A) GODDAMN IT WILLIS
B) I Know EXACTLY how Walky feels here, why cant people understand this very simple rule; when we say things are “Fine” they’re not only never fine, but we don’t ~Want~ to talk about what isn’t ~making~ Not Fine.
C) WILLIS YOU SHAMELESS TEASE XD
Derek
The literal minded among us (I count myself at least) find it hard to take these responses. Why say you’re fine or that you’d like to meet me again when it’s not true? I’m going to leave you alone if you tell me you need to be left alone.
I’ve always found these societal cues and rules so hard. I know it’s part of saving face or sparing a person’s feelings, but I feel more hurt when people say things when they don’t mean them.
Others were speaking about this with the Alice strips, sometimes you go on believing you’re someone’s friend when in reality they decided to cut you off without telling you and it really hurts.
(though obviously getting away from an abusive person is different, I would never judge the ones that leave their abusers quietly)
I guess I’m a chump. Or rather, I ideally want to one day be a chump!
An Average Loser
I wish I could become a chump before I turn 30, but seeing as I spend my days trying my best to get first comment on a webcomic made by a chump for chumps, I’m not becoming one soon.
Yotomoe
You’ll find your Chumpette some day. Or Chump.
An Average Loser
YOU SAYING I LIKE DUDES!? Cuz’ I don’t.
. . .
Here, have a cookie for completely understanding the reference. You’re my hero.
Someguywithakatana
No, I’m just asking if anything strange has been happening to you
Ivan
or Chimp or Chimpette
Disloyal Subject
Should any of you achieve your dreams of Chumphood, you must have a green-haired daughter and name her Zeetha. Search your feelings; you know it to be true!
My first big fight with my wife (then GF) was over some shorts she bought me. They were perfectly fine, and things I would buy and wear myself. But I kinda freaked out about the whole “you want me to look like something specific” thing. Looking back it was kinda silly. At the time it was almost the end of our relationship.
Ivan
that’s the worst you got on the remake thing?
Mine was suddenly into this “get a new style hair-cut that isn’t you, that will be the new you, about 3 months before the wedding date (which I had no say in selecting).
I did have say, however, in saying that I was postponing it for 90 days – I really had to rethink it.
Didn’t rethink it enough.
In time, you’ve got an 90% chance to discover the same thing (but only a 50% chance you’ll do anything about it. If you’re hitting total time of a decade or so together (pre-post nuptial), and you’re low 30s or so? prepare for rethinking SQUARED, and start hiding or siphoning off cash to store under your mattress!!
(Just be sure you get the bed! Best way to assure that is get caught banging someone on it!)
Yeah, who wants to actually take time out to hear about overly complicated feelings and debate on the validity of said feelings out of pure curiosity? Shit’s annoying.
If you like pickles, and you break open what you’re keeping them in, then you just pick out the glass and rinse them off, and you’ve got a little snack.
If you don’t like them, and you break ’em open, then you have to clean up the pickles and the mess that comes with them, and do your best to make sure everything makes it into the trash.
And in either case, if someone comes along and smashes your jar of pickles, then you yell at them for doing it and possibly aggress towards them, before you get around to whatever you personally do to deal with a shattered jar of pickles.
Manfeelings are like pickles.
Gigafreak
It’s funny because pickles are phallic
Ivan
I don’t mind talking about them if the problem is a hunting arrow stuck in my thigh and I’d really like help removing it before I go into shock.
Same goes for the Flight for Life ride – I’d need someone to dial 911 since I’d probably have fainted – especially if I was in TARGET. The irony would push me over the top.
Because he doesn’t want to discuss his childhood friend’s depression with the girlfriend he’s had for just a few weeks (who, by the way, has made it clear that their relationship has probably has an expiration date from the beginning)? That seems super reasonable to me.
When it’s someone else’s problems that are upsetting you, it’s gossipy and inconsiderate to talk about them behind their back, even if it’s coming from a place of concern.
Whenever people ask me questions about somebody I am worried about, I tell them that it’s not in my place to tell you and if they wanted you to know
about it, they will tell you about it. I take confidentiality VERY seriously.
It’s when they stop talking about wanting to talk about never wanting to talk about starting to talk about not wanting to talk about the thing they stopped talking about when they started talking about not talking about the talk about the talk, and when they start walking the walk
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An Average Loser
Now for something different.
