yea her freshman roomate was such a druggie sara nearly flunked out. fact is she’s not a bongo the other girls who are giving her crap for reporting her roomate are
How many people in the course of this strip has she been genuinely nice to? I count one, maybe two at a push?
What she did with her room-mate was right, no doubt about that, but she doesn’t exactly go out of her way to be nice.
Yeah I have never liked that whole product of her environment thing as it 1) shows a lack of total self awareness or awareness that her environment has changed and 2) Means that anyone that is racist can say, “Hey I am a product of my environment not my fault but I won’t change”
She is a product of her environment, but that only accounts for part of how she acts. From how she reacts when she does do antisocial things, she is aware of what she is doing and why.
As for your second part, that’s an argument that can easily be dissolved. Especially given that it’s something that you say something of someone else, not something you claim. Claiming it makes it untrue.
Are you kidding me? I can’t remember the details, but I assume it was smoked in their room, and that’s MORE than enough reason to turn a pothead in.
Pot stinks to high heaven, and if there’s enough smoke around, you get a kind of contact high from it, making any kind of serious studying impossible. So, unless the backstory involves her stalking her roomie to get them busted, I’m very firmly on her side. Everyone talks about how inoffensive pot is, but Even leaving aside the legality of it, It’s every bit as foul and rude as cigarettes are.
None of you have ever even read “roomies” have you? Mr. Willis likes to exhibit a form of self righteousness in certain characters as a sign of naive immaturity. Danny was like this in his previous story and problems arose in his life because of it.
Any way, there are ways to get around getting anyone in trouble. You can discuss the issue with your room mate orrrrrr opt for a housing change. Both are better than being a narc. If you opt for the narc route you’d better be ready to be ostracized from college society.
A lot of people drink or smoke in college and none of them want to hang out with a girl who will throw them under the buss.
Peer pressure does not give you the right to compromise your campus roommate for something that can get you both barred from campus if said roommate just turns a blind eye to it.
It is not, nor should ever have been, Sarah’s problem. The person who didn’t care that she was making it her problem got what she deserved.
Aye. Message for Raidah: Antagonizing Sarah is a poor substitute for failure to do anything to bail your friend out, instead of simply expecting Sarah’s ‘hater’ ass to ‘be cool.’
We don’t know for sure that you didn’t, but it’s a plausible assumption.
Yeah, yeah, Sarah’s still a ‘bongo’ either way, but that only furthers how not leaving your friend’s fate in her grump roommate’s hands would’ve counted a lot more towards proving you actually CARED about her than this fix-er-uppa tomato throwing…
If your life can be ruined by people telling the wrong people the truth, it’s past time to reconsider your life choices. Like maybe don’t chose to break the law on a daily basis in front of someone who has no reason to lie for you.
Now I can’t unsee. I must assume her eyes look like that because she is high and she’s just mad at Sarah for being a snitch. Otherwise she needs to see a doctor ASAP.
It will probably be the character most beloved by the fans that hasn’t made it into Dumbing of Age. We wil realise within three coments that we will now never get a DoA version of that character who is regular and then we will all hate Sarah as much as the girls do.
This strip makes me feel for Sarah though. Maybe, maybe she just hates everyone now because she is stuck with all the hate anyway…
Nah I still cannot like her. Because I am a bad person.
i know what you mean, i feel bad she had a bad roommate and is getting all this hate, but at the same time, her anti-social tendencies are not helping her situation, so while i do feel bad for her, part of it is also her own fault
Oh for sure. Vicious cycle that way. Like attracts like and whatnot. When everyone in your life is a hostile figure you have a tendency to assume anyone will be hostile until shown otherwise. When you treat everyone like they’re hostile it doesn’t take long for them to become so.
Our world creates us and then we in turn forge the world around us in an endless cycle of growth. With our every action we manipulate the environment and remake it in our image.
Joe is a horny man who lives in a world dominated by sexuality. Dan is a worrier who lives in a world of problems. Walky is a jokester who lives in a world of laughs and fun. Sarah’s surroundings too reflect her just as she reflects them.
Yeah. I totally ate there almost every day in college, just ’cause it was the best food, but their actively saying, “We’ll feed everyone, but screw your marriage” is an insult.
I used to live within walking distance to a delicious doughnut shop! And then Chik-Fil-A came along, buys out the place, and leaves me alone, and dougnutless. That’s why I hate Chik-Fil-A. As for the whole gay thing, I’ve got some googling to do!
Yep! It’s in the South though, and it’s based on Christian foundations. It funds anti-gay rallies or something. I still eat there though because their chicken is delicious and anti-gay rallies are pointless anyways. Also it’s not open on Sundays, the ONLY day when I ever crave it. (I hope you weren’t being sarcastic, otherwise I probably sound like an idiot right now)
GJs and Hillsong aren’t connected in quite the same way. GJ’s is owned by members (including an elder) of Hillsong, and both organisations used to support Mercy Minitsries, a religous based women’s shelter, until it came out how dodgy they were (exorcism instead of counselling etc). When that happened both GJs and Hillsong dropped sponsorship like a rock.
That’s the closest they’ve come to any direct financial support of one another.
I don’t go to Hillsong (far from it) or work for GJs, but I practically live down the road from Hillsong so you find this stuff out
Imma feeling like I should find some way to get their recipe books…then I wouldn’t have to give them money to get their food…but I don’t wanna get in trouble with laws and stuff either…so I can’t do that…so I need to find a way to convince myself that I don’t love their food at all…this will be hard…boo…
There are Chick-Fil-A’s all over. A few sporadic in the North and one just opened up in Mormon Country, lol. Also there are a few opening this year in California, one being in Hollywood. Houston has some, Minnesota has them in colleges right now, there are obviously a lot in the south and there are dozens open in Ohio.
BTW, the beliefs of Truett Cathy and his family are Christian based views. We serve everyone, no matter who they are. However, it is up to the disgression of the owner/operator of the restaurant, where they provide food. It’s why Chick-Fil-A has been labeled as the top chicken restaurants, and one of the top 5 in the latest Consumer Reports and are opening more and more stores every year. They stick to their morals and values which is whey they’ve stayed one of the top restaurants in this economy.
Sorry, but that defense doesn’t fly with me.
If he were simply sticking to his religious ideals, that’s one thing. However, he associates with militant groups like the American Family Association and Focus on the Family – both of whom are on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Hate Group” list for their ties to white nationalist organizations, as well as specific ethno-centric activities. Example: Bryan Fischer or the AFA recently was quoted as having support for suspected Norway mass-murderer Anders Breivik. Also, Cathey is a primary contributor to “Exodus International” who attempt to convert gays via what many reputable people in the psychology field consider brainwashing and intimidation.
So sorry, I can’t support an organization who directly associates with and funds these violent nutjobs.
If I eat there, Chik-fil-A uses my money to hurt people I love by donating to groups that actively work against marriage equality. The chicken is delicious, which is the reason why they’re doing well, not their morals and values anti-gay bigotry.
