Don’t be silly, Joe. If/when Sarah castrates you, she wants you to be wide awake so she can savor the terror in your eyes as she revs up the hedge trimmer.
I mean, I guess? I think you could do a lot better, both if you want “quick and clean” or “messy and painful”.
Although I guess it is easily obtainable and relatively deniable, having to conduct torture on a college student budget does constrain your options a bit. Hmm… I think I’m coming around to it.
Right, but sometimes you don’t want clean and surgical you want to make a spectacle of it. Now, unless you’re doing a public execution I think spectacle in these matters is overrated, but for the Bond villain on a budget I can see the appeal of the hedge trimmer as a torture implement.
I guess? I think the main problem is that it is so short vertically – you could barely fit a standard sheet of lined paper in there, not to mention a binder or a full sized text book. I guess she uses lots of electronic texts and notes. I was just never a fan of those – I just didn’t believe I learned as well without the physical act of writing on paper and for some reason I could not feel fully focused when trying to learn from notes on a screen.
You don’t learn from reading your typed notes, you learn from spending the entire night before the exam trying to make sense of them through the typos and mysterious gaps
She has at something at 10, when Joyce and them-all have Calc (she walks with them, and was there when Linda and Charles showed up), and then after lunch she has polisci 102 with Robin.
Maybe she has them all on a tablet? Do kids do that now?
I went to college back when they still made you buy books, but I had a CS professor who went on a big rant about how much he hates his publishers and the only reason he’s making us get the book at all is he’d have to redo the whole syllabus without it.
Then the next powerpoint slide was just a big QR code, which he held on in silence for a solid minute. Liked that guy.
I think I was about the only one in my friend group who used traditional paper and pen for taking notes, rather than downloading the lecture slides onto their tablet and adding notes in one of the drawing apps. We graduated last year, except for the people on the four year course, for chronocontext.
Who actually carries books and binders anymore? All you need is a tablet or laptop. I haven’t seen an actual physical textbook since before I started college. Then again I also haven’t paid for a textbook since before I started college
I did. Not all textbooks have ebook versions. I probably could’ve found a PDF somewhere but those sites can be super sketchy and I’d rather not risk it.
I tended to reserve my textbook purchases in grad school for books that are considered standards (Operating System Concepts by Silberschatz et al, Introduction to Algorithms by CLRS) or books that were directly related to my research area (Image Processing, Analysis, and Machine Vision by Sonka et al, Data Mining by Witten et al).
Incidentally, a lot of professors made a point of not requiring the most recent edition of the book. Generally, when they gave reading assignments they’d give the chapter ranges for several editions, and homework assignments were sent out in full.
Awwwww I knew Ian, though! We only vaguely overlapped when I was studying, but for a few years pre-Covid the folk fest I was part of organising needed neighbourhood approval I had the job of canvassing them to convince them we weren’t untrustworthy nutters, so I got to have a quick catch-up with him each year. Never managed to get him to come over and play clarinet for us, though.
Coupla questions —
I’ve never seen people irl walk around while brushing their teeth, unless it’s someplace where they can spit with total abandon (like outdoors, camping)…
and how many people irl can speak understandably with a toothbrush jammed in their mouth?
Thought maybe there was one for Ruth during one of her “pull myself together” montages, but none of the ~3 have it. This page of her bathroom has a cup with no toothbrush in it, which isn’t definitive, but suggests she doesn’t own a toothbrush which is funny.
There is of course, the classic Becky not owning a toothbrush, which probably points to her owning one again now that her living situation is more stable.
Thought maybe I could find a Leslie or a Becky during the time where Becky was staying (and Leslie was seeing Anna), but looks like that’s a no as well.
Sir, in these comments here we improvise
The while our brains spin frantically a-whirl
To come up with the next successful line
Replying to the text that went before
I don’t think her cynicism has given way to joy, so they probably shouldn’t spend all their time in Joyce and Sarah’s room. So more time in Joe and Danny’s room. I wonder who they share a half-bath with. It’s not Walky, Booster, Arnold, Ken, Jacob, or Ethan.
