Versus having been kidnapped with her friends, watching someone’s Dad get murdered, and then losing one of the people in her peripheral friend group (also to murder)? Weird.
Even recently, I was with my friends having a picnic in a park, and some people were having a pizza party for Cub Scouts or something, and one of the leaders came over and asked if they could get some cups from us. Offered to pay, too, but we were like, “It’s fine, we have plenty! Take some, no worries.” Still. Potential business idea.
Clif
Pizza party for cub scouts with no cups –>???–> Profit.
Which is my preferred amount of these things to own. Very difficult to have a sink full of dirty dishes when you don’t own a sink’s worth of dishes.
#lifehacks
khn0
or don’t own a sink
Needfuldoer
I got my first automatic dishwasher a few years ago.
Friggin’ game changer.
Now my problem is habitually drawing clean dishes to use from the dishwasher instead if putting them away first, and letting dirty dishes stack up until I reload and wash them all whether they need it or not…
Clif
How is that a problem?
Needfuldoer
I leave the dishwasher door open and the drawers pulled out, and have walked into them in the dark on multiple occasions.
Dorothy, that’s a nice thought.
However, I think everyone will agree, that’s the most disappointing thing you could have brought to a party. And, despite being statistically the best option, it is also the most insulting because you’re assuming the host is incapable.
The thing with paper products is that they don’t go bad. If Sarah/Joyce is set for them, Dorothy’s can be used for the next party. And if they do need more, it’s pretty hard to find a substitute for cups.
(I’d say ice is the most likely to need more of, but that’s just a gut instinct.)
Every time I’ve brought dishes to a party, either everyone had the same idea or nobody else thought to bring any, with no in-between state. It’s strange to me that you assume somebody would be insulted by basic consideration.
I think Dorothy is having issues, she is even more gung-ho about helping people than usual. Is her secret weighing on her mind? I don’t think anyone else knows at this point.
I actually think she’ll flourish there. The problem is when she’s on top of things academically her mind seems starved for stimulation so she hyper focuses on overly pleasing people. Despite neglecting her hygiene or eating she was actually way more balanced when she had a full workload, or a significant other to distract her.
That’s… pretty unhealthy though. Like she was studying so hard she basically missed three days once.
The fact is, if Dorothy can’t keep up her grades while having a semblance of a healthy life here, she’s going to burn herself to cinders trying to keep up at Yale.
Sirksome
She improved her grades in like a weekend. That’s not something most people can do. Look at Walky from last semester, who essentially failed his math class despite having multiple weeks to work on it. She does need to work on that social life but I don’t think burnout is the problem. It never really was. Dorothy thrives in this academic/problem solving scenario.
thejeff
Walky, who managed to turn his math class around well enough to pass despite being nearly completely lost weeks before the midterm.
Honestly, I kind of feel like both those plots didn’t get justice. The Dorothy one kind of feels like it was just an excuse to break up her and Walky.
Clif
Yeah, but Walky had Amazigirl explaining it and working with him, which probably had more of an effect than Amber wiping out the bad grades.
Sirksome
I’m actually still a little confused about that Walky math grade thing. Didn’t he only have a chance to pass because Amber changed his grades to be salvageable? He did put in work to pass, but the point is that Dorothy is a bit of a genius when it comes to academic studying.
thejeff
I don’t think it was really clear. That was before the midterm, so normally I’d expect not too much of his grade to set in stone yet. I’d argue that the grade change mostly made him feel he had a chance and it was the help studying that really made the difference, but most of that took place off-screen even before the time skip, so it never really got explained.
We saw Amber and Mike talking about him being ADHD. We saw some suggestions about helping him study. And we saw him make the commitment to go take the test after the kidnapping, rather than use it as an excuse to postpone – which was a big psychological step, but wouldn’t actually work unless he’d already figured out how to study and caught up.
As I said, I don’t think that worked out well narratively. Felt like it mostly got pushed to the side and not wrapped up well.
I have literally no idea what you mean by “balanced ” here…
Sirksome
Dorothy has always hyper fixated on people pleasing and seeking external validation. “Treating everything like she’s being graded” to paraphrase this comic.