Hey, the owner of Chick-fil-A has repeatedly said that he has nothing against gays, even being a Christian. (I’m Christian, I have aunts that are gay, a lot of my friends are gay, I don’t care or judge.) And I know for a fact that at least one of the locations in my area of Indiana has 5 homosexuals working there.
I’m sorry, but saying “I have nothing against gays” and then funding an organization with the goals of denying equal marriage rights is even worse. Then again he may be saying “I have nothing against gays” but still be anti gay marriage which is a duality I can never really understand.
I am boycotting cfa but I will also be the first to admit that I have never been a huge fan of their products and I don’t really have terms in place for when I will stop boycotting them. I think short of them advertising “for every chicken sandwich you buy, a dollar goes to supporting equal marriage rights” I probably won’t eat there ever again.
I can verify from experience that Indiana University Bloomington, where the comic is set, has a Chick-Fil-A in the food court of the main library. I had some, due to a college friend from Texas raving about it. It was… ok.
Don’t remember seeing a C-F-A anywhere in Bloomington, come to think of it. Though I remember seeing one elsewhere not too long ago, which should mean Boston.
That’s a real place? Man , and when I read the name, I thought “That’s a funny name for a restaurant, but they’d never let anyone use it.” I suppose the crude sexual reference just went over their heads.
It’s pretty rare that there’s only one jerk in the room. It’s also uncommon to find that jerks are motivated by all the kindness that surrounds them.
If we’re following Sarah’s daily activities, we’re gonna find other jerks. Like is drawn to like and whatnot.
In point of fact it’s actually kind of representative of a different paradigm. Joyce for example goes throughout her day and sees kind people, makes friends, encounters misunderstandings that may be overcome. The most villainous figure she encountered was Joe and even his villainy took the form of a civilized, intelligent, and reasonable discussion.
Sarah goes through her day and she sees crowds filled with spiteful people beyond reason. The great act of kindness she encounters is someone willing to share a table in silence. Neutrality and uncaring is the high-point in for her.
Keep in mind too that anyone who becomes friends with her will quickly be forced to choose between putting up with what she puts up with or becoming part of that jeering spiteful crowd.
This is the kind of shit that effects your perceptions. That’s how Sarah and Joyce can look at Billie and see two entirely different people.
I wonder if the jeering spiteful crowd might back off a bit if Sarah had some friends. Right now, she’s an easy target because she’s constantly alone (often due to her own actions).
It’s the same girl calling her a bongo that was telling her off at the table before Dorothy joined her the other day. This one girl in particular was probably besties with Sarah’s old roomie.
It’s been said before that she didn’t alienate people until this group of girls began being cruel to her, because she turned their friend in for doing drugs.
… for singling out cfa as Sarah’s go-to when she decides she cares more about her mental health than her physical health, and therefore goes for fast food instead of cafeteria food with the full, negative expectation that she is going to put on weight as a result of this change in her habits?
I mean, not that someone of Sarah’s stature and build can’t afford to gain a few pounds, but this is pretty clearly considered to be a negative development by the character, intended to be a negative development by the creator, and, judging by the comments, being viewed as a negative development by a significant portion of the readers. I kind of doubt many people are reading this and thinking “Gee, I want to be just like Sarah and make enemies that make my life a living hell until I can’t eat what I want to eat and live on fattening fast food instead! Better head over to Chik-Fil-A!”
Because “Tim” is a paid employee of a Chick-a-Filet public relations firm and at this point they are happy for any media outlet outside of fox news saying anything not directly insulting about them.
…No they aren’t. To my knowledge this is the first character in this universe who Willis has not used somewhere else in one of his other comics, thus making them not new.
Depending on what you eat. If you work there you don’t gain much at all. I experienced that at KFC. Took me 3 years just to gain 20 pounds, lol! I’ve been working at CFA for a few years now as well and it’s very healthy. Fruit Cups, salads, chargrilled, even fried is good for you unless you’re watching your salt intake
I’m actually on a health diet, which I’ve recently discovered is called a “Cleanse”, but it’s really just a mini-cleanse (By the Way, I’m skinny, and always have been). I still eat chicken, but I’m trying to eat less fried and more grilled, no salt on fries, fruit cups. Occasionally, I’ll drink some pop, but recently it’s just been water or Unsweet tea.
Traditionally, its the “Freshman Fifteen”, as in pounds gained since now that one is away from your parents, you can eat whatever you like. Usually pizza and your favorite soda. (Mine was Root Beer). Since Sarah is now eating fast food instead of eating in the dining commons (to avoid further unpleasantness) she expects to put on weight in her sophomore year.
And so once again, we see one of the characters in a situation that makes them the sympathetic underdog…and I feel absolutely no sympathy whatsoever. The lot of them are such annoying jerks that this kind of thing comes across as just karma having its way.
Honestly, the only thing Sarah is doing wrong is expecting to be ostracized. Turning in her roommate was purely an act of self-defense, and while you might call it selfish, it definitely wasn’t unjustified. She just needs to punish herself over it less.
People keep defending how extreme the situation was but I don’t recall it getting explained from anyone else’s point of view. Perhaps the stoners form before just smoked now and then on rare occasions. It would fit her attitude toward everyone if she narced on someone completely reasonable who had a casual smoke.
This precisely. So far, Sarah has been rude, mean, and insufferably smug to pretty much everybody. I’m having a hard time believing that the grief she’s getting is merely about turning in a roommate. Particularly because even her brief story way back at the beginning seemed to indicate that said roomie smoked on her own time somewhere outside of the dorm.
Unless the roommate waited until the high was completely gone and never brought a stash back to the dorm, I think Sarah was entitled to be uncomfortable about the behavior. Did she handle trying to change the situation as well as she could have? Maybe, maybe not. But I have a feeling no one would be giving her grief about not wanting a roommate who smoked legal substances, even if said person only did it outside and on a “casual” basis.
As you wrote, maybe, maybe not. The fact remains that she’s been abrasive and nasty without cause to pretty much everyone. That calls into question how honest and accurate she was with her brief retelling of events. After all, the kind of bad attitude she’s shown so far doesn’t form overnight. I’d lay pretty good odds that she provoked a lot of bad feelings even before getting her roomie expelled.
Probably an honest telling, but you’re right. This attitude isn’t developed overnight. Can’t imagine she was a walking pile of sunshine and rainbows before the incident.
Most likely she made some enemies on that day, but was never actually the most well liked person to begin with.
Even the fact that her defense mechanism against this is to drive people away seems to imply that this isn’t new behavior for her. Probably a tried and true tactic. Probably not the first time she’s alienated herself like this, probably won’t be the last.
Sarah’s done a pretty good job at being unsympathetic, so far.
Having a bad attitude towards Raidah is justified. Having a bad attitude towards everyone else… not so much.
Yes, I *could*. But at least for the time being, reading a comic where all the main characters are naive jerks is fairly interesting.
And simply posting my honest reaction can not fairly be called “snarky”. Of course, if for any reason you don’t like my comments, feel free to ignore them and scroll on by.
