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I can see it, it’s the middle of a dramatic storyline involving the fallout of Joyce and Mike’s breakup over Mike sleeping with Arnold, and we’ll cut to Walky still in a daze from his weeks of partying after being picked up by Beef, who did so for a laugh, after a drunken night due to being put on academic probation, and Walky will sit up and realize “Wait, what I told Paddington made no sense. Teaspoon is the metric one…we probably use Coffeespoons here”
DrunkenNordmann
I mean, it’s more saying that a BRITISH person wouldn’t know what a TEAspoon is that is the issue here.
Actually, he was giving him time to think. Walky has had a lot of time to think before this moment. I’m not sure he’s going to take this moment to fight the trend.
Yeah, it’s kind of a silly law. I mean, I understand some of the thoughts that might have been behind it, but still.
One time I was at Target in the check out line, and the lady in front of me just had a bottle of wine, and the kid working the register was trying to flag someone down to approve the sale or whatever, but apparently shit was going down in some other part of the Target because two managers rushed passed on their way somewhere and the kid kept apologizing during the five minutes it took to sell her one item.
then again, up here in canada you can’t buy booze in regular shops, so that would be a non-issue. I don’t think restaurants have any law like that, either – then again, our drinking age is low enough it probably doesn’t come up as much.
on the other hand, there are all manner of *other* stupid liquor laws that make restaurants jump through weird hoops. and then there was the whisky raid a few months ago…
Where I am in Canada, you can actually sell booze in some of the grocery stores, but there are specific checkout aisles to handle it. Haven’t looked into the specific laws to see if it’s a smart serve requirement or an age requirement, but it is still restricted
Christine
Isn’t Smart Serve age restricted? I know someone who was going to get it when she turned 18, just for the irony. Or is being 18 a separate requirement from Smart Serve?
It makes a bit more sense for actually working the bar – mixing and serving drinks and all that, than it does for just ringing up bottles in a retail place.
Isn’t ass-9 the ass taht,when it touches other asses, turns them into ass-9 as well, so if one is ever introduced to a large body of asses it could cause the asspocalypse?
Back when I was working at the gas station, the higher ups hired an eighteen year old, and there was this whole thing for a few weeks where he had to have another employee in the station with him at all times in case somebody wanted to buy booze. Eventually they decided it didn’t matter for some reason.
Five milliliters make a Teaspoon
Fifteen equals any Tablespoon around
And Thirty equals what they used to call an Ounce!–Metric Marvels, NBC’s parallel to Schoolhouse Rock
BTW, if you thought the uproar over “New” Coca-Cola was something, the company also tried to replace the Quart bottle with the Half-Liter. You can imagine how well that worked out.
When did they sell Coke in quarts? Also, a quart is just a smidge less than a liter, so a half-liter would be much smaller. No wonder people didn’t like it.
I’ll just go ahead and apologize for the pedantry now.
I know far more than a healthy person should about containers of Coca-Cola products.
In markets the half-liter x 6 is quite a thing. Some Coke products are now in a 1 1/2 L bottle (size approx-I’m not sure cos I never buy them). The 2 L is still there. And for “single serve” the 20 oz.
So it looks like the quart bottle from a few decades ago is not that much a thing. I don’t know even if it’s in the chill case at pizza places anymore. But it didn’t give up without a struggle.
To be fair, Walky’s sort of on the right track. He’s just thinking of the wrong spoon. It’s the tablespoon whose definition is different in Britain and the States. Which is why you should always double-check where your cookbook was published before making anything requiring specific measurements.
Oh, and just in case that wasn’t complex enough, the Australian definition of a tablespoon is different from both of these.
I was under the impression the whole point of cup measures was so long as you used the same cup, the ratio of ingredients would remain, meaning everything should turn out okay?
I guess that Does break down when you get down to ingredients of lesser volume – who’s going to try and measure 1/20th of a cup, or whatever would be roughly equivalent to a teaspoon…
Canadian here. Going by where it was published is insufficient. We may use American tablespoons, but we used Imperial measure for other stuff. Imagine my ire to discover that the cookbook I was working from (which was old, not foreign) used a 946mL quart. (And it was self-published here, so it’s not like you can blame the publisher for changing things.)
Jason I appreciate your effort but you are arguing with Walky, while drunk, this was a lost cause from the very beginning. On the bright side if Jason’s father comes to visit and doesn’t try to kill anyone he can still manage to be “Not the worst parental figure we’ve seen in this comic” which is an admittedly low bar.
