Yeah, does anyone remember her kicking the box down the hall? That’s animal abuse. She took 10 giant steps down in my regard as a character and she wasn’t up the first flight yet.
She was pushing the box down the hall with her foot. That’s at least a little less violent than a kick. (Back in Shortpacked, Fuckface the iguana was one of the few things Malaya actually cared about.)
Sal wouldn’t kick the box with her pet in it down the hallway. She’s a GD @#$@ing human being and not a demented … ugh.
Freemage
I dislike Malaya as much as you do, but I agree with the folks pointing out that she was doing foot-scooches, not actual kicks. It’s lazy, but not harmful or any more stressful to the animal than being moved in the box in general.
They dont get along because Malaya is constantly insulting her to her face. Sal is pretty chill. It’s Malaya who is starting unnecessary shit. I don’t understand her. If this were real life I would question whether Malaya is autistic or has some other condition that affects her social skills.
Sal makes it abundantly clear how much disdain she holds for Malaya and insults her whenever she gets a chance, even lying to her about what Marcie signed before Malaya took the chance to learn ASL. And when Sal reached out to her to be “friends”, she started off by calling her a cumstain (though not to her face), being rude and condescending to her throughout the entire exchange, and then threatening her when Malaya doesn’t magically want to be friends?? That’s, like, the complete opposite of chill.
I’m not denying that Malaya is abrasive and hard to handle, but it’s hardly as if Sal is kind and friendly towards her to be repeatedly rejected.
Dinosaurs aren’t genera (“genera” is the plural of genus – in the scientific name of Tyrannosaurus rex for example, “Tyrannosaurus” is the genus-name and “rex” is the species name). The Dinosauria clade is part of the Archosaurs, which were considered a reptilian clade last I checked (the crocodiles are also archosaurs).
(On the other hand, I am familiar enough with Opus the Poet to assume he’ll actually accept the correction, unlike the guy who ate all my spoons the other day.)
I accept my mistakes with aplomb. It helps prove I’m still human after getting killed. Still waiting for the orders to join Wills’ army of unkillable badasses.
Agemegos
Perhaps you were thinking of the fact that dinosaurs aren’t lizards.
thejeff
Of course, if you’re talking cladistics, not only are dinosaurs reptiles, but so are mammals.
We’re also all fish. 🙂
drs
If you’re talking cladistics, amniotes (first fully terrestrial animals) split into synapsids, including mammals, and sauropsids, including dinosaurs (and birds), lizards, crocs, turtles, and everything else we’d call a modern reptile.
I suspect a layman would look at an earlier amniote and call it a reptile, but Reptilia starts later in the evotree.
thejeff
Hmm, could be wrong. I thought synapsids were a branch off of reptiles. Looks like I was fooled by the old “mammal-like reptiles” description.
We’re still fish though.
DinaWho
Can I just say that I’m taking a zoology class right now and this comment thread is life?
Also dinosaurs are reptiles. They’re still around – birds are maniraptoran theropods.
Deanatay
Theropods, yes, but not reptillian theropods. Dinosaurs are considered their own clade now. Somewhat warm-blooded, and with significant design differences in their skeletons.
However, you COULD get away with calling them lizards, as ‘saur’ means ‘lizard’. Just not… ‘reptillian’ lizards.
That is literally, 100%, completely the opposite of how it works.
They are not lizards. Lizards are squamates.
They are, however, reptiles. Because they are descended from the common ancestor of all reptiles, which makes them reptiles. If you want to remove dinosaurs from reptilia (syn: sauropsida), you also have to remove crocodiles and turtles, which are more closely related to dinosaurs than they are to lizards, snakes, and tuatara.
Here’s how the clades nest – birds are dinosaurs, which are archosaurs, which are reptiles. You cannot evolve out of a clade – you can, though, evolve into a new clade, which is contained within the old clade – as they are defined by common descent.
King Daniel
Basically, think of clades as those Russian nesting dolls, only if some of the dolls in turn contained several smaller dolls instead of just a single doll.
The “Bird” doll is nested in the “Dinosaur” doll, the “Dinosaur” and “Pterosaur” dolls are nested within the “Ornithodiran” doll, the “Ornithodiran” and “Crocodile” dolls are nested in the “Archosaur” doll, and so on. If you nest within a doll, you can be considered part of that group.
Something is wrong here.
Why isn’t Dina explaining this?
King Daniel
I would be equally happy with a Joyce, Dina, or Ruth gravatar, as they’re the three characters in the comic with whom I identify most on a personal level (after the latest great gravatar switch-up, my previous grav was replaced by Mary, and I hastily engaged in grav-roulette hoping for one of the three; Ruth was the first to appear).
