Grrl Power #424 – The curse of curse ain’t no curse of course
The attentive reader might realize this class has been a while coming. Part of the reason I put it off was I couldn’t think of good funny content for the class itself… Well, I could, but I’d rather have that stuff show up in the comic as actual faux pas Sydney commits on camera, hence skipping the class in the comic.
She doesn’t put a dollar in the swear jar (AKA “The Vault”) for every bad word she says, instead she sticks a five in for each tirade. It’s quite a bit cheaper that way. While this system was initially designed by her mother a punitive measure, she uses it now as a sort of savings account that she cashes out once a year, the way some people use their tax return. She can always tell when she’s had a frustrating month because she’s reduced to eating ramen the last week of the month as her discretionary monies swell The Vault. At least that used to be the case. She’ll probably keep it up now that she has a considerable superheroing income, but she might up the penalty payment a bit.
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This is all pure speculation, my etymology is rather sparse. However, being “batty” has for a long time meant being crazy; the phrase “having bats in one’s belfry” meaning “not right in the head”. It seems to me that there’s crazy, then there’s batty crazy, and finally there’s bat-shit crazy; -shit being a way of dialing the nob up to 11 when speaking of someone’s mania, being penultimate. There’s nothing that exceeds being bat-shit crazy.
I thought the same. But maybe we’re both batty.
Or it could just be derived from those phrases. If one has bats in one’s belfry, there would presumably be bat shit everywhere. As for why bat shit rather than guano, it just sounds better.
Hey, I found something on it.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/38354/where-did-the-phrase-batsht-crazy-come-from
Looks like it started in the military as a variant of bullshit. I’d wager it was picked up and brought to English via some cultural exchange overseas.
As for “why not say guano”, that’s anyone’s guess. Though, education/linguistic-integration/racism levels could be key reasons (it was the 50s after all).
There is at least one other type of excrement that tends to get mentioned more often than “guano”. Here’s a link that reveals the first word.
There is at least one other type of excrement that tends to get mentioned more often than “guano”. Here’s a link that reveals the first word.
Just imagine what will happen when people think bat shit isn’t enough of an invective. What will they go to? Bat spleen? Bat cum? Bat anal hairs?
Bat-Daggit now you’ve done it.
Bat splinter? Bat polish? Bat away?
‘Bat-splinter’? Is that what Batwoman get’s when she uses a wooden bat-dildo? o_O
Everybody BAT-TUSIE!
:D
In the age of the apes the ultimate insult will be “Bat man crazy”
lol
NANANANANANANANANANANA BAT-PUNS! *giggles and runs away*
Yeah I don’t think anyone’s ever used a wooden dildo unless it was lacquered to hell and back.
Worn out bat’s can give splinters
Of all people you should know about rabies. The only humans allowed to get the rabies vaccine based immunity before being bitten are veterinarians and spelunkers, because of the noted side effects. Spelunkers get it because people can be bitten by bats without knowing it. Bat shit’s chemical composition was the easiest way to make an ingredient for black powder, those who ended up harvesting it could become rabid.
I have the idea that “crazy as / crazier than a shithouse rat” kind of trumps all else.
Especially dangerous if the individual is “built like a brick shit-house”.
I hope that any English-as-a-second language readers are making notes about these comments? You will not find such tuition even in advanced English courses!
ahead of you. XD thanks, by the way.
PD: if anyone whants some from spanish, here is a bit:
Perdido como un pulpo en un garaje. Lost as an octopuss at a garage.
Chocheando como una gallina clueca. This, I think, has no direct translation. But it meens strait up demental.
Puta madre que parió a la virgen de los cojones. Sidneys spanish way to say: Fuck!
Chocheando como una gallina clueca=Horny like a mother hen
Puta madre que parió a la virgen de los cojones=bitch mother who gave birth to the Virgin of the balls
google translate
That’s even funnyer. Love google translate XD
I think I derped the third word. Not sure.
Only by spelling ‘funnier’ with a ‘y’ :D
I once read someplace that Spanish is an especially good language for cussing.
Yes, yes it is. Cussing tirades flow much more naturally than in English. “La concha de la puta vaca en pelotas y la reputisima madre que la remil pario”, can be said in one breath.
(Trans: “By the naked cow’s twat and the thousand times damned mother that gave birth to it”)
There is actually a book especially /for/ ESL learners about ‘the F-bomb.’
the F-bomb is the MK VI A-bomb, the H-bomb is the MK VIII A-bomb, and the C-bomb is the worst curse word in the opinion of the British media, by which i mean “see you en tee”, worse even than the aforementioned MK VI A-bomb
Bat spooge?
