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by David M Willis on November 6, 2019 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - Birthday Pursuit
└ Tags: dorothy, joyce, leslie

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    November 6, 2019 at 12:03 am | #

    I’d say “Dumbing of Age Book 10: Hey, Sometimes Us Kids Are Just Butts” …but… “SOMEtimes”…? =V

    totes get Leslie’s feel, tho, like… I know I’d be a shit parent, but it’s like, “c’mon, I could do better than THAT” )=’

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      November 6, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

      Yeah, being a better mom than Robin seems like a low bar to clear.

      That’s like being a better kickboxer than a fish.

      • Sunny
        Sunny
        November 6, 2019 at 8:29 am | #

        I think there’s an argument to be made that some fishes, like thresher sharks, do kick. And biting was good enough for Mike Tyson, soo….

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      November 6, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

      Just start at “Us”. “Dumbing of Age Book 10: Us Kids Are Just Butts”.

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        November 6, 2019 at 12:08 am | #

        Or, because it’s Willis… ‘DoA Book 10: Just Butts’.

        • Felix
          Felix
          November 6, 2019 at 7:26 am | #

          “Just Butts”

          This.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            November 6, 2019 at 1:25 pm | #

            With foreword, once again, by Jeph Jacques.

      • Slartibeast Button, BIA
        Slartibeast Button, BIA
        November 6, 2019 at 12:08 am | #

        Butts Disease intensifies.

  2. BBCC
    BBCC
    November 6, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

    Joyce, answer your fucking phone young lady, this is important.

    Hank, text her if she’s not answering calls and book your ass over here in case there’s trouble.

    Leslie, when it comes to moming, you’re doing amazing sweetie.

    And Dorothy – you’re not wrong. In more ways than one, Becky probably feels like this could be a betrayal. Not only is she working for someone who hurt Leslie, but she’s been a heterocentric toolbag politician for years.

    • Cyrus
      Cyrus
      November 6, 2019 at 12:23 am | #

      He’s a slightly technophobic old dude; are we sure he even knows how to text?

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        November 6, 2019 at 12:54 am | #

        I’m hoping so, because that’s a lot faster than driving and Joyce isn’t picking up her phone.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        November 6, 2019 at 2:17 am | #

        Give him a break, text messaging has only been around for a couple decades.

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      November 6, 2019 at 12:23 am | #

      I suspect it’s possible Hank’s dropped everything and hauling ass there, but it’s, what, four hours away?

      If he did start driving before now that would explain why he’s not texting. Not sure why he wouldn’t leave a voicemail, though.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        November 6, 2019 at 12:56 am | #

        Yep. Four hours. Fuuuuck.

      • DrWattson
        DrWattson
        November 6, 2019 at 1:18 am | #

        It’s likely he did leave a voicemail, but Joyce is ignoring it.

    • vlademir1
      vlademir1
      November 6, 2019 at 10:05 am | #

      When it comes to text vs voice, something to consider is that text leaves a record of content that can be found by parties uninvolved in the specific communication. If Hank is worried about Carol seeing the contents of a text and having a negative reaction, say if he’s warning Joyce about Ross being free, where she wouldn’t be concerned about him calling Joyce then it would make more sense to call.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        November 6, 2019 at 11:12 am | #

        Yes, but she’s not answering. Clearly calling isn’t working. He can delete a text from his own phone if he’s that worried about snooping.

        • Tadpole7
          Tadpole7
          November 6, 2019 at 1:50 pm | #

          Some of us just don’t text.

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            November 6, 2019 at 2:45 pm | #

            I get not liking it or not doing it normally, but this is an emergency and she’s not answering calls.

            • Tadpole7
              Tadpole7
              November 7, 2019 at 6:29 am | #

              It wouldnt occur to me to text, I would be leaving a voicemail and trying to get a hold
              Of her friends if I wasn’t getting a response. I never respond to or read text, so it’s not what I think of in emergencies.

        • Swissaboo
          Swissaboo
          November 6, 2019 at 10:44 pm | #

          Open question whether hank knows he can delete a text from his own phone

  3. Yumi
    Yumi
    November 6, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

    Well, now I’m worried about why Hank might be calling.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      November 6, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

      “Hey, Joyce, you and Becky need to be careful. Your mom just told me that the church got a financial windfall to bail Ross out of jail. Does the name O’Malley mean anything to you?”

