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Honestly, everyone in the strip being an unlikeable poo poo heel is pretty accurate to a genuine retail environment. The biggest thing I like about "Retail" is that it accurately shows that everyone is mercenary as gently caress and will cut each other's throats for lateral promotions and pay raises that total less than 50 cents. And also the customers suck. The strip could easily have been (and maybe was? only been reading it about a year) a predictable shlock where everybody is friends and it's Us vs. Them and boy these employees sure are a bunch of zaney cut-ups! Nope, everyone is a dickhead and serving their own means, even in ways that are petty and with no personal benefit. Also post Moomin one page per day, please!
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Johnny Aztec posted:Oh yes, two 20-something women living together in an apartment with no obvious male attachments, They MUST be loving. I first started reading the comic right around the start of the arc about Boss' big date, and I thought part of the humour was that Jill and Ingrid were together. It's pretty obvious near the end that Jill has feelings for Ingrid that she hasn't confessed from the way she acts during the date and afterward. But no, yeah, it's probably we're just ship-happy tumblrites unable to stop pairing everyone together. Mike du Jour x Picasso is my OTP, what's yours? 
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Jan 2, 2014 15:35
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tiistai posted:Pretty sure that wasn't nearly the last of it, it's just that the poster didn't have the rest of strips. He probably means electrolysis, which is inserting a thin metal probe into a hair follicle, then quickly charging it with electricity to burn the hair at the root. There is also laser hair removal though, and they're both common enough things for a beauty salon to offer.
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Jan 6, 2014 13:50
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Serious Cephalopod posted:Because most retail jobs require khaki pants. My company allows khaki pants or skirts. 
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Jan 16, 2014 16:56
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Johnny Walker posted:"Chip" would tend to indicate AA, but some people with addiction problems to other drugs wind up in AA anyways. Sometimes people quit their DOC and discover they go back to it when they get drunk so they stop that too, or they find that they just have a problem with alcohol after all as well. I've known a few people in NA and they also had chips. Saying "clean" probably means Dag was on drugs.
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Jan 20, 2014 18:52
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Wanamingo posted:Somebody explain this to me. We shouldn't educate people because everybody has different ways of thinking? We should educate people so that everybody is exposed to different ideas? I honestly don't get it. I'd think it's advocating for that unschooling bullshit, but I'm pretty sure that didn't exist back then. "Everyone with an ideology thinks theirs is the right one, and will look down on others as ignorant and unenlightened, and will often take initiatives to force their beliefs and standards onto other people. This is a harmful and misguided way of thinking regardless of who you are or what your ideologies happen to be."
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Jan 25, 2014 02:48
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Mister Beeg posted:Has anyone ever considered trying to cook anything from this strip? I'll admit that I was tempted to when I read the strip in my paper, but I never got around to it because we never had any necessary ingredients. I saved the one about turkey cabbage rolls so that I can make it later. The loaded baked potato soup looks pretty good, but not quite as good as just having some loaded baked potatoes. Seems pretty hit-or-miss, but I like it and I hope Darthemed never stops posting it.   
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Feb 5, 2014 22:37
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CaptainCaveman posted:The only thing I can come up with (after spending more time looking at this than I'd care to admit to) is because her hat matches her purse and shoes. I'm not sure how this would really rule out her stealing the hat today, though. None of the head mannequins are missing hats, so she couldn't have taken anything that was on display.
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Feb 6, 2014 01:11
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Tiggum posted:
Aside from the loss prevention stuff people mentioned, it's also a performance metric. Before my company recanted, they enacted a policy where every sales associate had to engage every customer, ask them what they wanted, take them to the product (whether they insisted you didn't or not), and ask them about the project they were working on. Management had to make sure everyone was doing it, secret shoppers were sent out every week, and you could get punished or even fired if you slipped up just once. It was crazy and thankfully customer complaints (as well as lowered productivity from having to baby everyone that came in) got it changed. If you don't like being hounded, there's probably a survey on your receipt you can take at every chain store. The corporate offices listen to those and employees hate reading off those committee-written speeches to everyone more than you hate having everyone bug you with it.
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Apr 27, 2014 23:29
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Dragongem posted:Am I the only one who finds it weird that the dad in FW calls his daughter Barbie? Yeah? It's a pretty common nickname for Barbara. It's what my grandmother calls my aunt.