…Naw, sounds like something from a Batman porn flick. Ditto “bat sperm” or “bat cum”. Both of which sound like something Adam West would say.
I think you’re all guana loco.
Guana loco? More like, been there a long time ago, done that, got the T-Shirt…Which has extremely long sleeves & buckles up in the back.
Not as comfortable as you might think, though. :D
And it only comes in two colours: white and drool
I know I’m really late to the game on this, but the basis of the phrase “bat shit crazy” is Histoplasma capsulatum. That’s a fungus that can infect the human brain and thrives in (you guessed it) piles of bat guano. Infection symptoms include psychotic behavior. So, literally (exposure to) bat shit (made people) crazy.
Originally discovered in Peru, where guano harvesting for fertilizer is a major source of export capital, and has been for about 200 years. H.p. can actually kill you, too, and is one of the reasons people exploring caves with bats in them are advised to wear protective gear.
Possible effects on billionaires with tragic childhoods whose costumes don’t filter incoming air, and who operate out of cave complexes inhabit by bats, are entirely speculative at this time. :-)
Fun additional fact: Peruvian seabird guano imported into Ireland may have brought along the potato-blight fungus that turned potatoes into inedible black goo and caused the Irish Potato Famine.
+1
Having “bats in your belfry” actually means that you don’t think. Bats can’t live in a working belfry, their hearing is too sensitive, so any belfry with bat in it is obviously dusty from disuse. And guano-y too.
The likely reason for bat shit crazy is that bats shit while upside down. they get white stripes from piss bleaching their fur as it runs down. The only animal that comes to mind that essentially shits in its own face. so, how crazy is that ?
@DaveB
I must admit I am slightly surprised that it isn’t a bigger jar…
Here I had this mental image of her at the very least having trouble carrying it.
That said, I think Sydney is on to something, with how we use the words we use, and why we use them.
I think the thing with Sydney’s swearing is that she is somewhat frustrated with her life. Especially if she suffers from severe ADHD, she is likely somebody who has a severe degree of mental and emotional discipline, and is intensely organized, far more so than anybody else she meets. And yet, despite her best efforts, she doesn’t seem to be getting anywhere. She’s still just as subject to the whimsical vagaries of her brain as she was when she was a kid. To a very real extent, nothing seems to have changed. She has her own business, and her own life, and she is somehow managing to make it grow despite being a newcomer in what is, according to the beginning of the comic, a dying industry. She’s a fantastic salesman, and she clearly understands the marketing behind such things to a degree that I can only envy. She is a very smart woman, and she has managed to turn that intelligence to her benefit in a way that not everybody can.
This is one of those things that severe ADHD causes in those afflicted by it. In addition to being absent-minded, and fully capable of spending fifteen minutes looking for something they are currently holding in their hand, many people with ADHD feel a degree of stress about their lives–a deep sense of frustration that people who are, at a glance, much less intelligent and hard-working, can somehow make it more or less effortlessly in a world where we have to struggle just to get by. Personally, I don’t think this is caused by the syndrome itself, so much as just simple human resentment, and most people with severe ADHD I have met have responded massively positively to the idea that somebody who does suffer from equally severe ADHD (or an even worse case) can achieve something that they had thought to be completely out of reach. WIthout that knowledge, however, ADHD can, as I said, lead to massive frustration, and can start to exhibit symptoms very close to depression, manic-depressive tendencies, and other problems. In extreme cases, ADHD sufferers can start to exhibit psychotic tendencies if left untreated, as sheer frustration at the complete lack of control they have over their own brain makes them start to lash out unpredictably.
For the record, by the way, the most extreme case that I’ve ever heard of was still controllable by medication. Admittedly, doing so required enough Adderall that just taking the occasional hit of meth might have been cheaper, but it IS controllable by medication, although the initial symptoms never really go away.
On a related note, if your prescription for adderall is large enough, you can actually get your psychologist to swear, and break out in a cold sweat. Especially if you can provide proof that you’re TAKING that prescription on a regular basis.
Incidentally…the areas where people with ADHD tend to do best: sales, small business ownership, and the military.
You missed computers helps with the whole thinking 10 steps ahead and figuring out how the codes should be working. Also helps with troubleshooting systems I can’t run through scenarios in my head faster then most folks can when it comes to figuring out what broke and how.
