In different sections of a large arena with thousands of people between you is exactly the correct way to socialize with Linda and Charles Walkerton. Perhaps come summer they can vacation together on opposite sides of the Grand Canyon.
Better yet. They can go to the beach. The beach beside the Atlantic Ocean.
The parents can try out the Canary Islands, or maybe the beaches of Spain. The kids can take the cheaper route, and hit up the east coast of Florida or the Carolinas.
On second thought, the elder Walkertons would never visit Spain, the Canary Islands, or likely Florida, for that matter.
Too many people speaking Spanish for their liking.
khn0
If you get to the right spanish island, people will ben speaking english or german.
Love the way Willis included a couple of birds. There are always birds that get in somehow and end up trapped and roosting in the very upper reaches of the rafters. We even had a couple in the warehouse-style grocery store I used to work at.
I’m glad I was fully into band by the time I hit high school and my big growth spurts, because being pushed into basketball in middle school for being juuust a little taller was hell enough.
I guarantee you if Sal had showed up with Danny or Walky had a white girl with him Linda would have paid for the kids’ seats, too. There’s a lot to unpack in today’s strip.
I don’t think they’ve interacted with Walky’s parents yet today. On the last strip, Walky said he had a *lead* on where they are. I don’t think they even know he’s here.
Schpoonman
That’s fair, but Walky actually said he had a fix on their location, and their appearance at the first floor of the dorm to meet Sal makes me think the game was a pre-determined meet-up.
Linda’s also so horrible that I just immediately leap to the worse action she could take and wait to be surprised.
Archieve
Given how much Linda loves to call in her Dean favors like she did with Dorothy on parents day, I suspect she could have gotten everyone a ticket upgrade last minute if one of her kids was dating someone she wanted to put the best foot forward for. Last time she was able to get everyone vip room football seats very last minute. My read is that with Sall out and Walky confirmed to bring Lucy, Linda doesn’t think this event is worth making any effort for.
Not an exclusively American thing. I was your quintessential lanky-ass “walking up the stairs gets me wheezing” nerd type, but I was automatically put on the basketball team because I was >6ft
I’m a big tall guy so I did some rec basketball growing up but I’m slow, lazy and have asthma. And I grew up at 6-7000 feet so any asthma issues get exacerbated by the thin air. In baseball I was in the far outfield, in soccer I picked dandelions while the team’s main strategy was “play good enough the ball doesn’t get back to him”. High school included a disappointed football coach.
These days my hobbies include impersonating a fridge and accidentally looming. Got rear-ended once and as soon as I unfolded myself out of the car the guy was apologizing like crazy. Like many large people like that I’d be crying my eyes out if I ever so much as injured a butterfly.
It is possible to get nosebleeds from a change in attitude. The attitude change from the floor to the highest seats in a typical stadium is nowhere near enough to give nosebleeds, but we are a people that are fond of our little exaggerations.
eh, whatever
altitude – height
clif
I swear attitude is what I typed.
clif
Altitude. Though I see what’s happening this time.
thejeff
I kind of like the idea of the attitude changing from the expensive floor seats to the cheap nose blood ones.
Nosebleed seats is a reference to the highest seats up in a stadium. They’re caused that because they are SO high up that the difference in air pressure CAN cause one to be more prone to something like a nosebleed.
I can’t tell if you’re actually asking or just making a joke, so just in case, the highest seats in a stadium are often referred to as nosebleed seats because of the altitude
Eh, it’s not that weird these days for someone to just not go to big sporting events or arena concerts and not be familiar with the lingo.
Yotomoe
I mean it’s not like learned that term from going to arenas or sporting events either. Just sorta heard it in passing, most likely through tv.
Quirdry Tawks
I call that cultural osmosis. I’m probably not the first to think of that, tho.
pig
Oh hey, I call it that too! I’ve never seen anyone else use the phrase.
Thag Simmons
Yeah I’ve seen it around a lot, been around for a while. Which is good, it’s a useful term
LiterallyJustSomeGuy
That is how I typically think of it. I guess I acquired the term “cultural osmosis” through cultural osmosis.
clif
Not an expert, but in academic circles I believe that there is a distinction between social osmosis that takes place within a society and cultural osmosis that takes place between cultures. Not that I’ve ever seen a formal definition to that effect. Let’s see if Google can pull up a quick example. Here we are: https://abhinav001.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/cultural-osmosis/
Yee, i am definitely not at all into sports unless you count esports and/or game speedrunning marathons
Thank you all for filling me in ?
