She’s absolutely “kidding herself” into believing that she is the worthless incapable person that she’s been building herself up as over the past couple of days.
She can do something about it, but she has to believe she can before she’ll ever try.
Poor Billie, Poor Ruth. They could both really use a good break.
I thought college was designed to form you into hard-wired, coffee loving, fast paced machines of society who strive for efficiency and shuns breaks?
. . .
Where the hell am I going with this?
Jen Aside
I hear Kokomo is nice this time of year.
indignostudios
That’s where I want to go… Way down to Kokomo…
Random832
But Kokomo is north of Bloomington.
Kodra
I feel like college doesn’t really know what it’s trying to do beyond “if we bring enough smart people together and make them live with each other for four years, hopefully they’ll all become smarter.”
AgentKeen
“Oh, and charge them money, so we make money from their pa- I mean, to improve their education.”
MacBone
Uh, class? Research? Lab? The library?
There’s this great debate over what college is about. Some people say it’s to gain knowledge, to learn things, to grow as a person. Others, particularly employers, say it’s all about gaining the skills and knowledge one needs to do well at a job. Still others say the most important part of college is socialization, what goes on outside the classroom.
All of these things are important. That said, this is a comic about making bad decisions, and it’s always fun to see where Willis takes us.
Paul
Whatever it is, I’m against it.
Rutee
Except employers frequently *don’t* say that. Or they might say it, but not mean it. Even in a lot of skilled labor, labor that actually requires the degree they demand, you don’t necessarily learn useful skills from that degree. And in ones that just accept a bachelor’s or associates, which is a huge number of office jobs, all that piece of paper says is that you did the amount of hard work necessary to obtain it (to the employer). They still have to train you, and your schooling often won’t help with that. The sum and total of your debt was proving you wouldn’t necessarily waste the training classes (Either by not understanding them, or not having the ‘resolve’ to stay with your employer for an extended period).
tinfoil theory
In my experience, it is to give people a certificate that they belong.
It doesn’t help with learning: You can learn all that it professes to teach more effectively by yourself, and usually have to.
It doesn’t help with research: There are too many distracting students.
It doesn’t help with skills: After graduation, you more than likely keep doing what you were doing.
It doesn’t help with networking: Where you go and what you do afterwards rarely depends only on who you got to know there.
It gives you a shiny degree that proves that you have done your time and put in your share of the work and are now part of the community.
Surprisingly, science progresses. Thanks to the people who stay and teach how to stay and teach, and often despite of them.
StClair
To serve as a farm league for various professional sports teams, and act as a conduit for transferring money between the alumni-and-other-fans and the athletic department.
Education? Pfft.
Kelly
Kathmandu?
Nono
Xanadu.
badmartialarts
The stately pleasure domes await!
Lawzlo
Xanadu: Pretty good Rush song.
carl320
I always break my fast with honeydew and milk of paradise.
David
Billie has quite a bit of liver training to accomplish before she can aspire to follow in the footsteps of Coleridge’s opium-induced vision of Kubla Khan.
Either of them can. One of them just has to step up and say “no more” and take that forceful step past that “this is a bad idea” block. After that, it’s all shaky legged follow through.
nooo billie what are you doing please dont give up she still needs u even if you’ve messed up!!!
(im really sorry guys im drunk but i had to see the comic and then i felt like I had to say something sorry)
What if this ended up as the opposite of Roomies!, where instead of Ruth dying and Billie losing the one she loved, and Billie died, and Ruth realized she lost her?
Few months ago, I would have said this was too sad for DoA, but now I’m not sure anymore. Damnit Willis.
Willis has already said there’s gonna be no dying in Dumbing of Age, mainly ’cause if anyone died the cast would be in mourning for over a year our time. Which is no fun.
Which makes this part, PRETTY damn anti-climactic. I mean, maybe the worst is Ruth will be ALMOST dying or something but we’re guerenteed no cadavers this time around.