Yeah, sorry, I was feeling a little cranky when I wrote that. It just bothers me how often I see people ragging on the characters around here, and I picked on your comment. So, sorry, about that.
I will do my best to follow my own advice from here on.
Were characters not creating problems for themselves where would the conflict come from? Some external force? Maybe a group of space aliens that forms a common conflict for all and forces everyone to work as a cohesive group and thus behave as decent human beings?
Ridiculous. Space aliens indeed. I don’t know where you come up with such fanciful notions but I’d suggest you get your head out of the clouds.
Funny you say that…I seem to recall quite a bit of the conflict in the story WITH the space aliens coming from internal problems of the characters. It wasn’t the ONLY source of woes, of course, but still….
I do love Sarah, but, yeah, this strip is just kinda hammering an issue that should have been developed further by now. I imagine that it is just a lead-in strip and we will see Sarah actually do something in the next one, but I do see that it can lose sympathy with the reader if they try to milk an issue more than it is worth. DoA characters are somewhat at a risk of being Flanderized (sh*t word but that’s how TvTropes calls it), ie. being reduced to only a handful of easy-to-convey traits. Sarah’s becoming a single-issue character and it’s not helping her.
I lost weight my freshman year. Our food service was horrific, and the nearest fast food was thirty miles away, in another state. They built a McDonald’s in town my sophomore year, and you could find about a quarter of campus there most nights. I can’t even eat McDonald’s anymore if I don’t want to spend the rest of the day in the bathroom, but it was still a huge step up from the cafeteria “food”.
I can’t really feel bad for Sarah because she REALLY brings it on herself. In fact, I don’t even see why she’s distraught in the last panel; she doesn’t like people, anyway.
This strip brings up questions. Such as, did Sarah stupidly not turn in her roommate anonymously? Did she do so but the tip source was leaked? Did the roommate’s friends just assume/figure out it was her? What was the roommate on? Was Sarah a bongo about it?
cause she is one. She’s probably the only character that I don’t think is an alright person with her negative get rid of everyone over some previous experience knowing a stoner thing.
You say ‘everyone’, but she was friendly with Joyce one she established she was not a stoner; and she was downright sociable with Dorothy. It just seems like you’re making her out to be bongoy Mcbongoington when she’s not.
When was Sarah “friendly” with Joyce? Was it the time she was looking down her nose at her by patronizingly assuring her that the world was going to “break” her? Ditto with Dorothy, given her patronizing “good for you, little girl!” speech.
Seriously, point me to a single time in DoA where Sarah hasn’t been either rude, out-right mean, or insufferably smug, because I can’t find one. Even her lecture at Joe before his date with Joyce was just screamingly self-centered. “Don’t do what I don’t want you to do, because I’m worried that it would personally inconvenience me!”
Smugness, meanness, and rudeness are relative. This is less a matter of scenes where she wasn’t as you describe and more a matter of exactly where you’re drawing the line. Fifteen degrees celcius is shorts weather here, but it’s warranting of winter apparel in Peru. Same principle.
She’s smug, mean, and rude, but I can count on my fingers the times I would have viewed her as insufferably so. Generally when she’s saying things that are true but which shouldn’t be said, so even then she gets a bit of a buffer for being the “She says what we’re thinking” character.
It also helps if you enjoy her sense of humor. A lot of what she says is either funny or just plain offensive with very little middle ground. “Maybe you’re their eleventh plague”.
They had just a few hours before that ended a conversation on the note of “I’ll be sad when the world breaks you”.
If I were her I know for a fact I’d be getting unnerved by the fact that this person still wanted to talk to me, let alone that she was having trouble taking no for an answer. Lord knows I’d be uncomfortable with the notion of sitting down for a meal with her.
Not saying it makes it better or anything, but seriously, what the fuck is Joyce doing here? It’s like the dog growled and she just kept going in to pet the thing, then was suddenly surprised when the dog escalated to barking.
That being said, outside of that whole incident I do think she’s been pretty friendly with Joyce.
Chick-fil-a uses a seperate fryer for their potatoes so people with wheat allergies or celiac spruce patients can enjoy thier tasty waffle fries without worries of cross contamination from all that chicken breading. For that I love them.
There’s actually a place called Chick-Fil-A? Who the heck thought that was a good name…*google times*…Alright then, there are apparently two around me here in Michigan (according to the store locator) one to the north and one to the south; both far enough that I would have never seen them. Makes sense. I can’t believe I’ve never heard of a name as goofy as this. It’s worse than chicken in a bisket.
Yes. The food their isn’t that bad. They had a pretty good “secret” sauce or whatever. Though they hate gay people since I hear they supported the ban on gay marriage in California. Some people choose not to eat their because of that.
Is IU really such a small school that Sarah can’t move across campus (or even off campus) and not see the majority of the people she doesn’t want to see? The school where I go is 26000 students, so i can usually find somewhere to avoid people I don’t want to see.
Well here it is, the Sarah arc. I hope this one is mercifully short, but I’m pretty sure it won’t be, considering how Sarah was talked about as a main character back when DoA! was started. She just isn’t entertaining to read, honestly. I know she’s supposed to be damaged and flawed like every character, and she is, but she’s just WHINY. Even when a character is perfectly justified, that kind of curt attitude is just grating to read, honestly. Heck she even managed to make insulting Joe annoying to read, just from her attitude. She made insulting Joe, a COMPLETE jackass, hard to read. That takes talent. I really, really hope she goes away soon, I really do.
Okay, see after an entire summer has passed, one would think this women would get over their issues towards Sarah or at least get to a point where they just didn’t acknowledge her. This open hostility thing is a bit much.
Sure they liked the old roommate, but she was selling drugs from their dorm and constantly getting high, violating school rules, and I’m willing to be the roommate agreement she entered with Sarah. She was putting Sarah’s entire academic future at risk, which was something that Sarah literally can’t afford to lose.
Sarah may be unsociable and irritable, but honestly, it was her ex-roommate that was in the wrong. This is a college, not Woodstock. Sarah shouldn’t have had to deal with drugs in her place of living.
That’s why I’m surprised. In high school I could understand that the constant bongo-fest, but in college, while there is drama, it usually gets forgetten or ignored after a few weeks because everyone has other shit and drama to distract them.
I must have missed more than I realized. When was it revealed that Miss Ex-roomie was selling drugs right out of the dorm room? All I remember is Sarah complaining about her always coming home really late and really high.
I could be wrong, but if I remember correctly, back when the one girl confronted Sarah about getting her roommate expelled, there was mention of the girl not only taking drugs but selling them, and that was one of the reasons people like her.
When you go to college, it’s said that you gain fifteen pounds, or the freshman fifteen. This is her second year, so she’s a sophomore. sophomore fifteen.
Originally, it was going to be called Chik-Fil-Age, but the corporate executives who have creative control decided that would be too obvious and maybe even a little crass and obnoxious.
