Well Giselle, sweetie… you realised it on your own, so that is in your ‘advantage’ of being smart. Other than that: yeah, you’re pretty dense, kiddo.
But hey, you’re like, what, eight, nine?
The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
— Bertrand Russell
At least Giselle is willing to admit to being “dumb.” Everybody makes mistakes, it’s how we learn & grow, my problem has always been with those who let their ego get in the way of owning up to being wrong.
Here’s your chance, Giselle. Maybe your one chance. If you make the connection that Tommy was able to successfully lie to you because he was telling lies you wanted to believe against people you already believe are lower than dirt, you stop being dumb and start being wiser than most adults.
And Tommy is pretty nonchalant during all this, isn’t he? He is completely convinced of his own invincibility. The Trunchbulls did pretty much the worst job possible in raising him, didn’t they?
Woops, meant to talk about those with today’s update but it slipped my brain. I’ll have to make a mention on Wednesday.
But basically, I am going to have to find a new Like/Dislike plugin. The one I was using was messing with how the site shows up in Google searches and showing my wordpress admin bar to everyone who accessed the site, and disabling people’s ability to copy-paste URLs and have them show through as links. The plugin’s authors haven’t responded to my support requests about these problems in over a week, either, so I’m not gonna continue using it.
So Tommy told the other kids that she was lying, therefore causing even MORE tension between the two groups. Tommy really just needs a good ol’ spanking, if you ask me.
Nah, a spanking won’t get the job done. As much as I dislike making someone do charity work, this may be one case where forcing someone to work helping feed the homeless or distributing books via bookmobile might come in handy for a shot of humility.
(Disclaimer: I’m not saying charity is a bad thing. It’s making someone do it that I’m against. Except in a few extreme cases.)
RE: “Disclaimer: I’m not saying charity is a bad thing. It’s making someone do it that I’m against. Except in a few extreme cases.”
I’m with you on that. Using something as a punishment automatically makes the brain think that it’s a bad thing, so charity and community service as punishments reinforces the ideas that people should avoid doing those things. Now, making people do such things as school credit or to get something in return, that’s fine.
I may be the only one that remembers this, but in the 90s, there was a program being tested where they made the students do some kind of charity work of some kind or another before they could get their high school diplomas. The problem was that they sprung it on the students in the middle of the school year. I wasn’t in the proper grade to be affected that year but I argued against it on some really simple grounds.
1: It amounted to slavery. They were making the kids serve the community for free since they already did everything else needed to get the diploma.
2: Moving the goal posts by surprise like that is grossly unfair and only teaching them to get they want by playing an underhanded game.
3: If the community was worth serving, they wouldn’t need to force kids to serve them.
4: Not everyone feels good after doing something altruistic. No two people respond to the exact same input. Serving others can be emotionally draining and taxing and the person who finds it draining (like myself) shouldn’t be put in a position where they feel uncomfortable because some principal feels the need to stroke his ego.
Needless to say I was not popular in these arguments, but most people across the country seemed to agree with me because the program was shut down relatively quickly.
In our area all the students are required to complete a certain number of public service hours before graduation. They’re allowed to begin “banking” those hours during middle school though from what I understand. My son’s elementary school regularly reaches out to the local highschools for kids looking to “earn some hours” whenever we have an event that needs extra volunteers.
Given the variety of ways a student can fulfill their obligations I think it’s a great idea. Some of the smarter kids have used their volunteer hours to network for summer jobs or jobs after graduation as well as beefing up the resume for those planning on college.
Tommy Trunchbull may be getting away with it as far as the authorities are concerned, but he’s sure getting a nice reputation as a bully and liar among his schoolchums…
I feel like the odd man out in terms of the principal and this situation. I know that Selkie can not fully understand that he bent to the Bull’s tactics because of what had happened at the other school and what had happened to the other teachers all because there was a lack of solid evidence even though there was an abundance of eye witnesses. She really can’t understand it if it isn’t explained to her, but what about everyone else? Within the comic and readers alike. We all like to say that we can and will do the right thing but what if you knew that doing that would result in so many people losing their job along with you and the end results being no different with Truck getting away with the crime and victim still hurt or them and their family further bullied by the Trunchbulls?
My first thought about Giselle’s “Tommy said …” was that she had in the back of her mind “… and I’ll better believe it (or at least pretend) lest I’ll get beaten up too”.
I love how you’ve got the gears turning. Well done!
I’ve been playing Dungeons of Dredmor, had the sound clips from that in my head for that panel.
And her gears are even meshing, unlike these in panel 7.
https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie372/
😀
I heard the sound from the old Super Chicken cartoon, the one that they used after he drank his Super Sauce.
SuperChicken_YouTube
On the subject of goofy old superhero cartoons: Bananaman
The superchicken theme song is now stuck in my head.
Just CAAWWWll, for SuperChicken! bokbokbok-bahk!
Are they Coggswell brand Cogs?
NEVER!
Only Spacely Sprockets around these parts.
… Did you also have the Klutz spaceship building cards?
Omg whats the name of the comic your picture is from? I read it before but lost the link and name ;;..
Looks to me like Mike from one or more of Dave Willis’ comics.
Mike, from It’s Walky!, Dumbing of Age, and Shortpacked.
I wonder if Mike will speak out, since he shoved by Tommy.
Well Giselle, sweetie… you realised it on your own, so that is in your ‘advantage’ of being smart. Other than that: yeah, you’re pretty dense, kiddo.
But hey, you’re like, what, eight, nine?