I think when she has a higher workload and is actually being graded she’s more able to prioritize what really matters to her a bit more. Which isn’t’ actually making everyone like her. I think that’s just the mindset she defaults to when she doesn’t have anything to do.
It’s probably better when she’s dating because despite her failing grades Walky was actually a good influence on her because he was helping her relax. Watching cartoons, banging and napping, having fun chasing after AG, I think Sierra even mentioned it.
To continue the hall monitor discussion I started yesterday: in my elementary school, fifth graders who were on something called “Service Squad” had hall monitor duty as one of the rotations, and yeah, that was basically just “sit in the hall during lunch for a week and tell kids not to run.” In high school, though, the hall monitors were actual hired adults.
They basically monitored passing times and lunches, would check your pass if you were in the halls during class time, that sort of stuff. My senior year, the hall monitors got uniforms as a result of the school district going through a company to employ the hall monitors (even though they were largely the same people who had already been working there), and that was the outfit I mimicked for my Halloween costume.
lol i feel like the ‘enjoying halloween’ would balance/cancel out with “a bunch of ppl in our dorm for a ‘party'” but nice to see her having fun (wonder if the breakup will make her feel ecstatic b/c she hates billie or in a worse mood for ‘ruining’ the party)
I dunno, some perfectionists who want to be on top of anything might take offense that someone brought things ‘just in case they were forgotten’.
The Oracle
Some perfectionists can get over themselves and admit to the occasional mistake, then.
StClair
that’s the thing, though: they can’t.
The Oracle
Then they can stay out of the way.
Clif
Tolerance for other peoples idiosyncrasies?
I mean, most of us have enough of our own.
The Oracle
Sure, and then when they inevitably forget something, this hypothetical perfectionist probably blames somebody else because “I don’t make mistakes”. Tolerance is fine, up to a point.
Discussion (134) - “Greet”
Ana Chronistic
Sarah wins scariest costume
y’know, since Mike‘s disqualified
Rose by Any Other Name
… why did you choose that comic in particular?
lily
probably because of him smiling even if it does look awkward/strained lol
Andy
I’m guessing from Ana’s first comment about Mike’s face really made the comic memorable to them.
Sirksome
Is Dorothy okay? I feel like she was actually healthier when she was academically failing.
lily
well she did have a bombshell dropped on her when she had that talk with ruth
Nova
Versus having been kidnapped with her friends, watching someone’s Dad get murdered, and then losing one of the people in her peripheral friend group (also to murder)? Weird.
Doctor_Who
So, you know how Sarah’s happiness is inversely proportional to that of those around her?
This does not bode well.
Sirksome
Or Halloween is Sarah’s favorite holiday, and this is the one day a year she’s allows herself to be happy without any ridiculous self-imposed caveats.
elebenty
Yes, this ^
Clif
Both can be true.
Masumi
Our maybe Halloween is her favourite holiday *because* it makes everyone else miserable. Maybe that’s just an established fact in their universe.
Jo_cubstar
Since when does Halloween make everyone else miserable? I find it’s the most loved holiday. People start preparing for it in the summer lol
Yumi
Dorothy’s got a point about plates and cups.
Doctor_Who
Especially in college. Everyone I knew had like one plate, bowl, and set of silverware.
Yumi
Even recently, I was with my friends having a picnic in a park, and some people were having a pizza party for Cub Scouts or something, and one of the leaders came over and asked if they could get some cups from us. Offered to pay, too, but we were like, “It’s fine, we have plenty! Take some, no worries.” Still. Potential business idea.
Clif
Pizza party for cub scouts with no cups –>???–> Profit.
Masumi
Which is my preferred amount of these things to own. Very difficult to have a sink full of dirty dishes when you don’t own a sink’s worth of dishes.
#lifehacks
khn0
or don’t own a sink
Needfuldoer
I got my first automatic dishwasher a few years ago.
Friggin’ game changer.
