Don’t be silly, Joe. If/when Sarah castrates you, she wants you to be wide awake so she can savor the terror in your eyes as she revs up the hedge trimmer.
I mean, I guess? I think you could do a lot better, both if you want “quick and clean” or “messy and painful”.
Although I guess it is easily obtainable and relatively deniable, having to conduct torture on a college student budget does constrain your options a bit. Hmm… I think I’m coming around to it.
Phew good, foe a second there it sounded like the kind of silly argument where nothing ever gets done
Thag Simmons
I try to keep an open mind about this sort of thing.
Decidedly Orthogonal
You won’t be coming to it after the first pass.
ktbear
As someone who’s used disinfectant and a razor blade I can confirm no one looks sideways at you when buying them and theyre also quite discreet.
Thag Simmons
Right, but sometimes you don’t want clean and surgical you want to make a spectacle of it. Now, unless you’re doing a public execution I think spectacle in these matters is overrated, but for the Bond villain on a budget I can see the appeal of the hedge trimmer as a torture implement.
clif
I lost track and thought the hedge trimmer was a tortured metaphor to begin with.
I guess? I think the main problem is that it is so short vertically – you could barely fit a standard sheet of lined paper in there, not to mention a binder or a full sized text book. I guess she uses lots of electronic texts and notes. I was just never a fan of those – I just didn’t believe I learned as well without the physical act of writing on paper and for some reason I could not feel fully focused when trying to learn from notes on a screen.
You don’t learn from reading your typed notes, you learn from spending the entire night before the exam trying to make sense of them through the typos and mysterious gaps
She has at something at 10, when Joyce and them-all have Calc (she walks with them, and was there when Linda and Charles showed up), and then after lunch she has polisci 102 with Robin.
Maybe she has them all on a tablet? Do kids do that now?
I went to college back when they still made you buy books, but I had a CS professor who went on a big rant about how much he hates his publishers and the only reason he’s making us get the book at all is he’d have to redo the whole syllabus without it.
Then the next powerpoint slide was just a big QR code, which he held on in silence for a solid minute. Liked that guy.
I think I was about the only one in my friend group who used traditional paper and pen for taking notes, rather than downloading the lecture slides onto their tablet and adding notes in one of the drawing apps. We graduated last year, except for the people on the four year course, for chronocontext.
Who actually carries books and binders anymore? All you need is a tablet or laptop. I haven’t seen an actual physical textbook since before I started college. Then again I also haven’t paid for a textbook since before I started college
I did. Not all textbooks have ebook versions. I probably could’ve found a PDF somewhere but those sites can be super sketchy and I’d rather not risk it.
I tended to reserve my textbook purchases in grad school for books that are considered standards (Operating System Concepts by Silberschatz et al, Introduction to Algorithms by CLRS) or books that were directly related to my research area (Image Processing, Analysis, and Machine Vision by Sonka et al, Data Mining by Witten et al).
Incidentally, a lot of professors made a point of not requiring the most recent edition of the book. Generally, when they gave reading assignments they’d give the chapter ranges for several editions, and homework assignments were sent out in full.
butting
Awwwww I knew Ian, though! We only vaguely overlapped when I was studying, but for a few years pre-Covid the folk fest I was part of organising needed neighbourhood approval I had the job of canvassing them to convince them we weren’t untrustworthy nutters, so I got to have a quick catch-up with him each year. Never managed to get him to come over and play clarinet for us, though.
Coupla questions —
I’ve never seen people irl walk around while brushing their teeth, unless it’s someplace where they can spit with total abandon (like outdoors, camping)…
and how many people irl can speak understandably with a toothbrush jammed in their mouth?
Thought maybe there was one for Ruth during one of her “pull myself together” montages, but none of the ~3 have it. This page of her bathroom has a cup with no toothbrush in it, which isn’t definitive, but suggests she doesn’t own a toothbrush which is funny.
There is of course, the classic Becky not owning a toothbrush, which probably points to her owning one again now that her living situation is more stable.
Thought maybe I could find a Leslie or a Becky during the time where Becky was staying (and Leslie was seeing Anna), but looks like that’s a no as well.
Do we get to improvise? It’s been awhile since I perused the Bard.
David DeLaney
Sir, in these comments here we improvise
The while our brains spin frantically a-whirl
To come up with the next successful line
Replying to the text that went before
I don’t think her cynicism has given way to joy, so they probably shouldn’t spend all their time in Joyce and Sarah’s room. So more time in Joe and Danny’s room. I wonder who they share a half-bath with. It’s not Walky, Booster, Arnold, Ken, Jacob, or Ethan.