PedanticJerkass
“unless you count esports and/or game speedrunning marathons”
Which are not sports, by any stretch of the imagination (even if esports grandiosely has the word “sports” right there in it), so no, they don’t count.
deliverything
Not claiming they are (or should be considered) sports, but… well, if pedantry’s acceptable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sports includes a number of other things (the entire “motorsports” section, for example) that require levels of physical exertion comparable to speedrunning or esports.
The “mind sports” category, which includes esports, says “Requiring little or no physical exertion or agility, mind sports are often not considered true sports”, but much the same could be said of driving.
Really, though, does it really matter what we call it? For what it’s worth, I’d be more impressed to learn someone’s a speedrunner than a golfer. I mean, a certain rather pathetic and unfit recent president played quite a lot of golf (perhaps fortunately, as it distracted him from doing other things), so how hard can it be?
Not the whole state just the places that got sneaux and the counties adjacent to it. Texans can’t drive when someone spits on the road, they lose their ever-loving minds when it sneaux. I use that spelling to prevent panic in Texas.
it’s interesting that altitude? is connected to nosebleeds, not that i’ve gone outta my way to be high up but i’ve always had nosebleeds in dry heat versu being high up
Being a big guy I was pushed to play high school sports and I ended up getting an injury in my hip that wasn’t well identified and treated till years later. I say as such because I have never been to a college sports game of any kind and I went to Florida State which is so into sports it was kind of nauseating. I might be over sharing…
That pressure to play sport is fucked when you think how your care systems (fail to) work…
I was in my highschool team -which was relatively a good team – while being very short. But since in my country you’re not supposed to be discovered in high school but in licensed cities clubs that play a championship, there is little to no pressure in highschool – it’s almost like highschool is for learning rather than competing…
I’m liking this bit of Walky lore. It makes sense, sorta like how many Texan kids feel like they’ll be on the Dallas Cowboys, with the hope that Jerry Jones will be long dead by then.
I say this, but christ, last time they won a Superbowl is 1996, so I wonder if Texan kids might hope they get drafted by a better team. We love our football here (“we” in this case not including me, I am extremely indifferent to it), but I think it’s somewhat more focused on college football for a lot here for that reason.
Come on, Bob Kraft isn’t that bad. If anyone on Pats management is the problem, is Belichick. His worn-in playbook isn’t working anymore now that he doesn’t have a Brady filtering it on the fly.
Needfuldoer
Oh. NFC. I misread that as AFC.
Point still stands.
UrsulaDavina
Tbh all the NFL team owners are pretty bad except the Packers who are a publicly owned by stockholders. I am not a Packers fan but their model of ownership is better model( i am not saying its perfect model) then the Billionaires club that dominates the NFL. And also they don’t extort cities to pay for stadiums.
Hof1991
Third generation Packer owner here. It’s great to not have your favorite sports team not in the hands of literal idiot supervillains. You can have a great stadium without soaking local government.
Oddly, I think Hank would respect a Foreman, but only if he met a New Yorker who kept one in his apartment because it’s harder to grill when you live in the city.
160 thoughts on “Student tickets”
Ana Chronistic
I’d be amazed if they can even see the playing field
just bleachers, as far as the eye can see
Quirdry Tawks
Having occupied many, many nosebleed seats, I can tell you, the view is quite good. You get a big-picture view of the game that TV just cannot match.
Unless your view is obstructed by a pillar or column or something.
Which I have also experienced.
Leadsynth
Yeah, I figure there’s a reason it’s cool to be in a skybox.
Ana Chronistic
I mean, they seem to be behind active spotlights, for one thing, can’t be TOO cool
Doctor_Who
Honestly, 10/10 planning.
In different sections of a large arena with thousands of people between you is exactly the correct way to socialize with Linda and Charles Walkerton. Perhaps come summer they can vacation together on opposite sides of the Grand Canyon.
SeanR
Better yet. They can go to the beach. The beach beside the Atlantic Ocean.
The parents can try out the Canary Islands, or maybe the beaches of Spain. The kids can take the cheaper route, and hit up the east coast of Florida or the Carolinas.
SeanR
On second thought, the elder Walkertons would never visit Spain, the Canary Islands, or likely Florida, for that matter.
Too many people speaking Spanish for their liking.
khn0
If you get to the right spanish island, people will ben speaking english or german.
Doopyboop
Honestly this is so real, that’s why I didn’t take my mom to a homecoming game until after I had graduated so we would be able to sit together.
Bicycle Bill
Love the way Willis included a couple of birds. There are always birds that get in somehow and end up trapped and roosting in the very upper reaches of the rafters. We even had a couple in the warehouse-style grocery store I used to work at.
Doopyboop
The birds, always ready and willing to start stealing fries and hot dogs!