Yup! Which is why the youngest recruits have to go 3 years in the ranks before they ever take a drink, and that’s a rule that gets followed all the time, honest!
A friend of mine turned 18 in the US marines while his unit was on exercise in Queensland. The Aussies took him to the pub.
Where he was amazed that the US troops were trying to get laid, but the Australian troops were trying to get into fights. Nate got the impression somehow that in any Australian pub, on any night, any man can pick up if he is wearing neatly pressed pants.
Really? That’s interesting. This side of the pond (Aus) you can enlist at 16 and six months, and everything else (drive, vote, sign contracts, buy booze, cigarettes & guns) is 18. 21 is when you hold a big party, but no other rights are unlocked. Keep thinking they should move the enlistment age to 18 as well as (a) it makes things simple, and (b) if you can’t vote, you shouldn’t be expected to potentially die for your country.
The weird thing is, over here, even though the drinking age is 21, 18 is the age for cigarettes, even though nobody is under the delusion that they’re somehow less dangerous for you. At my CATHOLIC high school, on the big barbecue before graduation day, they were giving them out like cheap cig— oh.
Actually, yeah. They served coffee drinks with breakfast for those people who arrived at school an hour early to do their homework in the mostly-empty cafeteria, with nothing but the hum of the electric lights and the clicking keyboards of your fellow students to serve as ambiance until the more sociable crowd arrived at 7:30 to talk about traffic and news and watch the sunrise from a two-by-two window across the hall.
Schmeedle
Driving is 17 in most Australian states. Age of consent is 16.
Twist: the only thing he cannot be budged on is Jason is not permitted to prevent his father from placing his thumb on Jason’s forehead. All other rules are negotiable.
Who drank there anyway? Walky and Dorothy, who both seemed pretty effected, Walky more so.
Danny, but I don’t remember him being as obvious.
Billie, duh.
Was that it? Jacob and Raidah were only there briefly. Roz had left (we know she drinks and probably isn’t a lightweight.) Sal left (but we know she’s a total lightweight.)
Amber didn’t. Sarah, Joyce, Becky, Dina all didn’t. Can’t remember about Ethan.
I think you’re forgetting that Billie was packing a flash of VERY potent booze at that party – that’s what it takes to get her drunk. It’s not that the rest of the cast are lightweights, it’s that they’re contending against some triple-distilled heavyweight champion of booze.
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159 thoughts on “Thumb”
Ana Chronistic
Jason?
You told Walky.
To think.
Nomothehomo
thats a no no
MM
Yeah, a second’s not gonna be remotely enough. In fact, I expect a callback in five years where he finally gets it.
No Name
our time, or theirs?
Reltzik
I don’t think we should ever expect to see five years of their time.
Arawn
5 years of their time without timeskips? My children might live to see it. You know, when mankind finally perfects their longevity treatments.
Ana Chronistic
His Webcomic #981 aka Infinite Webcomic contained over 60000 chapters. It was read only once, while members of the audience retired and were replaced by their children or grandchildren.
jonrock411
I can see it, it’s the middle of a dramatic storyline involving the fallout of Joyce and Mike’s breakup over Mike sleeping with Arnold, and we’ll cut to Walky still in a daze from his weeks of partying after being picked up by Beef, who did so for a laugh, after a drunken night due to being put on academic probation, and Walky will sit up and realize “Wait, what I told Paddington made no sense. Teaspoon is the metric one…we probably use Coffeespoons here”
DrunkenNordmann
I mean, it’s more saying that a BRITISH person wouldn’t know what a TEAspoon is that is the issue here.
Pablo360
Walky: “Yes, but then I would have to think.”
Arawn
Actually, he was giving him time to think. Walky has had a lot of time to think before this moment. I’m not sure he’s going to take this moment to fight the trend.
John
Worse, he told him to rethink. Which implies that he thinks that Walky has already thought it through once.
AnvilPro
Lol, both Walky and Dorothy are lightweights
brasca1
Yes, but can Jason drink Ruth or Billie under the table?
Needfuldoer
Whoa whoa whoa. You don’t just dive into the final boss fight immediately after knocking out the first enemies in the tutorial level.
AGV
No one tells me what to do!
*goes to fight Ganon stright after leaving the plateau*
SgtWadeyWilson
Obviously you’ve never played Guardian Heroes. (…or in the unlikely case that you have, you never go to the town without fear.)
thejeff
Billie’s barely pre-drunk at this level. This is more like her everyday baseline.
thejeff
In Walky’s case it’s apparently genetic, since Sal’s the same way.