That leaves Jim, Tony, Bryan, Thad, Eric, Manny, Tom, and Evan. And like dozens more who haven’t even been mentioned. And Peter. It’s probably Peter.
they’re on my list, but I didn’t record the source for each. we’ve seen some in the bathroom, and Mike rattled off a list once, giving Ethan a pep talk. I do remember the source for Peter though.
Walky introduces Tony as a hallmate to Jason and/or Booster. Bryan has been in bg shots in the showers. The rest are mentioned: https://www.dumbingofage.com/brace/
I may have assumed Jim was Bryan’s roommate. There’s also maybe a second Ken or maybe a Kev, who shares the halfbath with Ethan and Jacob. https://www.dumbingofage.com/tonguing/
This all checks out, although I don’t think Peter hanging out with Mary in the wing is strong evidence, we know she lives there and we only ever saw him in her company.
The evidence of the linked strip regarding Peter is the last panel where Joe says “Your wing can keep Peter”, implying that he is otherwise in the same wing as Joe
Well, this is where it gets complicated. She’s mean to Joe because she doesn’t like him. She was mean to Lucy because she doesn’t like her (because Lucy called out that she’s mean to people). However, she’s mean to Joyce because she does like her. Because to her, this is what a big sister does.
Whether it is always taken that way is another, and sometimes uncomfortable, question, which is why I’m always happy to see strips like this, where Joyce is shown to be quite comfortable teasing her back.
Mean to Lucy because Lucy started parotting Raidah at her. Before that she was just generally cynical around Lucy. When Lucy decided to be a cop and say Sarah didn’t have any friends, Sarah was teasing Joyce back. Joyce had teased Sarah about masturbating before.
I’m not saying Sarah’s not abrassive or handles social situations well. I am saying people pleaser Lucy went personal for one person only. It is a case of bullying, and trying to bully someone who can snap back harder.
Either Sarah heard Joe wake up and left the half-bath to keep an eye on him and Joyce, or she’s been standing in the middle of the room brushing her teeth with a dry toothbrush for some reason.
You need toothpaste too, Sarah. Dental hygiene is important!
Has Joyce brushed up on her French? At least I cannot help hearing that immortal chanson line “serré par des bras audacieux” when she is talking about Jacob’s arms.
I was going to say something this morning but it was 69 comments and that was so perfect I couldn’t. And now I’ve forgotten what my comment was.
#welcometomyTedtalk
Well I finally tried the Rule 34 for DoA, and it was disappointing, over 240 images of characters with breasts the size and shape of blimps, and some were futa. Dina with a set of Z-cups just isn’t Dina, doubly so for Dina with Z-cups and 24″ of penis. Without the character label I wouldn’t have known who most of them were.
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DEFINITELY not Sarah imagining that toothbrush is instead maybe something of Jacob’s
…
idk I got nothin
Ahhh, it is a metaphor his integrity, of course. I see it now.
Oh, is that what we’re calling it these days?
Not on my watch. Freaks.
Watch with integrity!
Or something like that.
That got me, goddammit
tongue
Spouse sucked on my fingers, actually, it was NIIIIICE
Re: Panel 2
Don’t be silly, Joe. If/when Sarah castrates you, she wants you to be wide awake so she can savor the terror in your eyes as she revs up the hedge trimmer.
Hedge Trimmer’s good for intimidation but it’s no good when it comes time for the actual cutting
**psst**
That’s the point.
I mean, I guess? I think you could do a lot better, both if you want “quick and clean” or “messy and painful”.
Although I guess it is easily obtainable and relatively deniable, having to conduct torture on a college student budget does constrain your options a bit. Hmm… I think I’m coming around to it.
Phew good, foe a second there it sounded like the kind of silly argument where nothing ever gets done
I try to keep an open mind about this sort of thing.
You won’t be coming to it after the first pass.
As someone who’s used disinfectant and a razor blade I can confirm no one looks sideways at you when buying them and theyre also quite discreet.
