Oh, shit! That’s exactly how I got COVID back in ’21. I wear a mask everywhere in public, *except* at my desk at work, and the jerk comes in, KNOWING he’s sick, but not wearing a mask anyway, and spreads it to me and at least one other person. I. Was. Pissed.
the infection-to-symptom timeline was precisely a two-week timeframe bookending the convention, so I am prolly one of THOSE people ? but, Schrodinger’s COVID doesn’t test positive until a doc says it is, so it was unavoidable ? (I did thoroughly mask while there anyway, and the two closest to me the whole time haven’t shown signs of infectiobn)
I got ya beat, unfortunately, I went to the medical clinic, and when I was in a very crowded elevator, some moron climbed over the top of me in order to reach the buttons came home with Covid the next day.
Reminds me of kids that would brag about their perfect attendance in school when they would come in sick and get everyone else sick. I wish our culture had more of a respect for not getting others sick just in order to make yourself look good (aka never missing work or school, or hate how masks look on themselves or complain about how masks feel). I do have to say that I don’t like how most n95 masks don’t stay on my head with their behind the head bands unless I have my hair tied up tight. They just slip down and sometimes take my glasses out behind my ears with them. I know that my hair has no body to hold stuff up by itself but you don’t have to prove it.
GoodbyBallad
We also need more respect for not forcing ourselves to work when I’ll for our own sakes. Never missing work, even when really ill, is not something to boast about, and missing work because you’re ill is not your fault (despite what some bosses seem to think).
eh, whatever
kids that would brag about their perfect attendance in school
*European culture shock*
Yet_One_More_Idiot
I live in the UK. There was a kid in my class in Year 11 (a friend of mine, in fact) who did exactly this – bragging about his perfect attendance record as he was looking almost dead on his feet. I asked him if he was feeling okay, and he admitted he had chicken pox. I was the only other kid in the class who’d ever had it (there’d been an outbreak of it in my primary school), so EVERYBODY ELSE (the teacher included) gave him the widest of fucking berths for the next 2 weeks because he refused to just go home and be sick.
Decidedly Orthogonal
That seems to be as much a symptom of celebrating attendance as the person’s own illness. Maybe what we should do is celebrate the kids who miss x number of days due to responsibly taking sick leave. (Dr’s note req’d)
Rose by Any Other Name
… I am recently annoyed with someone who bragged about their perfect attendance, but it is not my story to tell, so I cant share it here.
But yeah, I find that cultural thing really upsetting.
Decidedly Orthogonal
It’s one thing to share the story, it’s only an issue when the person is named.
I had Covid that lasted around 12 days at the beginning of the year (I had completely avoided it until then), and I never experienced that loss of taste at all.
Michael Lanting
I didn’t lose my sense of taste either when I got it, but for one day some things tasted different than normal.
Rose by Any Other Name
Covid hits everyone different.
Neither my wife, nor I, nor our kids lost our taste.
My symptoms were nasty cold + mild fever + wracking whoopy cough.
My wife had mild cold + foot rash + scar tissue in lungs with no cough or fever.
Kids had mild sniffles, one had a mild fever but the other had no fever.
From purely anecdotal evidence, repeat infections seem to give an individual the same symptoms as their first round (the terrible cough for me, the foot rash for my wife, the loss of taste for Ana, and similar reports for others I’ve talked to).
I still contend he guessed, which is different and slightly better than lying. like eenie meenie minee moe. There are only a certain number of residence halls and he picked one. I will die on this oddly-specific hill!
sorry, I shouldn’t have said that. the “I guess” part, when you’re guessing it’s vitally important not to say it’s a guess.
Max
I’m now trying to figure out how that would work. Maybe there’s a bag involved to catch the fart? the mechanics of it don’t seem to work very well. It also depends on what a fart is made of. I always assumed it was pretty much just air. Then there would be nothing to eat. You’re just breathing it in. Maybe if you collected a bunch of them together and condensed it into a solid or a liquid. That would be one of the weirdest and most disgusting science experiments ever.
The sort of desperate lie you concoct when you’re woken up in the middle of the night by someone who won’t leave you alone until you find them some answer. I was going to guess Carla might learn a lesson about waiting at least until the crack of dawn to raise hell, but clearly no, nothing so practical.