My brain somehow free-associated Patreon to Slipshine and that’s really all there is to say on the matter (especially taking into consideration my contribution to a certain comment chain on yesterday’s strip regarding Carla’s shirt and the title text)
Discussion (215) - “Paper-thin”
Ana Chronistic
Iguanas move, though! They go into your big sister’s room and eat all her best accessories, don’t they?
/learned everything about iguanas from Foxtrot
AnvilPro
Man, I miss daily Foxtrot comics
Pablo360
By all known laws of aviation, the iguana should not be able to fly.
Chaucer59
Until you superglue fins to its sides and stuff a solid rocket engine up its kiester and ignite it. Or so I’ve heard.
Wright
Until they barf them all back up on her bed, yeah.
Arawn
Yeah, does anyone remember her kicking the box down the hall? That’s animal abuse. She took 10 giant steps down in my regard as a character and she wasn’t up the first flight yet.
Paul
Those were ‘foot schooches’ not kicks. It’s quite different.
Iggy was more at risk when the box was being carried.
Needfuldoer
She was pushing the box down the hall with her foot. That’s at least a little less violent than a kick. (Back in Shortpacked, Fuckface the iguana was one of the few things Malaya actually cared about.)
Kamino Neko
Given that that didn’t happen, I think that’s just you.
Godfather
Oh, THAT’S why it has holes.
AnvilPro
Of course, across the way they don’t allow pets, so Malaya has a pet.
Pablo360
…Malaya and Sal are more similar than either of them would like to admit, which is precisely why they don’t get along.
Now pretend I’m the first to come to this realization and shower me with praise, Internet!
Renshear Blade
*leaves a bag of animal crackers*
Plasma Mongoose
If you insist.
https://grocermart.com/image/cache/data/Praise/IMG_3946-1800×1800.jpg
Winston
That would be a very strange shower.
missilentmurmur
I first read “shower with me please”… what an odd wish
Arawn
Sal wouldn’t kick the box with her pet in it down the hallway. She’s a GD @#$@ing human being and not a demented … ugh.
Freemage
I dislike Malaya as much as you do, but I agree with the folks pointing out that she was doing foot-scooches, not actual kicks. It’s lazy, but not harmful or any more stressful to the animal than being moved in the box in general.
Remmington Steele
I guana say that’s a good one …
Kathleen
They dont get along because Malaya is constantly insulting her to her face. Sal is pretty chill. It’s Malaya who is starting unnecessary shit. I don’t understand her. If this were real life I would question whether Malaya is autistic or has some other condition that affects her social skills.
the final pam
Sal’s.. not innocent??
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/03-up-all-night-to-get-vengeance/beer-weiser/
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/03-up-all-night-to-get-vengeance/my-share/
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/stain-2/
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/bimbo/
Sal makes it abundantly clear how much disdain she holds for Malaya and insults her whenever she gets a chance, even lying to her about what Marcie signed before Malaya took the chance to learn ASL. And when Sal reached out to her to be “friends”, she started off by calling her a cumstain (though not to her face), being rude and condescending to her throughout the entire exchange, and then threatening her when Malaya doesn’t magically want to be friends?? That’s, like, the complete opposite of chill.
I’m not denying that Malaya is abrasive and hard to handle, but it’s hardly as if Sal is kind and friendly towards her to be repeatedly rejected.
Pablo360
I’m a little tired to grab links so I’m just going to vaguely question your presumption that Sal has been chill wrt Malaya.
King Daniel
Fuck!
…faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace
Paradox
The better half Malaya is in that box.
Paradox
*Of Malaya.
Darn You, keyboard.
Doctor_Who
Caaaaalled it.
So now both Sal and Amber will have reptiles for roommates. Maybe they’ll bond over it and get along better.
Pablo360
Huh, you’d already called it? That explains why I got a busy signal.
Opus the Poet
Dinosaurs are (were) not reptiles but another genera entirely.
Pablo360
I think the singular form you’re looking for is “genus”, using “genera” in a singular context just makes my brain autocorrect it to “genre”
King Daniel
*twitch*
Dinosaurs aren’t genera (“genera” is the plural of genus – in the scientific name of Tyrannosaurus rex for example, “Tyrannosaurus” is the genus-name and “rex” is the species name). The Dinosauria clade is part of the Archosaurs, which were considered a reptilian clade last I checked (the crocodiles are also archosaurs).
Pablo360
You successfully closed all of your html tags. You are the new god of the comment section, at least until we hold our next election.
Kamino Neko
Oh, thank you, Daniel, for getting here before I did. I already filled my quota of correcting that one for the year, the other day. >_>
Kamino Neko
(On the other hand, I am familiar enough with Opus the Poet to assume he’ll actually accept the correction, unlike the guy who ate all my spoons the other day.)
