I find it amusing that even though Joe’s sworn off his pre-marital hanky pankish ways, he’s still walking around with a STUDent shirt.
Like, he went through his laundry pile (all college students keep their laundry in pile form, it is known), and this was the least The Todd-like clean thing that he owns. It was either this or the Bone “Dig It” one.
I thought The Todd was a sex stuff store. One of the YouTube guys I follow shops there from time to time. All I get from Google is some guy from a doctor show.
How about some mutual blame?
Obviously, nothing would have happened if she’d kept her shoes on, but if he hadn’t yelled at her, but approached her more gently, he could have told her to put her shoes back on without anything happening.
Why does there have to be blame in the first place? She made a mistake and hurt her toe in an accident. Blaming Joe does absolutely nothing productive, especially since he was just acting out of concern for her.
Well, she was in shock earlier this morning. She was in denial about her toenail falling off a moment ago. Now she’s moved on to anger. Obviously, this is the 5 stages of toe-grief.
The real person to blame here is the single celled organism that split (or maybe absorbed a smaller organism gaining its genetic traits?) millions to billions of years ago and kickstarted the evolutionary process that would eventually lead to Joyce getting her toe injured.
The real person to blame here is Mike for occupying Ethan’s attention so he wouldn’t be in the exercise room being distracted by Jacob and preemptively saving Joyce’s toe.
Or alternately you could blame Dr Who for taking Mike back in time to meet up with Sheldon Cooper’s mom.
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Reltzik beat me to posting Pat Benatar, but it’s amazing how many things Google can find with “heartbreaker lyrics”…
Toebreaker, your time has come, can’t take your evil way;
Go away, toebreaker.
Toebreaker!
Toebreaker!
Toe!
(Led Zeppelin)
Toebreaker you’ve got the best of me
But I just keep on comin’ back incessantly
(Mariah Carey)
Don’t tell me you’re my toebreaker
Cause girl my toe’s breaking, toebreaker
(Justin Bieber)
This is how to be a toebreaker
Boys they like a little danger
We’ll get him falling for a stranger, a player
Singin’ I lo-lo-lo-love you
How to be a toebreaker
(Marina and The Diamonds)
Un-break my toe
Say you’ll walk me again
Undo this hurt you caused
When you asked where’s my shoe
And walked into the gym
Un-cry these tears
I cried so many seconds
Un-break my toe
“If it hadn’t been for cotton eye Joe, I’d been married long time ago.
Where did you come from, where did you go.
Where did you come from, cuttin my toe”
Joe ain’t a toebreaker, she shoulda wore her shoes
Joyce ain’t the stairmaster, she had somethin to lose
“Jason, carry me to someone with aid to give”
“Your RA’s right upstairs…” “I need my femurs to live!”
This is like all the insults my younger brother threw at me for my crap football throwing skills (except, you know, Joe isn’t guilty here). Masterful. ;-;
All the “gym equipment safety” videos Joyce would have watched growing up looked too much like ONJ’s “Physical” video to be allowed viewing in her home.
Joyce does not have common sense for a gym, or for being around heave equipment in general she was actually utilizing a different kind of common sense that was simply not applicable in that situation.
Like he turned her foot into a flea, and put that flea in a box, and put that box inside of another box, and then mailed that box to himself, and when it arrived, he SMASHED IT WITH A HAMMER.
She’s been to health services, that’s why she has a cast or splint. And maybe some painkillers. This is the sum total of what modern medicine can do for an injured or broken toe.
Did she really? If she has ideas about stapling on the nail it doesn’t sound like she has a cast or splint to me.
So, I suspect, at best some painkillers and a cold pack, at worst not even those because she hasn’t been to health services at all.
From “I thought they didn’t x-ray it”, it sounds like Joe thinks they went to health services.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there wasn’t a cast or splint. Like drs says, there’s not much to do for a broken toe. It’ll heal.
Hmm, I may have misread the art. What looked like a cast is her regular Ugg boot, which she’s using to walk on, and her other foot is just a sock held in mid-air. Though now I’m not sure how she walks at all without a crutch, even with a friend helping.