Aura
Middle of the night? It was light outside in winter and by the time the short conversation finished it was time for Walky to get ready for church. I’d say like 8am or later, maybe 7:30 at the very earliest. I’d still say it’s obnoxious and selfish (especially on a Sunday), but nowhere near as bad as people keep implying.
I think it was more like 5, cause Lucy is definitely so eager to go to Church with Walky she got there way too early And church is way too early to begin with if you’re used to sleeping past noon on weekends. Everyone in the scene is way too tired to be nice or even coherent, and I sure don’t remember there being daylight.
I’m not saying it’s bad though, just that I understand why Walky wouldn’t care about anything more than saying whatever it takes to get back to bed immediately.
HueSatLight
It’s a couple of days after Dumbing Day. Sunrise in Bloomington, IN today was 7:55 am. The fact that we saw the sunlight probably means that Carla did wait until the crack of dawn. I’m not saying she’s the most considerate, but she was considerate enough to wait until sunrise.
Mark
Indiana is so far west that it should be in the Central Zone, but observes ET not CT, so sunrise is later than you think.
Eh, IMO, Walky’s the least-bad non-Charlie person in that whole thing.
Carla and Booster were both being obnoxious – I think Booster was worse than Carla since they insisted on winding her up instead of simply telling her to piss off, but it’s a close one. While Walky’s lie didn’t do anything but temporarily deflect Carla’s…Carlasity, it also didn’t actively encourage it…
question is, will carla be fine with that one time pie-ing or just basically for the full month if not til he properly apologizes to her or charlie finally noticing her lol
Sal likes singing and seeing her boyfriend happy. She really is the biggest dork of them all. Owning a motorcycle and having a mildly alternative sense of fashion is really the only thing keeping her stereotypical coolness facade going.
Um, no. Walky’s No. 1 non-fan is Walky. Of all the facades in the strip, Walky has the biggest but most fragile one – with the possible exception of Carla.
He literally knows he can annoy Danny just by being present and said as much. Walky’s lazy and likeable until you have to count on him, but not stupid.
Correction Walky, the correct name of Jennifer’s “friends” is “super morons”, but the truth is that you will be in for a big surprise, and yes, I recognize your progress, but you deserved that slap in the face, consider it a lesson for your growth
158 thoughts on “Crashin’”
NGPZ
Looks like Walky got his just desserts! ???
*plays “Coffee and Other Just Desserts” by Terry Scott Taylor on hacked muzak*
LiterallyJustSomeGuy
Good one!
anon
lol he got off pretty lightly considering
but hey free snack if the karaoke bar doesn’t have much
bemisawa
(Oops, apologies – I hit the report button by accident.)
Roborat
Just wait, knowing Carla, it might just be the first salvo.
Ana Chronistic
“BEHOLD how creme pies love me!”
Ana Chronistic
(turned out to be Schrodinger’s COVID: not actually COVID until the doc said it was, since I could still taste up until I was diagnosed)
(also DEFINITELY from my unmasked co-worker who came to the office hacking up a lung and never once taking sick leave)
NGPZ
? OH SHIT sorry to hear, do they require COVID tests at your job?
Cholma
Oh, shit! That’s exactly how I got COVID back in ’21. I wear a mask everywhere in public, *except* at my desk at work, and the jerk comes in, KNOWING he’s sick, but not wearing a mask anyway, and spreads it to me and at least one other person. I. Was. Pissed.
Jo_cubstar
Oh no, did it interfere with your time at the con? Or was this after?
Ana Chronistic
the infection-to-symptom timeline was precisely a two-week timeframe bookending the convention, so I am prolly one of THOSE people ? but, Schrodinger’s COVID doesn’t test positive until a doc says it is, so it was unavoidable ? (I did thoroughly mask while there anyway, and the two closest to me the whole time haven’t shown signs of infectiobn)
Ana Chronistic
GAH I even retyped that typo, PHONE ?
sucks that I haven’t even been at my computer in a week out of courtesy to the other person living here
All-Purpose Guru
I got ya beat, unfortunately, I went to the medical clinic, and when I was in a very crowded elevator, some moron climbed over the top of me in order to reach the buttons came home with Covid the next day.