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May 1, 2014 01:05
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Shugojin posted:Look at that first panel. He's not even driving on the road! Like any other good ol' boy, Phil is spending a Saturday muddin' on his friend's dad's land and getting lost in deep introspection. 
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May 1, 2014 03:38
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Tiggum posted:I have a savings account that I can use for direct deposits, direct debits, a debit card (that businesses can charge as a credit card) and bank cheques and the only fees I pay are if I use another bank's ATMs, in which case it's that other bank charging me the fee. I've asked about it and I'm still not really sure what a "checking account" is. It seems like in America you have to pay just to have a normal bank account, which is crazy. Savings accounts aren't really meant to have money drawn from them regularly. Sometimes they have higher interest rates and are less likely to have fees associated with them, but you don't get checks or debit cards that draft from them (often called "check cards" here, though that's becoming outdated). Checking accounts are specifically meant just to be a place to hold your money, have lower interest rates, sometimes have fees associated with them if your credit was bad/nonexistant, but the advantage is you can draft money out of them pretty easily. I have two savings accounts, neither of which I can access from an ATM. They both have higher interest rates than my checking account, but the checking account can be accessed from ATMs and my debit card is backed by Mastercard and useful anywhere that takes MC. No fees because when I opened them I had okay credit and fulfilled somewhat sizable minimum opening deposits. The account I had in college would charge a monthly fee so that, even if I overdrafted, they were making money off me the whole time to make up for it.
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May 3, 2014 20:37
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Wanamingo posted:Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz Hey, I guessed this one right!  Surely the assassin would have brought ample paper with them from their home land to commit murder. Also that letter could have been written on a post-it to completely gently caress over the good inspector.
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May 12, 2014 03:52
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Wanamingo posted:Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz This isn't true. Police cars, ambulances, and fire trucks all fill up at regular gas stations as well as their own dispatch stations. I've sold gasoline to all of them back when I worked in one. These people drive around all day, it's stupid to have to go all the way back just to fill up. gently caress these obtuse puzzles.
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May 16, 2014 00:16
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Roland Jones posted:The dog looks different again, so I imagine that someone already did. Yet again Phil's dog has died, so he replaced it with another white dog, put a bandanna on it, and said "good enough". Nancy and Sluggo, being children, do not question the dog's shifting appearance, unaware that had they left the original dog in its yard, many canine deaths could have been prevented. Phil's eyes migrate up and down his forehead in the three panels of just this comic. gently caress you, Guy Gilchrist.
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May 17, 2014 04:07
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Magna Kaser posted:I like how the cowboys wear high heel boots, with higher heels than the marm has on her shoes. When did men stop wearing such things? High heels were invented to allow your feet to catch into saddle stirrups. The automobile has sort of killed the need.
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May 22, 2014 05:25
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Wanamingo posted:Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz Is this an edit? Why would the artist lovingly render three unique hooked noses and the outlines of a ski mask compressed around a curly mop of hair and make the car be the only relevant clue? 
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May 23, 2014 12:05
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Midnight Moth posted:Retail Being pulled away from your work so that your boss can "amp you up" by telling you to do what you've already been doing all day, every day and then ask you what your CS goal is so you can barf out some trite company line instead of just say "I'm going to do what you told me to do and also help people find poo poo until my shift ends" is loving dumb and they're right to hate it. Cashiers have stats that can be monitored, but if you're working the sales floor the only criteria you're measured on is how quickly and efficiently you complete tasks; it's basically impossible to track your impact on sales as an individual. My company used to do this same sort of thing and not a single one ever worked because half the people in the group would be pulled away by customers because the store is already loving open. Not to defend the characters in "Retail." They're all garbage, but this "huddle time" poo poo is more corporate dart throwing to stave off the encroaching irrelevance of brick-and-mortar retail. Indolent Bastard posted:Pound sign? Pound sign!? It's called an octothorpe you jack rear end. If you are going to be a curmudgeon at least curmudgeon correctly. It's a Tic-Tac-Toe symbol. 
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May 25, 2014 11:53
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Midnight Moth posted:Dustin Assuming Ed has what google tells me is an average salary for a lawyer in America he wouldn't even need to work a full day to pay off the $400 for a dental guard of the same type I have. If he has a better-than-average salary, he would have it paid off before lunch time. This is, of course, also assuming he doesn't have dental insurance, which he may not if he's the kind of clown to buy a gum shield from Dick's just to spite a dentist. Ed Kudlik, you cheap rear end in a top hat.