Schpoonman
I’m glad I was fully into band by the time I hit high school and my big growth spurts, because being pushed into basketball in middle school for being juuust a little taller was hell enough.
God, the United States fucking sucks.
Schpoonman
I guarantee you if Sal had showed up with Danny or Walky had a white girl with him Linda would have paid for the kids’ seats, too. There’s a lot to unpack in today’s strip.
Sav
I don’t think they’ve interacted with Walky’s parents yet today. On the last strip, Walky said he had a *lead* on where they are. I don’t think they even know he’s here.
Schpoonman
That’s fair, but Walky actually said he had a fix on their location, and their appearance at the first floor of the dorm to meet Sal makes me think the game was a pre-determined meet-up.
Linda’s also so horrible that I just immediately leap to the worse action she could take and wait to be surprised.
Archieve
Given how much Linda loves to call in her Dean favors like she did with Dorothy on parents day, I suspect she could have gotten everyone a ticket upgrade last minute if one of her kids was dating someone she wanted to put the best foot forward for. Last time she was able to get everyone vip room football seats very last minute. My read is that with Sall out and Walky confirmed to bring Lucy, Linda doesn’t think this event is worth making any effort for.
Baroncognito
I can honestly say that I’ve never watched a basketball game without twenty-five pounds of metal on my shoulder.
Schpoonman
Brass section represent. One of my biggest regrets was not transcribing Guile’s Theme into a stand tune.
Opus the Poet
I usually put the camera on a tripod when they weigh that much…
Ed Rhodes
I played trombone… until I discovered I couldn’t read music!
Quirdry Tawks
Seconded.
NoNamePlaceholder
Not an exclusively American thing. I was your quintessential lanky-ass “walking up the stairs gets me wheezing” nerd type, but I was automatically put on the basketball team because I was >6ft
Bruceski
I’m a big tall guy so I did some rec basketball growing up but I’m slow, lazy and have asthma. And I grew up at 6-7000 feet so any asthma issues get exacerbated by the thin air. In baseball I was in the far outfield, in soccer I picked dandelions while the team’s main strategy was “play good enough the ball doesn’t get back to him”. High school included a disappointed football coach.
These days my hobbies include impersonating a fridge and accidentally looming. Got rear-ended once and as soon as I unfolded myself out of the car the guy was apologizing like crazy. Like many large people like that I’d be crying my eyes out if I ever so much as injured a butterfly.
NGPZ
Nose bleeds? From horniness? Or refernce to Get Out?
Nathan
Nose bleeds is slang from way back seats
clif
It is possible to get nosebleeds from a change in attitude. The attitude change from the floor to the highest seats in a typical stadium is nowhere near enough to give nosebleeds, but we are a people that are fond of our little exaggerations.
eh, whatever
altitude – height
clif
I swear attitude is what I typed.
clif
Altitude. Though I see what’s happening this time.
thejeff
I kind of like the idea of the attitude changing from the expensive floor seats to the cheap nose blood ones.
Yotomoe
Nosebleed seats is a reference to the highest seats up in a stadium. They’re caused that because they are SO high up that the difference in air pressure CAN cause one to be more prone to something like a nosebleed.
Octo
I can’t tell if you’re actually asking or just making a joke, so just in case, the highest seats in a stadium are often referred to as nosebleed seats because of the altitude
Thag Simmons
Eh, it’s not that weird these days for someone to just not go to big sporting events or arena concerts and not be familiar with the lingo.
Yotomoe
I mean it’s not like learned that term from going to arenas or sporting events either. Just sorta heard it in passing, most likely through tv.
Quirdry Tawks
I call that cultural osmosis. I’m probably not the first to think of that, tho.
pig
Oh hey, I call it that too! I’ve never seen anyone else use the phrase.
Thag Simmons
Yeah I’ve seen it around a lot, been around for a while. Which is good, it’s a useful term
LiterallyJustSomeGuy
That is how I typically think of it. I guess I acquired the term “cultural osmosis” through cultural osmosis.
clif
Not an expert, but in academic circles I believe that there is a distinction between social osmosis that takes place within a society and cultural osmosis that takes place between cultures. Not that I’ve ever seen a formal definition to that effect. Let’s see if Google can pull up a quick example. Here we are: https://abhinav001.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/cultural-osmosis/
NGPZ
Yee, i am definitely not at all into sports unless you count esports and/or game speedrunning marathons
Thank you all for filling me in ?