Finding job success is largely about exploiting the fact we ADD/ADHD folks actually can focus very well in the right kind of situations. Tests, danger, and new experiences utilize different neurotransmitters than rote task focus. So if we go into jobs where those sorts of conditions prevail, then we do well.
“very close to depression”? it can outright cause depression, and anxiety. it’s easy to start hating yourself when you keep making the same fucking mistakes over and over no matter how hard you try.
medication is fucking amazing. to experience for the first time in your life what it’s like to just *do* something, with hardly any effort, simply because you decided to do it… to be able to relax, and trust that you’re not going to leave the stove on or miss an appointment or turn off your alarm… it’s like life’s been on hardcore mode and suddenly you’ve got a way to switch it to normal mode. :)
unfortunately, the meds don’t work if you don’t get enough sleep, or if you take them with juice because you’ve been sleep-deprived long enough to forget such simple rules… so today I’m on the internet responding to comics. but at least I got some extra rest somewhere in there today, so maybe tomorrow will be closer to the schedule…
That reminds me of a med combination I took once for my OCD that made me feel like I imagine a normal person feels like without most of the buzz that my problem causes. I was so happy I cried, then cried more when I had to stop taking it because the side effects were on the verge of shutting down my kidneys and digestive system.
You’re lucky you have meds that both work for you and have no potentially fatal side effects on you.
Sadly, the anti-ADHD medications actually put a pretty big strain on the system–not enough to kill us immediately, but they’re probably shortening our lifespans noticeably. Worse, nobody really knows the lethal doses of these medications. I’ve actually had a psychologist ask me why I wasn’t dead yet, and that was not the most extreme reaction I’ve gotten.
And the sad thing is, none of this matters. We don’t really have much choice. A really severe case of ADHD is, if left untreated, a time bomb waiting to explode, and there is no way to tell what the trigger will be. We could probably get by without the really dangerous stuff if the old insane asylums were still open, but the last of those closed down almost 30 years ago. As it is…I don’t really expect to live much past 60 before my heart gives out, and I don’t know that I’ll make it until then. Since I’m 32, this is a distinctly alarming prospect.
It would be nice if this was widely understood, and some more research was devoted to the problem, but as it is, most of the drugs we take were developed for very different purposes. Ritalin was and still is primarily intended to treat narcolepsy, and to revive people who are in certain types of coma, as well as a memory-enhancer for the elderly. Adderall was created as a diet drug, and other drugs that can be used for treatment are generally discovered by accident–primarily because somebody misdiagnosises the symptoms and accidentally prescribes something not known to treat ADHD. What few studies of treatments there are often give contradictory information–some studies, for instance, suggest that stimulant medications actually make ADHD worse, while others say that creates a major benefit. Personally, I have found treatment to be a long-term necessity, but others apparently disagree. Given the percentage of people who suffer from ADHD, particularly children, one would think that more effort would be devoted to this, but apparently, ADHD is one of those mental disorders that spreads to other people, as well as those afflicted–once a person is positively diagnosed, their situation is quickly forgotten, if not actively ignored by others.
I’m currently taking Bupropion (Wellbutrin) for my ADHD (which after 20 years is still not officially prescribed to treat ADHD). I like it because the effect is subtle and I retain all the advantageous effects of ADHD such as being able to focus intensely on problem-solving tasks.
I took Ritalin for a year when I was 5 years old. Way too young to be introducing a medicine that strong to a brain that is still developing. That stuff practically destroyed my childhood.
I think I may hate you now, because I’m still stuck on hardcore mode even with the medication. Mind you, it’s a hell of a lot worse without the meds, but it’s still pretty much permanent hard mode even with the medication.
But what I meant was that clinical depression, anxiety, manic-depressiveness, schizophrenia, PTSD, and a whole lot of other mental problems, most of which aren’t caused by life circumstances so much as long-standing traumas or mental holes (I swear that’s the best I can think of to describe it) will show up in severe ADHD. As the syndrome gets more complex, it becomes more and more of a mental chameleon, and becomes harder and harder to diagnose, because its symptoms start to shift between anywhere up to half a dozen other major disorders. Without careful testing, severe ADHD actually cannot be diagnosed reliably, because it so closely mimics other problems. Although feeling depressed is a recurring problem (generally I find myself feeling depressed for a few days each year for exactly this reason), it is actually not the most common set of symptoms to show up in severe ADHD–that honor goes to a set that normally only appears in manic-depressives, although violent schizophrenia runs a close second. The sad thing is that, even with medication, my family doesn’t joke about the “voices in my head.” For at least one member, possibly more, that’s not necessarily a joke, although thankfully we all know better than to listen to said voices (which I understand is a rather nice change from regular schizophrenia).
