Haifisch posted:

Have fun with your less potent medicines with inconsistent doses of the active ingredient, I guess. It's not like anyone ever fell ill or died young before the industrial revolution, I'm sure you'd be fine. Also have fun not having things like vaccines to keep poo poo like polio/measles/covid from wrecking people's lives.

I'd much rather deal with the problem of storing nuclear waste(or whatever it is Steph is hand-wringing about) than climate change, but that's just me.

Medenmath posted:

Vintage Valiant (Jun. 09, 1946)

Julet Esqu posted:

Pastry of the Year posted:

Arlo and Janis Classic (November 11, 1999)

Johnny Aztec posted:

Okay, so Arlos , in the modern strip, looks pretty good for someone in their mid to late 80s.

Crab Dad posted:

There’s a reason farmers beat out hunter-gathers.

Huxley posted:

Eh, my grandfather fought in WW2, my dad is 64, I'm 37. I think that lines up pretty well with Arlo's dad, Arlo, and Gene.

It's a little more complicated because the college stories have Arlo getting kicked out of frat parties for yelling about Nixon, which would make him a few years older than my dad (who graduated HS in ... 76, I think). But maybe Arlo was the kind of guy still getting kicked out of frat parties for yelling about Nixon deep into the 70s.

Huxley posted:

Eh, my grandfather fought in WW2, my dad is 64, I'm 37. I think that lines up pretty well with Arlo's dad, Arlo, and Gene.

It's a little more complicated because the college stories have Arlo getting kicked out of frat parties for yelling about Nixon, which would make him a few years older than my dad (who graduated HS in ... 76, I think). But maybe Arlo was the kind of guy still getting kicked out of frat parties for yelling about Nixon deep into the 70s.

Bruceski posted:

He does this gag every year but as a gardener I can't help but cackle.

Huxley posted:

Eh, my grandfather fought in WW2, my dad is 64, I'm 37. I think that lines up pretty well with Arlo's dad, Arlo, and Gene.

It's a little more complicated because the college stories have Arlo getting kicked out of frat parties for yelling about Nixon, which would make him a few years older than my dad (who graduated HS in ... 76, I think). But maybe Arlo was the kind of guy still getting kicked out of frat parties for yelling about Nixon deep into the 70s.

Johnny Aztec posted:

Well, the way the strips have been written, it heavily implies that Arlos childhood is during or right after WW2. Well, Okay nevermind. It wasn't like there was therapy back then, wasn't like the "Specter of Death" that people brought back with them was just gonna vanish on it's own. If Arlo was born mid 50s, then that timeline would work (except as you said, about Nixon)


My grandfather is in his mid 80s and served in Korea. My Great-grandfather did WW2, and died before I was born. He was one of those types where once he was home, he would not say a word about where he went or what he did, during the war.
I keep meaning to put in the forms to get his military service records. I kind of want to look up who was in his unit, contact the families and see if they have letters that were sent home that possibly talked about him. Even if not, it would give an idea of what he went through in that same unit.


I am 37 also. Hell yeah, 1983 was a fine, fine vintage of a year.

EasyEW posted:

Sally Forth

Huxley posted:

To be fair, the numbers are a little weird on dad, because my grandparents did the, "keep trying until you get a boy" thing. He was the last of 5, born I think 19 years after his oldest sister. I'll never forget for their 50th anniversary the kids did an interview video thing for them where they talked about "trying one more time ... and ending up with my 4th aunt. Then trying ONE MORE time and finally 'lucking out' and having dad." Suddenly it made a lot of sense why that aunt smoked a lot of pot and lived on the other side of the country.

Drakyn posted:

McMillan is a genocidal romanticist idiot who either thinks eating plant will cure all ills or that the handicapped deserve death (or both) but this isn't exactly great either. Early farming was often lousy with grim nutritional side effects and backbreaking work compared to foraging and it could become an irreversible choice since the population uptick it produced from a larger baseline food source (fingers crossed you don't have a bad crop this year!) would result in you no longer being able to sustain yourself without it. So, the 'reason' ends up being 'weight of numbers' which isn't exactly morally laudable.
And that's if we're going waaaaaay back. If you look at it more recently, just around where I live my farmer ancestors benefitted from other farmers genociding 'beating out' the local hunter-gatherers over the course of a few centuries via infecting them with zoonotic plagues, repeatedly cheating and lying to them, shooting them, and systemically abducting their children to abuse them 'for their own good.' None of that exactly shows moral fiber either.

The kurse of the kanonical kartoon timeskale strikes again.
Could be worse. Could be marvel comics dealing with tony stark making his armour in vietnam. Or reed richards, early cold warrior spaceflight scientist.

Ashsaber posted:

Oh yeah, she also believes that green power is bad. Like solar panels cooking wildlife and birds being chopped up by windmills.

To her there was no good green option.

Tiggum posted:

How does the eco-terrorist rabbit fit into this interpretation?

Crab Dad posted:

I’m not sure what point you are trying to get across but I didn’t include any morality in my comment.

EBB posted:

Not an edit, wow!

Schwarzwald posted:

It's basically an admission that Kranti's ideology can only ever function on loony tunes logic.

Darthemed posted:

Retail

Johnny Walker posted:

Mary Worth



Geez man just increase your font size or something.

Haifisch posted:

Ah yes, how could I forget. And this is Steph so naturally she hates electricity existing at all(with grudging tolerance for the bare minimum needed to store medicine, at least in the later minsec story).

Just make sure you don't mistake a good plant for one that will kill you if you eat it. It's okay, nobody's died of that before the modern age either!

Caphi posted:

I just noticed that one of the things she says are so much trouble about making medicines is "doing studies." What's the alternative to that?

Pastry of the Year posted:

Garfield Classic (November 11, 1989)

Kavak posted:

She's a (wo)manchild. I think it's been mentioned but McMillan was not a college activist or amateur cartoonist when these things were made- she was in her early to mid 40's.

riderchop posted:

On The Fastrack

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Mark Trail

skeleton warrior posted:

I know is the thread mantra, but I am definitely interested in seeing a mundane, everyday-life strip from Nazi Germany, that seems incredibly fascinating!