Right, but sometimes you don’t want clean and surgical you want to make a spectacle of it. Now, unless you’re doing a public execution I think spectacle in these matters is overrated, but for the Bond villain on a budget I can see the appeal of the hedge trimmer as a torture implement.
I lost track and thought the hedge trimmer was a tortured metaphor to begin with.
A pair of cinderblocks, perhaps?
Pruning saws are cheap, scary looking, and crude.
The more I think about it the worst it gets
and around, and around, and around?
Sarah didn’t want to traumatize Joyce by killing Joe in front of her.
He was asleep! You can move him to a secondary location and dismember him there.
The only thing she can do is imagine and fantasize the possibilities.
Lol. I want Sarah x Jacob but I don’t actually believe it will happen. Like every Cowboy fan when you ask if they’ll get to the superbowl.
How does Sarah fit all her books and binders in such a tiny back pack? Is she really a witch, after all?
How many classes does she have a day? She can’t need them all everyday right?
I guess? I think the main problem is that it is so short vertically – you could barely fit a standard sheet of lined paper in there, not to mention a binder or a full sized text book. I guess she uses lots of electronic texts and notes. I was just never a fan of those – I just didn’t believe I learned as well without the physical act of writing on paper and for some reason I could not feel fully focused when trying to learn from notes on a screen.
You don’t learn from reading your typed notes, you learn from spending the entire night before the exam trying to make sense of them through the typos and mysterious gaps
Thus speaks the voice of experience.
She has at something at 10, when Joyce and them-all have Calc (she walks with them, and was there when Linda and Charles showed up), and then after lunch she has polisci 102 with Robin.
That’s a backpack? I thought it was a hood or something.
Yeah, that’s not giving me rucksack vibes
+1 it’s the hood on her hoodie.
Who would be wearing their backpack while brushing teeth, tbh?
Maybe she has them all on a tablet? Do kids do that now?
I went to college back when they still made you buy books, but I had a CS professor who went on a big rant about how much he hates his publishers and the only reason he’s making us get the book at all is he’d have to redo the whole syllabus without it.
Then the next powerpoint slide was just a big QR code, which he held on in silence for a solid minute. Liked that guy.
I think I was about the only one in my friend group who used traditional paper and pen for taking notes, rather than downloading the lecture slides onto their tablet and adding notes in one of the drawing apps. We graduated last year, except for the people on the four year course, for chronocontext.
One of the advantages of CS when I took it was no PowerPoint, because no PCs. Otoh, we had to punch cards, so no easy editing for typos.
And there were never enough punch card machines for all the people who wanted to use them.
I survived only because I found the secret punch card machine hidden in a tiny room under the stairs over in the biology department.
Found my tribe. Tired of “the olds don’t understand computers” when some of us have built computers. And used them for 50 years.
I think I still have my 029 keypunch manual somewhere….
Eh, it’s all digital now.
Who actually carries books and binders anymore? All you need is a tablet or laptop. I haven’t seen an actual physical textbook since before I started college. Then again I also haven’t paid for a textbook since before I started college
I did. Not all textbooks have ebook versions. I probably could’ve found a PDF somewhere but those sites can be super sketchy and I’d rather not risk it.
I tended to reserve my textbook purchases in grad school for books that are considered standards (Operating System Concepts by Silberschatz et al, Introduction to Algorithms by CLRS) or books that were directly related to my research area (Image Processing, Analysis, and Machine Vision by Sonka et al, Data Mining by Witten et al).
Incidentally, a lot of professors made a point of not requiring the most recent edition of the book. Generally, when they gave reading assignments they’d give the chapter ranges for several editions, and homework assignments were sent out in full.
Awwwww I knew Ian, though! We only vaguely overlapped when I was studying, but for a few years pre-Covid the folk fest I was part of organising needed neighbourhood approval I had the job of canvassing them to convince them we weren’t untrustworthy nutters, so I got to have a quick catch-up with him each year. Never managed to get him to come over and play clarinet for us, though.