You would think she would be walking using the heel of the affected foot. That is how I walked for a few weeks when I stepped on a nail when I was a kid.
im guessiiing part of the reason joyce is mad is that joe did not want apologize for startling her. yea ultimately its her fault for not wearing shoes on gym equipment, but the first things joe did when joyce was hurt was go “this is your fault how did you not know this” and “you’re probably not THAT hurt if you’re still not swearing”. which is exactly the kind of thing one wants to hear when they’re in pain.
idk, personally i’d also hold a bit of a grudge at that point. obviously she’s being childish, but i’m pretty sure if he showed a hint of remorse to HER (not just to himself, and not just stuff like “…i’ll hold the door” at best, because admitting he feels bad is against his sense of self) she’d let it go.
I dunno, Joe startled her maybe, but he was attempting to warn her what she was doing was a very bad idea. Which it was, as evidenced by what happened next.
I guess Joyce doesn’t really appreciate Alanis Morrissette
Yeah, but he attempted to warn her in a dangerous way. Probably because he was startled. He could have walked around so she could see him without turning and asked her quietly to stop.
You don’t scream at someone on the edge of a cliff to “get away form there”. The last thing you want to do is startle them.
Just kidding. I really have been hoping forever that Joe and Joyce get together though. They balance each other out well, not afraid to call the other on their bullshit. Both sort of traditional enough to understand where the other is coming from but each more principled in certain ways the other is lacking.
Joyce, shut up. Joe, thank you for showing concern. Walky, a toenail wouldn’t be that great as a guitar pick. It would bend out of shape after a few days.
This is the sort of interaction that, at least in romantic comedies, leads to either life-long emnity or to a sloppy make-out session (or sometimes both). For me, it’s just another reminder that Joyce and Joe are still only eighteen and there is still a lot of child in them both.
I’m afraid Joe is going to escalate and bring up her flirting with Jacob. He’s been crapped on twice as a result of trying to be a decent person, and that can make someone lash out just as much as being in smashed-toe level of physical pain.
It makes me wish I could go back and explain things to 18 year old me.
I kinda get the feeling Joyce is channeling anger and embarrassment with herself into anger with Joe.
I’m not entirely sure what she is most embarrassed about. Being attracted to Jacob? Being attracted to Jacob when she was supposed to talk up Sarah? That she flirts with Jacob despite him having a girlfriend? That she has twigged on Sarah’s revenge scheme? That she broke her toe like a doofus when she tried to impress Jacob? Something else entirely?
Yeah, if a friend did what Joyce is pulling right here, I’d start disassociating myself from them real quick. She put herself in a dangerous situation and then blames somebody else for a natural startled and concerned reaction to witnessing her put herself in a dangerous situation.
I mean, in Joyce’s defence, if you see someone doing something dangerous, yelling “WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING” from *behind them* isn’t really the safest course of action. Joyce would have been much less likely to get hurt if Joe had calmly walked in front of her and said, without shouting, that it was dangerous to not use shoes on the exercise machine.
Whether acting startled is helpful or not isn’t the issue. Of course there were better things Joe could have done. But you don’t get to put yourself in a position where physics itself makes the situation dangerous and then blame somebody else for yelling at you. We can’t always control what we do in a crisis. But going into a place full of heavy machinery without even the barest bones of research and proceeding to use said machinery without caution or protective gear? Joyce’s injuries are on her, and her alone.
On an added note, I feel for Joyce. I haven’t *broken* my toe, but when I was 8 or 9 I stubbed my toe so bad that it *felt* like it had been broken. Especially when I accidentally wiggled it.
“I’m in pain and angry, and I’m blaming you even though you did nothing to hurt me and had I listened to you we’d all be much better off”, said every Trump supporter to the democratic party. But that’s ‘Merica.
Because the legitimate concern led directly to her injury? Even though she’d put herself at risk of it, it was when he yelled at her that she turned and hurt herself.
He was showing legitimate concern in today’s strip too. And it’s not unlikely she wouldn’t have injured herself even if he hadn’t shouted. She was pretty distracted to begin with.
But he did shout and that directly triggered her injury.
True, if he’d just ignored her, she might have done the same thing eventually. But if he hadn’t yelled at her, but had come up so she didn’t have to turn suddenly, and suggested stopping and putting her shoes on?
I rock climb and if someone was halfway up a route when I realized they weren’t safely belayed, I wouldn’t yell at them. That’s going to make them fall, if anything does. Don’t startle people doing dangerous things.