To make matters worse, most people, when they think of ADHD, think of the mild version, which makes you extremely absent-minded, and easily capable of picking something up, and then going on an intensive search for said item even as you hold it in your hand the entire time. It is believed that this is caused by the brain of somebody with ADHD cycling faster than it should, by the way, although nobody knows for sure. What IS known is that caffeine and other stimulants somehow slow this cycling down, meaning that a lot of people with ADHD find that smoking cigarettes helps, as do energy drinks, Mountain Dew and other high-caffeine soft drinks, and similar measures. Most illegal stimulants, by the way, will generally make somebody with ADHD rather loopy for fifteen to twenty minutes, and then wear off. If the drug is powerful enough, it could well act like a hallucinogen or some other powerful depressive, but I have no desire to test this.
Incidentally, according to the latest estimates, something like 8-12% of the American population suffers from ADHD to some extent, although the severe cases are obvious much less common. And yes, it shows up differently in men and women, although some symptoms remain the same. Based on my experience, I’d put Sydney’s case as probably no more than middling bad–she’s bughouse nuts enough so that it’s clearly more than just simple absentmindedness gone wrong, but she’s not showing the major symptoms of mental chaos that severe ADHD cases illustrate, which may indicate that she’s got a pretty bad case, but that she’s got it mostly under control. If the latter is true, sooner or later, she’ll get stressed enough to make that no longer the case. At that point…well, at one point when I was growing up, I had to get dosed with anti-psychotics, so make of that what you will.
And, to make diagnosis even harder, you get people like me. “High functioning” autistic people who can get by fine mst of the time but will, when put in the wrong environment, be so overwhelmed by everyday life that the resulting mood swings, constant panicked being on edge and manic mental escapism come across the same.
When I was in highschool, professionals swore blind I had ADHD and I would have been on meds were my family any less well informed.
I do not know how ADHD medication works so I cannot say what it would have done to me but I do know that my reaction would be VERY different to that of an actual sufferer and probably highly unorthodox, given my reactions to everything else. Glad I never had to risk it.
I’m one of the earlier generation of ADD folks. I’m 40 years old and I was on Ritalin from 1988 to 1995. From my experience Ritalin is superior to Adderall because Ritalin is fast up and fast down. That light switch like attribute allowed me learn the differences in my own perception and behavior and then learn to fake it. That’s why I was able to stop all medication since freshman year of college. I also think that the able to eventually come off the medication is the real reason that Ritalin got dropped in favor of Adderall. There is more profit to be made in life long medications.
I am from early generation AD&D (and prior).
Fortunately no need to take medication for that. Mind you I do have every sympathy for any folks who do need to, ADD or otherwise.
I see what you did there.
I’m betting the other jars are at home. This one’s just for the down payment.
I think it likely that the jar she brought was simply for the past three or four months. I have to wonder if she brought extra money to put in the jar when she presented it.
Actually it looks pretty reasonable to me, there looks like there would be hundreds of notes in there at minimum, at a tirade or two a day on average that’s only 300-700 notes or so that you need to fit and the jar is rather huge. Seems like it could easily be most of a year to me.
I have only once seen a bigger jar than one roughly that size – and it was in a cartoon.
One of the Powerpuff Girls was using it to capture an enemy-of-the-episode who was a roach.
“get a handle on” could simply mean “properly measure so as to ensure the swearing quantity is meeting quarterly growth projections”.
I love that.
We use different types of shit for different reasons: “bat shit” for when someone is crazy; “bull shit” for ultimate stupidity; “chicken shit” for cowardice
A good explanation. It looks like you really have your shit together.
Horse shit for unfairness.
Jack shit for nothing.
Too much shit is a shit storm especially when the shit hits the fan.
I forgot, there is also ape shit.
Yup, “ape shit” when you go psycho and start flinging your poop around
And never forget: When the excrement collides with the rotating air circulation device, it is never evenly distributed.
And of course, everybody is just showing the example of “throwing their shit at the wall & seeing what sticks.”
