You should have rebelled against the fact you had no reason to rebel.
Jetstream
That’s what I did! My mom was completely supportive of anything I wanted to do, and told me the truth about all the stupid shit she did when she was a kid! I responded by doing approximately jack shit throughout my entire childhood!
I used to rebel every nite a few weeks ago when i’d sneak off to my friend’s house to watch awesome movies or walk around. Police were around the corner that night and I didn’t know about the curfew law
1 more month, and the curfew won’t apply to me or my friend. 1 more day, and i can know if i have community service or probation -_-
Trust me, when you see a talking fish head on your TV even though you had already turn it off and for some bizarre reason the fish head playing a catchy commercial jingle non stop in the middle of the night, that’s not normal.
We used to rebel at boarding school by smuggling meat and cooking it in the dorm basement. ((The school has a strict vegetarian rule since it was an SDA school.))
I never honored the Sabbath and have occasionally snuck out at night to drink Coffee. Once I even watched The Matrix even though it was rated R because that’s how I roll. Sex scenes? Chyeah. I think my immortal soul can take it.
I was never a believer, I was sent there in the hopes that I would become a good christain.
Good? Yes, Christain? Not so much.
At least I learnt about the important things like the EVILS of backward masking, that humans used to be 10-12 feet tall, the Catholic Church will control the world again one day and the Pope is an antichrist.
TsunamiJane
Oh hey I learned all that stuff too! Via Jack Chick. 🙂
gangler
Yeah, I pretty much just played the part of the good little mormon boy for a proper nineteen years until I was living on my own. Made everything a whole lot more civil. I watched my brother fight that battle from within our parents house and wanted no part in such an extravagant hassle when some simple lip service would bypass it so easily.
I’m a pretty dull person that way. Where some people see a rebellion I see a waiting game. Either way, my lifestyle’s pretty much the same these days as it was back then. I just no longer claim God as the reason I do what I do. It was never a true claim to begin with.
Good? Yes. Mormon? Not so much. Fun watching parents wrap their heads around that. You know… from a safe distance 😉
Or inwardly laughing at the way Sal is basically *still* “rebelling” – with nothing to rebel against. “Do stuff without supervision”? Welcome to -College-, Sal, m’dear, where pretty much everything but lectures are done without said supervision! She’s now doing “rebel” things with absolutely no purpose. She’s DOA’s Rebel without a Cause or a Clue. Therefore, I join in the laughter. And lookit that, my name even happens to be Mike(/Michael), too. =D
I can buy the Sal part, but Mike could have easily done it without throwing in awesome, and it might have stung more for not having a positive factor in it.
Don’t…think…so. Someone who lived (or lives) on a college campus will be able to answer that more accurately. When I would ride around with my parents at nite when I was younger, there was very few security riding around in security carts. It’s like all you gotta do is sneak past the RA and you’re free. But, I’ll get back to ya in….1 year? XD
It depends on the size of the campus, and the funding. The community college where I lived in the dorms for a couple semesters certainly has campus police, to be sure. But they only get involved when they have a clearcut case of law-breaking. Like that one guy who was booted out of the dorms, and yet for a few days to a week afterwards, kept sneaking back in through the window he’d ripped the screen off. He got hammered *hard* when they caught him. The most supervision you’ll probably find is noise level supervision, which was justified in the one I stayed in. Those walls were so thin, the people in the other suite could be heard on their cell phone, if they weren’t quiet. And these suites were separated by a bathroom about ten feet wide, so that should give you an idea of -how- thin I’m talking. I would regularly hear one of my suitemates on his phone (he had no real idea of how loud he was being, nor did he -care-, I believe. he was a jerk that way), and I’m not even going to go into how bad some of the bass-thumper types got. x.x
No, but if you grow up in an environment that has a lot of supervision, it can be a hard habit to break to not avoid the supervision, whether it exists or not.
‘Tis why Sal’s habits are highly amusing in the “HA HA!” fashion, because the supervision certainly doesn’t *care* as much as it pretended to. Otherwise Ruth would already have been cracking down on this, if she really ran the “tight ship” she claimed.
Yeah, at my school, you can run around outside at 4 AM if you really want to. RA’s don’t give a shit. Hahaha. As long as you’re not out there making a bunch of noise while they’re trying to sleep. I mean, if people weren’t allowed out of their rooms whenever they wanted, why else would we have fire alarms going off at 4 in the morning because somebody burned popcorn or whatever?
Some schools do. For example the University of Nebraska in Lincoln has a security guard station set up in most of the dorms that students must check in and out with. I’m not sure if it still applies like it did 10 years ago, but between certain hours at night during weekdays the students were not allowed to leave the dorm.