That’s good advice and a good point, but I think Joyce is mostly terrified to go to the doctor and lashing out. (This could be because she might be known for her role in the Toedad and Ryan thing, and what if an AUTHORITY figure told her to get therapy for her PTSD like a weak-minded unChristian who isn’t faithful enough to let God heal her, don’t these heathens realize God never works through people? Or it could be because doctors in Christian cults tend toward the “extra special hyper creepy and abusive” end of the spectrum. Either way, I’m watching this stuff unfold.)
She didn’t overlook the list, though. They ended up having an argument about it, it’s just her issue was not something that immediately stoked anger in her about it. She dug at him about her being the only person whose score reflected his personal feelings about her as a person, and not just some appraisal of her looks, and she showed him that he had reduced the people on the list to less than a person.
She certainly didn’t approve of it, she just handled it differently.
Upon further review, I have to give this one to Joyce. She was doing her own thing and only got injured when she was distracted by Joe. Joe, you’re still a shitlord.
i have broken both my little toes but luckily the nails did not fall off! they’re just….permanently crooked and painful. which is not really better. and kids, let’s all just agree it was an accident and next time we should wear shoes on the machines and try not to startle people on machines. okay? okay.
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I find it amusing that even though Joe’s sworn off his pre-marital hanky pankish ways, he’s still walking around with a STUDent shirt.
Like, he went through his laundry pile (all college students keep their laundry in pile form, it is known), and this was the least The Todd-like clean thing that he owns. It was either this or the Bone “Dig It” one.
I didn’t keep it all in a pile… when it was dirty… and only when it was right out of the dryer…
I refuse to accept that Joe has more than 2 shirts that don’t have stupid sex jokes on them
He doesn’t hammock up, he’s not so The Todd-like after all.
He only wears that when he goes to the beach
I thought The Todd was a sex stuff store. One of the YouTube guys I follow shops there from time to time. All I get from Google is some guy from a doctor show.
Thank you for saving me the effort. Way to take one for the team.
The Todd is indeed a character from the show Scrubs.
“It’s totally Joe’s fault I was an idiot”
1) Thank you
2) Bingo
I know from experience that broken toes REALLY suck, but this particular event is not Joe’s fault. Sorry Joyce, but swing and a miss.
How about some mutual blame?
Obviously, nothing would have happened if she’d kept her shoes on, but if he hadn’t yelled at her, but approached her more gently, he could have told her to put her shoes back on without anything happening.
Why does there have to be blame in the first place? She made a mistake and hurt her toe in an accident. Blaming Joe does absolutely nothing productive, especially since he was just acting out of concern for her.
Blaming rarely does anything productive, but it’s a very human reaction. Even you’re doing it – putting the blame entirely on her.
I mean, she’s overreacting by blaming Joe, but people here are overreacting the other way by absolving him entirely.
Well, she was in shock earlier this morning. She was in denial about her toenail falling off a moment ago. Now she’s moved on to anger. Obviously, this is the 5 stages of toe-grief.
Next strip she bargains with Walky for guitar pick rights.
Then, she accepts she can’t play Guitar?
it’s gonna end up with Danny using it on his ukulele, isn’t it
I feel like this train’s gone off the rails at this point.
The real person to blame here is whoever put the vending machines downstairs that kept Joyce from knowing about the exercise room before that morning
The real person to blame here is Carol, for growing Joyce with bones in her toe to be broken.
The real person to blame here is the single celled organism that split (or maybe absorbed a smaller organism gaining its genetic traits?) millions to billions of years ago and kickstarted the evolutionary process that would eventually lead to Joyce getting her toe injured.
The real person to blame here is the world that allowed that organism to develop, start an evolutionary process, and cause Joyce to break her toe.
The real person to blame here is the Big Bang.
For being a mediocre TV show.
The real person to blame here is Sheldon Cooper.
BAZINGO
The real person to blame here is Mike for occupying Ethan’s attention so he wouldn’t be in the exercise room being distracted by Jacob and preemptively saving Joyce’s toe.
Or alternately you could blame Dr Who for taking Mike back in time to meet up with Sheldon Cooper’s mom.
For a nickle.
Joyce doesn’t believe in evolution, so for her the real person to blame is God for creating people with toes that can be broken so easily.
Let there be light, and Joyce broke her toe.
Just before that…
“Ow, Me damnit. What did I just step on?”
Probably a lego.
God prefers Kre-O.
ToeGod?
“My toes were made by GOD!”
“So, the real person to blame here is God?”
