Right up until it gets in your eyes, and then the screaming starts.
CWR
Yes. Dairy products and human dander go together like Sprite and bananas…
Mankindthefoley
lucky you aren’t in the old navy. they would have turned the fire hose on you when you were in your rack asleep.
LaurelRaven
Wow, I never knew how intense some clothing stores could be!
Oberon
Ha! At a very old job, we had a cot for people who put in a long day and didn’t have time to go home. There was one guy who would stay at work for 3-4 days in a row… Before one all-hands meeting, I discreetly told him that his BO was very strong. He left immediately to go home for a shower, and missed the all-hands. Not so good for him, but excellent for the rest of us cramped into the largest conference room which still lacked capacity.
Naw, David just erased part of the glasses frames so we can properly see Billies eye, as pupil direction, pupil size, and pupil highlight size all tell us about the character’s emotions.
Given on the angle like that her glasses would have to be bent around her face like swim goggles to look like that, even without the erased part. (In actuality they’d be much closer to a straight line hovering in front of her eye.) This is apparently just Willis’s way of implying glasses at the moment.
Scoops!
I was reading it as heavily convex lenses, like those things weigh a pound and she has very poor eyesight.
I always found that weird looking, cause glasses have a bit curve to them and even if a straight line is a bit closer than this, exaggerating details rather than taking them is always weird looking to me and it gives less info to reader/veiwer or whatever you call someone looking at some kinda drawing.
Seeing as how that’s the very last thing said in the last panel, it could very well be that the in the next one Joyce will go all, “Ewww grody, church church church. “
I hope not, besides most churches are okay with the LGBT crew. Atleast where I live.
Raen
Pretty clearly not Joyce’s – pretty much as a rule, any church whose members find deep time and evolution “controversial” is not fond of gays.
HeatPhoenix
That’s some odd church you got there, I’m not a Christian (anymore) or opposed to whatever people want to stick their hooha in and whatnot, but the bible kind of explicitly condemns homosexuality (Abomination and such), so I’d think Christians would want to avoid abominations in their church. Or maybe that was just my church, well, not that they’d go so far as to KICK people out. But they definitely not just let it go, you know.
Heck, over here they get fussy when people live together without getting married.
artemi71
Take it from the outside world, Heat, but I’m afraid to say that you went to a pretty odd church, then. There are plenty that refuse to allow discrimination define them.
Cody B
I’ve been to about four churches over the course of my life. All of them pretty much fell in line with what Heat described. Including, I was surprised to find out, the Christian youth group I joined which I later discovered was led by an ex-drug dealer. Go figure.
begbert2
I dunno about Heat, but I live in the US. Artemi71’s church would be the odd one out here, as best I can tell, in most regions in the area.
artemi71
Well… I AM an Episcopalian. I guess I hadn’t considered that we would be ahead of the times on this one. Homosexual priests are not that uncommon (my local parish has one) and just a month ago at the natinal convention we ruled for developing same-sex union blessings. So… yeah. Maybe I AM the odd one.
Andrusi
Churches come in a variety of flavors. Some are like the one you know. Some aren’t.
HeatPhoenix
The King James translation of the bible used by most christian comes in only one flavor though. The one that condemns homosexuality.
God is an angry little man.
Raen
That’s not a translation issue; all versions of the Bible condemn homosexuality.
David
Well, some claim that Paul, properly translated, is only against pedastry not homosexuality, and his are the only prescriptions against homosexuality that would count, as the Old Testament doesn’t count as Christian Law except for when it does.
Roborat
Actually, do a little historical research, and you will find that they don’t.
Raen
Almost always from a Christian, “do historical research” = “read apologetic spin without cross-referencing.”
Raen
Oh, and the reason the Old Testament prohibitions do apply is Acts 15, where Paul cautions against “porneia,” usually “sexual immorality” or “fornication,” which in the language of the time would be understood to refer to the prohibitions laid down in Leviticus 18, including – yep. Granted, the connection’s not totally clear (especially in those translations that take the word in the then-obsolete sense of “whoredom” or the NAB’s euphemistic “unlawful marriage”), but the initial prohibition in Leviticus, at least, is alaways there, plus the lengthier bit in Romans 1 is harder to spin than the word “arsenokoites” that pops up in 1 Corinthians 6:9 and 1 Timothy 1:10.
Keep in mind that Jesus did say nothing about homosexuality – while living in a society where gay men could be stoned after one warning, and lesbians flogged.
Jath
I feel it translates most correctly to sodomite, because that’s what New Revised Standard Version says and NRSV is 100 times better than NIV, which is stupid and dumb.
/is never argumentative
A lot of people argue the word “castrated” is referring to homosexuality in Jesus’s discussion about how some people are born castrated, but that passage makes little sense no matter how you chose to translate or argue about it. That’s for the translating guys to do. :3
Roborat
Nope, pretty much an atheist, just like doing historical research on religion, it helps me drive the fundies crazy when I can call them on their bullshit.