Kimi
Reminds me of kids that would brag about their perfect attendance in school when they would come in sick and get everyone else sick. I wish our culture had more of a respect for not getting others sick just in order to make yourself look good (aka never missing work or school, or hate how masks look on themselves or complain about how masks feel). I do have to say that I don’t like how most n95 masks don’t stay on my head with their behind the head bands unless I have my hair tied up tight. They just slip down and sometimes take my glasses out behind my ears with them. I know that my hair has no body to hold stuff up by itself but you don’t have to prove it.
GoodbyBallad
We also need more respect for not forcing ourselves to work when I’ll for our own sakes. Never missing work, even when really ill, is not something to boast about, and missing work because you’re ill is not your fault (despite what some bosses seem to think).
eh, whatever
*European culture shock*
Yet_One_More_Idiot
I live in the UK. There was a kid in my class in Year 11 (a friend of mine, in fact) who did exactly this – bragging about his perfect attendance record as he was looking almost dead on his feet. I asked him if he was feeling okay, and he admitted he had chicken pox. I was the only other kid in the class who’d ever had it (there’d been an outbreak of it in my primary school), so EVERYBODY ELSE (the teacher included) gave him the widest of fucking berths for the next 2 weeks because he refused to just go home and be sick.
Decidedly Orthogonal
That seems to be as much a symptom of celebrating attendance as the person’s own illness. Maybe what we should do is celebrate the kids who miss x number of days due to responsibly taking sick leave. (Dr’s note req’d)
Rose by Any Other Name
… I am recently annoyed with someone who bragged about their perfect attendance, but it is not my story to tell, so I cant share it here.
But yeah, I find that cultural thing really upsetting.
Decidedly Orthogonal
It’s one thing to share the story, it’s only an issue when the person is named.
Alaric
I had Covid that lasted around 12 days at the beginning of the year (I had completely avoided it until then), and I never experienced that loss of taste at all.
Michael Lanting
I didn’t lose my sense of taste either when I got it, but for one day some things tasted different than normal.
Rose by Any Other Name
Covid hits everyone different.
Neither my wife, nor I, nor our kids lost our taste.
My symptoms were nasty cold + mild fever + wracking whoopy cough.
My wife had mild cold + foot rash + scar tissue in lungs with no cough or fever.
Kids had mild sniffles, one had a mild fever but the other had no fever.
From purely anecdotal evidence, repeat infections seem to give an individual the same symptoms as their first round (the terrible cough for me, the foot rash for my wife, the loss of taste for Ana, and similar reports for others I’ve talked to).
Miafillene
Glad you are okay. Not so glad it’s what I thought. Heal up and get better. You’ve been missed, strangely enough.
Bryy
SO WHOLESOME.
NGPZ
very wholesome + humbling pie ?
Sirksome
Oh, yeah he lied about where Charlie lives. I forgot that for a sec.
Rose by Any Other Name
Ah! Thanks for reminding me.
I was just about to ask about when he poked said bear.
Max
I still contend he guessed, which is different and slightly better than lying. like eenie meenie minee moe. There are only a certain number of residence halls and he picked one. I will die on this oddly-specific hill!
HueSatLight
Like how you eat your own farts, I guess.
HueSatLight
sorry, I shouldn’t have said that. the “I guess” part, when you’re guessing it’s vitally important not to say it’s a guess.
Max
I’m now trying to figure out how that would work. Maybe there’s a bag involved to catch the fart? the mechanics of it don’t seem to work very well. It also depends on what a fart is made of. I always assumed it was pretty much just air. Then there would be nothing to eat. You’re just breathing it in. Maybe if you collected a bunch of them together and condensed it into a solid or a liquid. That would be one of the weirdest and most disgusting science experiments ever.
HueSatLight
It requires a cheese knife.
clif
Are you speaking from experience?
Or just guessing?
HueSatLight
It is a pew-n
Pergola
I wonder what Fart Captor is doing these days?
BBCC
Hanging out on the patreon comments.
Jamie
Then, he represented himself as knowing, when he didn’t. That’s still lying.
Amelie Wikström
The sort of desperate lie you concoct when you’re woken up in the middle of the night by someone who won’t leave you alone until you find them some answer. I was going to guess Carla might learn a lesson about waiting at least until the crack of dawn to raise hell, but clearly no, nothing so practical.
