Incorectness. Our currency is Canadian Tire money. Timbits have been benchmarked to the US dollar standard ever since their take-over by wendy’s and subsequent sale to whatever megaglomerate currently owns them. Timmies is as Canadian, as Beijing is Chilean.
They absolutely hate it if you call their currency Canadian Pounds.
I mean, they’ll still behave just as politely to you as they always do – after all, they’re Canadian. But there’ll be much polite screaming going on internally.
So how much do you have to call “Canandian Pounds” Canandian Pounds in order to move that screaming external?
Canandian Pounds
Some Ed
I don’t think you want to do that. They’re *Canadian*. Sure, it’s possible to get some of them to shout. But for others, before they start screaming, you become chunky salsa. They will, of course, apologize about that. But the fact remains, you’re chunky salsa.
To be clear, I’m not trying to say that Canadians are any more likely than other races to make salsa out of sentient raw materials. In my experience, they’re actually less likely than most. It’s just, for some, the politeness goes considerably above that point, even as that point is considerably above what anyone else can endure.
Do not poke them like that, because there’s no warning like there is with other creatures. There’s no flashing of eyes or show of teeth. It’s, “I’m very sorry, but that’s not what our currency is called.” one moment and “I’m very sorry, but I was low on salsa.” the next. That first apology was your first warning, and you went through so many others. How many doesn’t matter. The first should have been enough.
She has a butler, and her parents are dead. That’s two-thirds of the way there, all she needs now is another younger orphan to endanger on her adventures. Becky, you’re up
Remember that Shortpacked comic where Batman is obsessed with all the Robins being like clones of himself, with black hair and blue eyes, and that’s why he doesn’t like Stephanie Brown?
Becky is a fellow freckled ginger, so she makes a perfect Robin for Ruth.
It really is a Galasso strip on Bat Acid, that one. But an excellent Galasso strip all the same. And as that Tumblr post linked in the description points out, it really did seem like they were calling attention to the Black Hair Blue Eyes Nesting Doll that was the canonical Robins in 2011. Man the New 52 was weird.
As an aside, Webtoons’ Wayne Family Adventures (which is an official DC Comics series, if not in their current mainline canon) recently featured several strips in which Steph Brown being Robin is that-series canon and then Bruce is genuinely and openly supportive of her as a hero.
Oh it is very blatantly obvious that Jason is just not cut out to be an educator. Tending a bar is a much better fit for him at the end of the day, honestly.
He did mention his father is a ‘cruel captain of industry’ and their address was apparently per British commenters of the ‘truly obscene wealth required to get here’ variety.
So it doesn’t shock me. It could take a while to unlearn that much classism from a truly Fuck You Wealthy upbringing.
The good news is, he’s a mathematics major studying here in the US and trying to avoid his dad so he’s going to learn JUST how much things suck when you DON’T have fuckoff wealth to fall back on! *Fiendish grin*
Which hints at a fascinating origin story for Jason, because he’s attending a public university in the American Midwest, and had to TA and now tends bar to make ends meet.
We’ve yet to meet this universe’s Dargon Chesterfield (if that indeed is his name) but methinks his relationship with Jason is no better than in that other reality.
He is also, as Jason put it, ‘essentially a supervillain,’ so I suspect the relationship isn’t much improved. (Though I guess ‘essentially a supervillain’s a step up from ‘literally a supervillain,’ at least. Marginally less evil, at least. If only for lack of opportunity to doom an entire universe out of spite.) https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/04-hompk/immigrant/
Doctor_Who
Oh yeah, I forgot that he’s been mentioned a few times.
RedCat
Most Very Rich people are essentially supervillains.
deathjavu
It’s kind of an unavoidable side effect of amassing that much money, that your negative impact reaches supervillain status. Having a big footprint means a lot of people get squashed.
Keulen
More like all very rich people, but yes. It’s pretty much impossible to become very rich without becoming evil.
Indeed, it would only be fitting for a bartender of all people to eventually face with sober senses, the reality of their condition, of their relationship with other humans.
