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September 28, 2023

Sludgy

by David M Willis on December 26, 2016 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - Everything You've Ever Wanted Floats Above

└ Tags: joyce, sarah

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    December 26, 2016 at 12:01 am | #

    http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=460

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      December 26, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

      oh this is a different version

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        December 26, 2016 at 1:16 am | #

        weird, cleared the cache and it’s the ceiling version again

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          December 26, 2016 at 9:30 am | #

          I got the no-ceiling-mention version first and then the ceiling version. What the hell?

  2. wheelpath
    wheelpath
    December 26, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

    Not the mental image I needed on Boxing Day/ still Christmas for me. :/

    • inqntrol
      inqntrol
      December 26, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

      I was chewing my sandvich while reading that. Now I’m not hungry anymore.

  3. Raen
    Raen
    December 26, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

    Hmm… stilts? Get a dowel at Aubuchon, it’ll be wicked cheap…

    • John
      John
      December 26, 2016 at 12:17 am | #

      Not all that cheap, because the nearest Aubuchon is 653 miles away.

      • Raen
        Raen
        December 29, 2016 at 2:51 am | #

        …dammit. I actually Googled to make sure that Aubuchon was actually a chain. Apparently I should have zoomed out more.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      December 26, 2016 at 1:22 am | #

      Stilts may work. Only the bottom touches the sludge, so she can just cut off a quarter inch of wood a day. May only need to replace them every few months.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      December 26, 2016 at 2:52 am | #

      ‘Ey! Making local references only other New Englanders recognize is my schtick!

      At this rate Joyce is just going to end up taking sponge baths in their sink. Is there a Dollar Tree near campus where she can load up on disposable flip-flops? Maybe she can make shower shoes out of gallon-size food storage bags.

  4. Sporky
    Sporky
    December 26, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

    I can’t believe Joyce is dead.

    RIP – gone too soon

  5. Jay Eff
    Jay Eff
    December 26, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

    *reads Alt Text*

    Damn you Willis.

  6. Nono
    Nono
    December 26, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

    Aren’t there en-suite options Joyce could have picked while applying for accommodation? Sure they’re more expensive but if she really couldn’t stand it…

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      December 26, 2016 at 1:01 am | #

      Nope. Not on this floor anyways – the only ones here have half baths (i.e. a toilet and sink), even for singles.

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      December 26, 2016 at 1:14 am | #

      tbh even private showers in dorms were gross

      well, I guess ours were semi-private–we only shared with the adjoining room (like their shared bathroom but we had showers in there)

  7. MatthewTheLucky
    MatthewTheLucky
    December 26, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

    It’s spreading…

  8. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    December 26, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

    Not one of their better-advertised varieties.

    Look, Joyce, here’s what you do. Bring a small gardening shovel and two plastic baggies. Shovel the hair into one of the baggies and toss it in the garbage, never touching it. Rinse shovel in shower water. Store shovel in the other baggie with the handle sticking out. Tomorrow that baggie becomes your new discard baggie and a fresh baggie becomes your shovel-quarantine-baggie.

    • Dandi_Andi
      Dandi_Andi
      December 26, 2016 at 12:13 am | #

      Alternate solution:

      Buy shower sandals. Attach a small plastic basket to the outside of your door with some temporary mechanism like Command strips. Keep the sandals in the basket so that they don’t come into your room ever.

      • heliumsquid
        heliumsquid
        December 26, 2016 at 12:21 am | #

        Alternate Solution:
        Don’t shower in college.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          December 26, 2016 at 2:58 am | #

          She’ll need some place to keep the pallet of moist towelettes…

    • HeySo
      HeySo
      December 26, 2016 at 12:23 am | #

      …or just bring a step stool in, and avoid the floor entirely? o.O;

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        December 26, 2016 at 1:07 am | #

        It’s bad enough that there’s hair in there. Please don’t raise the thought of there being stool in there as well.

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          December 26, 2016 at 1:09 am | #

          *EXTREMELY reluctant slow clap*

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        December 26, 2016 at 1:07 am | #

        What, getting CLOSER to the ceiling???!!!

