But does Sarah have the guts to kill Karol? Because dropping that load on her before ending her would be a hilarious twist on turning the knife before it even entered.
depends on how much sarah was joking in the last panel, while some parents are probably used to seeing friends tease each other (tho idk how many ppl would be bold enough to do it in front of other ppl’s parents because i’m sure there are ppl that are like “oh they’re a bad influence, don’t hang out around them anymore” or “this is clearly bullying disguised as teasing because i saw this happen to me when i was younger”, but if she did drop that bombshell it’d def add fuel to the fire so to speak)
Bicycle Bill
I don’t think Sarah was joking. In fact, she’d probably say something like that just for the LOLs she’d get out of watching Carol go into a China Syndrome meltdown.
Or, I could bother to read the tag line: “A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.”
I assumed an emotional meltdown in the movie instead of literal.
Bicycle Bill
‘China syndrome’ is a fanciful term that describes a fictional result of a nuclear meltdown, where reactor components melt through their containment structures and into the underlying earth, “all the way to China”
Enkrod
It’s one form of a maximum credible accident in a nuclear plant.
When a nuclear reactor overheats to the point that it melts, it’s called a meltdown, at that point there is no stopping the runaway nuclear reaction, because you cant separate the uranium into sub-critical piles anymore. In some cases, this super hot highly radioactive blob of melted uranium might slowly melt its way through the bottom of its container and all the way down until it reaches ground water (in that case a steam explosion will happen) or basically into the core of the earth. It’s like it’s trying to dig a tunnel through the earth to china, hence “china syndrome”.
Angel
well we never saw the other side/reaction but i think the only ‘offensive’ thing sarah did was answer teh phone and yell ‘fuck off!’ to who(m)ever was on the other end and then the storyline neded or so
thejeff
Not quite joking I think. She absolutely wouldn’t have done it, but it’s her usual style of sincerely offering support then walking it back with a joke when she’s not taken up on it.
Yeah, she’s probably being facetious, both since she would, anyway, and also probably as a way of acknowledging a line had been crossed earlier. This functions both as a joke at Joyce’s expense, sure, but also at her own for her lack of tact.
I don’t think Sarah was being entirely serious there, no. I do think, however, that it’s sort of a tacit admission that she would have no actual idea of how to help Joyce in this situation– that is, the necessary tactics aren’t in her playbook.
she’d probably make some vague jokes about it but i’m sure there’s anecdotes of friends hanging around parents and making innocuous statements that somehow gets them in trouble
Pretty sure it’s her doing an appropriate level of teasing. like here. It’s a little obscure, but later Joyce accidentally outed herself as an atheist to Becky, and Sarah didn’t find it amusing.
She’d like you to believe that she would. … because I think she feels the need to earn some cred back after being supportive for a second. … or maybe she’s self-conscious about that sort of thing after Lucy called her out on it a minute ago.
Wouldn’t necessarily work, Carol has denied that Ross hurt anybody and that she ever curses…right after both of those things happened. She have serious self delusion if she believes Joyce would never do it she might actually be incapable of being convinced otherwise
Mark
I re-read that strip the other day, and I think she’s right about not cursing: she’s not calling for someone to be damned; she thinks it’s a done deal.
Dina took the lead after Willis reblogged it and it’s only grown since then. I like Dina’s chances, but this is only round one. And have you seen the rest of the polls in the bracket? This is gonna be a wild ride.
Oh god, how would you even figure out the funniest possible moment for that, like yeah, this one’s good, but what if there’s an even better setup later? It’s a real conundrum.
If they were somehow to wind up in the same restaurant as Walky, Lucy, and Walky’s parents are eating lunch so they can hear the fallout that would be the funniest time.
Welp. Here’s hoping that Joe sees them through the window or something and decides to join Joyce, since she’s probably texted him all about her issues with Carol and the divorce.
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Ana Chronistic
Carol does sound like she needs a handler
Ana Chronistic
also, lest you forgot
Decidedly Orthogonal
But does Sarah have the guts to kill Karol? Because dropping that load on her before ending her would be a hilarious twist on turning the knife before it even entered.
