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tekende » pro 1 years ago
Oh man I've been searching for the teacher's edition for basically forever
fermatprime » neu 1 years ago
And what wouldn't I give for mint condition '96 1040s?

(I sincerely hope Onstad's lying about not making that dude up.)
quazifuji » neu 1 years ago
I have often wished I could get a second chance on my 1996 1040s. I have many regrets.

That man is a lucky man.
saulbellow » neu 1 years ago
But wait - what happens if you microwave cash? Only the internet knows...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwEa5A15-fs
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
Also, DOES IT BLEND?
drskradley » neu 1 years ago
For $400 I'd want that fucker to blend a CAR.
deusoma » neu 1 years ago
I've always wanted to see them put one of their blenders into a larger one and see if their own product will blend.
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
I always found it nice when the LHC is mentionned, it is the first time i've heard mainstream media talk about a high science experiment, except a possible cure for cancer/HIV or warfare. Even if we dn't find the Higg's Boson, i think it is worth it.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Meh... particle physicists have too damn much money. We need more for basic genetic research. These massive apparatuses are just getting out of control.
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
Well, i do agree, as a soon to be bio-chemist, that more funds should be invested in genetic research. But particle physics is by definition a money waster, since it harly develop any technology outside it's own field
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Exactly. Particle physics is cool and while I love science with no direct practical application much of that realm of physics is not likely to ever yield much. Basic level biology, however, might not have direct benefits, but it will have long-term benefits once other researchers use it to complete work with more direct benefits.
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
Yet, if they find the Higg's boson, it will be :awesome:
belgand » neu 1 years ago
They found Higgs the bosun though. Does that count for anything?
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
How about the Higgs bosom?
octafish » neu 1 years ago
That is on the bosun's wife.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I believe the better joke would have been to say it was on the bosun's mate.
coldfrog » neu 1 years ago
I do love the sailor's humor. Though it's even better since all three of our officers are female and they all are just as raunchy as the rest of us.
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
Why, that would be on heccibiggs.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
ZING.
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
Drunk as usual. What were they expecting to find?
shirt145 » neu 1 years ago
Yes it will be awesome. What would also be awesome is if you guys would quit apostrophe splicing the damn thing before it is even observed. It is named for Peter Higgs, not Higg. Even if it were HIS boson, it would be Higgs's. Has Achewood alt text taught you nothing? Y'all some Higgs bozos.
octafish » neu 1 years ago
Ahem...

Higgs' bosun.

That is all. We now return you to your regular scheduled programming.
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
(Boson.)
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
boatswain
pogo » neu 1 years ago
Quote:
Particle physics is cool ... [but] ... that realm of physics is not likely to ever yield much

Nah, just control of gravity, nuclear fusion, time travel, and blowing up stars.
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
Pogo, i can say that that more we study physic, the less any of these things become probable. The everyday benefits of studying physics are becoming much more sparse, while my lovely chemistry is more "open"
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Chemistry is merely the aspects of biology and physics that nobody else wanted to study so it got spun off. We both still have valid claims to our respective portions. Now politely keep doing it so we don't have to.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
Ya'll some scientists.
pogo » neu 1 years ago
I agree there's no hope for time travel on large scale, wolfie, except for maybe tossing some particle forward in time. But once the Higg's boson is indentified, control of "gravitons" will not be far behind.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
[IMGS OFF]
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
Lamed for having a ridiculous reason for laming.
shirt145 » neu 1 years ago
MMmhmm yeah open to making more old dude boner and high blood pressure drugs and anything else marketable to the wealthy, not cures for dengue fever or malaria. Also yes I am cranky today.
cpnglxynchos » neu 1 years ago
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
CUT CUT CUT CUT
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
Man, YouTube comments. YOUTUBE COMMENTS.

"makes me wanna play some tetris while smashing peoples heads in. in a good way of course..."
wrmeade » neu 1 years ago
The media talks about abstract science all the time if they can misinterpret that shit to make people think the world is gonna blow up.
twincannon » neu 1 years ago
Yo dawg, we heard you like blending so we put a blender in your blender so you can blend while you blend
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
[IMGS OFF]
hamscout » neu 1 years ago
jigga whaaat?
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
Yo dawg i heard you were pretty confused so we put encyclopedia's on the net to help you learn.

Did i get it right ?
doc_rostov » neu 1 years ago
No.

[IMGS OFF]
biff » neu 1 years ago
Fuck you for putting that motherfucker's face on this board.

Fuck You.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
How dare you speak that way about the Mustache of Wisdom?
biff » neu 1 years ago
Some motherfucker who thinks killing civilians in war is a good thing needs to be fed his own testicles.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
Tell us more about your feelings:

[IMGS OFF]
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
Aw, c'mon, you don't really mean that...

[IMGS OFF]
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
What if I dressed up like a pirate?

[IMGS OFF]
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
So you're just going to ignore me now, is that it? That's fine. I see how it is.

[IMGS OFF]
flazisismuss » neu 1 years ago
I ran out of chubbies, so let me congratulate you, Mr Elbow, on advancing the art and science of communication by using Mr Friedman as a series of emoticons. Well done.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
Thank you. I was hoping that Biff would respond further, because I had a lot more queued up. I'm just going to dump them all now, and you can imagine them being used in context:

[IMGS OFF]
Biff, calm down! Get a hold of yourself!

[IMGS OFF]
O RLY?

[IMGS OFF]
Shhh... it's okay.

[IMGS OFF]
Whew! Looks like you've got some WMD's of your own!

And finally...

[IMGS OFF]
NO U!
autrepoupee » neu 1 years ago
so are you a charter member of the thomas friedman fan club or what

because if so

he blows

**takes dramatic drag of cigarello**
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
I'm pretty sure that anyone who has been subjected to my political rants on here could not mistake me for a fan of Mr. Friedman. I am, however, a fan of his mustache and the effect that his visage produces on Biff.
autrepoupee » neu 1 years ago
just making sure, because he totally blows.

And yeah, this exchange lolled me up~!~!~ w2g elboxXx
miaou » neu 1 years ago
Seldom has the use of the word moustache/mustache been so prolific on a single webpage.

Too bad that Ctrl F does not consider graphical moustaches.
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
Yes, well done. Classic Absurdism.
<golf clap>
fermatprime » neu 1 years ago
Classic achilleselbow.

Also, I was very pleased to find out that I had enough chubbies for all of that.
tekende » neu 1 years ago
Who is that?
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
I don't know, but I love what's going on here.
awko » neu 1 years ago
I regret that I only had one chubby to give to Achilleselbow for that.
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
Some goofy looking douche who'll always look like a goofy-looking douche.
johnny_diamond » neu 1 years ago
He is the main guy in some country in the middle east I think, with crazy ideas about shit also.
irondave » neu 1 years ago
I'm pretty sure it's Paul Krugman. Land sakes, I don't think I've ever seen Biff so agitated.
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
Biff does not like the right-wing shill.
Chanting like the fool on the hill.
We'll look for WMD's, and we will kill.
We'll find those WMD's willy-nill.


Day after day,
Alone on a hill,
The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still
But nobody wants to know him,
They can see that he's just a fool,
And he never gives an answer,

But the fool on the hill,
Sees the sun going down,
And the eyes in his head,
See the world spinning 'round.

Well on the way,
Head in a cloud,
The man of a 1000 voices talking perfectly loud
But nobody ever hears him,
Or the sound he appears to make,
And he never seems to notice,

But the fool on the hill,
Sees the sun going down,
And the eyes in his head,
See the world spinning 'round.

And nobody seems to like him,
They can tell what he wants to do,
And he never shows his feelings,

But the fool on the hill,
Sees the sun going down,
And the eyes in his head,
See the world spinning 'round.



