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Drill
Posted on January 30, 2015 by David M Willis

205 thoughts on “Drill”

  1. Jen Aside

    and he likes to snack on faces in his fist at high speeds

    1. Kris

      I believe it’s called tenderizing and it makes the despair so soft it falls off the bone.

      1. Solenoid

        Fried in actual tears.

        1. Clif

          That’s our Mike.

        2. Architex

          Sounds like Mike works as a Dementor, but with more flair and personality.

        3. Kirt

          AS much as I liked the Harry Potter series, it’s pretty easy to have more flair and personality than any Harry Potter villain.

        4. singingdavid

          are you kidding? have you seen how much impractical flair Hermione has?

        5. Lord Geovanni

          harry potter only has maybe 3 villans. i still dont see how harry got enough power to fight voldemort on equal footing even with all the micro rules he was only a good wizard for maybe 2 years but good enough to beat the dark lord whos very name sends a chill down the spine of every knowledgeable wizard in the world. Thomas Malovo Riddle (im guessing the middle name and i dont want to spell check it)

        6. Saelmve

          Harry got enough power to defeat the Dark Lord because he had love, friendship, family, and loyalty on his side; things the Dark Lord could never have because he was conceived under the influence of magic. His followers only followed him (save Bellatrix perhaps) because they feared him. And all of Harry’s followers were his friends and family. Call it cheezy, but these things are very powerful when it comes to magic, because magic (in the HP universe) is all about the will of the mind and of the heart.

        7. timemonkey

          They were never equal, Voldemort was far stringer and experienced. He just fought Harry stupid because he was too stuborn to accept his limitations.

        8. Lord Geovanni

          Technically Voldeomort had strong will in his heart to kill his enemies and reach his goals (which i cant compeltely remember at the moment) and a greater mind than harry

        9. Anne2186

          Ha-ha, I just happened to catch the start of the HP comments, and had to read them all. I love HP 🙂

  2. otusasio451

    He feasts on the tears of unfathomable sadness

    1. Tunaro

      So he just walks ’round kickin’ puppies and hitting dudes in the sacks?

      1. Dr. Smart

        yeah, haven’t you been paying attention?

        1. Tunaro

          I meant for a reason.

        2. Clif

          Lunch is a reason.

        3. vic

          he probly will geth foggy and fade away if he doesnt geth other sadness for a extendet while

        4. Roborat

          I can’t decide if you are having trouble with your keyboard, or are intentionally trying to type with a lisp.

    2. Deanatay

      “Let me taste your tears, Walky!
      MMmm, they’re so warm and yummy!”

  3. dailybrad

    He’s going to get love handles if he’s around here for long.

    1. Doctor_Who

      After being in an elevator with Ruth for 2 minutes, he’d be 300 pounds.

      1. Solenoid

        He’d be astonished to find someone filled with more sadness than Amber. He’d have to recalibrate his standards.

        1. Mr k

          Well, Amber seems relatively happy right now. She beat up her dad, and found a cute blonde friend.

        2. Solenoid

          You do remember what happened to her mental state after beating the shit out of her dad, right? The other point stands, though.

    2. Yotomoe

      Actually those would be hate handles. No part of Mike’s body will allow love. Except for his love of misery.

  4. shadowcell

    mike must be a big dumbing of age fan

    1. Doctor_Who

      I’ve said it before, but a good portion of the internet is Mike. Another good portion is Faz.

      When you combine the two, you get 4chan.

      1. airyu

        Oh good lord I hate that you’re right xP

      2. SUGauthor

        This is the reason this site needs an upvote system. Just go ahead and pretend I gave you one.

      3. Tunaro

        Tumblr:
        2 parts Walky
        1 parts each Mike and Mary
        A little more than a dash of Faz.

        Shake and serve in a glass over Joyce’s crushed childhood.

        1. JustCheetoDust

          A little more than a dash of Faz.

          A handful of Faz.

          I’ll show myself out.

        2. Solenoid

          You forgot the Roz.