Ivan
If he was a real man, he’d puke on her boots to show her he means business when he says he is “Fine-ish!”
Damn ‘Feelsy’ naggers!!
——
and why isn’t Penny on the pole for 2014? She needs exposure! Like using a techno device in her TA office!!
Justin
A) GODDAMN IT WILLIS
B) I Know EXACTLY how Walky feels here, why cant people understand this very simple rule; when we say things are “Fine” they’re not only never fine, but we don’t ~Want~ to talk about what isn’t ~making~ Not Fine.
C) WILLIS YOU SHAMELESS TEASE XD
Derek
The literal minded among us (I count myself at least) find it hard to take these responses. Why say you’re fine or that you’d like to meet me again when it’s not true? I’m going to leave you alone if you tell me you need to be left alone.
I’ve always found these societal cues and rules so hard. I know it’s part of saving face or sparing a person’s feelings, but I feel more hurt when people say things when they don’t mean them.
Others were speaking about this with the Alice strips, sometimes you go on believing you’re someone’s friend when in reality they decided to cut you off without telling you and it really hurts.
(though obviously getting away from an abusive person is different, I would never judge the ones that leave their abusers quietly)
Disloyal Subject
Well, I suppose being on a pole would get her exposure, but the administration might take exception.
Roborat
And everyone else would take pictures.
Thank you, thank you, I am here all week, try the veal.
Kerry
/cries
Leorale
I know, right?? I super duper want to see more exploration of bisexuality. What is this other-people-having-feelings nonsense.
Leorale
(was not meant as sarcastic, I really do want to see more.)
Ivan
Sorry… your wish is only valid in other countries that are not the USA!
Real men puke on boots and only want to see gorgeous bi-females!
Kerry
ikr
Jimi
Dat gravatar, though.
Jen Aside
TALKING IS FOR CHUMPS
and foreplay but maybe this isn’t that
An Average Loser
Foreplay is for chumps?
Plasma Mongoose
In Australia, foreplay is not watching the footy while you’re doing it.
Yotomoe
I guess I’m a chump. Or rather, I ideally want to one day be a chump!
An Average Loser
I wish I could become a chump before I turn 30, but seeing as I spend my days trying my best to get first comment on a webcomic made by a chump for chumps, I’m not becoming one soon.
Yotomoe
You’ll find your Chumpette some day. Or Chump.
An Average Loser
YOU SAYING I LIKE DUDES!? Cuz’ I don’t.
. . .
Here, have a cookie for completely understanding the reference. You’re my hero.
Someguywithakatana
No, I’m just asking if anything strange has been happening to you
Ivan
or Chimp or Chimpette
Disloyal Subject
Should any of you achieve your dreams of Chumphood, you must have a green-haired daughter and name her Zeetha. Search your feelings; you know it to be true!
AtomsOrSystems
Oh, could this be the First Big Fight(tm)?
Yotomoe
Someone has totally forgotten the Pajama Jeans debacle.
David Herbert
I think the PJ jeans counts as that.
Oberon
My first big fight with my wife (then GF) was over some shorts she bought me. They were perfectly fine, and things I would buy and wear myself. But I kinda freaked out about the whole “you want me to look like something specific” thing. Looking back it was kinda silly. At the time it was almost the end of our relationship.
Ivan
that’s the worst you got on the remake thing?
Mine was suddenly into this “get a new style hair-cut that isn’t you, that will be the new you, about 3 months before the wedding date (which I had no say in selecting).
I did have say, however, in saying that I was postponing it for 90 days – I really had to rethink it.
Didn’t rethink it enough.
In time, you’ve got an 90% chance to discover the same thing (but only a 50% chance you’ll do anything about it. If you’re hitting total time of a decade or so together (pre-post nuptial), and you’re low 30s or so? prepare for rethinking SQUARED, and start hiding or siphoning off cash to store under your mattress!!
(Just be sure you get the bed! Best way to assure that is get caught banging someone on it!)
Pyr05
I’m a man, damnit! We don’t TALK about these things!!
Yotomoe
Our code is that we’ll keep our emotions bottled up right here, and then one day…I’ll die.
Plasma Mongoose
As nature intented! 😛
JessWitt
Bottle it up.
Bottle it up.
Bottle it up and you’ll die!!
