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My first thought was Joe must be screaming inside, but the look on his face in the last panel reqds more like the truly scientific, “oh. That’s weird.”
Joe realizes he has done the unthinkable and reduced the amount of lust in the room, and must declare himself a Lust Ronan and wander the earth spreading lust wherever he goes to regain his honor.
Lust Ronin, not Ronan. I don’t think he’s gonna declare himself a common Irish name.
Or Lee Pace’s MCU character.
Wait… Lust Ronan is already a canon character in MCU?
The 47 Ronans.
A Lust Ronan? Better not Accuse anyone of that.
I understood that reference!
I’m still wondering why Joe is in this class. Required subject? Hoping to meet hot lady scientists?
wait, you mean you don’t buy his explicitely stated reason for being there? I’m shocked.
I’m still not really sure how this is confusing everyone. They are in their first year of college. The first two years of college (in florida) had several required classes which had nothing to do with my degree.
I just assume this is something like that, though I’m shocked to find that isn’t as common and universal as I thought it was.
I think the problem is that 1) that’s really only common in the US (and maybe Canada?) because pretty much every other country doesn’t require gen-ed classes at the university level, and 2) the gen-ed science courses are usually, like, Bio 101 and Bio 102, not “Human Life and Evolution,” haha, unless there’s a science elective or two required as well.
To be fair, the US (and by proximity Canada) could REALLY benefit from the general population being required to learn about human life and evolution. Probably from pre-school to graduation.
Also: critical thinking.
On the other hand, I have taken both general education classes as part of an engineering degree, and program only specialized courses as part of a college diploma program. Having seen the effect of the required general education courses on myself and my peers, I am firmly convinced that some general education as part of even highly specialized programs is beneficial. Having studied the topic closely, Engineers Canada also advocates for general arts education to be a required part of an engineers bachelor education.
Near as I can tell, the people who push the hardest for there to be specialized only programs, are those who aim to profit off the backs of those who will work using said education. Something about unthinking drones making them money.
We need it, but we’ll never get it because that’s not how you churn out obedient little worker drones.
I don’t know, some of the courses that are specialized are so hyperspecialized they honestly have no real-world relevance or usefulness, but they DO make lots of headlines. just open your catalogue to the social sciences area, and you’ll find a whole slew of degrees that you can’t use outside of Academia. A good, honest, GENERAL Gen-Ed would be nice if it were offered, instead of feeding the fragile egoes of self-styled intellectuals.
And even a Conservative (though not necessarily a Christian Conservative) would agree on that one.
Then again, if they only taught kids what the actual powers of the President and Congress were, or what the rules of a jury trial and evidence are, or the difference between “Rights” and “Privileges” it would go a long way toward preventing the insanity of the last four years, because people wouldn’t be getting upset about shit they didn’t know how it works to begin with.
Then again, an educated populace wouldn’t have elected Shiela Jackson-Lee, Alexia Ocasio Cortez, Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, George Bush, Mitch McConnell, and so on and so on and so on.
There wouldn’t be a Swamp of executive orders, unaccountable agencies, and most of your Lobbyists wouldn’t be able to be in business because they wouldn’t be able to get people to fall for their bullshit or re-elect visibly and obviously corrupt scumbags.
Okay, that was a stupid digression. forget I mentioned it. According to my mom, who went to college back in the sixties (a REAL college, not the community thing I went to to get my AWS card or the one I dropped out of 15 credits short of an associates in geosciences because I met a girl and my brain stopped working for 12 years), the ‘bonehead’ classes are a requirement dating a LONG way back, mostly because public schools even back in the sixties weren’t delivering a good, solid, general education for your tax dollar. even back then, people were using them more as a sort of babysitting service.
Who’s Alexia Ocasio Cortez, and why are she and Sheila Jackson-Lee on the list with Trump, Cruz, McConnell et al.?