What level of fuck off wealth we talking here? Is it Carla’s “My family essentially owns this universe’s version of Tesla” (They probably just bought twitter) kind of fuck off money? The Billingsworth’s “We’re probably not billionaires, just really well connected high end millionaires with political sway which could arguably be better.” fuck off money? Then there’s Asher’s “Maybe we’re not super rich but we definitely own cops and can have yoj killed” mob level fuck off? He is supposedly a supervillian somenow.
Regalli
I’d assume Carla’s end of the scale, with the possibility Dargon might win out over the Ruttens but we obviously don’t have numbers or definitive comparisons for him. Quoting Wikipedia, “Knightsbridge is home to many of the world’s richest people and has some of the highest property prices in the world. In 2014 a terrace of 427m2 sold for £15,950,000, a home in Montpelier Square. The average asking price for all the properties in slightly wider SW7 was £4,348,911 (as at Autumn 2014). On-street parking spaces have sold for as much as £300,000 for a 94-year lease. Fourteen of Britain’s two hundred most expensive streets are in the neighbourhood, as defined by The Times.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knightsbridge#Economy
Phrased like that, Becky and Dina’s request does sound kind of like a request two kids might make of their teacher on the playground (minus the sex part obviously).
So, where I live these comics go up at 6 am. I usually read the new strip and comments before getting up around 9. This morning, I woke up very early and can’t fall asleep again. Thought to myself I’ll check out DoA for some distraction.
Well, it kept me occupied for much shorter than usual… Turns out there are a lot fewer comments at time of upload 😀 (dunno what I expected tbh)
I’ll throw a few comments in around 3 hours after the comic goes live, then check back on just those threads later in the day. Catching up on the comments for some strips, especially when things get heated and there’s over 400 of them, is a lot.
Is it very wrong of me that I read panel 3 of the first one as Walky suddenly leaping to his feet with a triumphant roar, and flipping Jennifer upside down as he does so?
British classism confuses me as an American because I’m so used to living in a society that pretends to have unlimited movement along the social hierarchy so that its people can be easily fooled into ignoring the issue of wealth disparity. Whereas Britain just… openly has them? And they’ve got, like, names and shit? And your class is still your class no matter how much your wealth actually changes, I guess? What the hell even is Britain
To be fair, wealth DOES matter. The Weasleys are pure blooded wizards and due to their relative poverty that they are looked down upon by the Malfoys no matter what their wealth.
Growing up is realizing that the stuff about “blood purity” in those books that you always thought was about racism is actually about classism, because no way in hell would the woman who bent over backwards justifying the house elves’ enslavement ever write something anti-racist deliberately.
C.T. Phipps
I used to give Rowling the benefit of the doubt regarding House Elves because “I am stating this is not a stand-in for an actual thing but dealing with magical creatures. Because as an author you should not always be dealing with metaphor 24/7.” However, I’m now much-much less inclined to cut rowling slack.
thejeff
The House Elf stuff was just all over the place. Hermione trying to organize for them was played as a joke and reads like an anti-woke screed, but the individual house elves that get more focus clearly show how much something like that is needed.
The basic concept is interesting, drawing from old folk tales and trying to fit them into a modern magical world. A better writer could do something with it.
I kinda figured that the wealth probably started the same but whereas the Weasley’s had 7 kids, the Malfoy’s had 1. So they had more extra money where the Weasleys had to spend their money. I never really thought of it as a class thing until you pointed it out.
Andy
Hell, the 7 kids thing is probably classism, too. Rich people, higher class people, can afford birth control and don’t breed like rabbits. Poor people do and therefore it’s clearly their own fault they’re poor.
Jess
Yeah, that makes sense too. But there’s gotta be a magic equivalent to the pill, too.
Granted I’m pretty sure modern plumbing didn’t exist in the magical world as a whole, since I heard someone (Maybe Rowling? I don’t remember) say that they just apperated their waste away.
C.T. Phipps
I mean, some people like large families.
Weird people.
🙂
Slartibeast Button, BIA
There might be some truth to the Horcrux’s canard that Molly didn’t love Ron because she wanted a daughter. Not true about the love, but maybe she really wanted a daughter and kept trying until she got one.
