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That is a perfectly acceptable form of communication so long as it’s done without malice. Roughly 90% of my communication with everybody who knows me is generally making fun of each other
Also, Booster doesn’t exactly look half Asian. Granted, they never said anything about having an identical twin, but yeah. Pretty share they’re not a Billingsworth.
Could you imagine if both Billie and Walky had estranged twins though? That’d be hilarious.
As soon as my class was over, I’d make a beeline for my next one and eat/do homework/hang around there. If there was another class in progress, I’d sit outside the door and do that. I didn’t live on campus so I had nothing else to do.
Are you from the same town as me? “We need to get there by 2:00 and home by 5:00, I have to sleep for work” turns into “Fuck, it’s 8:34pm CST and we’re just now heading home.”
Anyone that’s had to stand for an hour to get through a boring-ass meeting because they were one of the last ones there and no more chairs were available know the actual value of arriving early…
Any meeting without enough chairs isn’t worth attending. If they can’t find the space to let you sit, they also won’t have found a way to be concise. Also, if they can’t be bothered to give you a seat, they aren’t going to listen and if they aren’t listening, then it should just be written down and mailed/posted.
I’m assuming this is “the best chair for all the learning I’m going to be doing in the 15 minutes waiting for the meeting to start, and maybe also when you’re talking to us, though I’ll be writing an essay at the same time.”
Wonder what game the Switch in there’s set to. The purple and orange joycons are my favorite normally-sold color set. (The Animal Crossing ones beat them out, though. That Switch is a thing of beauty.)
Assuming it’s for the common room (not somebody’s personal property they left there), it’s probably got a few quick pick-up games like Super Smash Bros and Mario Kart loaded.
I wonder where Dorothy falls on the DoA morality scale. If one extreme is Blaine I’d say Dorothy is the at the exact opposite end edging out your Dina’s and your Joyce’s in good beanie-ness. I mean Dorothy volunteers in her spare time. Arguably to diversify her academic portfolio but it’s still volunteering.
Dina is intrinsically a good bean. Dorothy works really hard at being a good bean. Amber is an amazingly good bean, albeit for twisted and self destructive reasons. Danny would like to be a good bean. Mike is dead and so is no longer a bean.
New year, new semester, new slightly more adjusted Ruth who maybe realizes how problematic some of her old behaviors were now that’s she’s not in a drunken depression spiral.
“Maximized learning.” Look I don’t really do the whole I imagine x character sounds like this, but that is the most Twilight Sparkle line. Dorothy definitely sounds like that pony and she has the purple notepad to prove it.
Dorothy having a trophy means she has more prizes than the Maple Lefs OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s just regular underwear, but with the sound chip from one of those novelty parrot toys, the ones that repeat what you say at them but higher-pitched.
This is ultra in-character for Dorothy and I think that Ruth realises this! All I can add is a reminder: “That’s ‘Madame President Nerd’ to you, Ms Lessick!”
“Hello everyone. Please try not to get kidnapped and/or murdered this semester, because it is a fucking pain in the ass for everyone, but mainly for me. The end.”
1) The college is setting up a formal memorial for Mike and want suggestions from his friends and dorm-mates on what it should be (drama for Danny and Amber);
2) Ruth wants to formally introduce the new two residents, Booster and the Masturbate Indoors girl. She also wants to make sure that Billie and Ethan being withdrawn from the college hasn’t upset anyone as much as Billie being withdrawn has upset her.
Ruth’s not the RA to the boys dorm (as much as the comic sometimes suggests that). This is going to be somewhat like the meeting that they had before at the start of the Fall semester.
Sorry, thought I posted this before: Walky implied strongly that the boys’ RA doesn’t do his job much, so Ruth may take it upon herself to do that for him.
The British Royal Family spent 35 years being 30 minutes faster than the rest of the UK because King Edward VII had all the clocks changed in royal castles and palaces on a whim. No-one knows why.
Let’s see, do I wanna vote for the Republican candidate, proven to be basically a cartoon villain and most likely aiming for a dictatorship? Or do I wanna vote for the Democrat, who’s just gonna bend over backwards and give the other guy exactly what he wants anyway, because he has no spine or integrity?