Ignore them. They seem to think a congresswomen who doesn’t want us to burn down the planet is the on the same level as the president who threatened to take funding from a state that was on fire
AOC is a democratic congresswomen from New York that Republicans ( and quite a few middling Dems) can’t stand cause she won’t sit down and shut up until she’s 60 and jaded like them
I think jflb96 might have been making a point about that fact that it’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, not Alexia, not genuinely asking who that was, but yeah. Not sure why she’s on the same level with the tangerine tyrant….
I looked up IU’s general education requirements. Certain natural science courses with “substantial lab components” count extra towards the GenEd core curriculum, so this might be one of those.
Alternatively, Joe actually does care about biology. He wants people to think that he’s a horny clown undeserving of emotional investment, so his stated motives and goals can’t be trusted.
At my college you just needed a certain amount of credits from a course/courses to count towards a gen Ed requirement.
So say you need 2 points in a science based gen ed, you can take any elective course/s that fulfills that. (I was able to get a class on the solar system from my local community college that I took over the summer to count). Depending on your major you’d just naturally fulfill certain ones. Also things like AP Courses or taking a certain amount of elective courses in high school could count (like 4 years of the same language in HS could get you out of the language requirement)
I don’t even know if we had a bio 101.
Joe has sort of helped Becky out here though. Since she could not have dealt with that power.
Worst. Wingman. Ever.
For someone that supposedly puts a lot of stock in it, Joe is an absurdly bad wingman. I think we’ve only ever seen him kill the mood.
He encouraged Jacob to actually give Joyce a shot. We haven’t seen him since that conversation, so it remains to be seen if anything comes of it, but at least he sincerely tried and wasn’t a jerk on that occasion.
Call me crazy, but he wasn’t being a wingman when he did that. Those were his own thoughts about Joyce and he basically saying “I’m into her”.
Yes, I ship it.
#joejo fo laifu
JJJ triad?
(On a big pile of pictures of spider0man)
Oh geez, Joe, hide from the angry shippers. XD
the asexual experience in a nutshell
is she actually asexual or has she just never allowed herself to experience sex due to her hyperfocus on being a paleontologist? Becky’s refusal to do anything due to her beliefs certainly masked things, but is she really asexual or just not in the mood or not allowing herself to experience horniness yet?
Willis has confirmed on Twitter that she’s gray-ace; this was actually linked in the comments-section yesterday. (Not to mention that in-comic, she’s actually worn a gray shirt with the ace flag on it, while telling Amber off for trying to make her “stop” her and Walky from having sex…and that’s just one example.)
Dumbing of Age: “Precipice”
I think kissing her girlfriend a lot and actually suggesting they have sex would count as “allowing herself” to experience hornyness. For me this looks like a textbook depiction of a demisexual. I’m sorry but this comment is reaching so far it kinda feels like you just don’t want to believe in asexuality.
It might not be hornyness, as much as doing the motions of relationship stuff because you are into the person with or without hornyness.
Sounds more like she’s sapio-sexual – as in literally aroused by intellect, given her positive biological response to Becky talking Nerdy to her.
Yet even more anecdotal evidence for my working “earthquake” model of this situation.
And then literally de-aroused by Joe’s subsequent dumbass comments. The theory fits! xD
Dunno if it’s a real thing, but would go a LONG way to explaining my choices for partners.
idk, being aroused by your hot girlfriend suggesting you go to your room and do the thing you most love in the world sounds like the most “average” sexual experience there is.
I’m excited for the further in-comic exploration of Dina’s aceness that seems to be coming.
Dunno, being aroused by thinking about a shared activity with your significant other sounds pretty sexual to me. Like a science fetish. This seems to be a new experience for her, so she might experience arousal for the first time.
My money would be grey and /or a very strong fetish that is required to get her going at all.
Dina is confirmed gray ace, per word of Willis.
Makes sense. This read very heavily as demi-/sapio-
This is so awkward what’s happening
Fear not faithful readers! I predict that this and prior teasers (no pun intented) are merely earthquakes before the beautiful eruption (no pun intended here either).
