Man, if they found a way to make Ecto Cooler glow, I would drink nothing else.
Also I would probably die. But I’d leave a pleasantly luminescent corpse.
(((Mkvenner)))
for about five seconds then you just regenerate into not ginger.
ety
and not female…
DinaWho
I still don’t get the whole not-ginger thing. While the Doctor’s never been vibrantly, gloriously ginge to Turlough*, Mel, Donna, or Amy levels, I’d argue Eight’s hair has a substantial reddish component (at least the movie wig does). More on par with the level of red in Tegan’s s19 ‘do. (Oddly enough while her hair is notably less red in s20 save for the Enlightenment wig, it gets hints of red again in s21.)
*asterisk due to the fact that Strickson’s hair was dyed for the role while the others are to my knowledge natural
inqntrol
And you won’t neef to buy batteries for your flashlight.
“It was the weirdest thing, captain. The suspect got out of our handcuffs somehow, then tripped and fell down a sealed elevator shaft. Onto some bullets. We’re calling it an accident.”
unfortunately it’s the only language the bully understands, mostly because the teacher’s/parents don’t make them learn diplomacy or kindness, so their victims are forced to learn Ass-whoop and then suddenly their the bad guy for being multi-cultural.
this one person stopped when i kicked him between the legs and another when i basically maced him with cologne. a few years apart in this case. one middle school and one high school
The real issue is that this is teaching Sal that language. A lot of people on here are rooting for Sal beating up Leland, while disregarding the fact that there is a direct line from this to the convenience store robbery that created Amazigirl. This is NOT a good thing that’s happening.
Spencer
Not really. Sal robbed the convenience stores out of a desperation for her parents’ acknowledgement. She’s kicking Leland’s ass here because he hurt her best friend and not only faced no consequences for it, but Marcie’s been barred from the premises.
Charlie
Yeah, but she learned she can’t trust authority or her parents, thus leading to the convenience store robbery. Jargon has a point.
Spencer
I don’t really think the convenience store robbery had anything to do with Sal’s problems with authority, it was her problems with her parents’ neglect.
ischemgeek
This event is not teaching Sal the language of violence – frankly, US culture does a good enough job of that on its own.
What it’s teaching Sal is the languages of injustice and oppression – which are what eventually give her the driving anger to rob the stores.
Injustice – Sal being treated as the problem when Leland was the aggressor, and Leland getting off scott-free for hurting her friend. Oppression is going to come – I have no doubt that school administration is going to come down on the black girl much more harshly than they ever did on the white boy.
ety
I think the people rooting for Sal to beat up Leland here are mostly expressing that frustration with the fact that she has so thoroughly been failed by every step of society that is supposed to help her and prevent this kind of thing. and that is an experience many people have in common with her.
ety
I totally messed up the i and b tags…
ety
should have been…
she has so thoroughly been failed by every step of society that is supposed to help her and prevent this kind of thing.
Yeah, the only problem is Sal is serving her revenge dish piping hot, thus allowing Leland to benefit from the role of the victim. Even if Leland refuses to admit this happened (due to embarrassment from being whooped by a girl) everyone else will penalize Sal for him, leading him to forget his lesson about what goes around….
“unfortunately it’s the only language the bully understands, mostly because the teacher’s/parents don’t make them learn diplomacy or kindness, so their victims are forced to learn Ass-whoop and then suddenly their the bad guy for being multi-cultural.” I actually have to agree with you. It won’t be a popular opinion but that’s ok…the only way to deal with a bully is to stand up to them. It’s the only language they understand and they typically do not expect it. When it happens it shocks them and they think twice about doing it again.
They were going to eitherway. White student with good grades. A “poster boy” if you will. The fact they were willing to turn a blind eye to witnesses… Well now we see one reason Sal didn’t get to stay in school. She punished the guilty. Didn’t know Marcie hadn’t always been deaf.
Her.
Marcie aint deaf just mute, people talk to her.
foamy
I’m puttin’ money on Sal’s attack, right here, being the reason Marcie is mute.
I can definitely see Leland deciding Sal’s little friend makes a much easier target for payback.
Her.
nah i dont think thatd be caused by somethin like this well probably learn why in a year or 2
foamy
It’s the fact that this is a choke that’s making bells ring for me. If Sal had just decked him, I’d be much less sure of it.
CJ
Yes,, if you ever need to choke someone, try to put their larynx in the crook of your arm. Putting pressure on the blood vessels works much faster to make them loose consciousness anyway.
ety
CJ, I think that largely depends on your goal.. Obviously, if making them lose consciousness is your primary concern you’d be absolutely right, but if you just want to hurt and/or make things very unpleasant for them….
