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Strontium posted:Intelligent Life Replicants don't say beep beep.
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PetraCore posted:Well, you see, that guy was likable and thus one of the good ones, whereas Angelique is a vicious scheming jerk, so it's okay to belittle her for being... trans-species, I guess. Quoting this because it is all of of my feelings on this strip, too.
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Jan 11, 2019 03:28
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Dippy Duck is such an rear end in a top hat. Also, clearly he is an Indian runner duck.
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Jan 15, 2019 21:55
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Re: Luann, I actually had a situation with a woman who was dating my father engage in some emotional abuse and controlling behaviour, and then run back to my father and twist things so that I was the worst, most ungrateful person in the world, and I was just so rude to her. I was nineteen and still living at home while I job hunted. I had constant panic attacks about leaving my bedroom, and then as a bonus, got yelled at for not "being social" because I didn't want to come watch American Idol with them. It was extremely not a good time in my life, and I am eternally grateful that my father broke up with her and is now in a committed relationship with a lovely woman who is not eternally looking to assert dominance and control over her stepchildren. But yeah, I gotta say. This storyline is bringing back some bad memories and I don't like it, but I also can't stop reading. I hate it.
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Jan 19, 2019 17:08
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Mycroft Holmes posted:i don't want to sound like a huge rear end in a top hat, but it kind of takes away from the social commentary when the dude who got shot full body tackled a cop. Oh, fine. I'll bite. While handcuffed. When the cop was about to pull a gun on his mother.
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Jan 21, 2019 05:17
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StrixNebulosa posted:Outbursts of Everett True Me playing Red Dead Redemption 2, tbh
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Jan 21, 2019 19:03
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howe_sam posted:She's talking about daytime network soap operas, and there really are just four left in the US: General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful. I miss Passions. It's the only soap opera I really ever got into.
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Jan 22, 2019 05:11
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Jan 28, 2019 23:58
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Evil Mastermind posted:Working Daze is comedically bankrupt. I know that this is some straight-up neolithic humour, I'm too poor to buy clothes so I'm going wear a barrel, because barrels are cheap and plentiful, but I had a whim to go see how much a barrel costs in this day and age. So, it turns it that most barrels these days are made for the wine or whiskey industries, and those are oak, so a new barrel is going to cost you anywhere from a few hundred to over a thousand. You can, however, buy used wine barrels, and that'll run you something in the $60-$100 range. So I'm uncertain of the money saving going on here.
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Jan 29, 2019 18:13
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FrumpleOrz posted:On The Fastrack For a moment, I was confused as to why Dethany isn't wearing any pants.
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Feb 4, 2019 17:36
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I'd argue that Phoebe and her Unicorn is close in spirit to Calvin and Hobbes, with the caveat that the whimsy there is actual and not explicitly imaginary.
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Feb 19, 2019 21:43
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I AM SO SICK OF THE WORD "COURT."
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Mar 3, 2019 07:30
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manero posted:I was sort of surprised to see that Gladys Parker basically was Mopsy Wow.
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Mar 4, 2019 06:53
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Chameleons are carnivorous, with smaller species focusing on insects and larger species eating small lizards or birds. This seems like an odd choice to adopt to herbivores, after so much "gotta make sure that you really are herbivores." Also while the whole colour changing thing is sometimes linked to camouflage, it's more frequently serving a purpose in thermoregulation and social signaling, but I guess that boat's sailed as far as cultural knowledge goes. I know, I know, don't overthink Holbrook.
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Mar 6, 2019 22:04
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Johnny Walker posted:Mark Trail I had to check if this was an edit. I'm not used to Mark Trail being at all connected to anything even remotely modern. I think I always just assume it eternally takes place in an indeterminate number of decades ago.
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Mar 7, 2019 23:48
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Vargo posted:BCN This is my favourite BCN ever. WHAT. WHAT. WHAT.
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Mar 8, 2019 17:55
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Zerilan posted:It's that TA under a fake name. Putting my vote in for this.
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Mar 10, 2019 00:39
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To be honest, lately this is the most interested I've been in On The Fastrack, because suddenly something is happening other than endless office nothing with strained puns, and maybe I have a weakness for "loyal sisterly love" in fiction. And I tend to follow Safe Havens because I enjoy bad science fiction, and it is really scratching that itch for me. Yes, sure, a sentient planet, a fascinating (not original, but what is) concept, tell me how you're going to explain this. I'm waiting. Especially with the wiggly DNA being part of it. And while I'm not exactly engaged in Kevin and Kell, I do think the baby chameleon sleeping in her new dad's horns is really cute. Though, I feel like, as an ex-wolf he should probably still have a really good sense of smell and be able to find her that way, but no, absolutely overthinking this. Anyway, I guess my point is, is Holbrook on new meds or what?
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Mar 12, 2019 17:55
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RandomPauI posted:It's Stockholm Syndrome. There's still time to deprogram you before you're eager for the next 9CL Well, poo poo
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Mar 12, 2019 18:55
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Yeah, I'm broke as gently caress, but I get enough joy from this site to sign up for a monthly couple bucks on lowtax's patreon. I hope it makes a difference, because I can't do much else.
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Mar 12, 2019 20:07
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I don't think I'm a prude, but also I think there's way too much sex going on in 9 Chickweed Lane. Do these people do anything but bang or talk about banging?
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Mar 17, 2019 05:22
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Selachian posted:Buni Don't doxx me
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Apr 1, 2019 18:17
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The Giving Tree is open to interpretation. Like, sure, it's hosed up that the tree is self destructively loving, but is that explicitly something that Silverstein is saying is admirable? Most kids I've seen recently read it as a condemnation of taking from someone you love and never giving back, and that's how I read it too.
