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Der Shovel posted:Pretty much yeah. It's a very old-timey way of talking to / about / around the help which you could hear in early 20th century Finnish movies or books for instance. It's also how some people talk to (or used to talk to, at least) kids, and maybe there's a connection there, some infantilization of the help. Have to return to Moominchat: it's not so much about infantilization of the help but being polite yet distant from the person you are talking to. Plural you and addressing in third person were common ways of talking respectfully, and some people argued that plural you should be only used towards people you are personally close to, like your parents. Which sounds insane because no one uses plural you towards their own mom or dad anymore. Or towards anyone hardly. Here's a interesting essay about it in Finnish. My mom used third person when talking to my dad's dad, who was born in 1916. It was an interesting quirk, but meant with utmost respect. Doll House Ghost fucked around with this message at 08:46 on Oct 26, 2020 |
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Powered Descent posted:For anyone unfamiliar with it: I don't think that's quite fair, to be sure the line of action isn't exaggerated, but Mark is quite clearly putting his hips into that punch, and the ICE agent is getting blown back pretty hard.
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Also, while I haven’t taken the time to read the new Mark Trail, however it looks surely can’t look worse than it was, right?
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Darthemed posted:What's with the tree-dick?
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Doll House Ghost posted:Plural you and addressing in third person were common ways of talking respectfully Sure, of course. I'm not sure it's the same thing, though. The "addressing people by their titles" thing comes closest but still feels... off. But the more I think about it, the more it might fit. Addressing a servant / helper casually doesn't feel like something posh people would have done*, and neither does addressing them with the formal plural in many cases. So maybe the "could Doll House Ghost fetch a decanter of water, please" style is a comfortable compromise? I found a Master's Thesis on the subject of addressing culture in Finland and Germany which kind of backs this perspective up as well. (* and of course Moominmamma would be acting like she thinks posh people who have a maid should act, after all the whole point of this exercise is to class up the Moomin family, so she would adopt the style of posh people) Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 09:43 on Oct 26, 2020 |
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Classic Kevin and Kell (June 23-27, 1997)  This being June 1997, it's probably referring to MacOS 7.6.1, which was the last version that could run on non-Apple hardware. In July 1997 Steve Jobs became CEO of Apple again (after being booted from the company in the mid-80s), and he had the company release MacOS 7.7 as MacOS 8; this way, all the licensing contracts Apple had done over the years for MacOS 7 were no longer valid, and it shut down the Mac clone market.   
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Samovar posted:I don't think that's quite fair, to be sure the line of action isn't exaggerated, but Mark is quite clearly putting his hips into that punch, and the ICE agent is getting blown back pretty hard. Mark Trail is a bit stiff but I've seen people throw worse punches. And it's a hell of a lot better than something you'd see in Edge of Adventure for example.
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amigolupus posted:Oh, and the final week of the storyline wasn't about what Bull's wife was going through after the funeral, but her verbally fellating Les and giving him a photo of him and Bull. Because of loving course it's all about Les. And this even though Les somehow forgot that after high school Bull had reformed his bullying ways and had made up with Les and become a good, supportive friend, and instead talked at the funeral about what a bully he'd been back in the day.
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Doll House Ghost posted:Have to return to Moominchat: it's not so much about infantilization of the help but being polite yet distant from the person you are talking to. Plural you and addressing in third person were common ways of talking respectfully, and some people argued that plural you should be only used towards people you are personally close to, like your parents. Which sounds insane because no one uses plural you towards their own mom or dad anymore. Or towards anyone hardly. Here's a interesting essay about it in Finnish. I think the one place where this might've remained is the more old fashioned kind of retail ("would madam like a bag with that")?
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Crabgrass Support Tauhid's Patreon here. Old School Peanuts (Mar 16, 1952)  LMAO at Snoopy in the electric chair. Calvin and Hobbes (May 25, 1988)   Robbie and Bobby (Dec 12, 2016)  (Oct 26, 2020)  Support Jason's Patreon here.
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Professor Wayne posted:The Far Side This one slow burned from a sensible smirk to a full-on laughed-until-I-coughed. I've missed these comics. Vargo posted:The Moment We've All Been Waiting For I'm so glad they didn't do the predictable comic strip thing and blueball us 
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Oh those loveable scamps at ICE! *cue laughtrack*
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readingatwork posted:Crabgrass Tauhid has told more story in this "let's go to the woods" line than Jam Mark Trail did in months of the orphan forest fire bullshit. On top of that, every single one of Tauhid's strips can stand on its own without the awful pacing that gets handwaved away as  "that's just narrative comic strips!"
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readingatwork posted:Calvin and Hobbes (May 25, 1988) So good. Vintage Valiant (Dec. 07, 1941)  
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I love this so much. Beautiful. Kavak posted:I would have the last panel be everyone sitting down for pizza with a photo of Funky/Montoni or whoever and Epstein in the foreground. You could slip it past the censors, it's been a while and they might not immediately recognize him. Genuinely I can't believe anyone would, in 2020, make a connection between a pizza place and the Clintons that ISN'T a reference to Pizzagate/Epstein.
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LvK posted:I'm so glad they didn't do the predictable comic strip thing and blueball us no, pumpkins are orange.
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Kennel posted:Mandrake Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Dec. 07, 1941) F Minus  Comic Strip Origins: Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Thus ends the intense 'home haircut' storyline. Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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The Far Side Pickles  Zits 
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Professor Wayne posted:The Far Side Am I totally missing this one? Is it just a pun on argyle socks? Somebody fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Jul 25, 2022 |
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Garfield Heathcliff  Overboard  Monty  Rae the Doe  Rae the Doe's web archives Two Stances  Awards 
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you guys want to see a weird thing I have on my wall? 
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Karma Tornado posted:you guys want to see a weird thing I have on my wall? BONER'S ARK indeed
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Arlo and Janis Tina's Groove Classic (March 8, 2009)  Arlo and Janis Classic (March 8, 1999)  Garfield Classic (March 8, 1989) 
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riderchop posted:Heathcliff Why is this so good, I love it.
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Moominposting Moomin bread. Moomin Bread. 
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Pastry of the Year posted:Arlo and Janis Bill Holbrook does twenty-five years of metaphor strips and has never figured out how to do the punchline right, since he can't let a reference go without fully explaining it. If he'd done this joke, his fourth panel would've had Arlo (sorry, I meant Dethany From "Oh The Fastrack") looking directly at us and saying "Pruning backyard bushes is tough!" or worse, simply "Pruning backyard bushes." Jimmy Johnson comes along and is all "Yeah, this is just another Arlo & Janis sitch" and writes it decently with a natural-sounding question from Janis, and I am happy. I realize this is a low bar of expectations but I'm glad someone's surpassing it, dammit. Also really dig the silhouette monkey in the second panel and the skull-with-vines thing in the third, cause they both look like they were fun to draw.
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curtadams posted:I didn't remember Travels with Farley being wingnutty. Back when my mom first went to see Dirty Harry (In San Francisco so relevant to the strip) there were cops in the audience calling bullshit on Scorpio getting released. Also the last strip was racist.
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SubNat posted:Moomin bread. Moomin Bread. Oh yeah, I never posted it in here but look what my wife got me for my birthday a few weeks. These were a few cute thing in addition to some other stuff.  
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Parahexavoctal posted:no, pumpkins are orange. You might well think that, but... 
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