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Huh. Never knew it was gendered. Always figured the one with “e” at the end was a British spelling. They’re always adding extra letters to words, like “colour” & “aluminium”.
See, I assumed it was also a British/American thing, but the other way around. I only ever see Blonde in most stuff here in the States, so I figured Blond was for across the pond.
That’s a fascinating observation on gender roles over here: having a light hair color is mostly remarked on when referring to the blonde status of women, to the point that people don’t even see the masculine spelling.
Sorry what? The British are NOT adding letters to words thank you very much, Americans are removing them. And if you pronounce aluminium correctly you need all those letters in there.
i mean the brits originally had those letters because of french, seems like fair game not to include them as language evolves. i just like the way it looks, which i believe is why the french added all those letters in the first place.
As for aluminium, alumium was apparently the original spelling; the same guy published both versions, adding the extra letters later because it sounded better. Which I tend to agree with, but correct seems like a strong word for “prettier”
but USB drives 3 orientations, the first and second tries are never right, and it’s only the third one that works. That’s why USBs are actually 4 dimensional objects. in this essay i will..
That doesn’t seem like Becky’s style. By the time she’s done she might wish Becky had though. Either that or it’s accidentally going to be a hit best seller. One that says a whole bunch of stuff Robin doesn’t agree with.
Now that she’s out of Congress, I don’t think she cares about what the book says as long as it sells. She’s more likely to agree with Becky than anything.
Heck, if the book does well enough and she can remember what it says, maybe she’ll have a career renaissance on the opposite side. I don’t think Robin actually ever cared what she said.
Gendered language survives in all of the Romance Languages so I’d be careful on saying it’s stupid. Like, yeah I’d love if Spanish adopted back broadly the “e” that signals neutral pronouns, present in its origins. But, uh…….
Even leaving aside that all language interact and drink from each other, that’s always a little grating to hear from native English speakers.
It’s also just a really boring way to think about languages.
“This language is annoying and irrational” discussions never fail to produce zero compelling points for an unprejudiced listener while actual curiosity in linguistic history is an open door onto a boundless ecosystem of interwoven insights about history, semantics, cultures, art, sciences, myths and you name it.
Etymology is so fucking fascinating! I admittedly don’t get people who’ve never wondered “hey but why do these two words look alike? Where does this one come from?”, and I swear it’s not the ’tism flexing. It’s about being curious about the world! And even if someone can’t because idk, it’s not in them, or their interests 1000% lie elsewhere…
It wouldn’t kill anyone to be more respectful of other people’s cultures.
It’s even worse: brunette is gendered the same way technically. A brown-haired male is technically brunet, women are brunette. Weirdly I realized thus when I noticed only women are referred to as brunette, while men are brown-haired.
Hewwo :3 According to etymology, y’all got that one from the way of Normans influencing Old English. “Brun” means “Brown” in French, which makes sense because:
1- Black hair isn’t totally pitch black, and other peoples in the past perceived colors differently than us.
2- It also means “olive”, and it comes from the same Mediterranean idea of human features as “olive skin”.
Same as with “blond”/”blonde”; us who learn English as a second language (and are subjected to perform it to way harder standards that native speakers in practice lest we’re thought savage Latinos, have you ever seen us being all “forgive my dismal English, I beg you, for it’s embarrassing and badly constructed”?), we’re also taught to write it as “brunet”/”brunette”.
It’s interesting that black hair doesn’t get a word to describe it – like blond or brunette. Or ginger, maybe? Not sure if that’s the same class of word or if it developed as a slur.
Ironically, while “stupid” comes to English by way of French, “fucking” is Germanic. I think that means that only a German/French hybrid language like ours can have such fucking stupidity in it.