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May 28, 2014 23:32
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Dewgy posted:Can I hate this, but still appreciate that he bothered to draw the little doodad for playing 45s? You can hate the fact that he drew it to look like a swastika! I'm even searching google right now and I can't find one with 4 arms. 
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Wanamingo posted:Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz I expect too much from this comic. Here I thought the clock having no numbers was just an abstraction of the simple art style. One has to take everything at face value, even if it wouldn't make sense in a real-world situation. Twelve by Pies posted:Wait hold on Inspector Danger says that the date on the ticket is right, but if they were in Dogburg at only 9 AM how did they see a movie? Maybe it's just because I live in a small town but I've never heard of theaters starting shows before about noon at the earliest, usually after 1 PM though. Obviously a cinema only prints the date on the tickets, not the time of your movie! 
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Jun 15, 2014 02:28
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Maxwell Lord posted:But #4 is wearing heels! Who wears heels when they're at home just watching TV alone? I'm so sorry you don't know what it means to truly be alive.
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Jun 28, 2014 22:53
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Mr. Squishy posted:Why can't her friends go to the prom with her? What sort of prom does one get invited to that all one's friends aren't immediately invited to too? Those aren't her friends, that's the lesbian coven that has legal guardianship over her.
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Jun 29, 2014 02:28
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scarycave posted:If Everett True was still alive he would cream you. What ever happened to ol' Everett anyway? He was a jingoistic nutbag for a while but he was tapering off before he disappeared. And while we're on the subject, what became of Foxy Grandpa? Did he and The Baby finally get flummoxed by The Boys? 
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Jul 8, 2014 23:49
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Wanamingo posted:Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz I think the solution to this setup last time was that everything in the bathroom is oriented for a left-handed person but the mug on the table is to the guy's right, so the escaped criminal was eating breakfast and had to hide quickly. Inspector Danger, maybe you should have checked his other pants pocket for a sheet of wax paper. It's not a crime to enjoy the comb kazoo.
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Jul 9, 2014 02:37
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:
I love this comic. It's so adorable and all the characters are pretty great. BlankIsBeautiful posted:
Yes, it's very scrumtrilascent!
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Jul 10, 2014 16:19
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Aleph Null posted:I was hoping it would end with "Alvin, we need to see other people." Emmy Lou and Taffy are going to turn out to be the new Jill and Other Jill. Mark my words.
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Jul 14, 2014 00:55
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Wanamingo posted:
Jesus, Trihn is out for loving blood on this one.  Wanamingo posted:
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Helicity posted:It's like Family Guy had dirty sex with Ctrl+Alt+Del and this is the offspring 
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Jul 17, 2014 16:48
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Nikaer Drekin posted:Intelligent Life Things that are geeks by Skip's criteria:
Heh, looks like Skip really stuck it to those jocks with their ipads taking selfies and dating women! 
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Jul 20, 2014 20:56
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Just make sure you and your siblings don't all visit your rich uncle on the same night in 1 hour intervals.
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Nikaer Drekin posted:Quick catch-up post! Thanks for fighting the good fight, Skip. It's the hardcore games like Words With Friends that separate the prestigious geeks from those loving casual jocks that only play Madden. You're doin' God's work, son! e: Holy poo poo I just noticed that the second panel of the second comic doesn't have any smugbrows. I think this is a first for "Intelligent Life!" 
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Jul 25, 2014 01:43
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Nikaer Drekin posted:Intelligent Life A lot of these non-punchlines remind me of the dregs of Keenspot I use to browse through when I was still a fresh-faced lass and hadn't yet realized most people who make comics suck at it. How many editors did this Reddick character have to blow to get this thing published on even a website, much less picked up by a paper for two weeks?
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Jul 28, 2014 00:49
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Wanamingo posted:Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz That, and 20 minutes after 1:20 is more than 20 minutes before 2:03. 
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:
It's a British English thing. What's universal is matching salt & pepper shakers with no clear indicators worked into their design.  Cricken_Nigfops posted:The Creeps SCHEDULE CHANGE 
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I figured it would be the house with no dish and they used fibre optic internet or something.
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:
I'm really glad Nathan Explosion decided to beef out later in the strip's run. The gangly Robert Smith look doesn't work for him.
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AHH! Put 'em back, Nemi, but 'em back!
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Heavenly Nostrils is back on track.  She got caught up just in time to go on a break.  BlankIsBeautiful posted:
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