Biff does not like my shitty rhymes.
Not quite as bad as NY Times.
He cannot bear even having seen
The Mustached Mouthpiece of the Machine.
irondave » neu 1 years ago
Amazing the things people can get themselves worked up over.
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
You don't think it's a concern?
irondave » neu 1 years ago
What a writer for the New York Times (that I didn't even correctly recognize) thinks about anything?

No, I don't think it's a concern.
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
Oh. I thought I read in previous comments that he was a "main guy" somewhere O/S (which I interpreted as meaning political figure). Carry on.
irondave » neu 1 years ago
You did read that, but that was someone who was even more wrong about the subject's identity than I was.
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
This will be the last post that will clutter this flurry of wrongness.
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
Not if I do this.
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
Foiled.
puguglypress » neu 4 months ago
(Polite, subdued yet appreciative applause)
scorpio_nadir » neu 4 months ago
I really thought it was some hilarious sequence of posting by Master Elbow, but alas, we seemed to have lost biff thereafter.
And whaddayaknow, the Mustache is now the voice of Approval for the Obama administration.

That some goofy shit there.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
It's Thomas Friedman. Paul Krugman is quite the opposite of a war cheerleader.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
Holy fuck. I read From Beirut to Jerusalem not too long ago and I didn't even recognize the guy. The picture on the back of the book must've been from the '80s or something.
greyfield » neu 1 years ago
Thomas Friedman, NYT writer and mustache enthusiast, author of The World is Flat.
maximus » neu 1 years ago
Mitt Romney's hair often plays a disturbing role in my dream life
blastradius » neu 1 years ago
I look forward to the next Achewood strip in February.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
I was wondering where you were! Have a lame!
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
Hey, it's the guy I've come to refer to as First Post Lamer Guy.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
It's the guy I've come to refer to as Mr. Complainy Mouth Jones.
nerdinexile » neu 1 years ago
Y'know, he did totally call it.

Just sayin'.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
That's rather beside the point, I think.
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
If someone can eat a tractor, they can blend a car.
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
Alternatively, *Insert divide by zero joke here*
mkb » neu 1 years ago
jlynes » neu 1 years ago
SSI, you magnificent bastards.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
Wow that thing is scary looking.

In an unrelated thread, while doing a youtube run through things going into the microwave I accidentally stumbled onto "Goldfish in the microwave". I thought at first it was about a box of delicious cheese crackers, but no, it was an animal.

I started dry heaving even without actually having watched the video.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
Isn't YouTube supposed to take stuff like that down?

Or better yet, trace the fucker's IP and have the cops show up?
crumpetsandtea » neu 1 years ago
i am sorely dissapointed in youtube. it leaves videos of douchebags torturing cats, microwaving fish and burning bugs, but it bans my account for posting unlicenced "Traders" clips. that show aint out on DVD you know. Fuck.
falseprophet » neu 1 years ago
Those douchebags torturing cats were original content and they were in keeping with the egalitarian ideals of an internet where you can express yourself.

But stealing episodes of "Traders"? Don't you know that illegal downloading is just like raping your own grandma?

You sick fuck.
stereo » neu 1 years ago
Except that raping your own grandma is allowed on youtube.
cpnglxynchos » neu 1 years ago
itym 4chan. meh. splitting hairs, really.
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
Not going there for a few day. To hell with Boxxy
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
it is a waste of time, money, and effort to involve the police because a goldfish has died.
charchar » pro 1 years ago
Sometimes you just need to shred a mofo.

[IMGS OFF]
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
Is that an extremely belated handface pic? Wow.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
Whoah, I thought you were gone. I was sure your legacy would be just a bunch of Boo Diddlies forever floating back and forth throughout the distant archives.
charchar » neu 1 years ago
I missed you crazy mofos.

I guess it is a handface, but mainly I look good in that picture.
charchar » neu 1 years ago
I say "mofo" way too much for a tiny white girl.
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
You ain't no women, Florida.
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
How tiny are we talking, here? Like, scary tiny?
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
You know, if you are about 4 feet tall, you could do some quick buck at the cost of your physical and psycological equilibrium.
charchar » neu 1 years ago
This photo is actual size.
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
AHHHHHHHHHHH

AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I just imagined you climbing out of my screen holding a knife and grinning.
charchar » neu 1 years ago
I just wanted to share this cake with you...
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Really? You seemed much bigger to me. Actual size, believe.
octafish » neu 1 years ago
Squares may look distant in her rear view mirror, but they're actual size.
smilebuddha » neu 1 years ago
Does she have all the money money couldn't buy?
hamscout » neu 1 years ago
I heard she hit person man on the head with a frying pan.

...wait...
cpnglxynchos » neu 1 years ago
man, it's so loud in here.
wozzeck » neu 1 years ago
She's really just a man in a white dress.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
What's that blue thing doing here!
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
Something grabbed ahold of my hand. I didn't know what had my hand.....yadda yadda yadda.

I can never resist these but I'm not really feelin' it right now.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Ah! That's it! KILLIT!KILLIT!KILLIT!KILLIT!KILLIT!!!
pogo » neu 1 years ago
Quote:
I missed you crazy mofos.

This brings a tear to my eye, to be understood as both crazy and a mofo, and yet to still be attractive to barely legal women, that is what we all strive for, are you feelin' me bros?
irondave » neu 1 years ago
Strictly speaking, she didn't say anything about "attractive."

Creep.
pogo » neu 1 years ago
Strictly speaking, how can you miss something if it is not attractive?

Eunuch
charchar » neu 1 years ago
I am not attracted to you, Pogo. Sorry for the confusion.
Linguistic ambiguity strikes again.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I am intensely attracted to Pogo.
charchar » neu 1 years ago
Maybe you could give him a chubby? Dude deserves it.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
I think he already takes pills for that.
pogo » neu 1 years ago
No need for the pills yet, thankyouverymuch.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I meant electro-magnetically.

I think he has some sort of... device in his pocket or something. It's not natural.
crumpetsandtea » neu 1 years ago
insert device/pocket/chubby joke here
fermatprime » neu 1 years ago
insert chubby here
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
That's what she said.
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
psst achilleselbow fucks robots and some more advanced forms of office stationery no ti ssap
stereo » neu 1 years ago
You are the Fattest Man!


Congratulations
hal » neu 1 years ago
At wat point do you get so bored as to say "Fuck it. Let's blend a car, because we can."
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
Everyday of your goddamn life.
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
word. this is america. we just destroy shit in creative ways for the hell of it, all being compulsively impulsive.
anabanananana » neu 1 years ago
After watching The Brave Little Toaster millions of times in my younger days, videos like that make me depressed.
crumpetsandtea » neu 1 years ago
RUN

you watched it. you get it.
deus » neu 1 years ago
A small single AAA batteried fan could blend Chuck Norris.

No really Fuck Chuck.
cbtbone » neu 1 years ago
oh you are SO SCREWED!
deus » neu 1 years ago
*fhaa*

When i lie weak and immobile on my deatbed(natural causes i hope,far FAR into the future)

He will probably have enough guts to take a plane and a cab to the hospital, stand outside my room window and call me names before he rushes away, into the cab and tries to offer blowjobs to the cabdriver to convince him to ignore speed signs and red lights just to get away faster.


Fuck chuck, lets make facts about The Man With Blood on His Hands!
cbtbone » neu 1 years ago
Every night before he goes to bed, Chuck Norris reads through every message board on the internet for any derogatory use of his name. He then finds the poster's IP address and writes it down on his list of brutal beatings for the next morning.

(actually he just scans through 4chan and Something Awful. He can't get himself to read all that irreverent crap)
deus » neu 1 years ago
Chuck norris thinks internet is the work of the devil, and he wants mandatory prayers in school.

and thats no lie
puguglypress » neu 4 months ago
Oh man what a great Chuck Norris jok-

Oh.