“Ye– wait…”
“Ummmm… huh, that’s a real contradict– no, no, those don’t exist, they’re made up Satanic myths like climate change. Uh… uh… BLAME JOE!”
I mean “blame the Jews” is a Christian tradition, so…
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*two minutes of pictures of sizzling bacon*
Bacon – you know you want some.
@needfuldoer, well, thirty percent of it anyway.
It’s all part of God’s plan.
But He’s all=loving. He had to break Joyce’s toe because He loves her.
This, but without the sarcasm. 😉
Much like Leprosy, Ebola, and Childhood Cancer are all expressions of how much God loves us…
Oh, Joyce, you really should have been a drama student
The student has become the master.
Ah but she’s a Joebreaker
More he’d break her…..in, Gigidty!
this is the worst comment i’ve ever seen
Toebreaker would be a pretty weird superhero. Maybe they’d be a supervillain instead?
The first Mad Max movie had a villain called Toecutter. Maybe this is the family friendly version for a hypothetical Saturday Morning Cartoon.
Love that the actor also played Immortan’ Joe
Sal would be the Night Rider.
Well now you got me thinking of Kung Fu Hustle
I once ran the Hungarian title for that movie (A Pofonok Földje) through Google Translate and got back “The Land of the Poop” (Wikipedia claims it means “The Land of Punches”).
Hungarian (rum) Punch — Poop.
Hm.
I can see where the natural confusion might lie.
Tho technically it should be “Land of the Pink Poop.” *
* – Please consider this post to have come with a sincere and heartfelt apology to Hungarians everywhere.
He was part of the Toesguard, but he betrayed his oath because it was “the Mad Toe”.
I have trouble envisioning him getting past henchman level.
I’d bet he has that crazy combination of “expendable and indestructible” a great henchman needs.
Toebreaker would be the nemesis of Toedad, obviously.
♬ Say it ain’t so-o-o-o! ♬
♬ Your Joe is a toe, break ERRRRR ♬
Totally should have made that “Say it ain’t Joe-oe-oe-oe.”
(This board needs an edit feature so bad)
Why do you have to be a Toebreaker–Is that a lesson that I never knew?–apologies to Dionne Warwick & the Bee Gees
“Your STUD(ent) is a Toe-Break-ERRRR!”
There, that’s the final version 😛
You’re a/
toebreaker/
gym hazard/
a distracter/
don’t you mess around with me
(Sorry, Pat.)
Reltzik beat me to posting Pat Benatar, but it’s amazing how many things Google can find with “heartbreaker lyrics”…
Toebreaker, your time has come, can’t take your evil way;
Go away, toebreaker.
Toebreaker!
Toebreaker!
Toe!
(Led Zeppelin)
Toebreaker you’ve got the best of me
But I just keep on comin’ back incessantly
(Mariah Carey)
Don’t tell me you’re my toebreaker
Cause girl my toe’s breaking, toebreaker
(Justin Bieber)
This is how to be a toebreaker
Boys they like a little danger
We’ll get him falling for a stranger, a player
Singin’ I lo-lo-lo-love you
How to be a toebreaker
(Marina and The Diamonds)
Un-break my toe
Say you’ll walk me again
Undo this hurt you caused
When you asked where’s my shoe
And walked into the gym
Un-cry these tears
I cried so many seconds
Un-break my toe
(with ambivalence toward Toni Braxton)
Toebreaker, toebreaker, break me a toe.
Smoosh me a bone, yell at a Joe
Toebreaker, toebreaker, it’s all your fault
You broke my poor big toe.
*joins in on the Weezer-train*
Say it ain’t Jo-o-o-o-oe
It’s his fault, he’s my blame-takerr
“If it hadn’t been for cotton eye Joe, I’d been married long time ago.
Where did you come from, where did you go.
Where did you come from, cuttin my toe”
Joe ain’t a toebreaker, she shoulda wore her shoes
Joyce ain’t the stairmaster, she had somethin to lose
“Jason, carry me to someone with aid to give”
“Your RA’s right upstairs…” “I need my femurs to live!”
(Kanye West, “Gold Digger”, the bridge)
Actual babies, the lot of them.
That paints the Slipshine comics in an entirely different light.
They’re Grown-ish
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I’m sure Joe and she will have a lot of them. Eventually.