Actually as a french speaker i will occasionally borrow “fucking” in colloquial french for emphasis and quirkiness, and thus may also call something (or someone) “fucking stupide”. Or perhaps this adverb may spill out to lend an unexpected twist to a pile-up of expletives, such as, “mais c’est tellement putain de bordel de fucking stupide de ses morts”. Cathartic and classy!
does it even sound diff out loud compared to text? i had one teacher that was uptight about being called Miss versus Ms. even tho most ppl speaking, it sounded more or less the same even tho there’s tech a slight distinct way of saying it sometimes but you could barely hear it (tho i’m surprised more ppl didn’t just say ‘ma’am’ since we were in the south but she was fine with us saying just her last name versus Ms. Name)
This still is about the level of ridiculousness to be expected of Robin when she’s having fun at his expense, or to see if he’ll stop being a doormat. Let’s check back during the next chapter to see how cross she actually is when he hasn’t written a whole fucking textbook in 24 hours. Maybe she has had a psychotic break and isn’t just a goofball, messing with him.
Maybe the entire class is a gag nobody’s getting, and as soon as someone says “Is this just a bit you’re doing?” she’ll say “Yes, well, spotted, lets have an actual Pol Sci class now.”
Man, it’s a shame nobody said that during her actual political career, so she could drop the whole bit there.
Now that I think about it, as far as “to see if he’ll stop being a doormat” goes, I kind of feel like the idea that Robin is seeing how far she can push the guy utterly dependent on her to stay in the country before he pushes back would actually make her slightly worse than if she’s just a deranged self-centred person with no idea how things work, because making them work is somone else’s job. YMMV.
Perhaps she’s nudging him to say no to her. Escalating from “get be a bag of fountain cola” to “write a book in a day” should have gotten him to put his foot down. Especially with the title “Become Ungovernable”.
Yes, messing with him like that is kind of dickish. It’s also more believable than Robin not knowing what a day is.
just remembering how funny it was when it was revealed Carla and Charlie had already been hanging out, holding hands and a significant portion of the comment section was, “I don’t understand, in the entire run of the comic, we’ve never seen Carla once be chill or show any consideration for anyone else, she’s only ever been her cartoonish antics.”
I have no doubt that she’s about as serious as she ever gets (well, maybe 75%), but also I have no doubt that she will be quite happy to abandon this entire idea that moment somebody with an actual spine either tells why it’s a bad idea for her, or just makes sure that she’s distracted from the idea for more than a week.
Jason is doomed, and almost certainly Becky and Dorothy as well (though for different reasons).
Dorothy, Joyce, Becky Roz and Jason, when they combine to become Political Science Voltron. Jason is the left leg, he will be complaining the whole time.
It has been used in a gendered way before as it originated in French where that is the norm. We just. Kind of don’t care as much about it any more so both ways are acceptable now.
UK favours using blonde for both, USA favours using blond, but neither is really wrong at this point.
My country elected an ultra far right asshole that has the same political views and maturity of the average 4chan user. Literally responding to political criticism with a meme of him peeing on them. I am not ever going to surprise about how you far you can get in politics while as much of a dipshit as possible.
No the one who writes it gets it free, leading to resentment from other students, thereby keeping them distracted from YOU. God, Jason, it’s like you’ve never managed a crab bucket before, pay attention
Mine nearly collapsed upon itself. It’s so hard for me lately to take Robin’s bits as farcical because they so perfectly describe the stupid, amoral narcissists who govern our real world today.
Doesn’t “blond”only spell “blonde” in denegation of female being if it is a noun and it only spell “blond” in all circumstances when it is an adjective?
So it’s always “blond ones”, as “ones” is the noun, there?
Sorry if it’s nitpicking, English is not my native language and I thought I had actually figured that one. Asking to be sure if I was actually mistaken.
Don’t worry, we native English speakers don’t really know either. I feel like I’ve mostly seen it with the e when used for things other than people (like a yellowish wooden table or whatever), but now I’m beginning to doubt my memory.
Technically: blonde is the correct spelling when feminine, whether noun, adjective, or even verb; blond is the correct spelling when masculine or of indeterminate gender, whether noun, adjective, or verb
Practically: “incorrect” uses in every direction are so common at this point that only the most ardent of prescriptivists will take issue with you using “blond” pretty much wherever
Huh. Thanks for the info! I had noticed the difference in spelling in a few places before, but I always assumed that “blonde” was an older, archaic spelling that wasn’t really in modern use anymore.