        3. Tunaro

          Too strong; anything with Roz invariably ends up tasting like YouPorn.

        4. Nope!

          Clearly you haven’t been too far into the depths of tumblr.

      4. Disloyal Subject

        I’d… like to refute that. We have our Dorothies too – it’s pretty damned diverse – but in a lot of cases, that’s horrifyingly accurate.

        1. Chris

          In case you all haven’t noticed… a vast number of us are Dinas… they don’t speak up much, but they do vote. If you haven’t noticed us, it’s because you’re forgetting to check behind the doors.

        2. Crazy Dina

          Closets or otherwise. No, wait, that’s Ethan.

      5. Tacos

        Then what about the portion of the internet that’s cat videos?

        1. Doctor_Who

          Joyces, the lot of them.

        2. Veles

          Dina’s from other universes where dinosaurs were cats instead of birds.

        3. Tunaro

          Is that not where saber-toothed tigers come from?

        4. Deanatay

          “Don’th make fun of my thpeath impediment! I don’th wear brathes, I’m a thaber-thooth thiger in dithguithe!”

        5. neeks

          Sabertoothed otherkin

      6. The_Bionic_Doctor

        so true! here, have all my internets…. although now you’ve explained what they are, I’m not sure you want them anymore :-/

  5. Kris

    Mystery solved! Oh wait most people knew that.

  6. Plasma Mongoose

    But does sadness provide enough roughage?

    1. Stephen Bierce

      He gets his home cooking from…

      …for a nickel.

  7. Solenoid

    Well, there goes Walky brushing off the person best suited to help him with his grade problem.

    As for Mike, did we ever think otherwise?

    1. airyu

      That’s a good point. She’d also be the most understanding / not make fun of his low grade.

    2. 4th Dimension

      On the other hand this was the person to whom he practicaly bragged that he doesn’t need to study, when he was previosly offered the opportunity to study together. So he might also irationaly not want to show Dorothy ,that in the ned he is not that good.

      1. Bagge

        Or he simply doesn’t want to blurt it out in the cafeteria in front of a bully like Mike who would use it against him in the worst way possible.

        1. Deanatay

          Mike already knows. He was sitting next to him in class, when he got the grade. And we all know Mike never misses these kind of things.

        2. Airyu

          Ohhh… Is that why Mike was tagged even though he was barely in those strips?

        3. No Name

          But as far as Walky knows, Mike doesn’t know. Besides, If he says something now, Mike will respond, and he certainly doesn’t want that.

        4. stevecharb

          If you underestimate Mike’s power to detect and exploit negative vibes, active and potential, you clearly have never met Mike.
          Walky knows.

  8. Gadgeteer Smashwidget

    oof, I know that feeling, Walky

  9. Emperor Kiva

    Dorothy, turn your ass around and cheer your friend up.

    1. Mr k

      Cheer him up with your ass.

      1. Emperor Kiva

        I was meaning turn around and cheer Joyce up. Throw a chicken nugget at Walky and he’ll be fine.

        1. timemonkey

          Dorothy doesn’t know enough about the Becky situation to know how to cheer Joyce up right now.

        2. begbert2

          Okay then, cheer *her* up with your ass. It’s not like Joyce wouldn’t be interested.

      2. Yotomoe

        How can you be sad with a lady booty shaking right in front of you. (It’s literally impossible if it’s an Amber sized one but a Dottie sized one is fine as well)

  10. Trolldrool

    So sadism is the solution to world hunger?

    1. Kk

      No, just to Mike’s.

      1. Clif

        Mike’s world hunger.

  11. Van Jealous

    It “wounds my heart with a monotonous languor”.

    1. Bill

      Are we predicting an invasion now?

      1. Leonou

        A Feelings invasion !
        We shall fight them on the strips, We shall fight on the comments, We shall fight on our Ships; We shall never “Damn Willis” again !

        1. JacHunter

          Oh, to be young and confident again…there will always be another occassion to “Damn Willis”. It’s sad, really.

