Ok that’s it I’m going to try hanging out with my old friends again. Atleast Joyce and Sal will help me give someone the side eye if I think even try to push the narrative that walky is hot.
Aw, this implies you don’t have faith in Walky x Lucy! How can you not have faith in DOA’s OTP Walky x Lucy.?! They’re stronger than terrible lizbeans Becky x Dina!
Ruth x Billie fans are in Immense suffering
I would know, i am one
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Well my OTP is still waiting to get off the ground… (ships Joyce/Dorothy), so at least yours had a chance. xD
As for Walky’s coolness, I’m just a little jealous that he’s like, what? 18? 19? And still has a full head of hair. (While his commenter started losing his hair at 14!)
Lucy is great, she’s kind, caring, thoughtful and her and Walky make a decent pair. But it feels like they’re relationship doesn’t feel serious yet but that’s fine since their relationship is like a week old and it’s best not to rush into things.
That aside I don’t see yet how this one can last where Dorothy & Amber couldn’t. Dorothy took his first everything including his heart so Lucy can’t imitate that…ok Let’s see Lucy Stab Sal and see if they’re still willing to try to make it work after that.
Segnosaur
Keep in mind that the Dorothy/walky relationship ended when Dorothy broke it off (to spend more time on her studies). That probably won’t happen with Lucy.
Maybe he just believes in love! What a guy can’t believe in love and be accepting of his romantic potential? It’s not Walky’s fault his past relationships haven’t worked out. He’s just been…unlucky. He’s the Ted Mosby of DoA!
Taffy
Had to look up who “Ted Mosby” was, sort of assuming he was from a Disney show. Turns out he’s that guy who looks like Just Some Guy on that show about the weirdo who grows up to be Bob Saget.
I don’t eat breakfast foods for breakfast. For breakfast, leftoverpizza. For breakfast foods at dinner or lunch: french toast. I actually like most breakfast foods – especially fancy ones like quiche, but cooking breakfast is too hard. I don’t function until later.
True, but given the state of food storage (I won’t really call it refrigeration), reheating (if you maintained a fire in your stove), and grabbing a bite to eat (not existing as we recognize it), people were ready for it.
And by people I largely mean housewives, who were responsible for feeding the family and getting them out the door. Those cliches made fun of in Pleasantville exist for a reason.
Red chilaquiles, very crunchy… only spicy enough to be tasty, if the only thing I can taste is the chilli, then it’s too spicy. I need to feel the tomato too. With chicken either shredded or breaded
Sounds really tasty!!! Care to share your favorite recipe for it? Would you still call them chilaquiles if they were cooked with Taco Bell sauce instead of regular salsa?
Gwyn
I mean, Taco Bell insists on calling their food offerings “tacos,” so there’s nothing stopping you
Dutch baby, get in mah belly!
Prep time 3 mins. Cook time 22 mins, gives me time to make coffee and have a bowl of cereal while waiting. 25 mins after entering the kitchen, Dutch baby is entering my mouth. Yes!
If marxism isn’t fun, you’re doing it with the wrong people.
Don’t forget protections, though, especially with multiple conversation partners, because some positions may be riskier than others.
It’s not that marxism isn’t fun, it’s that finding all these recipes to try is that much MORE fun, at least when you’re low on spoons like I am these days. ADHD stripes bruh!
Usually cereal with milk, sometimes oatmeal, and Poptarts if I’m in a hurry, but always with a cup of strong tea with sugar and milk to wash down my morning meds. I’m old, I have wake-up meds and bedtime meds because getting killed means you need lots of pills to keep you going when you are alive again. Blood pressure pills, pain pills, pills to stabilize your brain damage…
Wellerman, is that first breakfast or second breakfast? I know that sounds like a hobbit joke but I grab something like a single serving bag of chips or pretzels or a handful of mixed nuts with coffee when I first get up. Get something in my stomach.. Later, once my wife is awake, while she has cereal and fruit, I have something Mexican and microwavable. Some combo of breakfast tacos, breakfast burritos, actual burritos, tamales, scrambled eggs with picante sauce, etc. Along with milk and my old man pills.
