https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sloshed it’s actually in the dictionary rather than slang but idk what would be common these days XD; Since ‘getting smashed’ could also be drunk but some ppl use it as a metaphor for sex too XD;
I don’t think there are any english phrases that aren’t used as a metaphor for sex
Meagan
Are you hitting on… Someone? ?
anon
LOL i always thought ‘hitting on’ versus ‘flirting’ was a bit rough/violent for the meaning (tho eng isn’t my first language) unless it’s some kinda conspiracy for like “being hit in a relationship is ‘normal'” or so XP [i mean it’s def not but i can imagine it being someone’s excuse]
Wait is that what slurpies are called in the IU Village Pantry for reals?
Needfuldoer
Well they can’t call them Slurpees, that’s a 7-Eleven trademark.
Squishee is also off-limits, that’s Kwik-E-Mart.
HueSatLight
I don’t know, no website. I didn’t check for the other convenience store chains the corporation owns, I expect the slushy machines end up with the same display though.
I should be saying “stop girl stop” or “yellow light that a little girl, maybe a beer and quietly talking would be better”, but my sense of shenanigans audienceship is saying “GO GIRL GO”
Speaking as a former Catholic, it’s honestly shocking, how much of Catholic theology, in practice, seems to come from The Divine Comedy, given that it is not and has never been official canon.
JR
Never underestimate a committed fanfic.
Some1
Saints are comfort characters for religious people, change my mind.
not someone else
Yeah. To me, even more shocking is how much modern Protestant theology seems to be based on The Omen.
Decidedly Orthogonal
So disappointing they don’t go for cool shit, like Evil Dead or 28 days later.
Taffy
They’re not technically supposed to accept works that involve Christopher Eccleston, for obvious reasons.
Bittersweet
It’s the Bible’s expansion pack!
thejeff
Not just that it’s not canon, but also that Catholic theology had been around for a thousand years before Dante.
Partly it just made use of and elaborated on ideas that were already common, but it’s influence did go well beyond that.
…. I could interpret that question as being “so many potential plans, but Joyce is going to choose a disastrous one isn’t she, what’s it’s going to be?”
I think the point is what is, specifically, Joyce’s plan for obtaining alcohol. It’s not like Joyce is the type of person who has a fake ID or knows how to acquire a fake ID or is probably aware that fake IDs are even things that exist in the pursuit of illicit alcohol.
At least as far as we are aware, anyway. I suppose it’s fully possible that Joyce has made some criminal underworld contacts, entirely off panel, in the same way that Carla and Charlie became girlfriends, entirely off panel.
Or… she could just ask Joe or Ruth or somebody for help, as already suggested. But I prefer to believe, until explicitly proven otherwise, that Joyce has, entirely off panel, secretly made some unsavory ties to the types of people who can provide her with fake IDs. (Maybe notJennifer.)
Miri
Before she got roofied, she found herself Queen of the Drunk People at that party. It’s plausible that she’s had friendly overtures from people who remembered her being awesome, vaguely remembered things going south for her being the reason the party wrapped up, and wanting to check in the genuinely kind, happy person they met was OK and connecting off-screen? Then when all the “not-Ryan: serial date-rapist” thing came out with her at the centre, that blossomed into some off-screen friendships with people with street-savvy…
furubatsu
The fact thar Joyce is a very friendly girl who’ll even befriend your family on Facebook, I wouldnt be surprised if she did have a bigger social circle outside of what we’ve seen. God, Jennifer would be sick with rage if Joyce Brown was more popular (Well liked) than her.
Daibhid C
Maybe she’s heard that the barman at Gallasso’s is an absolute pushover who hates any form of confrontation, but not that he isn’t there any more.
Daibhid C
(Or is he? I don’t imagine being a TA pays well, given how much we in the Anglosphere value actual educators, never mind their gofers. Maybe he kept that job as well.)