          But at least Mike’s well-fed.

      2. sps48

        Not predicting; alerting the resistance of it’s imminence.

    2. Rabid Rabbit

      That is a terrible translation.

      But I admit that offhand I can’t think of how to do better. Hmm.

      ‘The long sobs of autumn violins/wound my heart with…’ Yeah, you’re right, ‘monotonous languor’ is pretty much all that’s possible. Still better in the original, though.

    3. Gamaran Sepudomyn

      You mean langur. The grey ones are particularly nasty.

      1. neeks

        To say nothing of the monotonous lemurs. We don’t talk about the monotonous lemurs. Not after The Incident.

    4. Leonou

      Don’t Worry Walky.
      “You’ve failed a test, but not a semester.”

  12. Liz

    Mike gets hungry and the world weeps. This explains everything!

    1. Deanatay

      Because there is always suffering somewhere in the world, Mike is effectively immortal. The only way to kill Mike is to make everyone, everywhere happy. Mike would immediately starve to death.

      1. Gigafreak

        Pinky & the Brain’s Christmas special was the biggest threat to his life.

        Pinky & the Brain is no longer on the air.

        Make of that what you will.

        1. begbert2

          Now I’m trying to figure out roughly how old Mike was when Pinky and the Brain went off the air. (Give or take comic book time.)

  13. Mr k

    I wonder how Dorothy will react to learning Joyce’s roommate is gay.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      The best answer is threesomes but I’m been too optimistic.

    2. caesaria82

      Sarah is gay, since when? 😉

      I know, I know. I’m being facetious, sorry. But I don’t think Becky qualifies as an official rommate yet lol.

      1. Crazy Dina

        Last Tuesday.

      2. Deanatay

        Well, you might be assuming that since last ep, where Sarah effectively kicked her relationship with Jacob in the nads, that she’s given up on men. She may be open to experimentation right about now, I’ll give you that. But, she always has Little Jacob.

  14. Kk

    Well, Mike’s in the right place to never starve to death

    1. Roborat

      Although he might overdose during final exam time.

  15. Boomwolf

    Dude must be havin a feast right now.

  16. The Wizard

    Time for Dorothy’s world to fall apart in front of her!

    1. Solenoid

      Next time on DoA: Yale says “no”.

      1. Marisa Mockery

        I hope not. The drama caused by that will take years to settle…

        1. Yotomoe

          She’d just go to Harvard, duh!

        2. Emperor Kiva

          I hear that Harvard’s better, anyway

        3. Swoop

          I could see that happening. If Walky started giving a shit, there’s a chance he could go with her. He’s a smart cookie.

        4. Yotomoe

          Why would he want to? That’s an enormous pain in the ass.

        5. Swoop

          He’s lazy and immature, but he cares about his grades. Up until now he’s been able to coast through life with no real effort. That one bad grade hit him hard.I think it may actually get him to study.

          He also cares about Dorothy. Some of her ambition might rub off on him.

        6. Yotomoe

          Yeah but that doesn’t mean he’s gonna go to Harvard. That’s a fucking lifetime commitment right there. Walky’s not gonna do all that.

        7. The_Bionic_Doctor

          yeah, there’s a world between “I don’t want to have bad grades” and “I wanna go to Harvard”!

        8. Rabid Rabbit

          Yes, but from his point of view, cookies are more fun to eat.

      2. Scott

        She will just cross over to QC and attend Smif…

      3. The Wizard

        Followed by a split between Walky and Dorothy, as Walky and Joyce starts to form a more intimate relationship.

  17. Kernanator

    Mike confirms everything I’ve ever suspected about him.

    Except for whether he is in fact a flock of ducks in a human suit.

  18. caesaria82

    Mike makes me laugh a lot. I mean, he’s the worst, but he’s also kinda the best. You know what I mean?

    1. JessWitt

      He’s the best of the worst.

      1. Clif

        He’s the worst of the best.

        1. Marc in MN

          He’s the best of the best of the worst!
          Sir!
          With honors!

