Comic Strips 2020: Sumpin Arful

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Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009

Endless Mike posted:

Also why the hell is Dilbert back?

This is the thread for hating terrible comic strips. Take your good, wholesome strips somewhere else! :argh:

# ¿ Jan 6, 2020 13:55

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# ¿ Jan 24, 2025 02:52

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009

~Coxy posted:

Alright, what was the 30s invention in this case that they're missing out on? Air rifles? 20 gauge youth shotguns?

"How much to put in 'em" implies that it's a pre-cartridge rifle and they put in too much gunpowder. It looks like a Springfield M1861 rifle musket.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2020 11:13

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009

FREEDOM OF SPEECH MUST PREVAIL

Dilbert

# ¿ Jan 7, 2020 14:02

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009

EasyEW posted:

9 Stretch Marks Lane

yes, Brooke, keep repeating this unjoke with all of the instruments, at least the Rose is Rose guy understands your fetish

quote:

Out Our Way (December 7-9, 1933)

this needs to be thread title, somehow

# ¿ Jan 7, 2020 18:43

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009

Pastry of the Year posted:

Arlo and Janis Classic (June 15, 1998)

I got a sudden urge to set a screensaver :corsair:

# ¿ Jan 8, 2020 13:00

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009

Haifisch posted:

Moomin said trans rights.

Tove was a good kid. She used to draw art for the monthly Garm culture magazine in 1930-50's and here's a few covers and illustrations.

This is after the war, when Nazis and Quislings are going through a Metamorphosis machine.

ah, but notice the dark Moomin going up the stairs, and the angelic Moomin on the other side?? IS THIS WHAT MOOMIN PAPPA DID DURING THE GREAT WAR??? :gonk:

# ¿ Jan 9, 2020 01:50

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009

readingatwork posted:

Robbie and Bobby (Jan 2-5, 2015)

This is the kind of mature humour that avatars are made of.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2020 18:18

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009

Being trapped on the same island with a naked, furious Modesty Blaise is probably* not the worst way to die.

_{*conditional because I still have very little experience of dying}

# ¿ Jan 13, 2020 18:47

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009

Tiggum posted:

The first two were pretty good puzzles for children. The second two are a bit Inspector Danger. Don't you know that women always take their hats off with two hands?

Added with :biotruths:

WIMMEN WOULD NEVER USE LUGER

# ¿ Jan 14, 2020 09:14

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009

Powered Descent posted:

To answer Arlo's question, Betelgeuse is over 600 light-years away, which is too far away to really affect us unless its spin axis was pointed precisely at us (and it isn't). If it goes supernova, we'd get one hell of a light show for a few months (it'd be bright to enough to see in daylight and to read by at night) and afterward the night sky would be forever changed, but that's about it. As for whether this dimming indicates that a supernova is imminent, nobody knows for sure. And even if it does... well, by star standards, "imminent" could be a million years from now.

It's always been a variable star, but never THIS variable. And nobody knows if the dimming is the new normal or if it'll go back to its usual brightness soon. Variable stars can be temperamental.

Despite all that, the sudden change in what's usually one of the brightest stars in the sky is making the entire sky look... off. Go outside tonight and look up. Betelgeuse looks rather different than in the picture above.

And that's what Arlo is doing, "what harm could it do" refers to going outside to wait for the lightshow with a blanket and a full thermos.

By the way, if some of you are a night sky idiot like me then download and install Stellarium, it makes it easy to understand what you can see from your location at different times! It's fun to just play with too, in case you live in a big city where stars can't be seen. And it's free!

Nenonen fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Jan 14, 2020

# ¿ Jan 14, 2020 19:39

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009

Lodin posted:

You guys want to hear something depressing? I used to read old Popeye as a kid but it was translated to Norwegian. What ever dingus did it spent zero time trying to emulate the weird speech of Popeye and the other characters and instead it was all just spelled normally. I never knew until I started checking out this thread.

No, you were reading the Swedish version!!

# ¿ Jan 15, 2020 16:14

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009

Resident Idiot posted:

For the few goons in this thread who don't read the Daily Cartoonist, I come to report that thread favourite Brother Rock has picked up a print deal:

Who could possibly want this? Oh, boomers. Right.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2020 11:27

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009

riderchop posted:

Monty

You should have read the wiki!

# ¿ Jan 19, 2020 13:42

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009

riderchop posted:

Garf

Cats lack the buds to taste sweet, so sugar would be utterly pointless from the cat's point of view.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2020 19:40

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009

Kennel posted:

# ¿ Jan 24, 2020 19:16

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009

Potsticker posted:

Just gonna wear shorts with no top and a hat to this wedding.