Aura
Middle of the night? It was light outside in winter and by the time the short conversation finished it was time for Walky to get ready for church. I’d say like 8am or later, maybe 7:30 at the very earliest. I’d still say it’s obnoxious and selfish (especially on a Sunday), but nowhere near as bad as people keep implying.
Amelie Wikström
I think it was more like 5, cause Lucy is definitely so eager to go to Church with Walky she got there way too early And church is way too early to begin with if you’re used to sleeping past noon on weekends. Everyone in the scene is way too tired to be nice or even coherent, and I sure don’t remember there being daylight.
I’m not saying it’s bad though, just that I understand why Walky wouldn’t care about anything more than saying whatever it takes to get back to bed immediately.
HueSatLight
It’s a couple of days after Dumbing Day. Sunrise in Bloomington, IN today was 7:55 am. The fact that we saw the sunlight probably means that Carla did wait until the crack of dawn. I’m not saying she’s the most considerate, but she was considerate enough to wait until sunrise.
Mark
Indiana is so far west that it should be in the Central Zone, but observes ET not CT, so sunrise is later than you think.
Thag Simmons
He absolutely lied about knowing and the possibility that his lie would end up being accurate does not change that
Decidedly Orthogonal
Bingo
furubatsu
In his defence, she was knocking on his door at like 3am.
Kamino Neko
Same.
Uratnik
I love when you can hear the delivery of a line from a character you’ve never heard speak, and that’s what makes the joke funny.
Kyrik Michalowski
And you totally deserve it Walky.
Coatl
All character development comes with lessons… and this is also one of them
Wraithy2773
Nah, Carla deserved it far more than he did.
Kamino Neko
Eh, IMO, Walky’s the least-bad non-Charlie person in that whole thing.
Carla and Booster were both being obnoxious – I think Booster was worse than Carla since they insisted on winding her up instead of simply telling her to piss off, but it’s a close one. While Walky’s lie didn’t do anything but temporarily deflect Carla’s…Carlasity, it also didn’t actively encourage it…
Cholma
“I may have poked that bear.”
LOL! I actually bust out laughing at that one. You know you had it comin’, Walky!
HueSatLight
Good aim and/or composition, no pie on Sal.
NGPZ
Walky is her involuntary meat shield. :p
TJ
I wholeheartedly approve of any further use of pie-based retribution!
anon
question is, will carla be fine with that one time pie-ing or just basically for the full month if not til he properly apologizes to her or charlie finally noticing her lol
Nono
Well Carla’s less of a bear and more like… uh… I’m not up to date on lesbian terms. A giraffe?
Though I’m not sure anyone in the cast really fits the bear moniker. Drew’s a bit of a cub maybe?
TulipKitten
Joe’s dad is a muscle bear.
TulipKitten
The only thing I could think Carla would qualify as is a futch Amazonian goddess.
Sirksome
Sal likes singing and seeing her boyfriend happy. She really is the biggest dork of them all. Owning a motorcycle and having a mildly alternative sense of fashion is really the only thing keeping her stereotypical coolness facade going.
HueSatLight
She smokes. Smoking is cool looking.
eh, whatever
Malaya has noticed!
Decidedly Orthogonal
Every new thing I learn about Sal just makes her cooler. pity stereotypical people, for they lack variety.
Warcodered
The more she seems comfortable putting those walls down the better this gets.
anon
can’t wait to see her reaction when jen complains that asher is too walky-like lol
Grayfinity
Striking without notice like an unseen dodgeball in an echoing gymnasium!
Oddly, it fits.
Armadillo
Gotta respect a man for acknowledging his faults enough to know he *earned* that pie to the face.
Bryy
I love his not-so-subtle “we’re not hanging out with her FRIENDS, are we?”.
shrub
“I’m beloved by all”
I wonder if that’s how he really feels, if it is it explains a lot about him
Ed Callahan
Um, no. Walky’s No. 1 non-fan is Walky. Of all the facades in the strip, Walky has the biggest but most fragile one – with the possible exception of Carla.
HoopsieDaisy
He literally knows he can annoy Danny just by being present and said as much. Walky’s lazy and likeable until you have to count on him, but not stupid.
Coatl
Correction Walky, the correct name of Jennifer’s “friends” is “super morons”, but the truth is that you will be in for a big surprise, and yes, I recognize your progress, but you deserved that slap in the face, consider it a lesson for your growth