        2. JacHunter

          …I don’t know what’s worse. That reference, or the fact that I got it. +1

        3. JacHunter

          He’s whatever you don’t want him to be.

        4. Rycan

          No, that’s his sexuality

        5. anonymsly

          I think that’s Mike’s everything, myself.

    2. Disloyal Subject

      It’s what he does.

    3. Crazy Dina

      He /is/ contradiction. And phone has no angle brackrts.

  19. Regalli

    Awww, poor Walky having his first taste of his self-worth as “the smart one” crumble to bits.

    1. Marisa Mockery

      Thank you for reminding me why Walky’s eating humble pie right now. I honestly lost track XD

      1. Jackson

        Man, had to scroll back fifteen friggin’ comics just to figure out why he was fine, everythin’s fine, and I could have just read the friggin’ comments!

        1. Jackson

          O what an onerous burden it is to bear, having to read through the archives of this webcomic that I read

        2. Kryss LaBryn

          Yeah, I went back about seven and gave up, myself.

          Doesn’t help that I’m binging the comic over again…

        3. JacHunter

          Ever since Shortpacked! ended I’ve been meaning to go through it again, but my homework’s almost due as it is…

      2. Bagge

        It might also be a piece of “Shit, I made big sister mad at me again.” and maybe even “I was mean to an already traumatized Joyce. But I’m supposed to be the funny one, not the mean one”

  20. Steven

    Poor Dorothy, sucks when your life is fine but everyone you know is in the pits. Its a very wierd sort of guilty feeling.

  21. Kris

    So today’s special is a bit of bad grade trauma seasoned with denial and that’s paired with a light bottle of best friend abandoning you. Delicious!

    1. The_Bionic_Doctor

      I see you’ve adopted Mike’s diet

  22. newllend

    Poor fool must be starving without these guys around.

    1. Yotomoe

      He’s in a college. That man is fuckin’ full.

    2. tahkuya

      Hes around to feed then gone to bang mothers for nickels

  23. Ailorn

    Yay Dorothy! It’s too bad everyone’s feeling down but whatevs.

  24. Wendy

    Wow, is Walky ACTUALLY feeling bad for being a huge asshole to Joyce? Shocker.

    1. Wendy

      Wait, no, he’s just sulking about his grade, isn’t he.

      1. Portmanteaust

        Yeah, I made that mistake briefly, too.

  25. Crazy Dina

    Mike! LOL!

  26. Mkvenner

    I feel like I missed something here?

    1. Swoop

      What do you mean?

    2. Deanatay

      Re-read the last two weeks. You’ll find the reasons for Walky and Joyce being miserable there.

  27. ninja_jesus

    So Mike isn’t aware of his ability to create introspection and change in others due to his assholery. That’s actually a good thing, or else he’d never be an asshole to anyone.

  28. Arianod

    Feeding on the tears of his enemies (i.e. everybody)

  29. StClair

    We always suspected, but now we know for sure.

  30. Spencer

    That panel 3 comment from Dorothy just makes me all kinds of sad. Dammit, Dottie, you’re the mature, reasonable member of the cast. Talk to him!

    1. Kryss LaBryn

      True, but he just went through a big thing a day or so ago (comic-time) where there was something he didn’t want to talk about, with Dorothy pretty much nagging him into revealing, with the upshot that she agreed to take him at his word next time he said he didn’t want to talk about something.

      So she’s deliberately doing exactly what he asked.

      (sorry if the grammar is poor; very late here and I can’t be arsed)

    2. Reaver

      The mature, reasonable one got informed that he wants her to butt out, they are just a “fling” and to take what he says at face value, the mature reasonable one confessed she loved him only to have the whole thing turned into a joke from Walky.