Oh my. It looks like my effort to produce similes has resulted in all but puns.
But it’s better than all-butt puns?
Ach, Booster.
Better now, isn’t it?
Very much so!
you can’t go wrong with Dina
But Joe just did
All butt-puns?
Ummmm… try the other side of the “basement”…
Joe actually killed lesbian arousal. He should be ashamed:
I guess he puts the toxic in toxic masculinity….
Joe has made an enemy for life with this foul misdeed D:<
Hey, now that Becky’s getting along better with Dorothy, she needs a new nemesis.
Ehhhh it sounds like she’s been getting along WORSE with Dorothy if anything. Yeah we saw them going out to get her something but we never saw them actually doing it.
Until we see Becky concretely being nice to Dorothy, I’m still gonna be harsh on Becky for that relationship.
You take your naysaying elsewhere I won’t hear it! Becky’s a good kid and will have like a salad wrap bouquet for Dotty
Becky, Dina, AND THE COMMENT SECTION. That’s several enemies 0.0!!
OK THAT GRAV IS SUPER APPROPRIATE but let’s roulette
Dammit Joe, you had ONE JOB!!! …. and that one job was to shut up, so of course he failed it
*plays Chicago’s “Call On Me (‘Cause I Love You)” on the hacked Muzak*
The euphoria WAS in her pants. Thanks a lot, Joe.
Becky’s shiny eyes in the middle panel ♥
JOE! Learn to read the room, man! Now Sexy Times™ will have to wait till next Biology class.
That would be pretty awkward if they engage in sexy times during class.
So you are telling me Joe actually help defuse a potencially very awkward situation?
Ha. Way to go, Josenthal.
Side note, how does one fix a paperback book that’s bound with glue? My copy of DoA Book 3 has a severe pages-falling-out issue that the first two didn’t. I’ve mostly only had books with string and/or staples, so this is new territory. I figure at least one of y’all reads enough to have dealt with this before and knows what The Good Stuff is and how to get it.
You may have some luck asking your local librarian.
If it’s open.
Our library is currently open by appointment only, I’m told. Also the librarians hate me for checking out a DVD with a water-damaged case and then returning it in the same condition. Apparently I was supposed to uncrinkle the plastic and find the original paper slip instead of giving them back the black-and-white printout they gave me. It’s a weird town.
Info is available online if you search. Try “repair perfect binding”. (“Perfect binding” is the jargon for the kind of binding you’re talking about.)
Looks like the general idea is a lot of extra words for “Just glue them back in, jackass”, which is about what I expected. Off to the stationery aisle, I suppose.
That’s all I would do.
Just don’t eat the paste, it tastes nasty.
I have a little desktop machine for perfect-binding. You put loose leaves into a pre-fab cover that has a strip of thermoplastic glue in the spine, then you put it spine down onto a heating element, which melts the glue. Then you take it out and let the glue set as it cools.
I have had some success in using it to repair perfect-bound paperbacks. Put the loose page in place, touching the cracked glue. Use the machine to melt the glue. let it cool and set.
Maybe, though I haven’t tried it, you could do it with an iron.
I second this idea, with the idea that you don’t allow the flat of the hot iron to touch the paper of the binding. Maybe waxed paper in between? Ideas requested.
Dry side out, waxed side to binding.
Parchment paper won’t burn on an iron, and you don’t run the risk of getting wax on either side.
…hmmmmmm.
Can’t stop giggling at Dina and Becky continuing forward with their conversation (and investigation in Dina’s case) that they just sort of accept Joe as background scenery, if a bit mood killing.
And seriously Willis thank you for Dina. Her confusion here is really relatable and I feel less stupid/defective for my own ace-based lack of understanding of pants euphoria.
@the poll, Walky getting any job would be good for him, haha. I say that despite relating to his struggle.
