(that’s what we call ’em in the UK. We use “overalls” to refer to a full body suit, which I think other countries call a boilersuit?)
Everything about today’s strip is adorable. :3
Kryss LaBryn
In Canada the ones with sleeves are cover-alls. See, over-alls go over all your clothes; but cover-alls actually cover everything.
I think the States followed our lead on that one. 😉
Deimir
A full-body suit with legs and sleeves, I’ve always called that a jumpsuit.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
I’ve heard a full-body suit called a jumpsuit or a boilersuit (often worn in the UK by boiler repairmen, or at least they used to be xD), but we mostly call them overalls (because they are over everything else, and cover it too).
These that Amber is wearing are always called dungarees, and the shorter versions (such as Ruth has been shown wearing), are referred to as dungaree shorts. 🙂
KHNO
It’s time to introduce some french that you have to pardon:
it’s a called a “salopette”, which is a small salope (the word means bongo (filtered!) nowadays but used to mean someone/something dirty, I mean dirty as with dirt on it… because it was used… by children… to protect their clothes form dirt). The boiler suit is called a “bleu de travail” (something like workers’ blue clothing, you see where your “blue collar” meets it), worn by, well workers. Some people call it a “combinaison” when it’s not blue.
Znayx
Nope, “salope” means “slut”. Take it from a person who spent every school year from kindergarten to grade 12 in French (not French-immersion!) school. As for the rest, that’s neat facts. And on the note of that “bleu de travail”, the French language has lots of strange instances like that where they call an object/substance a colour. “Rouge à lêvres”, “vert-de-gris”… I guess it’s a thing with them?
Znayx
Although perhaps the thing about the French is not that they call objects/substances by their colour, but that they call them by their notable attribute. For example, the case of “salope” which was called that because it was dirty… as in, hard physical dirt on it. I’m a little too lazy to look into other examples– I mean, I’ve got homework to do, and look at the time! Better run!
KHNO
I’m quite flattered that with my stubbing-my-toe-on-any-difficulty english you could think otherwise that my being a snail eater.
This intel comes from the reference site I use for my teaching (as I teach french to french pupils in France) that you can now use for any etymology related: http://www.cnrtl.fr (in portail lexical then etymologie).
For further matters, most of colour-related objects are because of the use of synecdoche: a bleu de travail is in fact blue and that colour defines the object. And if you can most of time translate salope by slut (as slutwalks were called marches des salopes), it sometimes is better translated by bongo, for bongo having being reverted by feminist movements/authors (like roberta gregory), and so was salope for a small time after the pro-choice manifesto of 1971 used by french feminists, transforming the insult into a pride title.
David M Willis
day-yamn znayx done got told
Ilerien
This is clearly a prototype power armour
Znayx
Whatcha talkin’ about, Willis?
…Nevermind, I done got doggone told my ass off.
I was never fond of history in general as a school subject, and the origins of language always baffle me, but that’s one of a handful of things I’d like to look in to further. I guess the K-12 French student has to take it from the French teacher. As far as I knew, “salope” was always “slut” and “bongo” was always “chienne” (even in its derogatory meaning).
Znayx
^apparently I didn’t reply at the right spot
GreyTheDefender
Full body ones have always been called jumpsuits where I live, southeast US.
I’m in Texas (lived in south and central Texas and most my family is in DFW) and have only ever heard them called coveralls.
Makes me wonder what they call them in east Texas. Sometimes east Texas is VERY Texan, but other times they’re VERY Sourhern and confuse the rest of us Texans.
After completing the game if you press
LR Start you can play as Dina
Lord Stoneheart
I should know what game specifically this is a reference to put I’m running a blank. (I know the series obviously. Just blanking on which game has that LR start thing)
Someone
I was just thinking Mario games in general, but if you want a specific one
New Super Mario Bros on Nintendo DS
also known as the game that Shortpacked Amber went shirt ripping crazy over
Sorry I don’t click strange links. But it’s Stoneheart. There’s a story behind it, but the important thing is that it’s not Stonehearth, and so it probably has nothing to do with that link.
Overalls can be overdone. My ex dressed our little girl in overalls so often because she was “sooo cute!” than I witnessed an adorable tiny rebellion- a six year old folding her arms, pooching out her lower lip, and saying “No more overalls!”
She still refuses to wear them.
It’s like when one burns out on their favorite food, sorta.
It happens in stages, though. When they’re babies they wear whatever mom/dad picks. Gradually they have more input, but if it’s an outfit mom loves on them, they get praised like crazy and fawned over when they wear it, so they like it to. (Plus, for my kid, he loved having lots of pockets that were easier for a toddler to access than in regular pants) So, for years, they are jumping for joy at wearing overalls.