NGPZ
YUUUUUUUPPP
Joyce is making a huge mistake not having Sarah by her side, really
Angel
depends on how much sarah was joking in the last panel, while some parents are probably used to seeing friends tease each other (tho idk how many ppl would be bold enough to do it in front of other ppl’s parents because i’m sure there are ppl that are like “oh they’re a bad influence, don’t hang out around them anymore” or “this is clearly bullying disguised as teasing because i saw this happen to me when i was younger”, but if she did drop that bombshell it’d def add fuel to the fire so to speak)
Bicycle Bill
I don’t think Sarah was joking. In fact, she’d probably say something like that just for the LOLs she’d get out of watching Carol go into a China Syndrome meltdown.
NGPZ
Pika pika? What is a “China Syndrome Meltdown”?
Ryan
The China Syndrome (1979) with Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas.
I haven’t actually seen it, so I can’t say more.
Ryan
Or, I could bother to read the tag line: “A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.”
I assumed an emotional meltdown in the movie instead of literal.
Bicycle Bill
‘China syndrome’ is a fanciful term that describes a fictional result of a nuclear meltdown, where reactor components melt through their containment structures and into the underlying earth, “all the way to China”
Enkrod
It’s one form of a maximum credible accident in a nuclear plant.
When a nuclear reactor overheats to the point that it melts, it’s called a meltdown, at that point there is no stopping the runaway nuclear reaction, because you cant separate the uranium into sub-critical piles anymore. In some cases, this super hot highly radioactive blob of melted uranium might slowly melt its way through the bottom of its container and all the way down until it reaches ground water (in that case a steam explosion will happen) or basically into the core of the earth. It’s like it’s trying to dig a tunnel through the earth to china, hence “china syndrome”.
Angel
well we never saw the other side/reaction but i think the only ‘offensive’ thing sarah did was answer teh phone and yell ‘fuck off!’ to who(m)ever was on the other end and then the storyline neded or so
thejeff
Not quite joking I think. She absolutely wouldn’t have done it, but it’s her usual style of sincerely offering support then walking it back with a joke when she’s not taken up on it.
Ray Radlein
That’s what fiends are for
True Survivor
They’ll stick with you through hell.
Azhrei Vep
Even if they have to take your there themselves.
milu
Fiends are very similar to friends, orthographically
Furie
Weird circle jerks?
Yotomoe
I’d like to believe that Sarah wouldn’t do that.
Thag Simmons
She thinks it’s funny to joke about but I can’t imagine her actually knowingly endangering a friend like that.
DailyBrad
Yeah, she’s probably being facetious, both since she would, anyway, and also probably as a way of acknowledging a line had been crossed earlier. This functions both as a joke at Joyce’s expense, sure, but also at her own for her lack of tact.
Ophidiophile
More importantly, is this the most sarcastic response Joyce has made? I think Sarah is rubbing off on her.
Needfuldoer
Phrasing
GholaHalleck
Sarah wakes up with hung over with a dryer sheet stuck to her face
Ophidiophile
Doh.
temporaryobsessor
I don’t think Carol would point a gun at Joyce, but…
GholaHalleck
But she *did* help bail out someone who did.
temporaryobsessor
Exactly; and her logic wasn’t even Christian forgiveness gone mad.
RassilonTDavros
I don’t think Sarah was being entirely serious there, no. I do think, however, that it’s sort of a tacit admission that she would have no actual idea of how to help Joyce in this situation– that is, the necessary tactics aren’t in her playbook.
Angel
she’d probably make some vague jokes about it but i’m sure there’s anecdotes of friends hanging around parents and making innocuous statements that somehow gets them in trouble
HueSatLight
Pretty sure it’s her doing an appropriate level of teasing. like here. It’s a little obscure, but later Joyce accidentally outed herself as an atheist to Becky, and Sarah didn’t find it amusing.
Reltzik
She’d like you to believe that she would. … because I think she feels the need to earn some cred back after being supportive for a second. … or maybe she’s self-conscious about that sort of thing after Lucy called her out on it a minute ago.
Orange Lantern
Depends if she’s a good friend or a best friend.