I feel sorry for her. I can see why last years experiances would sour her and make her a bit bitter, and why she would snap at joyce if she’s had a day of these ladies (and other friends of her ex-roomate) being awful to her. I hope she apologizes to joyce and manages to move past the bad feelings (although I totally understand why she’d be wary of people now)
I’m sorry, but looking back on my college years, anybody that walked past me and called me a bongo would have had an up-close and personal meeting with that damn tray! Even now, (I just turned 40) I might be tempted to react that way. What I definitely would not do is run away… awww who am I kidding, I would choose Chik-fil-a over cafeteria food any day of the week.
Sarah is probably one of the more unlikeable characters in this strip. Narcing on somebody is rarely ever justifiable, and if her only concern was getting her scholarship revoked, she could EASILY have simply requested a room transfer or else made an arrangement with the girl.
Whoever mentioned the risk of contact high being reason enough to send a person to jail: get the fuck out. Sarah’s a prickly bongo who has shown little-to-no sense of tact or social grace. I imagine this is going to be explained or somehow justified, but contact highs are a myth, and as I said above, there were tons of other ways to eliminate the issue of her room mate without GETTING HER SENT TO JAIL.
Okay, walk me through this. She sent a lawbreaker to jail. The law being enforced was in no way oppressive. The lawmakers who wrote the law were duly elected officials who represent the citizenry. The situation properly matches the purpose that the legal system is intended for ie. she was protecting herself from the harmful behavior of another.
Wherein does this become anything other than the very definition of Justice?
she didn’t send her to jail, the police did. She just informed them of what the roomate was doing.
Narcing is quite justifiable. It’s how bad stuff gets found out. Is someone who was robbed ‘narcing’ when they report the robery? Her roomate broke the law and going to jail is pretty much the logical conclusion of that.
I’ve been in Sarah’s shoes when I lived in the dorms and it’s not fun. There were some morons throwing cans of fruit cocktail out of the window down the hall. Let me say that they broke the window by throwing the cans through it. I didn’t want anyone to be hurt by the cans on the outside of the window and I sure as hell didn’t want my roommate and I to pay for the damages that WE didn’t do. So I reported them. And the jackass RA TOLD them that I told on them and everyone on the floor gave me hell. God, I hate college towns.
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I feel bad for Sarah.
Well she has been shown to be somewhat antagonistic towards socialising.
There’s clearly a reason for that.
yea her freshman roomate was such a druggie sara nearly flunked out. fact is she’s not a bongo the other girls who are giving her crap for reporting her roomate are
Me too. She stood up for her principles and is getting nothing but hate from a bunch of morons.
How many people in the course of this strip has she been genuinely nice to? I count one, maybe two at a push?
What she did with her room-mate was right, no doubt about that, but she doesn’t exactly go out of her way to be nice.
Well yeah, but we don’t know what she was like last year. Maybe she tried being nice and got nowhere. Maybe she’s a product of her environment.
Yeah I have never liked that whole product of her environment thing as it 1) shows a lack of total self awareness or awareness that her environment has changed and 2) Means that anyone that is racist can say, “Hey I am a product of my environment not my fault but I won’t change”
She is a product of her environment, but that only accounts for part of how she acts. From how she reacts when she does do antisocial things, she is aware of what she is doing and why.
As for your second part, that’s an argument that can easily be dissolved. Especially given that it’s something that you say something of someone else, not something you claim. Claiming it makes it untrue.
From the evidence it seems like her roommate smoked pot and she tattled on her. Until we get the back story I am obligated to side against her.
There is no reason to ruin someone else’s life because you are uncomfortable with something they are doing to themselves.
Are you kidding me? I can’t remember the details, but I assume it was smoked in their room, and that’s MORE than enough reason to turn a pothead in.
Pot stinks to high heaven, and if there’s enough smoke around, you get a kind of contact high from it, making any kind of serious studying impossible. So, unless the backstory involves her stalking her roomie to get them busted, I’m very firmly on her side. Everyone talks about how inoffensive pot is, but Even leaving aside the legality of it, It’s every bit as foul and rude as cigarettes are.
Thing is, if your roomate is busted for having pot, you can be busted as well, at the least as an accessory (your storing it in your room).
Sarah didn’t want that risk. her rommie gets busted, she’s out too. So she got her roomate busted in a way that spared her.
My impression though? I’m guessing she was like this largely beforehand as well. Never really liked, and this put her into outright hated territory.
None of you have ever even read “roomies” have you? Mr. Willis likes to exhibit a form of self righteousness in certain characters as a sign of naive immaturity. Danny was like this in his previous story and problems arose in his life because of it.
Any way, there are ways to get around getting anyone in trouble. You can discuss the issue with your room mate orrrrrr opt for a housing change. Both are better than being a narc. If you opt for the narc route you’d better be ready to be ostracized from college society.
A lot of people drink or smoke in college and none of them want to hang out with a girl who will throw them under the buss.
Hey, the other comics don’t apply. The author’s clearly stated we shouldn’t do this in message boards, Ms. Cannon.
No.
Peer pressure does not give you the right to compromise your campus roommate for something that can get you both barred from campus if said roommate just turns a blind eye to it.
It is not, nor should ever have been, Sarah’s problem. The person who didn’t care that she was making it her problem got what she deserved.
Aye. Message for Raidah: Antagonizing Sarah is a poor substitute for failure to do anything to bail your friend out, instead of simply expecting Sarah’s ‘hater’ ass to ‘be cool.’
We don’t know for sure that you didn’t, but it’s a plausible assumption.
Yeah, yeah, Sarah’s still a ‘bongo’ either way, but that only furthers how not leaving your friend’s fate in her grump roommate’s hands would’ve counted a lot more towards proving you actually CARED about her than this fix-er-uppa tomato throwing…
If your life can be ruined by people telling the wrong people the truth, it’s past time to reconsider your life choices. Like maybe don’t chose to break the law on a daily basis in front of someone who has no reason to lie for you.
people in school are so uncool. as is rhyming, in retrospect
I like that girl on the left. She looks like she’s just sort of angrily staring off into space.
Now I can’t unsee. I must assume her eyes look like that because she is high and she’s just mad at Sarah for being a snitch. Otherwise she needs to see a doctor ASAP.
I shall forever refer to that crazy-eyed chick as “Derpy Lass”. I feel it fits her. That, or “Derpy bongo”
Or maybe she just has a lazy eye. The world may never know
She’s not staring into space. She’s staring right at you.
And she doesn’t like what she sees.
Any second now she’s going to scream “FOREVERRR!”
I wish she would at least have denied it.
I wonder if we will ever see this former room-mate that that these girls are giving Sarah grief for?
It will probably be the character most beloved by the fans that hasn’t made it into Dumbing of Age. We wil realise within three coments that we will now never get a DoA version of that character who is regular and then we will all hate Sarah as much as the girls do.