They gradually give more input in what they wear day-to-day, but at that stage their only consideration is how it feels on them (comfort) and how it looks (the color, a picture on it, does it have pockets? Glitter? Frills? Favorite shapes?). They don’t care if it suits the weather or the day’s activities, or even if it fits. So they still have little real say in the matter ultimately.
Then they start giving more input in the store. So you buy more of what they like and what fits their style. But they’re still using you as a gauge and still only thinking in the moment, not about fit, durability, weather, etc.
But as their world expands more and the “I’m the center of the universe” innate toddler attitude falls away, they develop their own tastes and styles.
I know I let my son dress more-or-less in what he likes, and he picks 90% of his clothes now. But it’s still hard to let go of the styles that I like on him. I spent 6 years being the ultimate decider (and still am at times, like on special occasions, or if he decides he wants to wear his Super Mario costume to school) and his tastes aligning with mine mostly.
It’s not easy to let that go and say “okay, you’re old enough to pick.” Or even “alright, I’ll help you pick.”
And honestly, for things like holidays or professional photos, it’s my decision. I will try to pick things that he likes and fit his tastes, but things like wearing overalls for a quick photo at the pumpkin patch won’t kill him, and it won’t quash his sense of individuality. It’s just another dumb thing mom made him do for 5 minutes before he was allowed to run off and play and he forgot about it.
Yeah, I think my son is just so adorable in overalls. I’d comb racks to find them in his size. They’re cute, they fit longer than most pants, I don’t have to wear out my arm yanking on that damn elastic like I do in all his regular pants (he can only wear adjustable waist pants. He’s long-legged and very slim) and when he was a toddler, the X on the back of them made a good handle for when he was trying to run off or when he was about to fall and I couldn’t quite reach to catch him. Overalls saved that kid from *so* many bonks on the head and scraped knees.
But now he’s 6 and in kindergarten. None of his friends wear overalls, nor do any of his fashion heroes on Disney Channel (I will wring the neck of whoever gave Teen Beach Movie the green light), so he also refuses to wear them. Little lovable brat.
I was that way before I got my Lasik surgery, I could see well enough to do most things, but everything was blurry, so stuff like reading was off the table. I never had any depth perception though, my eyes don’t work together and I have doublevision all the time, so I approximate depth via angles and sizes of things.
Touchfuzzy
I had double vision for the first 25 years of my life that required glasses because I had an imbalance in the strength of my eye muscles. But then I had a work accident (worked construction) and went blind in one eye, and now I don’t need glasses… kind of a silver lining to the grey grey cloud of going blind in one eye :B
Chris2315
And also you can wear a cool eyepatch if you want.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
My dad was born with double-vision too (he’s now 63). Honestly, it’s a mystery to me how he’s not always walking into walls or stuff, nevermind the fact that he’s a perfectly competent driver. I’d never get behind a steering wheel and I can see only one of everything in front of me! xD
(…although my optician keeps insisting my eyesight is great – better than average in fact, and wonders why I keep going back for my regularly biennial appointment – I do have mild stereoblindness. I only really notice it when I’m reaching for the handrail on the bus, and miss xD)
Tetty
I’m very longsighted in one eye, and have been all my life. In theory, I don’t have normal depth perception (which sometimes affects me), but in practice, this is how I’ve always been, so my brain works around it. Probably the same with your dad, he’s ALWAYS had the double vision, so it’s normal to him and he works it.
It would probably be a different story if he’d developed it later in life.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Yeah, I suppose so. In fact, he went to the optician once to ask about getting his vision sorted (not only does he have double vision caused by a squint in one eye, he also has one eye longsighted and one eye shortsighted!), but they said that he’s too old to sort it out now anyway. And even if they could sort the squint out at such an old age (basically, all adults are classed as too old to undergo squint-correction surgery), he’d probably have to learn to see all over again, which would not be fun for him at all.
Edupoet81
I would guess that Amber wears glasses to correct a minor vision impairment, and she’s able to see well enough to get by without them. I myself am mildly nearsighted, and I have glasses for that. Without my glasses, distant objects appear blurry, I can see objects that are close perfectly clearly. I don’t have my glasses on right now, and I’m having no difficulty seeing the computer screen. I could manage without glasses if I had to. I couldn’t pull off moves like that, but I couldn’t do that with the aid of corrective lenses either, so that’s beside the point.
Yeah, I’m impressed. I can’t even walk down stairs without my glasses on because my depth-perception is so off without them.