Honestly? I’m mixed. Walky’s attention span means he’ll probably give up on it after like a month and the newspaper will have to hire someone else. On the other hand, Joyce will probably get way too invested in what is supposed to be a casual side job.
The Joyce storyline will probably be less aggravating.
Joe has never failed his own raison d’être so utterly and completely.
I mean, the Do List is hard to top.
That’s probably his biggest failure as a person, yes, but this is a failure of his life’s purpose. To paraphrase what Doctor_Who said above, today Joe has reduced the amount of lust in the world through his actions
One could argue that the Do List actively reduced the lust of many a woman as soon as they saw it.
Becky looks cool with the lab shades. She’s definitely meant to major in biology.
Yeah, he gets that a lot.
Move away, Joe.
Now that’s not something he hear often
Joe cock blocked Becky
Unless we’re about to learn something new, I don’t think there’s much in the way of cocks on the menu at the moment. Not that I’m especially interested in genital speculation (it always goes south in like five seconds), but ya know.
Joe clam-jammed Becky.
God that sounds so much worse
I’m going to have to use this one some day, thanks.
You are a bad bro Joe, go sit in the shame corner!
Need the Bros from QC looking sternly at him now.
They all pinch the bridge of their nose and shake their heads in unison.
“Bro… Bro… Bro… Bro… Bro…”
Damn it Joe, you ruined the moment.
As a redhead I can’t get enough of Becky’s blush-over-freckles (and the big eyes) in the middle panel.
So this is a personal gripe…
Dana’s hat, her eyes behind the googles, and her height putting her face behind the…glass divider? Whatever it is, it does something very strange for how her head looks. Like it’s been elongated or something. I don’t like it.
Someone get a box for her…or demolish the glass!
I think it’s a perspective illusion, not Dina being off-model. Her head’s tilted down a bit in most of today’s panels, which shifts her face down and makes her forehead look taller.
High five Joe for turning a woman off. Advice from one man to another: women don’t want to hear you talk, they want silence, singing, or wolf noises, that’s it.
It pays to ask your partner.
I once dated a girl who liked her guy to make those serious porn’esque moans and grunts, the louder the better; it made her feel like she was doing a good job. (I always felt kinda silly doing them though.) She also liked dirty talk, but I’ll spare your ears the filthy details. XD
There’s a lot of talk about Joe disrupting the arousal, but not much mention of the contrast between Becky’s expectations and reality here. “We arouse each other all the time” vs “I think I had it”.
That’s going to lead to some conflict.
well spotted, and agreed.
I wonder if there’s any significance to Becky being fine with being aroused by Dina and vice versa, but the actual act of sexual intimacy will cost her immortal soul.
So Joe is a terrible wing-man
My brain, last night as I was trying to sleep: “Wait, the alt-text was a reference to ‘Elliot Reid, Moment Killer’!”
Me: Uh, thanks, brain?
Awww, poor Joe, he’s not used to being the Danny in the room.
I’m gonna guess that Becky doesn’t know much about asexuality, hopefully she doesn’t get upset about Dina not being as down to pound as Becky is all the time.
So, Joe is the, “anti-Barry White”; the more he talks, the more he kills the mood.
Oof.
Cmon Joe leave the lesbians eat each other.
…You know I think that might actually be a way to get through to Joe to stop talking like that all the time.
“Gee, thanks, now you’ve ruined my boner! I don’t even *want* to bang my girlfriend anymore. Good job.”
For Joe, finding out (or believing that) he ruined somebody’s chance to enjoy his personal favorite thing seems much more likely to hit home with him than just being told that people don’t appreciate his commentary. He can write them off as “prudes” and ignore them — or worse, decide he needs to “fix” them, by way of trying to convince them to try it.
But if somebody he knows *is* interested in sex has that interest negatively impacted by his behavior… I think that’s the only door toward any real empathy, for him.
Man, I hope Becky actually talks to Dina about how this hurts here and not agonize on it for a chapter or 3.
Crap, what was the right email address…No Lucy, Lucy is bad mojo.