OH.
crumpetsandtea » neu 1 years ago
i cried a little when they blended an ipod. i am poor
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
i can relate to that sentiment.
vermy » neu 1 years ago
Don't breathe it!
vermy » neu 1 years ago
Don't breathe it!
daidai » neu 1 years ago
pfah!

Microwave American money and it'll blend for you.

For instance, toss in five Jacksons and set it for 40 minutes and you're cookin yourself one smokin Benjy.

Never tried making alternative bills like a $19, but I'm sure it would work.
stereo » neu 1 years ago
If you throw in some nickels you can get a $1.30 bill but it's only legal at Burger King.
fuzzyshoo » neu 1 years ago
You can use them at McDonalds, because no one there cares what's happening.

Don't thank me, thank Anarchy!
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
Speaking of Burger King, did anyone catch this? They have a Facebook app where you "sacrifice" 10 of your friends (remove them from your friends list) to get a coupon for a free Whopper. Unfortunately it only works once. I shed 10 unnecessary college acquaintances and I didn't even have to touch the Assetbar people.

As much as I hate commercialism, a major corporation using a human sacrifice-themed marketing ploy is possibly commendable in some way.
odei » neu 1 years ago
Or a worrying sign of what's to come!
hamscout » neu 1 years ago
Announcer:
"What achilleselbow doesn't know, is that his free Whopper will be made from the 10 people he sacrificed!"

achilleselbow:
"Hey, how come my Whopper tastes like cheap domestic beer and failure?"
"Gawd! I'd sacrifice my mom for some fries..."
*pouf*
"Oh, there's my fries!" nom nom nom nom
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
Quote:
"Hey, how come my Whopper tastes like cheap domestic beer and failure?"


This....is a line that deserves immortality.
daidai » neu 1 years ago
The answer is: "because it is a Whopper"
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I have plenty of free Whopper coupons. Now I wonder what I can get people to do for them....

MUAAhahahaahahaaa!
pogo » neu 1 years ago
I will blend sj457 for a Whopper coupon.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I'm tempted to ask for cock pics with a sign saying "V-Chub", but I'm actually afraid that if I did that people would actually post them.
featurelessvoid » neu 1 years ago
[IMGS OFF]
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
Who would blend what now, pogex?
fuzzyshoo » neu 1 years ago
i have had whoper
fuzzyshoo » neu 1 years ago
also if you sacrifice an 11th friend you get a medium order of fries and a coke
johnny_diamond » neu 1 years ago
free refills? this is important
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Burger King has almost always had free refills. It seems that most fast food places nowadays do unless they're limited for space and in a mall or such and McDonald's rarely does. But Burger King and Taco Bell and such are pretty big on the whole "get your own damn drink" model. If they don't you might be able to just ask at the counter.

Not only do we rarely have fast food around here, but most of the places that do sell cheap food tend to only sell soda in cans at a markup ($1-1.50 a can on average). Even better places often only do cans. It's annoying as hell. I mean, the taqueria selling Mexican soda in bottles I can get behind, but so many other places are just seemingly dicks.
stereo » neu 1 years ago
McDonalds upsized drinks are only like 6 cents extra anyway, so if you need more to drink just order it.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
As horrible as Wendy's burgers are to me, I have to give them props for having medium sizes that are the equivalent of larges at other restaurants, so I only guess their large sizes are the size of SUPER AWESOME ULTRA BIG GULPS and that you can swim in them.
johnny_diamond » neu 1 years ago
i live in australia and it is the stuff of legend here that in the glittering jewel that is the US of A, medium cokes at macdonalds are equivalent to our large sizes. the same goes for our supersized, which equals the US large. i would like to think that this means australia is moderate and self controlled but i am sure the truth is we are just getting schisted. as one of the fattest nations on earth i doubt we would have any issue in washing down our cardboard burgers with even greater amounts of liquid carbonated sugar.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
No, it means that Americans are lardasses who don't understand the concept of "small" and whose average portions are at least 1.5x what any normal person needs to eat.

There is an Animaniacs episode where Dr. Scratch n' Sniff goes to the movies:

"I'd like a small popcorn please."
"We don't have small."
"Then I'll take a medium."
"We don't have medium."
"Well what do you have?"
"We have Large, Super Chubby, and Double Super Chubby!"
"Then isn't a large a small?"
"Uhhh... I have to go ask my manager."

He ends up getting a large, which he has to carry with both hands.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
While this is true, I have noticed that McD's, BK AND Taco Bell have smaller medium sizes in comparison to Wendy's. Maybe it is just me, I don't know.
stereo » neu 1 years ago
Well, that would explain why I always have to order the kids meal so I can finish my burger...
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
Why do you not eat stuff that can be measured in inches ?
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
Hey, Wolfensti, what do they call a quarter pounder with cheese in France?

(Or Quebec, I forget. Don't ruin this for me.)
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
We call it a "Royal with cheese"
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
oh please HAMSCOUT! Royal with CHEESE! The potential for BUGGERY is overwhelming!
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
Just try, funny little man
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
Have you seen a Quarter Pounder before?

Does it LOOK like a bitch?

THEN WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO FUCK IT LIKE ONE.
direbmem » neu 1 years ago
FAST FOOD, MOTHERFUCKER!
DO YOU SPEAK IT?
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
Warm, sloppy, delicious. I really can't tell!
stereo » neu 1 years ago
Gives you problems pooping...
hamscout » neu 1 years ago
*wake up* whaszzah?
>picks up assetbarphone< what, woodenteeth?
aww, just...
>pantomimes hastily replacing Henry VIII's hat with giant reggiano wheel.<
I'm tired! I'm trying to buy a house...
*falls gently back to sleep*
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
>woodenteeth goes back to playing charades with himself

>Is it a walrus?
>You're just terrible at everything aren't you.
thorfinn » neu 1 years ago
You know what they call cottage pie in France?
Hachis Parmentier.
http://pulpbard.wikispaces.com/
belgand » neu 1 years ago
But it's a drink! I need more because I'm fucking thirsty here. Gluttony doesn't really apply to drinks. Plus, if you're drinking diet soda you're actually consuming far fewer calories than if you were drinking juice or milk or something else typically considered "healthy".

A lot of juice is pretty calorically equivalent to soda.
stereo » neu 1 years ago
Calories aren't a bad thing

You need them to live
howl » neu 1 years ago
Also diet cola makes you want to consume more calories. I forget why this is, but it's definitely true I promise.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
Not to mention Nutrisweet, which'll put some holes in yer brain for ya.
notcool » pro 1 years ago
True...but I learned how to cook for a family of 5 , then learned how to cook WELL in bulk.

A small meal for myself usually involves over 5000 calories. I eat a lot of carrots and drink a lot of water in between binges.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
AMERICANS ARE FAT EVERYONE, TELL YOUR FRIENDS WHO ARE NOT AMERICAN AND SKINNY AND CULTURED
fuzzyshoo » neu 1 years ago
The Wendy's near me has incredibly tasty and cold -- nay, crispy Coca Cola.

It is the only thing I order there.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
I feel the need to mention once again that Wendy's burgers turn my poo green.

Nice-on-water: Wendy's burgers turn his poo green.
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
restaurants wouldnt lose money if they all gave free refills, but since this is capitalism, some dont.
crumpetsandtea » neu 1 years ago
CANADIAN TIRE MONEY!
*Americans think its our real money.
crumpetsandtea » neu 1 years ago
My money has the queen on it. And some hockey players, and a dude with funny hair! I love Canada.
drskradley » neu 1 years ago
What happens if you microwave a Nokia? The results will astound you, children, but do not look away...

Cell Phone in Microwave
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
In Australia it will result in you having minature sized cash. Like when you put chip packets in the oven and they go all small.