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          December 26, 2016 at 10:14 am | #

          Exactly – Joyce confirms, ceiling just as bad. Stool no workie.

  9. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    December 26, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

    Hairy Christmas to one and all.

    • Stephen R. Bierce
      Stephen R. Bierce
      December 26, 2016 at 12:06 am | #

      I thought Harry was a Krishna.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        December 26, 2016 at 12:09 am | #

        They don’t bathe so they never have to worry about pubic plugholes.

  10. Hopeful Sarcastic
    Hopeful Sarcastic
    December 26, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

    she’s speaking in black text bubbles this is joyce’s start of darkness isn’t it

    • Fart Captor
      Fart Captor
      December 26, 2016 at 12:07 am | #

      That, or she’s just picked up an alien symbiote and is going to end up fighting Spider-Man

      • inqntrol
        inqntrol
        December 26, 2016 at 12:12 am | #

        Pfff,easy, Spider-Man just needs an intense sound to beat her. So anyone got a giant bell? Or at least lots of jingle bells?

        • Fart Captor
          Fart Captor
          December 26, 2016 at 12:47 am | #

          Or it seems he could just team up with Medusa

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        December 26, 2016 at 1:06 am | #

        AlienSymbiote!Joyce: “I TOLD YOU THE SHOWER WAS GROSS”

    • John
      John
      December 26, 2016 at 12:11 am | #

      It’s not the first time.

      • HeySo
        HeySo
        December 26, 2016 at 12:24 am | #

        Okay, so we know hair triggers it.. the context apparently doesn’t matter past that.. 😛

        • John
          John
          December 26, 2016 at 12:58 am | #

          Nor the second time.

          • Reltzik
            Reltzik
            December 26, 2016 at 1:08 am | #

            That’s… still on a hair-trigger?

            • John
              John
              December 26, 2016 at 3:52 pm | #

              Nor the third time.

  11. achallenger
    achallenger
    December 26, 2016 at 12:05 am | #

    glad to know college girls are just as gross as the boys, i nnever got to use thier showers as much

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      December 26, 2016 at 12:07 am | #

      As someone who has cleaned the bathrooms of both genders over the years, I can tell you they both can have their own flavours of foulness.

      • Wizard
        Wizard
        December 26, 2016 at 12:54 am | #

        Gotta agree, although my most disgusting experience did involve the men’s room. I was working at a convenience store one night when a customer helpfully informed me, “Someone shit in your urinal.”

        When I made it out to the restroom to check, he was right: there was, indeed, a truly massive turd in the urinal. Seriously, WTF? This is why I hate the public.

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          December 26, 2016 at 1:05 am | #

          …but…. presumably there were toilets in the same bathroom… that didn’t require you to put your butt close to a urinal…

          WHYYYYYYYYYYY?

        • ischemgeek
          ischemgeek
          December 26, 2016 at 8:25 pm | #

          Mine was in the women’s bathroom back when I worked fast foos. Suffice to say somebody decided to paint the wall with a used tampon an then stick said used tampon to the wall with shit.

          Definitely a case of “OH GOD WHY AND HOW AND WHY?!?!”

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        December 26, 2016 at 1:09 am | #

        …….

        …. FLAVOR?

        ….

        I don’t want to know how you were comparing the flavors of their foulness. Never speak of this again.

      • insomniac
        insomniac
        December 26, 2016 at 1:29 am | #

        To wildly generalize:

        Men’s bathrooms need to be constantly cleaned for a certain level of oops-missed-the-bowl.

        Women’s bathrooms have a lower baseline of disgusting, but are for some reason more likely to be the scene of the “OH MY GOD WHY AND HOW AND WHY” sort of clean-up.