Now my problem is habitually drawing clean dishes to use from the dishwasher instead if putting them away first, and letting dirty dishes stack up until I reload and wash them all whether they need it or not…
Clif
How is that a problem?
Needfuldoer
I leave the dishwasher door open and the drawers pulled out, and have walked into them in the dark on multiple occasions.
StClair
Good call there, Amber.
Clif
I don’t know, Amber. Sarah looks plenty scary.
Needfuldoer
Which Amber?
Clif
Here. Have an Internet.
Mr D
Dorothy, that’s a nice thought.
However, I think everyone will agree, that’s the most disappointing thing you could have brought to a party. And, despite being statistically the best option, it is also the most insulting because you’re assuming the host is incapable.
Viktoria
The thing with paper products is that they don’t go bad. If Sarah/Joyce is set for them, Dorothy’s can be used for the next party. And if they do need more, it’s pretty hard to find a substitute for cups.
(I’d say ice is the most likely to need more of, but that’s just a gut instinct.)
JBento
“The thing with paper products is that they don’t go bad”
Counterpoint: The New York Times.
Bruceski
I once brought the game Oodles to a party in high school and one guy got mad because he thought it was going to be O’Doul’s.
The Oracle
Just about every search result I got for O’Doul’s came up as non-alcoholic beer. Beer already sucks, why remove the one good part of it?
Needfuldoer
Some people don’t partake in alcohol, because they’re afraid if they do they’ll listen to their intrusive thoughts.
Kaliber is better, anyway.
O’Doul’s Amber isn’t terrible. Regular O’Doul’s is.
The Oracle
Yeah, but what I’m asking is, if you’re not getting drunk, why drink piss?
Clif
Tastes vary. Why get drunk if you can have fun without it?
The Oracle
Why eat a brownie when you can have some nice boiled celery? What kind of a question is that? I’m insulting the taste of beer, not somebody’s kid.
Yumi
Got pretty “yikes” there, friend.
thejeff
It’s just funny because nobody gave the obvious “because they like the taste” answer, but focused on “maybe they don’t want to get drunk”.
When I don’t want to get drunk, I drink juice or soda, not imitation alcohol.
Bruceski
Because we were in high school and parents were in attendance?
The Oracle
Every time I’ve brought dishes to a party, either everyone had the same idea or nobody else thought to bring any, with no in-between state. It’s strange to me that you assume somebody would be insulted by basic consideration.
PirateTawnee
Pretty sure the most disappointing thing I ever brought to a party was me.
Stephen Bierce
*plays Genesis’ “Paperlate” on the hacked Muzak*
Cholma
Wow. Reached wayyy back into the collection for that one! Haven’t heard that in decades. Thanks!
PirateTawnee
Any excuse for Genesis is fine by me, and 70’s Genesis? Even better.
PirateTawnee
omg i r teh dum, I thought it was on Spot The Pigeon EP, but it’s not, so actually not 70’s. Oops.
The Oracle
The Genesis didn’t come out until 1988 though
Geneseepaws
That’s not when St. Peter put down the lamb in Broadway.
Nono
Going on a limb here, but given that Dorothy got her Yale acceptance letter after the time skip, she’s probably hardcore stressing out about that.
Oh yeah, she also got a bunch of bad grades recently in comic time too, right? So that’s a double whammy.
Kyrik Michalowski
I think Dorothy is having issues, she is even more gung-ho about helping people than usual. Is her secret weighing on her mind? I don’t think anyone else knows at this point.
Yumi
I don’t know that even she knows at this point.
Jo_cubstar
Wait, what secret. What am I forgetting…
RassilonTDavros
…yeah, given the amount of stress that Dorothy is under just from this, I kinda get the feeling she’s gonna crash and burn at Yale.
Sirksome
I actually think she’ll flourish there. The problem is when she’s on top of things academically her mind seems starved for stimulation so she hyper focuses on overly pleasing people. Despite neglecting her hygiene or eating she was actually way more balanced when she had a full workload, or a significant other to distract her.
Nono
That’s… pretty unhealthy though. Like she was studying so hard she basically missed three days once.
