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Gat dang, Chako 1. You barely even have to train them to do that 2. Borgman just likes to draw a cool-rear end animal sometimes and I appreciate that.  ...it's... She needs a part-time job to fit around school to help her keep gas in her car. She doesn't even have to worry about food or rent. It's not that complicated.
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EasyEW posted:Out Our Way (September 9-11, 1937)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG3ExHB133k Scary Gary    This seems out of canon, as there are other strips where Gary effortlessly changes into a bat (once to catch a moth that is fluttering around Leopold and annoying him).
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Crab Dad posted:Holy poo poo that was a terrible Peanuts. I always thought that Thanksgiving strip of them all sitting far from the black kid was just an oversight. Guess not. People have built a defense for the strip based around there only being one black NHL player in 1974, but yeah, even in the best case scenario, Sparky didn't think that one all the way through.
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EasyEW posted:People have built a defense for the strip based around there only being one black NHL player in 1974, but yeah, even in the best case scenario, Sparky didn't think that one all the way through. i was reading the comments(this is the road to ruin i know) and one woman defended it with something about her black husband saying that poo poo is cold and not for black people wtf.
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Everett False posted:I can't tell if this is just a general depiction of someone being uncomfortable in shoes, or if there's some specific thing about walking on the sides of your feet. Mostly because this brought back a long-forgotten memory of my teacher sending a note home telling my parents that they should do something about the fact that I was wearing out the outsides of my sneakers, something they never noticed because at home I was always barefoot. The technical term is pronation and supination. When it's overdone it can lead to injuries. Shoes can make it worse, adjusting from a flexible bare foot to a rigid sole. I've heard of insoles that are supposed to help with that, particularly if you've gotten to the level of injuries like planar fasciitis (my brother got some for that and almost immediately started recovering). but I don't know if it's worth using in general if not to the level of an actual issue.
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Garfield Heathcliff  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Compu-toon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens  Rae the Doe is currently on a M-W-F schedule! No comic today! https://twitter.com/olivebrinker/status/1455295600166060034
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Fun Peanuts fact I just remembered: When Schulz introduced Franklin (AKA the blandest and most inoffensive Peanuts kid who just happens to be black) a bunch of white weirdos got incredibly bent out out of shape about it. One Editor sent this particularly unhinged response:  Also I can't find the source again (I think it was in one of the print collections) but I'm pretty sure a bunch of people also accused Schulz of creating the character just to pander to black people. Basically the exact same poo poo you hear today when Marvel announces a black superhero.
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Crab Dad posted:i was reading the comments(this is the road to ruin i know) and one woman defended it with something about her black husband saying that poo poo is cold and not for black people wtf. That sounds like it could be a Chris Rock bit or something, I feel like I've heard the "black people can't handle the cold" stereotype used as a joke from black comedians. But yeah, pretty bad look when someone uses it to defend what's kind of a problematic strip from a white man. readingatwork posted:Fun Peanuts fact I just remembered: When Schulz introduced Franklin (AKA the blandest and most inoffensive Peanuts kid who just happens to be black) a bunch of white weirdos got incredibly bent out out of shape about it. The fun Franklin fact I remember is, I don't remember if it was his debut, but at least one early strip with him had him at the beach talking to (I think) Charlie Brown who had lost his beach ball, and Franklin asked him if he wanted his dad to swim out at get it for him. I think it was a purposeful thing because of the stereotype of black people not knowing how to swim.
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Doomykins posted:Jucika "358 - Jucika Introduces The New Swimsuit Fashion" NSFW Nudity I seem to remember reading about this strip before - and the swimsuit in question was an actual avant garde piece.
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Calaveron posted:Now when he finally goes to talk to that old biddy for the meddling denouement, the focus is on Wilbur being frustrated that his dog just doesn't seem to like him instead of any of the other aspects of his disastrous life. I feel like this part is another complete swerve in the story. Wilbur hasn't been shown to care much about his dog at all, treating it like a flash in the pan hobby or something performative to garner sympathy.
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Twelve by Pies posted:That sounds like it could be a Chris Rock bit or something, I feel like I've heard the "black people can't handle the cold" stereotype used as a joke from black comedians. But yeah, pretty bad look when someone uses it to defend what's kind of a problematic strip from a white man. So I've heard of this before and I always thought it odd. Until I joined the Navy and out of 80 young adults 20 couldnt swim in my boot class. Every single one was black. I was immensely curious and talked to most of them about it and it came down to the fact that they were almost all inner city kids with zero access to pools so where the gently caress they gonna learn to swim a tub? So basically nothing to do with inherit race just lack of access to the activity growing up. They all learned how to swim after two weeks too.
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Murdstone posted:Mary Worth It's almost frightening how much I want this to end with someone else taking that dog away from Wilbur, and Wilbur ending up alone. Every time life kicks Wilbur around for his many, many failings, I feel a little surge of joy. Having a strong emotional reaction to the characters and a deep interest in where the plot is going next...wait, does this mean that Mary Worth is a good comic strip? (Nah, of course it's not. The next storyline will be something tedious like a new old person at Charterstone showing up and having trouble cooking a meal, and we'll be left waiting months and months before we can see Wilbur gently caress everything up again.)
