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TODD (VO): Excuse me, folks?
TODD: Could I ask you to keep the conversation to yourselves, please?
TODD: We're trying to absorb ambiance, not ignorance.
MARI: You know, Theo, I’ve always found it grossly distasteful when people feel like they need to interject their opinions into the conversations of others.
THEO: I agree. Crass and classless.
KAREN: Hmmph!
SELKIE: Is... is this a fight? It feels like a fight, but there's no yellings.
AMANDA: Uuuugh, adults always do things the BORING way.
TODD: Could I ask you to keep the conversation to yourselves, please?
TODD: We're trying to absorb ambiance, not ignorance.
MARI: You know, Theo, I’ve always found it grossly distasteful when people feel like they need to interject their opinions into the conversations of others.
THEO: I agree. Crass and classless.
KAREN: Hmmph!
SELKIE: Is... is this a fight? It feels like a fight, but there's no yellings.
AMANDA: Uuuugh, adults always do things the BORING way.
To paraphrase Harold Zoid, "For the love of god, somebody throw a chair!"
Amanda has the right of it. But we kinda have to, them pesky fines are such bull.
I can’t lie, there’s some people where the fine would equate to “It’s worth every penny!”
Ohhh snap, Todd. Nice burn.
This could be an educational moment for the two sisters, an intriduction to the high art of fatal snark.
well children, one day you will learn that sometimes it’s using icy calm that gets the point across.
Contrary to what Sue and Kathryn may have taught you, girls, violence does not solve most things!
But what about Maxim 6!?
If this has been Wisconsin, someone would have thrown a chair, I promise.
I went to go pick up an order from a local tavern and as I was waiting for my order, this woman came in, she was wearing a mask (so was I) and this drunk at the bar started to berate her.
I have no idea why he didn’t do that to me, but it’s probably because I was a man and bigger than him. Bullies tend to look for easy Mark’s.
I didn’t say anything at the time, but later I called up and talked with the owner and told them I was very unhappy that their employees were allowing this kind of behvaior at their establishment.
Maybe I should have said something at the time, but I’ve no inclination to get involved in that nonsense.
As Todd is a white kid of black parents, I have no doubt this is a familiar situation and an often-used response, unfortunately.
Amanda is right! Any fight that ends without an eye missing is boring.
It’s all fun & games until somebody loses an eye.
And then, hey, free eyeball!
Hey thanks for answering me last update, people usually don’t. Yeah that horseshoe thing goes without saying, it doesn’t matter what political side that you claim to be on, you are the exact same type of asshole, and using progressive movements or whatever you want to call them as an excuse to be terrible to people doesn’t excuse excuse you from being terrible, it just makes you even more so. Hey I’ve been really pushing the reverse sjw term that I came up with recently, does anyone want to use it?
I mean no offense, but ‘SJW’ is already such an ambiguous term (due to different groups meaning it to use very different things, along with some people throwing it around just for trolling), that basing another term on it might be ill-advised.
To elaborate further on the use of SJW: I’ve often had to read some of your comments on other comics twice to understand what you were trying to say, because the first reading (with the definitions of SJW that I’m more familiar with) didn’t seem to match your intentions… and, judging by some of the responses you got, some other people seemed to have the same problem but didn’t doublecheck.
Looks like we’re not QUITE at the “What are you saying about my sister?” stage yet. I get the impression Amanda will be very good at ripping people new ones, may she always use this skill for the betterment of peoplekind.
This is the eventuality I was hoping for.
Sigh I KNOW they are doing it the correct way, but the Jersey in me wishes they’d throw hands just a little…
If not hands, then throw around some plates, at least! right?
The Smiths are too Midwestern to indulge in “Coastal Nonsense” :p
I’m calling you on “Coastalism!” …not that there’s anything Wrong about the Midwest, per say…. some of my best friends live there.
This is how you nicely tell someone to shut the $#%# up.
But Todd is the one interjecting into the conversations of others… literally. There’s no ambiguity there. Nobody else was talking about sarnothi. That was their own conversation.
Appropriate and collected. Love it. Though I would’ve loved someone to toss a plate at Karen and Kevin’s heads.
How appropriate that strip #1488 is about bigotry…
Dammit. Wholly unintended. Christ…
I love this fantasy world where the ignorant assholes actually shut up when they’re properly told off.
Can I come live in it? (sigh)