Conversely, that well organized person has their shit together; or all in one bag. Then there’s the person attempting to complete an impossible task by putting 5 lbs of shit in a 4 lb bag.
In my industry we also have “Turd Polish” for when a client is fussing over little details on a poorly conceived production.
Will Arianna try to get Sydney to curb her foul mouth metaphors???
Of course,knowing Sydney,she’d find a way around it…!
Sydney has been trying to curb her foul mouth, so somehow doubt that Snooty McSuit would have any better luck
But, then again, had a Social Studies teacher ask me politely to stop giggling in class once, and it was as if the ‘giggle switch’ got turned off, went from a giggling extrovert idiot to a non-giggling introvert in an instant
“What is the definition of futility?”
A t-rex trying to masturbate?
+3
X’-D : snicker :
Finding an honest politician?
Trying to explain to your psychiatrist that s/he is nuts and you are sane.
Don’t get me started. Problem with most therapists is they aren’t always as smart or mentally agile as their clients.
fine line between genius and insanity, damn fine line, ooh look at that line mmmyum
Both are triggered by the same set of genes
Or was that Jeans? I can never think straight enough to tell the difference.
Only one certainty in life: When icy jaws of death come, you will not have enough treats. Is futile to argue. Nod. Get treat.
Remember, “he who dies with the most toys wins!”
Nineteen trillion dollars in debt and I effectively own the world. Woo ‘mericuh baby!
Actually, the national debt isn’t what the People owe to the government…It’s what the government owes to the People. It’s supposed to be slated for Public Works that ALL people can use; that’s why it’s called PUBLIC works. Anything the government spends that benefits only individuals and/or small groups (by definition, population minorities) is Criminally Misappropriated Funds.
+1
People use “bat shit crazy” because the fumes coming off of guano can cause hallucinations (NOT the fun kind), hysteria, and other symptoms of psychosis with prolonged exposure
Might have something to do with that ‘guano’ not only refers to bat shit, but to other avian shit. Seagull shit is also guano.
I’ve also never quite understood the point of a swear jar… put money in as a punishment, okay… but end up with a long term reward? That doesn’t seem to curb the swearing. Maybe it’s what you do with the money? Give it to the political party you hate… might curb things back… or make for a vicious cycle…
Used to have a boss who went to a meeting with one of those jars. Legend has it, one day he got so fed up with the development team that he came in with a hundred dollar bill and stuffed it in the jar saying if it wasn’t enough after the meeting he had another 20 to add.
I like the tirade idea. :) My sensei gave us push-ups for swearing, and whenever he caught me swearing my automatic reaction was, of course, more swearing. It’s a vicious cycle, and after two swear words any further punishment is counterproductve.
Strawberry, been a while. How’s that arm doing?
Sometimes when I’m with friends one of us will ask a question like Sydney’s batshit question. We never get to ponder it for very long, though, because one of us will inevitably pull out their phone and type the question into google soon after. Sydney’s brand of obnoxious questions is being killed off by google, is what I’m saying, and it would serve her right if Ariana told her to google it.
On a completely different subject, whenever I read Syndey’s first word balloon I inevitably read it as “MAXIMA MILQUETOASTNESS”, I think it’s because all the letters are capitalized anyway, so there’s nothing to separate “Maxima” from “maximum” when I see the beginning of the word.
Just a thought here, “bat shit crazy” might also have something to do with the fact that bats mostly defecate while sleeping. Also Bats hang upside down to sleep so the poop often slides down with gravity before falling to the ground.
Does the term “shit head” come to mind?
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (to Giles): You have but face?
(both look at each other strangely)
BUFFY: I mean you look like you are about to say “but”.
I love how she boiled the conversation to one snide sentence. As someone who’s had to sit through those types of speeches at the job, it often comes out to bosses wanting to hear themselves speak and sound more important than they are.
Arianna is likely, not much different :p
It’s bat shit, because it’s the most illogical shit there is. Think about it. Bats still poop from their butt, yet they spend most of their non-flying time upside down. You’d have to be crazy to risk that.
Better than pooping from their mouths.
Yet just listen to politicians.
so, washington is run by anemone? sounds legit to me.
Yup, but the variety with polyps, rather than petals.
so Nemo and his dad hang out with politicians on an intimate level?
Having actually pared back my swearing to the point where I only actually use it to drive home a point. I can understand how it can be difficult to not swear. Folks tend to be really shocked when I actually let loose about something not Sydney level but sailors run for the hills and nuns don’t look happy. Most folks get the deer in the head lights look and go what did you just say you never swear.
