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I assume this installment of The Timid Soul was published during an election campaign or similar. Caspar is shoving cotton in his ears.
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Kennel posted:If I remember correctly, some parts of this Moomin story end up being a bit disappointing, if you expect it to follow the standard 21st century narrative/metaphors (which would have been way too cool for a 50s comic). I mean, those parts will be starting up tomorrow/next time I post, so if the thread feels like discussing it, that's a good time. I don't think any discussion around it has popped up the last 2 (or so?) times the story has been posted through the megathread's history, though. Not that I can recall at least. I assume you're referring to Pimple's friend. Which if you read it as a homosexuality analogue, then it does do rather poorly due to the false pretenses set up, and with the conclusion drawn due to it. But if you just go with the general theme of the strip itself, then it in it's whole is just 'don't worry about the details, don't get bogged down by your past, and just do what makes you happy.' The way it's set up makes it feel like the outcome means that he either realizes that he doesn't have to only like cats, and can like dogs as well. (ie, accepting homo/bisexuality.) Or he can realize that he can like dogs, and was just fantasizing about liking cats.(ie, shunning homo/bisexuality. ) (Again, depending on the reader treating 'likes cats' as a metaphor for LGBTQ.) How it reads ends up being very much up to how the person reading it handles it. 'only liking cats? how silly' can either be 'non-heteronormativity? how silly' or 'why is he so caught up in only liking specific things?' But whichever way you want to read that analogy, it gets muddled by the dog presenting as a cat. Personally I'm not sure if it really works under a LGBTQ lens, and it makes more sense if you just lean on the general themes of the story. If you're too caught up in what you're supposed to do and like, constrained by others, you can't really be happy. (Which in itself is a more positive read for the whole thing.)
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Tiggum posted:I'd actually pay extra for a microwave without a clock on it because every one I've owned has been wildly inaccurate. These are called toaster ovens and they're amazing. The food that comes out of them tastes better and they won't cause your house to explode if there's a fire. I have never understood why microwave ovens are the standard when toaster ovens were invented first.
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You ever try to reheat coffee or soup in a toaster oven?
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Some Guy TT posted:These are called toaster ovens and they're amazing. The food that comes out of them tastes better and they won't cause your house to explode if there's a fire. I have never understood why microwave ovens are the standard when toaster ovens were invented first. lmao they have almost entirely dissimilar uses It is pretty common to have both
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This 9CL arc is genuinely making me uncomfortable.
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I heard of them when I was a kid, but I never knew what a training bra actually was, and I was completely unconcerned about that for the vast majority of my life, and, to be honest, would have remained so for as long as I can imagine. Why is an old man with a grown daughter writing about training bras for his adult woman character who has two newborn girls?
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PainterofCrap posted:You ever try to reheat coffee or soup in a toaster oven? No because I have a coffee maker and a stove which are also superior to microwaves.
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This man really thinks a training bra is a device that trains your breasts to grow. In happier news I've really loved this week's modern A&J. The theme is fun and they don't explain the joke at the end of every strip. Holbrook could never. Funky's ICE deportation arc has disgusted me in ways I cannot yet put into words, but I am toying with the notion of writing to my local paper about dropping the strip.
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Johnny Walker posted:Why is an old man with a grown daughter writing about training bras for his adult woman character who has two newborn girls? Mordock999 has entered the chat
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Mr. Noseybonk posted:God do I love Prince Valiant. I wish I had given it a chance when I was a kid. Me too. Part of it is probably being printed in a 3 inch by 5 inch tiny corner of the "kids section" though.
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coronatae posted:This man really thinks a training bra is a device that trains your breasts to grow. he's for real writing about them like they're loving braces or something corrective and not like a tanktop with a sports bra in it. this dude is like unhinged
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EasyEW posted:9 "Julet Esqu and RoboRodent are SOOOO Gonna Hate This" Lane Oh, THAT'S why you think training bras are important! So boys will have a better time looking at your daughters' ten year old tits! Thanks for the info, Brooke, you disgusting old pervert!
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Between this and those flashbacks of 6-year old Edda being obsessed with the details of sex, Brooke is way too interested with the sexual development of prepubescent girls.
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EasyEW posted:9 "Julet Esqu and RoboRodent are SOOOO Gonna Hate This" Lane I think I got my notes mixed up.
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EasyEW posted:Crankshaft This is a crime even outside Halloween. If you ever feel compelled to plant zucchini, the correct number of plants is one. More than that and your neighbors will hate you.
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Some Guy TT posted:These are called toaster ovens and they're amazing. The food that comes out of them tastes better and they won't cause your house to explode if there's a fire. I have never understood why microwave ovens are the standard when toaster ovens were invented first. And everyone should get a convection microwave because they're amazing.