Ivan
NO NO NO!
You puke it up! With blood if you didn’t start the Pepcid soon enough!!
MrSirk
We just say “Hey, you alright?” then take whatever you say at face value.
Deathstalker
Respond Accurately, always confuses people.
Plasma Mongoose
“We also don’t talking about owning lots of shoes”.
JustCheetoDust
“Ownership is perfectly acceptable, a conversation about it is when we have problems.”
Plasma Mongoose
That is WAY too many shoes, I doubt I ever had that many pairs in total over my lifetime.
Plasma Mongoose
I’m with Walky here, talking about your feelings is so bothersome.
An Average Loser
Yeah, who wants to actually take time out to hear about overly complicated feelings and debate on the validity of said feelings out of pure curiosity? Shit’s annoying.
TachyonCode
If you like pickles, and you break open what you’re keeping them in, then you just pick out the glass and rinse them off, and you’ve got a little snack.
If you don’t like them, and you break ’em open, then you have to clean up the pickles and the mess that comes with them, and do your best to make sure everything makes it into the trash.
And in either case, if someone comes along and smashes your jar of pickles, then you yell at them for doing it and possibly aggress towards them, before you get around to whatever you personally do to deal with a shattered jar of pickles.
Manfeelings are like pickles.
Gigafreak
It’s funny because pickles are phallic
Ivan
I don’t mind talking about them if the problem is a hunting arrow stuck in my thigh and I’d really like help removing it before I go into shock.
Same goes for the Flight for Life ride – I’d need someone to dial 911 since I’d probably have fainted – especially if I was in TARGET. The irony would push me over the top.
Doom Shepherd
Your feelings are bad, and you should feel ba- I mean, NOTHING!!! YOU SHOULD FEEL NOTHING!
Rani
guess they’re going to call it “Walkying” it all up now
Mix
Because he doesn’t want to discuss his childhood friend’s depression with the girlfriend he’s had for just a few weeks (who, by the way, has made it clear that their relationship has probably has an expiration date from the beginning)? That seems super reasonable to me.
When it’s someone else’s problems that are upsetting you, it’s gossipy and inconsiderate to talk about them behind their back, even if it’s coming from a place of concern.
Nena
Whenever people ask me questions about somebody I am worried about, I tell them that it’s not in my place to tell you and if they wanted you to know
about it, they will tell you about it. I take confidentiality VERY seriously.
Boom
Preach.
MrSirk
He’ll learn how to process complex emotions eventually.
Pink Freud
Or maybe reprocess them into emotion nuggets.
Sean Crosser
-which then gets thrown up on by Billie.
Yotomoe
Because if he said he didn’t wanna talk about it, you’d probably poke and prod him until he eventually tells you anyway. And that’s annoyin’.
Plasma Mongoose
He knows where that kinda talk leads to and he wants none of it.
timemonkey
She doesn’t have to, she can just ask Joyce.
Wonder Wig
Joyce keeps getting higher in every frame, as all the pre-martial hanky-pankiest sink down to H-E-double hockey sticks.
Yotomoe
They just walked to the Quicksand Wing of the Campus.
JustCheetoDust
What would they be doing in Michigan?
Ivan
Joint IU/Michigan State program – MD post doc, cash/loans only… that IS the quicksand.
Especially when they find out just before graduation there isn’t much of a need for Geriatric D.O.s specializing in hip-related sexual injuries.
begbert2
That and they’re walking down a staircase ahead of her.
A staircase into hell!
Kernanator
But do you want to talk about not wanting to talk about not talking about it?
Emperor Kiva
Stop that my brain hurts.
Disloyal Subject
You ain’t seen nothing yet.
Jen Aside
It’s when they stop talking about wanting to talk about never wanting to talk about starting to talk about not wanting to talk about the thing they stopped talking about when they started talking about not talking about the talk about the talk, and when they start walking the walk
David Herbert
He’s a manly man who does not share his feelings.
Yotomoe
Feelings are for ladies and wimps and combinations of the two.
Emperor Kiva
YAY, JOYCE IS BACK!……..Walky don’t be an asshole.
Ivan
Yay! It’s time for a new NSFW “Walky Does Her Back…DOOR!”
Ivan
Walky! Don’t MISS the asshole!
Emperor Kiva
Oh shut up