Are those arms belonging to a giant Jacob, or proportionally giant arms on a normal sized Jacob
Doesn’t matter. She’s really fantasizing about his glasses. https://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/03-up-all-night-to-get-vengeance/tonguing/
Well, they are very stylish.
The forecast for Jacob x Sarah right now is chilly so she’ll soon be the queen of wishful thinking.
♪I hear the secrets that you keep, when you’re castrated in your sleep♫
♪When I get that feeling, I need Sexual Brain Freeze♫
I wonder which one! It’s a mystery for the ages!
Does any other character brush their teeth or just Sarah?
Coupla questions —
I’ve never seen people irl walk around while brushing their teeth, unless it’s someplace where they can spit with total abandon (like outdoors, camping)…
and how many people irl can speak understandably with a toothbrush jammed in their mouth?
Dorothy did it at least once, but I don’t recall if anyone else has?
Imna mouf pifutu amoura toom!
Joyce
Amber
Those are the only ones I remember tho
Thought maybe there was one for Ruth during one of her “pull myself together” montages, but none of the ~3 have it.
This page of her bathroom has a cup with no toothbrush in it, which isn’t definitive, but suggests she doesn’t own a toothbrush which is funny.
There is of course, the classic Becky not owning a toothbrush, which probably points to her owning one again now that her living situation is more stable.
Thought maybe I could find a Leslie or a Becky during the time where Becky was staying (and Leslie was seeing Anna), but looks like that’s a no as well.
Oh, tooth brush, I somehow missed that and thought she shoved her thumb in her mouth as some sort of weird act of defiance.
“Do you bite your thumb at me sir?”
I did bite my thumb at you, foul Capulet.
Do we get to improvise? It’s been awhile since I perused the Bard.
Sir, in these comments here we improvise
The while our brains spin frantically a-whirl
To come up with the next successful line
Replying to the text that went before
It always worked for Linus Van Pelt.
READ HALL – CLARK WING
presents
PRE-MARITAL HANKY PANKY TOUR
featuring
GIANT JACOB ARMS
with
SEXUAL BRAIN FREEZE
Doors 9pm – Show 10pm
$5 cover
18+
I’d go to that show
I choose to believe that Pre-Marital Hanky Panky Tour is the opening act for the opening act.
They’re all good band names.
No, that would be Slow Foreplay, alternating with Third Base on Tuesdays and Thursdays
I don’t think her cynicism has given way to joy, so they probably shouldn’t spend all their time in Joyce and Sarah’s room. So more time in Joe and Danny’s room. I wonder who they share a half-bath with. It’s not Walky, Booster, Arnold, Ken, Jacob, or Ethan.
That leaves Jim, Tony, Bryan, Thad, Eric, Manny, Tom, and Evan. And like dozens more who haven’t even been mentioned. And Peter. It’s probably Peter.
Do we even know if all those guys live in the wing?
they’re on my list, but I didn’t record the source for each. we’ve seen some in the bathroom, and Mike rattled off a list once, giving Ethan a pep talk. I do remember the source for Peter though.
Walky introduces Tony as a hallmate to Jason and/or Booster. Bryan has been in bg shots in the showers. The rest are mentioned:
https://www.dumbingofage.com/brace/
I may have assumed Jim was Bryan’s roommate. There’s also maybe a second Ken or maybe a Kev, who shares the halfbath with Ethan and Jacob. https://www.dumbingofage.com/tonguing/
This all checks out, although I don’t think Peter hanging out with Mary in the wing is strong evidence, we know she lives there and we only ever saw him in her company.
The evidence of the linked strip regarding Peter is the last panel where Joe says “Your wing can keep Peter”, implying that he is otherwise in the same wing as Joe
I am both impressed and appalled by the amount of thought that has gone into this.
on the commenters’ part, or on Willis’?
Well alright then, that all checks out
I wonder if Sarahs treatment of Joe is in part because is a “safe” target for her particular brand of nastiness
In part, yes. He gave her permission. https://www.dumbingofage.com/hatesink/
But he also has been a skeezball around her. a lot.
Good call back.