No shirt, no shoes and Max still gets service

# ¿ Jan 29, 2020 21:41

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009

Kennel posted:

Seal?

Zereth posted:

does

does the Overboard guy just... not know what animals look like

because there's nothing that looks ANYTHING liked a seal, baby or otherwise, in this strip

ART MUST CONTAIN TRUTH! ART MUST CONTAIN TRUTH!

# ¿ Jan 31, 2020 19:31

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009

ikanreed posted:

No edit today. Just your standard

Slylock Fox presents dubious race science

"the innate response involves [...] physiological processes such as fever"

An alligator fleeing anyone in a snow storm doesn't sound very likely anyway, precisely because they are cold blooded. They need a warm environment to move quickly and start hibernation when it becomes cool. Alligator is not the quickest animal on land to begin with. But I know that Bob Weber Jr did this just to raise my expectations on reading "masked bandit" and then not giving me standard raccoon racism :mad:

# ¿ Feb 3, 2020 16:48

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009

Johnny Walker posted:

Rex Morgan MD

Maybe you should have specialized on Bimbo Karate then.

# ¿ Feb 5, 2020 20:46

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009

kidcoelacanth posted:

it's also dragging up the tired ok boomer poo poo which is maybe its worst crime

That's an edit, I think.

edit: no, it's not an edit, holy poo poo 🤯

# ¿ Feb 6, 2020 20:50

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009

StrixNebulosa posted:

I really hate today's dustin because of the inherent sexism going on. Girls like all kinds of books you morons.

But dudes don't! Then you'd have to pray that they pick a sports or rap biography instead of a novel.

# ¿ Feb 10, 2020 20:40

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009

^^^^they are safe, but we get massive cyanobacteria blooming in the summer because of too much nutrients from farming

The Baltic Sea is brackish (and gets more so the further you go from Denmark) and many marine species need higher salinity levels to survive/reproduce and it additionally freezes in the winter. Jellyfish haven't evolved to live in these conditions because they're spineless wimps.

Nenonen fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Feb 12, 2020

# ¿ Feb 12, 2020 16:41

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009

# ¿ Feb 14, 2020 04:23

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009

Fingerpori, or a Lingual Tragedy in Three Acts

1.
"Jumala loi ensin miehen, sitten naisen."
"God first created a man, then woman."
2.
"..."
3.
"Nai sen miehen?"
"Married the man?"
"Min� t�st� l�hdenkin.
"I'll be leaving now."

nainen = woman, naisen = woman in accusative (target of action ie. creation)
nai sen = married it / alternatively hosed it

So the second meaning of the first sentence in full is "God first created a man, then married/hosed it".

Thank you for listening!

# ¿ Feb 15, 2020 12:21

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009

SubNat posted:

Moomin on the Riviera

This story is great in how it contrasts the Moomin valley's easy going communist utopia to the big world's capitalist-consumerist dystopia. One major theme is how life becomes insufferable for the common Moomin if you don't have your Everyman's Rights. For some this concept might not be familiar, so allow me to moominsplain it a bit. Basically in all Nordic countries it has always been a basic right to move through forests and rivers regardless of who owns the area. And you can pick mushrooms from the property of some millioneer and sell them tax free, ie. seize the means of fungal reproduction.

quote:

In Finland, the freedom to roam and related rights are called "jokamiehenoikeus" in Finnish and "allemansr�tten" in Swedish (lit. "the everyman's right"), similar to other Nordic countries. Everyone may walk, ski, ride a horse or cycle freely in the countryside where this does not harm the natural environment or the landowner, except in gardens or in the immediate vicinity of people's homes (yards). Fields and plantations, which may easily be harmed, may usually not be crossed except in the winter. It is also possible to establish outdoor recreation routes on private land, based on an agreement on the rights of use or by official proceedings in accordance with the Outdoor Recreation Act, for example.

One may stay or set up camp temporarily in the countryside, a reasonable distance from homes, pick mineral samples, wild berries, mushrooms and flowers (as long as they are not protected species). One may fish with a rod and line (only still waters), row, sail or use a motorboat on waterways (with certain restrictions), and swim or bathe in both inland waters and the sea. One can walk, ski and ice fish on frozen lakes, rivers and the sea. Income from selling picked berries or mushrooms is tax-free. Picking cloudberry may be temporarily restricted to local residents in parts of Lapland.

# ¿ Feb 22, 2020 21:55