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why not, I mean, a small step got a dude on the moon 🙆♀️
[/totes hasn’t tried and given up on countless things as is but who’s counting]
But he stood on the shoulders of giant moon men, or something like that.
Just remember that one of the twelve dudes that put step on the moon turned out to be allergic to it.
Damn, that’s sad. I went and looked it up, too, and poor dude was a lunar geologist. The only professional scientist to walk on the moon, spent his whole life studying it, collected all kinds of useful rock samples that taught humanity so much, and then was allergic. T_T
Remember, kids, if you work and study hard for decades, then you too can have your dream blow up in your face in a way you never thought possible!
oh nice, I JUST had an allergic reaction to the dinner I was looking forward to all day =p
maybe not QUITE that feel, but I know that feel
Lots of swearing in this strip.
*plays “Off To See The Lizard” for the Patreon bonus content*
I was expecting “There’s a Whole Lot of Swearing Going On” Re the previous comment.
For some reason, that last line made me imagine how the cast would react to being test subjects on The Good Place.
We sure they aren’t?
The rate at which time passes, I could see it being a Jeremy Bearemy situation.
I mean, they’ve gone through at least 1 drama filled alternate universe already and don’t remember it now, so…
The Good Place came to mind for me too.
Just keep trying, you guys.
What would Joyce even be doing in The Good Place? Everyone else I can definitely see there, except for Jacob and Ethan.
Joyce would be in the Bad Place because of her manipulative nature with Jacob.
Ethan would also be in the Bad Place because of his enabling of Amber and lying to both Joyce and Amber and leading them on.
Jacob, I’ve got nothing. Dude hasn’t done anything wrong specifically in this fictional universe.
I had never heard of this. After doing some research, I can’t believe I have never heard of this show. I have a goal this weekend.
Didn’t last season conclude with a good explanation for why Joyce would be in The Good Place?
Because how to be a good person has apparently gotten more complicated.
I actually theorize its like this.
If your decision has negative side effects for others that you could have predicted but didn’t care about you lose points
If your decision has positive side effects for others you didn’t know and/or really care about no extra points.
We have more access to information especially about all the bad side effects about everything we do but if we try to process it all we won’t have time to actually do good stuff. And unless we know what we are doing right we get no points for it.
Hey, a ‘C’ is a passing grade in life.
Yep. Make C’s and life will pass you right up.
Do you know what they call a doctor who graduated with the lowest GPA in their class?
Doctor.
Do you REALLY want a doctor who averaged 50%? Just curious.
I’d trust them over someone with 0% medical knowledge crying about how vaccines are evil, at least.
Your comment, James, reminds me of when I was working as a canvasser for the American Civil Liberties Union.
I was standing there with my little iPad and my ACLU shirt on a street corner, just hoping people would respond to my greetings so I could meet my weekly quota.
A large imposing white man in scrubs branded with the name of one of the local children’s hospitals stopped to hear my pitch. He cut me off midway through by saying, in an aggressive manner, that he would donate if the ACLU would do something to stop “medical coercion”.
Pushing down my concern, I said I was unaware of what he meant by that, then attempted to inform him of the upcoming ACLU campaigns. He cut me off again and started angrily listing how parents’ and children’s constitutional rights were being violated by “forced vaccinations.”
He then proceeded to spend the next five agonizing minutes aggressively trying to conversationally trap me into taking an anti-vaxx stance.
It took every fiber of my being to stop from saying something like, “Dear god, you’re a medical professional.”
To this day I sincerely hope he just happened to get his hands on someone else’s scrubs and was not truly a licensed healthcare worker.
Given that any graduating class of doctors will, by definition, have a bottom 50 percentile, and you have absolutely no way of knowing what percentile a given person attained, and further absolutely no way of controlling your access to a particular percentile’s selection of doctors………..yes.
You got it, don’t forget everyone, half of all doctors finished in the lower half of their class.
Of course, most of them finished in the top of their respective classes before going to doctor school…
I would rather have a guaranteed access to a competent doctor than a conditional access to a great doctor.
Let’s see. A person with a halfway complete grasp of medicine, which is more medical knowledge than basically everyone I’ll ever meet in my entire life? Fuck it, at least they can point me in the general direction of good health.
“averaged 50%” is, out of context, meaningless. (Even more so because 50% is not traditionally a passing grade.)
In theory, the standard for graduating should be that they are good enough to do the job. If so, then yes, why not? And the cute joke about bottom of the class will be true no matter how high you raise that standard – there will always be someone who just makes the cut off.
Or as my sons say “Lieutentant”.
You are a medical doctor in the military and you are just a lieutenant? I thought you started at captain or major?