BBCC
She said they did that before modern plumbing existed, as opposed to throwing shit into the streets.
186 thoughts on “Oi!”
Doctor_Who
The conversion rate of femurs to Canadian currency (Timbits) is a factor in all Ruth related transactions.
ThunderNight
and if you have inflated femurs that’s more than one problem
Decidedly Orthogonal
Incorectness. Our currency is Canadian Tire money. Timbits have been benchmarked to the US dollar standard ever since their take-over by wendy’s and subsequent sale to whatever megaglomerate currently owns them. Timmies is as Canadian, as Beijing is Chilean.
James Thurber
This guy Canadas.
Steelbright
welp, new top fav comment of all time
Yet_One_More_Idiot
They absolutely hate it if you call their currency Canadian Pounds.
I mean, they’ll still behave just as politely to you as they always do – after all, they’re Canadian. But there’ll be much polite screaming going on internally.
Harmony
So how much do you have to call “Canandian Pounds” Canandian Pounds in order to move that screaming external?
Canandian Pounds
Some Ed
I don’t think you want to do that. They’re *Canadian*. Sure, it’s possible to get some of them to shout. But for others, before they start screaming, you become chunky salsa. They will, of course, apologize about that. But the fact remains, you’re chunky salsa.
To be clear, I’m not trying to say that Canadians are any more likely than other races to make salsa out of sentient raw materials. In my experience, they’re actually less likely than most. It’s just, for some, the politeness goes considerably above that point, even as that point is considerably above what anyone else can endure.
Do not poke them like that, because there’s no warning like there is with other creatures. There’s no flashing of eyes or show of teeth. It’s, “I’m very sorry, but that’s not what our currency is called.” one moment and “I’m very sorry, but I was low on salsa.” the next. That first apology was your first warning, and you went through so many others. How many doesn’t matter. The first should have been enough.
Ana Chronistic
Jason moonlighting as Ruth’s butler, ok
Doctor_Who
At least we know how he’s being compensated.
RassilonTDavros
She has a butler, and her parents are dead. That’s two-thirds of the way there, all she needs now is another younger orphan to endanger on her adventures. Becky, you’re up
Doctor_Who
Remember that Shortpacked comic where Batman is obsessed with all the Robins being like clones of himself, with black hair and blue eyes, and that’s why he doesn’t like Stephanie Brown?
Becky is a fellow freckled ginger, so she makes a perfect Robin for Ruth.
StClair
“I will put all of you inside me, in order of largest to smallest.” o.O
Regalli
It really is a Galasso strip on Bat Acid, that one. But an excellent Galasso strip all the same. And as that Tumblr post linked in the description points out, it really did seem like they were calling attention to the Black Hair Blue Eyes Nesting Doll that was the canonical Robins in 2011. Man the New 52 was weird.
As an aside, Webtoons’ Wayne Family Adventures (which is an official DC Comics series, if not in their current mainline canon) recently featured several strips in which Steph Brown being Robin is that-series canon and then Bruce is genuinely and openly supportive of her as a hero.
The Wellerman
Glad to see you getting your spoons back Regalli! ??
Pivitor
Howard
Darkoneko
She’s paid in exposure.
Darkoneko
Exposure to dumbing, mostly
Jamie
This is an accurate description of college tuition.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Nah, she’s paid in warm femurs. ;P
Thag Simmons
Jason’s always had a classist side, but he has ever laid his cards on the table this openly before?
Sirksome
The more I see of him the more it makes sense why he didn’t succeed as a TA.
Thag Simmons
Oh it is very blatantly obvious that Jason is just not cut out to be an educator. Tending a bar is a much better fit for him at the end of the day, honestly.
Regalli
He did mention his father is a ‘cruel captain of industry’ and their address was apparently per British commenters of the ‘truly obscene wealth required to get here’ variety.
So it doesn’t shock me. It could take a while to unlearn that much classism from a truly Fuck You Wealthy upbringing.
