Well your options are a tad limited around Joe, so I’d suggest waiting for a bit, first.
jubs
Sounds like a knock-off-wurst, it’s not a real one if there isn’t pork in it. =(
Dday
Don’t knock it till you try it 😉
Banana Slamma
Dude, Hebrew Nationals are the best dogs. Kosher beef dogs are way better than random pork assortments. Not that I dislike pork, it’s just that I’ve had the different dogs and Hebrew Nationals should make Nathan’s and Ball Park have a deep moment of self-reflection.
I loved Hebrew national since elementary school; in the cafeteria for just a buck, I’d get two with plenty of mustard, one of my favorite school lunches :9 ^^
Given this and her laundry room adventure with Dorothy, I think Joyce may have a thing for public sex.
Freemage
Or at least ‘potentially public sex’. The notion that she COULD be interrupted/discovered is probably a big thrill. I suspect that if it became an actuality, she might suddenly find herself feeling differently (the identity and reaction of the person discovering her would play a large role in this, too).
i would hope so , but i feel like sarah wouldn’t be surprised if she somehow accidentally? touched someone’s penis that didn’t belong to her current bf
Honestly if it turned out that this was the first time a lewd act happened in that kitchen, I think that would probably be the most shocking plot development of this entire series.
I’m pretty sure that’s a Jon Arbuckle face. Or at the very least a Lyman’s Mustache face.
Anyway, what did Joyce **do** to Joe that her mouth got twisted into that shape? Did she bite on a rock? I guess he did not properly follow the instructions on the package, then.
A person may be gay, but I don’t know if that makes his masturbation gayer. And now I’m going to have this stupid thought in my head all day as it tries to make itself way more important than it is in reality. Thanks. ;P
Taffy
Of course it’s gayer. There’s a gay dude touching the penis of a gay dude. That’s math.
Yeah, having to share a half bath with four different bladders makes this almost a requirement.
Yumi
It really doesn’t.
Jeremiah
According to who?
Taffy
People who don’t take very long to brush their teeth, mostly. It’s courteous and probably happens fairly often, but it’s definitely not required.
Asky
Even when you up the number of people to “a lot” (like in a proper dorm with one or two full bathrooms per area, and no shared half-baths between a couple rooms) it doesn’t happen often.
When I lived in a uni dorm we had two bathrooms per floor, but few brushed their teeth in their room – some of us started brushing in our rooms, but walked-while-brushing to a bathroom.
Point is, I second your response
Yumi
I honestly just thought it was such an absurd claim that I had a hard time processing a response. Like, even if it’s the norm for some people, which it could be, “almost a requirement” seems pretty off. Living in spaces with four people and one bathroom and having been in others’ homes with 4+ people and one bathroom, it hasn’t been how I’ve seen or experienced it handled.
Needfuldoer
Oof. An extra half-bath makes a huge difference when you’ve got four people sharing a residence, but there’s options. Somebody could finish brushing their teeth over the kitchen sink.
The sinks in the shower room are an option for our protagonists, at least.
Yumi
Several people and one bathroom does suck, but teeth brushing was never really the issue with it.
BorkBorkBork
I feel fairly confident that over the years of this strip, only Sarah has been shown wandering around the dorm room brushing her teeth.
Now, if any character is the primary MC, it’s Joyce, and having Sarah in the process of brushing her teeth is a nifty way of scene setting and giving starting exposition to each day – it lets her be “doing something” without actually be doing something while she interacts with Joyce, in a mostly neutral pose. So I wouldn’t say that’s proof that *only* Sarah does it. Hell, for all we know, Booster and Walky have long drawn-out conversations while spitting foam back and forth, and we never know because the day never starts with Walky.
But I will say that there’s a decent chance that this is a behavior that only Sarah has, either from how she grew up (fighting for the bathroom in a big family could do that) or just from the desire to avoid people barging in on her in the bathroom.
Taffy
Billie’s done it. Have fun finding the strip.
Needfuldoer
I found one where she’s brushing her teeth in the middle of her dorm room, and one where she’s in the foreground getting dressed in the shower room while Mary’s at a nearby sink brushing her teeth, but I haven’t found one of her brushing her teeth in the shower room yet.