I can also only see clearly about 6in in front of my face, so that doesn’t help, but even when my eyesight wasn’t all that bad, not having glasses threw off my depth-perception to dangerous levels.
I think college was when glasses stores started doing buy-one, get-one-free sales semi-often, so since then I’ve always had 2 pair. One everyday pair, and one back-up. I keep my back-up in my car and always keep my most recent old pair in my nightstand. You never know.
263 thoughts on “Wow”
Jackson
yay overalls
Ostsol
Ah… short-haired ladies in overalls…
Clif
Amber in Overalls. I want the soundtrack.
Plasma Mongoose
I like what she’s wearing, overall…
vonniesaur
hahahahahahaHAHA HA HA
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Mmm, cute Amber in dungarees… *_*
(that’s what we call ’em in the UK. We use “overalls” to refer to a full body suit, which I think other countries call a boilersuit?)
Everything about today’s strip is adorable. :3
Kryss LaBryn
In Canada the ones with sleeves are cover-alls. See, over-alls go over all your clothes; but cover-alls actually cover everything.
I think the States followed our lead on that one. 😉
Deimir
A full-body suit with legs and sleeves, I’ve always called that a jumpsuit.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
I’ve heard a full-body suit called a jumpsuit or a boilersuit (often worn in the UK by boiler repairmen, or at least they used to be xD), but we mostly call them overalls (because they are over everything else, and cover it too).
These that Amber is wearing are always called dungarees, and the shorter versions (such as Ruth has been shown wearing), are referred to as dungaree shorts. 🙂
KHNO
It’s time to introduce some french that you have to pardon:
it’s a called a “salopette”, which is a small salope (the word means bongo (filtered!) nowadays but used to mean someone/something dirty, I mean dirty as with dirt on it… because it was used… by children… to protect their clothes form dirt). The boiler suit is called a “bleu de travail” (something like workers’ blue clothing, you see where your “blue collar” meets it), worn by, well workers. Some people call it a “combinaison” when it’s not blue.
Znayx
Nope, “salope” means “slut”. Take it from a person who spent every school year from kindergarten to grade 12 in French (not French-immersion!) school. As for the rest, that’s neat facts. And on the note of that “bleu de travail”, the French language has lots of strange instances like that where they call an object/substance a colour. “Rouge à lêvres”, “vert-de-gris”… I guess it’s a thing with them?
Znayx
Although perhaps the thing about the French is not that they call objects/substances by their colour, but that they call them by their notable attribute. For example, the case of “salope” which was called that because it was dirty… as in, hard physical dirt on it. I’m a little too lazy to look into other examples– I mean, I’ve got homework to do, and look at the time! Better run!
KHNO
I’m quite flattered that with my stubbing-my-toe-on-any-difficulty english you could think otherwise that my being a snail eater.
This intel comes from the reference site I use for my teaching (as I teach french to french pupils in France) that you can now use for any etymology related: http://www.cnrtl.fr (in portail lexical then etymologie).
For further matters, most of colour-related objects are because of the use of synecdoche: a bleu de travail is in fact blue and that colour defines the object. And if you can most of time translate salope by slut (as slutwalks were called marches des salopes), it sometimes is better translated by bongo, for bongo having being reverted by feminist movements/authors (like roberta gregory), and so was salope for a small time after the pro-choice manifesto of 1971 used by french feminists, transforming the insult into a pride title.
David M Willis
day-yamn znayx done got told
Ilerien
This is clearly a prototype power armour
Znayx
Whatcha talkin’ about, Willis?
…Nevermind, I done got doggone told my ass off.
I was never fond of history in general as a school subject, and the origins of language always baffle me, but that’s one of a handful of things I’d like to look in to further. I guess the K-12 French student has to take it from the French teacher. As far as I knew, “salope” was always “slut” and “bongo” was always “chienne” (even in its derogatory meaning).
Znayx
^apparently I didn’t reply at the right spot
GreyTheDefender
Full body ones have always been called jumpsuits where I live, southeast US.
Annie
I’m in Texas (lived in south and central Texas and most my family is in DFW) and have only ever heard them called coveralls.
Makes me wonder what they call them in east Texas. Sometimes east Texas is VERY Texan, but other times they’re VERY Sourhern and confuse the rest of us Texans.
Suzi
All I could think is “It’s-a-me, Amazigirl!”