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      November 6, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

      I’m not. I’m certain he’s calling about Toedad.

      • FLUFFYWOLF
        FLUFFYWOLF
        November 6, 2019 at 12:15 am | #

        Whatever it is, I have a 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 bad feeling about why he’s calling.

        …though it’s probably Toedad. Or Hank is getting a divorce. Or he’s getting a divorce from his wife because of her support of Toedad.

        • abysswatcher1993
          abysswatcher1993
          November 6, 2019 at 12:18 am | #

          Divorce seems reasonable in this extreme circumstances. Toedad is a kidnapper and went to a college armed.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            November 6, 2019 at 2:24 am | #

            I can see that happening, but probably not any time soon for us given the comic’s time scale. Maybe if this is the last straw, or if he’s been burying resentment of her religious extremism for years.

      • Marsh Maryrose
        Marsh Maryrose
        November 6, 2019 at 12:21 am | #

        I think so too — narrative, foreshadowing, etc — BUT —

        If he’s calling to warn her, why doesn’t he leave voicemail? Even if it’s just something like, “Honey, I don’t want to alarm you, but something really important has come up and I need to talk to you.”

        Or he could like text her, which is what you’d think anyone would do nowadays.

        • Cass
          Cass
          November 6, 2019 at 12:29 am | #

          He could be, and she’s just not listening to it either. I basically never check my voicemail regardless of who’s called.

          • Pablo360
            Pablo360
            November 6, 2019 at 12:48 am | #

            Hell, I don’t know I’ve gotten a voicemail unless someone texts me about it

            • not someone else
              not someone else
              November 6, 2019 at 3:39 am | #

              I got my first cell phone fifteen years ago in college and I still haven’t gotten around to setting up my voicemail. Just text!

        • DSL
          DSL
          November 6, 2019 at 7:45 am | #

          I know people who don’t even bother to leave voicemails; the call recipients are expected to keep tabs on the “missed call” log on their smartassphones.

          • vlademir1
            vlademir1
            November 6, 2019 at 10:12 am | #

            That is exactly the reason I tell people they need to either text first or leave a voicemail if I’ve given them my number. I do not answer my phone if I don’t know the number calling me just as I don’t engage with email that I don’t personally know the source of.

  4. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    November 6, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

    Yeah, sometimes being a parent figure to a newly-independent teenager is a hankless job.

    • Clif
      Clif
      November 6, 2019 at 2:10 am | #

      Bad Reltzik!

      No Internets for you.

    • He Who Abides
      He Who Abides
      November 6, 2019 at 5:03 am | #

      Go directly to Pun Jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect 200 Internets.

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        November 6, 2019 at 10:10 am | #

        I’m sorry, I stopped reading that sentence after the first word. Since, you know, you told me not to pass it.

        • Commodore Counterintuitive
          Commodore Counterintuitive
          November 6, 2019 at 11:42 pm | #

          But wait, if you didn’t go past it, how did you know not to go past it?

          • Reltzik
            Reltzik
            November 6, 2019 at 11:50 pm | #

            Quantum computing!

  5. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    November 6, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

    This is the day after Joyce skipped church, right?

    Hank knows. He just knows something is off, somehow.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      November 6, 2019 at 12:09 am | #

      Man I hope it’s something that tame.

      There’s a scent of toes on the wind, and I don’t like it.

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        November 6, 2019 at 12:23 am | #

        How do toes smell what do toes smell like?

        • Tacos
          Tacos
          November 6, 2019 at 12:43 am | #

          Feet.

        • darkgloomie
          darkgloomie
          November 6, 2019 at 1:41 am | #

          It’s the scent of de feet

        • Khyrin
          Khyrin
          November 6, 2019 at 2:00 am | #

          Feet smell of Butyric acid. if you’re being generous, that’s one of the compounds that gives Parmesan cheese its distinctive bouquet. If you’re being uncharitable, it also is part of the scent of human vomit.

          • CJ
            CJ
            November 6, 2019 at 3:42 am | #

            Butric acid is one of the best practical examples of
            dosage is everything.
            It’s an important component of flavor in lots of milk-based food, an indicator that the stuff is off when the note becomes intense and absolutely awful when pure.