        • Dragon_Nataku
          Dragon_Nataku
          December 26, 2016 at 1:00 pm | #

          Women miss the bowl too sometimes though, because some crazy women (like my mum) do this thing called “hovering.” Womens’ bathrooms are equally as gross and so I avoid public bathrooms as much as possible. (Mum will even do this bullshit when the bathroom in question has those seat liner things for some reason. I don’t understand my own gender ^=__=^;; )

  12. magicallady
    magicallady
    December 26, 2016 at 12:05 am | #

    rip joyce youll be remembered

  13. UltraKyrie
    UltraKyrie
    December 26, 2016 at 12:05 am | #

    That last panel is amazing

  14. Nono
    Nono
    December 26, 2016 at 12:06 am | #

    Incidentally, couldn’t Joyce have done the ‘wear those plastic bags’ option? They’re not nearly as expensive.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      December 26, 2016 at 12:08 am | #

      Supermarket plastic bags cost practically nothing.

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        December 26, 2016 at 10:17 am | #

        Unless you’re from an area that bans them (like mine).

  15. Kris
    Kris
    December 26, 2016 at 12:07 am | #

    The only option is to invest in a foot spa Joyce.

  16. Kraazivaan
    Kraazivaan
    December 26, 2016 at 12:08 am | #

    I lived at home during college instead of in the dorms (SO much cheaper), so I have to ask: is it really as bad as depicted here, or is this just a) exaggeration for comedic effect, or b) Joyce being neurotic?

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      December 26, 2016 at 12:24 am | #

      Bathrooms can always be nasty, it all depends on how gross the people using it are and how well and how often it’s cleaned.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      December 26, 2016 at 10:20 am | #

      I assume you’ve used a public bathroom? Fix that in your mind. The graffiti, the weird smells, the lack of privacy.

      Now, imagine having to shower in one.

      You can get used to it, but for freshmen, it takes a bit of mental adjustment.

    • blargy blargsson
      blargy blargsson
      December 26, 2016 at 10:43 am | #

      Honestly, the ones at my college were never particularly bad. I mean, there would obviously be a bit of hair around the drain, but that was about it. Nothing I’d ever qualify as “sludge”

    • Elisto
      Elisto
      December 26, 2016 at 10:46 am | #

      My dorm showers weren’t that bad, honestly. Still wasn’t going in there without shower shoes, but it was cleaned regularly and was usually fine. I’m sure it varies.

    • Quinctia
      Quinctia
      December 26, 2016 at 12:45 pm | #

      Mine never seemed that bad, but I generally showered late at night and not during what was probably a more crowded situation in the mornings.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      December 26, 2016 at 2:34 pm | #

      It was a long time ago, but I don’t remember any trauma about it. Either mine or anyone else’s. Some people wore some kind of shower sandals, IIRC, but most didn’t.
      I’ve also used gym showers and showers at various campgrounds over the years – with varying levels of cleanliness, but never anything as nasty as some people seem to be talking about.

      This all seems very odd to me.

      I mean, on the one hand this is Joyce’s neurosis – no one else seems to be reacting on the same level she it.
      OTOH, especially in earlier strips, while it’s been played for laughs, every one else seems to agree that it really is that gross. And a good chunk of the commentariat seems to be with them, to the level of worrying about the health hazard.

    • Sam
      Sam
      December 26, 2016 at 6:10 pm | #

      I would say it is a bit of both. Shared showers will never be SPOTLESS, but unless you are living with MONKEYS, it shouldn’t be as bad as Joyce makes it out to be unless cleaners don’t exist.

  17. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    December 26, 2016 at 12:08 am | #

    Maybe the true shower gunk is the friends you’ve made along the way.

    • Kris
      Kris
      December 26, 2016 at 12:12 am | #

      The shower gunk was inside you all along….probably literally…..ew

  18. John
    John
    December 26, 2016 at 12:08 am | #

    Don’t look at me, it’s not my chunky cream-of-human-hair soup!

    (This is funnier if you happen to remember my full name.)

    • Prunebane
      Prunebane
      December 26, 2016 at 5:24 am | #

      You don’t happen to be a Campbell, do you?

      (I now possess the mental image of canned creamy hair. Yaaaaaay)

  19. Viktoria
    Viktoria
    December 26, 2016 at 12:12 am | #

    Are girls’ showers that much worse? I mean, I never saw significant hair or anything other than tile in any of the public dude-showers I’ve been in. I wore shower sandals as a safety measure, but if I couldn’t for some reason, it wouldn’t have bothered me to any real degree.