The fact is, if Dorothy can’t keep up her grades while having a semblance of a healthy life here, she’s going to burn herself to cinders trying to keep up at Yale.
Sirksome
She improved her grades in like a weekend. That’s not something most people can do. Look at Walky from last semester, who essentially failed his math class despite having multiple weeks to work on it. She does need to work on that social life but I don’t think burnout is the problem. It never really was. Dorothy thrives in this academic/problem solving scenario.
thejeff
Walky, who managed to turn his math class around well enough to pass despite being nearly completely lost weeks before the midterm.
Honestly, I kind of feel like both those plots didn’t get justice. The Dorothy one kind of feels like it was just an excuse to break up her and Walky.
Clif
Yeah, but Walky had Amazigirl explaining it and working with him, which probably had more of an effect than Amber wiping out the bad grades.
Sirksome
I’m actually still a little confused about that Walky math grade thing. Didn’t he only have a chance to pass because Amber changed his grades to be salvageable? He did put in work to pass, but the point is that Dorothy is a bit of a genius when it comes to academic studying.
thejeff
I don’t think it was really clear. That was before the midterm, so normally I’d expect not too much of his grade to set in stone yet. I’d argue that the grade change mostly made him feel he had a chance and it was the help studying that really made the difference, but most of that took place off-screen even before the time skip, so it never really got explained.
We saw Amber and Mike talking about him being ADHD. We saw some suggestions about helping him study. And we saw him make the commitment to go take the test after the kidnapping, rather than use it as an excuse to postpone – which was a big psychological step, but wouldn’t actually work unless he’d already figured out how to study and caught up.
As I said, I don’t think that worked out well narratively. Felt like it mostly got pushed to the side and not wrapped up well.
Daibhid C
I have literally no idea what you mean by “balanced ” here…
Sirksome
Dorothy has always hyper fixated on people pleasing and seeking external validation. “Treating everything like she’s being graded” to paraphrase this comic.
I think when she has a higher workload and is actually being graded she’s more able to prioritize what really matters to her a bit more. Which isn’t’ actually making everyone like her. I think that’s just the mindset she defaults to when she doesn’t have anything to do.
It’s probably better when she’s dating because despite her failing grades Walky was actually a good influence on her because he was helping her relax. Watching cartoons, banging and napping, having fun chasing after AG, I think Sierra even mentioned it.
Suet
I haven’t seen her that happy since the future.
A Dorothy-Amber palette swap would be much scarier.
Yumi
To continue the hall monitor discussion I started yesterday: in my elementary school, fifth graders who were on something called “Service Squad” had hall monitor duty as one of the rotations, and yeah, that was basically just “sit in the hall during lunch for a week and tell kids not to run.” In high school, though, the hall monitors were actual hired adults.
They basically monitored passing times and lunches, would check your pass if you were in the halls during class time, that sort of stuff. My senior year, the hall monitors got uniforms as a result of the school district going through a company to employ the hall monitors (even though they were largely the same people who had already been working there), and that was the outfit I mimicked for my Halloween costume.
anon
lol i feel like the ‘enjoying halloween’ would balance/cancel out with “a bunch of ppl in our dorm for a ‘party'” but nice to see her having fun (wonder if the breakup will make her feel ecstatic b/c she hates billie or in a worse mood for ‘ruining’ the party)
DailyBrad
Honestly, Dorothy is a good guest, even if she is a bit intense about it.
lily
yeah, intensity aside i’m sure lots of ppl would want a guest this considerate, if not straight up in charge of organizing things like this
Nono
I dunno, some perfectionists who want to be on top of anything might take offense that someone brought things ‘just in case they were forgotten’.
The Oracle
Some perfectionists can get over themselves and admit to the occasional mistake, then.
StClair
that’s the thing, though: they can’t.
The Oracle
Then they can stay out of the way.
Clif
Tolerance for other peoples idiosyncrasies?
I mean, most of us have enough of our own.
The Oracle
Sure, and then when they inevitably forget something, this hypothetical perfectionist probably blames somebody else because “I don’t make mistakes”. Tolerance is fine, up to a point.