Just like old-times!
gormster » neu 1 years ago
Hell yes, I remember doing that as a kid! And then I would go, "Fuck, that was five dollars I could have spent on two and a half Magnums." Magnums used to be two bucks, but now they are like 3.50. Times have changed.
octafish » neu 1 years ago
Shit, magnums hadn't been invented when I was a kid. (Note to those unfortunate enough not to live or have lived in Australia a magnum is a pricey icecream on a stick).
salvar » neu 1 years ago
We have Magnums in the States too. Or... I know I've seen them before. Might have been in Germany, though.
odei » neu 1 years ago
We have them in the UK too. When I was a kid "do you want to be an astronaut or have a double caramel magnum" would have been a dilemma.
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
Magnum Ego. One of the main reasons for living.
hamscout » neu 1 years ago
Magnums in the US are oversized condoms.
This put a whole new taint on your story.
I was all ready to believe it, though--young boy all seeing the world in terms of condom prices...
Yeah, the Whopper was good, but it wasn't "Ten Magnums Good".
miaou » neu 1 years ago
Magnums in Hawaii are private investigators with oversized moustache.

[IMGS OFF]
He's ok. Watches AND cellulars were waterproof in the 80's.
jeffspaulding » neu 1 years ago
The real cover from Beef's Playgirl
jeffspaulding » neu 1 years ago
Apollo! Zeus! Wipe that smug look off his face!
miaou » neu 1 years ago
They can't - he's moustache-protected.
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
Moustache provided immortality and ninja killing abilities back in the 80's
Nowaday they provide embarassment and lack of intimate touch appart from maybe a flirty Barber
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Man, you kids and your Salmanazars!

I'd say that a Whopper is worth at least a Methuselah.
octafish » neu 1 years ago
Wait if magnums in the US are condoms, what will the americans think of our Golden Gaytimes?
[IMGS OFF]
They are delicious, but embarassing to ask for as an adolescent. You usually had to buy some straight porn as well to butch up your purchase.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
Looks like what we call a-- get ready-- roasted almond Good Humor bar. Gaytime, Good Humor: same thing basically, but they can mean oh so many different things.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
Australians must be much more secure in their sexuality. That would never be a name of a food in The States in a million gay years.
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
Please listen to Golden Gaytime by the Bedroom Philospher. I won't find it for you however. It is a hilarious comment on what degree Australians are comfortable with our sexuality.
octafish » neu 1 years ago
I just heard an interview the Bedroom Philosopher had with the inventor of the Golden Gaytime. He said that they originally wanted to put fudge in the Gaytime. No word of a lie.
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
Imagine the decades of horrible innuendo we've missed out on! The Entendre!
cracklewater » neu 1 years ago
Surely they originally wanted to 'pack' the fudge in?

A Fudge-packed Golden Gaytime. On Christmas day. On Bondi Beach.

Come on Aussie!
tekende » pro 1 years ago
A gay year is seven regular years, right?
farqussus » neu 1 years ago
That would be why sixty year old gay guys still dress like they are 23 ( nine years after they came out)
farqussus » neu 1 years ago
$6.49 for a four pack! What the hell is going wrong with the economy? This must surely be the catalyst! THAT'S OVER A DOLLAR A GAYTIME! I WILL NOT PAY OVER A DOLLAR FOR A GAYTIME!
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
You will have a poor quality Gaytime for under one dollar.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
For under a dollar a man will leer knowingly at you on the train. Two bucks if you want him to "accidentally" rub up against you first so that you are able to feel his hard cock pressed up against you. The imprint of it lingering for the rest of the ride.
octafish » neu 1 years ago
But I just wanted a biscuit (cookie) covered icecream. *sobs*
pogo » neu 1 years ago
But no fudge?
farqussus » neu 1 years ago
My last gaytime was circa 2003. Times are sad.
farqussus » neu 1 years ago
I mean Gaytime.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
I guess you have a lot of gaying to do, then. Get to it.
johnny_diamond » neu 1 years ago
did you ever hear those terrible icecream related jokes? no? well, here you go:

what were the two boys doing behind the ice cream truck? having a gay time.

what were the two girls doing behind the icecream truck?
licking their splits (a split is another australian icecream delight)
johnny_diamond » neu 1 years ago
man do i ever regret posting that.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I would watch the girls licking each other's splits and then slowly saunter in asking, "Hey ladies, looks like you need a banana to go with those."

Bow-Chika, Bow-Wow
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
That's awefully nice of you :)
smallblackdog » neu 1 years ago
Also puts a whole new taint on the line 'Do you feel lucky punk'?
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
...you said "taint".
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
Heheheheheh...

Wait! So did you!
belgand » neu 1 years ago
But he said it in quotes. That changes things. He was only referencing it.
farqussus » neu 1 years ago
i don't see a bibliography
belgand » neu 1 years ago
It wasn't a citation. None was needed.
tekende » neu 1 years ago
This article could be improved by moving relevant items to the main text and linking citations.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
OKAY FINE

---------
...you said "taint".[1]

References

1.^Assetbar. (2008). The Visible Heel of Adam Smith. comment 621. Smallblackdog.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Oh fuck Wikipedia. Bastards think they invented providing proper credit.
crumpetsandtea » neu 1 years ago
Australian money is made of chips? That is awesome.
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
The coins are little fish.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
Thomas' makes BAGELS?
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
nooks AND crannys?
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
I couldn't believe it either!
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
Alcoves? Are you sure this is the right word?
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
Alcoves! What news from the north?
thegoodwillgirl » neu 1 years ago
Plenty of alcoves in Bruges.
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
And noice, medieval bildins. with alcoves.

"They're makin' a Movie about Midgets!"
pogo » neu 1 years ago
What're we doin' in fuckin' Bruuuuuge!?
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
Dim-dims? Is this the word?
cpnglxynchos » neu 1 years ago
tim tams plus milo equals fun game called tim tam slam.

sip the heated milo through the tim tam and the wafer in your mouth before it falls into the milo.

good times.
good times.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Americans don't get Tim Tams. Fuck you Aussies!
cpnglxynchos » neu 1 years ago
i've never seen them in stores. i really want some now. bleh.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
There's an English/Irish import shop vaguely near me. I might need to head by there. I can probably find some along with some Branston pickle and HP Sauce. Damn. Now I want me a proper bacon sandwich pretty bad.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
Do they also have MP Sauce?
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Greg Barker is selling his own private reserve, but I think that's about it.
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
you need to mine for mana, silly
ozymandias » neu 1 years ago
Oh man I am so late on saying this I am so sorry but this isn't true at all. Target sells them. They sell them so hard.
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
they offer them in our country now(at least a year later).
notcool » pro 1 years ago
WHAT THE HELL ARE THESE WORDS DOING TOGETHER?

I know, KNOW there is meaning hidden somewhere in this array, but it sounds all Bill Cosby to me.
darkernorm » neu 1 years ago
That is Canadian money. I'm not sure if it counts.
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
Indeed, our money as a lot of denim in it. Also, different colour for different value. Yet, i tought that australia was entirely fabric, making it un-forgeable
drskradley » neu 1 years ago
If by fabric you mean nigh-indestructible and nigh-unforgeable polymer (the way it seems lots of countries are now wanting to go as well, including Mexico):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_banknote
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_currency#Polymer_series
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=YTggA4jVPj0

It's the way of the future, I tells ya!