      I give the Mature, reasonable one huge props for just respecting Walky’s wishes and leaving well enough alone D8

      1. The_Bionic_Doctor

        Fools, Dorothy-the-mature-reasonnable-one can only ever express irrationality through her legs! More seriously, I’m sure that if Walky eventually tells about his issue with “buah why should I need to work like most people?”, she’ll be understanding and supportive… I’ve gotta say, I wish all partners were more like her

  31. Swoop

    Is Mike ever going to grow as a character? He hasn’t changed since his first appearance, and he doesn’t seem to be doing anything. Everyone else acts like someone who exists in the real world. They may have magical eyebrows, but they still feel like real people. Mike acts like a sitcom character.

    1. Wendy

      Agreed. Dina kinda does, too, IMO.

      1. Portmanteaust

        Actually, I think Dina is deliberately trying to improve her social skills after realising some of how others perceive her. She just isn’t being focused on at the moment.

      2. JacHunter

        Hey, she’s had plenty of character development!

      3. Crazy Dina

        As an Aspie, I can argue that it’s quite possible she’ll go a long time without development at first, but then start developing really quickly. It’s like a switch.

    2. Reaver

      He will when there’s something focused around him, right now he’s just a side character really

      1. Swoop

        I haven’t read anything outside of dumbing of age. I have read a few articles on walkypedia, but nothing about Mike. Does he play a major role in short-packed? I know that’s coming to a close. I plan on buying every volume once I get the cash. It would be cool to see character development in Mike.

        1. Gigafreak

          Mike grew a little bit over the course of Shortpacked’s predecessor, It’s Walky. It was fairly subtle, though.

        2. timemonkey

          Yes, Mike plays a larger role in Shortpacked and he does develop somewhat. Willis has also mentioned that Mike became overused and plans not to do that with Dumbing Mike.

        3. Animal

          <— Waiting for the return of Mike's finest hour, "Lawesome. "

    3. Kabo

      Mike is and has always been, through his various iterations, mainly a gag character (although a beautifully crafted one) and a sort of plot catalyst. In Shortpacked he was retooled into a real character with an arc. I personally prefer the first kind of Mike.

    4. Sam

      Mike is a very static character in DoA, but that is actually pretty realistic for people like him. If you knew a guy like him in real life, he’d make a valid observation as to why you are not as nice a person as you pretend you are and you’d get mad at him but he’d keep bloody showing up and doing it and you’d freakin’ hate him for nosing his way into your business just to keep calling you out on every wrong thing you do.

      He wouldn’t grow as a person or change his ways because he knows exactly the way he is and enjoys being that person.

      He actually has SOME character development in Shortpacked, but he is also more of a ‘mean to be mean’ character there rather than the ‘mean to actually cause people to think and change’ character he is here, so some was actually expected there.

      And not every person who goes to college does grow and change as a person, some stay the exact same as they were before, like Mike and Marcie who we all know was always awesome and should always stay that way.

      1. StClair

        Agreed, and well said.

      2. Marc in MN

        This is basically a more elaborate version of what I was going to say. I have a feeling that, in Mike’s mind, Mike doesn’t need to grow. He’s perfectly confident and comfortable as the person he’s chosen to be.

        To be honest, I think we all need a Mike in our lives to call us on our BS sometimes. haha

  32. Twilightomens

    Hahaha I love Mike.

  33. Ry

    I like to think of Mike as a Jem’hadar, except instead of Tetracel White, he has a tubule of pure spite constantly injected into his bloodstream.

    1. Portmanteaust

      “Misery is life”

      1. Coco

        How much of a nerd am I if I A) Completely got this and B) Literally burst out laughing at 1:30 in the morning?

        1. Portmanteaust

          Given that DS9 fans are a nerdy minority in the already very nerdy minority that is trek fans, I’d say pretty damn nerdy. Let’s not forget that one would need to read DoA to get the joke, either.

        2. Ry

          My people! <3

  34. Erinaceus

    Mike is goint to be overweight by the end of the year.

  35. Neonix

    Mike is like a vulture, waiting for someone to die of their misery so he can eat their flesh. Metaphorically speaking.