“Things are finally going my way”… Congrats on jinxing yourself there Billie. Why don’t you just throw a quick “how can things get worse” to top it off?
I’m impressed that Sal can make the jump from tree to Window without breaking her neck. Particularly since there’s no ledge for her to hold on to and the tree itself isn’t directly in-front of their window.
101 thoughts on “Tree”
Jen Aside
Yeah, we know, Joyce… ^_^
Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
Yeah, I’d of rebelled too, but for the same reasons as Joyce.
David Herbert
My reasons are laziness.
Aizat
My reason is that I have no reason to rebel.
begbert2
You should have rebelled against the fact you had no reason to rebel.
Jetstream
That’s what I did! My mom was completely supportive of anything I wanted to do, and told me the truth about all the stupid shit she did when she was a kid! I responded by doing approximately jack shit throughout my entire childhood!
I was kinda bored, actually.
XLR
This made me giggle.
das-g
So you’re a Rebel Without a Cause?
Jamal K.
I used to rebel every nite a few weeks ago when i’d sneak off to my friend’s house to watch awesome movies or walk around. Police were around the corner that night and I didn’t know about the curfew law
1 more month, and the curfew won’t apply to me or my friend. 1 more day, and i can know if i have community service or probation -_-
Plasma Mongoose
I wanna see this rebel bingo card.
Matt
The free space in the middle is “Fuck you, Mom and Dad!”
dchorror
It’s a shame when you can’t fill that one out.
Plasma Mongoose
I doubt I could have ever scored a BINGO on a rebel card when I was a kid.
Izzy
I missed my chance 10 years ago when my dad died…that and I loved him them too much to say that as a ten year old lol
alostprophet
Your will be done, forumites!
http://www.mediafire.com/?crqb6c3bglc880c
phildog
You do know that women can be “Sterotypical awesome loner rebels” too right?
Plasma Mongoose
No BINGO for me.
Mkvenner
Pansey!
Rowen Morland
The Mike bingo card gains a number for every mother of the world. But Mike can always shout “Bingo!”
Plasma Mongoose
Joyce, you can always choose to become a Rule Abiding Rebel.
Rowen Morland
Nooooo! It’s not fair. It was bedtime dammit!
Plasma Mongoose
Sleep is over-rated anyhow, just ask the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. 😛
Aizat
If you don’t get enough sleep you start seeing things, man.
Plasma Mongoose
Like talking ponies?
Aizat
No, talking fish heads and hearing a catchy commercial jingle over and over and over again even though everyone’s asleep and you turned off your TV.
dchorror
That’s not normal?
Plasma Mongoose
Only if you got one of those Singing Basses.
Aizat
Trust me, when you see a talking fish head on your TV even though you had already turn it off and for some bizarre reason the fish head playing a catchy commercial jingle non stop in the middle of the night, that’s not normal.
Vabolo
Eat them up, Yum!
Deuecebag
I wanna see a Mike and Sal fight, that would be epic.
Kaci
second
calendarman27
I wanna see a mike and sal fuck. That would be epic
TsunamiJane
YOU SAID WHAT I WAS THINKING
Ryan Balis
hoorray for comics all week
Aizat
Hooray, indeed.
Dierna
My mom rebelled as a teenager. She drank soda back when it was against the rules of the LDS to do so. *lol*
Plasma Mongoose
We used to rebel at boarding school by smuggling meat and cooking it in the dorm basement. ((The school has a strict vegetarian rule since it was an SDA school.))
TsunamiJane
SDA?
Plasma Mongoose
Seventh-day Adventist
gangler
I never honored the Sabbath and have occasionally snuck out at night to drink Coffee. Once I even watched The Matrix even though it was rated R because that’s how I roll. Sex scenes? Chyeah. I think my immortal soul can take it.
Plasma Mongoose
I was never a believer, I was sent there in the hopes that I would become a good christain.
Good? Yes, Christain? Not so much.
At least I learnt about the important things like the EVILS of backward masking, that humans used to be 10-12 feet tall, the Catholic Church will control the world again one day and the Pope is an antichrist.
TsunamiJane
Oh hey I learned all that stuff too! Via Jack Chick. 🙂
gangler
Yeah, I pretty much just played the part of the good little mormon boy for a proper nineteen years until I was living on my own. Made everything a whole lot more civil. I watched my brother fight that battle from within our parents house and wanted no part in such an extravagant hassle when some simple lip service would bypass it so easily.
I’m a pretty dull person that way. Where some people see a rebellion I see a waiting game. Either way, my lifestyle’s pretty much the same these days as it was back then. I just no longer claim God as the reason I do what I do. It was never a true claim to begin with.