This strip makes me feel for Sarah though. Maybe, maybe she just hates everyone now because she is stuck with all the hate anyway…
Also, is it purple day?
i know what you mean, i feel bad she had a bad roommate and is getting all this hate, but at the same time, her anti-social tendencies are not helping her situation, so while i do feel bad for her, part of it is also her own fault
Oh for sure. Vicious cycle that way. Like attracts like and whatnot. When everyone in your life is a hostile figure you have a tendency to assume anyone will be hostile until shown otherwise. When you treat everyone like they’re hostile it doesn’t take long for them to become so.
Our world creates us and then we in turn forge the world around us in an endless cycle of growth. With our every action we manipulate the environment and remake it in our image.
Joe is a horny man who lives in a world dominated by sexuality. Dan is a worrier who lives in a world of problems. Walky is a jokester who lives in a world of laughs and fun. Sarah’s surroundings too reflect her just as she reflects them.
That somehow makes your Joyce gravatar highly appropriate.
I love Purple Day!
so her roommate was the giant hunny bun >.> now i hate her
It’s Ultra Car!
i hope it was faz
Chik-fil-A?!?!
I’d cheer, except that we’re supposed to be boycotting them, I think.
The gays thing, right?
Yeah. I totally ate there almost every day in college, just ’cause it was the best food, but their actively saying, “We’ll feed everyone, but screw your marriage” is an insult.
A tasty insult, but an insult.
Chik-fil-A is real??
Extremely. But there is nothing good about them except the lemonade and clever commercials.
i disagree. their milkshakes are pretty good too
And the waffle fries.
I used to live within walking distance to a delicious doughnut shop! And then Chik-Fil-A came along, buys out the place, and leaves me alone, and dougnutless. That’s why I hate Chik-Fil-A. As for the whole gay thing, I’ve got some googling to do!
I absolutely love their food, but I refuse to give them my money. It means much more to me than boycotting things I don’t use anyway.
Yep! It’s in the South though, and it’s based on Christian foundations. It funds anti-gay rallies or something. I still eat there though because their chicken is delicious and anti-gay rallies are pointless anyways. Also it’s not open on Sundays, the ONLY day when I ever crave it. (I hope you weren’t being sarcastic, otherwise I probably sound like an idiot right now)
I’m an Australian, so I have never heard of it before, so is the chicken there better or worse than KFCs?
Much better. But you support the Christian fundies when you buy from there. But the chicken is so good.
A bit like how the Gloria Jean Coffees support Hillsong Church in Australia.
uhh yes.. exactly.. *runs to google*
Hillsong: A Pentecostal church that has turned religion into entertainment.
GJs and Hillsong aren’t connected in quite the same way. GJ’s is owned by members (including an elder) of Hillsong, and both organisations used to support Mercy Minitsries, a religous based women’s shelter, until it came out how dodgy they were (exorcism instead of counselling etc). When that happened both GJs and Hillsong dropped sponsorship like a rock.
That’s the closest they’ve come to any direct financial support of one another.
I don’t go to Hillsong (far from it) or work for GJs, but I practically live down the road from Hillsong so you find this stuff out
Imma feeling like I should find some way to get their recipe books…then I wouldn’t have to give them money to get their food…but I don’t wanna get in trouble with laws and stuff either…so I can’t do that…so I need to find a way to convince myself that I don’t love their food at all…this will be hard…boo…
slightly better
Apples and oranges, really. KFC sells fried chicken pieces. Chick-fil-a sells chicken breast sandwiches and chicken breast nuggets only.
they don’t do fried chicken though. THey do various types of sandwiches, strips and nuggets.
There are Chick-Fil-A’s all over. A few sporadic in the North and one just opened up in Mormon Country, lol. Also there are a few opening this year in California, one being in Hollywood. Houston has some, Minnesota has them in colleges right now, there are obviously a lot in the south and there are dozens open in Ohio.
BTW, the beliefs of Truett Cathy and his family are Christian based views. We serve everyone, no matter who they are. However, it is up to the disgression of the owner/operator of the restaurant, where they provide food. It’s why Chick-Fil-A has been labeled as the top chicken restaurants, and one of the top 5 in the latest Consumer Reports and are opening more and more stores every year. They stick to their morals and values which is whey they’ve stayed one of the top restaurants in this economy.
Sorry, but that defense doesn’t fly with me.
If he were simply sticking to his religious ideals, that’s one thing. However, he associates with militant groups like the American Family Association and Focus on the Family – both of whom are on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Hate Group” list for their ties to white nationalist organizations, as well as specific ethno-centric activities. Example: Bryan Fischer or the AFA recently was quoted as having support for suspected Norway mass-murderer Anders Breivik. Also, Cathey is a primary contributor to “Exodus International” who attempt to convert gays via what many reputable people in the psychology field consider brainwashing and intimidation.
So sorry, I can’t support an organization who directly associates with and funds these violent nutjobs.
why did you say “WE serve everyone”? are you part of the Chick-Fil-A franchise?
If I eat there, Chik-fil-A uses my money to hurt people I love by donating to groups that actively work against marriage equality. The chicken is delicious, which is the reason why they’re doing well, not their
morals and valuesanti-gay bigotry.that doesn’t sound at all like you are a paid employee of Chick-a-filet’s public relations firm at all….
(/sarcasm)
Hey, the owner of Chick-fil-A has repeatedly said that he has nothing against gays, even being a Christian. (I’m Christian, I have aunts that are gay, a lot of my friends are gay, I don’t care or judge.) And I know for a fact that at least one of the locations in my area of Indiana has 5 homosexuals working there.
I’m sorry, but saying “I have nothing against gays” and then funding an organization with the goals of denying equal marriage rights is even worse. Then again he may be saying “I have nothing against gays” but still be anti gay marriage which is a duality I can never really understand.
I am boycotting cfa but I will also be the first to admit that I have never been a huge fan of their products and I don’t really have terms in place for when I will stop boycotting them. I think short of them advertising “for every chicken sandwich you buy, a dollar goes to supporting equal marriage rights” I probably won’t eat there ever again.
I can verify from experience that Indiana University Bloomington, where the comic is set, has a Chick-Fil-A in the food court of the main library. I had some, due to a college friend from Texas raving about it. It was… ok.
Don’t remember seeing a C-F-A anywhere in Bloomington, come to think of it. Though I remember seeing one elsewhere not too long ago, which should mean Boston.
The Chick-fil-A in the library got me through three years at Norvelle. I cannot begrudge it, or its siren song.
That’s a real place? Man , and when I read the name, I thought “That’s a funny name for a restaurant, but they’d never let anyone use it.” I suppose the crude sexual reference just went over their heads.
We’re supposed to be boycotting them? But I waited fifteen minutes for a parking lot…
I choose to ignorantly believe that my money only goes to support the delicious food.
I know Sarah is a jerk but damn.
It’s pretty rare that there’s only one jerk in the room. It’s also uncommon to find that jerks are motivated by all the kindness that surrounds them.
If we’re following Sarah’s daily activities, we’re gonna find other jerks. Like is drawn to like and whatnot.