I’ve read so many published romance novels that use blond to describe CIS women’s hair… I notice it every time, but I think blonde is gradually going away. Still, I’m always impressed when someone uses it “correctly.” (Just like when people treat “data” as plural instead of singular– data are, but enough people say data is that they’re probably both fine.)
Literally nobody cares. Spell it any way you want and if someone makes some noise about it mzntally replace their voice with turkey noises and that will be mental energy better spent than bothering to parse their actual boring words
I’ve developed a notion that there is really only one sin, a Root Sin as I’ve come to call it: that of selfishness. Trying to develop the idea for purposes of publishing a book.
*video of man picking up bebe sloff off ground and putting it on tree trunk, right below mom. who extends an arm&claw to him in what looks for all the world like a slo-mo high-five*
I don’t think Becky and Dorothy have interacted much since Dorothy’s doomspiral started really getting out of hand! I’m excited!
Checking the tags, it looks like their last actual, prolonged, conversation was last year, when Becky learned of Dorothy’s decision not to go to Yale, got really genuinely pissed, and called her a terrible politician. And the last time they APPEARED together is when Becky started making really transparent attempts to make sure Joyce and Dorothy were banging separate dudes (and not each other).
Honestly if we’re talking about poltical science books that I would recommend for undergrads is: the Dictators Handbook by Bruce Buneo De Mesquia and Alistar Smith Coup’d Etat a Practical Handbook by Edward Lutrwick and Theories of International Relations and Zombies.
Coming too late to comment on Robin, I just wanna add, as someone who has English as a second language:
I was very surprised as a teen when internet peeps eschewed so many hard rules drilled onto us. For example! That “blond” is male and “blonde” is female. To this day, it’s what kids get taught in places that aren’t the USA.
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Daffy Duck, eat your heart out -_-
“no they do NOT get a complimentary author’s copy”
…
“unless they want an ebook, which will not be valid for class”
(later) “…why does our textbook have so much lesbian romance?”
Jason you might have better off at the bar.
this was not meant as a reply
But depending on the bar, it works very well as one!
Surprisingly, most of that was written by Dottie. OK, not that surprising.
It wouldn’t be surprising coming from Robin either
Dorothy writes a book about how the government is supposed to work in theory.
Becky re-writes Dorothy’s book to make it sound more like Robin.
If Robin bothers to read any of Dorothy and Becky’s book, she’ll laugh her head off and tell them how it works in practice.
Every textbook should have more lesbian romance, just ’cause 8D;
As a writer, I’ve made the decision to ignore the gendered nature of “blond/e” because I got too annoyed having to think about it (half-joking)
They aren’t even pronounced differently.
That’s why we have a third spelling for pronouncing the E.
They are in the original French: the last letter of each is silent…
Unless you are singing, in which case French often voices a silent vowel: “Frère Jacques, Frère Jacques…”
Huh. Never knew it was gendered. Always figured the one with “e” at the end was a British spelling. They’re always adding extra letters to words, like “colour” & “aluminium”.
As with so many things, it’s Because French.
See, I assumed it was also a British/American thing, but the other way around. I only ever see Blonde in most stuff here in the States, so I figured Blond was for across the pond.
That’s a fascinating observation on gender roles over here: having a light hair color is mostly remarked on when referring to the blonde status of women, to the point that people don’t even see the masculine spelling.
Sorry what? The British are NOT adding letters to words thank you very much, Americans are removing them. And if you pronounce aluminium correctly you need all those letters in there.
i mean the brits originally had those letters because of french, seems like fair game not to include them as language evolves. i just like the way it looks, which i believe is why the french added all those letters in the first place.
As for aluminium, alumium was apparently the original spelling; the same guy published both versions, adding the extra letters later because it sounded better. Which I tend to agree with, but correct seems like a strong word for “prettier”
I’ll say “aluminium” when the container has the second “i” on it.
They’ve got a loom in ’em.
which one is for ale and which one is for wood finish?