Kodra
I feel like the moments we see right now are the reflections of the characters. We aren’t seeing Ruth right now, we’re seeing Billie, and how she views herself and her place in the world.
ninja_jesus
Agreed, the element of surprise is somewhat spoiled, but there are worse things than death in this world.
Yotomoe
Well normally I’d ask how you’d know, but you’re Jesus, so you probably know more about death than I do.
123 thoughts on “Kidding”
An Average Loser
And she still can’t. . .
Jen Aside
Yourself?
maybe
Kodra
She’s absolutely “kidding herself” into believing that she is the worthless incapable person that she’s been building herself up as over the past couple of days.
She can do something about it, but she has to believe she can before she’ll ever try.
Poor Billie, Poor Ruth. They could both really use a good break.
An Average Loser
I thought college was designed to form you into hard-wired, coffee loving, fast paced machines of society who strive for efficiency and shuns breaks?
. . .
Where the hell am I going with this?
Jen Aside
I hear Kokomo is nice this time of year.
indignostudios
That’s where I want to go… Way down to Kokomo…
Random832
But Kokomo is north of Bloomington.
Kodra
I feel like college doesn’t really know what it’s trying to do beyond “if we bring enough smart people together and make them live with each other for four years, hopefully they’ll all become smarter.”
AgentKeen
“Oh, and charge them money, so we make money from their pa- I mean, to improve their education.”
MacBone
Uh, class? Research? Lab? The library?
There’s this great debate over what college is about. Some people say it’s to gain knowledge, to learn things, to grow as a person. Others, particularly employers, say it’s all about gaining the skills and knowledge one needs to do well at a job. Still others say the most important part of college is socialization, what goes on outside the classroom.
All of these things are important. That said, this is a comic about making bad decisions, and it’s always fun to see where Willis takes us.
Paul
Whatever it is, I’m against it.
Rutee
Except employers frequently *don’t* say that. Or they might say it, but not mean it. Even in a lot of skilled labor, labor that actually requires the degree they demand, you don’t necessarily learn useful skills from that degree. And in ones that just accept a bachelor’s or associates, which is a huge number of office jobs, all that piece of paper says is that you did the amount of hard work necessary to obtain it (to the employer). They still have to train you, and your schooling often won’t help with that. The sum and total of your debt was proving you wouldn’t necessarily waste the training classes (Either by not understanding them, or not having the ‘resolve’ to stay with your employer for an extended period).
tinfoil theory
In my experience, it is to give people a certificate that they belong.
It doesn’t help with learning: You can learn all that it professes to teach more effectively by yourself, and usually have to.
It doesn’t help with research: There are too many distracting students.
It doesn’t help with skills: After graduation, you more than likely keep doing what you were doing.
It doesn’t help with networking: Where you go and what you do afterwards rarely depends only on who you got to know there.
It gives you a shiny degree that proves that you have done your time and put in your share of the work and are now part of the community.
Surprisingly, science progresses. Thanks to the people who stay and teach how to stay and teach, and often despite of them.
StClair
To serve as a farm league for various professional sports teams, and act as a conduit for transferring money between the alumni-and-other-fans and the athletic department.
Education? Pfft.
Kelly
Kathmandu?
Nono
Xanadu.
badmartialarts
The stately pleasure domes await!
Lawzlo
Xanadu: Pretty good Rush song.
carl320
I always break my fast with honeydew and milk of paradise.
David
Billie has quite a bit of liver training to accomplish before she can aspire to follow in the footsteps of Coleridge’s opium-induced vision of Kubla Khan.
Plasma Mongoose
Xanadu: Great music and visuals(for its time), subpar movie.
Lawzlo
Whoops, I wanted my comment to appear after yours, not before, but clicked on the wrong “reply.”
Oops.
Plasma Mongoose
Clicks happen.
Yotomoe
I’ve never seen a college student not take a break.