    1. Les

      Well any ecosystem needs something to clean up the road kill, so you could argue that Mike is doing the whole University a favor by just being himself…

      1. Crazy Dina

        Even though his vulturyness has metaphorical poisonous poops?

  36. Ray-Ray

    He’s on vacation and “Buffered” until May. No point in begging to know what’s happening with Billie and Ruth. Still…

  37. OnyxIdol

    Dotty’s mouth in panel three reminds me of Salvador Dali somehow.

  38. Locke

    You should move Mike to the Funkyverse. He’d never go hungry again!

    1. Khrene

      I dunno what the funkyverse iss, but I imagine everyone with afros and bell bottoms

      1. Gigafreak

        Funky Winkerbean is a newspaper comic where everyone wears forced sardonic smirks to mask their eternal unrelenting despair.

      2. Cybersnark

        No, Khrene’s thinking of Funkytown.

        1. HeySo

          I’m thinking of Bartertown.

          I’m not sure where the afros and bell-bottoms come in, though.

          Two men enter.. the disco hall.

  39. Lordess of Madness

    Mike is watching…. Mike is waiting…. Mike is ready….

  40. Bagge

    Dorothy has been in this kind of situation before.

    Awwww. She has learnt to respects Walky’s boundaries. And Walky has learnt not to tease Joyce for fear of big sister (otherwise he would have blurted out something about Joyce kissing girls by now). All that is left is start working at the last few hours’ worth of trauma, one piece at the time.

    Hope you didn’t have any other plans for afternoon, Dorothy, you are needed.

  41. Nena

    I hope Mike get his ass beaten. I hate people like him.

    1. Gigafreak

      If Mike gets his ass beaten, it will only happen in a way that makes you feel horrible about yourself. That’s how he operates, after all. (Hell, it’s what happened in the other universe.)

  42. Lord Geovanni

    I used to feed on happyness and sadness in equal measure and some times influence things to fit my diet. some of my friends ran to the other side of the supply bridge and blew it sky high as high school was ending others i prevented the explosion but never went after my supplies. while i text just enough for meager supplies to not either explode and take the dimensional universe with me or just blow this planet and move to Barsoom

  43. Killjoy

    With the way things jump around, I sometimes have to go dig to figure out what the heck someone is upset or happy about.

    Walky is still “shellshocked” because his sister told him off for bugging Joyce? Um… OK. Huh.

    1. Gigafreak

      No. His grades.

      1. Killjoy

        OK, thank you. I’d completely forgotten about that.

        1. HeySo

          As had I. 🙂

        2. Airyu

          Makes sense. Afterall, the entire last chapter, which spanned 3 months of real time, covered only 24 hours of comic time.

  44. Chris

    I can imagine him being left alone after this, and thinking; I’m so hungry.

  45. Mr. Anderson

    Yeah, this is why I voted for Mike.

  46. advancecasette

    what the hell, what is this setting sail in my mind

    a… a dorothy x mike ship?

    wHat the heLl is this???!!!

    1. Arianod

      No!

      That’s… inconceivable!

    2. Tenn

      Nooooooo, you beat me to it. I mean, it was just a joke, but still…

    3. Crazy Dina

      lead up until he meets her mother. (Then records someone else doing her…)

  47. Vangeln

    Wait, Mike is Willis?

    1. Crazy Dina

      Nooooo… Joyce is Willis.

      1. 3oranges

        Joyce is autobiographical, but you can be sure many of the characters have some part of Willis in them.

  48. Kathleen

    Everybody’s talking about how he’s shell-shocked from his grade, but are we gonna ignore how his sister threatened him? He was doing fine when he was teasing Joyce. It was his sister who put the fear in him.

    1. Spencer

      Except immediately after that he was cheerful and waving at Marcie.

    2. pachoo

      Sal may be intimidating, but “When a girl says leave ‘er alone, ya leave ‘er alone” is still an admonishment not a threat.

    3. 3oranges

      Sal pulled him aside and tells him “when a girl says leave ‘er alone, ya leave ‘er alone”. She has a lot of physical presence, but that’s still an admonishment not a threat, and like Spencer says that seems to be how he took it.