She’s shown she’s terrible at supervillainy, so she might as well give up and turn good.
The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
— Bertrand Russell
At least Giselle is willing to admit to being “dumb.” Everybody makes mistakes, it’s how we learn & grow, my problem has always been with those who let their ego get in the way of owning up to being wrong.
And the light bulb goes on.
The ‘not a toy’ is a microphone, isn’t it? She’s recording the whole conversation.
Aaaaand we have a possible moment of clarity from the kids regarding Selkie and her temperature needs.
Yeah, she looks funny. Don’t gang up on the disabled (or different species, as the case may be) kid.
SO satisfying. I’ve been anticipating the fall of House Trunchbull for months now. 😀
Yep, they are all going to get suspended for attacking Tommy. There is no way the Principle is going to risk his job.
I hope to God this doesn’t turn out like the fall of the house of Usher.
Here’s your chance, Giselle. Maybe your one chance. If you make the connection that Tommy was able to successfully lie to you because he was telling lies you wanted to believe against people you already believe are lower than dirt, you stop being dumb and start being wiser than most adults.
And Tommy is pretty nonchalant during all this, isn’t he? He is completely convinced of his own invincibility. The Trunchbulls did pretty much the worst job possible in raising him, didn’t they?
It is there moments of dawning comprehension that I live for… 🙂
“…these…”
No image?
Aaand it’s back.
By the way, what happened to like/dislike?
They were temporarily disabled to see if those were the cause of some of the site issues Dave encountered.
Woops, meant to talk about those with today’s update but it slipped my brain. I’ll have to make a mention on Wednesday.
But basically, I am going to have to find a new Like/Dislike plugin. The one I was using was messing with how the site shows up in Google searches and showing my wordpress admin bar to everyone who accessed the site, and disabling people’s ability to copy-paste URLs and have them show through as links. The plugin’s authors haven’t responded to my support requests about these problems in over a week, either, so I’m not gonna continue using it.
You used this one?
https://wordpress.org/plugins/like-dislike-counter-for-posts-pages-and-comments/
That is exactly the one I was using, yes. The free version, anyway.
There are others, but those are basically just facebook plugins that allows users to comment through their facebook accounts.
Maybe it’s the Gravatar commenting system that doesn’t agree with the widget?
No idea.
So Tommy told the other kids that she was lying, therefore causing even MORE tension between the two groups. Tommy really just needs a good ol’ spanking, if you ask me.
Nah, a spanking won’t get the job done. As much as I dislike making someone do charity work, this may be one case where forcing someone to work helping feed the homeless or distributing books via bookmobile might come in handy for a shot of humility.
(Disclaimer: I’m not saying charity is a bad thing. It’s making someone do it that I’m against. Except in a few extreme cases.)
RE: “Disclaimer: I’m not saying charity is a bad thing. It’s making someone do it that I’m against. Except in a few extreme cases.”
I’m with you on that. Using something as a punishment automatically makes the brain think that it’s a bad thing, so charity and community service as punishments reinforces the ideas that people should avoid doing those things. Now, making people do such things as school credit or to get something in return, that’s fine.
I may be the only one that remembers this, but in the 90s, there was a program being tested where they made the students do some kind of charity work of some kind or another before they could get their high school diplomas. The problem was that they sprung it on the students in the middle of the school year. I wasn’t in the proper grade to be affected that year but I argued against it on some really simple grounds.
1: It amounted to slavery. They were making the kids serve the community for free since they already did everything else needed to get the diploma.
2: Moving the goal posts by surprise like that is grossly unfair and only teaching them to get they want by playing an underhanded game.
3: If the community was worth serving, they wouldn’t need to force kids to serve them.
4: Not everyone feels good after doing something altruistic. No two people respond to the exact same input. Serving others can be emotionally draining and taxing and the person who finds it draining (like myself) shouldn’t be put in a position where they feel uncomfortable because some principal feels the need to stroke his ego.
Needless to say I was not popular in these arguments, but most people across the country seemed to agree with me because the program was shut down relatively quickly.
In our area all the students are required to complete a certain number of public service hours before graduation. They’re allowed to begin “banking” those hours during middle school though from what I understand. My son’s elementary school regularly reaches out to the local highschools for kids looking to “earn some hours” whenever we have an event that needs extra volunteers.
Given the variety of ways a student can fulfill their obligations I think it’s a great idea. Some of the smarter kids have used their volunteer hours to network for summer jobs or jobs after graduation as well as beefing up the resume for those planning on college.
I like Selkie sticking her tongue out at Giselle.
Tommy Trunchbull may be getting away with it as far as the authorities are concerned, but he’s sure getting a nice reputation as a bully and liar among his schoolchums…
I feel like the odd man out in terms of the principal and this situation. I know that Selkie can not fully understand that he bent to the Bull’s tactics because of what had happened at the other school and what had happened to the other teachers all because there was a lack of solid evidence even though there was an abundance of eye witnesses. She really can’t understand it if it isn’t explained to her, but what about everyone else? Within the comic and readers alike. We all like to say that we can and will do the right thing but what if you knew that doing that would result in so many people losing their job along with you and the end results being no different with Truck getting away with the crime and victim still hurt or them and their family further bullied by the Trunchbulls?
Oh craps, figurds out too lates. Still glad she did work it out in her mind, better late than never. Also timing is everything.
My first thought about Giselle’s “Tommy said …” was that she had in the back of her mind “… and I’ll better believe it (or at least pretend) lest I’ll get beaten up too”.