Lotta good options this year, honest… May as well go for the least terrible.
Biden’s policy platform is pretty good. Some shit for sure, but he’s got a lot of good and important work in it (like fixing the social security system so disabled folks can get married without losing the benefits they rely on, improving on the ACA, ending separations at the border, and …y’know, NOT trying to undermine Roe or Obgerfell (spelling?))
Meanwhile Trump is actively trying to kill us all.
Yeah, I am so done with the false equivalencies. Biden is certainly going to disappoint me and piss me off from time to time, but it won’t be a constant deluge and he won’t be actively destroying the country, so I’m looking forward to it.
There’s going to be a lot of work to do. Let’s get Democrats solid control of the Senate, so they can actually get more of it done.
I say this as a non-citizen immigrant: if enough people don’t vote for the uninspiring other guy, people like me will get kicked out of this country in the very near future.
I understand that this is a frustrating choice for Americans, but it will have life-changing effects on people who get no say in the matter.
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today in #9chickweedlane i learned we have to be shown children learning and relearning what sex is, for Reasons, even though they already clearly know and have prepared nuanced questions about it!
also that Gran must hate, if she's still alive, how Old Juliette is the same but with gray hair
one of my favorite things is when a commenter explodes WHEN DO THESE CHARACTERS GET THERAPY but directed towards a character who canonically has a regular therapist
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btw if you're one of those rando bluesky weirdos who doesn't know me but sees me in the wild being sarcastic and don't know i'm being sarcastic because you haven't taken like 30 seconds to, like, maybe look at my user profile or something, keep walking, you're not going to score internet points here
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Where did Hollywood go so wrong? I thought movies were supposed to be an escape from reality, a chance to put your worries aside and not have to think about any underlying ideas or concepts. Well, not anymore.
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It's not a new argument, of course, but Chesterton dismissed it effectively in 1908.
"You will hear everlastingly... this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the rich man is bribed; he has been bribed already. That is why he is a rich man."
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Hawley dismisses Trump lining his pockets with his memecoin: "Listen, I think nobody believes that Donald Trump can be bought. I mean, what does Donald Trump need more money for?"
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cobbled together out of pocket protectors
I was gonna say ‘pages from old retired textbooks turned into a papier mache thing,’ but that’s way better.
An oversized grail fashioned out of hockey pucks and femurs.
Pucks for the base and femurs for the stem but what to use for the cup?
No! No no no no! Do not go there! No!
Patellae. To think she’s been throwing them out all these years…
See Ruth you do care, about making fun of people, if nothing else.
Also where is our final person damnit? I need to know if it is Billie.
That is a perfectly acceptable form of communication so long as it’s done without malice. Roughly 90% of my communication with everybody who knows me is generally making fun of each other
Billie is unlikely to show up for the floor meeting as she doesn’t live here.
You know it’s gonna be Booster’s twin
Why can’t it be both? Booster Billingsworth sounds correct to me.
Pretty sure that Walky would know them already, in that case.
Also, Booster doesn’t exactly look half Asian. Granted, they never said anything about having an identical twin, but yeah. Pretty share they’re not a Billingsworth.
Could you imagine if both Billie and Walky had estranged twins though? That’d be hilarious.
I really need to figure out how to italicize things properly…
End it with , but with no spaces. Though it’ll be hillarious if the parser eats my comment.
*sigh* Yep. So
less than, slash, i, greater than
hmm… \
nope i can’t bypass the parser through any rudimentary shenanigans
billie and ethan traveled to the past and had a child and that’s the missing person
no obviously that doesn’t make sense because ethan’s gay
billie and ethan stepped into two sides of a teleportation machine and when they came out they were billiethan
Yes! I like going to class or seminars early in large part to pick my preferred seat. Or at least, I did, before classes and seminars were online.
As soon as my class was over, I’d make a beeline for my next one and eat/do homework/hang around there. If there was another class in progress, I’d sit outside the door and do that. I didn’t live on campus so I had nothing else to do.
I went early to reunions to sit and use the internet while everyone arrived.