(if you like old-school "How Things Work" kids' shows, you will like that video)
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
Ok now i have a total melancholy strike. Did you watch «Il était une fois...l'homme» wich would translate as "Once upon a time there was....man". It was a telling of the human history, both totally 80's while being educative. I don't know if it was translated in english or anything, but that is seriously a thing in my province.
drskradley » neu 1 years ago
Alas, your diacritics are bunk, so I don't have the luxury of knowing what you're talking about. Just Google it, IMDB it, and potentially YouTube it. Surely it'll be around the place.
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
I already found the DVD, first time Wikipedia is THAT helpfull
buyacanary21 » neu 1 years ago
yeah man, i could never get most of those business statistics problem sets. teacher's edition, there would be WORKED SOLUTIONS and everything! sweet manna from heaven, i could die a happy man.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
That breaks my heart.
drskradley » neu 1 years ago
You just gotta ask an irresponsible adult to get it for you, just like you were getting booze. They don't ask for your secret teacher's ID or anything.
stereo » neu 1 years ago
Just like ordering the cheap African/Asian textbooks from eBay. They don't care if it ships to an American address.
cpnglxynchos » neu 1 years ago
..but ain't you have to pay much money for shipping and all?
buyacanary21 » neu 1 years ago
don't cry for me, rowboat...the truth is i never took business statistics... </evita>
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
Thank God.
crumpetsandtea » neu 1 years ago
I took it and got an A biyaaaaaaaaaaaatch
Sorry. Sorry everyone
sncether » neu 1 years ago
This is a great strip. I feel like I was just handed the Achewood Teacher's Edition, fresh from the shelves of the book room with the corners still sharp, after spending a semester with "diagram of a cell" mimeographs.
blastradius » pro 1 years ago
A definite return to form. The break did do Onstad good.
dangelder » neu 1 years ago
My cockles are definitely warmer. It was creative in that good Achewood way, a minor classic.
jbushnell » neu 1 years ago
Always good to see Roast Beef doing something well. This could also have been four or five separate good strips, but that's a quibble.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
I hate you.
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
Eeeebony and Iiiiivory!

In perfect harmony etc.
drskradley » neu 1 years ago
I am confused as to this current turn of events. TGH is yelling and I don't know why. Where are my slippers? Damn it all!
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
THAT GUY SAID A STUPID THING.

Also, I wasn't the one who lamed him, for the record. I felt insulting him was enough. I'll take my lames but you all know it's true.
drskradley » neu 1 years ago
.....the stupid thing was claiming that the comic could have been 4 or 5 separate strips? Really? Sorry man, but unless I'm missing something, that's a bit of an over-reaction.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
It's a stupid thing to complain about something frivolous like that. Maybe it was a bit of an overreaction but sometimes you have to burn down your house in order to clean the carpet.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
Holy shit, I don't even remember saying that. That last sentence is fucking genius though.

Go me.
woodenteeth » neu 1 years ago
Yah. You seem a little on edge.
drskradley » neu 1 years ago
Everything cool?
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
A cursory glance at Facebook reveals that... Yes, it is as I feared. His girlfriend has stopped putting out.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
What? HOW DID YOU KNOW?

No actually, she had to go back home for Winter Break so...
pogo » neu 1 years ago
Find a whore, I mean, besides you girlfriend.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
HEY. Not cool, bub.
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
Of course its not cool, he's about a million years old.
pogo » neu 1 years ago
Yeah, but I got the new Graveyard CD and you don't.
stereo » neu 1 years ago
Here's an idea.


Read one row of panels a day.

Then get back to us.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
Finally someone gets me!
valrus » neu 1 years ago
He's just trying to get rid of you for six days.
cpnglxynchos » neu 1 years ago
game, set, match.
pogo » neu 1 years ago
Quote:
This could also have been four or five separate good strips.

You know, I have been saying that over and over, but today, I changed my mind. That's because I enjoy the discussions as much -- if not more -- than the strip. And if we only had a day to bullshit and hate on each other and post gnarly fucked-up crap from the innernets, that would NOT be as much fun as these multi-day cluster fucks. Am I right, men?
thegoodwillgirl » neu 1 years ago
I don't know if I'm allowed to respond to this, due to my lack of manhood, but I agree with you.

My penis would too, if I had one.
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
This being the Internets, you automatically have a e-penis. Use it wisely
thegoodwillgirl » neu 1 years ago
*has sex with a 12 year old, three asians, and another woman pretending to be a man*
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
Being the internet, i congratulate you for your spoils. Man points for the 12 year old
stereo » neu 1 years ago
Watch where you point that thing!

You could poke someone's e-ye out!
pogo » neu 1 years ago
Sorry, goodwill, I meant to add "and ladies," but I was too in love with my swearing and stuff. Thanks for agreeing.
tekende » neu 1 years ago
DiSaGrEeMeNt BoX
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Regicide was the case that they gave me.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I have actually been thinking that due to the hiatus maybe we should take a group trip back through the archives starting at the first strip.

Substantive posting only though (or humorous riffing off of what others have said). Let's leave the fun, petty stuff in the current strip.
farqussus » neu 1 years ago
judging by my inbox, people are way ahead of you
pogo » neu 1 years ago
Really? I'm going to go look, save my place.
tekende » neu 1 years ago
I have been doing this for several weeks. I'm about halfway through 2005.
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
2005 brings me a warm and fuzzy feeling.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
Dangit, I am not going back there. Pretty much all of my early comments were terrible and consisted of me being a pedantic and boring dick*. I was hoping that no one would ever see them again.

*This is an opportunity for someone to say something like "all of your early comments?"
ford » neu 1 years ago
*ahem*

all of your early comments?
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
WHAMMY!
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
I was drunk and feel terrible. Please lame this idiotic response, lame it to hell.
steev_dayv » neu 1 years ago
Baldur's Gate?
octafish » neu 1 years ago
Boo!
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
*Squeak*
sncether » neu 1 years ago
This is a great strip. I feel like I was just handed the Achewood Teacher's Edition, fresh from the shelves of the book room with the corners still sharp, after spending a semester with "diagram of a cell" mimeographs.
sncether » neu 1 years ago
Oh crumbs.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
It was a really great strip.
drskradley » neu 1 years ago
But was it this great?
crumpetsandtea » neu 1 years ago
fifty bucks dude. you have paypal, right?
cpnglxynchos » neu 1 years ago
i have to thread-jack here. sorry. i think this could be important. or i have to at least sate my paranoid tendencies.

anyone here near any military base?
if not, has anyone else noticed increased military air traffic?

i saw a group of four helicopters flying low to the deck and fast as the dickens in a perfect diamond formation past my house earlier. a second group passed by like five or ten minutes later. it isn't possible for the same group to have circled around and come back the same direction in that amount of time 'cos i would have seen their orbit.

it was weird wacky.

plz r/r. kthxbai.
drskradley » neu 1 years ago
Possible reasons:

- Drill
- Air show
- Everything you fear


I take (c). Is probably most basic reason.
irondave » neu 1 years ago
- Guantanamo detainees en route to new digs near you
- One World Government getting ready to assert itself
- 8 military helicopters conducting routine training flights

Calm yourself, please.
cpnglxynchos » neu 1 years ago
dang. it is worse than i thought.

they got the doctor. and irondave

ohhhh shiiiiiiiiit
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I am from the resistance. Come with me if you want to continue to correctly use the word 'abstruse'.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
Funny you should mention it, Cap'n. I was out smoking a cigarette on my balcony this mornin' when here comes two F-15s just cruisin' low right over my neighborhood like it was nothin'. No shit, man. Somethin's up.
deus » neu 1 years ago
I love legal tenderness.

deus » neu 1 years ago
And im a socialist.
lexsenthur » neu 1 years ago
One order of LTLC for the jerk at table 3!
deus » neu 1 years ago
HAHAHAHAH....uh what?
lexsenthur » neu 1 years ago
And wash your invisible hands before you come to the table. Ain't no tellin' where they been.
actualtaunt » neu 1 years ago
Man, that chick is definitely hiking my interest.
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
Ooh! She may be weary-
Young girls, they do get wear-eh!
Wearing that same old funky
Dress. Yes, yes, yes.