Someone
After completing the game if you press
LR Start you can play as Dina
Lord Stoneheart
I should know what game specifically this is a reference to put I’m running a blank. (I know the series obviously. Just blanking on which game has that LR start thing)
Someone
I was just thinking Mario games in general, but if you want a specific one
New Super Mario Bros on Nintendo DS
also known as the game that Shortpacked Amber went shirt ripping crazy over
legobil
“Lord Stonehearth” eh? 😀 http://www.stonehearth.net eller? 😉
Lord Stoneheart
Sorry I don’t click strange links. But it’s Stoneheart. There’s a story behind it, but the important thing is that it’s not Stonehearth, and so it probably has nothing to do with that link.
DarkoNeko
And you change class from fighter to stealth ?
GreyTheDefender
Dina goes through life always rolling nat 20s for “Hide In Plain Sight”.
Captain Button
So she has Dina’s power, but with the limitation “Only in costume”?
N0083rP00F
So she is a shadow dancer as well?
Kevin
She looks a bit more like Luigi to me.
Airyu
“It’s a-me-Luigi” still works~
Captain Button
Are those Pajama-Overalls(tm)?
saltchocolate
I had overalls in college!
heyman
Overalls can be overdone. My ex dressed our little girl in overalls so often because she was “sooo cute!” than I witnessed an adorable tiny rebellion- a six year old folding her arms, pooching out her lower lip, and saying “No more overalls!”
She still refuses to wear them.
It’s like when one burns out on their favorite food, sorta.
DarkoNeko
It seems like dressing a droll rather than taking into account the tastes of a living being.
Annie
It happens in stages, though. When they’re babies they wear whatever mom/dad picks. Gradually they have more input, but if it’s an outfit mom loves on them, they get praised like crazy and fawned over when they wear it, so they like it to. (Plus, for my kid, he loved having lots of pockets that were easier for a toddler to access than in regular pants) So, for years, they are jumping for joy at wearing overalls.
They gradually give more input in what they wear day-to-day, but at that stage their only consideration is how it feels on them (comfort) and how it looks (the color, a picture on it, does it have pockets? Glitter? Frills? Favorite shapes?). They don’t care if it suits the weather or the day’s activities, or even if it fits. So they still have little real say in the matter ultimately.
Then they start giving more input in the store. So you buy more of what they like and what fits their style. But they’re still using you as a gauge and still only thinking in the moment, not about fit, durability, weather, etc.
But as their world expands more and the “I’m the center of the universe” innate toddler attitude falls away, they develop their own tastes and styles.
I know I let my son dress more-or-less in what he likes, and he picks 90% of his clothes now. But it’s still hard to let go of the styles that I like on him. I spent 6 years being the ultimate decider (and still am at times, like on special occasions, or if he decides he wants to wear his Super Mario costume to school) and his tastes aligning with mine mostly.
It’s not easy to let that go and say “okay, you’re old enough to pick.” Or even “alright, I’ll help you pick.”
And honestly, for things like holidays or professional photos, it’s my decision. I will try to pick things that he likes and fit his tastes, but things like wearing overalls for a quick photo at the pumpkin patch won’t kill him, and it won’t quash his sense of individuality. It’s just another dumb thing mom made him do for 5 minutes before he was allowed to run off and play and he forgot about it.
DarkoNeko
that was insightful.
Annie
Yeah, I think my son is just so adorable in overalls. I’d comb racks to find them in his size. They’re cute, they fit longer than most pants, I don’t have to wear out my arm yanking on that damn elastic like I do in all his regular pants (he can only wear adjustable waist pants. He’s long-legged and very slim) and when he was a toddler, the X on the back of them made a good handle for when he was trying to run off or when he was about to fall and I couldn’t quite reach to catch him. Overalls saved that kid from *so* many bonks on the head and scraped knees.
But now he’s 6 and in kindergarten. None of his friends wear overalls, nor do any of his fashion heroes on Disney Channel (I will wring the neck of whoever gave Teen Beach Movie the green light), so he also refuses to wear them. Little lovable brat.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
I read that statement as “Overalls can be undone”, as in, undone quite easily…I’m having a Slipshine thought moment right now.
Excuse me, I’ll let myself out. xD
Charlie Spencer
Of all the things Amazi-Girl had done, Amber trumps them by being able to do backflips in overallS AND sticking the landing while not seeing clearly.
SonicBlueRanger
Personally I’m a bigger fan of Jean Shorts but I can see the appeal of cute girls in Overalls too.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
This should be Amber’s new look. Permanently. It’s super-cute! <3
Cute girls in dungarees. There is no bad here. 😀
Mada
Well at least her depth perception and balance still seem to be okay 🙂
tim gueguen
Either she’s wearing contacts, and does so as Amazi-girl, or she really doesn’t need glasses, and they’re just part of her Amber persona.
