Sunday, 18 August 2024
The one that's the "Give a hoot, don't pollute" thing.
Synopsis : If people wonder why dimwit elitism is the motivation behind environmental concerns, they need to watch today's The Lower Orders must be suppressed for the greater good crap.
Summary: When Seth Green had Ted Turner say "Protect the environment or I'll fucking kill you," he was ( Read more... )
Another opportunity to compare the colouring of 2024:
With the colouring of 1995:
Pretty much the same, except I do like the 2024 background colouring better than that from 1995.
As for the comic strip, this one in a long line of Pattersons versus litterers comic strips where it not only important to talk about how littering is bad, but it is also important to explain that the Pattersons are better than the litterers. Any time the Pattersons are looking down their nose at others, that is a terrible comic strip and this one is no different.
As for April's question, she is right. There are more people who are not pretentious snobs than there are Pattersons.
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This is why I used to describe it as being about yuppie scum and their ungrateful children. This would explain the ultimate in greenwashing:
While I can easily see Elly standing outside the shower stall with a damn stopwatch when The Creature is taking a shower, it's obvious to me where she's going: to their pet grease-monkey to get a car with big cupholders that gouges out its own hole in the ozone layer.
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Elly is one of those people who will take a bus so that she can be photographed or filmed taking a bus while lecturing about the need to Conserve. In real life, when did we ever see Elly taking a bus anywhere? The moment ONE of their cars was out of commission, the focus went to how to use the second car, not the bus schedule.
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Of course. This is because she is married to a Randroid doorknob who sees a bus as an obstruction to his Overcompensationmobile that's filled with losers and parasites too cheap or lazy or stupid to buy their own ride.
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In 2013 I finally stopped procrastinating and made my first trip to Europe. I sold my car to pay for it, and didn't own one for the next seven years. I walked and took public transportation and did just fine. In 2020 I took my mother's car (mainly to keep her from driving it) and for four years used it to get around, but a few weeks ago it failed inspection and we donated it to Kars4Kids and I'm back to walking and public transportation when I return to school next week. I doubt I'll miss owning a car for very long. I make good money but cars are drainage vessels for bank accounts and traffic in Maryland is terrible; I'll sit with the "losers" on the bus or be a "loser" walking past the cars in bumper-to-bumper gridlock and get my steps in and keep my weight down.
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Just look at that Might-As-Well-Be-A-Halo around Elly in the fifth panel. Just show us the person taking these Pictures for Elly's Facebook/Instagram that in no way reflects Elly's real life.
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Seriously, we never see any of this stuff- recycling bins, "Compost Queen" composter, Elly taking a bus- before, or after, this single strip. What a joke.
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As best I remember, this is the only time Elly rode a bus.
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Buses are usually chased after when the kids forget something.
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These are the only other kinds of buses Elly rides:
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Tourist buses are the only ones she will use. As for me, I tend to use what works. When we visited my daughter in Boston, the mass transit system was so good, it was foolish to drive anywhere. Where I live in Tucson (where the mass transit system leaves much to be desired), most people drive unless they happen to live in the transit line areas.
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Correction: The May 27, 2007, strip is the only time I ever saw Elly Patterson ride a city public transportation bus.
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And let's not forget Deepity Dawg's bullcrap about riding farther. What we have there is a slow-thinking, superficial drone who doesn't really understand why transit is vital because he has two cars hoodwinking his son into thinking that a fait accompli willed upon him by other mediocre drones is a wise thing not to be questioned.
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Lynn has so little experience with buses that she thinks people who ride them pay by the mile and get off when they've reached the limit of affordability. Did she ever even try to imagine how such a system could possibly be implemented? This pay-by-distance thing works for metros that have electronic exits. How would one be forced to pay an additional fee while exiting a BUS? And does she think that people ride buses for fun? How would being "allowed" to "travel farther" for the same amount benefit a rider at all? Why do people on commuter buses want to "travel farther?" That was soooo stupid, even for this strip.
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