    • insomniac
      insomniac
      December 26, 2016 at 1:31 am | #

      On average, if dudes and dudettes lose the same number of hairs per shower, women’s showers wind up with a whole lot more hair on the floor.

      • Kryss LaBryn
        Kryss LaBryn
        December 26, 2016 at 2:05 pm | #

        Yeah; my hair is slightly longer than my arm, so even one lost hair is gonna cause some issues, heh.

  20. Keulan
    Keulan
    December 26, 2016 at 12:24 am | #

    In the four years I used the showers in college, I never had that much trouble with shower hair gunk. I wore sandals, but even then it wasn’t that bad.

  21. Bluewind
    Bluewind
    December 26, 2016 at 12:30 am | #

    Oh the weather outside’s delightful
    And the shower stalls are so frightful
    But since we can’t let stink show
    Stay off the flo, off the flo, off the flo

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      December 26, 2016 at 12:54 am | #

      There once was a young man from Wheeling
      Who had such a sensitive feeling.
      When he read on the door,
      “Please don’t spit on the floor”,
      He jumped up and spat on the ceiling.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        December 26, 2016 at 1:02 am | #

        Jingle Bells, shower smells, Dina laid an egg.
        Grime and moss, the wall is gross, but the floor is wo-orse!

  22. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    December 26, 2016 at 12:32 am | #

    WHYYYYYyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

  23. Romanticide
    Romanticide
    December 26, 2016 at 12:40 am | #

    just put a godamn plastic blag at your feet and throw it away when you are done!

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      December 26, 2016 at 1:18 am | #

      not enough, you can still feel through a bag! (in fact, it maybe feels grosser)

  24. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    December 26, 2016 at 12:53 am | #

    On the *ceiling*??

  25. Bagge
    Bagge
    December 26, 2016 at 12:54 am | #

    And on the door, but never mind that now.

  26. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    December 26, 2016 at 12:55 am | #

    Remember, man, that thou are dust, and unto dust thou shalt return.
    Does shower gunk count?

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      December 26, 2016 at 1:03 am | #

      NO! Jesus hates shower gunk

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        December 26, 2016 at 10:23 am | #

        Yeah, it’s ‘ashes to ashes, dust to dust’. No ‘shower gunk to shower gunk’.

  27. BBCC
    BBCC
    December 26, 2016 at 12:59 am | #

    Panel One: Well, at least Joyce is trying to come up with strategies for solving this problem. That’s good!

    And aww, Sarah – she wants to support Joyce but also knows her solutions can be just as far down the rabbit hole as her problems.

    Panel Two: Thaat doesn’t actually seem like a reliable strategy to me – I’d think you’d notice when you wash your feet or leave or…anything. But if that works for Joyce more power to her. Again, I’m glad she’s trying tricks for it.

    Panel Three: Oh no, beat panel. Nothing good will go here. A beat panel never means good things for plans.

    Panel Four: Yuuuuuuuuuup. Poor Joyce.

    Panel Five: Reasonable assumption, Sarah. Also, good job checking on Joyce.

    Awww, Joyce, honey, have you never looked at the ceilings? Honey. It’ll be okay – just look straight ahead at all times. It can’t hurt you that way.

    Also, again, I am so happy that DoA is on what seems to be a more comedic storyline lately. I love the drama, but too much weighs a story down. Some tension breaking to breathe is a good thing.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      December 26, 2016 at 1:14 am | #

      Overdramatic as she is, Joyce actually tries to take control over the situation. I’m sure she will get there.

      I just love Sarah’s guarded expression. “The other shoe will drop, I know it.”

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        December 26, 2016 at 1:28 am | #

        Yuuuuup, Sarah saw something like this coming. Sorry, Joyce, you are predictable. XD

    • Chronos
      Chronos
      December 26, 2016 at 5:57 am | #

      You assume that gunk wouldn’t stick on the walls. No surface is safe.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        December 26, 2016 at 12:25 pm | #

        Well in that case, the only thing she can do is shut her eyes the entire shower. Sorry, Joyce.