John
She needs them, but not badly enough that she can’t get by without them if she has to.
qman
I was that way before I got my Lasik surgery, I could see well enough to do most things, but everything was blurry, so stuff like reading was off the table. I never had any depth perception though, my eyes don’t work together and I have doublevision all the time, so I approximate depth via angles and sizes of things.
Touchfuzzy
I had double vision for the first 25 years of my life that required glasses because I had an imbalance in the strength of my eye muscles. But then I had a work accident (worked construction) and went blind in one eye, and now I don’t need glasses… kind of a silver lining to the grey grey cloud of going blind in one eye :B
Chris2315
And also you can wear a cool eyepatch if you want.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
My dad was born with double-vision too (he’s now 63). Honestly, it’s a mystery to me how he’s not always walking into walls or stuff, nevermind the fact that he’s a perfectly competent driver. I’d never get behind a steering wheel and I can see only one of everything in front of me! xD
(…although my optician keeps insisting my eyesight is great – better than average in fact, and wonders why I keep going back for my regularly biennial appointment – I do have mild stereoblindness. I only really notice it when I’m reaching for the handrail on the bus, and miss xD)
Tetty
I’m very longsighted in one eye, and have been all my life. In theory, I don’t have normal depth perception (which sometimes affects me), but in practice, this is how I’ve always been, so my brain works around it. Probably the same with your dad, he’s ALWAYS had the double vision, so it’s normal to him and he works it.
It would probably be a different story if he’d developed it later in life.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Yeah, I suppose so. In fact, he went to the optician once to ask about getting his vision sorted (not only does he have double vision caused by a squint in one eye, he also has one eye longsighted and one eye shortsighted!), but they said that he’s too old to sort it out now anyway. And even if they could sort the squint out at such an old age (basically, all adults are classed as too old to undergo squint-correction surgery), he’d probably have to learn to see all over again, which would not be fun for him at all.
Edupoet81
I would guess that Amber wears glasses to correct a minor vision impairment, and she’s able to see well enough to get by without them. I myself am mildly nearsighted, and I have glasses for that. Without my glasses, distant objects appear blurry, I can see objects that are close perfectly clearly. I don’t have my glasses on right now, and I’m having no difficulty seeing the computer screen. I could manage without glasses if I had to. I couldn’t pull off moves like that, but I couldn’t do that with the aid of corrective lenses either, so that’s beside the point.
BenRG
I’ve got to say that this is my preferred explanation.
thejeff
I read that more as a “Not still concussed/no permanent damage” than about her glasses.
Annie
Yeah, I’m impressed. I can’t even walk down stairs without my glasses on because my depth-perception is so off without them.
I can also only see clearly about 6in in front of my face, so that doesn’t help, but even when my eyesight wasn’t all that bad, not having glasses threw off my depth-perception to dangerous levels.
I think college was when glasses stores started doing buy-one, get-one-free sales semi-often, so since then I’ve always had 2 pair. One everyday pair, and one back-up. I keep my back-up in my car and always keep my most recent old pair in my nightstand. You never know.
Mr. Mendo
Those overalls are what really make it pop!
Clif
Amber’s what makes the overalls pop. Batman should have overalls.
inqntrol
Wish granted.
zoelogical
for one wild moment i thought you were going to gift us with farmer Batman.
(this is just about as good tho)
Lia47
Well THATS a pretty swift confirmation that she’s feeling better
Dreadhawk177
One could say she’s feeling…
Lia47
…hungry?
Reltzik
Better overall?
Deanatay
DING! Correct answer. Have a waffle!
Cephalo the Pod
Amazing?
knifleman
Huh. I’d actually been under the impression that only Amazi-Girl could do the flippy shit. Guess the tags prove me wrong.
Plasma Mongoose
It’s only Amazi-Girl when she uses the Batman voice.
knifleman
Nope. She didn’t use the voice at the beginning, remember?
Someone
She was not truly Amazi-Girl then, she was too soft on criminals. Let them live
Lord Stoneheart
Other than the tags, the cheek color is a pretty good indicator. Amber has blushes. Amazi Girl does not.
Someone
When it’s Amber her cheeks are blue
When it’s Amazi-Girl her cheeks are yellow
Well I’ve fulfilled my perverted joke quote for the day.
Ana Chronistic
I can attest to this–just the other day, my co-worker walked straight past me at the grocery but her face was glued to her phone, so
–oh I guess the site’s clock’s fixed now? huh
Dreadhawk177