That leaves Jim, Tony, Bryan, Thad, Eric, Manny, Tom, and Evan. And like dozens more who haven’t even been mentioned. And Peter. It’s probably Peter.
they’re on my list, but I didn’t record the source for each. we’ve seen some in the bathroom, and Mike rattled off a list once, giving Ethan a pep talk. I do remember the source for Peter though.
111 thoughts on “Tantric”
Ana Chronistic
DEFINITELY not Sarah imagining that toothbrush is instead maybe something of Jacob’s
…
idk I got nothin
True Survivor
Ahhh, it is a metaphor his integrity, of course. I see it now.
Thag Simmons
Oh, is that what we’re calling it these days?
milu
Not on my watch. Freaks.
clif
Watch with integrity!
Or something like that.
Juanoku
That got me, goddammit
Mr D
tongue
Ana Chronistic
Spouse sucked on my fingers, actually, it was NIIIIICE
Doctor_Who
Re: Panel 2
Don’t be silly, Joe. If/when Sarah castrates you, she wants you to be wide awake so she can savor the terror in your eyes as she revs up the hedge trimmer.
Thag Simmons
Hedge Trimmer’s good for intimidation but it’s no good when it comes time for the actual cutting
Rose by Any Other Name
**psst**
That’s the point.
Thag Simmons
I mean, I guess? I think you could do a lot better, both if you want “quick and clean” or “messy and painful”.
Although I guess it is easily obtainable and relatively deniable, having to conduct torture on a college student budget does constrain your options a bit. Hmm… I think I’m coming around to it.
milu
Phew good, foe a second there it sounded like the kind of silly argument where nothing ever gets done
Thag Simmons
I try to keep an open mind about this sort of thing.
Decidedly Orthogonal
You won’t be coming to it after the first pass.
ktbear
As someone who’s used disinfectant and a razor blade I can confirm no one looks sideways at you when buying them and theyre also quite discreet.
Thag Simmons
Right, but sometimes you don’t want clean and surgical you want to make a spectacle of it. Now, unless you’re doing a public execution I think spectacle in these matters is overrated, but for the Bond villain on a budget I can see the appeal of the hedge trimmer as a torture implement.
clif
I lost track and thought the hedge trimmer was a tortured metaphor to begin with.
morleuca
A pair of cinderblocks, perhaps?
Mark
Pruning saws are cheap, scary looking, and crude.
Theluxland
The more I think about it the worst it gets
David DeLaney
and around, and around, and around?
JA
Sarah didn’t want to traumatize Joyce by killing Joe in front of her.
Thag Simmons
He was asleep! You can move him to a secondary location and dismember him there.
Coatl
The only thing she can do is imagine and fantasize the possibilities.
Sirksome
Lol. I want Sarah x Jacob but I don’t actually believe it will happen. Like every Cowboy fan when you ask if they’ll get to the superbowl.
True Survivor
How does Sarah fit all her books and binders in such a tiny back pack? Is she really a witch, after all?
Sirksome
How many classes does she have a day? She can’t need them all everyday right?
True Survivor
I guess? I think the main problem is that it is so short vertically – you could barely fit a standard sheet of lined paper in there, not to mention a binder or a full sized text book. I guess she uses lots of electronic texts and notes. I was just never a fan of those – I just didn’t believe I learned as well without the physical act of writing on paper and for some reason I could not feel fully focused when trying to learn from notes on a screen.
milu
You don’t learn from reading your typed notes, you learn from spending the entire night before the exam trying to make sense of them through the typos and mysterious gaps
clif
Thus speaks the voice of experience.
HueSatLight
She has at something at 10, when Joyce and them-all have Calc (she walks with them, and was there when Linda and Charles showed up), and then after lunch she has polisci 102 with Robin.
Jeremiah
That’s a backpack? I thought it was a hood or something.
jflb96
Yeah, that’s not giving me rucksack vibes
Li
+1 it’s the hood on her hoodie.
Who would be wearing their backpack while brushing teeth, tbh?
Doctor_Who
Maybe she has them all on a tablet? Do kids do that now?
I went to college back when they still made you buy books, but I had a CS professor who went on a big rant about how much he hates his publishers and the only reason he’s making us get the book at all is he’d have to redo the whole syllabus without it.
Then the next powerpoint slide was just a big QR code, which he held on in silence for a solid minute. Liked that guy.
jflb96
I think I was about the only one in my friend group who used traditional paper and pen for taking notes, rather than downloading the lecture slides onto their tablet and adding notes in one of the drawing apps. We graduated last year, except for the people on the four year course, for chronocontext.
Otl1973
One of the advantages of CS when I took it was no PowerPoint, because no PCs. Otoh, we had to punch cards, so no easy editing for typos.
clif
And there were never enough punch card machines for all the people who wanted to use them.
I survived only because I found the secret punch card machine hidden in a tiny room under the stairs over in the biology department.