217 thoughts on “Touched”
NGPZ
???
*plays “The Touch” by Stan Bush on hacked muzak*
Cholma
I went with Katy Perry: “I touched a peen, and I liked it…”
ValdVin
“Hope my girlfriend don’t mind it”, indeed.
True Survivor
Nooooo – That was in a public kitchen!! I guess she Dared to Be Stupid.
jeffepp
You’re saying she found Mr. Goodbar?
Dday
Got her hands around that 100% all-beef Hebrew National knockwurst.
NGPZ
dammit now i hungry for actual hotdogs XD
Asky
Well your options are a tad limited around Joe, so I’d suggest waiting for a bit, first.
jubs
Sounds like a knock-off-wurst, it’s not a real one if there isn’t pork in it. =(
Dday
Don’t knock it till you try it 😉
Banana Slamma
Dude, Hebrew Nationals are the best dogs. Kosher beef dogs are way better than random pork assortments. Not that I dislike pork, it’s just that I’ve had the different dogs and Hebrew Nationals should make Nathan’s and Ball Park have a deep moment of self-reflection.
NGPZ
This!
I loved Hebrew national since elementary school; in the cafeteria for just a buck, I’d get two with plenty of mustard, one of my favorite school lunches :9 ^^
Auroki
Did she get the mono working now?
Van Jealous
More like “Good and Plenty”!
Nullset
Given this and her laundry room adventure with Dorothy, I think Joyce may have a thing for public sex.
Freemage
Or at least ‘potentially public sex’. The notion that she COULD be interrupted/discovered is probably a big thrill. I suspect that if it became an actuality, she might suddenly find herself feeling differently (the identity and reaction of the person discovering her would play a large role in this, too).
M!a
*follows with ”The Bad Touch” by Bloodhound Gang*
anon
i’d like to think she touch it for like 2 seconds, and immediately ran to sarah with this info
Opus the Poet
?I like this comment.
Jess
Good for Joyce.
Davus
I don’t know what I expected.
This was not it.
anon
lol unexpected strips to send to your friends with no context 8D;
Ana Chronistic
TOUCHDOWN!!!
Ana Chronistic
ok, not sure why the original didn’t go through despite saying it was a duplicate
(“…was it Joe’s? =O “)
Jo_cubstar
Oh, that would be a plot twist
anon
i would hope so , but i feel like sarah wouldn’t be surprised if she somehow accidentally? touched someone’s penis that didn’t belong to her current bf
Sirksome
Nooo! That shared kitchen may be forever unclean!
King_Salty
Honestly if it turned out that this was the first time a lewd act happened in that kitchen, I think that would probably be the most shocking plot development of this entire series.
Opus the Poet
I’m willing to bet that actual sexual intercourse to completion has taken place in that kitchen.
Dara
This!
Also I’m all “wait is it the next morning” but no she’s wearing the same stuff so… shared kitchen makeouts it is I GUESS
I mean good for her but … shared space shared space shared space!
cain
At least it had a door.
John Campbell
I mean, if she’d spent the night in Joe’s bed, she’d still have the same clothes, too. But it’s still the same storyline, so.
Needfuldoer
Yup. The chapter title is the definitive marker of which day it is. Same title, same day.
Taffy
Nobody else was in there and the door was closed. It’s fine.
HueSatLight
Bloodrose was also there, just out of sight for both us and them.
M!a
…and thus, to an entire reading audience, the vulnerability of college campuses to COVID, meningitis and other outbreaks suddenly made perfect sense.
anon
Given teenage hormones i wouldn’t be surprised if there was a special cleanup crew that came in once a week to do a full wipedown all day lol
Reminds me of that always sunny scene, “i’m the guy who wipes down the loads”
JA
That was every college dorm shared kitchen ever. Even if it wasn’t used for sex.
Thag Simmons
[B][ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED!][/b]
Thag Simmons
oh right, we format tags with instead of []
Thag Simmons
In trying to prove that I can use HTML tags I have only given them an opportunity to defeat me further.
BarerMender
Grovel before the tag!
Or think to yourself, “Nobody cares anyway.”
Shadow Dreamer
That’s just how HMTL is, I swear!