Yes, it is amusing just how effective a single well-placed swear word can be, especially if everybody always assumes that you don’t know how, or something silly like that.
They just figure I am to nice not to, or have an aversions to the words I don’t just don’t use them unless it is called for.
I am, somehow, unsurprised at how Sydney earned enough money to buy her car.
Technically, she’s just making the down payment…
I am surprised at how small the jar is.
Right?
Can remember seeing a picture of someone having a bowel-movement while bungee-jumping, was not a pretty sight
Love the check pattern of Arianna’s jacket..!
Sydney has been using “Learn-a-new-word-a-day” toilet paper, hasn’t she? Tomorrow she will mention that she is a myyntiedustaja.
If that is Sydney’s toilet paper, then DaveB must be using this (https://acidsquirrel.com/post/93820) to improve his artistic talent.
>Tasmanian devil shit crazy? Sea pig shit crazy? Tapir? Aye aye? Dung beetle!
You left out mantis shrimp, cuttlefish, armadillo, and naked mole rat!
Thank you! I couldn’t believe that in 347 comments, there wouldn’t be anyone who recognized the ZeFrank reference.
I had never heard of him. Wise advice from him though, about not entering into a staring contest with a Tarsier. Mind you the same can be said for Jack Russels (a.k.a. Parson’s Terriers).
Whoa! She must have her own hammer space in her backpack! That jar is literally bigger than the backpack! :O
Hmmm. Why does Sydney curse?
I mean there are certainly people who curse more often than others and certainly those who curse more creatively than others, but it is interesting to me why some choose cursing as their go-to.
Cursing is usually intended to shock and to draw attention.
Is Sydney something of an attention hound? Are some of her antics calculated?
Cursing is scientifically proven to relieve stress and pain. It’s why nearly everyone curses so automatically when they kick their shin against something.
Also in most parts of the world cursing isn’t that big a deal as in the US (at least as big a deal is your media makes it seem)
In others, it depends on what you say. According to a friend of mine who has visited London, you can say “shit” and “f–k” all you want, and most people won’t even bat an eye. But say “bloody hell” in a public place, and everyone will turn their heads, wondering what you’re swearing about.
I recall Mythbusters doing a piece on whether or not cursing alleviated pain (ie. it hurts less when you swear). It did seem to be the case.
For anyone with anger issues (Hi, Sydney!), it is arguably one way to blow off steam – and is certainly preferable to hitting
Mythbusters said it only relieves pain if you are not already a Sir Swearsalot.
If you are then you are supposed to use face swears. (Such as; Monkey-stuffing codpiece-sniffing thrice cursed flying bag of worm feed.)
That will be your problem. Use face swears, not faeces swears.
Well, “faeces swearing” isn’t that big a problem…For the real potty-mouth, we have: https://acidsquirrel.com/post/95879
Hehehe,
Sir Swearsalot!
I now have a last name for my next warrior-type in an RPG.
“Sir Bugrit Swearsalot, at your service. How may I assist you, good fellow?”
Most people swear because of frustration or pain, others because they are children (not literal children) who think it makes them cool or sound mean and slash or tough (ie, most rappers or ‘modern’ gangsters, like Kanye Douche, who is both, and sucks at life)
Based on my time as a construction inspector, I’d guess the answer is habit and exposure. I swear a great deal more after that job than I ever did before, and it’s a hard habit to break once acclimated to swearing being a form of “everyday” speech.
Kitsune9Tails, as the Kitsune from CoH? If so, HOW HAVE YOU BEEN?!? Miss reading you on the forums.
Sloth shit lazy?
Rabbit shit horny?
Pig shit hungry?
Got two of those the wrong way around, will let you figure out which :P
I am not hungry for rabbit shit, nor do I shit on sloths!
Pigs actually have 30 minute orgasms, rabbits can’t stop eating
And bats are perfectly sane, but the only thing that matters here is popular perception.
Thanks for the heads-up, otherwise I might have fallen for misinformation!
Thanks for a weary funny comic, found i yesterday. Have Halo mailed the Hentai links to Arianna yet?
Are you suggesting this comic is tiresome? I don’t find Grrl Power weary at all. Nevermind, I’m too weary to make this a humorous reply.