Good friends bail you out of jail. Your best friends wakes up in your cell next to you going „what a night, huh?“.
You have to accept that as part of the deal for someone who would be going through hellfire for you.
UrsulaDavina
I mean maybe she’d say that to maker Carol have a heart attack.
Puppeteer Nessus
I’m betting Joyce says it to maker her mother go away
Archieve
Wouldn’t necessarily work, Carol has denied that Ross hurt anybody and that she ever curses…right after both of those things happened. She have serious self delusion if she believes Joyce would never do it she might actually be incapable of being convinced otherwise
Mark
I re-read that strip the other day, and I think she’s right about not cursing: she’s not calling for someone to be damned; she thinks it’s a done deal.
Not that that makes her attitude any nicer.
Needfuldoer
Carol doesn’t go away, she doubles down.
Suzi
Sarah loves to help in the most chaots inducing way possible.
RassilonTDavros
Oh boy I can hardly wait for the needlessly personal Sarah hate comments we’re about to get
True Survivor
Yeah her hat is the wrong shade of green. What a looser.
aelfwine
I don’t see any in the thread. Prediction failed?
Sombrero
It’s called the Carol Effect. It’s like a black hole of hate. No hate can escape when Carol is around, all get stuck within her, even hate comments.
Mollyscribbles
To be fair, Carol’s reaction would be hilarious. For us, not Joyce.
Needfuldoer
Someday we’ll get the Carol version of the Shocked Joyce Face.
Someday.
NGPZ
BTW less than 12 hours now to cast your vote for Dina in the Autistic Girlies Bracket on Tumblr! She’s in the lead!!! WAHOOOO!!!! ?
https://www.tumblr.com/autisticgirliesbracket/717861569237794816/autistic-girlies-bracket-round-1-side-a
Devin
Dina took the lead after Willis reblogged it and it’s only grown since then. I like Dina’s chances, but this is only round one. And have you seen the rest of the polls in the bracket? This is gonna be a wild ride.
NGPZ
Hell yeah!!!! Reagan Ridley from Netflix’s Inside Job is on Side B, I’M STIMMING SO MUCH YEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
shadowcell
Mike would’ve done it
for a nickel
shadowcell
y’know i feel like with 25-odd years of inflation Mike would presume your mom has raised her prices by now so maybe it would be two nickels
milu
with 25-odd years of inflation
Mike’s tastes are very specific and stable.
milu
(Do fetishes carry over between verses?)
vulcanodon
I feel that Mike would probably keep his price consistent, like Arizona Tea. As a statement, y’know?
Ana Chronistic
He would’ve reduced to a penny out of spite but it’s not as funny to say penny
Imogen
I love these two.
(People are probably going to choose to take Sarah literally here so they can get mad at her, but, like… I don’t. Sarah does tell jokes, you know.)
Stevonnie
Totally agreed!
Yumi
Oh god, how would you even figure out the funniest possible moment for that, like yeah, this one’s good, but what if there’s an even better setup later? It’s a real conundrum.
MM
Mike would’ve known.
Angel
probably sometime in between lunch and carol starting to proselytize or so
Proxiehunter
If they were somehow to wind up in the same restaurant as Walky, Lucy, and Walky’s parents are eating lunch so they can hear the fallout that would be the funniest time.
Yotomoe
“Hold on while I hold this fabrige egg and take a LONG smooth swig from this glass of water”
eh, whatever
Fabergé
Yotomoe
Gesundheit
Mark
Never look back.
k
Welp. Here’s hoping that Joe sees them through the window or something and decides to join Joyce, since she’s probably texted him all about her issues with Carol and the divorce.
Angel
i imagine they were going to eat lunch together that day anyways unless joe had previous plans/class
Proxiehunter
At the same place Walky’s going to wind up with Linda, Charles, and Lucy?
Needfuldoer
Yes… ha ha! YES!
DailyBrad
I wonder if Joe will show up, and if he does, if he’ll try to cover for her and maybe even try to pretend at being Christian for it.
“I’m your daughter’s boyfriend, Joe… Rogerson….”
I doubt Joyce would let him, but it’d admittedly probably lead to some great punchlines.
DailyBrad