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Don Cardenas
Because why put off for tomorrow what you can do next week?
Shittiness postponed? Seems like Billie is acting shitty now.
There is a J. Wellington Wimpy joke in here somewhere.
Seems to me the shittyiness was when she made a promise she should have known she couldn’t keep and this is the inevitable aftermath of it, not the act itself.
In her defense, she didn’t know she couldn’t keep it when she made it.
That’s the true beauty of ‘should have known’, you get to ignore all the good and not so good reasons why it isn’t that obvious.
I dunno, it’s hard to be mad. It seems unlikely Becky thought this was a permanent solution. Billie bought her a week of relative comfort and space from Joyce.
When getting out of a relationship alive messes up your plans, you maybe ought to rethink your plans.
I dunno, my plans end with me not leaving my relationship alive, but I’m open to the possibility of us growing in opposite directions over the coming decades. And uh, Billie definitely was planning for *That* kind of ending first and foremost. She didn’t expect them to end up dead, on a pretty real level.
But that’s got precious little to do with Billie’s hypothetical shittiness to Becky. I mean, Billie /feeling/ that way is understandable, and it’s not exactly a lot of notice, but at the same time, in concrete terms… she’s given Becky more than anyone else in the comic. The concrete isn’t everything, but one week of bed space (or 5 days, if you prefer) and 20 bucks trumps a few days of dinner (Even if one of those nights was nice dinner). And considering that the only connection to Becky she had was “That annoying friend of Joyce’s badgering me on my sexuality”, that’s not nothing. It’s not enough, but it’s not like it’s not enough because she’s terrible. It’s because there’s not really such a thing as ‘enough’ that you can give wtihout actually owning property in your own name.
Yeah, I meant to go farther in defending Billie. Rereading it I don’t think I come off as defending her in the slightest, and she deserved even more than I intended.
NRE is a hell of a blinder to sensible choices. Part of why it’s good to wait until at least a year in a relationship before making major life decisions.
Yeah, poor Becky has suffered through a free bed. How shitty of Billie to force her into that. Billie did what she could, while she could.
She didn’t promise anything.
The windowpane is broken, and the rain is coming in.
If somebody don’t fix it, I’ll be soaking to my skin.
But if we wait a day or two, the rain may go away
And we don’t need a window, on such a sunny day!
SimpsonsSesame Street did it!Procrastination works on two beliefs, one, why do today when you can do it tomorrow and two, tomorrow never comes.
Why put off until tomorrow what you can put off til next week?
And maybe the horse will learn to sing.
Wait, when did Billie turn into me?
Her most recent regeneration.
Yayyyy procrastination.
I never get around to procrastination.
I’m to busy with avoidance and denial to get around to procrastination.
What is this “denial” that you speak of?
What denial? There is no denial! I have no idea what you’re talking about!
Denial squared? Or Denial(Denial) = 0?
Mom says if I procrastinate, my life will fill with sorrow. I don’t know what that big word means, I’ll look it up tomorrow.
Procrastination is like masturbation. It feels good while you’re doing it, but really, you’re just f**king yourself.
Oh Sal, if only you knew about the updated status of Billie and Ruth’s relationship.
1pm Sunday afternoon
so like
3 months from now
thanks for the estimate. math is hard
pfffft
3 months from now is saturday afternoon
Heh
There was once a Marvel comic where they explained that the reason Quicksilver is kind of a jerk is that everyone else is so slow in comparison to him that his life is like constantly being stuck in traffic.
Being left in suspense for how DoA storylines are going to be resolved finally allows me to relate.
Seriously loved that issue. With all of the X-Factor characters going to a therapist. The whole sequence of him explaining why everyone annoys him is great. Its in X-Factor #87.
There was also an issue I remember where he was eating dinner with the Inhumans and he thinks to himself that he has to eat slowly. He concentrates really hard on taking slow, careful bites and then looks up. Everyone almost has their first bite to their lips. That feels like DOA sometimes too. “What? They’ve only just got out of bed? It’s been like a week!”
Does Quicksilver sleep at all?