Casi
i’ve been learning HTML since i was a wee child on Geocities back in the 90s and 00s. I still have not bested it
AeromechanicalAce
And we have a new Joyce Face!
Thomas
I’m pretty sure that’s a Jon Arbuckle face. Or at the very least a Lyman’s Mustache face.
Anyway, what did Joyce **do** to Joe that her mouth got twisted into that shape? Did she bite on a rock? I guess he did not properly follow the instructions on the package, then.
Needfuldoer
What, you don’t season your mac and cheese with pea gravel? Minerals are good for you!
Casi
I like to put peas in my mac n cheese, maybe i should add some gravel, make it mac n grits
Big Z
I desperately want that as my permanent gravatar, yet I’m also too lazy to set that up.
Bwsab
Wh– DETAILS, JOYCE!!! DETAILS!! QUICK, TO THE SECOND PATREON!!!
Rolf of Many Doors
Nada, just Ethan straight up jorkin his penits
NGPZ
don’t you mean “gay up”? XD
Banana Slamma
A person may be gay, but I don’t know if that makes his masturbation gayer. And now I’m going to have this stupid thought in my head all day as it tries to make itself way more important than it is in reality. Thanks. ;P
Taffy
Of course it’s gayer. There’s a gay dude touching the penis of a gay dude. That’s math.
Colin McKenzie
Did she actually DO anything with it, bat it around like a cat does a rubber mouse, poke it with a stick (poor Joe!)?
DailyBrad
Blue Box can prevent Blue Balls.
Banana Slamma
God, it’s like American Pie got a brand deal so lucrative they had to change the movie’s name.
Jo_cubstar
Those Joyce faces lololol
Yumi
These characters with their middle-of-their-dorm-room-teeth-brushing…
Thag Simmons
Is that weird? feels like the done thing when it’s one bathroom for four people.
Sirksome
Yeah, having to share a half bath with four different bladders makes this almost a requirement.
Yumi
It really doesn’t.
Jeremiah
According to who?
Taffy
People who don’t take very long to brush their teeth, mostly. It’s courteous and probably happens fairly often, but it’s definitely not required.
Asky
Even when you up the number of people to “a lot” (like in a proper dorm with one or two full bathrooms per area, and no shared half-baths between a couple rooms) it doesn’t happen often.
When I lived in a uni dorm we had two bathrooms per floor, but few brushed their teeth in their room – some of us started brushing in our rooms, but walked-while-brushing to a bathroom.
Point is, I second your response
Yumi
I honestly just thought it was such an absurd claim that I had a hard time processing a response. Like, even if it’s the norm for some people, which it could be, “almost a requirement” seems pretty off. Living in spaces with four people and one bathroom and having been in others’ homes with 4+ people and one bathroom, it hasn’t been how I’ve seen or experienced it handled.
Needfuldoer
Oof. An extra half-bath makes a huge difference when you’ve got four people sharing a residence, but there’s options. Somebody could finish brushing their teeth over the kitchen sink.
The sinks in the shower room are an option for our protagonists, at least.
Yumi
Several people and one bathroom does suck, but teeth brushing was never really the issue with it.
BorkBorkBork
I feel fairly confident that over the years of this strip, only Sarah has been shown wandering around the dorm room brushing her teeth.
Now, if any character is the primary MC, it’s Joyce, and having Sarah in the process of brushing her teeth is a nifty way of scene setting and giving starting exposition to each day – it lets her be “doing something” without actually be doing something while she interacts with Joyce, in a mostly neutral pose. So I wouldn’t say that’s proof that *only* Sarah does it. Hell, for all we know, Booster and Walky have long drawn-out conversations while spitting foam back and forth, and we never know because the day never starts with Walky.
But I will say that there’s a decent chance that this is a behavior that only Sarah has, either from how she grew up (fighting for the bathroom in a big family could do that) or just from the desire to avoid people barging in on her in the bathroom.
Taffy
Billie’s done it. Have fun finding the strip.
Needfuldoer
I found one where she’s brushing her teeth in the middle of her dorm room, and one where she’s in the foreground getting dressed in the shower room while Mary’s at a nearby sink brushing her teeth, but I haven’t found one of her brushing her teeth in the shower room yet.