Yeah, I still stand by Raidah not being that great. Also Jennifer trash talking her former friends sours me too, and actually Carl is just a tool. Oh and I guess Asher’s there. I don’t trust him. That is all.
Oh, she’s acting pretty bad here. My general point just to keep in minds is that our view of Raidah is heavily influenced by her massive grudge against Sarah, a major character in the strip.
In all honestly, she’s probably around par in terms of people being assholes in this comic. She’s not exactly aggressive or hostile, she just has a really ugly grudge against Sarah and it colors everyone that Sarah hangs around with.
Also, note her comment on Joyce here. That she looks terrible, but it looks to be presented in more of a “…huh” than “hahaha goooooood”.
And there’s certainly reasons why Raidah might want to feel vindictive towards Joyce.
I keep trying to convince myself that I’m just biased against Raidah because we’ve been seeing her through Sarah’s eyes, but she keeps coming up with new and different ways to be awful.
Wraithy2773
It’s less that we’re seeing her though Sarah’s eyes, Raidah’s grudge against Sarah is pretty damn vicious and not exactly reciprocal (Sarah doesn’t like Raidah, but only a bit more than she doesn’t like anyone else). It’s a bad look and it is awful.
It also just happens to dominate her appearances because so much of her interactions are related to Sarah’s friend circle.
I’ll also note that she’s not being awful in a new or different way here. She’s shitting on Sarah (neither new or different), and enjoying a bit of eye candy. If she does make moves on Walky despite being informed that he’s got a girlfriend, then absolutely, that’d be something new and different, but she ain’t there yet.
temperaryobsessor
Well she’s going strait from that guys cute to what do his parents do. Which isn’t exactly a good look.
Evolutionarily it makes sense. A potential mate’s ability to support progeny is directly related to the financial status of his parents. Good parents increases the probability of being able to support children and the wife/mother in the style to which she wishes to become accustomed.
Opus i think you’re taking a little poetic license their combining evolution and finance
temperaryobsessor
I get the practicality and honestly if she was asking directly about his finances or job prospects I would not judge her as hard. But asking about his parents finances instead screams of classism.
I mean, my view of Raidah comes from how her and her friends treated Dina.
Bryy
My view of Raidah comes from the fact that she clearly feels superior to everyone, including her boyfriend.
That fact that she’s interested in Walky, but only puts value on people via how powerful their parents are, is super icky.
Lokitsu
That’s what I noticed first. Raidah needed to know Walky’s parents financial/social status. That made me cringe.
Geneseepaws
Ditto, her treatment of Dina was a knife in the heart.
AlexaSpuds
same
I never trust people who talk that way about people with disabilities or mental illness, real or perceived
that’s my policy in real life too and up to this point, I was right on the nose 100% of the time, every person I avoided with this rule was a huge creep/asshole
To be fair, I wouldn’t say Jennifer is trash talking any of them except maybe Sarah. But I think Sarah would kinda be proud of that depiction of her, so does it really count as trash?
I could see reading the comment about Joyce as trash talking, but I read her facial expression as genuine concern about what’s wrong with Joyce, not derision.
Meh, it irks me a little. These same people were Jennifer’s emotional support just a few months ago. She went to Sarah/Dina’s birthday party. Yet here she is with a new friend group really quick to keep pace with Raidah’s jabs. Kinda shitty to me. Not the worst thing, but not a great moment either.
Wraithy2773
She was also a periodically suicidal, alcoholic trainwreck in an unhealthy relationship. Changing her circle of friends, at least for the moment, seems to have made her considerably healthier.