Time is never on my side. If I try to be early, someone or something will inevitably require attention and make me late anyway.
Are you from the same town as me? “We need to get there by 2:00 and home by 5:00, I have to sleep for work” turns into “Fuck, it’s 8:34pm CST and we’re just now heading home.”
Anyone that’s had to stand for an hour to get through a boring-ass meeting because they were one of the last ones there and no more chairs were available know the actual value of arriving early…
Any meeting without enough chairs isn’t worth attending. If they can’t find the space to let you sit, they also won’t have found a way to be concise. Also, if they can’t be bothered to give you a seat, they aren’t going to listen and if they aren’t listening, then it should just be written down and mailed/posted.
Look, just buy her a three ring binder or a notebook, she’ll accept that.
Dorothy would appreciate something functional over a purely ornamental doohickey.
What about a Monkey Master figure on a hockey puck that says “NEEEERD!” when you touch it?
The missing person is going to be at this floor meeting. I feel it in my bones. I hope it’s Bille
I hope so, but Billie is in a different dorm now so it is unlikely she’ll be at this floor meeting.
Watch it be like Guns or something else completely out of the blue
Alternatively the best chair for sleeping through all the learning
Tf does she think she’s going to learn?
I never really learned much at floor meetings when I was in college. Though that may be because I avoided most of them.
I think I went to one? I’m not entirely sure.
I’m assuming this is “the best chair for all the learning I’m going to be doing in the 15 minutes waiting for the meeting to start, and maybe also when you’re talking to us, though I’ll be writing an essay at the same time.”
Here, maybe nothing, but when a good habit is in force, it tends to be somewhat indiscriminate.
Wonder what game the Switch in there’s set to. The purple and orange joycons are my favorite normally-sold color set. (The Animal Crossing ones beat them out, though. That Switch is a thing of beauty.)
Assuming it’s for the common room (not somebody’s personal property they left there), it’s probably got a few quick pick-up games like Super Smash Bros and Mario Kart loaded.
Overcooked would probably be a fun kind of Utter Chaos, too.
I can understand it being better to be early than late, but her reasons on being so is the nerdiest I’ve ever heard.
Dotty is a good bean. Everyone else in that dorm and this comment section is just mean.
Dina is an exception though. She is a good bean too.
I wonder where Dorothy falls on the DoA morality scale. If one extreme is Blaine I’d say Dorothy is the at the exact opposite end edging out your Dina’s and your Joyce’s in good beanie-ness. I mean Dorothy volunteers in her spare time. Arguably to diversify her academic portfolio but it’s still volunteering.
Dina is intrinsically a good bean. Dorothy works really hard at being a good bean. Amber is an amazingly good bean, albeit for twisted and self destructive reasons. Danny would like to be a good bean. Mike is dead and so is no longer a bean.
Like a bean he is planted in the ground
He’s a has-bean.
If Becky we’re here she would never pass up the chance to inform us that she’s a lez bean. That seems like a joke she’d make.
Additionally, Leslie is a Bean bean!
Sarah is a good bean despite herself.
*looks for a suitable furniture commercial jingle in the found-sound library*
*Wayfair seems to be on top of the list for the moment*
So I guess Ruth isn’t gonna go looking for the people on her floor to drag them to the floor meeting then.
New year, new semester, new slightly more adjusted Ruth who maybe realizes how problematic some of her old behaviors were now that’s she’s not in a drunken depression spiral.
Sure. Let’s go with that.
“With respect, I disagree!”
Kinda no winning with her, is there?
“Maximized learning.” Look I don’t really do the whole I imagine x character sounds like this, but that is the most Twilight Sparkle line. Dorothy definitely sounds like that pony and she has the purple notepad to prove it.
I can’t unhear it now, but I’m not mad!
Dorothy, if you’d just closed your mouth after “best chair” then Ruth might have actually respected your earliness.
… sorta. kinda. Halfway.
Ruth has no respect for other people, not even those she bangs.
Or she’s trolling Ruth.
Dorothy having a trophy means she has more prizes than the Maple Lefs OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Go away, Billie.”
Hockey based taunts, one of the few things that can get to both Canadians and Swedes.
