I love how he just left during the middle of lunch and followed Ruth all the way back to her room to look at his shoes. I mean, dude was bonding with his sister, and I would have preferred that continued, but I do love the absurdity of it.
Or maybe he meant “Don’t give me second-hand shoes.” Or maybe he meant “Don’t give me no second-class shoes.”
foamy
It’s a song reference, to Hand Me Down World, by the Guess Who.
Marsh Maryrose
That is the most likely reference. But there are other possible matches. Secondhand Love by Pete Townshend is at least a strong contender. Second Class Love by Buju Banton is something I threw in mostly for fun, but it’s not entirely out of the running.
The Leafs are in the Playoffs and are ahead in their series, why so down? It’s not like there is a picture of 3YO you standing on skates wearing a Leafs uniform.
Roborat
Canada doesn’t revolve around Toronto. Winnipeg also won their game to tie their series. Calgary shit the bed but I hope it is a wake up call for them, they finished with the second best record this year, I would expect them to win their series.
BBCC
I’m happy for the leafs! I just wish we could et our shit together when it comes to our fucking provincial elections because if we elect one more racist, homophobic prick I will not be responsible for anything I do in my fury. 😛
Inahc
Aw fuck. See, this is why I avoid the news, it’s all terrible these days.
BBCC
Not knowing is worse for me, but I cannot blame you one bit for refraining from the news.
Those have been up for a long time, though I don’t think we’ve had our attention directly called to them before. You can glimpse them in various shots of Ruth’s room.
Douglas
For example, this one. Interestingly, the alt-text for that strip is “*shakes dice* c’mon, walky needs a new pair o’ shoes”, which didn’t make sense to me at the time. I just assumed it was because the strip mentioned gambling.
ruth is doing so good! Is……is this what it’s like to be medicated? Is there actually hope after all? Maybe I should seriously think about it then. I was just starting high school when this webcomic started, and honestly seeing Ruth’s progression and watching her feel makes me wonder if going to therapy will be good after all
I can’t speak for therapy from personal experience bc I’ve never been (yet?) but I know it seemed to help my friend back when they went. And medication’s been helpful for me, for the most part. So I’d say there’s always hope. 🙂
I only have my own experience of antidepressant medication to go by, but that experience has been nothing like Ruth’s. The veil of grime doesn’t just vanish one day. It’s a long process (a month or two), it’s gradual, and there are hella side effects to worry about. It’s so gradual, in fact, that the first few times I didn’t actually notice that it was happening, and I said “fuck it”.
Given the replies below, I want to clarify: I hate talk therapy. It’s never done me any good and I don’t expect it ever will. It’s a hoop I have to jump through to get the drugs that keep me alive. I absolutely loathe every therapist I’ve ever met. Including the ones I’ve met socially.
I know talk therapy helps a lot of people, so I wanted this perspective to be the minority one if I was going to say it. Just be aware that if you end up hating the living hell out of therapy, you’re not alone.
Lazy
I hate talk therapy, too, but cognitive therapy has been helpful. I had to quit a lot of therapists before I found one with a style suited to my problems/personality.
On a separate note, seeing Ruth do things for herself and others makes me look forward to getting better. I’ve been there before, and this reminds me that I’ll be there again.
in my case I didn’t notice anything had changed until one day several months later I was like “hold up, I haven’t been crushingly miserable in a long time”. kinda just,,, forgot I was sad and thought so little about sad memories that I barely remember them at all now. the only thing I can think to compare it to is when you have real bad hiccups, and then a few hours later you realize they went away and you didn’t even notice.
personally therapy and medication were very helpful for me. it was expensive, and i had to go to a few different clinics before finding someone who was a good fit, but helpful.
a tip for anyone reading this and considering therapy: do a little research on a therapist before you see them. what insurances they take, they specialize in anything, are there any reviews or testimonies? i wasn’t able to do this because i was 14 and internet reviews weren’t a thing when i started going to therapy, but you might dodge a bullet! hope everything works out
Echoing the others to say that it was helpful for me. Getting on the right medication and having a therapist was like night and day for me and got me out of the hole where I just wanted to kill myself all the time.
I’ve fought depression since I was a teenager, with major depressive episodes thrown in just for grins. I never felt like talk therapy helped me very much, until the most recent episode. I don’t know what has changed – maybe just me? Maybe I’m just at a place in life where talking through things helped me put them into perspective and even resolve some long-standing feelings.
