Sunday, 18 August 2024

[dreadedcandiru2]

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

Comments

[howtheduck]

Another opportunity to compare the colouring of 2024:

[dreadedcandiru2]

I don't like anyone's chances of pointing out how absurd she is.

[stephanie_hawks]

I already explained in my Tuesday, May 9, 2023, Saturday, 1 October, 2022, and Thursday, 15 September, 2022 posts why "twice as far for ten percent more" isn't really a bargain.

[dreadedcandiru2]

This is the same silly person who thought that she was saving money buying ha manual can opener because she held the cash in her hand. Someone else pays for renovations so cost is no object......

[howtheduck]

Exactly. Elly only rides public transportation buses to make a point. Never at any other time would she be caught dead in one.

[jjamele]

1. "Advanced Civilization?" By what measure? The number of Temples, Churches and Caves it had? Seriously? Nobody uses language like this anymore, John- except followers of a certain philosophy that was smacked down hard in the fourth decade of the last century. Tell us about the "third world" next.

2. John looks terrified of his wife as he tries to enjoy her choice of vacation activity by cradling a drink while she angrily, haughtily gulps hers down. She looks like she's put him in his place and daring him to oppose her as she pulls at his chain to follow where SHE wants to go. What a lovely marriage of equals. Disgusting.

[dreadedcandiru2]

John is so beaten down that he can't even come up to the right answer for "Do I have options that aren't this vindictive and imbecile harpy?"

[howtheduck]

John looks terrified of his wife as he tries to enjoy her choice of vacation activity by cradling a drink while she angrily, haughtily gulps hers down

One of the rare moments when Lynn shows her own problems with drinking via the comic strip.

[chocolate_frapp]

I'm also not sure why caves are being lumped in with structures that were made by human hands....

[jjamele]

As to that Saturday strip: Lynn, you are the only person on the planet who thinks that joke is open-mouthed funny and not a mildly amusing, fact-check-later nugget of info. Once again, Lynn desperately wishes she could have added a laugh track to her strips along with blinking eyes.

[dreadedcandiru2]

People like Lynn love to whine about history being erased when reality is injected into a heroic narrative that erased the humanity of the participants. Jay Ward was a better historian.

[howtheduck]

Fact check:

[jjamele]

It's only one of several theories; it just happens to be the one that tour guides like to use because it gets an appreciative giggle from their customers.

[howtheduck]

I can easily Lynn Johnston hearing this story and deciding to use it in her comic strip. That's a free punchline.

[jjamele]

I should say "the story gets an appreciate giggle from their real customers; it gets open-mouthed hooting from rubes like John and Elly Patterson."

[chocolate_frapp]

That same story is, however, accurate when applied in another context. "Kangaroo" really does mean "I don't understand you" in one specific Australian aborigine dialect.