Eukie
Depression sucks. 🙁
Rachel Roth
Either of them can. One of them just has to step up and say “no more” and take that forceful step past that “this is a bad idea” block. After that, it’s all shaky legged follow through.
Plasma Mongoose
The way this arc is going, a runaway truck might be the nicer option.
Doctor_Who
Optimus saves the day again!
Camachri
Oh god, Roomies! just got a whole lot worse for TF fans.
Plasma Mongoose
Billie needs to transform herself and roll on in.
pendrake
(Peter Cullen voice) One shall stand…
and one shall fall…
…but two may ‘ship.
’till all are one.
sylvester crow
You win this thread sir.
The adventurer
door nobs, they confound me too.
Kinoko
It also works on cats!
sps48
Don’t give up!
the ship?
An Average Loser
Always Salvageable. . .
Plasma Mongoose
Man the lifeboats.
Yotomoe
Sir, The hulls have been breached and we’re taking on water.
Ivan
They are both pregnant?
Yotomoe
That’s not how this metaphor works.
Sara
It was the whiteboard dingdongs that did it.
Rutee
I don’t know why people keep acting like it’s worse now than when she found out Billie was drinking still. Like, seriously X3
tinfoil theory
Stay the course, just veer the sails.
newllend
Hope will rebuild it.
fit-to-freak
nooo billie what are you doing please dont give up she still needs u even if you’ve messed up!!!
(im really sorry guys im drunk but i had to see the comic and then i felt like I had to say something sorry)
Kelli
People doing things impulsively because they’re drunk is very appropriate to this storyline.
fit-to-freak
haha oh shit omg your so right im like an example?
Emperor Kiva
OH FOR THE LOVE GOD!
An Average Loser
Just fuck already?
Rosicrucian
I don’t think there will be Licky Style for the Love God.
Emperor Kiva
GO IN THAT ROOM YOU ASS!
Yotomoe
Oh for the Love of Booze.
gwalla
LOVE FOR THE LOVE GOD
SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE
StClair
(the ‘love’ god is Slaanesh, lest we forget…)
Helmet
Come on Billie
You’re at the door.
You may as well walk in.
Maveric1984
Her lock was changed tho I thought. The key doesn’t work anymore
Yotomoe
Her Legs are just as powerful as they were a week ago.
Bantha
I can only show you the door. You’re the one that has to walk through it.
Yotomoe
Panel 3: Wobbuffet
Mass Confusion
Now I can’t unsee that. At least I got a good laugh from it though
Wonder Wig
Fight! Fight! Fight! Kiss. Kiss. Kiss.
Yotomoe
Preferably at the same time.
vmgx
And on camera
SUGauthor
Cmon Billie! You have to at least try!
An Average Loser
This is trying. . . in it’s own special way?
Stephen Bierce
*plays Paul Simon’s “Loves Me Like A Rock” on the Muzak*
Vael
What if this ended up as the opposite of Roomies!, where instead of Ruth dying and Billie losing the one she loved, and Billie died, and Ruth realized she lost her?
Few months ago, I would have said this was too sad for DoA, but now I’m not sure anymore. Damnit Willis.
Camachri
Willis has already said there’s gonna be no dying in Dumbing of Age, mainly ’cause if anyone died the cast would be in mourning for over a year our time. Which is no fun.
Yotomoe
Which makes this part, PRETTY damn anti-climactic. I mean, maybe the worst is Ruth will be ALMOST dying or something but we’re guerenteed no cadavers this time around.
Kodra
I feel like the moments we see right now are the reflections of the characters. We aren’t seeing Ruth right now, we’re seeing Billie, and how she views herself and her place in the world.
ninja_jesus
Agreed, the element of surprise is somewhat spoiled, but there are worse things than death in this world.
Yotomoe
Well normally I’d ask how you’d know, but you’re Jesus, so you probably know more about death than I do.