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        November 6, 2019 at 1:10 am | #

        It’s late, so my cat is kneading on me before she goes to sleep.

        I know what the scent of toes is like.

  6. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    November 6, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

    Bad Joyce, if anybody calls you three times in one day it might actually be important, pick up you little shit.

    And Dorothy continues to offer readon and logic to the situation, makes me wonder if she has managed to level herself out?

    • No Name
      No Name
      November 6, 2019 at 12:16 am | #

      As Marten said: Friendsight is 20/20. This applies to teachers as well.

  7. ian livs
    ian livs
    November 6, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

    Joyce is just callin’ me out here. (Glances at the string of mom texts that I just straight-up don’t feel like responding to, partially bc Don’t Wanna and partially bc, well, mortal fear of parental judgment, haha.)

  8. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    November 6, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

    *plays “Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation” on the hacked Muzak*

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      November 6, 2019 at 12:35 am | #

      Can we follow that up with Cracker’s I Hate my Generation?

      • AbelUndercity
        AbelUndercity
        November 6, 2019 at 5:25 am | #

        And then Your Generation by Generation X?

  9. Newllend(henryvolt)
    Newllend(henryvolt)
    November 6, 2019 at 12:08 am | #

    Hank must of cought wend of Ross getting bail and he’s trying to warn Joyce and Becky. Joyce should pick up lives might be at risk.

    • FLUFFYWOLF
      FLUFFYWOLF
      November 6, 2019 at 12:25 am | #

      Y’know, there’s something that always bothered me about that scene in Joyce’s church:

      …where was Hank, anyway? Was he there and wishing he was anywhere but? Church is a huge part of his life. It doesn’t seem possible that he wouldn’t know something. Course, this raises the question of how he wouldn’t know…

      • Newllend(henryvolt)
        Newllend(henryvolt)
        November 6, 2019 at 12:33 am | #

        Maybe not EVERYONE in that church was a part of the meeting, growing up in church a remember mine had 5 to 6 different programs weekly and I barely went to any of them. Chances are he was probably off doing some other church related activity while was apart of this secret “Let’s get Ross out of prison” program.

        • Newllend(henryvolt)
          Newllend(henryvolt)
          November 6, 2019 at 12:34 am | #

          *While Carol

        • Bryy
          Bryy
          November 6, 2019 at 12:48 am | #

          Hank was most likely 100% not even made aware of that meeting. Joyce’s church (and mom) seem like the type that are fully aware of how their actions are viewed to the outside world. They just care, because THEY KNOW that whatever they do is in the right.

          Carol’s dialogue in that strip was “we’re only trying to raise our kids right”, implying that this has not only happened before but that she sided with Ross.

        • Axel
          Axel
          November 6, 2019 at 3:17 am | #

          He also may have just been at work or something.

      • Norah
        Norah
        November 6, 2019 at 4:18 am | #

        It wasn’t a service, it was a meeting.

  10. Axel
    Axel
    November 6, 2019 at 12:10 am | #

    noo joyce he’s trying to warn you and becky

    and if I’m right jfc hank, please text her

  11. Joe Moose
    Joe Moose
    November 6, 2019 at 12:10 am | #

    Joyce, answer your damn phone. It probably a warning about Toedad.

  12. TemporalShrew
    TemporalShrew
    November 6, 2019 at 12:10 am | #

    You’ve heard of 4 Non-Blondes.

    We’re happy to present: 3 Non Blondes!

    • Liquid Len
      Liquid Len
      November 6, 2019 at 10:47 am | #

      Still asking What’s going on!

  13. Jeff K!,
    Jeff K!,
    November 6, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

    Notably, for all the blondes, they all have different hair colors, something some artists don’t bother with.

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      November 6, 2019 at 12:20 am | #

      And that’s before we get into Mike, Daisy, Agatha and Grace, plus whomever I’m forgetting.

      • JessWitt
        JessWitt
        November 6, 2019 at 12:27 am | #

        Alex, Tony, Eric, Conquest…

        • ValdVin
          ValdVin
          November 6, 2019 at 7:45 am | #

          …Jason…

          • JessWitt
            JessWitt
            November 6, 2019 at 2:55 pm | #

            D’oh, that one was obvious.