If so, shouldn’t that be something that looks like quick naps taken every few “human” minutes? I mean, if we assume he registers information about a hundred times faster than a human*, then one second is a minute and forty seconds to him. 16 hours awake for us is like 9 minutes and 36 seconds to him. After which he will need to sleep for almost five minutes**. So whenever he’s in a bad situation, he’s got about thirteen minutes to solve it before his brain goes groggy enough that he cannot be trusted to do the job perfectly.
*Number pulled out of my ass because I clearly have no idea just how quick his brain really works.
**Now, this is based on the typical 8-hour sleep rhythm, which in itself is a rather forced/”artificial” sleep cycle born out of the industrial revolution. Maybe he likes to take smaller naps throughout his “day” that are so quick, people hardly even notice it.
Don’t know how it works for Quicksilver, but I know an issue of Flash once had him reveal that he takes micro-naps when people pause while talking.
Depends on the writer. One comic shown the Flash able to decelerate his perception on some conscious level. It sucks that Quicksilver can’t do that.
eh, you can cheat.
1pm sunday afternoon, ha! more like 1am monday morning
Just in time for the U.S. elections!
Well drinking kinda sounds like thinking, and Billie will do one of those two things.
GREAT
Now im gonna be worried about Dina for at least 24 hours.
tomorrow: Danny and Amber
Cacturne: DAMMIT!
Two days from now: Dorothy and Carla.
Cacturne: DAMN YOU TO HELL, WILLIS!
3 days from know: Back to Becky and Joyce
Cacturne: GAHHHH!
rest of week: ALL FAZ
all readers: WUT
What if it turned out that Faz was actually super nice (besides the perviness) and volunteered at the homeless shelter on weekends.
That would be a great twist. Actually, I mostly feel sorry for him. He is raised by Blaine and clearly got some VERY toxic ideas about masculinity.
I feel bad for him as is. He was raised by Blaine. But feeling bad for him isn’t the same as ‘not wanting the others to deal with him’ XD
Well, he seems to lack Blaines violence.
if i didnt have way too much of my own comic to be drawing right now id draw a strip of faz taking care of an abandoned kitten
ok im drawing it
I don’t know, some people just aren’t cut out for volunteer work.
The week after that: ALL FAZ NO PANTS.
Readers: WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
We’ve been denied the Faz/Wen slipshine for far too long.
It would be their snapshat log.
I think you meant “spared the Faz/Wen slipshine”.
OTOH, he does want people to pay for these things. It’s not all our tears or horror.
It’d being held until Willis wants to get his solid gold lawn installed.
Or for when he wants to cause the end of the universe, for the sheer unbridled eroticism will tear asunder the fabric of reality.
we’re never going to see dina again
Willis: Finally I’m getting around to drawing Dina! *has heart attack*
soooooo…how many months in real-time until we see this resolved then?
Unsure. Buffer doesn’t go past the next in-comic day atm, I think, and that’s up through late April if not into May now.
This storyline/day ends Feb 23rd. If he does devote a whole 50-strip storyline to Sunday, we won’t get to Monday till the start of June.
Oops. May, not June.
Buffer is into May (There’s a Buffer Watch on the main page). And it’s in the next storyline “When God Closes the Door” which I’ll assume takes place on Saturday. (It seems unlikely that we’ll get a time skip).
Monday may very well be in Book 7 territory. (Assuming we move forward one day at a time which seems likely I would guess?)
Yay, emotional procrastination!
…
:’D
Two whole days? We won’t see that argument until September at least.
Hashtag relatable.
(This is what the cool kids are doing these days right?)
http://i.imgur.com/q5rSbpg.png
Also nice segue into the floor meeting. Although all the while I just want more fundie drama.
Don’t worry, floor meeting is just code for “Death Dome”.
They gotta weed out the weak somehow.
So who’s going to ride on whose shoulders to imitate Master Blaster?
…Sorry, I can’t seem to get Beyond Thunderdome.
Okay first, high five, secondly we both know that it’s gonna’ be Dina and Sarah recreating Master Blaster.
Only real question is who gets to be Tina Turner?