Hof1991
Found my tribe. Tired of “the olds don’t understand computers” when some of us have built computers. And used them for 50 years.
Mark
I think I still have my 029 keypunch manual somewhere….
Thag Simmons
Eh, it’s all digital now.
zee
Who actually carries books and binders anymore? All you need is a tablet or laptop. I haven’t seen an actual physical textbook since before I started college. Then again I also haven’t paid for a textbook since before I started college
BBCC
I did. Not all textbooks have ebook versions. I probably could’ve found a PDF somewhere but those sites can be super sketchy and I’d rather not risk it.
Benjamin Geiger
I tended to reserve my textbook purchases in grad school for books that are considered standards (Operating System Concepts by Silberschatz et al, Introduction to Algorithms by CLRS) or books that were directly related to my research area (Image Processing, Analysis, and Machine Vision by Sonka et al, Data Mining by Witten et al).
Incidentally, a lot of professors made a point of not requiring the most recent edition of the book. Generally, when they gave reading assignments they’d give the chapter ranges for several editions, and homework assignments were sent out in full.
butting
Awwwww I knew Ian, though! We only vaguely overlapped when I was studying, but for a few years pre-Covid the folk fest I was part of organising needed neighbourhood approval I had the job of canvassing them to convince them we weren’t untrustworthy nutters, so I got to have a quick catch-up with him each year. Never managed to get him to come over and play clarinet for us, though.
Nono
Are those arms belonging to a giant Jacob, or proportionally giant arms on a normal sized Jacob
clif
Doesn’t matter. She’s really fantasizing about his glasses. https://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/03-up-all-night-to-get-vengeance/tonguing/
Makkabee
Well, they are very stylish.
Suet
The forecast for Jacob x Sarah right now is chilly so she’ll soon be the queen of wishful thinking.
♪I hear the secrets that you keep, when you’re castrated in your sleep♫
♪When I get that feeling, I need Sexual Brain Freeze♫
BBCC
I wonder which one! It’s a mystery for the ages!
Mym
Does any other character brush their teeth or just Sarah?
Bicycle Bill
Coupla questions —
I’ve never seen people irl walk around while brushing their teeth, unless it’s someplace where they can spit with total abandon (like outdoors, camping)…
and how many people irl can speak understandably with a toothbrush jammed in their mouth?
Thag Simmons
Dorothy did it at least once, but I don’t recall if anyone else has?
clif
Imna mouf pifutu amoura toom!
Tesset
Joyce
Amber
Those are the only ones I remember tho
Tesset
Thought maybe there was one for Ruth during one of her “pull myself together” montages, but none of the ~3 have it.
This page of her bathroom has a cup with no toothbrush in it, which isn’t definitive, but suggests she doesn’t own a toothbrush which is funny.
There is of course, the classic Becky not owning a toothbrush, which probably points to her owning one again now that her living situation is more stable.
Thought maybe I could find a Leslie or a Becky during the time where Becky was staying (and Leslie was seeing Anna), but looks like that’s a no as well.
DailyBrad
Oh, tooth brush, I somehow missed that and thought she shoved her thumb in her mouth as some sort of weird act of defiance.
CMasta1992
“Do you bite your thumb at me sir?”
clif
I did bite my thumb at you, foul Capulet.
Do we get to improvise? It’s been awhile since I perused the Bard.
David DeLaney
Sir, in these comments here we improvise
The while our brains spin frantically a-whirl
To come up with the next successful line
Replying to the text that went before
Needfuldoer
It always worked for Linus Van Pelt.
Kitschensyngk
READ HALL – CLARK WING
presents
PRE-MARITAL HANKY PANKY TOUR
featuring
GIANT JACOB ARMS
with
SEXUAL BRAIN FREEZE
Doors 9pm – Show 10pm
$5 cover
18+
Steelbright
I’d go to that show
clif
I choose to believe that Pre-Marital Hanky Panky Tour is the opening act for the opening act.
Needfuldoer
They’re all good band names.
David DeLaney
No, that would be Slow Foreplay, alternating with Third Base on Tuesdays and Thursdays
HueSatLight
I don’t think her cynicism has given way to joy, so they probably shouldn’t spend all their time in Joyce and Sarah’s room. So more time in Joe and Danny’s room. I wonder who they share a half-bath with. It’s not Walky, Booster, Arnold, Ken, Jacob, or Ethan.
That leaves Jim, Tony, Bryan, Thad, Eric, Manny, Tom, and Evan. And like dozens more who haven’t even been mentioned. And Peter. It’s probably Peter.
Thag Simmons
Do we even know if all those guys live in the wing?
HueSatLight
they’re on my list, but I didn’t record the source for each. we’ve seen some in the bathroom, and Mike rattled off a list once, giving Ethan a pep talk. I do remember the source for Peter though.