In point of fact it’s actually kind of representative of a different paradigm. Joyce for example goes throughout her day and sees kind people, makes friends, encounters misunderstandings that may be overcome. The most villainous figure she encountered was Joe and even his villainy took the form of a civilized, intelligent, and reasonable discussion.
Sarah goes through her day and she sees crowds filled with spiteful people beyond reason. The great act of kindness she encounters is someone willing to share a table in silence. Neutrality and uncaring is the high-point in for her.
Keep in mind too that anyone who becomes friends with her will quickly be forced to choose between putting up with what she puts up with or becoming part of that jeering spiteful crowd.
This is the kind of shit that effects your perceptions. That’s how Sarah and Joyce can look at Billie and see two entirely different people.
I would rather put up with what she puts up with, than be one of those arseholes.
I wonder if the jeering spiteful crowd might back off a bit if Sarah had some friends. Right now, she’s an easy target because she’s constantly alone (often due to her own actions).
Everyone is going to give you shit no matter what you do.
Geez, how popular was this girl?
At this point, I’m starting to wonder if she was Roomie from the eponymous “Go Get A Roomie”.
Roomie at school? Naaaaah. Besides, even Sarah would have found Roomie too damn adorable to turn over to the cops.
College. I meant college
It’s the same girl calling her a bongo that was telling her off at the table before Dorothy joined her the other day. This one girl in particular was probably besties with Sarah’s old roomie.
This is what happens when you systematically alienate everyone who know.
Nah, alienate implies that they stop interacting with you. If that were the case, I think Sarah would be perfectly content.
It’s been said before that she didn’t alienate people until this group of girls began being cruel to her, because she turned their friend in for doing drugs.
I would be friends with Sarah. . .we would hang out, be snarky and sarcastic, it would be awesome
She doesn’t want friends.
Someone needs to tie her up and make her watch My Little Pony until her mind changes.
I second this motion.
I third it.
I third it.
You double-dog third it?
I oppose.
I’d rather just sit with her and watch Daria.
Come on, Sarah, give us something to root for.
When she gains that extra fifteen, she will have even more back, that’s something to root for I guess.
Damn, Sarah’s life really sucks.
The girl behind her seems really pissed at the readers… I wonder why…
CHICK-FIL-A! BAM! Come to Kenwood CFA Willis, I’ll promo free your meal for this one!
… for singling out cfa as Sarah’s go-to when she decides she cares more about her mental health than her physical health, and therefore goes for fast food instead of cafeteria food with the full, negative expectation that she is going to put on weight as a result of this change in her habits?
I mean, not that someone of Sarah’s stature and build can’t afford to gain a few pounds, but this is pretty clearly considered to be a negative development by the character, intended to be a negative development by the creator, and, judging by the comments, being viewed as a negative development by a significant portion of the readers. I kind of doubt many people are reading this and thinking “Gee, I want to be just like Sarah and make enemies that make my life a living hell until I can’t eat what I want to eat and live on fattening fast food instead! Better head over to Chik-Fil-A!”
Because “Tim” is a paid employee of a Chick-a-Filet public relations firm and at this point they are happy for any media outlet outside of fox news saying anything not directly insulting about them.
Ok, since we have a confirmation on a DeSanto in congress, we can probably guess that Robin was not Sarah’s old roommate. Any guesses as to who it is?
Oh God, what if it’s Sydney Yus?
Sydney Yus lacks the personality requisite to inspire this sort of negative backlash against Sarah.
It’s Ronnie.
Couldn’t be Ronnie, Ronnie is male, and while the dorm buildings are co-ed the floors aren’t and the rooms certainly aren’t.
What are you talking about? She had minions!
She’s clearly capable of getting supporters when she tries.
You saw Sydney, would she inspire loyalty, though?
Ah, glide-by sniping. Isn’t it…hey, wait, from where are all these trays coming?
(No, not my mother, and she’d certainly charge more than five cents a tray for them. Nor has faith provided them.)
DoA is unhinged from time, so they can have trays if they WANT to have trays! (Or maybe Sarah and Joe just didn’t want trays last time.)
Also, where is Raidah from in the Walky-Prime universe?
She’s new.
Is Raidah pronounced radar?
I pronounced it in my best Schwarzeneggar induced Austrian accent.
I think it’s pronounced as Rai-dah. At least that’s how we pronounced it in my country.
I think it’s pronounced as Raidah. At least that’s how we pronounced it in my country.
Did I just double posted? I thought I only sent one comment.
And she is coming off very dickish.
New? What is this “new” of which you speak?
It’s her second strip appearance.
Yes I know that, I was speaking more to the alien concept of Willis introducing a character original to this universe.
But they are all new characters.
…No they aren’t. To my knowledge this is the first character in this universe who Willis has not used somewhere else in one of his other comics, thus making them not new.
Please tell me her last name is O’Riley.
Fifteen?
Apparently, when you get into college, you tend to put on about 15 pounds on average.
I went vegetarian not long after college and vegan not long after that… but my weight stayed pretty consistent.
I guess 30 is more likely. Chick-Fil-A is delicious.
Unless she is talking in metric, than 15kg = 33lbs.
Metric system rules.
Depending on what you eat. If you work there you don’t gain much at all. I experienced that at KFC. Took me 3 years just to gain 20 pounds, lol! I’ve been working at CFA for a few years now as well and it’s very healthy. Fruit Cups, salads, chargrilled, even fried is good for you unless you’re watching your salt intake
I’m actually on a health diet, which I’ve recently discovered is called a “Cleanse”, but it’s really just a mini-cleanse (By the Way, I’m skinny, and always have been). I still eat chicken, but I’m trying to eat less fried and more grilled, no salt on fries, fruit cups. Occasionally, I’ll drink some pop, but recently it’s just been water or Unsweet tea.
The idea that deep-fried, grease-soaked garbage is “good for you” is positively hilarious.
Traditionally, its the “Freshman Fifteen”, as in pounds gained since now that one is away from your parents, you can eat whatever you like. Usually pizza and your favorite soda. (Mine was Root Beer). Since Sarah is now eating fast food instead of eating in the dining commons (to avoid further unpleasantness) she expects to put on weight in her sophomore year.
What’s a “sophomore fifteen”?
Like the Freshman Fifteen more or less.
I feel you Sarah.
My 15 will come when school starts.
I actually lost thirteen pounds my freshman year. But that was…unfortunate.
Joe’s version of the Freshman 15 is way different than Sarah’s. Also way more tiring.
He’ll probaly loose 15kg in the process too.
And probably gain 15 STDs. XD
And so once again, we see one of the characters in a situation that makes them the sympathetic underdog…and I feel absolutely no sympathy whatsoever. The lot of them are such annoying jerks that this kind of thing comes across as just karma having its way.
In what way?
Honestly, the only thing Sarah is doing wrong is expecting to be ostracized. Turning in her roommate was purely an act of self-defense, and while you might call it selfish, it definitely wasn’t unjustified. She just needs to punish herself over it less.
People keep defending how extreme the situation was but I don’t recall it getting explained from anyone else’s point of view. Perhaps the stoners form before just smoked now and then on rare occasions. It would fit her attitude toward everyone if she narced on someone completely reasonable who had a casual smoke.