Obviously Sal is the only one who can pull it off.
That’s the college way, Billie! Also figures Sal would be the pragmatic one of the two roommates.
but where’s becky?
*plays Loverboy’s “Working For The Weekend” on the hacked Muzak*
Two Days
Welp, at least we know this arc will be finished in a month.
read Willis’s comment above, and get comfy.
Three months from now, it’ll be barely 24 hours later. So assume another three months to Sunday afternoon. That’s August, so maybe September for Monday? I’d say that Willis knows exactly when each hour of each day starts, but kids have a funny way of messing with time. When he plans on driving a knife thru our feels though, that’s probably chiseled in stone.
Wait, our feels are driven through like a knife chiseling plans into stone?
Yes, Billie, this is a perfectly emotionally healthy way of dealing with your problems. Put it off until it’s an emergency and you have to jury-rig a solution, that’s how MacGyver would do it!
Billie is pretty good at handling crises, and creating them.
Its like a super power.
Billie will construct a new dwelling for Becky using a piece of chewing gum, some twine, and the moderately priced apartment complex a few blocks away.
Nah, Becky will share a bed with Dina and all four of them will be room-mates.
To be fair to Billie you have to remember she just had her crisis with Ruth a few minutes ago. She’s just relieved to have time to rest before the next round.
If it weren’t for the last minute I’d never get anything done.
i like that sal is still concerned for her regarding ruth
sal will be the last one to know the truth
This it titled “Basket”, but I think Billie is heading towards being a ‘Basket Case’.
So, Sal really didn’t know Billie and Ruth were an item? I kinda figured by now everyone on the floor knew.
Wouldn’t that just be hilarious? That this relationship that Mary, Ruth, and Billie think is a big secret is just common knowledge to everyone?
“Yeah, we know you’re banging each other. We just kinda’ figured the whole campus shooting thing was more important than where you two stick your tongues at.”
“But Billie, you really shouldn’t be running around behind your boyfriend’s back like that.”
clap clap
Well done.
I need to work on overcoming my own tendency to procrastinate.
Eh…. I’ll work on that later.
why do I hope that Mary turns out to be an awesome fighter, who can take on all the other major characters at once, leading to a dramatic battle?
Mudda mudda?
Deus vult
Whose fault?
My fault?
Yo’ fault?
Ahhhh it’s nobodies fault!
Because you are silly.
Sal tries to side kick her, Mary effortlessly blocks it with one arm and then sends Sal through a wall.
Case in point.
Joyce: Becky, together!
They both run at Mary, and after a short fight both manage to connect a single punch to Mary’s face, the Windows explode.
Mary: impressive, but not impressive enough.
The entire month of June is just them panting and yelling from dozens of camera angles.
Mary: I promised you didn’t I, that I’d show you a nightmare beyond the horrors of hell. Over course I had hoped to include all of you, but from the look of things it seems Dina won’t be joing us, such a shame don’t you think.
Dorothy: Yaaaah!
Danny: C’mon you damn freak!
Mary: The First Abductee.
I have never related to Billie more in all the years this comic has existed.
i, too, put off all of my problems until the last possible minute. it has yet to work for me.
Then you’re not putting them off long enough.
If you put problems off long enough, they go away and you get different problems instead.
pff thats future billies problem.
Past Billie is a total asshole to Future Billie.
future billie always says that about past billie, but past billie just has faith future billie can handle it.
Future Billie deserves it for having been such an asshole when she was Past Billie.
It’s fine, Becky can crash with Dina. Amber will be thrilled to have a new person around, she is very healthy and sociable.
No, Becky will move in with Leslie, causing Dina to get so depressed she forgets the entire Jurassic era.
If arm touching is First Base and meeting the parents is third, what is sharing a bed? Tenth Base?
Touchdown.
Wait, that’s Handegg not Baseball.
That’s the one with the hitting of a small white spheroid with a cudgel, right? I keep confusing that with the other pastime of athletic feats with similar rules…mixed martial arts?
Mixed martial arts is when you’re in bed with a knockout.