Getting on the right meds helps tremendously. Side effects aren’t fun, but it’s helping me. I don’t wholeheartedly endorse talk therapy, but it can be helpful if you’re in the right place for it, I think.
Discussion (154) - “Lojack”
Ana Chronistic
the most underachieving femur grab
Marsh Maryrose
?
Femurs
Nothing more than femurs
Trying to forget those
Femurs of mine
Needfuldoer
Does that fit the Star Wars theme?
♬ Femurs
Nothing but femurs
All of the femurs
Trophies of mine ♬
MaximumZero
♫Millions of Femurs
Femurs for me
Millions of Femurs
Femurs for free♪
AbacusWizard
♫Femurs come in a thigh
They were put there by a guy
In a factory downtown…♫
Charlie Spencer
I like big femurs and I cannot lie,
I like ’em when they come from the thigh…
Slartibeast Button, BIA
♫ That ain’t working
That’s the way you do it
Femurs for nothing and the shoes for free ♫
keithcurtis
♫ Suddenly Femurs
are no longer in side me
the don’t hold my legs up
I can’t understand
Suddenly Femurs
no longer provi-ide me
the power of sta-andi-i-ing
Femurs are banned! ♫
ValdVin
Ruth really is feeling better.
jeffepp
jeffepp
But I’m feeling much better now
See if that works.
Roborat
Funny, I knew it would be that scene.
jeffepp
Undepressed Ruth is best Ruth.
Proto
Most people tend to be better when they’re not depressed
Yumi
I love how he just left during the middle of lunch and followed Ruth all the way back to her room to look at his shoes. I mean, dude was bonding with his sister, and I would have preferred that continued, but I do love the absurdity of it.
jeffepp
Eh, based on his track record, he and Joyce would have been “bonding” in a broom closet in short order.
Needfuldoer
There’s not much that’s more on-brand for Walky than abandoning serious discussion in favor of shallow absurdity.
… Is there a blank template of Willis’s re-drawing of that “guy gawking at a lady nearly identical to his girlfriend” meme?
Zellgato
Honestly she’s probably following just not in the room.
thejeff
Nah, she’s hanging out with her new bestie, Joyce.
And wishing she’d followed Walky and Ruth.
Tacos
… Well that’s just weird.
Batz
Soon, Ruth will have a full second wardrobe without having to pay a dime!
Stephen Bierce
Don’t give me no Second-Hand Shoes…
foamy
HAND-ME-DOWN shoes
Hang your head in shame, sir.
Marsh Maryrose
Or maybe he meant “Don’t give me second-hand shoes.” Or maybe he meant “Don’t give me no second-class shoes.”
foamy
It’s a song reference, to Hand Me Down World, by the Guess Who.
Marsh Maryrose
That is the most likely reference. But there are other possible matches. Secondhand Love by Pete Townshend is at least a strong contender. Second Class Love by Buju Banton is something I threw in mostly for fun, but it’s not entirely out of the running.
Kravis
2012 was just weeks ago… If Avengers: Endgame has anything to say about it!
BBCC
Well, if THAT ain’t a throwback.
This is nostalgia week apparently. I love it!
BBCC
Honestly, I needed this. I am not a happy Canadian tonight so the laugh is appreciated.
Opus the Poet
The Leafs are in the Playoffs and are ahead in their series, why so down? It’s not like there is a picture of 3YO you standing on skates wearing a Leafs uniform.
Roborat
Canada doesn’t revolve around Toronto. Winnipeg also won their game to tie their series. Calgary shit the bed but I hope it is a wake up call for them, they finished with the second best record this year, I would expect them to win their series.
BBCC
I’m happy for the leafs! I just wish we could et our shit together when it comes to our fucking provincial elections because if we elect one more racist, homophobic prick I will not be responsible for anything I do in my fury. 😛
Inahc
Aw fuck. See, this is why I avoid the news, it’s all terrible these days.
BBCC
Not knowing is worse for me, but I cannot blame you one bit for refraining from the news.
abysswatcher1993
Why?
LookingIn
Why not?
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Because!
Nono
Wow Ruth, so you’re making Billie look at a reminder of Wally every time she walks into the room?
Schpoonman
I don’t think Ruth is talking to Billie right now.
Thursday Violist
That’s probably why she put it up.
Ethics Gradient
A charm to ward off Billie.
thejeff
Those have been up for a long time, though I don’t think we’ve had our attention directly called to them before. You can glimpse them in various shots of Ruth’s room.