Good? Yes. Mormon? Not so much. Fun watching parents wrap their heads around that. You know… from a safe distance 😉
Jess
The current pope seems like a chill guy…
LaurelRaven
At first glance, I thought you said she rebelled by drinking soda and doing LSD. That’s what I get for skimming, I guess:)
Aizat
I think Mike is jealous of Sal.
Zanosuke_Kurosaki
Or inwardly laughing at the way Sal is basically *still* “rebelling” – with nothing to rebel against. “Do stuff without supervision”? Welcome to -College-, Sal, m’dear, where pretty much everything but lectures are done without said supervision! She’s now doing “rebel” things with absolutely no purpose. She’s DOA’s Rebel without a Cause or a Clue. Therefore, I join in the laughter. And lookit that, my name even happens to be Mike(/Michael), too. =D
Joe
Or old habits are hard to break, especially when she sees no reason to break them.
TheBenenator
Nearly as hard to break as femurs.
A. Colunga
An yet Mike is the most Rebel out of them all.
Undrave
Mike rebels against the very concept of ‘rebel’.
Aizat
Mike rebels against everything. NO EXCEPTIONS.
Shade743
No exceptions huh? Does Mike rebel against Mike?
NinjaMaid
Of course, when he’s drunk.
Sophia
Mike punches rebellion in the face.
Dedlok
Ah, it’s the strip I watched David Willis draw using the power of the Interwebs.
High powered binoculars may or may not have also been involved.
Daeva
The next comic consists solely of Sal freaking out over the realization of how mad she’s made her parents over the years.
dchorror
Billie looks absolutely relieved. Maybe she won’t crack as hard as we thought.
I’m not entirely sure if Mike insulted Sal, complimented her, or both.
CP
Mike certainly meant it as an insult, because he’s Mike. Sal certainly took it as an insult, looking at her eyes and crossed arms in the last panel.
dchorror
I can buy the Sal part, but Mike could have easily done it without throwing in awesome, and it might have stung more for not having a positive factor in it.
Undrave
I there really that much supervision in a college dorm?
Jamal K.
Don’t…think…so. Someone who lived (or lives) on a college campus will be able to answer that more accurately. When I would ride around with my parents at nite when I was younger, there was very few security riding around in security carts. It’s like all you gotta do is sneak past the RA and you’re free. But, I’ll get back to ya in….1 year? XD
Zanosuke_Kurosaki
It depends on the size of the campus, and the funding. The community college where I lived in the dorms for a couple semesters certainly has campus police, to be sure. But they only get involved when they have a clearcut case of law-breaking. Like that one guy who was booted out of the dorms, and yet for a few days to a week afterwards, kept sneaking back in through the window he’d ripped the screen off. He got hammered *hard* when they caught him. The most supervision you’ll probably find is noise level supervision, which was justified in the one I stayed in. Those walls were so thin, the people in the other suite could be heard on their cell phone, if they weren’t quiet. And these suites were separated by a bathroom about ten feet wide, so that should give you an idea of -how- thin I’m talking. I would regularly hear one of my suitemates on his phone (he had no real idea of how loud he was being, nor did he -care-, I believe. he was a jerk that way), and I’m not even going to go into how bad some of the bass-thumper types got. x.x
Pat
You don’t have to sneak past the RA. You can just walk past.
You’re *allowed to leave*.
dchorror
No, but if you grow up in an environment that has a lot of supervision, it can be a hard habit to break to not avoid the supervision, whether it exists or not.
Zanosuke_Kurosaki
‘Tis why Sal’s habits are highly amusing in the “HA HA!” fashion, because the supervision certainly doesn’t *care* as much as it pretended to. Otherwise Ruth would already have been cracking down on this, if she really ran the “tight ship” she claimed.
Sophia
Yeah, at my school, you can run around outside at 4 AM if you really want to. RA’s don’t give a shit. Hahaha. As long as you’re not out there making a bunch of noise while they’re trying to sleep. I mean, if people weren’t allowed out of their rooms whenever they wanted, why else would we have fire alarms going off at 4 in the morning because somebody burned popcorn or whatever?
Mmm, college.
Shifty
Some schools do. For example the University of Nebraska in Lincoln has a security guard station set up in most of the dorms that students must check in and out with. I’m not sure if it still applies like it did 10 years ago, but between certain hours at night during weekdays the students were not allowed to leave the dorm.
TomatoClone
Far, far more than you would think, and yet, very little at the same time.
Shifty
“Things are finally going my way”… Congrats on jinxing yourself there Billie. Why don’t you just throw a quick “how can things get worse” to top it off?
I’m impressed that Sal can make the jump from tree to Window without breaking her neck. Particularly since there’s no ledge for her to hold on to and the tree itself isn’t directly in-front of their window.