PedanticJerkass
“unless you count esports and/or game speedrunning marathons”
Which are not sports, by any stretch of the imagination (even if esports grandiosely has the word “sports” right there in it), so no, they don’t count.
deliverything
Not claiming they are (or should be considered) sports, but… well, if pedantry’s acceptable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sports includes a number of other things (the entire “motorsports” section, for example) that require levels of physical exertion comparable to speedrunning or esports.
The “mind sports” category, which includes esports, says “Requiring little or no physical exertion or agility, mind sports are often not considered true sports”, but much the same could be said of driving.
Really, though, does it really matter what we call it? For what it’s worth, I’d be more impressed to learn someone’s a speedrunner than a golfer. I mean, a certain rather pathetic and unfit recent president played quite a lot of golf (perhaps fortunately, as it distracted him from doing other things), so how hard can it be?
Derek
yeah I literally never heard of this before either
Schpoonman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosebleed_section
HueSatLight
don’t listen to everyone else. It’s about the heater vent they’re sitting under that’s drying out the insides of their noses.
Mym
It’s a combo platter
But I assure you, when the air is below freezing and has a humidity above 2%, the insides of your nose are RUINED.
clif
Don’t be silly. Life as we know it can’t exist for long when the air is below freezing.
Why yes, I live in Houston Texas. Why do you ask?
Mym
Haha, doesn’t like the whole state shut down with a dusting of powder?
Opus the Poet
Not the whole state just the places that got sneaux and the counties adjacent to it. Texans can’t drive when someone spits on the road, they lose their ever-loving minds when it sneaux. I use that spelling to prevent panic in Texas.
Adam Black
its life, but not as ypu know it
Hof1991
Uecker seats. https://www.rookieroad.com/baseball/the-field/uecker-seats/
Angel
it’s interesting that altitude? is connected to nosebleeds, not that i’ve gone outta my way to be high up but i’ve always had nosebleeds in dry heat versu being high up
Rocketboy1313
Being a big guy I was pushed to play high school sports and I ended up getting an injury in my hip that wasn’t well identified and treated till years later. I say as such because I have never been to a college sports game of any kind and I went to Florida State which is so into sports it was kind of nauseating. I might be over sharing…
Amós Batista
No, that comment match up perfectly. Thanks
Just an Armadillo
Geez, hope you made a full recovery in the end!
clif
And that your end is fully recovered.
khn0
That pressure to play sport is fucked when you think how your care systems (fail to) work…
I was in my highschool team -which was relatively a good team – while being very short. But since in my country you’re not supposed to be discovered in high school but in licensed cities clubs that play a championship, there is little to no pressure in highschool – it’s almost like highschool is for learning rather than competing…
Jamie
The pressure to play sports is basically a low-key version of military enlistment.
Adam Black
oversharing. Not until after you share the hip xrays, and whatever else comes with it
DailyBrad
I’m liking this bit of Walky lore. It makes sense, sorta like how many Texan kids feel like they’ll be on the Dallas Cowboys, with the hope that Jerry Jones will be long dead by then.
I say this, but christ, last time they won a Superbowl is 1996, so I wonder if Texan kids might hope they get drafted by a better team. We love our football here (“we” in this case not including me, I am extremely indifferent to it), but I think it’s somewhat more focused on college football for a lot here for that reason.
UrsulaDavina
Congrats to the Commanders for not having the worst owner in the league anymore. Yet the title remains in the NFC East
Quirdry Tawks
Jerry’s still not dead? Jesus Christ, is he trying to get promoted to Queen of England?
clif
The Queen of England’s still not dead? Ha! I knew it!
There’s still hope for Mike.
Needfuldoer
Come on, Bob Kraft isn’t that bad. If anyone on Pats management is the problem, is Belichick. His worn-in playbook isn’t working anymore now that he doesn’t have a Brady filtering it on the fly.
Needfuldoer
Oh. NFC. I misread that as AFC.
Point still stands.
UrsulaDavina
Tbh all the NFL team owners are pretty bad except the Packers who are a publicly owned by stockholders. I am not a Packers fan but their model of ownership is better model( i am not saying its perfect model) then the Billionaires club that dominates the NFL. And also they don’t extort cities to pay for stadiums.
Hof1991
Third generation Packer owner here. It’s great to not have your favorite sports team not in the hands of literal idiot supervillains. You can have a great stadium without soaking local government.
Yotomoe
God it’s been that long? If I ever run into Hank Hill remind me to roast him. And not with Propane.
Taffy
Charcoal, for maximum disrespect.
SeanR
Maximum disrespect is achieved by using a Foreman grill. Charcoal, at least, is an actual fuel.
Taffy
Oddly, I think Hank would respect a Foreman, but only if he met a New Yorker who kept one in his apartment because it’s harder to grill when you live in the city.