Regalli
The good news is, he’s a mathematics major studying here in the US and trying to avoid his dad so he’s going to learn JUST how much things suck when you DON’T have fuckoff wealth to fall back on! *Fiendish grin*
Doctor_Who
Which hints at a fascinating origin story for Jason, because he’s attending a public university in the American Midwest, and had to TA and now tends bar to make ends meet.
We’ve yet to meet this universe’s Dargon Chesterfield (if that indeed is his name) but methinks his relationship with Jason is no better than in that other reality.
Regalli
His name is still Dargon Chesterfield, and he does still have an eyepatch!
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/03-faz-is-great/knob/
He is also, as Jason put it, ‘essentially a supervillain,’ so I suspect the relationship isn’t much improved. (Though I guess ‘essentially a supervillain’s a step up from ‘literally a supervillain,’ at least. Marginally less evil, at least. If only for lack of opportunity to doom an entire universe out of spite.)
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/04-hompk/immigrant/
Doctor_Who
Oh yeah, I forgot that he’s been mentioned a few times.
RedCat
Most Very Rich people are essentially supervillains.
deathjavu
It’s kind of an unavoidable side effect of amassing that much money, that your negative impact reaches supervillain status. Having a big footprint means a lot of people get squashed.
Keulen
More like all very rich people, but yes. It’s pretty much impossible to become very rich without becoming evil.
Opus the Poet
That second strip does point out this comic has a Disneyish problem with evil dads.
The Wellerman
Indeed, it would only be fitting for a bartender of all people to eventually face with sober senses, the reality of their condition, of their relationship with other humans.
???
*plays “Propoganda” by Taku Iwasaki on hacked muzak*
Sirksome
What level of fuck off wealth we talking here? Is it Carla’s “My family essentially owns this universe’s version of Tesla” (They probably just bought twitter) kind of fuck off money? The Billingsworth’s “We’re probably not billionaires, just really well connected high end millionaires with political sway which could arguably be better.” fuck off money? Then there’s Asher’s “Maybe we’re not super rich but we definitely own cops and can have yoj killed” mob level fuck off? He is supposedly a supervillian somenow.
Regalli
I’d assume Carla’s end of the scale, with the possibility Dargon might win out over the Ruttens but we obviously don’t have numbers or definitive comparisons for him. Quoting Wikipedia, “Knightsbridge is home to many of the world’s richest people and has some of the highest property prices in the world. In 2014 a terrace of 427m2 sold for £15,950,000, a home in Montpelier Square. The average asking price for all the properties in slightly wider SW7 was £4,348,911 (as at Autumn 2014). On-street parking spaces have sold for as much as £300,000 for a 94-year lease. Fourteen of Britain’s two hundred most expensive streets are in the neighbourhood, as defined by The Times.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knightsbridge#Economy
Sirksome
Don’t tell me Jason’s classist. That’s pretty lame of him.
Thag Simmons
Given his upbringing I’m surprised he’s not worse.
Darkoneko
he. always wears. a bowtie.
epitome of incomprehensibility
I have a feeling he’s both genuinely classist AND exaggerating for comic effect.
John Campbell
Her ample compensation moved to a different dorm.
True Survivor
Phrased like that, Becky and Dina’s request does sound kind of like a request two kids might make of their teacher on the playground (minus the sex part obviously).
Kravis
In my language “Oi!” means “Hi!”.
FaerwenOfValenwood
mas tem br em todo canto mesmo né, rs
(no one panic, I am not reciting an ancient curse but merely saluting Kravis in the Language of Our People)
Darkoneko
why not both
jufreire
(vish maria, tem mesmo)
Findus
So, where I live these comics go up at 6 am. I usually read the new strip and comments before getting up around 9. This morning, I woke up very early and can’t fall asleep again. Thought to myself I’ll check out DoA for some distraction.
Well, it kept me occupied for much shorter than usual… Turns out there are a lot fewer comments at time of upload 😀 (dunno what I expected tbh)
audkitten
I find the comments easier to digest when the strip first goes up. I tend to get really overwhelmed when there are too many.
Findus
Yeah, good point… It just feels unusual to me to see them all trickling in on reloading the page.