But oh, won't you try....
try..some legal tenderness...
Oh, my, my yes...
deus » neu 1 years ago
I feel a little cheap for getting chubbies for repeating concept on the achewood strip.....

then again keep 'em comming.
illgamesh » neu 1 years ago
HA! Silverfish! Ha HA!

saulbellow » neu 1 years ago
Did Onstad find silverfish in his cashbox after a pre-move garage sale? The alt-text implies this is primarily based in reality ...
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
Silverfish are fucking disgusting and weird and probably the man reason I'm never doing garage sales again.
sncether » neu 1 years ago
Just the silverfish? Sure it has nothing to do with, for example, attendees wearing hooded sweatshirts with a snack in the little kangaroo pocket? And here I am not thinking of things like trail mix so much as tuna salad, etc.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
Actually my experience with an all-day mass garage sale was not as horrible as moving boxes from storage and finding a swarm of silverfish.

They are so damn...unnatural.
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
Silverfish Rush?
sncether » neu 1 years ago
Yes, they definitely look like something Peter Jackson would sketch on the leftover wrapping from a Big Mac and then hand to the guys at WETA. Nasty.

I was moving some boxes at work one time and a big sucker spilled out the bottom. He was huge. Like a frigging novelty comb skittering around.
octafish » neu 1 years ago
Peter Jackson is mucho skinny these days, no more sketching ideas onto Big Mac wrappers for him.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
[IMGS OFF]
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
Oh ho ho, oh dear me.


"Is your kid mixed race"?
usversusthem » neu 1 years ago
Half silver, half cu-ca-ra-cha. Fuckin' bastard never called me back. *great pains to hold back tears*
drskradley » neu 1 years ago
Half silver, half cockroach, all bastard.
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
Quote:
Half silver, half cockroach, all

NEW ACTION HERO SUPER-SILVER-ROACH
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
SURFER?
crumpetsandtea » neu 1 years ago
Holy moly, when I lived in Russia, I swear to god those things bred in my bathtub!
thegoodwillgirl » neu 1 years ago
In Russia, bathtubs breed in you!
awksedperl » pro 1 years ago
Do 26-year-old women know who Yakov Smirnoff is, or is the structure of that joke now embedded in pop culture, inviting general use? Or, maybe you live in Branson. Handn't thought about that. Anyway, do tell.
thegoodwillgirl » neu 1 years ago
It's sort of just everywhere. I think that I know who Yakov Smirnoff is because of that joke.

In Soviet Russia, Yakov Smirnoff knows me!
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
In fundamentalist Iran, assholes attack gay guys.
catgrl131 » neu 1 years ago
In capatalist America, you watch Big Brother!
Hyuk hyuk hyuk!
thorfinn » neu 1 years ago
In Soviet Russia, cheezburger can has you.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
My girlfriend who turns 26 next week did not know who Yakov Smirnoff was nor was she able to recognize him by sight (I had to explain who everyone other than Stalin was on the Colbert Report's Cold War intro thingie the other day).

So in this case, at least, no. She was also not familiar with the joke because she uses the Internet like my parents do, but not even quite that often.

She's the kind of person who has five bookmarks and doesn't surf around for fun. I think the only people she knows online are people she knows IRL.
stereo » neu 1 years ago
Your girlfriend is clear evidence that the "six degrees of separation" theory is wrong.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
She's not good at culture. She didn't know Hendrix was black until a few years ago.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
Wait...seriously?
crumpetsandtea » neu 1 years ago
That's ok, for a while in the nineties I firmly believed Celine Dion was black.
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
Only her heart
greenkoolayd » neu 1 months ago
CFT(chubbied for truth)
i love you
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
I can't recognize him by sight either . . . .
I have to say, most people aren't such extreme internetters like us. Mot people my age use the internet only to go on Facebook, play flash games, research for papers, and watch an occasional Youtube video. They haven't heard of /b/, webcomics, or forums.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
No offense young one, but you're also from a different generation. He had already had his time in the spotlight and was becoming astoundingly annoying by the time you were born.

In Post-Soviet Russia, Smirnoff is more popular after 1990!
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
I'm not sure eight years counts as a different generation. I do know who the man is though. He's the guy who sells Oxyclean, right?
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
YAKOF SMIRNOFF FOR OXYCLEAN!

IN SOVIET RUSSIA YOU CLEAN OXYGEN!
thegoodwillgirl » neu 1 years ago
I'm not sure if it's the vicodin I'm on for my wisdom tooth extraction, or if this is legitimately funny, but I just laughed at it so hard that I thought I might stop breathing.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
I'm pretty sure it was the Vicodin, I didn't even think it was that funny.

(ok maybe a little...)
awksedperl » pro 1 years ago
I think it was because you love theguitarhero with the entirety of your vicodin-infused being.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Close enough. Generation is tricky, but in many cases the era you experienced childhood in seems to be the best rule to me.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
We were children at the same times, you know. Not the whole time, though. And my sister who is three years younger than me . . .we were children at the same times too, but not the whole time.
A generation is at least 10 years, I think.
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
i've always heard 15 years for generation.It allows most pregnant women to be in a different one than their daughter. Maybe not in India, but what the hell !
belgand » neu 1 years ago
OK, I think we need to deal with the fact that cultural generations are often very different from biological generations. A shift as small as three or four years can put you well out of step with other youth growing up. Trends are different and influences change.

Biologically though, yeah, it's closer to 15-18 years at a minimum. The problem there, however, is that you need to use an even wider range in order to take into account the births occurring from people in the previous generation over a wider period of time as well as their varying ages.

So let's just choose to agree that these are clearly two very different concepts and move on from there.
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
Okay. But three or four years is not enough to put you out of step. You can't even tell if anyone is four years older than you in college. In high school, all the different ages like the same music, same fads. Even in elementary school, sure there is still difference between fads and stuff, but they are still little kids. My brother and sister are fives years apart (22 and 16--he just had his birthday) and they are definitely the same generation, especially since my brother hangs out with people my sister's age, and has been for four years.

Cultural generations are a very subjective thing I think. But there has to be more difference than that.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
I think I've said this before, but it depends on when a cultural trend changes or a major event happens. 3 or 4 years makes a huge difference when it falls along certain lines like the divide between people who can remember what life was like before cellphones or the Internet and those who can't (I'd say anyone born more than 3 or 4 years after me probably can't).
sje46 » neu 1 years ago
I was born more than five years after you, and I definitely can remember.
You have a point, though. But I think we need a little more time than 3 or 4 years.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I've noticed that my girlfriend and some of her friends are a bit more out of step with me and that's only two years difference. I've seen this with other people in the range of three or four years fairly often.

It's not necessarily who you hang out with always, but there will be interesting differences in how you see the world and interact with it. It can be a lot more subtle.
wozzeck » neu 1 years ago
A generation is properly 20 years, the span between birth and breeding. Due to the rapid advancement of technologies and ever-changing fads/subcultures, a pop culture "generation" tends to be much shorter. My ex, six years the younger, and I nonetheless recognized far more of each other's pop references than otherwise. Of course, she was a precocious lass, and came from a part of the country which perpetually wallows about a decade behind the rest.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
If you watched a lot of Nick at Nite and read Mad's "let's reprint stuff we've had around forever" special issues quite a lot combined with reference-heavy programming (Animaniacs, The Simpsons, etc.), and classic rock radio you can actually be fairly conversant in previous generations as well. Not perfectly, but it is still somewhat odd at times.
boredom_man » neu 1 years ago
Yup. I grew up scared of the commies; people just four years my junior did not. There's some fundamental ways in which I observe and address problems that, despite my pacifistic politics, seem paranoid and reactionary to those even slightly younger than I, and they're probably in the right.