Andrusi
Christians come in both “thinks the Bible is the infallible word of God” and “thinks the Bible is the very fallible word of some guys who had lunch with God a few times” flavors.
Nym
Considering my (very much Christian) faith has gay bishops and the number of LGBT-friendly churches out there, I’d think quite a few Christians would disagree with you on that “avoid abominations in their church” blanket statement. That said, I’m v. curious to see Joyce’s response, because the home-schooled Christians from a small denomination I met while in college (in Indiana, but not IU) were all over the spectrum when it came to meeting or even discussing us queer kids.
123 thoughts on “People”
David Herbert
What’s she going to buy for Dorothy then?
cdotsq
pajama jeans SO SHE MAY FINALLY UNDERSTAND
Nym
This would be the best plot twist.
Random Guy
YES.
Scout
Should always have these
Kernanator
Look at her eye. I think she’s losing it.
Yotomoe
Maybe Joyce just stinks and Billie is too nice to say anything.
Kernanator
So long as Billie doesn’t randomly gift Joyce with deodorant.
(Yes, this has actually happened to me.)
Yotomoe
I recently had my boss tell me that ALL the staff was complaining about me…and made me take a shower immediately…embarassin’!
Kernanator
Man, I’m in college, I’m too busy to worry about how I smell!
Plasma Mongoose
I bet your classmates love you… 😛
Rognik
Did they strip you down and throw you in the shower right there and then? I think that’s how some pornos start…
moonracer191
Thats how my porno would start. Only instead of water they would shower in bavarian cream.
Historyman68
That sounds delicious.
Jetstream
Right up until it gets in your eyes, and then the screaming starts.
CWR
Yes. Dairy products and human dander go together like Sprite and bananas…
Mankindthefoley
lucky you aren’t in the old navy. they would have turned the fire hose on you when you were in your rack asleep.
LaurelRaven
Wow, I never knew how intense some clothing stores could be!
Oberon
Ha! At a very old job, we had a cot for people who put in a long day and didn’t have time to go home. There was one guy who would stay at work for 3-4 days in a row… Before one all-hands meeting, I discreetly told him that his BO was very strong. He left immediately to go home for a shower, and missed the all-hands. Not so good for him, but excellent for the rest of us cramped into the largest conference room which still lacked capacity.
Shade
Nah she’s just lost in her fantasy.
Jackson
Billie lives in a magical fantasy world where people are Andrew Garfield and two hunky friends and they say things like that.
Bekah
Assuming, of course, that she ever had it.
Krashthemystro
It’s just a twitch, but perfectly normal under the circumstances.
Aisling
Her expression reminded me of invader zim, lol.
Regalli
Is that how you draw glasses from the side? It looked weird on Amber yesterday, but I guess it could be the frame…
Khrene Cleaver
Naw, David just erased part of the glasses frames so we can properly see Billies eye, as pupil direction, pupil size, and pupil highlight size all tell us about the character’s emotions.
begbert2
Given on the angle like that her glasses would have to be bent around her face like swim goggles to look like that, even without the erased part. (In actuality they’d be much closer to a straight line hovering in front of her eye.) This is apparently just Willis’s way of implying glasses at the moment.
Scoops!
I was reading it as heavily convex lenses, like those things weigh a pound and she has very poor eyesight.
Khrene Cleaver
I always found that weird looking, cause glasses have a bit curve to them and even if a straight line is a bit closer than this, exaggerating details rather than taking them is always weird looking to me and it gives less info to reader/veiwer or whatever you call someone looking at some kinda drawing.
Raen
Andrew Garfield?
Billie’s fantasies are not what I’d have guessed…
Rognik
Who is Andrew Garfield? I feel the reference is lost on me.
NCP19
The new Spider-Man (and the guy who got cheated out of money in The Social Network)
Trae Dorn
DON’T FORGET THAT TWO PARTER OF DOCTOR WHO HE DID! Man his accent was terrible in that…
Weebles
If it was a british accent… isn’t Andrew Garfield actually british? Wouldn’t that be his normal voice?
Echidnae
According to the Tardis Wiki, it was Tennessean. I can see that ending badly.
Ziaheart
Oh, he IS adorable in that baby-faced way.
|Agent
She harbors P.S.L.
lordphulish
He’s too pretty to be Spiderman. Nobody who looks like that kid would have been picked on in high school and have a hard time getting ladyfriends.
Yotomoe
And thus Billie has revealed her true intention.
Aizat
Yes, doing a hunk and get to watch some guy on guy action at the same time.
Leorale
That.. that doesn’t sound so bad.
Khrene Cleaver
Especially considering shes the catcher, which means that very little pressure would fall on her to please any of the other members involved.
artemi71
*Doing a hunk and watching some guy on guy on Joyce action.