Needfuldoer
I’ll throw a few comments in around 3 hours after the comic goes live, then check back on just those threads later in the day. Catching up on the comments for some strips, especially when things get heated and there’s over 400 of them, is a lot.
newlland(Henryvolt)
Welcome to the U.S timezone, I assume your in a different country that is.
Yotomoe
https://i.imgur.com/zdZYJ2i.png (NSFW)
https://i.imgur.com/bfokEoK.png (NSFW)
Who here is ready for
FEEEEEEEELINGS?
Story so far…
https://imgur.com/a/9Ob1cy3
FaerwenOfValenwood
titillation (hahaha, tit) with a side of FEELS. Love it!!
The Wellerman
Ya really nailed Jennifer’s character here!
Famtastic!!! ?
Andy
Not gonna lie, in panel 3 my first thought was “Why is Walky holding her upside down by her ankles and when did he get strong enough for that?”
Rabid Rabbit
Is it very wrong of me that I read panel 3 of the first one as Walky suddenly leaping to his feet with a triumphant roar, and flipping Jennifer upside down as he does so?
Rose by Any Other Name
Post orgasm feels are best feels.
^^
Darkoneko
oh no ! feels /o\
ValdVin
Great stuff. Imgur warned me that the last (and only last) link had mature content.
I am now trying to figure out if that’s emotional maturity.
Bagge
Billy won at sex which is a normal thing to win that you can win
zee
Should i be reading this in the psychiatrists waiting room? Probably not.
Will that stop me? Probably not.
JBento
I hope the session (and the overall care) goes well.
RassilonTDavros
British classism confuses me as an American because I’m so used to living in a society that pretends to have unlimited movement along the social hierarchy so that its people can be easily fooled into ignoring the issue of wealth disparity. Whereas Britain just… openly has them? And they’ve got, like, names and shit? And your class is still your class no matter how much your wealth actually changes, I guess? What the hell even is Britain
C.T. Phipps
To be fair, wealth DOES matter. The Weasleys are pure blooded wizards and due to their relative poverty that they are looked down upon by the Malfoys no matter what their wealth.
…
Wait, Potter isn’t the best guide for this?
RassilonTDavros
Growing up is realizing that the stuff about “blood purity” in those books that you always thought was about racism is actually about classism, because no way in hell would the woman who bent over backwards justifying the house elves’ enslavement ever write something anti-racist deliberately.
C.T. Phipps
I used to give Rowling the benefit of the doubt regarding House Elves because “I am stating this is not a stand-in for an actual thing but dealing with magical creatures. Because as an author you should not always be dealing with metaphor 24/7.” However, I’m now much-much less inclined to cut rowling slack.
thejeff
The House Elf stuff was just all over the place. Hermione trying to organize for them was played as a joke and reads like an anti-woke screed, but the individual house elves that get more focus clearly show how much something like that is needed.
The basic concept is interesting, drawing from old folk tales and trying to fit them into a modern magical world. A better writer could do something with it.
Jess
I kinda figured that the wealth probably started the same but whereas the Weasley’s had 7 kids, the Malfoy’s had 1. So they had more extra money where the Weasleys had to spend their money. I never really thought of it as a class thing until you pointed it out.
Andy
Hell, the 7 kids thing is probably classism, too. Rich people, higher class people, can afford birth control and don’t breed like rabbits. Poor people do and therefore it’s clearly their own fault they’re poor.
Jess
Yeah, that makes sense too. But there’s gotta be a magic equivalent to the pill, too.
Granted I’m pretty sure modern plumbing didn’t exist in the magical world as a whole, since I heard someone (Maybe Rowling? I don’t remember) say that they just apperated their waste away.
C.T. Phipps
I mean, some people like large families.
Weird people.
🙂
Slartibeast Button, BIA
There might be some truth to the Horcrux’s canard that Molly didn’t love Ron because she wanted a daughter. Not true about the love, but maybe she really wanted a daughter and kept trying until she got one.
BBCC
She said they did that before modern plumbing existed, as opposed to throwing shit into the streets.