This precisely. So far, Sarah has been rude, mean, and insufferably smug to pretty much everybody. I’m having a hard time believing that the grief she’s getting is merely about turning in a roommate. Particularly because even her brief story way back at the beginning seemed to indicate that said roomie smoked on her own time somewhere outside of the dorm.
Unless the roommate waited until the high was completely gone and never brought a stash back to the dorm, I think Sarah was entitled to be uncomfortable about the behavior. Did she handle trying to change the situation as well as she could have? Maybe, maybe not. But I have a feeling no one would be giving her grief about not wanting a roommate who smoked legal substances, even if said person only did it outside and on a “casual” basis.
As you wrote, maybe, maybe not. The fact remains that she’s been abrasive and nasty without cause to pretty much everyone. That calls into question how honest and accurate she was with her brief retelling of events. After all, the kind of bad attitude she’s shown so far doesn’t form overnight. I’d lay pretty good odds that she provoked a lot of bad feelings even before getting her roomie expelled.
Probably an honest telling, but you’re right. This attitude isn’t developed overnight. Can’t imagine she was a walking pile of sunshine and rainbows before the incident.
Most likely she made some enemies on that day, but was never actually the most well liked person to begin with.
Even the fact that her defense mechanism against this is to drive people away seems to imply that this isn’t new behavior for her. Probably a tried and true tactic. Probably not the first time she’s alienated herself like this, probably won’t be the last.
Sarah’s done a pretty good job at being unsympathetic, so far.
Having a bad attitude towards Raidah is justified. Having a bad attitude towards everyone else… not so much.
Maybe the next few strips will work on that.
You could always stop reading if you hate everyone in the comic so much. Posting snarky comments can’t be giving you that much validation..
I recognise the irony of that advice…
Yes, I *could*. But at least for the time being, reading a comic where all the main characters are naive jerks is fairly interesting.
And simply posting my honest reaction can not fairly be called “snarky”. Of course, if for any reason you don’t like my comments, feel free to ignore them and scroll on by.
Told you my advice was ironic!
Yeah, sorry, I was feeling a little cranky when I wrote that. It just bothers me how often I see people ragging on the characters around here, and I picked on your comment. So, sorry, about that.
I will do my best to follow my own advice from here on.
Were characters not creating problems for themselves where would the conflict come from? Some external force? Maybe a group of space aliens that forms a common conflict for all and forces everyone to work as a cohesive group and thus behave as decent human beings?
Ridiculous. Space aliens indeed. I don’t know where you come up with such fanciful notions but I’d suggest you get your head out of the clouds.
Funny you say that…I seem to recall quite a bit of the conflict in the story WITH the space aliens coming from internal problems of the characters. It wasn’t the ONLY source of woes, of course, but still….
Well sure a little I guess, but everyone came to respect Casse in the end and that’s what counts.
I do love Sarah, but, yeah, this strip is just kinda hammering an issue that should have been developed further by now. I imagine that it is just a lead-in strip and we will see Sarah actually do something in the next one, but I do see that it can lose sympathy with the reader if they try to milk an issue more than it is worth. DoA characters are somewhat at a risk of being Flanderized (sh*t word but that’s how TvTropes calls it), ie. being reduced to only a handful of easy-to-convey traits. Sarah’s becoming a single-issue character and it’s not helping her.
I had a sophomore 15 T__T Damn you IU
I had a sophomore 60, unfortunately.
I couldn’t really handle working for a catering company.
I think I had a college 10, which was good. I was a bit on the scrawny side to start.
I had a Boarding School -10 (kgs) due to the fact that I had issues with the school’s vegetarian diet.
I had a Post-21st-Birthday 15.
Apparently one beer with dinner every night adds up faster than I thought it would.
WTF, mate?
I lost weight my freshman year. Our food service was horrific, and the nearest fast food was thirty miles away, in another state. They built a McDonald’s in town my sophomore year, and you could find about a quarter of campus there most nights. I can’t even eat McDonald’s anymore if I don’t want to spend the rest of the day in the bathroom, but it was still a huge step up from the cafeteria “food”.
I can’t really feel bad for Sarah because she REALLY brings it on herself. In fact, I don’t even see why she’s distraught in the last panel; she doesn’t like people, anyway.
The stance of someone who cannot be hurt by other people on their fellow human would closer resemble “I don’t know. I guess I never thought about it”
The very premise of not liking people implies a certain level of caring. If people couldn’t hurt her then what reason would she to not like them?
… y is she looking to the left in the first panel when the people she knows are coming from her right?
I think she’s wondering what to eat!
This strip brings up questions. Such as, did Sarah stupidly not turn in her roommate anonymously? Did she do so but the tip source was leaked? Did the roommate’s friends just assume/figure out it was her? What was the roommate on? Was Sarah a bongo about it?
The most frustrating thing about going to school in another state was that there were no Chik-Fil-A to be found for nearly fifty miles. True story.
Why is everyone wearing the same colour?
Purple is in this summer?
It’s Purple Day?
I, for one, sympathise with Sarah and am rooting for her snarky sensibilities.
I sympathize with the people calling her a bongo.
cause she is one. She’s probably the only character that I don’t think is an alright person with her negative get rid of everyone over some previous experience knowing a stoner thing.
Yes, how dare she react antagonistically towards people who have insulted and belittled her for the crime of reporting a crime?
You say ‘everyone’, but she was friendly with Joyce one she established she was not a stoner; and she was downright sociable with Dorothy. It just seems like you’re making her out to be bongoy Mcbongoington when she’s not.
followed by shouting at her when Joyce asked if they wanted to hang out.
When was Sarah “friendly” with Joyce? Was it the time she was looking down her nose at her by patronizingly assuring her that the world was going to “break” her? Ditto with Dorothy, given her patronizing “good for you, little girl!” speech.
Seriously, point me to a single time in DoA where Sarah hasn’t been either rude, out-right mean, or insufferably smug, because I can’t find one. Even her lecture at Joe before his date with Joyce was just screamingly self-centered. “Don’t do what I don’t want you to do, because I’m worried that it would personally inconvenience me!”
Smugness, meanness, and rudeness are relative. This is less a matter of scenes where she wasn’t as you describe and more a matter of exactly where you’re drawing the line. Fifteen degrees celcius is shorts weather here, but it’s warranting of winter apparel in Peru. Same principle.
She’s smug, mean, and rude, but I can count on my fingers the times I would have viewed her as insufferably so. Generally when she’s saying things that are true but which shouldn’t be said, so even then she gets a bit of a buffer for being the “She says what we’re thinking” character.
It also helps if you enjoy her sense of humor. A lot of what she says is either funny or just plain offensive with very little middle ground. “Maybe you’re their eleventh plague”.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/05-media-rumble/join/
Yep. Real friendly.
They had just a few hours before that ended a conversation on the note of “I’ll be sad when the world breaks you”.