This is like all the insults my younger brother threw at me for my crap football throwing skills (except, you know, Joe isn’t guilty here). Masterful. ;-;
I enjoy how you can see joe’s slow descent into frustration due to joyce’s immaturity from the expressions alone 😀
It’s hilarious how easily she gets under his skin.
Toenails made bad guitar picks.
Too flexible, too fragile, and the strings would cut right through them in time.
Sorry, Walky.
he could encase it in resin
Better yet, get it bronzed.
….
…. not because you want it for a guitar pick. Just, whenever you have bits of your body fall off or surgically removed? BRONZED.
Can femurs be bronzed?
It appears I am asking the wrong person.
Probably a process similar to Amazigirl’s lab accident. But with bronze.
“I was bitten by a radioactive bronze statue…”
Oooooooh, that could be dangerous. What isotope of copper are we talking about? Copper-64 gives off both Beta and Gamma rays. Nasty stuff.
“…giving me the power to become a Living Statue!”
Really, if there’s a better explanation for how folks paint themselves and then pretend to be statues, let me know.
Joe is not responsible for Joyce’s astounding lack of common sense
We didn’t actually evolve to have “gym equipment safety” common sense.
Regardless, Joe still isn’t responsible.
All the “gym equipment safety” videos Joyce would have watched growing up looked too much like ONJ’s “Physical” video to be allowed viewing in her home.
Carol and Hank share the blame.
Also explained why Becky has no idea what was in Toedad’s weights room.
No, but “don’t take off your shoes in a dirty public place” kind of is
especially since she’s borderline a germaphobe
I bet she could play some real toetappers with that nail.
Joyce does not have common sense for a gym, or for being around heave equipment in general she was actually utilizing a different kind of common sense that was simply not applicable in that situation.
Oops I replied to the wrong thread.
Don’t be shitty, Joyce.
She’s being petty and ridiculous but that’s all her interactions with Joe, for once Joe just doesn’t deserve it
If anything, Joyce is the Toebreaker. Remember that time she punched out a giant toe?
The post-KO victory dance was a bit too much. Proof that this comic did NOT need a Toedab.
Man, that pun was Toebad.
I mean, the valkyries are already carving “TOEBREAKER” into her drinking horn that awaits her in Valhalla.
You make it sound like he smashed your foot with a hammer.
Like he turned her foot into a flea, and put that flea in a box, and put that box inside of another box, and then mailed that box to himself, and when it arrived, he SMASHED IT WITH A HAMMER.
… or, to save on postage…
You know, in Joyce’s defense, the exercise machines all look alike. They might think about relabeling some of them.
Why do they even HAVE that stair machine?
Well, you got me. By all accounts, it doesn’t make sense.
Who would buy a piece of exercise equipment named the toebreaker machine?
I was the worlds nicest girl and they ruined my foot for no reason.
Joe the Toe braker has a good ring to it though.
I’M STIIIIIIIIIIIILL IN A DREEEEEEEAM
TOOOOEBREEEAKEERRRRRRRRRR
I wonder how tree frogs taste…
Look! Joe and Joyce are having the same argument the comment section has been having for a week!
I want to know why the flim-flam Joyce is in class and not at health services.
She’s been to health services, that’s why she has a cast or splint. And maybe some painkillers. This is the sum total of what modern medicine can do for an injured or broken toe.
Did she really? If she has ideas about stapling on the nail it doesn’t sound like she has a cast or splint to me.
So, I suspect, at best some painkillers and a cold pack, at worst not even those because she hasn’t been to health services at all.
From “I thought they didn’t x-ray it”, it sounds like Joe thinks they went to health services.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there wasn’t a cast or splint. Like drs says, there’s not much to do for a broken toe. It’ll heal.
Take some aspirin and wait a week. 🙂
Hmm, I may have misread the art. What looked like a cast is her regular Ugg boot, which she’s using to walk on, and her other foot is just a sock held in mid-air. Though now I’m not sure how she walks at all without a crutch, even with a friend helping.
You would think she would be walking using the heel of the affected foot. That is how I walked for a few weeks when I stepped on a nail when I was a kid.
Where did you come from?
Where did you go?