  14. Keulen
    Keulen
    November 6, 2019 at 12:12 am | #

    DoA Book 10: A Part Of Me Will Always Live In Mortal Fear Of His Judgment

  15. FLUFFYWOLF
    FLUFFYWOLF
    November 6, 2019 at 12:13 am | #

    …Uh.

    Joyce, it’s very possible that being homeschooled may leave you out of touch with this, but if your parents try to call you during class hours, chances are they 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 need to talk to you.

    I’ve got a bad feeling about this

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      November 6, 2019 at 12:15 am | #

      Especially since Hank has tried to call her three times. I suspect it’s something important, maybe involving Ross.

      • FLUFFYWOLF
        FLUFFYWOLF
        November 6, 2019 at 12:23 am | #

        You and most of this comment section, I’m afraid 😛

        The comment I made on that one is from personal experience, btw. Whenever mom’s had to call me to say anything that couldn’t be done through messenger or text, it was…

        well, sometimes it was good news, sometimes it was bad news, but it was always Important. If it’s something Hank can’t or won’t say in text form, it’s a bad sign.

    • abysswatcher1993
      abysswatcher1993
      November 6, 2019 at 12:17 am | #

      Everyone has been missing calls… these kids are dumber than normal kids, and that is saying something.

      • DrWattson
        DrWattson
        November 6, 2019 at 1:22 am | #

        I mean, the comic’s not called Smarting of Age.

        • abysswatcher1993
          abysswatcher1993
          November 6, 2019 at 2:17 am | #

          Yeah, but there’s dumb and then theres’s… whatever the characters of Willis do. There are standards of stupidity.

          • Reltzik
            Reltzik
            November 6, 2019 at 11:35 am | #

            Well, it’s pretty well established that this is a Halloween storyline and we’ve got at least two stalkers in play. I think the standard in question is “horror movie protagonists” levels of stupidity.

      • StClair
        StClair
        November 6, 2019 at 3:48 am | #

        I assure you, “normal” kids can absolutely be this dumb.
        Especially the ones who are so sure they’re adults now.

        • Norah
          Norah
          November 6, 2019 at 4:22 am | #

          Especially someone like Joyce, who is trying to break away from parts of her upbringing, after being helicoptered for 18 years. She

  16. Alexander Krizak
    Alexander Krizak
    November 6, 2019 at 12:17 am | #

    See, but that’s why I love your work, Willis. Three blondes, yet none of them actually have the same hair colour.

  17. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    November 6, 2019 at 12:20 am | #

    It’s okay if Becky got a job with a manchild congress woman. It is not okay that the news of toedad haven’t been relayed to Becky and Joyce faster!

  18. Regalli
    Regalli
    November 6, 2019 at 12:21 am | #

    Yeah, three times in short succession is never a good thing. I suggest you maybe try texting the short version, Hank? She’ll probably call back for that before freaking the fuck out.

    Or at least put Dorothy and Leslie on speakerphone, together they might all manage a collective amount of chill to actually strategize a bit instead of panicking.

  19. Bagge
    Bagge
    November 6, 2019 at 12:34 am | #

    Dorothy is momming good.

    • Shane Wegner
      Shane Wegner
      November 6, 2019 at 4:36 am | #

      Dotty is extra Insightful today.

  20. Deadjolras
    Deadjolras
    November 6, 2019 at 12:45 am | #

    Yeah, if your parents are trying to reach you several times, it’s probably something really important. Joyce, pick up the phone!

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      November 6, 2019 at 12:53 am | #

      It’s probably something that they think is really important. Joyce’s experience of her parents will probably colour what she expects of a thing that think is really important. That is, she has every reason to expect that it is something about church, praying, or reading the Bible.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        November 6, 2019 at 2:10 am | #

        She’d expect nothing else from Carol, but from Hank?

        • Agemegos
          Agemegos
          November 6, 2019 at 2:40 am | #

          His sudden transformation was only a few weeks ago, Joyce’s time. For most of her life he has been like ,a href=”http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/04-just-hangin-out-with-my-family/moral/”>this and this. “Important” to him was shunning people like Dorothy.