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Apr 12, 2019 16:44
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I like Ruthie's Good Art stand and would 100% buy something from a small child selling their art on the sidewalk. But yeah, the family in that strip is awful.
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Apr 12, 2019 22:20
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Pastry of the Year posted:
Let's see. I would've been 14 when this was originally published. This is exactly what I was told to do if I was in trouble. Don't shout "help", because no one will come looking. Don't shout "rape", even if you are being raped, because no one cares (you're probably asking for it). Shout "fire," because fire spreads and is a threat to everyone, and it will overcome people's tendency to not give a poo poo. I wonder if they still tell girls this. 
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Apr 13, 2019 16:47
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In biology, an altricial baby is one born in some variety of a helpless state, bald or blind. Humans are pretty altricial, especially compared to other primates. Most birds are altricial. Mice and rabbits are altricial. The opposite would be precocial, a baby born able to walk around and be some degree of independent after birth. Horses, deer, chickens and ducks, hares. What I'm saying is I got Holbrook's joke, and I am eyerolling to the sky.
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Reporting on my lush paper's comic page would require me to look at that garbage rag. You know, my mom really, really loved Foob. It was her favourite. But my mom is great and not an emotionally abusive bag of dicks. She's not perfect, maybe, but she would never behave the way Ellie is portrayed. This is a weird thing and I'm having trouble uniting this. I mean, my mother was also a closeted lesbian up until 2001, and a stay at home mom in the eighties and early nineties, so maybe that accounts for some identification with "mixed feelings about my husband"? I don't know. I wonder if she knows about Michael's real life analogue being gay and not talking to his mom. The commentary on the "blow up" strip is telling. Yeah, parents are human and they blow up, but the word "vindicated" implies "see, I was right and you deserve it" rather than "I hosed up in a moment of frustration and weakness."
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Apr 16, 2019 16:19
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YES BEING NAGGED BY MY MOTHER IN LAW IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS BEING MURDERED AND EATEN.
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Apr 17, 2019 16:56
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EasyEW posted:
Uuuuuuuugggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh  "the flower of my maidenhood" gently caress off.
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Manuel Calavera posted:Family Circus I work in a deli and i can tell you there is a shocking number of grown-rear end adults who say "roast beast." I mean, one of my sisters did this for a while when she was five or so, mostly because that's what they eat at the end of How The Grinch Stole Christmas, but there are baby boomers and older who come up and ask three hundred grams of garlic roast beast. I can never decide if they think they're being clever/cute or they just honestly think that's what it's called. A whole lot of people ask for "barbarian meatloaf," too, and I once had a guy ask for shaved mozzarella, then when I asked for clarification he insisted that no, that's the proper Italian pronunciation of "mortadella" and I'm the one who's wrong.
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Mistletoe is poisonous.
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Ms Boods posted:Real life Daddy Daze? Dad's a hand-talker. Kid is mimicking him. 
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EasyEW posted:
I can't stop thinking about this particular strip. I hate it. It makes my skin crawl. So of course I'm going to seriously overthink this now and peel it apart. Lady, having issues in her love life, confides in a male friend. Friend is aloof and unhelpful and can only arrogantly offer unhelpful platitudes from a position of supposed moral and intellectual superiority. When she loses her temper and calls him out on this, he thought-bubbles about how All Women Are Bitches, thank God he's gay so he doesn't have to deal with those awful women in any serious capacity. In a better comic, that could be explored as a personality trait of this character in particular, but let's be honest, every character in 9CL exists as a vehicle for masturbatory fantasy. The women are all hypersexed nymphomaniac artists, and the men are all basically just stand ins for Brooke himself. So for the gay character to make a comment like this comes down to two possibilities: 1. A betrayal of a basic dismissive attitude of the artist towards women as people: if you aren't loving a woman, then she's insufferable and hard to put up with. 2. The idea that the only way someone would be gay is if they actively hate the opposite sex, and the thought bubble here is then a reveal of how broken gay people are, according to Brooke. I don't like it. RoboRodent fucked around with this message at 12:56 on Jun 8, 2019 |
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Schwarzwald posted:I have never been in a grocery store that did not offer paper bags. The grocery store where I work officially offers paper bags but we don't reliably have them, because for whatever reason they don't come in when ordered all the time. So at least half the time, no we do not have paper bags. Plastic costs 5 cents, paper costs 10.
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EasyEW posted:
Imagine going to the theatre and these two rubes perform while glaring at each other.
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Kennel posted:Dustin I'm turning 36 soon. I keep thinking of this comic and remembering a dress I had from about age 13-15: dark burgundy velvet, scoop neckline, cap sleeves, similar sort of close-fitting bodice with a short, flared skirt. I'd say it was pretty close to this comic dress in terms of "sexy." My parents bought it for me. Specifically, it was originally for a family photo. I loved it, because I felt pretty and grown up and that was a new way to feel. It felt like an adult dress and not a little girl's dress, and it was probably the first major piece of clothing that was true for. And in my house, that was allowed, because I was at an age where feeling like that was encouraged and allowed. It was part of growing up. It was normal. I wore it to a school dance and got called a slut by my peers. But I never got that from my parents, who were happily encouraging me to dress any old way I wanted - - which, honestly, in the later years of high school, involved a lot of boys and unisex clothing. That was also fine. Anyway I just hate coming up against the realization that a normal part of my upbringing was not, in fact, normal.
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Dustin is practicing simple, stylized art mimicking other styles before moving on to more complex or original works and finding his own style. So, you know, a standard starting point for many artists, frequently as children, but beginner artists can be any age. Something that you'd think the creator of a comic strip would be familiar with.
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To be fair, I'm my experience as a Canadian, "help others out of a snowbank because you don't know when you're going to need strangers to push you out" is always true.
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