PrincessCarlos
You look disappointed with that statement, care to share?
artemi71
It’s the Grav. Donna does not approve of a lot of things I’m for. *laugh*
emeraldbeacon
Kinda surprised that Joyce didn’t flinch at the mention of “bisexual”.
Yotomoe
Maybe she thought Billie said that they are “Bicycles” and now she thinks they’re really crappy Transformers.
Raen
Naïve as Joyce is, she probably thought Billie was serious about wanting to have sex with Sal.
(…whether she was is immaterial.)
Barf Ninjason
Seeing as how that’s the very last thing said in the last panel, it could very well be that the in the next one Joyce will go all, “Ewww grody, church church church. “
Krashthemystro
I hope not, besides most churches are okay with the LGBT crew. Atleast where I live.
Raen
Pretty clearly not Joyce’s – pretty much as a rule, any church whose members find deep time and evolution “controversial” is not fond of gays.
HeatPhoenix
That’s some odd church you got there, I’m not a Christian (anymore) or opposed to whatever people want to stick their hooha in and whatnot, but the bible kind of explicitly condemns homosexuality (Abomination and such), so I’d think Christians would want to avoid abominations in their church. Or maybe that was just my church, well, not that they’d go so far as to KICK people out. But they definitely not just let it go, you know.
Heck, over here they get fussy when people live together without getting married.
artemi71
Take it from the outside world, Heat, but I’m afraid to say that you went to a pretty odd church, then. There are plenty that refuse to allow discrimination define them.
Cody B
I’ve been to about four churches over the course of my life. All of them pretty much fell in line with what Heat described. Including, I was surprised to find out, the Christian youth group I joined which I later discovered was led by an ex-drug dealer. Go figure.
begbert2
I dunno about Heat, but I live in the US. Artemi71’s church would be the odd one out here, as best I can tell, in most regions in the area.
artemi71
Well… I AM an Episcopalian. I guess I hadn’t considered that we would be ahead of the times on this one. Homosexual priests are not that uncommon (my local parish has one) and just a month ago at the natinal convention we ruled for developing same-sex union blessings. So… yeah. Maybe I AM the odd one.
Andrusi
Churches come in a variety of flavors. Some are like the one you know. Some aren’t.
HeatPhoenix
The King James translation of the bible used by most christian comes in only one flavor though. The one that condemns homosexuality.
God is an angry little man.
Raen
That’s not a translation issue; all versions of the Bible condemn homosexuality.
David
Well, some claim that Paul, properly translated, is only against pedastry not homosexuality, and his are the only prescriptions against homosexuality that would count, as the Old Testament doesn’t count as Christian Law
except for when it does.Roborat
Actually, do a little historical research, and you will find that they don’t.
Raen
Almost always from a Christian, “do historical research” = “read apologetic spin without cross-referencing.”
Raen
Oh, and the reason the Old Testament prohibitions do apply is Acts 15, where Paul cautions against “porneia,” usually “sexual immorality” or “fornication,” which in the language of the time would be understood to refer to the prohibitions laid down in Leviticus 18, including – yep. Granted, the connection’s not totally clear (especially in those translations that take the word in the then-obsolete sense of “whoredom” or the NAB’s euphemistic “unlawful marriage”), but the initial prohibition in Leviticus, at least, is alaways there, plus the lengthier bit in Romans 1 is harder to spin than the word “arsenokoites” that pops up in 1 Corinthians 6:9 and 1 Timothy 1:10.
Keep in mind that Jesus did say nothing about homosexuality – while living in a society where gay men could be stoned after one warning, and lesbians flogged.
Jath
I feel it translates most correctly to sodomite, because that’s what New Revised Standard Version says and NRSV is 100 times better than NIV, which is stupid and dumb.
/is never argumentative
A lot of people argue the word “castrated” is referring to homosexuality in Jesus’s discussion about how some people are born castrated, but that passage makes little sense no matter how you chose to translate or argue about it. That’s for the translating guys to do. :3
Roborat
Nope, pretty much an atheist, just like doing historical research on religion, it helps me drive the fundies crazy when I can call them on their bullshit.
Andrusi
Christians come in both “thinks the Bible is the infallible word of God” and “thinks the Bible is the very fallible word of some guys who had lunch with God a few times” flavors.
Nym
Considering my (very much Christian) faith has gay bishops and the number of LGBT-friendly churches out there, I’d think quite a few Christians would disagree with you on that “avoid abominations in their church” blanket statement. That said, I’m v. curious to see Joyce’s response, because the home-schooled Christians from a small denomination I met while in college (in Indiana, but not IU) were all over the spectrum when it came to meeting or even discussing us queer kids.
Historyman68
I really just hope Joyce literally says “ew, grody, church church church.”
Cody B
Seconded.
Raen
Grody?
madd
To the max!
thomas0comer
She flinches in between this strip and the next one.
Khrene Cleaver