Whichever you used, it’s the other. It’s the linguistic equivalent of plugging in a USB drive.
but USB drives 3 orientations, the first and second tries are never right, and it’s only the third one that works. That’s why USBs are actually 4 dimensional objects. in this essay i will..
There is an air gap on one side of a USB connector, it faces the top of the motherboard.
I didn’t realise blond/e was a thing until literally this strip. The things you learn.
I do know the difference between whisky/whiskey though.
now do macaron/macaroon
Wait … Blond/Blonde is a gendered thing? I always assumed that was an American/British English thing or something. Huh.
I was really impressed by its use here!
I feel like maybe profiting off your students unpaid labor breaks some sort of rule or law but I’m not sure on that.
It’s okay. I’m sure they’ll pass whatever bill is necessary to make school more similar to prison.
If you’re not profiting off of your students, then how do you know you’re teaching them enough to be useful.
Who’s going to learn more, the student that writes your textbook or the one that doesn’t?
Tell that to the pre-2021 NCAA.
Oh wait. I have to make that distinction because someone did.
It’s no different from corporations profiting from the unpaid labor of their slaves…
…oh. Interns, apparently. Sorry.
Thank you.
Robin. Stop. Please.
You should take a stress pill and think things over.
I hope Becky tells Robin to fuck off
That doesn’t seem like Becky’s style. By the time she’s done she might wish Becky had though. Either that or it’s accidentally going to be a hit best seller. One that says a whole bunch of stuff Robin doesn’t agree with.
Now that she’s out of Congress, I don’t think she cares about what the book says as long as it sells. She’s more likely to agree with Becky than anything.
Heck, if the book does well enough and she can remember what it says, maybe she’ll have a career renaissance on the opposite side. I don’t think Robin actually ever cared what she said.
i’d expect her to do puppy dog eyes again and be like ‘give us all free A’s?’
or jason can talk to sarah and she can semi-threaten to sue that she’s abusing her power or whatever lol
Shit, Robin should ask only Dorothy. Becky? She’s poor.
Never heard about blonde being gendered before today. Gonna ignore it forever now because that’s fucking stupid.
We took it from Fr*nch. And like most things we took from Fr*nch, yes it is extremely fucking stupid
Remember, “At Least It’s Not From Latin,” because at least the French brought eight declension classes down to two.
That be yhe French, Latin based, inventors of mayonnaise.
At least the Normans passed along the French ‘s’ for plurals – mouse/mice, tooth/teeth, child/children, etc. . . are all from Old English
Gendered language survives in all of the Romance Languages so I’d be careful on saying it’s stupid. Like, yeah I’d love if Spanish adopted back broadly the “e” that signals neutral pronouns, present in its origins. But, uh…….
Even leaving aside that all language interact and drink from each other, that’s always a little grating to hear from native English speakers.
It’s also just a really boring way to think about languages.
“This language is annoying and irrational” discussions never fail to produce zero compelling points for an unprejudiced listener while actual curiosity in linguistic history is an open door onto a boundless ecosystem of interwoven insights about history, semantics, cultures, art, sciences, myths and you name it.
Etymology is so fucking fascinating! I admittedly don’t get people who’ve never wondered “hey but why do these two words look alike? Where does this one come from?”, and I swear it’s not the ’tism flexing. It’s about being curious about the world! And even if someone can’t because idk, it’s not in them, or their interests 1000% lie elsewhere…
It wouldn’t kill anyone to be more respectful of other people’s cultures.
I hadn’t heard that before, either. I always assumed one was the Canadian spelling and the other the American
The gendered thing is on its way out. “Blonde” is more often used as a noun, though.
It’s even worse: brunette is gendered the same way technically. A brown-haired male is technically brunet, women are brunette. Weirdly I realized thus when I noticed only women are referred to as brunette, while men are brown-haired.
Has it ever been explained why black-haired people are also called brunette?
Not to me! Especially since it makes no sense. Sorry!
They’re not.
They’re called that because the person calling them that is a dope.