CJ
Ups, my morals are showing.
ischemgeek
Even without taking morality into account: Larynx chokes are a bit foolish because they give your opponent a surge of instinctual, fight-or-flight panic, and I am pretty sure I can fight harder scared than most other people can fight angry.
Geodey
From the angle, she might be using the bone of her forearm against his windpipe. Seeing as this saws the windpipe up, I wonder if he’s gonna die in the next strip, from a rookie mistake?
miados
i can understand the reasoning. i mean heck it came up in the comic too. you see sign language you think deaf, but still the fact it was in a comic bluntly i would think would cut down in it more, but at the same time people can only remember so much about anything even if it is a comic they really enjoy.
I work with a deaf girl and talk to her with few problems. She reads lips really well. So while in this case it isn’t applicable, I don’t think that people who make that assumption are being willfully ignorant; almost all the deaf folks I’ve interacted with read lips moderately to supremely well.
showler
Willis does, deliberately, draw instances where Sal is talking to Marcie while Marcie is looking away from her, though.
Pretty much all of last week had them carrying on a conversation while Marcie kept watch on the crowd instead of looking at Sal.
470 thoughts on “Balances”
Ana Chronistic
have a nice FALL Leland
don’t get all CHOKED up Leland
Kris
Poor Leland. Sal is quite breathtaking.
Doctor_Who
She’s got a stranglehold on his heart.
TheAnonymousGuy
last time I checked you were supposed to wait until the third date.
MortartarSaws
It really chokes you up, right?
Spencer
Sal should give him some space. She’s suffocating him.
Chandra
Maybe necks time he’ll think before messing with her and Marcie.
Gibibit
Have a nice TRIP Leland*
Doctor_Who
*Sphincter Clench*
(Though in this case it’s the esophageal sphincter)
Stephen R. Bierce
And from this day forth he shall excrete Ecto Cooler from his nether regions.
Doctor_Who
Man, if they found a way to make Ecto Cooler glow, I would drink nothing else.
Also I would probably die. But I’d leave a pleasantly luminescent corpse.
(((Mkvenner)))
for about five seconds then you just regenerate into not ginger.
ety
and not female…
DinaWho
I still don’t get the whole not-ginger thing. While the Doctor’s never been vibrantly, gloriously ginge to Turlough*, Mel, Donna, or Amy levels, I’d argue Eight’s hair has a substantial reddish component (at least the movie wig does). More on par with the level of red in Tegan’s s19 ‘do. (Oddly enough while her hair is notably less red in s20 save for the Enlightenment wig, it gets hints of red again in s21.)
*asterisk due to the fact that Strickson’s hair was dyed for the role while the others are to my knowledge natural
inqntrol
And you won’t neef to buy batteries for your flashlight.
miados
just make sure you have tea ready.
Mr. Mendo
He fell! …on a rake! 😉
JustCheetoDust
More rakes needed.
Train Moblin
“Oh silly Leland you tripped right into my cold and unrelenting hands, WHAT A BUTTERFINGERS”
Deanatay
“It was the weirdest thing, captain. The suspect got out of our handcuffs somehow, then tripped and fell down a sealed elevator shaft. Onto some bullets. We’re calling it an accident.”
(((Mkvenner)))
Been there done that. I’m not joking by the way.
SgtWadeyWilson
I believe you, been in a similar situation myself.
(((Mkvenner)))
Thou the person I had the altercation and I actually got around to burying the hatchet recently (about a decade or two latter).
Hilzabub
Was the hatchet in his head and the burial out in the desert?
(((Mkvenner)))
Neither.
TheAnonymousGuy
unfortunately it’s the only language the bully understands, mostly because the teacher’s/parents don’t make them learn diplomacy or kindness, so their victims are forced to learn Ass-whoop and then suddenly their the bad guy for being multi-cultural.
Harvey Janus
Wouldn’t it be multi-lingual or is Ass-whoop a language and culture all in one?
miados
this one person stopped when i kicked him between the legs and another when i basically maced him with cologne. a few years apart in this case. one middle school and one high school
Jargon2029
The real issue is that this is teaching Sal that language. A lot of people on here are rooting for Sal beating up Leland, while disregarding the fact that there is a direct line from this to the convenience store robbery that created Amazigirl. This is NOT a good thing that’s happening.
Spencer
Not really. Sal robbed the convenience stores out of a desperation for her parents’ acknowledgement. She’s kicking Leland’s ass here because he hurt her best friend and not only faced no consequences for it, but Marcie’s been barred from the premises.
Charlie
Yeah, but she learned she can’t trust authority or her parents, thus leading to the convenience store robbery. Jargon has a point.
Spencer
I don’t really think the convenience store robbery had anything to do with Sal’s problems with authority, it was her problems with her parents’ neglect.
ischemgeek
This event is not teaching Sal the language of violence – frankly, US culture does a good enough job of that on its own.