Passchendaele
hey, booze cooties is a very serious problem. 😛
Marsh Maryrose
And yet another great band name.
Reltzik
Yeah. Booze can reduce inhibitions and lead to all sorts of lice-entious behavior.
adjudicus
Beer in mind though, this behaviour flu-ctuates from person to person
Deanatay
Yeah, they might get seriously ticked off!
FacelessDeviant
Thats why he’s sending Walky. He has had his shot(s). So he’s immunized.
Yumi
Yeah, it’s kind of a silly law. I mean, I understand some of the thoughts that might have been behind it, but still.
One time I was at Target in the check out line, and the lady in front of me just had a bottle of wine, and the kid working the register was trying to flag someone down to approve the sale or whatever, but apparently shit was going down in some other part of the Target because two managers rushed passed on their way somewhere and the kid kept apologizing during the five minutes it took to sell her one item.
Inahc
huh. that *is* a weird law.
then again, up here in canada you can’t buy booze in regular shops, so that would be a non-issue. I don’t think restaurants have any law like that, either – then again, our drinking age is low enough it probably doesn’t come up as much.
on the other hand, there are all manner of *other* stupid liquor laws that make restaurants jump through weird hoops. and then there was the whisky raid a few months ago…
foamy
Canada’s also got laws about how old you have to be to serve alcohol, it’s just that our legal drinking age is lower. 18 or 19, depending.
SomeGuy411
Where I am in Canada, you can actually sell booze in some of the grocery stores, but there are specific checkout aisles to handle it. Haven’t looked into the specific laws to see if it’s a smart serve requirement or an age requirement, but it is still restricted
Christine
Isn’t Smart Serve age restricted? I know someone who was going to get it when she turned 18, just for the irony. Or is being 18 a separate requirement from Smart Serve?
thejeff
It makes a bit more sense for actually working the bar – mixing and serving drinks and all that, than it does for just ringing up bottles in a retail place.
DinaJoyce
It’s different state to state. In NY you can sell alcohol at 18 if you’re being supervised by someone 21 or over.
butts
“puritanical hell,” eh
yeah we’re all puritans here
no ass jokes only Jesus
Pablo360
There is no assjoke, only Jeshuaaaaaaaaa!
Arawn
At the risk of sound assinine, I’m going to have to call you a cheeky bugger.
Deanatay
ass-9? That’s a high level of ass.
Stop complimenting him.
Pablo360
Isn’t ass-9 the ass taht,when it touches other asses, turns them into ass-9 as well, so if one is ever introduced to a large body of asses it could cause the asspocalypse?
Smiling Cat
Back when I was working at the gas station, the higher ups hired an eighteen year old, and there was this whole thing for a few weeks where he had to have another employee in the station with him at all times in case somebody wanted to buy booze. Eventually they decided it didn’t matter for some reason.
Stephen Bierce
Five milliliters make a Teaspoon
Fifteen equals any Tablespoon around
And Thirty equals what they used to call an Ounce!–Metric Marvels, NBC’s parallel to Schoolhouse Rock
Stephen Bierce
BTW, if you thought the uproar over “New” Coca-Cola was something, the company also tried to replace the Quart bottle with the Half-Liter. You can imagine how well that worked out.
Wizard
When did they sell Coke in quarts? Also, a quart is just a smidge less than a liter, so a half-liter would be much smaller. No wonder people didn’t like it.
I’ll just go ahead and apologize for the pedantry now.
ValdVin
I know far more than a healthy person should about containers of Coca-Cola products.
In markets the half-liter x 6 is quite a thing. Some Coke products are now in a 1 1/2 L bottle (size approx-I’m not sure cos I never buy them). The 2 L is still there. And for “single serve” the 20 oz.
So it looks like the quart bottle from a few decades ago is not that much a thing. I don’t know even if it’s in the chill case at pizza places anymore. But it didn’t give up without a struggle.
Deanatay
“…It comes in pints?”
Stephen Bierce
I must have been thinking Pint when I said Quart. I guess I wasn’t 100%.
Rabid Rabbit
To be fair, Walky’s sort of on the right track. He’s just thinking of the wrong spoon. It’s the tablespoon whose definition is different in Britain and the States. Which is why you should always double-check where your cookbook was published before making anything requiring specific measurements.
Oh, and just in case that wasn’t complex enough, the Australian definition of a tablespoon is different from both of these.