Becky can crash with Dina, but that makes Amber uncomfortable, so she crashes with Danny, which means Joe needs somewhere outside the door he just attached a sock to, so he crashes with Penny, Roz, Sierra, and every other girl who would give him the time of day. Makes sense.
Billie’s response is exactly how every college student responds when the professor extends the deadline for an essay or report.
Ah, procrastination, the bane of my existence.
Well, this is good, Billie has a couple days to figure out her next move.
I can’t WAIT for the floor meeting. I wonder if Ruth has called in any suits for this brouhaha that’s about to erupt all over the campus. Like maybe Leslie hope, hope (yeah I know, fat chance).
Still, I do hope that Ruth got someone in for this: if this is where she’s going to remove Mary’s femurs, she needs authority present or -it’s just going to be just he said/she said. She needs witnesses.
From the previews, it seems Mary’s femurs will be fine until May 5th, most likely.
Really? Really? Here we are in higher education, and is this sort of irresponsible procrastinating behavior what people are learning there?
You don’t spend a lot of time around 18 year olds, do you Reltzik?
Or a good 90% of the population of any age.
I think that may have been sarcasm
I’ve seen enough comments saying similar things without sarcasm that I’m never sure anymore.
Like this? Insensitive comment toward minority and/or vulerable group!
This is a great world we live in!
Future Billie can deal with Future Billie’s problems, I guess.
Or you could take the optimistic view and assume that Joyce and Becky will have a fatal crash on the way back.
I’m almost afraid to ask what the pessimistic view would be.
Almost.
They don’t.
We are getting very close to comment #1,000,000. Only about a hundred to go. (The numbering appears to have gaps, however.) Anyway, there should be a prize. A duck comes down and you win $10. So somebody write something inflammatory. Mary isn’t in today’s strip, but she’s always good for 300-500 comments. We can do it!
I feel your comment is insensitive to ducks and you should appologize to Mary at once.
Exactly, associating ducks with Mary, how uncouth.
Now you know what Mary was up to at 3 pm.
Duck you, Mary.
“Say da secret woid …”
Never put off tomorrow what you can put off today.
I once joined the support group Procrastinators Anonymous, but there was never a meeting for some reason.
I meant to join Procrastinators Anonymous, but I never got around to actually signing up.
I went to the meeting and everyone thought I was an overachiever. They even talked about throwing me out but never got around to do so.
I’m going to be honest, I write pretty much every post expecting to be banned. Everyday, yep this is the one, this is where the joke goes just a bit too far.
And yes, that applies to this post as well
And apparently the joke whizzed right past me without noticing it.
Honestly not entirely sure how bans work with a system like this with no logins. Does he actually IP ban–that’s pretty harsh, as it would block you from reading the comic, too.
And en when Becky gets back, it’s not like she has to acknowledge her presence. She can just act like there’s a ghost in her room! Any excuse is valid when you’re trying to postpone shittiness. Or responsibilities. Or facing the crushing reality of a new day.
I like Billie’s upbeat, can-do-later attitude.
I feel you, Billie. “You know whose problem this is? Future Shiro’s!”
A problem postponed is not a problem resolved but it can feel just as good! So, Billie is planning on treasuring that good feeling for as long as she can!
You know what they say. Trouble delayed is trouble denied. Or something like that anyway.
So, Becky will most probably have a really shitty weekend, AND realise her place is “gone” once she come back (if she does). Uuuuh.
Sal’d channeling a lot of Sarah today, too. Wonder if it’s the letter commonality.
Sal + Sarah = Indy’s buddy.
She’ll roll with it, while screaming in the silence of her brain.
Come on Sal! Don’t tell me your one of those anti-crastinators!
to quote Linus from Peanuts — ‘No problem is so big or so complicated that it can’t be run away from!’
Of course that kind of thinking is pretty much how the whole mess started, but still..
Not one, but TWO whole days!
I want it noted that the number of times we’ve seen these two in their room at the same time is still under ten.