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It's more of a class than a race thing really but since minorities are statistically more likely to be poorer than whites, it means they're less likely to know how to swim. More well off families are able to join things like country clubs or private pools, or be able to afford swim lessons. This is why the YMCA (at least here, I assume it's a nationwide thing though) started a Learn to Swim program where they take pre-K kids and 9th grade kids and bring them to the Y twice a week during their PE/gym classes and give swimming lessons, to make sure more people know how to swim (or at least stay afloat).
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Crab Dad posted:So I've heard of this before and I always thought it odd. Twelve by Pies posted:It's more of a class than a race thing really but since minorities are statistically more likely to be poorer than whites, it means they're less likely to know how to swim. More well off families are able to join things like country clubs or private pools, or be able to afford swim lessons. When I joined NROTC, the remedial swim group was me and the handful of black midshipmen. It's both race and class. I grew up in a predominantly black area, and I didn't learn to swim. My white friends who only lived a couple miles away went to their community pool all the time. 2 miles away, same general income levels, but the mostly white municipality had a community rec center with a pool and the mostly black municipality didn't.
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Going from extended periods barefoot to walking about in shoes is normally when I sprain an ankle. It does something like interference with the awareness of where my heel strike balance is, presumably because the shoe blurs the force out.
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Vintage Valiant (Feb. 01, 1948)   readingatwork posted:Also I can't find the source again (I think it was in one of the print collections) but I'm pretty sure a bunch of people also accused Schulz of creating the character just to pander to black people. Basically the exact same poo poo you hear today when Marvel announces a black superhero. I seem to recall reading something about Schulz getting a letter asking him to add a black character (before Franklin had been added obviously), and his response was that he had wanted to for a long time but was on the other side of this issue - he didn't want black people to feel like he was being patronizing to them. As far as that hockey strip goes, I presume the idea is Patty just wants Franklin to get out of her way and is deliberately being rude, but yikes. Medenmath fucked around with this message at 12:44 on Nov 4, 2021 |
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Medenmath posted:
More than that, the writers who pushed him to include a black character suggested that said character be seen occasionally, so as not to excite too much comment. Schultz rejected that idea and made Franklin a main (or at least secondary) character.
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Pastry of the Year posted:Arlo and Janis Arlo, no!
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Curtis 
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Vargo posted:Curtis Wouldn't ladies' cuts at men's prices be a hell of a bargain? I suppose it depends on the quality of the cut, though.
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Selachian posted:Wouldn't ladies' cuts at men's prices be a hell of a bargain? I suppose it depends on the quality of the cut, though. I'd say about half of the salons around me offer unisex haircut pricing, or at worst length-based. Gender-based pricing has always been a scam.
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Medenmath posted:I seem to recall reading something about Schulz getting a letter asking him to add a black character (before Franklin had been added obviously), and his response was that he had wanted to for a long time but was on the other side of this issue - he didn't want black people to feel like he was being patronizing to them. Yup, they went back and forth a bit but eventually he decided to go forward with it: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/66815/franklin-joined-peanuts-gang-47-years-ago-today quote:In the summer of 1968, the world was still reeling from the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. And Charles Schulz’s Peanuts characters were at the height of their popularity, having recently starred in their fourth TV special after A Charlie Brown Christmas and It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown had been established as instant classics. Though seemingly unrelated, a schoolteacher in Los Angeles saw a way to bring the two events together.
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EasyEW posted:Thimble Theater (June 3-4, 1938) 
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Hostile V posted:Funny Online Alcoholism The original version of this had Mallard Fillmore instead of Question Hound in the final panel. Syndicate made KC change it.
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Bruceski posted:The technical term is pronation and supination. When it's overdone it can lead to injuries. Shoes can make it worse, adjusting from a flexible bare foot to a rigid sole. I've heard of insoles that are supposed to help with that, particularly if you've gotten to the level of injuries like planar fasciitis (my brother got some for that and almost immediately started recovering). but I don't know if it's worth using in general if not to the level of an actual issue. Yeah, I'm just not sure if the depiction is coincidental or if there was some old timey folk wisdom about barefoot children being prone to supination once shod. I would find it extremely funny if my parents were baffled in the 90s by my weird-rear end walking, but in the early 1900s a parent would have said, "oh, an obvious consequence of being barefoot too much" In my case my parents made me practice walking in shoes for like an hour until they were satisfied that they had resolved my shoe confusion. I feel like this should not have worked, but it seems to have!
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Samovar posted:I seem to remember reading about this strip before - and the swimsuit in question was an actual avant garde piece. "Gernreich designed the monokini as a protest against a repressive society. He didn't initially intend to produce the monokini commercially,[10] but was persuaded by Susanne Kirtland of Look to make it available to the public. When the first photograph of a frontal view of Peggy Moffitt wearing the design was published in Women's Wear Daily on June 3, 1964,[1] it generated a great deal of controversy in the United States and other countries. Gernreich sold about 3000 suits, but only two were worn in public. The first was worn publicly on June 22, 1964, by Carol Doda in San Francisco at the Condor Nightclub, ushering in the era of topless nightclubs in the United States, and the second at North Avenue beach in Chicago in July 1964 by artist's model Toni Lee Shelley, who was arrested." -Wikipedia I love the word "monokini" because it's a false etymology; mono- from the bi- in bikini...except that "bikini" comes from a much different language and place. I wonder how the Marshallese responded the first time a tourist came there in a two-piece. "You're wearing a what?"
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NRVNQSR posted:I'd say about half of the salons around me offer unisex haircut pricing, or at worst length-based. Gender-based pricing has always been a scam. Murdstone posted:Mark Trail 
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