  28. Ethan
    Ethan
    December 26, 2016 at 1:06 am | #

    When I went to college, I never once saw communal showers that were -that- gross; and I never wear shower shoes. Are women’s dorms that disgusting? It is a mystery to me.

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      December 26, 2016 at 1:17 am | #

      it’s gross if you’re a germaphobe/hairaphobe

    • missilentmurmur
      missilentmurmur
      December 26, 2016 at 1:22 am | #

      Our building was built in the seventies and it was never renovated since. There was rust, some of the shower heads missing, and no curtains. Some freshmen brought their own curtains, we’d rather waited to find the bathroom somewhat empty. Oh, and the kitchen was two stoves standing in an empty, grimy, dim room

      • Ethan
        Ethan
        December 26, 2016 at 8:43 am | #

        Wow. I hope they didn’t charge extra for the tetanus shots.

    • Angel H.
      Angel H.
      December 26, 2016 at 10:25 am | #

      I’ve never dealt with college dorm showers, but I have dealt with the communal showers at a homeless shelter.

      Two words: menstrual cycles.

      Blood in the showers and on the toilets, pad and tampons not disposed of properly…nasty.

  29. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    December 26, 2016 at 1:58 am | #

    http://imgur.com/a/Y36vh
    Murray Christmilk everyone. I may not always be on board with the goings on of this comic but I still hope you have a great holiday ‘n junk.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      December 26, 2016 at 2:05 am | #

      From the department of “making Joyce even more adorable than she already is”

      Merry Christmas, and thanks for a great card.

    • Dean
      Dean
      December 26, 2016 at 6:38 am | #

      Father Christmas’ brother Murray, the insurance salesman. They don’t talk much.

  30. Rodimiss
    Rodimiss
    December 26, 2016 at 2:01 am | #

    I sure am glad that I’ve only had to deal with communal showers freshman year, and then moved on to apartment-style living. I mean, it was still kind of nasty since none of us were good at keeping the bathroom clean, but it was nonetheless much, much, much less nasty

  31. BenRG
    BenRG
    December 26, 2016 at 3:14 am | #

    I don’t want to know how it got onto he ceiling!

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      December 26, 2016 at 3:51 am | #

      It jumped

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        December 26, 2016 at 4:00 am | #

        I’m not comfortable with it having that sort of autonomy

        • JBento
          JBento
          December 26, 2016 at 7:26 am | #

          Well, you’re just going to have to handle it – Cousin Itt is his own person, and he has the right to an education, damn you.

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            December 26, 2016 at 12:26 pm | #

            But does he have the right to go into the women’s showers?

            • JBento
              JBento
              December 26, 2016 at 4:31 pm | #

              I dunno, maybe he was invited for shower sex?

            • Gordon
              Gordon
              December 26, 2016 at 8:11 pm | #

              It depends.

              As a largely amorphous hair-based lifeform, it’s possible everyone has just been assuming Cousin Itt’s gender.

  32. OldGranddad114
    OldGranddad114
    December 26, 2016 at 4:23 am | #

    Merry holidays fuckers

    • JBento
      JBento
      December 26, 2016 at 7:28 am | #

      I don’t fuck holidays. Especially Easter, because she’s opposed to protection and contraception as a matter of principle.

  33. Dariu55
    Dariu55
    December 26, 2016 at 4:43 am | #

    NASTY

  34. Chronos
    Chronos
    December 26, 2016 at 5:55 am | #

    Story time!

    When I was in college, during my freshmen year, someone knocked down the communal shower door and shat on it.

    Later that year, the dorm was given a free case of Axe shaving cream. My floor took the opportunity to have a shaving cream fight, getting it all over the floors, doors, walls and ceiling. One person decided to cover himself head to toe in it while otherwise naked. I didn’t stick around to see what he intended to do; I just knew I wouldn’t enjoy it.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      December 26, 2016 at 1:28 pm | #

      …but…. why the poop?

      I get everything else, but why the poop?

      • Chronos
        Chronos
        December 26, 2016 at 5:19 pm | #

        Good question!