Ruth, Jennifer, Carla, Sal, Malaya, breaking into Robin’s house (she probably still has a key). Ruthless’s Not-Jennifer (Mr. T.A.)
but I’m leaning towards malapropism. Joyce seems unlikely to have drank before, and I doubt that’s what she’d think to do with someone as blue as she’s just realized Dorothy is.
Only when it comes to drinking! If they want to huff cancer sticks, look at naked people, or kill people for Freedom!, they’re totally adults.
Drinking gross rotten grape juice and whatever rotten nonsense beer is made of? No no, too young for that. Gotta wait three more years.
… To do it legally anyway.
Kim
That’s weird!
Bittersweet
Where I live in the US, smoking is now illegal until 21 too.
Tbh, idk what everyone’s obsession with wanting the drinking age lowered is. Like, I feel like letting teenagers get trashed and incoherent is not actually a flex. None of the exchange students I’ve met in my life seemed any more responsible or better at handling their liquor than any other kid I knew (in fact, they usually were way worse. They committed like serious property damage that resulted in our uni having to fill in our pool.)
But I know that “Hey, maybe the high drinking age is a good thing” is a spicy flaming hot take.
Li
I mean, mostly the issue is whether we respect someone’s bodily autonomy or not, and it is definitely a slippery slope. The more precedent that someone isn’t “responsible” enough to make choices about their own body until they’re 21, the easier it is to argue that really, we should raise the voting age, and really, it should be 25 instead of 21 due to that long debunked but somehow extremely persistent notion that the brain doesn’t finish developing until you’re 25.
And hey, if they’re not mature enough to drink and smoke until they’re 21 (or 25), gosh, why are we letting them choose to have sex, even with an age appropriate peer? Why are we letting them buy condoms or get abortions without parental consent? Jeez! We definitely shouldn’t be letting them go on puberty blockers!!
Like. These are very real arguments that have been made, and recently.
So. While I’m not saying this is what everyone is thinking about when they say a lower drinking age is better or at least fine, I am definitely saying it’s an often unstated part of the argument you’re seeing.
Yeah i somehow doubt this means drinking! Maybe getting sloshed in fridge is some kind of “wholesome” church game where you uh…. Trip to dump buckets of hot fudge on something? Maybe each other? A greased pig? Wait no this is getting sketchier and sketchier
178 thoughts on “Free moment”
IntangibleMatter
This… may be one of the best storylines yet.
Joyce you’ve changed over the years.
I love it.
Max
Months. This is like one of the weird movies: “For us it has been years, but it’s only been a few months for them.”
ValdVin
Willis is closer to my nephew’s age than mine. I hope to live long enough for Valentine’s Day to get into this comic.
Decidedly Orthogonal
As someone who sees you around on various forums, I too hope you live so long, and longer, in comfort and surrounded by love. ✊❤?
Adj
What the fudge?
Thag Simmons
she’s gotta mean something else, right?
Mr. Random
Nnnnooooope.
Needfuldoer
What the pfargtl?
Se7en2
What the flan?!?!?!
Ana Chronistic
Next comic:
Steve eating cerealJoyce and Dotty falling in a slosh of melting snowTheKelliestKelly
Nah, next comic is Riley eating cereal
Weatherheight
Going to the 7-11, buying the contents of a slurpee machine, and theving a “slushee fight” outside in the snow.
Admittedly, this would probably be a better idea in May, but seize the moment!
Sirksome
What are the odds she just means they’re going out for snow cones or something?
Schpoonman
Book title! BOOK TITLE!
Ryan
Dumbing of Age 14: Cough
CoughCoughclif
It’s a natural.