Also, did Billie ever have much in the way of personal interactions with Sarah? Her being an antisocial loner is, well, the baseline assumption for people about Sarah…
Sirksome
I don’t actually hate Jennifer’s friend group…..uh actually no I do kind of hate them. They suck, but I don’t hate Jennifer’s choice to separate from her old friends and try to reinvent herself and be healthier. But the thing is you can do that and also not be kind of a tool like your dumb new friends. That’s not mutually exclusive.
Wraithy2773
I mean, Jennifer’s comment was kinda dickish…
…and while untrue, I think Sarah would be right there going “AGREED”. 😀
Joyfulldreams
I personally don’t really read Jennifer’s comment as much of a jab necessarily, at least not any worse than the sort of pointed comment she might have freely made even while in Sarah’s company months ago. Like, She’s not being any more bongo-y than even Old Billie was.
That is to say, it does not seem to me like she’s making that comment in order to piggypack off of Raidah’s shittalking, so much as it’s just the sort of thing she’d say regardless. Raidah’s the one who tries to interpret that as ‘oh she’s joining in on my shittalking ha ha.’
But like. It’s still not great. It’s just not really any worse than the sorts of things she used to say all the time, literally to people’s faces.
Huh, reading this little thread I can now see your point of view re: trash talking. However, to be totally honest, when I read the strip, I was more, wow, Jennifer is trying to lower the amount of TT’ing Raidah is doing. More along the lines of “Christ, here we go again going to have to listen to Raidah go on and on about Sarah”, so she diffuses that. Then when Raidah points out how bad Joyce looks (which happened to totally surprise me that Raidah even knows who Joyce is by name”, Jennifer looks and is kind of surprised how bad Joyce DOES look, and finally Walky. She has so much history with Walky as a surrogate-step-sister to him, that any trash talking by her should simply be overlooked as normal sisterly love/hate. I didn’t think that Jennifer was being necessarily intentionally mean at all. But… maybe I misread the strip.
294 thoughts on “Poutine”
Doctor_Who
Asher: “Hey Jennifer, have you noticed Walky is hot?”
Jennifer: “No.”
Raidah: “You know, that Walky guy is pretty hot, huh?”
Jennifer: “Stop it.”
Walky: “Hey, Billie…”
Jennifer: “YOU’RE HOT! I GET IT! YOU’RE HOT AND I WANT YOU TO DO THINGS TO ME! NOW WHAT THE HELL IS IT?!”
Walky: “…What page was the math assignment on?”
Jennifer: “46.”
Walky: “Thanks.”
King Daniel
Yotomoe’s fic: the prequel
ValdVin
Yeah, it’s like someone set off the
BatYoto signal.newlland(Henryvolt)
Ok that’s it I’m going to try hanging out with my old friends again. Atleast Joyce and Sal will help me give someone the side eye if I think even try to push the narrative that walky is hot.
Ana Chronistic
Walky’s relationship status is like the weather in Hawai’i tho
if you don’t like it, just wait five minutes
Sirksome
Aw, this implies you don’t have faith in Walky x Lucy! How can you not have faith in DOA’s OTP Walky x Lucy.?! They’re stronger than terrible lizbeans Becky x Dina!
Dana
My OTP died, and so should everyone else’s. 🙂
Juanoku
Ruth x Billie fans are in Immense suffering
I would know, i am one
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Well my OTP is still waiting to get off the ground… (ships Joyce/Dorothy), so at least yours had a chance. xD
As for Walky’s coolness, I’m just a little jealous that he’s like, what? 18? 19? And still has a full head of hair. (While his commenter started losing his hair at 14!)
Yotomoe
It may be my least favorite ship honestly.
Reltzik
Lucy don’t like the pajama jeans. This ship is as good as sunk.
The Wellerman
Don’t make me attempt Horny Hypnosis again, human! At least let Walky have this.
newlland(Henryvolt)
Lucy is great, she’s kind, caring, thoughtful and her and Walky make a decent pair. But it feels like they’re relationship doesn’t feel serious yet but that’s fine since their relationship is like a week old and it’s best not to rush into things.
