I gotta say, despite how rude Raidah is being in panel 5, she at least has the human decency to not laugh at someone she thinks is mentally-challenged. Yes, she is making a terrible, terrible assumption (and will hopefully pay the price for it) and is being condecending, but she’s not openly laughing and saying “Who else would willingly hang out with Sarah?”
Looking at you, Chan. B**ch
Also, who the hell says “Look at her!”, when laughing at a (in their minds) mentally challenged girl? F*ck you Char.
Dina’s about to say something awesome. Please, let Dina say something awesome. Dina needs to say something completely awesome that makes Raidah cry into her pillow every night for the next 8 weeks.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Word of God says Dina doesn’t have a badass mode.
Bekah
I feel the need to point out that I say similar things to the busty murder-bait that runs up stairs to get away from the killer in slasher flicks.
gangler
I’m skeptical. I don’t think we’ll ever see the switch flip so to say but I could believe that her observational abilities coupled with her lack of social awareness could lead her to say something particularly hurtful made all the more cutting by nature of the truthfulness of the statement. She seems the type.
Certainly I believe that she has no badass mode, but I that hardly means that she could not conceivably say something really awesome or that she couldn’t within the realms of theoretical possibility cause Raidah to cry.
TheBenenator
Short version: You don’t need to be a Badass to have a Crowning Moment of Awesome.
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There are many subtle layers to badass mode. I currently am envisioning Dina being like a conversational Aikido master, using her opponents own force against them. I could be totally wrong but it’s still fun to envision.
Mentally challenged, huh? OK, try to imagine yourself in the College Mall. You get your first look at this “middle school girl” as you enter a clearing. She moves like a bird, lightly, bobbing her head. And you keep still because you think that maybe her visual acuity is based on movement like Sarah – she’ll lose you if you don’t move. But no, not Dina. You stare at her, and she just stares right back. And that’s when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side, *whoosh* from the other two Dinas you didn’t even know were there. Because Dina’s a pack hunter, you see, she uses coordinated attack patterns and she is out in force today. And she slashes at you with this… a two-inch opposable thumb, like a razor, on the the right hand. She doesn’t bother to bite your jugular like Ruth, say… no no. She slashes at you here, or here… or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines. The point is, you are alive when she starts to eat you. So you know, try to show a little respect.
nimoy
ryan, after lurking and never commenting, your comment has finally drawn me out. I got to “visual acuity” and it dawned on me what you were quoting… I married a man who called me a “clever girl” while putting on a Aussie accent ;0)
It’s a different kind of clueiness. Dina saw what she saw, she took in cues from similar past experience, and her words rolled off her tongue, as the opportunity was presented to her when Sarah invited her to talk. Whether she responds in a negative fashion to Raidah’s condescension is likely but not certain, seeing that Raidah has not yet made herself worthy of Dina’s serious attention.
The roommate herself of course being a relationship of necessity and convenience rather than friendship.
MrSmiles
we now understand where she is coming from with respect to roommates.
Wack'd
Eh. Not fond of that word. I’ve always preferred roomies.
gangler
Roomy actually sounds a lot more familiar to me. Like roommate would be the technical term that you use to describe somebody where that’s all there is between you but roomy would be the term of endearment you use for the buddy that you room with.
Eh, they’re judgemental, she’s judgemental, I could see how maybe they’d have gotten along at one point. Main difference is that if Sarah doesn’t like you, she tells it to you straight, Raidah seems to condescend to say the same thing.
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Nearphotison
“Quiet, don’t be mean. I’m going to condescend to her.”
Commander Clash
“I can understand that you are being a condecending b****.”
Commander Clash
Please note that was against the character Raidah and not you Near.
Nerdman
I gotta say, despite how rude Raidah is being in panel 5, she at least has the human decency to not laugh at someone she thinks is mentally-challenged. Yes, she is making a terrible, terrible assumption (and will hopefully pay the price for it) and is being condecending, but she’s not openly laughing and saying “Who else would willingly hang out with Sarah?”
Looking at you, Chan. B**ch
Also, who the hell says “Look at her!”, when laughing at a (in their minds) mentally challenged girl? F*ck you Char.
Oberon
That means “talking down to her.”
Bekah
Dina’s about to say something awesome. Please, let Dina say something awesome. Dina needs to say something completely awesome that makes Raidah cry into her pillow every night for the next 8 weeks.
Plasma Mongoose
…or she can just go all raptor on her ass.
Sensedog
I support both of the above options.
Buckybone
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Word of God says Dina doesn’t have a badass mode.
Bekah
I feel the need to point out that I say similar things to the busty murder-bait that runs up stairs to get away from the killer in slasher flicks.
gangler
I’m skeptical. I don’t think we’ll ever see the switch flip so to say but I could believe that her observational abilities coupled with her lack of social awareness could lead her to say something particularly hurtful made all the more cutting by nature of the truthfulness of the statement. She seems the type.
Certainly I believe that she has no badass mode, but I that hardly means that she could not conceivably say something really awesome or that she couldn’t within the realms of theoretical possibility cause Raidah to cry.
TheBenenator
Short version: You don’t need to be a Badass to have a Crowning Moment of Awesome.
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Historyman68
Word of God could be trying to mislead us…
Plasma Mongoose
Maybe we can have a Badass Mode installed then.
TheLastOutlaw
There are many subtle layers to badass mode. I currently am envisioning Dina being like a conversational Aikido master, using her opponents own force against them. I could be totally wrong but it’s still fun to envision.
Undrave
The cutting remark THEN the raptor mode!
