In fairness, this one isn’t cropped - the artist didn’t include any signature deets. And they’ve linked to the original artist’s post.
That said, I’d also much rather the OP didn’t post at all than continue to remove artist credits like they do in other posts.
Both of their orders are wrong.
The first person’s doughnut (pictured) has a single grain on it, so instead of getting “hundreds and thousands”, they’ve got a “one”.
The second person’s order has been messed up in a more surreal way - instead of rainbow sprinkles, they’ve received a single sprinkle that isn’t actually any of the colours of the rainbow.
I think it may have been over-complicated by having two punchlines in the last panel. Either of them could have stood on their own but having both on the last panel takes some of the impact out of the punch. Also, having two separate strips about this shop messing up orders would help establish this location in the comic’s world.
And here comes the guy with unsolicited advice…
“I keep sleeping…”
And
“I keep sleeping with dead people”
Would work a lot better, because “sleeping with” is an actual euphemism for “having sex with”.
It’s probably worth mentioning that this doesn’t just stop at legislation. A lot of things in the UK are the way they are, just because that’s the way they’ve always been.
What’s the official flag of the UK? It doesn’t have one. The Union Jack was a naval flag that became our defacto national flag. Before WW1, people could have lived their entire life without seeing a Union Jack.
What’s the official national anthem of the UK? It doesn’t have one. God save the King / Queen is our defacto national anthem. It was a song that gained popularity and people adopted it unofficially.
OK then. What’s the official language of the UK? You probably guessed - it doesn’t have one. English is only the defacto language of the UK. In fact, the only official language anywhere in the UK is Welsh, in Wales (obviously), where the vast majority of people speak English as their first language anyway.
Seeing as you start the question with “In the show”, I can fairly confidently say no, Squidward is never explicitly stated to be a communist.
True!
Although, for a clearer comparison, it might help if I described what their normal food was.
From what I remember (it was about 20 years ago!), and ranked from their favourite to least favourite, the food mix consisted of:
I guess the closest food we have is dry cereal. If I just had a huge bowl of mixed dry cereal to communally eat from for the entire day, and then one day a whole lettuce was next to the bowl, I’d probably try to eat as much of it as I could before it was taken away too.
Ha, it reminds me of when we left our pet mice at my parents’ house while we went on holiday.
We showed them how much food to put in the food bowl, and said if they ever wanted to treat the mice, they could put in a little bit of lettuce or a slice of cucumber.
When we came back a fortnight later, we found all three of the mice looking healthy, doing normal mice things. My parents were concerned, though. They mentioned that even though they refilled it every day, the mice had barely touched any of their food.
This surprised me because normally they eat almost everything. This is by design - the amount we put in takes into account that the mice will eat the bits they like best first, but because it’s nutritionally balanced, they need to eat the other stuff too.
I wondered if the mice were unnerved or something by being moved into my parents’ house, so I asked if they ever put anything in as a treat. I was told, yes, and the mice always ate it all.
It turned out that I hadn’t been clear about what a “little bit” meant and they’d been giving them one or two entire leaves of lettuce a day. The mice weren’t touching their food because they’d been living a Willy Wonka-esque existence of having room-sized treats delivered to them on a daily basis.
I imagine “good for them”.
My kids are Anglican, they go to a Catholic school. Half of all students there are from denominations other than Catholicism.
There isn’t really any animosity there.
Could not agree more - Christianity is supposed to be about the teachings of Jesus.
The vast majority of the Bible is not about that stuff, but it provides context for it.
Jesus taught respect for others and unconditional love. Surprisingly, Penny Arcade probably summed it up in the most succinct way I’ve ever seen it phrased: "Jesus says “don’t be a dick” ".
Someone would have to be delusional to look at the people that Jesus mixed with and advocated for, and conclude that he wouldn’t have similarly defended the marginalised groups of our time.
Good catch! You are 100% correct.
I’ll update the message, but strikethrough the original so this still makes sense.
Wow, that’s a lot more complicated than I would have expected!
Our system, although it’s basically the way it is because things change slowly here, kind of works for us. Between 16-18 here, you’re no longer in school, you go to college (different meaning than in the US!) or vocational training. It’s an in-between child and adult stage, where most people start doing grown-up things for the first time.
But isn’t the age of consent 18 in the US? How does that work?
In the UK you used to be able to get married at 16, but the age of consent is 16, so it kind of made sense.
I don’t know why you posted that image, but I’m glad you did. I didn’t know about Quasimodox before - they’re fantastic!
The main image on their landing page is of Makoto, my favourite SFIII:3S character, so that’s 100 points before even entering the site.
I’ll admit, I didn’t know the Supreme Court had said that.
It’s an insane interpretation - and I see that many justices said so at the time.
I guess whether or not the writers of the amendment actually meant every able-bodied man when they wrote “well-regulated militia”, or whether they meant a militia, is impossible to know for sure.
But to say that the word meant something different at the time is patently untrue. Around the English speaking world at that time, local militias - with that specific word used - were used to keep order. It was a common word for an actual thing people would have been familiar with.
That’s half right…
Militias were always things that you joined and they had a chain of command. Just because they were volunteer forces, it doesn’t mean that they weren’t an organisation. The Peterloo Massacre (1819) was conducted by the local militia. They were all volunteers, but they operated as a paramilitary group.
“Well-regulated militia” literally meant what it sounds like today - a well-regulated volunteer armed force.
The amendment is saying that the government shall not prevent people from joining well-regulated armed militias. Which admittedly sounds terrifying to modern ears but, historically, armed militias helped keep the peace in the days before police forces.
It depends.
Are the people actually part of a well-regulated militia, necessary to the security of a free state? Or had the government spent the last century reframing that right as “any idiot can own a lethal weapon without training”, and as a result the people are a disorganised and easily-suppressible rabble?
There are worse places to live.
Don’t get me wrong, there are loads of better places to live, but there are definitely worse places.
America makes great animated series. It makes great movies sometimes too. Admittedly both of these things are usually actually made overseas, but you guys write them.
You also have a nice flag. Although you do kind of ruin it by being super weird about them.
You have really cheap petrol / gas. That’s definitely something you beat most of the world at. I think that’s the winner - cheap gas.
If masked vigilante crime-fighters count, I have a true story that might give you faith that there are superheroes out there.
This is before COVID.
There were a lot of homeless people in Manchester City Centre. There still is, but before COVID, it was more pronounced.
There was a homeless guy who used to sit in front of the building where I worked. On my way out of work, I used to grab him a cup of coffee and chat with him for a few minutes before heading off for my tram.
One Monday as I approached him I notice that snaking out from under his hat is quite a deep and angry-looking cut that had been stitched.
I asked him about it and he said some guy had come walking down the road attacking homeless people with a broken bottle. They’d all been taken to hospital, patched up and given antibiotics, but everyone was really scared now.
A couple of days later, he mentioned that the police have found the guy who did it. And ‘found’ is the correct word - the guy was lying by the side of the canal beaten to a bloody pulp. Apparently he’d been attacked by someone dressed all in black wearing a black mask.
So, I know for a fact that there is at least one person willing to put on a costume in the height of summer and beat up villains - I imagine there are many more.
Third’s the one with the hairy chest!
Oooh, you said the 愛 word. A million downvotes for you.