If the predominant element of Maxima’s skin is actual GOLD, I came across something that increases her plausibility. According to this report – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMWW4TD9vMU that would be Gallium. Which also makes sense, Maxima has a LOT of gall…
…But Sydney’s the one with the most balls…
Their mention of a “ski-beach” at the end (a snow slope that extends right down to the sea), gave me the urge to go there with an amphibious snowmobile. Use stick-less skiing down the hill, holding onto the snowmobile towing cable, even if not using it to pull you. Perhaps skiing parallel to it. Thus allowing it to accelerate past you, as you near the end, and pull you into the ocean for water-skiing.
A real poser could even ski-jump into the ocean!
After water-skiing, to your hearts content, signal for it to take you up to the top of the slope, to repeat the process, or just enjoy the view at a restaurant. I suspect kicking back for sunbathing would not be so much fun, on that beach.
One thing they said grabbed my attention. They said it was a mixture of gallium and gold, with the gold keeping the gallium from separating into droplets, and the gallium conducting the electricity.
But gold is an excellent conductor, so I wonder why they call out the gallium specifically as the conductor?
Because gallium is the better conductor. Six times better. Assuming I am reading this correctly.
Gold is not actually all that great as a conductor. It’s advantage is that it doesn’t oxidize, so you don’t get any rust, tarnish, etc. deteriorating it’s conductivity at contact points.
Dung beetles ARE pretty shit crazy…
I think Arianna should have a code name. How about ‘General Milquetoast ‘?
Ari isn’t really part of Archon, she is just the media PR lady
Wow, I never got to keep the contents of my swear jar. The money was gone for good. Maybe that’s why it was effective on me. If I would have known that I’d be getting the money back eventually, there wouldn’t have been any reason to quit swearing.
Swear jars’ effectiveness depends on who is in control of it and if it is a punishment or an incentive to stop, in this case, it is Sydney who is in charge of it and she probably uses it simply to make her aware of her swearing, not as a punishment or attempt to stop her swearing
Think or it as a swear-induced savings jar (like that stupid Budweiser ad)
I’ve just finished archive binging…. This is the first new webcomic I’ve read any significant chunk of for over four years, and will be one of the few I keep checking on on a regular basis. Keep it up!
Welcome to the community.
Three Words, Sydney.
Barry Ween Chip.
The only cure for cursing so good it propagated across two (and possibly more) comics.
What? You want Sydney to start singing “The hills are alive with the Sound of Music…” next time she accidentally kicks a door?
Deadpool crazy. * Drops mic
I heard an interesting take on ‘bad language’ the other day. I don’t know how much truth there is to it, but it at least sounds reasonable, and it makes you think. Put simply:
There is no such thing as bad language, only racism. Certain dialects have words unique to them, and people of certain cultures and ethnicity speak those dialects. Upper class people look down on them, and regard use of those dialects as crude at best. So from that we get words that are not to be used in ‘polite society’. But if the core reason they aren’t spoken is racial/ethnic/cultural, that IS racism.
You are conflating ‘something being to do with race’ as automatically equating to ‘racism’. That is not correct. Many people fail to realise the distinction mind, so will be touchy about things that are not actually racist.
If I have a need to distinguish between two people and all I have to go by is their appearance, I will describe them appropriately. “It was the white guy who stole the handbag, not the black guy”. ‘Black; is a colour, it is not a racist term.
If though someone says ‘The other guy must be in on it, he is black’, then that is being racist.
In your case ‘polite society’ does not approve of the use of words which are likely to cause offense. This offense can be wide ranging. It might be offensive to a religion, a race, an ethnic group, a political party prudish people (for sexual swear words) or even just to an individual. ‘Looking down’ on people who use such language is an (archaic) way of expressing displeasure at crude conduct.
But although that is a poor way of doing it, ‘calling out’ bad behaviour (things that could start a fight, cause someone to harbour a grudge or just make everyone feel very uncomfortable) is actually a good thing to do. Although there are ways to handle it discreetly, to avoid deepening embarrassment.
Where you are right though is when the same technique is used for ‘lower class’ language, which could just be a regional dialect, a corruption of ‘good English’ (for example) or even trendy slang. This is cliquist behaviour which is reasonable to equate to racism (albeit that it would fail if attempted in a court of law, in countries where that is rigidly defined).
I think someone said this up higher already, but it’s a portmanteau of “batty” and “shit crazy,” kind of like how they combined “hellbent” and “hell for leather” into “hellbent for leather” in the Rawhide theme song and the new phrase gained enough traction to replace the two earlier ones.