Douglas
For example, this one. Interestingly, the alt-text for that strip is “*shakes dice* c’mon, walky needs a new pair o’ shoes”, which didn’t make sense to me at the time. I just assumed it was because the strip mentioned gambling.
Douglas
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/03-the-thing-i-was-before/gamble/
Sporky
What’s with Ruth and clothing trophies?
LookingIn
because she can’t mount heads without it getting awkward…
Woomy
I ship it
AnvilPro
Best in-laws
Beef
Jeez I was actually super confused until the alt text.
mick4state
How does one do that on mobile? I’m still confused.
Mydnyt
Tap the blank space under the comic to the right of the navigation buttons.
Xenocide
Or the left, for some reason I usually go for the left even though the right would be easier to reach with my thumb.
Batz
The callback boomerang flies long before making the return arc!
(Jeez! 2012?!)
Piotr W
Wow, who is this stranger that looks like Ruth, but is not Ruth?
LIB
This is Ruth! What we knew before was only half-Ruth, as her body was inhabited by Depression-Demon who was fighting her for conrrol of her movements.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
This is not the Ruth you are looking for.
You can go about your business.
Move along.
Schpoonman
Ruth is pushing Dina out of my top 3, oh no.
Kern Wallace
Well that’s something I never expected to come back.
William Leonard Reese Jr.
. . . .I admit I have to applaud that vindictiveness of Ruth. Would that classify as a Lawful Evil act? To Mount a Prize like that?
tirachokko
ruth is doing so good! Is……is this what it’s like to be medicated? Is there actually hope after all? Maybe I should seriously think about it then. I was just starting high school when this webcomic started, and honestly seeing Ruth’s progression and watching her feel makes me wonder if going to therapy will be good after all
ian livs
I can’t speak for therapy from personal experience bc I’ve never been (yet?) but I know it seemed to help my friend back when they went. And medication’s been helpful for me, for the most part. So I’d say there’s always hope. 🙂
Jack
I only have my own experience of antidepressant medication to go by, but that experience has been nothing like Ruth’s. The veil of grime doesn’t just vanish one day. It’s a long process (a month or two), it’s gradual, and there are hella side effects to worry about. It’s so gradual, in fact, that the first few times I didn’t actually notice that it was happening, and I said “fuck it”.
Jack
Given the replies below, I want to clarify: I hate talk therapy. It’s never done me any good and I don’t expect it ever will. It’s a hoop I have to jump through to get the drugs that keep me alive. I absolutely loathe every therapist I’ve ever met. Including the ones I’ve met socially.
I know talk therapy helps a lot of people, so I wanted this perspective to be the minority one if I was going to say it. Just be aware that if you end up hating the living hell out of therapy, you’re not alone.
Lazy
I hate talk therapy, too, but cognitive therapy has been helpful. I had to quit a lot of therapists before I found one with a style suited to my problems/personality.
On a separate note, seeing Ruth do things for herself and others makes me look forward to getting better. I’ve been there before, and this reminds me that I’ll be there again.
Angie
in my case I didn’t notice anything had changed until one day several months later I was like “hold up, I haven’t been crushingly miserable in a long time”. kinda just,,, forgot I was sad and thought so little about sad memories that I barely remember them at all now. the only thing I can think to compare it to is when you have real bad hiccups, and then a few hours later you realize they went away and you didn’t even notice.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
My experience is that meds just reduce the depth and frequency of the horribleness. I don’t feel good, but I feel much less bad.
moon
personally therapy and medication were very helpful for me. it was expensive, and i had to go to a few different clinics before finding someone who was a good fit, but helpful.
a tip for anyone reading this and considering therapy: do a little research on a therapist before you see them. what insurances they take, they specialize in anything, are there any reviews or testimonies? i wasn’t able to do this because i was 14 and internet reviews weren’t a thing when i started going to therapy, but you might dodge a bullet! hope everything works out
Cerberus
Echoing the others to say that it was helpful for me. Getting on the right medication and having a therapist was like night and day for me and got me out of the hole where I just wanted to kill myself all the time.
Ntrovert60
I’ve fought depression since I was a teenager, with major depressive episodes thrown in just for grins. I never felt like talk therapy helped me very much, until the most recent episode. I don’t know what has changed – maybe just me? Maybe I’m just at a place in life where talking through things helped me put them into perspective and even resolve some long-standing feelings.
Getting on the right meds helps tremendously. Side effects aren’t fun, but it’s helping me. I don’t wholeheartedly endorse talk therapy, but it can be helpful if you’re in the right place for it, I think.
chalcara