Where did you come from, Toebreaker Joe?
im guessiiing part of the reason joyce is mad is that joe did not want apologize for startling her. yea ultimately its her fault for not wearing shoes on gym equipment, but the first things joe did when joyce was hurt was go “this is your fault how did you not know this” and “you’re probably not THAT hurt if you’re still not swearing”. which is exactly the kind of thing one wants to hear when they’re in pain.
idk, personally i’d also hold a bit of a grudge at that point. obviously she’s being childish, but i’m pretty sure if he showed a hint of remorse to HER (not just to himself, and not just stuff like “…i’ll hold the door” at best, because admitting he feels bad is against his sense of self) she’d let it go.
mm
I dunno, Joe startled her maybe, but he was attempting to warn her what she was doing was a very bad idea. Which it was, as evidenced by what happened next.
I guess Joyce doesn’t really appreciate Alanis Morrissette
Yeah, but he attempted to warn her in a dangerous way. Probably because he was startled. He could have walked around so she could see him without turning and asked her quietly to stop.
You don’t scream at someone on the edge of a cliff to “get away form there”. The last thing you want to do is startle them.
You’re a…
Toe Breaker
Joy(ce) Taker
Joe Faker don’t you mess around with me
Desperatooooooeeeeee..
Gold
All the Internets.
I ship it
Joyce just has to flirt with with all the boys.
I meant Walky and hot toepick.
Just kidding. I really have been hoping forever that Joe and Joyce get together though. They balance each other out well, not afraid to call the other on their bullshit. Both sort of traditional enough to understand where the other is coming from but each more principled in certain ways the other is lacking.
You’re a toebreaker,
Hurt maker, nail taker,
Don’t you mess around with me
If I had a toe
I’d break it in the morning
I’d break it in the evening
All over this land
They’re so gonna bang.
their toes on furniture
Flair checks out?
Not this time! I think these two would make an interesting couple. I just couldn’t resist making a little joke.
Joyce, shut up. Joe, thank you for showing concern. Walky, a toenail wouldn’t be that great as a guitar pick. It would bend out of shape after a few days.
Oh, but WHAT a few days!
maybe you could laminate it
I keep thinking “Toebreaker” is like some badass Viking name and then immediately realizing that no, it’s probably not.
It’s kinda like Taserface.
HA! HA! HA! HA!
Given what the legendary Naglfar means, it doesn’t seem that far off.
Nagifar. I ship it.
Also, shouldn’t Joyce at least have an ice pack?
I mean, she’s pretty icy right now anyway, but in principle?
This is the sort of interaction that, at least in romantic comedies, leads to either life-long emnity or to a sloppy make-out session (or sometimes both). For me, it’s just another reminder that Joyce and Joe are still only eighteen and there is still a lot of child in them both.
I’m afraid Joe is going to escalate and bring up her flirting with Jacob. He’s been crapped on twice as a result of trying to be a decent person, and that can make someone lash out just as much as being in smashed-toe level of physical pain.
It makes me wish I could go back and explain things to 18 year old me.
Would you be able to resist getting into a shouting match with your teenage self?
I’m sorry, I can’t hear you being right over the sound of me being petulant.
The best part about this comment is that it applies to Joyce AND Joe
Joyce instigated the argument. Joe was staying out of her way, and she’s just being a brat.
Joe the Toe breaker! Toe breaker! Toe breaker!
Now all we need is Toedad.
Wait, maybe not.
Walky’s thinking deep thoughts, he and new Danny might hit it off and create a band─Danny on ukulele and Walky as front singer!
Glad to see someone is focusing on what’s important here
Toebreaker has a good theme but was a strange movie. “Do you expect me to talk?” “Toebreaker, toebreaker toebreaker.”
that toes gonna get worse probably
Walky’s developing!
…
He kept his thought to himself (for now)
I kinda get the feeling Joyce is channeling anger and embarrassment with herself into anger with Joe.
I’m not entirely sure what she is most embarrassed about. Being attracted to Jacob? Being attracted to Jacob when she was supposed to talk up Sarah? That she flirts with Jacob despite him having a girlfriend? That she has twigged on Sarah’s revenge scheme? That she broke her toe like a doofus when she tried to impress Jacob? Something else entirely?
This entire arc was created entirely to make people type “toe” as many times as possible, wasn’t it.
But will we beat the record set in Toedad’s arc?
Nailed it.
I find it ironic that all the toe talk hasn’t caused Youto(e)me to make an appearance.
Yeah, if a friend did what Joyce is pulling right here, I’d start disassociating myself from them real quick. She put herself in a dangerous situation and then blames somebody else for a natural startled and concerned reaction to witnessing her put herself in a dangerous situation.