On the other hand, I can find my way to the grocer without a GPS, and then remember what I was supposed to buy there without calling my woman.
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
Is it rad to have Alzheimer, Boredom_man ?
boredom_man » neu 1 years ago
So, um, yeah. Good luck on your SATs.
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
We don't have that here. Thank you anyway
crumpetsandtea » neu 1 years ago
So answer me this then belgand, I am barely 20 which is closer to sje46's age, whilst my boyfriend is 27, which is closer to you, so this makes us a different generation? I mean, I may be biased but I dont think im dating an old man. Not to mention that the perception of generation is itself highly subjective and it depends on what you like, and what people around you like. There are many, many subcultures nowadays and I dont think that you can describe any one of them as belonging exclusively to a single generation anymore.

On a completely unrelated note, my boyfriend was also, until recently, my boss.
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
THEN WHO WAS PHONE ?
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
Wait, who was fired. Fix'd
crumpetsandtea » neu 1 years ago
I was fired. I was NOT fired for fucking my boss. Though i probably should have been.

There's been some... unsanitary situations created at the workplace.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
Yeah man, fucking in the workplace can become unsanitary, especially in a McDonalds.

Wait what.
crumpetsandtea » neu 1 years ago
you insult me, i worked at a print shop.
theguitarhero » neu 1 years ago
"/ sorry.

I'm assuming you didn't have sex in the workplace, although that would explain all these smudgy posters I've been getting.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
I think that on some levels there may be a cultural disconnect that arises from growing up in different decades.

It's not that you're dating an "old man" so much as, say, someone on one side of Gen X and someone on the other side of Gen Y. It may only be a few years, but the border is still there. Borders are often tricky things like that.

I have something like that with my girlfriend and she's not even two years younger than me.

It is a very subjective and difficult thing, but, in general, I think that we tend to place generations, from a cultural perspective, as being far too long at the present.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
My girlfriend is five years my junior. The only noticeable differences between her and I are that she listens to a bunch of indie bands that I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole and that when things are bad she sometimes forgets that they will eventually get good again largely because nothing that happens could possibly matter, ever. But in a lot of other ways, she is much more mature than me, so even those differences are pretty offset.

Also, I think that upbringing factors in much more than moderate age differences ever could. We were both brought up by single parents in the lower middle class. Because of that we see eye-to-eye on most real-life issues.

In the end, I just don't think generational differences matter that much.

That's right, Belgand - I disagree. Predictable, I know.
crumpetsandtea » neu 1 years ago
See, that is another problem I have! We have nothing in common in terms of upbringing... He was brought up by a nice, supportive middle class jewish canadian family, and I am russian with crazy ass drunken atheists for parents!
pogo » neu 1 years ago
Crumpet my child, you have no idea how short this unbalance relationship will be, or maybe you, and who cares? As for generations, in anthropology, they are about 20 years, but in American, we are all in the Rock'n'roll generation, far as I'm concerned. We all smoke dope, fornicate like rabbits, and don't give a damn about anybody else.
crumpetsandtea » neu 1 years ago
well i kinda give a damn about my old man boyfriend <3
crumpetsandtea » neu 1 years ago
All I know is, if I make a fart joke and he laughs, I have nothing to worry about in terms of a wide maturity gap.
crumpetsandtea » neu 1 years ago
(aside from the fact that in russia yakov smirnoff is actually not popular at all)
stereo » neu 1 years ago
In Yakov Smirnoff, Russia is unpopular!
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
Man, I never have riff raff at garage sales, it's mostly just weary-looking mothers dragging along kids rooting through boxes of junk on a Saturday afternoon. Basically what my childhood garage sale experiences were (me, my mom, some aunt or aunts or family friend with their respective brood) are what I usually encounter.
sncether » neu 1 years ago
And after these outings, did you ever retire to the park with your mom and aunts and tuck into a nice ... tuna salad sandwich??

No but I think you're right. The average garage sale patron is what you're describing: Families in station wagons, the neighbors ambling over from mowing the lawn, kids on bikes, enough silverfish to fill a grocery bag ... but it's the crazy weirdos who stick in your mind, and come back the next day looking for the rest of the set to match the chipped teacup you sold them.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
I don't tuck; I dive.

Garage/yard sale days were fun and non-threatening at best, if you planned your route correctly and could stop at the ice stand before going home and looking over your useless loot. I never remember weirdos but it's possible I just accepted them as part of the environment. In fact I'm sure I did. There were weirdos everywhere where I grew up but I never regarded them as weirdos.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
I don't know how common this is elsewhere, but in the numerous rural areas of my state there are small towns that just up and turn into one huge door-to-door garage sale for one day each year. These are glorious days filled with smells that will surprise you.

No silverfish, though. We have house centipedes.
[IMGS OFF]
hexjumper » neu 1 years ago
GLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH I HATE THOSE THINGS
thegoblins » neu 1 years ago
Sweet sodoming frogs, that thing is beautiful.
eikre » neu 1 years ago
I am forever astounded at the continued unenlightenment that grasps forever those gentleman who haven't yet the pleasure of meeting man's greatest achievement in the areas of arthropods.

Honestly, it's been over two centuries since the great R.R. Mallory published his practices of individualized miniature servitude and the Crete Vat-Birthing Institution was chartered. I do realize that his exposure has suffered under the fine grind of time, but even excusing the loud defamation that we owe to those damned Evolutionary Naturist, you would think that Mallory's Marvelous Domestic Insectovorian Patrol would have attained ubiquitous deployment in the houses of the civilized world. After all, we've managed to electrify the entirety of the West -- Cultivating so-called "house centipedes" is much easier than laying all that wire! And nothing can please a mind that likes to see things in their place more than searching those damp, dark areas and finding a neat little S. coleoptrata humbly on the lookout for the next household pest up for extermination. Why, if only the common people of America could just get over their strange preoccupation with how "icky" they are, we would be naught for even a mention of the outmoded silverfish!
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
I know, I know. They are A-1 badasses. Don't think I don't appreciate the fact that I haven't seen a living cockroach in any of my apartments in the last decade. I know it's not a mistake. I know these guys are rulin' the roost down there.

Still, I can't help but recoil a little when I find one. They're just....just too badass.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
My friends all freaked out one day when one crawled up from behind my friend's bed in his dorm, becuase apparently centipedes are poisonous? Or whatever bug it was. Never heard that in my life; maybe the city pollution internally fumigated the bugs by me growing up. Long story short, they were all too afraid to kill it. I don't get how anything smaller than a tarantula scares people, except bees and whatnot, but even those, just don't bug it (no pun intended) and you'll be fine.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
They are without question poisonous as all hell. That's why they're such efficient killers. They're brimming with the stuff. In the rare instance that they bite a human, I've heard that it's not much more than a bee sting.

Still, I grant them a wide berth.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
Fie on them! Pfah! Little shits.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Yep. They're venomous (poisonous is not quite the correct term), predatory carnivores. You don't see centipedes that often in most parts of the US though.

Millipedes, however, depending on where you live those aren't terribly uncommon. They're totally benign though... just scary as hell.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
Maybe it was a millipede then. SHRUG
stereo » neu 1 years ago
Silverfish are sexy. I gotta be honest I wish I had one for a pet. Sadly this climate is too chilly.

Yet another reason to move to SF!
belgand » neu 1 years ago
You're wrong there. It's cold as hell here most of the time. Summer? Summer here is a cruel joke where the temperature is lucky to rise above 65. That is, not including the fact that the summer is usually very foggy and that if you're ever not in the direct path of the sun it's usually ten degrees or so colder.

It's basically always in the 60s here. Winter is low 60s or high 50s and Fall (which is actually our Summer, since Summer is astoundingly cold) is closer to high 60s and occasional low 70s.

We have occasional spurts of actual summery weather about a dozen times a year or so and everyone complains because 75 is apparently way too hot for them.
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
it is -22° celcius up here without the wind, But we got a hotter summer than you ? Where de hell are you living ?
belgand » neu 1 years ago
San Francisco.