So what you’re saying is there’s totally room for a third occupant
Sal only uses her bed in the daytime, and Billie half the time doesn’t use her bed at all (Ruth’s bed, Ruth’s closet, Walky’s bed, her chair, the hall floor…), so, yeah, I think Becky’s set.
Just get an air mattress, Billie.
TWO WHOLE DAYS
That’s two years of comic time, Billie has time.
Uh oh. If this will take months, that means the weekend will be really long for Dina. Because, for some reason, relationships seem to run on something closer to real time in this comic.
(Not actually real time–just closer. I’d go to the wiki and do the math, but I’m tired. I’d say normal is that relationship time is 3 times faster. So, for example, Ruth and Billie’s 1 week relationship felt like 3 weeks. )
Hope that made sense. I’m tired. But it’s basically just saying that relationships seem to longer in this comic than the in-comic time would indicate.
Anybody else having trouble seeing today’s comic? Or is it just my phone?
Not just you, I couldn’t get on earlier. Better now, obviously.
Oh man, I know that feeling! Billie’s comment was my entire school career. “This report isn’t due for a week? AWESOME! I don’t have to think about it for at least half a week! Or all of it.”
“Two whole days! And that’s webcomic time, so just imagine how long that might be in real time!”
Well, every chapter is usually a single day at IU, so I’m thinking maybe two or three months tops.
Why doesn’t Billie, a self-proclaimed emergency responder & ex-cheer leader socialite, just tell Ruth to strike at Mary after cleansing her room of Becky now? Mary’s counter of “But Becky!” would be ‘proven’ fantasy & ‘Billie’s sleeping with you’ would get the resounding “So?” when everyone else laughs at the idea?
It’s not the dorm Ruth and Billie need to worry about figuring them out, it’s Ruth’s bosses.
We have a winner. I think. modulusshift posted comment #1,000,008. I couldn’t find any comments with lower numbers that were at least a million. Here’s the link. Congratulations, modulusshift, here’s your ten bucks.
How’d you find it? Maybe 1,000,000 was posted on a different comic.
I searched the HTML source for “comment-100000”. 1000008 was the only hit.
It’s possible that 1,000,000 through 1,000,007 were posted on a different comic entirely. What were those people thinking?
*foreseeable* (How many English words are there with -eea-?)
agreeable
disagreeable
…seeable
……unseeable….
…………….unforeseeable…
You win! (Duck descends with your prize.)
What about “weeaboo”? A nonsense word introduced by a webcomic and then shoehorned into a definition within a particular subculture! Hooray for the age of the internet!
Okay, I’m sure we have something special for you. (Rummages in prize drawer.) Watch out for the duck!
Google shows “freeaboo” also. Gadzooks!
Billie treats relationships like I treated papers I had to write. It always worked out well for me, so I’m sure she’ll be fine.
If I can do it tommorrow, I won’t do it today!
panel 5: when did Sal become Mike??
If shittiness is postponed for more than two days, please consult your doctor.
I’m not even so sure it’s all that irresponsible. The only thing I can think of that Billie could do is call Joyce while Joyce is probably going through some shit, and then lay more shit on Becky over the phone instead of in person.
Sure, she could be thinking about where else to put Becky, but it’s not like she can’t just stay with Billie or go back with Joyce for a few days until she gets that worked out. And, frankly, Billie needs at least a day off right now after a breakup.
(Well, unless Ruth plans her attack on Mary for Monday or Tuesday. But Billie has no way of knowing that right now.)
Becky (and Joyce) do need to be warned, not just or even mostly about the sleeping arrangements, but about Mary’s threats. And Ruth needs to know, for tactical reasons, that Becky isn’t around for the weekend.
Communicate, people. It lets you screw over the bad guys better. Do it out of spite, if nothing else.
It’s a moral imperative.
There is going to be a meeting about the Toedad incident. I bet that is where Ruth lays some smack-down on Mary and they figure out what to do about Becky.
I kind of doubt Ruth is going to give Mary a legitimate reason to report her.
Though we’re doubtlessly going to see some smug Mary at the meeting.
I dunno. Billie’s good for what, six months?
http://i.imgur.com/UUSS4rD.png
That sums it up nicely.