Hewwo :3 According to etymology, y’all got that one from the way of Normans influencing Old English. “Brun” means “Brown” in French, which makes sense because:
1- Black hair isn’t totally pitch black, and other peoples in the past perceived colors differently than us.
2- It also means “olive”, and it comes from the same Mediterranean idea of human features as “olive skin”.
Same as with “blond”/”blonde”; us who learn English as a second language
(and are subjected to perform it to way harder standards that native speakers in practice lest we’re thought savage Latinos, have you ever seen us being all “forgive my dismal English, I beg you, for it’s embarrassing and badly constructed”?),we’re also taught to write it as “brunet”/”brunette”.It’s interesting that black hair doesn’t get a word to describe it – like blond or brunette. Or ginger, maybe? Not sure if that’s the same class of word or if it developed as a slur.
Ironically, while “stupid” comes to English by way of French, “fucking” is Germanic. I think that means that only a German/French hybrid language like ours can have such fucking stupidity in it.
Actually as a french speaker i will occasionally borrow “fucking” in colloquial french for emphasis and quirkiness, and thus may also call something (or someone) “fucking stupide”. Or perhaps this adverb may spill out to lend an unexpected twist to a pile-up of expletives, such as, “mais c’est tellement putain de bordel de fucking stupide de ses morts”. Cathartic and classy!
does it even sound diff out loud compared to text? i had one teacher that was uptight about being called Miss versus Ms. even tho most ppl speaking, it sounded more or less the same even tho there’s tech a slight distinct way of saying it sometimes but you could barely hear it (tho i’m surprised more ppl didn’t just say ‘ma’am’ since we were in the south but she was fine with us saying just her last name versus Ms. Name)
Becky and Dorothy Perform an Unpaid Ghostwrite: a Dumbing of Age Pat-Leeque
Ghostwrite is the name of my next supervillain identity. Kinda like the Spellbinder from The Electric Company.
still feels like she’s committing to a bit when it went over Jason’s head.
Nah, this is about the level of ridiculousness to be expected of Robin for it to be serious. At least until she gets distracted and forget about it.
This still is about the level of ridiculousness to be expected of Robin when she’s having fun at his expense, or to see if he’ll stop being a doormat. Let’s check back during the next chapter to see how cross she actually is when he hasn’t written a whole fucking textbook in 24 hours. Maybe she has had a psychotic break and isn’t just a goofball, messing with him.
Maybe the entire class is a gag nobody’s getting, and as soon as someone says “Is this just a bit you’re doing?” she’ll say “Yes, well, spotted, lets have an actual Pol Sci class now.”
Man, it’s a shame nobody said that during her actual political career, so she could drop the whole bit there.
Now that I think about it, as far as “to see if he’ll stop being a doormat” goes, I kind of feel like the idea that Robin is seeing how far she can push the guy utterly dependent on her to stay in the country before he pushes back would actually make her slightly worse than if she’s just a deranged self-centred person with no idea how things work, because making them work is somone else’s job. YMMV.
Perhaps she’s nudging him to say no to her. Escalating from “get be a bag of fountain cola” to “write a book in a day” should have gotten him to put his foot down. Especially with the title “Become Ungovernable”.
Yes, messing with him like that is kind of dickish. It’s also more believable than Robin not knowing what a day is.
She knows what a day is. What she probably doesn’t know or care about is how long it takes to write an actual book.
just remembering how funny it was when it was revealed Carla and Charlie had already been hanging out, holding hands and a significant portion of the comment section was, “I don’t understand, in the entire run of the comic, we’ve never seen Carla once be chill or show any consideration for anyone else, she’s only ever been her cartoonish antics.”
Maybe we’ll discover that she has forgotten all about the book, since it’s been, like, more than thirty seconds.
I have no doubt that she’s about as serious as she ever gets (well, maybe 75%), but also I have no doubt that she will be quite happy to abandon this entire idea that moment somebody with an actual spine either tells why it’s a bad idea for her, or just makes sure that she’s distracted from the idea for more than a week.
Jason is doomed, and almost certainly Becky and Dorothy as well (though for different reasons).