That aside I don’t see yet how this one can last where Dorothy & Amber couldn’t. Dorothy took his first everything including his heart so Lucy can’t imitate that…ok Let’s see Lucy Stab Sal and see if they’re still willing to try to make it work after that.
Segnosaur
Keep in mind that the Dorothy/walky relationship ended when Dorothy broke it off (to spend more time on her studies). That probably won’t happen with Lucy.
Rose by Any Other Name
Garbage Scow for life, yo.
Ana Chronistic
Answer me: Who, other than Joe, has been depicted with the largest number of relationships? (noting I exclude Joe bc none of them were “serious”)
thejeff
Seriously, include Joe. At least as far as depiction goes, not implication.
Ethan, I suspect. Though most of them weren’t serious either.
Sirksome
Maybe he just believes in love! What a guy can’t believe in love and be accepting of his romantic potential? It’s not Walky’s fault his past relationships haven’t worked out. He’s just been…unlucky. He’s the Ted Mosby of DoA!
Taffy
Had to look up who “Ted Mosby” was, sort of assuming he was from a Disney show. Turns out he’s that guy who looks like Just Some Guy on that show about the weirdo who grows up to be Bob Saget.
The Wellerman
Why would I expect anything less from these bourgeois pricks? ?
Now, we could engage in a discussion about Historical Marxism, but how about something at least slightly more fun?
What’s your favorite thing to have for breakfast? ?
(whether or not you say Hoosier Poutine, alright by me)
King Daniel
Y’all eat breakfast?
Decidedly Orthogonal
Oh yeah! For a meal at any time of day!
Rose by Any Other Name
@Knig Daniel – I know, right?
I usually just have some caffeinated drink in the morning and then have an early lunch.
Uly
Whatever you eat after 8+ hours is breaking a fast, so everybody does unless they don’t sleep.
not someone else
Eggs Benedict with spinach and pancakes or crepes.
This is not something I normally can get, alas.
FaerwenOfValenwood
whatever I can slap a bunch of bacon on and still get away with calling “a whole meal,” tbh
Robbie
I don’t eat breakfast foods for breakfast. For breakfast, leftoverpizza. For breakfast foods at dinner or lunch: french toast. I actually like most breakfast foods – especially fancy ones like quiche, but cooking breakfast is too hard. I don’t function until later.
Taffy
“breakfast foods” are a myth propagated by the pork industry and some weird pedo named Kellogg.
ValdVin
True, but given the state of food storage (I won’t really call it refrigeration), reheating (if you maintained a fire in your stove), and grabbing a bite to eat (not existing as we recognize it), people were ready for it.
And by people I largely mean housewives, who were responsible for feeding the family and getting them out the door. Those cliches made fun of in Pleasantville exist for a reason.
Reltzik
A free Sunday so I can sleep in for 8 hours, and have afternoon with breakfast.
Romanticide
Red chilaquiles, very crunchy… only spicy enough to be tasty, if the only thing I can taste is the chilli, then it’s too spicy. I need to feel the tomato too. With chicken either shredded or breaded
The Wellerman
Sounds really tasty!!! Care to share your favorite recipe for it? Would you still call them chilaquiles if they were cooked with Taco Bell sauce instead of regular salsa?
Gwyn
I mean, Taco Bell insists on calling their food offerings “tacos,” so there’s nothing stopping you
The Wellerman
Just made some with Taco Bell SAUCE, had a fried egg over it, so spicy and savory!!! ? ?
Now, just why doesn’t Taco Bell serve these with egg as a breakfast item?
Ntrovert
Calling Taco Bell “food” is stretching the truth nearly past recognition…
anonymsly
Dutch baby!
Geneseepaws
Dutch baby, get in mah belly!
Prep time 3 mins. Cook time 22 mins, gives me time to make coffee and have a bowl of cereal while waiting. 25 mins after entering the kitchen, Dutch baby is entering my mouth. Yes!