If I were her I know for a fact I’d be getting unnerved by the fact that this person still wanted to talk to me, let alone that she was having trouble taking no for an answer. Lord knows I’d be uncomfortable with the notion of sitting down for a meal with her.
Not saying it makes it better or anything, but seriously, what the fuck is Joyce doing here? It’s like the dog growled and she just kept going in to pet the thing, then was suddenly surprised when the dog escalated to barking.
That being said, outside of that whole incident I do think she’s been pretty friendly with Joyce.
I’m with ya.
SO, why is Sarah being snubbed? I tried to go back and check things out, but I completely missed something…
Sarah reported her old roommate for drug use.
Evidently said roommate was well-liked by more than a few people on campus.
Sarah is practically emitting Woobie Rays.
And they must be working, because I feel bad for her.
Chick-fil-a uses a seperate fryer for their potatoes so people with wheat allergies or celiac spruce patients can enjoy thier tasty waffle fries without worries of cross contamination from all that chicken breading. For that I love them.
i just finished eating some chic-fil-a and now i’m hungry for it again. what the hell, willis?
So, maybe I’m being dense, but was it ever clearly explained just what happened with her roommate?
There’s actually a place called Chick-Fil-A? Who the heck thought that was a good name…*google times*…Alright then, there are apparently two around me here in Michigan (according to the store locator) one to the north and one to the south; both far enough that I would have never seen them. Makes sense. I can’t believe I’ve never heard of a name as goofy as this. It’s worse than chicken in a bisket.
Yes. The food their isn’t that bad. They had a pretty good “secret” sauce or whatever. Though they hate gay people since I hear they supported the ban on gay marriage in California. Some people choose not to eat their because of that.
Nature of the social beast. Play the game or get labeled a loser.
It’s been Raidah both times who’s been an arse to Sarah. Maybe she was just really good friends with the ex-roomie.
Maybe the ex-Roomie is Robin, since the congresswoman is Fazette DeSanto.
I can imagine Robin as a speedball addict.
Is IU really such a small school that Sarah can’t move across campus (or even off campus) and not see the majority of the people she doesn’t want to see? The school where I go is 26000 students, so i can usually find somewhere to avoid people I don’t want to see.
I had a freshman 15, but in my case it was a good thing, I was severely underweight.
The girl who said “bongo,” looks like Paulina from the Danny Phantom cartoons.
Well here it is, the Sarah arc. I hope this one is mercifully short, but I’m pretty sure it won’t be, considering how Sarah was talked about as a main character back when DoA! was started. She just isn’t entertaining to read, honestly. I know she’s supposed to be damaged and flawed like every character, and she is, but she’s just WHINY. Even when a character is perfectly justified, that kind of curt attitude is just grating to read, honestly. Heck she even managed to make insulting Joe annoying to read, just from her attitude. She made insulting Joe, a COMPLETE jackass, hard to read. That takes talent. I really, really hope she goes away soon, I really do.
TL;DR Shut up Sarah, go away!
Okay, see after an entire summer has passed, one would think this women would get over their issues towards Sarah or at least get to a point where they just didn’t acknowledge her. This open hostility thing is a bit much.
Sure they liked the old roommate, but she was selling drugs from their dorm and constantly getting high, violating school rules, and I’m willing to be the roommate agreement she entered with Sarah. She was putting Sarah’s entire academic future at risk, which was something that Sarah literally can’t afford to lose.
Sarah may be unsociable and irritable, but honestly, it was her ex-roommate that was in the wrong. This is a college, not Woodstock. Sarah shouldn’t have had to deal with drugs in her place of living.
Yeah, but this is college. You know how some people get, especially teenagers.
That’s why I’m surprised. In high school I could understand that the constant bongo-fest, but in college, while there is drama, it usually gets forgetten or ignored after a few weeks because everyone has other shit and drama to distract them.
I must have missed more than I realized. When was it revealed that Miss Ex-roomie was selling drugs right out of the dorm room? All I remember is Sarah complaining about her always coming home really late and really high.
I could be wrong, but if I remember correctly, back when the one girl confronted Sarah about getting her roommate expelled, there was mention of the girl not only taking drugs but selling them, and that was one of the reasons people like her.
Sophomore fifteen?
Uhh, say what?
When you go to college, it’s said that you gain fifteen pounds, or the freshman fifteen. This is her second year, so she’s a sophomore. sophomore fifteen.
Is this webcomic sponsored by gross cooperate restaurants chains or something?
Yes.
Originally, it was going to be called Chik-Fil-Age, but the corporate executives who have creative control decided that would be too obvious and maybe even a little crass and obnoxious.
I feel sorry for her. I can see why last years experiances would sour her and make her a bit bitter, and why she would snap at joyce if she’s had a day of these ladies (and other friends of her ex-roomate) being awful to her. I hope she apologizes to joyce and manages to move past the bad feelings (although I totally understand why she’d be wary of people now)
I’m sorry, but looking back on my college years, anybody that walked past me and called me a bongo would have had an up-close and personal meeting with that damn tray! Even now, (I just turned 40) I might be tempted to react that way. What I definitely would not do is run away… awww who am I kidding, I would choose Chik-fil-a over cafeteria food any day of the week.
Sarah is probably one of the more unlikeable characters in this strip. Narcing on somebody is rarely ever justifiable, and if her only concern was getting her scholarship revoked, she could EASILY have simply requested a room transfer or else made an arrangement with the girl.
Whoever mentioned the risk of contact high being reason enough to send a person to jail: get the fuck out. Sarah’s a prickly bongo who has shown little-to-no sense of tact or social grace. I imagine this is going to be explained or somehow justified, but contact highs are a myth, and as I said above, there were tons of other ways to eliminate the issue of her room mate without GETTING HER SENT TO JAIL.
Okay, walk me through this. She sent a lawbreaker to jail. The law being enforced was in no way oppressive. The lawmakers who wrote the law were duly elected officials who represent the citizenry. The situation properly matches the purpose that the legal system is intended for ie. she was protecting herself from the harmful behavior of another.
Wherein does this become anything other than the very definition of Justice?
whut
she didn’t send her to jail, the police did. She just informed them of what the roomate was doing.
Narcing is quite justifiable. It’s how bad stuff gets found out. Is someone who was robbed ‘narcing’ when they report the robery? Her roomate broke the law and going to jail is pretty much the logical conclusion of that.
PURPLE DAY!
I’ve been in Sarah’s shoes when I lived in the dorms and it’s not fun. There were some morons throwing cans of fruit cocktail out of the window down the hall. Let me say that they broke the window by throwing the cans through it. I didn’t want anyone to be hurt by the cans on the outside of the window and I sure as hell didn’t want my roommate and I to pay for the damages that WE didn’t do. So I reported them. And the jackass RA TOLD them that I told on them and everyone on the floor gave me hell. God, I hate college towns.
chick-fil a?
are you trying to make me feel no empathy for this character?
I’m feeling some definite sympathy for her. Things have gotten so bad that she’s forced to eat the hot mess that CFA tries to pass as food.