Seriously, isn’t there someone who can stop her?
Dorothy, Joyce, Becky Roz and Jason, when they combine to become Political Science Voltron. Jason is the left leg, he will be complaining the whole time.
excuse you sir
we have it on good authority
that Jason is the _middle_ leg
Starring Leslie Bean as Coran
I have never before in my life heard that Blond/Blonde is a different spelling based on gender… Afaik it’s just an alternate spelling.
(To be clear, that afaik was ‘as far as I knew’, not ‘as far as I know’)
It has been used in a gendered way before as it originated in French where that is the norm. We just. Kind of don’t care as much about it any more so both ways are acceptable now.
UK favours using blonde for both, USA favours using blond, but neither is really wrong at this point.
Become Ungoverningable is painfully accurate for today’s Republican party and explains a lot about how she actually survived as long as she did.
My country elected an ultra far right asshole that has the same political views and maturity of the average 4chan user. Literally responding to political criticism with a meme of him peeing on them. I am not ever going to surprise about how you far you can get in politics while as much of a dipshit as possible.
you doing this for reals Roz? Oh please…
you’d probably earn more by making a chess clone with mutant ants
How did i confuse Robin for Roz?
eh, guess I have to choose between making sense here and making code, at least for now
I don’t think there’s any reason to ever take Robin seriously.
Reason to take Robin seriously: When she’s doing with potentially dangerous consequences. (eg, invading and squatting in Leslie’s home).
Nah.
She’s like Walky, but with charisma.
I’d honestly rate Walky higher on charisma.
Walky’s more likable.
Robin’s got that kind of charisma that just picks everyone around her up and sweeps them along with her.
Plot twist: Tornadoes are charismatic.
For a few minutes, at least.
No the one who writes it gets it free, leading to resentment from other students, thereby keeping them distracted from YOU. God, Jason, it’s like you’ve never managed a crab bucket before, pay attention
thank you for the image of “managing a crab bucket.”
Now I need to clean up a spit-take.
Okay, pure hypothetical —
If Robin wanted to make a video game for money, what would be her idea?
Oregon Trail with microtransactions
Dating sim.
Sonic 06.
Robot Unicorn Attack, but you collect skittles and cola, and it gets faster each time you collect one.
Angry Birds. as in “No madam they already made that game and we don’t own it because they do.” “I said Angry Birds!”
Tic-tac-toe
video games for mo-ney
and the chyx for free
All of the above.
My face physically cringed at the word “ungoverningable.” Well done.
Mine nearly collapsed upon itself. It’s so hard for me lately to take Robin’s bits as farcical because they so perfectly describe the stupid, amoral narcissists who govern our real world today.
Good old Robin, always prioritizing
ABC.
Always
Be
Collectingmoney
“Always be clos–cobbling.”
Proof Lorne Michaels doesn’t really know comedy that well.
Doesn’t “blond”only spell “blonde” in denegation of female being if it is a noun and it only spell “blond” in all circumstances when it is an adjective?
So it’s always “blond ones”, as “ones” is the noun, there?
Sorry if it’s nitpicking, English is not my native language and I thought I had actually figured that one. Asking to be sure if I was actually mistaken.
No one cares except for English majors and journalists.
Don’t worry, we native English speakers don’t really know either. I feel like I’ve mostly seen it with the e when used for things other than people (like a yellowish wooden table or whatever), but now I’m beginning to doubt my memory.
Technically: blonde is the correct spelling when feminine, whether noun, adjective, or even verb; blond is the correct spelling when masculine or of indeterminate gender, whether noun, adjective, or verb
Practically: “incorrect” uses in every direction are so common at this point that only the most ardent of prescriptivists will take issue with you using “blond” pretty much wherever
well, thanks.
Huh. Thanks for the info! I had noticed the difference in spelling in a few places before, but I always assumed that “blonde” was an older, archaic spelling that wasn’t really in modern use anymore.
I’ve read so many published romance novels that use blond to describe CIS women’s hair… I notice it every time, but I think blonde is gradually going away. Still, I’m always impressed when someone uses it “correctly.” (Just like when people treat “data” as plural instead of singular– data are, but enough people say data is that they’re probably both fine.)