It's nice when the winter is never particularly cold. I mean, it gets cold, but it's usually more like chilly Autumn than Winter. The problem is that it often doesn't get much warmer than that. It's pretty much eternal Autumn and Summer is one of the colder seasons because of all the fog. The hot inland air hits the cold coastal water and we get fogged in. But at least we don't get rain outside of late Autumn/Winter.
wozzeck » neu 1 years ago
50's-60's is not cold as hell by any measure, not even if you have a vagina. Gah! Californians!
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
indeed. We're stuck with 3 mont under 0 farenheit. SOme people don't know their luck
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Hey, I'll gladly agree that winters are a lot better than before I moved. I no longer have to put up with the horrors of snow either. At the same time it's a trade-off where you're going to be chilly all the time and you'll need to own a summer coat.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
No, I'll agree with you in principle. We don't get snow, but we do have pretty tremendous windchill most of the time and as soon as the sun starts dipping in the sky or you're on the shady side of the street it gets notably colder.

The winters are nice. I mean, it's not Southern California nice, but it's better than living someplace with actual cold weather most of the time.

The problem is when you have to keep your heat on during the summer. It's not so much the coldness itself as it is the cognitive dissonance. It's supposed to be warm and pleasant outside, but instead you're bundled up in a coat and sometimes you don't see the sun for a week because of the fog.

If anything it's more than it's consistently cold. Plus, well, once you get down to a certain level it's hard to get much worse without turning scary cold to the degree that you're afraid of going outside. There's a lot less difference in how it feels between 32 and 55 compared to 55 and 72.

Well, and I hate cold weather. I like it to be closer to the 80s most of the time. I should be able to wear shorts all the time. Instead my shorts just sit in the dresser all year mocking me.
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
at 32 i'm in T-Shirt. Man up a little.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
I have to agree. I wear T-shirts year round, including during this cold snap that's about to hit us.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Oh, I do that too. I just never leave the house.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
Then how can you complain about the temperature when you're in a climate-controlled environment? YOU SON OF A BITCH HOW DARE YOU HAVE OPINIONS AND PREFERENCES
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Well, before I moved recently I had no control over the climate. The thermostat was in our neighbor's portion of the house.

Now our bedroom is just rather drafty due to really old windows in there that keep out neither wind nor noise. Like last week when some people next door (not the next apartment, but another building) had a rather loud party. I asked them to please keep it down after my girlfriend went to bed at 1 AM or so, but sadly more drastic responses were needed in the end.

Amusingly related was how as I was returning from asking them to be a bit quieter someone drunk decided to piss on my girlfriend. Or more appropriately, at her. As she reports it she heard a rain-like noise and opened the window shade to find a dude with his rad chillies in hand micturating upon the window from above her (our place is just below ground level in back where there is a parking lot). Apparently he didn't realize it was a window. Still doesn't excuse pissing on someone's house when you're standing right next to a party. I was a bit upset that she didn't make a disparaging remark about his wang, but he was apparently embarrassed regardless.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
Someone drunk enough to pee on a window had enough sense to be embarrassed? Must not have been very drunk.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Yeah. It's kind of below ground level though. There's one of those little concrete retaining walls and a small ditch then the window so I don't think he knew it was a window at all. Just a building. I mean, despite it obviously being a window and having bars on it and everything.

Still enough of a dick to piss on a building.
rowboat » pro 1 years ago
I can't begin to count how many houses I've pissed on while standing right next to a party. Don't think I've ever pissed "at" someone's girlfriend, though.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
But why? That's the sort of thing that means you deserve to have someone hit your erect cock very hard with a whiffle bat.

Just go inside. Don't piss on someone's house. At the very least piss on the house where the party is being held if they are the same sort of people.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
I don't get this: my friend has several times pissed in a parking lot or something, not even drunk, just after leaving a store or something, and I totally don't get it, because he won't use the bathroom in the restaurant or whatever because it's dirty but he'll whip his monsieur in the middle of January in a Dave and Buster's parking lot (we got dragged along) and let loose. I can't get on board with public urination, uromysotisis or not.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Monsieur is a nice term, but I initially read it as, and prefer, Monsignor. Plus, if there's a hat involved it's also a bit closer in terms of looks.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
Now I gotta take stock. Monsignor is good, but what about other church staff terms? Vicar? Pastor? Reverend? Then think about modifiers: the ol' vicar, the naughty revered etc. It's a can of words going down a slippery slope.
irondave » neu 1 years ago
Bishop. As in "Buffing the Bishop."
belgand » neu 1 years ago
That is an established term.

Still, "appointing the Deacon" has a certain ring to it. Just as much as "hoping the Vestry gets to see the inside of her Narthex"
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
Exactly, let's get some new euphies out there.

"Confessing to the father"?

I'd kneel in HIS confessional.
stereo » neu 1 years ago
I'd erect a steeple in His honour.
tekende » neu 1 years ago
I'd fuck that choirboy.

Wait, I don't think I did that right.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
It's hard to tell. Is he on his knees bleeding profusely from the rectum? That could mean you either did it very right or very wrong. It's wide open.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
If it's wide open, then you did it right.
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
It's wide open? Then you did it right.
achilleselbow » neu 1 years ago
I AM THE MASTERRRRRR
belgand » neu 1 years ago
[IMGS OFF]
wolfensti » neu 1 years ago
This need so many more chubby
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Eh, it's not an original. I've seen it around many times before and heard the phrase even more often.
i_love_kate » neu 1 years ago
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Beaten fairly chubby.
lateadopter » neu 1 years ago
belgand, dude, if you want it to be 80 all year 'round, just move to San Diego.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
The problem with that is that I'd then have to live in San Diego. I'd rather just live in San Francisco and complain.
stereo » neu 1 years ago
Cold is when your snot freezes into icicles. 50s are not cold. 70s are not cold.
nice-on-water » neu 1 years ago
Now that I think about it, San Francisco might be the most pleasant place to live weather-wise. 50s-70s is my Temperate Zone of Pleasure.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
70s are not really common. It still feels like 60s.

I'd say that it feels like late Autumn year-round getting significantly colder as the sun sets even on warmer days. Nights, even on warm days, are always cold. Restaurants with outdoor seating normally have heaters because otherwise nobody would sit there at night ever. No warm, pleasant summer nights at all.

You're a sick deviant. I need 70s to 80s and even when I've been in the middle of say, a mid-summer Kansas heat-wave in the 100s I haven't had a real problem with it. Yeah, it's hot, but you have air conditioning and it's not a big deal. Better it be blazingly hot than slightly chill.

Still, at least it's never really cold and we don't ever have that horror of horrors... snow.

On a warm day it is beautiful and amazing and you love that it's warm and sunny in the middle of winter. But then you get a cold, foggy summer where you just see grey skies all week and it's in the low 50s with a lot of bitter, damp wind and you start to believe that there must be a god because he obviously hates you.
stereo » neu 1 years ago
I'm uncomfortable above 80, and 90 is "hide in the shadows" weather.
flazisismuss » neu 1 years ago
San Francisco in the summer is quite cold, at least subjectively, but it's really easy to get somewhere toasty on the weekend if you want. In the middle of July you can get on BART in the city at 59 degrees and get off in the east bay at 105 degrees. That's kind of fun.
belgand » neu 1 years ago
Yeah, if you go to the East Bay or down near San Jose or such.

Going out to the water park in... Concord(?) on BART and then coming home to chilly fog and no sun or spending a day down at Great America near San Jose is just... it's weird.

It is, however, rather refreshing. Like you just stepped into a big pool. Providing it's not too cold and you get back before dark.
tucky » neu 1 years ago
Both are DAMNED cold. 80 to 100 is prime, and up to 110