Yeah he has been but she’s also been pretty mean to bith Joyce and Lucy whereas Joe, because he’s been a skeezball, is an acceptable target
I dunno but to me it’s getting a bit tired, like sort out your own issues first kind of thing
Well, this is where it gets complicated. She’s mean to Joe because she doesn’t like him. She was mean to Lucy because she doesn’t like her (because Lucy called out that she’s mean to people). However, she’s mean to Joyce because she does like her. Because to her, this is what a big sister does.
Whether it is always taken that way is another, and sometimes uncomfortable, question, which is why I’m always happy to see strips like this, where Joyce is shown to be quite comfortable teasing her back.
That’s true and push back is good but there’s quite a bit of difference between the levels of teasing going on here
In some cases it’s almost bullying
Mean to Lucy because Lucy started parotting Raidah at her. Before that she was just generally cynical around Lucy. When Lucy decided to be a cop and say Sarah didn’t have any friends, Sarah was teasing Joyce back. Joyce had teased Sarah about masturbating before.
I’m not saying Sarah’s not abrassive or handles social situations well. I am saying people pleaser Lucy went personal for one person only. It is a case of bullying, and trying to bully someone who can snap back harder.
I think today’s is one of the strips where everybody is a little bit right in all the wrong ways. This pleases me greatly
Now who’s the repressed one, Sarah? 😛
😏😂
Castration is such a weird thing to do. Kinda cringe, NGL.
Kind of a eunuch perspective there. Kinda steering the conversation in a weird direction, but I can’t say you’re wrong.
I think you deserve to havier a geld star for your analysis.
All of you make excellent points!!!
Treat yourselves to cookies or (insert fav snack here), ya earned it.
Just going to steer this thread back into wordplay.
Sharp as your criticism may be, I think you could fix it by making the tone a little less cutting!
In banning news, Pepe the Nazi Gamer who was also unpleasant and dumb got the yeet.
*high-fives Taffy*
Thank you for the service, taffy.
The fuck did I miss out on?
Y’know, Joe doesn’t strike me as the “drank so much I don’t remember how I got here” type.
He’s not surprised that he’s in Joyce’s bed — just surprised that GIVEN he’s in Joyce’s bed, Sarah hasn’t already castrated him!
He did once comment on alcohol helping with threesomes and also about not remembering what kind of threesome he’d had.
OTOH, we know he didn’t actually have any threesomes.
Ghost of Mike: “… are you sure?”
Joe: “I’m surprised … Sarah hasn’t castrated me in my sleep.”
Did you check? Maybe the Novocaine just hasn’t worn off yet.
Either Sarah heard Joe wake up and left the half-bath to keep an eye on him and Joyce, or she’s been standing in the middle of the room brushing her teeth with a dry toothbrush for some reason.
You need toothpaste too, Sarah. Dental hygiene is important!
Has Joyce brushed up on her French? At least I cannot help hearing that immortal chanson line “serré par des bras audacieux” when she is talking about Jacob’s arms.
Honestly, I find her little blushes like these cute…which is something I normally reserve for pups, cats and the derriere.
POtentially maybe
“Giant Jacob Arms” sounds like a Christian Rock band. Not sure why they’d open for “Sexual Brain Freeze.”
man. i do feel bad for joyce. there is no way she’s gonna be able to enjoy sex without SOME form of therapy
My bet is: as this storyline started with Joyce’s flashback of her starting looking at boys, Joyce will have her first time.
The alt text would be a great book title
I was going to say something this morning but it was 69 comments and that was so perfect I couldn’t. And now I’ve forgotten what my comment was.
#welcometomyTedtalk
Well I finally tried the Rule 34 for DoA, and it was disappointing, over 240 images of characters with breasts the size and shape of blimps, and some were futa. Dina with a set of Z-cups just isn’t Dina, doubly so for Dina with Z-cups and 24″ of penis. Without the character label I wouldn’t have known who most of them were.
Wrapped in Giant Jacob Arms is the Baptist hymn I never knew I needed
Joyce, you really ought to stop the smug raised index finger thing. It never works