I mean, in Joyce’s defence, if you see someone doing something dangerous, yelling “WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING” from *behind them* isn’t really the safest course of action. Joyce would have been much less likely to get hurt if Joe had calmly walked in front of her and said, without shouting, that it was dangerous to not use shoes on the exercise machine.
Imagine someone using a table saw in an unsafe way and you yell at them from behind.
Whether acting startled is helpful or not isn’t the issue. Of course there were better things Joe could have done. But you don’t get to put yourself in a position where physics itself makes the situation dangerous and then blame somebody else for yelling at you. We can’t always control what we do in a crisis. But going into a place full of heavy machinery without even the barest bones of research and proceeding to use said machinery without caution or protective gear? Joyce’s injuries are on her, and her alone.
Ew Walky no, that’s gross.
Yes, Walky, that’s metal.
On an added note, I feel for Joyce. I haven’t *broken* my toe, but when I was 8 or 9 I stubbed my toe so bad that it *felt* like it had been broken. Especially when I accidentally wiggled it.
This is how to be a toebreaker
Girls they like a little danger
We’ll get her falling on a treadmill,
ignoring gym safety, singing oh-oh-ouch my feet
I wish Joyce would woman up and stop acting like she’s crippled for life. This is ridiculous. It’s a TOE, FFS.
The ironic part to me is that Joyce will legitimately feel a LOT better once that nail comes off, since that means the pressure will drop sharply.
Yeah, that’s where I see this going. She’s probably going to be grossed out, but then follow it up with “Huh.” at it being a relief.
I love Joyce but right here? Fuck Joyce. Seriously.
They’re at peak Takahashi.
But you can’t give that nickname to Joe after you’re the one who punched the Toe(dad).
Joyce is irrationally ticked at Joe.
But goddamn if she isn’t being annoying.
“I’m in pain and angry, and I’m blaming you even though you did nothing to hurt me and had I listened to you we’d all be much better off”, said every Trump supporter to the democratic party. But that’s ‘Merica.
Death to America, Trump victorious.
I find it funny that Joyce could look past the List but Joe showing legitimate concern for her crossed the line.
Because the legitimate concern led directly to her injury? Even though she’d put herself at risk of it, it was when he yelled at her that she turned and hurt herself.
He was showing legitimate concern in today’s strip too. And it’s not unlikely she wouldn’t have injured herself even if he hadn’t shouted. She was pretty distracted to begin with.
But he did shout and that directly triggered her injury.
True, if he’d just ignored her, she might have done the same thing eventually. But if he hadn’t yelled at her, but had come up so she didn’t have to turn suddenly, and suggested stopping and putting her shoes on?
I rock climb and if someone was halfway up a route when I realized they weren’t safely belayed, I wouldn’t yell at them. That’s going to make them fall, if anything does. Don’t startle people doing dangerous things.
That’s good advice and a good point, but I think Joyce is mostly terrified to go to the doctor and lashing out. (This could be because she might be known for her role in the Toedad and Ryan thing, and what if an AUTHORITY figure told her to get therapy for her PTSD like a weak-minded unChristian who isn’t faithful enough to let God heal her, don’t these heathens realize God never works through people? Or it could be because doctors in Christian cults tend toward the “extra special hyper creepy and abusive” end of the spectrum. Either way, I’m watching this stuff unfold.)
She didn’t overlook the list, though. They ended up having an argument about it, it’s just her issue was not something that immediately stoked anger in her about it. She dug at him about her being the only person whose score reflected his personal feelings about her as a person, and not just some appraisal of her looks, and she showed him that he had reduced the people on the list to less than a person.
She certainly didn’t approve of it, she just handled it differently.
Upon further review, I have to give this one to Joyce. She was doing her own thing and only got injured when she was distracted by Joe. Joe, you’re still a shitlord.
She was doing it wrong and dangerously. She could have gotten hurt anyway. Neither is completely free of blame here.
Stop being a gross little shit, Walky.
… I sang along. I’m not ashamed.
Me: I ship Joe/Joyce
Also Me: Joe can do better
Joyce is being….ugh. Immature. Childish?
Walky’s comment is making me want to see a cover for a metal album titled Toebreaker.
i have broken both my little toes but luckily the nails did not fall off! they’re just….permanently crooked and painful. which is not really better. and kids, let’s all just agree it was an accident and next time we should wear shoes on the machines and try not to startle people on machines. okay? okay.