NGPZ
Sloshed? What is this earthling lingo? 😮
anon
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sloshed it’s actually in the dictionary rather than slang but idk what would be common these days XD; Since ‘getting smashed’ could also be drunk but some ppl use it as a metaphor for sex too XD;
NGPZ
Joyce pullin out all the stops now huh? And she gonna help her friend! This should be fun >:D
*plays “Apocalypshit” by Molotov on hacked muzak*
wwwhhattt
I don’t think there are any english phrases that aren’t used as a metaphor for sex
Meagan
Are you hitting on… Someone? ?
anon
LOL i always thought ‘hitting on’ versus ‘flirting’ was a bit rough/violent for the meaning (tho eng isn’t my first language) unless it’s some kinda conspiracy for like “being hit in a relationship is ‘normal'” or so XP [i mean it’s def not but i can imagine it being someone’s excuse]
Taffy
What?
Nathan
Ah yeah, let’s use that phrase as a metaphor all night baby
morleuca
I wonder if sloshed is somehow now a contronym
Amós Batista
All meanings here are CORRECT!
HueSatLight
drunk, like booze sloshing around the bottom of a jug.
Or maybe it’s a joke, and Joyce means getting Sloshies at the Village Pantry.
NGPZ
Wait is that what slurpies are called in the IU Village Pantry for reals?
Needfuldoer
Well they can’t call them Slurpees, that’s a 7-Eleven trademark.
Squishee is also off-limits, that’s Kwik-E-Mart.
HueSatLight
I don’t know, no website. I didn’t check for the other convenience store chains the corporation owns, I expect the slushy machines end up with the same display though.
HueSatLight
new guess: they’re going to a boxing ring and sparring, to slosh can also mean to punch.
GLaDOS
They’re going to have clowns throw buckets of whitewash over them?
Jo_cubstar
Hahah yes Joyce!
Puppeteer Nessus
Joyce comes through! With sloshing fudge!
Taigan
Are they stopping by Joyce’s room for her coat, or is she planning on sharing Dorothy’s?
Some1
It’s moments like these when I wonder where the autobiographical parts of the comic begin and end.
lightsabermario
Your mistake is thinking there are parts of this comic that are not autobiographical.
Esha
We’re gonna get a repeat of the Becky Visit, aren’t we?
Grimey
Joyce’s expression never changing is the best. She’s just a silly little guy.
Ray
Yeah!
Kim
100!
Ray
I should be saying “stop girl stop” or “yellow light that a little girl, maybe a beer and quietly talking would be better”, but my sense of shenanigans audienceship is saying “GO GIRL GO”
BBCC
Fuck yeah, fudging sloshed!
Some1
Okay very random question, but would Joyce have been allowed to read The Divine Comedy growing up?
HueSatLight
Probably not, because of Purgatory at the minimum.
3oranges
It’s super Catholic…
thakoru
Speaking as a former Catholic, it’s honestly shocking, how much of Catholic theology, in practice, seems to come from The Divine Comedy, given that it is not and has never been official canon.
JR
Never underestimate a committed fanfic.
Some1
Saints are comfort characters for religious people, change my mind.
not someone else
Yeah. To me, even more shocking is how much modern Protestant theology seems to be based on The Omen.
Decidedly Orthogonal
So disappointing they don’t go for cool shit, like Evil Dead or 28 days later.
Taffy
They’re not technically supposed to accept works that involve Christopher Eccleston, for obvious reasons.
Bittersweet
It’s the Bible’s expansion pack!
thejeff
Not just that it’s not canon, but also that Catholic theology had been around for a thousand years before Dante.
Partly it just made use of and elaborated on ideas that were already common, but it’s influence did go well beyond that.
CrazyJ
What’s Joyce’s plan for getting alcohol when they are both underage?
BarerMender
Oh, you sweet summer child.
Reltzik
…. I could interpret that question as being “so many potential plans, but Joyce is going to choose a disastrous one isn’t she, what’s it’s going to be?”
PedanticJerkass
I think the point is what is, specifically, Joyce’s plan for obtaining alcohol. It’s not like Joyce is the type of person who has a fake ID or knows how to acquire a fake ID or is probably aware that fake IDs are even things that exist in the pursuit of illicit alcohol.
At least as far as we are aware, anyway. I suppose it’s fully possible that Joyce has made some criminal underworld contacts, entirely off panel, in the same way that Carla and Charlie became girlfriends, entirely off panel.