      1. Lord Geovanni

        people who dont feel threatened go right back to what they were doing as soon as the other person who looks down upon it leaves. you learn lessons:
        1)because you want to
        a)out of respect
        b)out of fear

        1. JWLM

          Yeah, you know, Sal is like his *sister*, ya know? She’s somebody who is close enough to him to reasonably deliver that kind of reprimand. His behavior would have been unacceptable in the first place, and Sal would have called him out for that, but given the Joyce was sexually assaulted just a few weeks ago, Sal was right to call him out aggressively.

  49. Spencer

    Is anyone thinking this might eventually lead to Walky and Dorothy breaking up? I know they’ve been drama free and are confident in the relationship just being for fun (which is why I’m pretty sure Dorothy was able to tell Walky she loved him, since she knows that it’s not going to get catastrophic like with Danny), but I can see Walky’s inability to talk about his issues eventually driving a wedge between them.

  50. Kugai

    Ahhh sarcasm

    The kind of wit that you want to high five the proponent

    In the head

    With a steel chair.

  51. Idon'tcarenomore

    Dorothy has learned not to pursue the ‘you don’ want to know, because in DoA, you really don’t want to know.

    Dorothy is part of the reason Walky’s grades are down, she really can’t give him a lot of flak about it…and can help him study. Of course, he did brush her offer off so may not want to now.

    Joyce is clearly jealous of Becky, as she is of all friends who dare go off and not include her.

    Mike is not a bully as someone called him. He doesn’t beat up on people and he doesn’t bother people who have half a clue. Dorothy is pretty squared away compared to the rest of them.
    And Mike has for some strange reason always seemed to have a soft spot for Joyce. Check the back strips.

    Dumb asses are Mikes specialty, he loves to pound their face in it. He see’s it coming, so he is usually around to point it out, in neon letters 3 feet high.

    1. JWLM

      Sorry, ‘loving to pound [someone’s] face in it’ is bullying. It’s a textbook example, as a matter of fact.

      More than that, your response is also a textbook example of why bullies get away with it — you don’t sympathize with the victim, so you excuse the violator.

      1. Crazy Dina

        But it’s also why we get away with war, sanctions, prisons, and punishments. No, those things aren’t great, but you have to note that Mike’s actions are not as bad as some of the other things we do, and he doesn’t seem to do these things purely maliciously. Every time he does something like that, it curbs a larger problem or brings it into full view.

        Again, not saying the behavior is right, just that Mike seems to use his assholitude for decent ends, so he can receive a small level of leeway as long as he continues to use it for good and continues to avoid hurting people in ways not meant to heal (think surgeon here – they cut into people and cause blood-loss, but do so with the intention of aiding the healing process.)

        Except for maybe the genitalia. That was just weird. Then there’s Walky’s CDs. I’m hoping he was making it up.

        1. JWLM

          I’m going to use one of Willis’ most hated words…and I’m going to use it correctly. Those things you list? They’re ‘strawmen,’ in which you refute an argument by attacking something the other party didn’t say. I didn’t say that Mike was the only bully in the world; I just said that he is a bully.

        2. Crazy Dina

          My point was not that Mike was the only bully, but that there are bullies we as society support because we need them. In my opinion, that’s kid of what mike is, most of the time). He acts as a bully, but he does so for the good of the people around him. When you think about it, even when he made Walky feel bad, he got him together with Dorothy, and when he comments on Amber’s life, he brings her from sadness, which can be all consuming, to rage, which can be understood, compartmentalized, and handled, as well as reassure her that she isn’t falling back into the patterns she is afraid of falling into.

  52. Idon'tcarenomore

    Mikes a realist with an attitude.

  53. JohnnyO

    IU has their library and cafeteria in the same building? God that would be useful for finals.

  54. nothri

    I. DRINK. YOUR. SADNESS. ::GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULP:: I DRINK IT UP!

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