Inahc
cup sizes vary too. >.<
… both the kitchen and the bra kind actually. ha. standards are great, there are so many to choose from! 😛
Greebs
I was under the impression the whole point of cup measures was so long as you used the same cup, the ratio of ingredients would remain, meaning everything should turn out okay?
I guess that Does break down when you get down to ingredients of lesser volume – who’s going to try and measure 1/20th of a cup, or whatever would be roughly equivalent to a teaspoon…
Christine
Canadian here. Going by where it was published is insufficient. We may use American tablespoons, but we used Imperial measure for other stuff. Imagine my ire to discover that the cookbook I was working from (which was old, not foreign) used a 946mL quart. (And it was self-published here, so it’s not like you can blame the publisher for changing things.)
Kyrik Michalowski
Jason I appreciate your effort but you are arguing with Walky, while drunk, this was a lost cause from the very beginning. On the bright side if Jason’s father comes to visit and doesn’t try to kill anyone he can still manage to be “Not the worst parental figure we’ve seen in this comic” which is an admittedly low bar.
MM
If he’s anything like his Walkyverse counterpart, we probably shouldn’t count on that.
(((Mkvenner)))
he only has to do better than blaine toedad and ruth’s grandfather.
Pablo360
Are you keeping up with the reupload of It’s Walky?
Pablo360
He is a cruel and powerful captain of industry. And even worse, he’s English.
JessWitt
Wait, people under 21 can’t even sell or handle alcohol even in US establishments? That’s really nutty.
Pablo360
But we can drive a car at 16, and be enlisted at 18. Fuck my life.
Reltzik
Yup! Which is why the youngest recruits have to go 3 years in the ranks before they ever take a drink, and that’s a rule that gets followed all the time, honest!
Agemegos
A friend of mine turned 18 in the US marines while his unit was on exercise in Queensland. The Aussies took him to the pub.
Where he was amazed that the US troops were trying to get laid, but the Australian troops were trying to get into fights. Nate got the impression somehow that in any Australian pub, on any night, any man can pick up if he is wearing neatly pressed pants.
Dave M
Really? That’s interesting. This side of the pond (Aus) you can enlist at 16 and six months, and everything else (drive, vote, sign contracts, buy booze, cigarettes & guns) is 18. 21 is when you hold a big party, but no other rights are unlocked. Keep thinking they should move the enlistment age to 18 as well as (a) it makes things simple, and (b) if you can’t vote, you shouldn’t be expected to potentially die for your country.
Pablo360
The weird thing is, over here, even though the drinking age is 21, 18 is the age for cigarettes, even though nobody is under the delusion that they’re somehow less dangerous for you. At my CATHOLIC high school, on the big barbecue before graduation day, they were giving them out like cheap cig— oh.
Sunny
Coffee, God, and cigarettes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhu2L9MHoj0
Pablo360
Actually, yeah. They served coffee drinks with breakfast for those people who arrived at school an hour early to do their homework in the mostly-empty cafeteria, with nothing but the hum of the electric lights and the clicking keyboards of your fellow students to serve as ambiance until the more sociable crowd arrived at 7:30 to talk about traffic and news and watch the sunrise from a two-by-two window across the hall.
Schmeedle
Driving is 17 in most Australian states. Age of consent is 16.
Dana
Depends on the nuttiness level of the individual state.
chris73
In a shock twist Jasons father is shown to be distant, authoritative but not a complete douche bag…
Khyrin
Twist: the only thing he cannot be budged on is Jason is not permitted to prevent his father from placing his thumb on Jason’s forehead. All other rules are negotiable.
DailyBrad
Going by Joyce’s party, most of the cast are lightweights.
Portland
I mean, a lot of them are 18/19 and probably haven’t had much to drink before, so eh.
thejeff
Lightweight or hardened alcoholic. 🙂
Who drank there anyway? Walky and Dorothy, who both seemed pretty effected, Walky more so.
Danny, but I don’t remember him being as obvious.
Billie, duh.
Was that it? Jacob and Raidah were only there briefly. Roz had left (we know she drinks and probably isn’t a lightweight.) Sal left (but we know she’s a total lightweight.)
Amber didn’t. Sarah, Joyce, Becky, Dina all didn’t. Can’t remember about Ethan.
Deanatay
I think you’re forgetting that Billie was packing a flash of VERY potent booze at that party – that’s what it takes to get her drunk. It’s not that the rest of the cast are lightweights, it’s that they’re contending against some triple-distilled heavyweight champion of booze.
Pablo360