          • Agemegos
            Agemegos
            November 6, 2019 at 2:41 am | #

            Dammit. http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/04-just-hangin-out-with-my-family/moral/

        • Norah
          Norah
          November 6, 2019 at 4:27 am | #

          And don’t forget she just skipped church for the first time in her life, she’s starting to question her relationship with God, plus the lying to Jacob’s brother. She doesn’t want to have to talk to her dad—for all she knows he’s going to talk to her about the Bible or church.

  21. Tacos
    Tacos
    November 6, 2019 at 12:46 am | #

    Three missed calls? Ah he must’ve been trying to warn her about Toedad being out of jail. Well that’s not good.

  22. Lingo
    Lingo
    November 6, 2019 at 12:46 am | #

    Did Hank get Walky’s number? Is that why Walky’s phone buzzed a few strips ago?

    • Clif
      Clif
      November 6, 2019 at 2:05 am | #

      That was Joyce’s phone.

      • Norah
        Norah
        November 6, 2019 at 4:23 am | #

        Walky’s phone buzzed too.

  23. BenRG
    BenRG
    November 6, 2019 at 1:59 am | #

    I’ve no doubt that Hank is trying to warn Joyce that Ross is back on the streets and that the congregation’s new treasurer is a deeply disturbing individual, no matter how good he is at getting people to like him.

  24. Geneseepaws
    Geneseepaws
    November 6, 2019 at 2:25 am | #

    Ok, here’s the wind up, and the pitch. Sadly the batter’s not paying attention, or even holding the bat. Looks like an automatic out. Looks like Toe-dad scores an automatic walk home. Wait, I’m mixing my meta-fours.

  25. Rycan
    Rycan
    November 6, 2019 at 3:41 am | #

    Such a rebel.

  26. Amelie
    Amelie
    November 6, 2019 at 3:51 am | #

    Now it seems a bit dumb if Leslie doesn’t just get Becky’s number from Joyce and texts her something along the lines of “You kind of made me worry when you disappeared, I’m not mad but can you call me to let me know you’re okay? This is Leslie, the teacher.”

    But maybe I’m foolish to bring reasonableness into the story of Toedad ambushing Becky huh.

    • Shane Wegner
      Shane Wegner
      November 6, 2019 at 4:34 am | #

      How else will we build up Leslie’s guilt to the point where she releases all her chakra to perform one last Forbidden Jutsu, saving everyone she swore to protect at the cost of sacrificing her own life, expiring with a smile? What, it’s not that kind of manga? Isn’t it though?? Oh it’s really not? WELL MAYBE IT SHOULD BE check Naruto’s sales numbers.

  27. GUIGUI
    GUIGUI
    November 6, 2019 at 4:02 am | #

    “awful lotta blondes in this strip”
    I am quite sure Joyce is actually Brown.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      November 6, 2019 at 4:15 am | #

      Joyce will always be blonde at heart 😉

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      November 6, 2019 at 11:56 am | #

      Funny, I see her more as Gray…

      …as in Julia Gray

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        November 6, 2019 at 7:28 pm | #

        Joyce with grey hair? What a strange idea.

  28. Icalasari
    Icalasari
    November 6, 2019 at 5:20 am | #

    “…So is this going to be on the final, or…?”

  29. Thomas
    Thomas
    November 6, 2019 at 5:29 am | #

    Seems Dorothy is entirely too well-informed on the ins & outs of her teacher’s private life. Leslie has been oversharing.

    Is this a problem that needs to be addressed.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      November 6, 2019 at 6:08 am | #

      What’s Dorothy too informed about here? Everything she’s said is about Becky, not Leslie’s private life.

      Admittedly, Leslie did overshare earlier about the sexy dentist, but Dorothy doesn’t mention that.

      • Thomas
        Thomas
        November 6, 2019 at 3:28 pm | #

        I was under the impression that the episode where Robin stayed on Leslie’s couch was not something students needed to know about, but it’s been in the media, so of course it’s common knowledge.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        November 6, 2019 at 5:05 pm | #

        Honestly, as far as bad teacher behaviour goes, slightly oversharing about your personal life is pretty low-key. I’ve had lots of profs, and even elementary and high school teachers, talk about their personal lives for a minute or two or use their families as examples. Some profs are very informal and so long as the actual lessons get done, the school probably won’t care.

        Now Leslie ditching class and leaving Roz to do her job on the other hand, THAT might get Leslie in trouble if anyone found out.

