the entire post-war era. McEldowney almost certainly would have learned about Kinsey era research in college and I'm guessing that's where he's taking these weird cues from. Remember that time the gay guy had sex with a woman and immediately proposed to her as if this was normal? While incomprehensible to any current or even decades old understanding of homosexuality this would be unremarkable even according to pro-gay norms of older research, which had a lot of trouble differentiating between gay and bisexual, among other things. A lot of these contradictions come up because current sexuality researchers are really reluctant to criticize older stuff because older researchers are considered socially significant for reasons beyond academic rigor. It's one of the reasons why Kinsey's ten percent statistics for gays in the normal population is still assumed to be the norm when pretty much every subsequent study puts its at more like three. Eh...maybe I should just post comics instead.   Oh good, some non-political context for once. I thought about translating this as home-owners association, which would be the most literal equivalent, but people don't generally own their apartments in Korea and besides that the whole joke here is that the class structure is counter-intuitive compared to the pecking order in local neighborhoods. This is because working people tend to spend about the same amount of money on apartments regardless of what their salaries are. Middle class income tends to go to other places, like consumer goods or for children's education. Because working class people are more likely to do forty hour weeks and lack the funds for more complicated leisure activities, they tend to be more involved locally. The cleaning lady also has a militaristic personality, but her sense of stage presence is only generally utilized at her apartment building because that's where she can throw it around. If you've ever been in a lovely apartment where you could never get the manager or superintendent to do something, the cleaning lady's job would be to bully them into doing so. This is also one of the rare cultural factors that's universal across the entire peninsula. North Korean communities are structured the same way, which confuses the hell out of tourists who have been conditioned to believe that raising your voice in North Korea means you get tossed in a gulag. Not that anyone ever has much opportunity to see this stuff, for the same reason foreigners never observe it in South Korea. It's idiosyncratic in such a way that's not terribly noticeable unless you spend a long period of time in a single place, and can't be easily quantified in terms of oriental stereotypes.
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Some Guy TT, I am a big fan and I love your blog, but how did you persuade Something Awful to host it in a thread about newspaper comic strips??
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Luann Them decietful gays always trying to trick us straights!  On the other hand, the straight in question is an Or maybe it's an example of what Some Guy TT was describing, where the Evanses haven't noticed that sexual mores have changed in recent years. Thus this outgoing vivacious theater-loving NYC girl (whose surrogate family and employers already know her orientation and are cool with it) thinks she needs to be in the closet for some reason. Same thing happened with Luann and Quill's breakup, actually, when Quill kept Pru's orientation to himself like some big shameful secret when his just telling Luann about it right off would have smoothed a whole lot down. The Amazing Spider-Man  Sally Forth  The Heart of Juliet Jones 
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sweeperbravo posted:So does my mother. It's annoying especially when it's movies I bought her My entire family will do this too, me included, and then spend half the time talking about how we can see the DVD from the couch where we're watching the movie on TV. I think there's also an element of how we're not actually trying to watch the movie, but having it on is nice while we do other stuff.
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Julet Esqu posted:The Amazing Spider-Man Nice human shield.
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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:but how did you persuade Something Awful to host it in a thread about newspaper comic strips??  Adam Ames  
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