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 10/30/00  Stephen Collins is, inevitably, political again.  Brenda Starr 1/16/44  "Warble the combination" is somewhat less catchy than "whistle the patter." Smokey Stover 8/21/38  Edge of Momentum  *sigh* Look, I understand the need to sometimes play fast and loose with physics to make a cool scene. And there's nothing more tedious than the nitpicker who thinks they're clever by pointing out that Indy should have drowned on the submarine, or that Luke could have spent only a couple of days on Dagobah at most. But, Jam, when you present us with the spectacle of a plane with a dead engine and no pilot attempting to make a kamikaze run from behind on a plane with several perfectly operational engines, it would be nice if you made SOME attempt to justify how it works. Richard's Poor Almanac is serious for a change. 
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Bruceski posted:This is a crime even outside Halloween. I know we're supposed to interpret this as proof that gardening is bad because Batuik really, really hates gardening for some reason. But I kind of get the impression that if the family had encouraged Crankshaft to grow stuff they could actually use instead of mocking him for gardening at all they wouldn't be in this mess.
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Selachian posted:*sigh* Look, I understand the need to sometimes play fast and loose with physics to make a cool scene. And there's nothing more tedious than the nitpicker who thinks they're clever by pointing out that Indy should have drowned on the submarine, or that Luke could have spent only a couple of days on Dagobah at most. But, Jam, when you present us with the spectacle of a plane with a dead engine and no pilot attempting to make a kamikaze run from behind on a plane with several perfectly operational engines, it would be nice if you made SOME attempt to justify how it works. Everything else that's happened aside, feels like that is maybe the worst way to depict what he wants to be happening there. e; And I'm still laughing at that little missile launcher thing. MariusLecter fucked around with this message at 08:24 on Oct 31, 2020 |
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bobbins This is gold. 
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And He Did! (August 28, 1917) Outbursts of Everett True (November 14, 1917)  Tee hee strikes again. Hitz and Mrs. (July 21, 1923)  Gay and Her Gang (November 14, 1928)  Dark Laughter (July 31, 1937, click for big)  Bootsie, sump’n tells me that we been tryin’ to milk the wrong kind of cow. They'll Do It Every Time (April 29, 1941)  Patty-Jo ’n’ Ginger (June 19, 1948)  “G’won … Ask him somethin’ … You know what a mess you made of that chicken you stuffed Sunday!” Dinky Fellas (December 23, 1964) 
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Surgeon's Tales The princess in question is Ulrika Eleonora. Karl XII's last surviving sibling and the current regent. The King himself is still staying in the Ottoman Empire who were fighting with Russia.  Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake 
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"She doesn't use cold cream to get the make-up off her face at night either." What is being insinuated here?
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Powered Descent posted:As a rough guess from the stars shown in the last panel, I'd put the pole star somewhere around 15 degrees above the horizon, which means that's how many degrees north of the equator they are -- somewhere off the coast of present-day Mauritania. Which means they went a thousand miles or so between those last two panels. Thanks for this informative post! Looks like they're still a bit north of Mauritania. Vintage Valiant (Jan. 11, 1942)  
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goatface posted:"She doesn't use cold cream to get the make-up off her face at night either." Based on the group of men staring at her, and the comments about her showing off her knees, I think it's "She doesn't go to sleep, and thus doesn't need to take off her makeup, because she's having sex."
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Then is the "crossed her legs" line as blunt as I first read it? Seems like strong stuff for the era.
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Green Intern posted:Based on the group of men staring at her, and the comments about her showing off her knees, I think it's "She doesn't go to sleep, and thus doesn't need to take off her makeup, because she's having sex." I took it as "her makeup will all be rubbed off on those guys by the end of the night."
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goatface posted:Then is the "crossed her legs" line as blunt as I first read it? Seems like strong stuff for the era. Not as blunt as the doggerel in the last panel. Yes, a lady applies cold cream to remove her make-up when she is going to sleep...but not when she is going to bed.
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Arlo and Janis Tina's Groove Classic (March 12, 2009)  Arlo and Janis Classic (March 12, 1999)  Garfield Classic (March 12, 1989) 
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Old School Peanuts (Mar 21, 1952) Calvin and Hobbes (Jun 4-5, 1988)   shityoucantdoafter2001.gif Robbie and Bobby (Dec 19, 2016)   (Oct 31, 2020)   Support Jason's Patreon here.
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I want more pumpkin spice. gently caress. Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro 
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Selachian posted:*sigh* Look, I understand the need to sometimes play fast and loose with physics to make a cool scene. And there's nothing more tedious than the nitpicker who thinks they're clever by pointing out that Indy should have drowned on the submarine, or that Luke could have spent only a couple of days on Dagobah at most. But, Jam, when you present us with the spectacle of a plane with a dead engine and no pilot attempting to make a kamikaze run from behind on a plane with several perfectly operational engines, it would be nice if you made SOME attempt to justify how it works.
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