    • Jay
      Jay
      November 6, 2019 at 9:06 am | #

      I mean. They’re college students not high schoolers. I know tons of people friends witht heir college proffs

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      November 6, 2019 at 12:03 pm | #

      Leslie?

      Mixing her private and professional life in a way that is not 100% perfectly in line with the expected professional conduct of someone in her position?

      I never!

      Gasps, faints, drop monocle.

  30. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    November 6, 2019 at 6:24 am | #

    Awww. Leslie want to be a good mother for Becky is so sweet ♡.

  31. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    November 6, 2019 at 6:29 am | #

    All blondes, each with distinct shades !

  32. hof1991
    hof1991
    November 6, 2019 at 8:27 am | #

    Darn kids these day with not answering the miracle computers we buy for them. Just testing out my new Hank gravitar.

  33. Vulcanodon
    Vulcanodon
    November 6, 2019 at 10:24 am | #

    Joyce, don’t you recognize foreshadowing when you see it?

    • Vulcanodon
      Vulcanodon
      November 6, 2019 at 10:26 am | #

      Also, Hank, learn to text. You just want to make sure Joyce knows that Toedad is out on bail, right?

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        November 6, 2019 at 12:04 pm | #

        Text? Who do you think he is? Steve Jobbs?

  34. Robert
    Robert
    November 6, 2019 at 10:54 am | #

    I sense a little foreshadowing going on…What do you think Joyce is going to hear once she opens her dads voicemail messages? Maybe a possible warning about Blaine and Toedad?

    • Seregiel
      Seregiel
      November 6, 2019 at 11:16 am | #

      This. “Joyce, stay safe, toe dad made bail… ps I’m getting a divorce because your mom helped. I love you little girl”

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        November 6, 2019 at 3:56 pm | #

        “Poop emoji, poop emoji, poop emoji Help, why does the phone write hieroglyphs? In my time a phone was used to make phone calls, not butcher dead languages.”

  35. CJ
    CJ
    November 6, 2019 at 4:22 pm | #

    Totally OT: is there anything I can do about the question if I want personalized ads popping up every few days? (Unfortunately the Browser has no setting to whitelist acceptable cookies and just never care about the rest ever again.)

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      November 6, 2019 at 4:26 pm | #

      If they’re aggressive ads, you can try reporting them to hiveworks.

      • CJ
        CJ
        November 6, 2019 at 6:50 pm | #

        No, unfortunately it’s aggressive asking for allowing cookies required by European DGSVO. I just don’t understand why I have to refuse permission every three days.

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          November 6, 2019 at 9:59 pm | #

          Boo. Maybe it requires an account to remember your settings?

        • CJ
          CJ
          November 7, 2019 at 3:33 am | #

          Google tries that.
          Setting up an account (which requires my age, name and address) with I company I don’t what to have my data to tell them I don’t want them to collect my data doesn’t seem like a strategy that reaches my goals.
          But I don’t think it’s the case here.
          I have to do it on all the hiveworks-sites when it happens, maybe I should ask them…

  36. lightsabermario
    lightsabermario
    November 6, 2019 at 6:59 pm | #

    Completely unrelated to this comic, is anybody else having trouble seeing the alt-text on mobile? You used to be able to tap the blank area to the left of the “first” arrow, and that would make the alt-text appear. Now that doesn’t seem to be working. EDIT: I tried holding in on clicking the comic itself, and that revealed most of the text, but it cuts off some of it with an ellipsis. How do I see the rest of it?

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      November 6, 2019 at 8:39 pm | #

      Try tapping the empty space below the right end of the comic.

      • lightsabermario
        lightsabermario
        November 7, 2019 at 2:41 am | #

        Yeah, that does nothing anymore.

  37. Cerberus
    Cerberus
    November 6, 2019 at 11:28 pm | #

    Add in Agatha and this becomes the opposite of Four Non-Blondes.

  38. kilgaen
    kilgaen
    November 7, 2019 at 6:48 am | #

    “a good host”
    . . .
    Damn you, Willis.

  39. plasticwrap
    plasticwrap
    November 8, 2019 at 4:05 am | #

    Joyce is me nearly every day of my life. I literally only answer my phone in a heartbeat if it’s the child of a friend. I just assume they need help.

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