Opus the Poet
I accept my mistakes with aplomb. It helps prove I’m still human after getting killed. Still waiting for the orders to join Wills’ army of unkillable badasses.
Agemegos
Perhaps you were thinking of the fact that dinosaurs aren’t lizards.
thejeff
Of course, if you’re talking cladistics, not only are dinosaurs reptiles, but so are mammals.
We’re also all fish. 🙂
drs
If you’re talking cladistics, amniotes (first fully terrestrial animals) split into synapsids, including mammals, and sauropsids, including dinosaurs (and birds), lizards, crocs, turtles, and everything else we’d call a modern reptile.
I suspect a layman would look at an earlier amniote and call it a reptile, but Reptilia starts later in the evotree.
thejeff
Hmm, could be wrong. I thought synapsids were a branch off of reptiles. Looks like I was fooled by the old “mammal-like reptiles” description.
We’re still fish though.
DinaWho
Can I just say that I’m taking a zoology class right now and this comment thread is life?
Kamino Neko
No, mammals are not reptiles. Reptiles are creatures more related to lizards and crocodiles than humans.
Kamino Neko
Also dinosaurs are reptiles. They’re still around – birds are maniraptoran theropods.
Deanatay
Theropods, yes, but not reptillian theropods. Dinosaurs are considered their own clade now. Somewhat warm-blooded, and with significant design differences in their skeletons.
However, you COULD get away with calling them lizards, as ‘saur’ means ‘lizard’. Just not… ‘reptillian’ lizards.
Kamino Neko
…
That is literally, 100%, completely the opposite of how it works.
They are not lizards. Lizards are squamates.
They are, however, reptiles. Because they are descended from the common ancestor of all reptiles, which makes them reptiles. If you want to remove dinosaurs from reptilia (syn: sauropsida), you also have to remove crocodiles and turtles, which are more closely related to dinosaurs than they are to lizards, snakes, and tuatara.
Here’s how the clades nest – birds are dinosaurs, which are archosaurs, which are reptiles. You cannot evolve out of a clade – you can, though, evolve into a new clade, which is contained within the old clade – as they are defined by common descent.
King Daniel
Basically, think of clades as those Russian nesting dolls, only if some of the dolls in turn contained several smaller dolls instead of just a single doll.
The “Bird” doll is nested in the “Dinosaur” doll, the “Dinosaur” and “Pterosaur” dolls are nested within the “Ornithodiran” doll, the “Ornithodiran” and “Crocodile” dolls are nested in the “Archosaur” doll, and so on. If you nest within a doll, you can be considered part of that group.
Kamino Neko
Yeah, I like the matryoshka analogy.
Jhon
Something is wrong here.
Why isn’t Dina explaining this?
King Daniel
I would be equally happy with a Joyce, Dina, or Ruth gravatar, as they’re the three characters in the comic with whom I identify most on a personal level (after the latest great gravatar switch-up, my previous grav was replaced by Mary, and I hastily engaged in grav-roulette hoping for one of the three; Ruth was the first to appear).
A lone shoggie
Fuckface for next Patreon strip. I have spoken.
Pablo360
My brain somehow free-associated Patreon to Slipshine and that’s really all there is to say on the matter (especially taking into consideration my contribution to a certain comment chain on yesterday’s strip regarding Carla’s shirt and the title text)
Delicious Taffy
Your soul is saturated with sin.
Bagge
Yes.
Dusk Rain
I misread your yes as replying to Delicious Taffy. Slightly disappointed. (Totally joking if that wasn’t clear.)
Kryss LaBryn
If it’s not called “Night of the Iguana” I will be disappointed.
(Sorry; theatre major lol)
Dana
Shouldn’t Fuckface have a character tag?
MM
But then you’d have to tag every strip with the box and spoil the surprise.
Amias
I mean, he’s not visible here. Probably when he’s shown.
Pablo360
Technically he hasn’t been shown yet…
Ronnie
Oops now I’m excited to meet the iguana
Skeptible
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
jeffepp
An iguana. That’s what makes her interesting.
Bagge
But does it beat a motorcycle?
jeffepp
No, but an iguana on a motorcycle…
maxyai
I’m imaging the motorcycle careening wildly before going off a cliff ala Toonces the Driving Cat.
AGV
Iguanas+motorcicles= Jurassic World
Emily
Is this a rhetorical question because the answer is obviously yes. Lizards are way cooler than motorcycles.
BBCC
FUCKFACE! <33333
Cattleprod
Now I’m imagining a very strained who’s on first routine built around ‘moving box’/’box used for moving’.
Pablo360
“What’s in the box?”
“No, What’s on second.”
Jamie
Pretty sure Carla already did that.
Pat
Not.. really?
Tacos
Oh so it was Fuckface in there. Not cool that Malaya was kicking him around while in a box though.
Pablo360