Any time Walky looks out for Billie, I’ll be honest, it makes him super endearing.
They are are occasionally awesome de facto siblings, aren’t they?
One of the hardest things to learn: “better” is worth doing, even if it won’t get you up to “good”.
So if you can’t be actually good, you can be better than what you were and that’s… not as bad?
Less bad is always a net gain.
You can’t always be the best, but you can always do your best.
So you can’t better better because good isn’t better and also isn’t better than better so better just be better at better.
…. eh, I still want perfect.
Aw Walky can be a good egg sometimes too.
I just <3 this strip.
THAT’S THE SPIRIT good job babies
Now we just need to see if Joyce realizes she fucked up.
Well, she know it, but Jacob.
Well this is a great attitude, I am proud of you Billie and Walky 😀
Yes, but don’t forget which comic you are reading. Just saying.
Joyce has “dumbing” well covered for this chapter.
Occasionally it’s gotta be the “of Age” part that’s relevant, right? Right? Please?
Baby steps, and there are lots and lots of characters that are going to fuck up too.
Hey, if ‘good’ is out reach, ‘better’ is always good.
Butter is pretty good too.Particularly on freshly baked bread. You know I’ve got an old breadmaker machine around here somewhere. I wonder how hard it would be to find.
Batter results in cake, which is also pretty good.
But butter results in better batter. Tho probably not better batting. Might result in better pitching.
Why is a buttercake different from a cake of butter? The buttercake sounds better.
Betty Botter bought some butter, ‘But,’ she said, ‘the butter’s bitter. If I put it in my batter it will make my batter bitter.’ ‘But a bit of better butter, that will make my batter better!’ So she bought a bit of butter, better than her bitter butter, and her batter was not bitter. So ’twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.
Awesome 🙂
Well, I’ve got the machine, I just don’t seem to have the mix to go in it. 1:15 in the AM is not the time to go shopping tho. Dang it, now I want fresh bread. With butter.
My nearby grocery store doesn’t sell bread machine mix any more. Claims they haven’t in years. Curse you, passage of time.
Here’s a pretty good recipe I use with my own bread machine, no mix required.
When I make it, I use a teaspoon less of honey and a little more salt, since I live in Texas and the dough can sometimes overproof if it is too warm outside, but your mileage may vary.
(gosh I hope that hyperlink works correctly…)
If you get better and better eventually you get to great by increments! And hopefully have a solid foundation so you’re less likely to fall back down to your starting position…
Is she craving for a drink and fighting herself over whether to get one or did she have a drink and is disappointed in herself now?
Judging by her greenish colour, I’m going with the first option.
In previous strips, her skin was definitely green-hued. But here, I think her skin tone is normal, but she has gray blush marks. I think this is the first use of gray blush marks ever.
Those two looking out for one another melts my heart every time.
That’s quite uncommonly wise of Walky! Being ‘better’ is easier and is probably more beneficcial than trying to make the leap to ‘great’ in one jump!
Y’know, Billie said it, not Walky.
Yay siblings being good at siblinging.
+1 for beating the English language into subservience.
Verbing weirds language.
Fuck the English language. It’s deliberately designed to make people worse at communicating.
That presumes that it was deliberately designed at all.
Which I honestly find a bit hard to believe.
Subservienting the English language.
Since 2019.
D’aw.
DoA Book 10: S’Easier To Shoot For “Better” Instead Of “Great”
We all know those famous names from history: Alexander the Better, Peter the Better, Catherine the Better,…
And Ivan the So-so.
Considering the rivers of blood spilled by most historical figures known as “the Great”, I’m perfectly willing to settle for “better”.
Will Cuppy on Alexander the Great: “When Alexander died, his empire dissolve and everything went back to being the way it was before, except that all the people he’d killed were still dead.”
And that, folks, is why any successful organization has a succession plan.
My character in Crusader Kings 2 is immortal. It’scovered.
Babe Ruth the batter.
Oh this is a cute and great strip. So next strip is gonna be about Joyce, huh?
Yes it is, Billie.
Yes it is.
If you can learn from your mistakes, you can be a genius….or no.
http://www.poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/learn/
Shooting for “better” instead of “great” is literally what you have to do.
“I will be a better person today, than I was yesterday,” is much more effective self-talk than,
“I will hopefully be a better person tomorrow, than I intend to be today”.
Ruth: Sooo… does your… bed… have a name?
Dina: I am calling it ‘Deina’.
Ruth: You’re giving it YOUR name?
Dina: *exasperated sigh* MY name, is ‘deena’. The plushie’s name is ‘deyena’. It’s short for ‘Deinonychus’. MY name isn’t short for anything. IT’S MY NAME.
Ruth: Yikes, ok, sorry.