I call it “femur insurance.”
Hope today she’s wearing her bully-proof underwear.
Now I’m wondering what bully-proof underwear would look like.
It’s just regular underwear, but with the sound chip from one of those novelty parrot toys, the ones that repeat what you say at them but higher-pitched.
Wedgie-proof, mostly.
The crotch has been partly cut through so they break upon attempts to wedgie.
Bully-proof windows, troll-safe doors?
First panel: quarter til’ a freckle.
This is ultra in-character for Dorothy and I think that Ruth realises this! All I can add is a reminder: “That’s ‘Madame President Nerd’ to you, Ms Lessick!”
“Hello everyone. Please try not to get kidnapped and/or murdered this semester, because it is a fucking pain in the ass for everyone, but mainly for me. The end.”
So much paperwork. So many forms.
Goddamn I’m a sucker for concerned softie Ruth
Yup.
Dorothy why do you sound like a caricature of yourself right now?
She just needs to be her sometimes. It’s a rest from when she’s not being mildly subversive in a generally non-significant way with Joyce.
Two possibilities for the meeting subject:
1) The college is setting up a formal memorial for Mike and want suggestions from his friends and dorm-mates on what it should be (drama for Danny and Amber);
2) Ruth wants to formally introduce the new two residents, Booster and the Masturbate Indoors girl. She also wants to make sure that Billie and Ethan being withdrawn from the college hasn’t upset anyone as much as Billie being withdrawn has upset her.
Ruth’s not the RA to the boys dorm (as much as the comic sometimes suggests that). This is going to be somewhat like the meeting that they had before at the start of the Fall semester.
Sorry, thought I posted this before: Walky implied strongly that the boys’ RA doesn’t do his job much, so Ruth may take it upon herself to do that for him.
Silly Ruth, Dorothy can win at anything!
True fact. The large clock at Lambeau Field is fifteen minutes fast. It’s set to Lombardi time. Locals totally used to it.
The large clock near Waverley Station is Edinburgh is a few minutes fast, deliberately so that people won’t miss their trains.
The British Royal Family spent 35 years being 30 minutes faster than the rest of the UK because King Edward VII had all the clocks changed in royal castles and palaces on a whim. No-one knows why.
To quote Dave: HA! NERRRRD.
It IS always good to arrive early. If nothing else, it also gives you leeway for when unexpected problems crop up and delay your travel.
You fool. Being the biggest nerd IS the prize.
Dorothy is the prize
at least from where Joyce is standing.
I’m very glad it wasn’t five forty-five.
(Be glad if you didn’t get that.)
Be sure to VOTE!
Let’s see, do I wanna vote for the Republican candidate, proven to be basically a cartoon villain and most likely aiming for a dictatorship? Or do I wanna vote for the Democrat, who’s just gonna bend over backwards and give the other guy exactly what he wants anyway, because he has no spine or integrity?
Lotta good options this year, honest… May as well go for the least terrible.
Biden’s policy platform is pretty good. Some shit for sure, but he’s got a lot of good and important work in it (like fixing the social security system so disabled folks can get married without losing the benefits they rely on, improving on the ACA, ending separations at the border, and …y’know, NOT trying to undermine Roe or Obgerfell (spelling?))
Meanwhile Trump is actively trying to kill us all.
Yeah, I am so done with the false equivalencies. Biden is certainly going to disappoint me and piss me off from time to time, but it won’t be a constant deluge and he won’t be actively destroying the country, so I’m looking forward to it.
There’s going to be a lot of work to do. Let’s get Democrats solid control of the Senate, so they can actually get more of it done.
I say this as a non-citizen immigrant: if enough people don’t vote for the uninspiring other guy, people like me will get kicked out of this country in the very near future.
I understand that this is a frustrating choice for Americans, but it will have life-changing effects on people who get no say in the matter.
Mike said: “Bean me up into your mom, Scotty!” And he dissapeared.
Er… I’ll take myself out, thanks.
As Karma would have it, this (typos and all) was meant as a reply to Needfuldoer a lot of comments above.
most comfy chair GET
She’ll fashion you a trophy, but it’s gonna cost you your shoes.