Saida
As a Dutch person, I am deeply concerned about this post.
…Now, I may be able to get my hands on a Dutch baby soon… how do you prepare, and how hot should the oven be?
Mr D
My usual breakfast is some toasted hallullas with some half-butter margarine and a slice of (good) gouda cheese, with a cup of milk coffee.
Needfuldoer
Coffee. Everything else is secondary.
Ed Callahan
Is there anything else?
Needfuldoer
Cream and sugar, at least.
khn0
If marxism isn’t fun, you’re doing it with the wrong people.
Don’t forget protections, though, especially with multiple conversation partners, because some positions may be riskier than others.
The Wellerman
It’s not that marxism isn’t fun, it’s that finding all these recipes to try is that much MORE fun, at least when you’re low on spoons like I am these days. ADHD stripes bruh!
AbelUndercity
Coffee. Black. sluuurrrrrp
Opus the Poet
Usually cereal with milk, sometimes oatmeal, and Poptarts if I’m in a hurry, but always with a cup of strong tea with sugar and milk to wash down my morning meds. I’m old, I have wake-up meds and bedtime meds because getting killed means you need lots of pills to keep you going when you are alive again. Blood pressure pills, pain pills, pills to stabilize your brain damage…
Keulen
Poptarts and milk.
Clif
Wellerman, is that first breakfast or second breakfast? I know that sounds like a hobbit joke but I grab something like a single serving bag of chips or pretzels or a handful of mixed nuts with coffee when I first get up. Get something in my stomach.. Later, once my wife is awake, while she has cereal and fruit, I have something Mexican and microwavable. Some combo of breakfast tacos, breakfast burritos, actual burritos, tamales, scrambled eggs with picante sauce, etc. Along with milk and my old man pills.
Julez
Spinach bacon and cheddar omelette, home fries, wheat berry toast. (I may have just had this at the dîner today as well)
Julez
…my phone keeps autocorrecting diner to dîner lately. Dang french.
Sirksome
Yeah, I still stand by Raidah not being that great. Also Jennifer trash talking her former friends sours me too, and actually Carl is just a tool. Oh and I guess Asher’s there. I don’t trust him. That is all.
Wraithy2773
Oh, she’s acting pretty bad here. My general point just to keep in minds is that our view of Raidah is heavily influenced by her massive grudge against Sarah, a major character in the strip.
In all honestly, she’s probably around par in terms of people being assholes in this comic. She’s not exactly aggressive or hostile, she just has a really ugly grudge against Sarah and it colors everyone that Sarah hangs around with.
Also, note her comment on Joyce here. That she looks terrible, but it looks to be presented in more of a “…huh” than “hahaha goooooood”.
And there’s certainly reasons why Raidah might want to feel vindictive towards Joyce.
John Campbell
I keep trying to convince myself that I’m just biased against Raidah because we’ve been seeing her through Sarah’s eyes, but she keeps coming up with new and different ways to be awful.
Wraithy2773
It’s less that we’re seeing her though Sarah’s eyes, Raidah’s grudge against Sarah is pretty damn vicious and not exactly reciprocal (Sarah doesn’t like Raidah, but only a bit more than she doesn’t like anyone else). It’s a bad look and it is awful.
It also just happens to dominate her appearances because so much of her interactions are related to Sarah’s friend circle.
I’ll also note that she’s not being awful in a new or different way here. She’s shitting on Sarah (neither new or different), and enjoying a bit of eye candy. If she does make moves on Walky despite being informed that he’s got a girlfriend, then absolutely, that’d be something new and different, but she ain’t there yet.
temperaryobsessor
Well she’s going strait from that guys cute to what do his parents do. Which isn’t exactly a good look.
Opus the Poet
Evolutionarily it makes sense. A potential mate’s ability to support progeny is directly related to the financial status of his parents. Good parents increases the probability of being able to support children and the wife/mother in the style to which she wishes to become accustomed.