  35. KSClaw
    KSClaw
    December 26, 2016 at 6:27 am | #

    reminds me of the first art school I went to, where I had to live in a dorm with some other girls. One of them dyed her hair herself, and she never, EVER cleaned up after herself. Not even when it was wednesday and everyone had to work together to clean up everything. I don’t know how, but I was the only one who actually wanted to clean up the showers, and even when I called out the girl, she just outright denied it being her =/ frustrating as hell, I can tell you that.

  36. Angel H.
    Angel H.
    December 26, 2016 at 10:19 am | #

    Plastic bags.

    Just tape plastic shopping bags or garbage bags to your feet. Easy disposal. I have done this when I was staying at the homeless shelter and didn’t have my cheap flip-flops.

  37. Marsh Maryrose
    Marsh Maryrose
    December 26, 2016 at 10:49 am | #

    Just noticed that the title of this storyline is “Everything you’ve ever wanted floats above.” Who is it that wants shower sludge?

    And if everything anyone could ever need is down below, again and slightly more disturbing: who needs shower sludge?

  38. Rectilinear Propagation
    Rectilinear Propagation
    December 26, 2016 at 11:24 am | #

    Is it that no one cleans them or that whoever cleans them doesn’t do it often? Because of it were done daily, I’d think Joyce would make sure to shower immediately after they were cleaned.

  39. Antonio
    Antonio
    December 26, 2016 at 12:27 pm | #

    I didn’t live in a dorm, but I did live in a converted frat house with 14 other guys. I have a lot of memories of living there, but none showering. Did I shower somewhere else? Bathe in the ocean? I did get mistaken as a homeless man by my other long-time homeless people, so the answer may be “none of the above.”

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      December 26, 2016 at 1:25 pm | #

      I am suitably intrigued of this line of questioning.

      I am not sure what answer would mortify/scandalize/intrigue me more.

  40. blaaaaagh
    blaaaaagh
    December 26, 2016 at 1:43 pm | #

    ah yes i remember as a freshman cleaning up the shower stalls and sinks for my own use while girls like joyce literally stood there watching me, asking why i wouldn’t clean one for them too. the boys’ dorm bathrooms were, by comparison, freakishly clean. every girl in the dorm was outraged and disgusted by the mess they made themselves in the bathroom and refused to clean up. ??????????

  41. SimonK
    SimonK
    December 26, 2016 at 6:38 pm | #

    Does anyone else see this kind of germ phobia as an example of patriarchy, such that women are socialized to prefer extreme cleanliness, perhaps so that they can be more easily made to clean for men?

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      December 26, 2016 at 11:10 pm | #

      I don’t think it works that way–see Hannelore Ellicott-Chatham =p

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      December 27, 2016 at 2:14 am | #

      There are certainly aspects of that. May have to do with the traditional roles of women as housekeepers. For a man, grossness is something to confront and forget. For a woman it’s a sign of personal failure.

      It may also have aspects of how girls are less allowed to be dirty than boys, and how a higher emphasis is put on girls having to be pretty than boys.

      It’s not ONLY gender roles, of course, but they play a part.

  42. Yakumo
    Yakumo
    December 26, 2016 at 11:07 pm | #

    Wait, if it’s on the ceiling, why climb closer to it? And isn’t it touching that much of the door bad too?

  43. J. A. J.
    J. A. J.
    December 26, 2016 at 11:34 pm | #

    “Shrek, I’m lookin’ down!”

  44. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    December 27, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

    Too bad nobody cleans up there.

  45. Nele Abels
    Nele Abels
    December 27, 2016 at 4:20 am | #

    In every marina I have been too, there is a squeegee in the showers. You shower – you clean up behind you. No water, no mess for the next in line. No problem. 🙂

  46. Ragingagnostic
    Ragingagnostic
    December 27, 2016 at 7:30 pm | #

    The Lord likes dirt. According to Joyce’s mythology, the big guy presumably made human beings out ot it. So that’s why.

  47. Thursday Violist
    Thursday Violist
    December 28, 2016 at 2:37 am | #

    Don’t you just hate it when it’s on the ceiling? I mean, seriously. That happens all the time.

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