Or… she could just ask Joe or Ruth or somebody for help, as already suggested. But I prefer to believe, until explicitly proven otherwise, that Joyce has, entirely off panel, secretly made some unsavory ties to the types of people who can provide her with fake IDs. (Maybe not Jennifer.)
Miri
Before she got roofied, she found herself Queen of the Drunk People at that party. It’s plausible that she’s had friendly overtures from people who remembered her being awesome, vaguely remembered things going south for her being the reason the party wrapped up, and wanting to check in the genuinely kind, happy person they met was OK and connecting off-screen? Then when all the “not-Ryan: serial date-rapist” thing came out with her at the centre, that blossomed into some off-screen friendships with people with street-savvy…
furubatsu
The fact thar Joyce is a very friendly girl who’ll even befriend your family on Facebook, I wouldnt be surprised if she did have a bigger social circle outside of what we’ve seen. God, Jennifer would be sick with rage if Joyce Brown was more popular (Well liked) than her.
Daibhid C
Maybe she’s heard that the barman at Gallasso’s is an absolute pushover who hates any form of confrontation, but not that he isn’t there any more.
Daibhid C
(Or is he? I don’t imagine being a TA pays well, given how much we in the Anglosphere value actual educators, never mind their gofers. Maybe he kept that job as well.)
Nono
…She’s dating Joe.
HueSatLight
Ruth, Jennifer, Carla, Sal, Malaya, breaking into Robin’s house (she probably still has a key). Ruthless’s Not-Jennifer (Mr. T.A.)
but I’m leaning towards malapropism. Joyce seems unlikely to have drank before, and I doubt that’s what she’d think to do with someone as blue as she’s just realized Dorothy is.
Kim
This was a very useful comment for me ^_^
Since I’d totally forgotten that 18year olds are under age in america. Pretty wild!
Kim
D’oh. In *The US, I mean.
Azhrei Vep
Only when it comes to drinking! If they want to huff cancer sticks, look at naked people, or kill people for Freedom!, they’re totally adults.
Drinking gross rotten grape juice and whatever rotten nonsense beer is made of? No no, too young for that. Gotta wait three more years.
… To do it legally anyway.
Kim
That’s weird!
Bittersweet
Where I live in the US, smoking is now illegal until 21 too.
Tbh, idk what everyone’s obsession with wanting the drinking age lowered is. Like, I feel like letting teenagers get trashed and incoherent is not actually a flex. None of the exchange students I’ve met in my life seemed any more responsible or better at handling their liquor than any other kid I knew (in fact, they usually were way worse. They committed like serious property damage that resulted in our uni having to fill in our pool.)
But I know that “Hey, maybe the high drinking age is a good thing” is a spicy flaming hot take.
Li
I mean, mostly the issue is whether we respect someone’s bodily autonomy or not, and it is definitely a slippery slope. The more precedent that someone isn’t “responsible” enough to make choices about their own body until they’re 21, the easier it is to argue that really, we should raise the voting age, and really, it should be 25 instead of 21 due to that long debunked but somehow extremely persistent notion that the brain doesn’t finish developing until you’re 25.
And hey, if they’re not mature enough to drink and smoke until they’re 21 (or 25), gosh, why are we letting them choose to have sex, even with an age appropriate peer? Why are we letting them buy condoms or get abortions without parental consent? Jeez! We definitely shouldn’t be letting them go on puberty blockers!!
Like. These are very real arguments that have been made, and recently.
So. While I’m not saying this is what everyone is thinking about when they say a lower drinking age is better or at least fine, I am definitely saying it’s an often unstated part of the argument you’re seeing.
Steelbright
Yeah i somehow doubt this means drinking! Maybe getting sloshed in fridge is some kind of “wholesome” church game where you uh…. Trip to dump buckets of hot fudge on something? Maybe each other? A greased pig? Wait no this is getting sketchier and sketchier
Steelbright