Nathan
Opus i think you’re taking a little poetic license their combining evolution and finance
temperaryobsessor
I get the practicality and honestly if she was asking directly about his finances or job prospects I would not judge her as hard. But asking about his parents finances instead screams of classism.
Proxiehunter
I mean, my view of Raidah comes from how her and her friends treated Dina.
Bryy
My view of Raidah comes from the fact that she clearly feels superior to everyone, including her boyfriend.
That fact that she’s interested in Walky, but only puts value on people via how powerful their parents are, is super icky.
Lokitsu
That’s what I noticed first. Raidah needed to know Walky’s parents financial/social status. That made me cringe.
Geneseepaws
Ditto, her treatment of Dina was a knife in the heart.
AlexaSpuds
same
I never trust people who talk that way about people with disabilities or mental illness, real or perceived
that’s my policy in real life too and up to this point, I was right on the nose 100% of the time, every person I avoided with this rule was a huge creep/asshole
RedCat
No it’s the “What do his parents do” for me. That’s not Sarah – related.
dinajoyce
To be fair, I wouldn’t say Jennifer is trash talking any of them except maybe Sarah. But I think Sarah would kinda be proud of that depiction of her, so does it really count as trash?
I could see reading the comment about Joyce as trash talking, but I read her facial expression as genuine concern about what’s wrong with Joyce, not derision.
Sirksome
Meh, it irks me a little. These same people were Jennifer’s emotional support just a few months ago. She went to Sarah/Dina’s birthday party. Yet here she is with a new friend group really quick to keep pace with Raidah’s jabs. Kinda shitty to me. Not the worst thing, but not a great moment either.
Wraithy2773
She was also a periodically suicidal, alcoholic trainwreck in an unhealthy relationship. Changing her circle of friends, at least for the moment, seems to have made her considerably healthier.
Also, did Billie ever have much in the way of personal interactions with Sarah? Her being an antisocial loner is, well, the baseline assumption for people about Sarah…
Sirksome
I don’t actually hate Jennifer’s friend group…..uh actually no I do kind of hate them. They suck, but I don’t hate Jennifer’s choice to separate from her old friends and try to reinvent herself and be healthier. But the thing is you can do that and also not be kind of a tool like your dumb new friends. That’s not mutually exclusive.
Wraithy2773
I mean, Jennifer’s comment was kinda dickish…
…and while untrue, I think Sarah would be right there going “AGREED”. 😀
Joyfulldreams
I personally don’t really read Jennifer’s comment as much of a jab necessarily, at least not any worse than the sort of pointed comment she might have freely made even while in Sarah’s company months ago. Like, She’s not being any more bongo-y than even Old Billie was.
That is to say, it does not seem to me like she’s making that comment in order to piggypack off of Raidah’s shittalking, so much as it’s just the sort of thing she’d say regardless. Raidah’s the one who tries to interpret that as ‘oh she’s joining in on my shittalking ha ha.’
But like. It’s still not great. It’s just not really any worse than the sorts of things she used to say all the time, literally to people’s faces.
Chris (the other one)
Huh, reading this little thread I can now see your point of view re: trash talking. However, to be totally honest, when I read the strip, I was more, wow, Jennifer is trying to lower the amount of TT’ing Raidah is doing. More along the lines of “Christ, here we go again going to have to listen to Raidah go on and on about Sarah”, so she diffuses that. Then when Raidah points out how bad Joyce looks (which happened to totally surprise me that Raidah even knows who Joyce is by name”, Jennifer looks and is kind of surprised how bad Joyce DOES look, and finally Walky. She has so much history with Walky as a surrogate-step-sister to him, that any trash talking by her should simply be overlooked as normal sisterly love/hate. I didn’t think that Jennifer was being necessarily intentionally mean at all. But… maybe I misread the strip.