What it’s teaching Sal is the languages of injustice and oppression – which are what eventually give her the driving anger to rob the stores.
Injustice – Sal being treated as the problem when Leland was the aggressor, and Leland getting off scott-free for hurting her friend. Oppression is going to come – I have no doubt that school administration is going to come down on the black girl much more harshly than they ever did on the white boy.
ety
I think the people rooting for Sal to beat up Leland here are mostly expressing that frustration with the fact that she has so thoroughly been failed by every step of society that is supposed to help her and prevent this kind of thing. and that is an experience many people have in common with her.
ety
I totally messed up the i and b tags…
ety
should have been…
she has so thoroughly been failed by every step of society that is supposed to help her and prevent this kind of thing.
DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
Yeah, the only problem is Sal is serving her revenge dish piping hot, thus allowing Leland to benefit from the role of the victim. Even if Leland refuses to admit this happened (due to embarrassment from being whooped by a girl) everyone else will penalize Sal for him, leading him to forget his lesson about what goes around….
Metalhawk
“unfortunately it’s the only language the bully understands, mostly because the teacher’s/parents don’t make them learn diplomacy or kindness, so their victims are forced to learn Ass-whoop and then suddenly their the bad guy for being multi-cultural.” I actually have to agree with you. It won’t be a popular opinion but that’s ok…the only way to deal with a bully is to stand up to them. It’s the only language they understand and they typically do not expect it. When it happens it shocks them and they think twice about doing it again.
inqntrol
Looks like the choke’s on him.
darkoneko
You win.
Her.
good
darkoneko
Yet the teacher will take his side.
Rikunda
They were going to eitherway. White student with good grades. A “poster boy” if you will. The fact they were willing to turn a blind eye to witnesses… Well now we see one reason Sal didn’t get to stay in school. She punished the guilty. Didn’t know Marcie hadn’t always been deaf.
Her.
Marcie aint deaf just mute, people talk to her.
foamy
I’m puttin’ money on Sal’s attack, right here, being the reason Marcie is mute.
Fart Captor
I can definitely see Leland deciding Sal’s little friend makes a much easier target for payback.
Her.
nah i dont think thatd be caused by somethin like this well probably learn why in a year or 2
foamy
It’s the fact that this is a choke that’s making bells ring for me. If Sal had just decked him, I’d be much less sure of it.
CJ
Yes,, if you ever need to choke someone, try to put their larynx in the crook of your arm. Putting pressure on the blood vessels works much faster to make them loose consciousness anyway.
ety
CJ, I think that largely depends on your goal.. Obviously, if making them lose consciousness is your primary concern you’d be absolutely right, but if you just want to hurt and/or make things very unpleasant for them….
CJ
Ups, my morals are showing.
ischemgeek
Even without taking morality into account: Larynx chokes are a bit foolish because they give your opponent a surge of instinctual, fight-or-flight panic, and I am pretty sure I can fight harder scared than most other people can fight angry.
Geodey
From the angle, she might be using the bone of her forearm against his windpipe. Seeing as this saws the windpipe up, I wonder if he’s gonna die in the next strip, from a rookie mistake?
miados
i can understand the reasoning. i mean heck it came up in the comic too. you see sign language you think deaf, but still the fact it was in a comic bluntly i would think would cut down in it more, but at the same time people can only remember so much about anything even if it is a comic they really enjoy.
Dana
Came up here, for example.
Needfuldoer
Sal was talking to her all last week, too.
Shadlyn Wolfe
I work with a deaf girl and talk to her with few problems. She reads lips really well. So while in this case it isn’t applicable, I don’t think that people who make that assumption are being willfully ignorant; almost all the deaf folks I’ve interacted with read lips moderately to supremely well.
showler
Willis does, deliberately, draw instances where Sal is talking to Marcie while Marcie is looking away from her, though.
Pretty much all of last week had them carrying on a conversation while Marcie kept watch on the crowd instead of looking at Sal.
gkheyf
basically, she’s more like batman beyond
SconesAndEvil
It’s just a friendly hug. Around the neck. Really tightly.
Kris
Child murder! See what happens when you don’t stop her!
(((Mkvenner)))
She’s innocent until proven guilty in court of LAW.
tim gueguen
DUNTDUNT!
kater
your avatar/comment pairing is flawless
Cattleprod
I’ll assume that alt text is canonical until shown otherwise.
Some1
http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1182
its sorta canon!
Cattleprod
Yeah, but I mean for the Dumbingverse.
rectilinearpropagation
*laughs hysterically*
Mitsukara
That would explain some things… in an alternate timeline. http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1182
miados
who stands and pees in the dark? i mean sure the pee is glow in the dark there but what about before that?
a snow ʍousɐ
Maybe the power went out?
Fart Captor
If he pees his pants, we’ll be able to know for sure…