Zoey
HEAD BUTT HER LIKE A PACHYCEPHALOSAURUS!
ryan
Mentally challenged, huh? OK, try to imagine yourself in the College Mall. You get your first look at this “middle school girl” as you enter a clearing. She moves like a bird, lightly, bobbing her head. And you keep still because you think that maybe her visual acuity is based on movement like Sarah – she’ll lose you if you don’t move. But no, not Dina. You stare at her, and she just stares right back. And that’s when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side, *whoosh* from the other two Dinas you didn’t even know were there. Because Dina’s a pack hunter, you see, she uses coordinated attack patterns and she is out in force today. And she slashes at you with this… a two-inch opposable thumb, like a razor, on the the right hand. She doesn’t bother to bite your jugular like Ruth, say… no no. She slashes at you here, or here… or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines. The point is, you are alive when she starts to eat you. So you know, try to show a little respect.
nimoy
ryan, after lurking and never commenting, your comment has finally drawn me out. I got to “visual acuity” and it dawned on me what you were quoting… I married a man who called me a “clever girl” while putting on a Aussie accent ;0)
Raiser
I got to “like a bird, lightly, bobbing her head” and caught myself mentally reading it in Alan Grant’s voice. Nostalgia bomb.
Ryan, you just won two internets and a cookie.
David Herbert
Dina, please punch her in the face. She’s at your level, so you can take her.
Plasma Mongoose
Dina’s pretty cluey when she needs to be.
David Herbert
I read that as cute and instantly thought “When isn’t she?”
DaveO
It’s a different kind of clueiness. Dina saw what she saw, she took in cues from similar past experience, and her words rolled off her tongue, as the opportunity was presented to her when Sarah invited her to talk. Whether she responds in a negative fashion to Raidah’s condescension is likely but not certain, seeing that Raidah has not yet made herself worthy of Dina’s serious attention.
I grok Dina.
S.Yeske
10 points for use of the word “grok”.
That’s one movie we will most likely never see. And probably a good thing, since I bet Hollywood would ruin it.
RobHagen
Go Dina! Rarr that Raidah!
Ridureyu
Those three girls are mean. Maybe this is Middle School after all?
Plasma Mongoose
Yes they’re all poopy-heads.
Ridureyu
That’s discriminatory against people with poopie on their heads.
Jehosaphat
Or is it people with heads made of poopy?
Bekah
Suggesting that these two oft confused groups are comparable is discriminatory against seagulls.
Yotomoe
The poopie-heads and the Doodie-heads are very different proud raves in the land a excreteland.
MrSmiles
they are all poppy heads.
damn druggies.
Jetstream
Nope, that’s about college accurate.
Nothing really changes after High School. Everyone’s parents lied.
ryan
Exactly. I was just as mature and grown-up in college as i was back in high school.
Now excuse me. I have to go run down the hall, pretending I’m an airplane.
Wonder Wig
Watch Dina and Sarah, weeknights on the WB.
Doctor_Who
That might actually get me to watch the WB.
George
I’d watch MTV if they had that show.
Tha Mojster
Isn’t the wb non existant anymore? I thought that the WB merged with UPN to make the CW?
Wack'd
It did, but it lives on in our hearts and our Buffy DVDs.
Leon
Wow… And I mean WOW!!!
Could she be any more of a bongo?!
Yotomoe
“Also Dinosaurs suck and Asians bombed us half a century agoso I hate them.”
Khrene Cleaver
Well damn…
Wack'd
Could you have left me more open for a Friends reference?
Sock
Dina’s reminding me of Spock again…
Plasma Mongoose
But she doesn’t look like she ever caught her head in a mechanical rice picker.
Zuche
“Dammit, Jim, do you know what you’ve done?”
Kernanator
Oh Raidah. You’ve just made one of the classic blunders: Never confuse oddity for stupidity.
Cholma
Tune in next time when Raidah gets involved in a land war with Asia, followed by her going up against a Sicilian when death is on the line!
Leorale
This made me smile.
Black Bumblebee
It’s okay… the land war was just a diversion, and the poison was in both goblets.
Crotonhurst
You forgot the maniacal laughter! AHAHAHAHA AHAHAHAHA AHAH*thud*
Wack'd
Yes, you’re very smart. Shut up.
Random Guy
And your mostly dead but not getting the pill.
Kernanator
I was hoping somebody would say something like that.
Pyr05
Simply awesome. Go Dina! Talk to Sarah as if they can’t hear you! IGNORE! IGNORE!!
shoeboxjeddy
How was Sarah ever friends with these douchelords? Seriously, they’re just terrible.
Doctor_Who
I don’t think she was, I think they were friends with her roommate, whom she busted.
gangler
The roommate herself of course being a relationship of necessity and convenience rather than friendship.
MrSmiles
we now understand where she is coming from with respect to roommates.
Wack'd
Eh. Not fond of that word. I’ve always preferred roomies.
gangler
Roomy actually sounds a lot more familiar to me. Like roommate would be the technical term that you use to describe somebody where that’s all there is between you but roomy would be the term of endearment you use for the buddy that you room with.
Luke
Hmm. Douchelord… It has a nice ring to it. Do you mind if I steal it for use in daily conversation?
Wack'd
All hail Raidah, lord of the douches!
gangler
The Duchess of Douches?
Magyo
The Douchess?
Yotomoe
Douchelord is the best word ever…
Historyman68
Eh, they’re judgemental, she’s judgemental, I could see how maybe they’d have gotten along at one point. Main difference is that if Sarah doesn’t like you, she tells it to you straight, Raidah seems to condescend to say the same thing.
Izzy
What do her one and posture have to do with dew on the grass?