Wow. Around here blond vs blonde still gets pointed out a lot as a mistake and of the two, “blonde” is way more common.
next we need to do fianc\’e vs fianc\’ee
So non-binary people are blond?
they’re bloond
–Dave, Jay Bloond
Actually, my hair is more of brown/calico type color.
“denegation”
*designation
I’ve never noticed any difference in use and just figured both spellings were fine in any situation. I see and use “blonde” a lot more often, though.
I refuse to consider the issue and use “blonde” to describe either gender.
Can I get a show of hands y’all?
That’s what I’ve been doing, but less “refusal” and more “not realising I was ever supposed to”.
/hi5
Yeah, no. Us ESL get hit with the “cultural shock” when it comes to “actual us” vs “norm”, but believe me – I feel you so much :’33
Literally nobody cares. Spell it any way you want and if someone makes some noise about it mzntally replace their voice with turkey noises and that will be mental energy better spent than bothering to parse their actual boring words
Shouldn’t Robin be getting Barabus, her other teacher’s aide to help or did he get crucified like the Second Eaton?
Barry was never really a part of this
No, she’s having Jason do it because he sucks.
How did she pronounce the parentheses in the second blond(e)?
Short parentheses, as in “(if that is your real name)”.
enunciating the ‘d’ strongly.
Of all the deadly sins, sloth is one of the two least attractive.
She’ll probably have it printed in a local copy shop, and make out quite well.
I’ve developed a notion that there is really only one sin, a Root Sin as I’ve come to call it: that of selfishness. Trying to develop the idea for purposes of publishing a book.
Robin’s book will sell far better, I think.
Get the right title and talk show circuit, and it’ll sell great! Especially if you can frame it as some kind of self-help.
(and hope no one notices the irony)
*video of man picking up bebe sloff off ground and putting it on tree trunk, right below mom. who extends an arm&claw to him in what looks for all the world like a slo-mo high-five*
Ugh, ALL people I have knew in high school are already parents.
My 36 years old ass don’t have any of this. Not even a date.
You need to calculate all the money you’re saving. If you can bank just half of that, you should be able to retire pretty comfortably.
Suddenly, a new plot have started. I want to see to frenemies, like Becky and Dorothy, struggling to create a book together.
I don’t think Becky and Dorothy have interacted much since Dorothy’s doomspiral started really getting out of hand! I’m excited!
Checking the tags, it looks like their last actual, prolonged, conversation was last year, when Becky learned of Dorothy’s decision not to go to Yale, got really genuinely pissed, and called her a terrible politician. And the last time they APPEARED together is when Becky started making really transparent attempts to make sure Joyce and Dorothy were banging separate dudes (and not each other).
Ohhhh, this is gonna be FUN.
Robin’s complete lack of self awareness will never ceases to amaze me. No wonder she was a politician
Honestly if we’re talking about poltical science books that I would recommend for undergrads is: the Dictators Handbook by Bruce Buneo De Mesquia and Alistar Smith Coup’d Etat a Practical Handbook by Edward Lutrwick and Theories of International Relations and Zombies.
On tyranny by Timothy Snyder.
These certainly would provide a good depiction of the world as-is.
this is going to be the best textbook ever
Ungovernable…intolerable. Tomato…tomato.
Potayto, potahto, stick’em inna stew
Robin is a garbage human and I love her. Underrated character.
Coming too late to comment on Robin, I just wanna add, as someone who has English as a second language:
I was very surprised as a teen when internet peeps eschewed so many hard rules drilled onto us. For example! That “blond” is male and “blonde” is female. To this day, it’s what kids get taught in places that aren’t the USA.
Today I learned that DeSanto can mean “blameless” or “holy”. Now I get a lot of how Robin works.
Actually, I thought, why don’t I look up MY high school crushes?
Then I remembered, the last one I did, I found out that person died in 2012.
So.
Not doing that anymore
That’s weapons grade OOF right there. Sorry to hear.