Grrl Power #952 – Puns are the dangerest form of humor
Military training montage! For a given definition of “military” and “montage.” And “training” if I’m honest.
The number of times any given instructor has fantasized about This-Is-Sparta-ing some obnoxious trainee is definitely not zero. This is the primary advantage of working with supers. Achilles especially can be used as a frustration pressure valve. If you ever need to just stab someone or break a printer over a head, it’s got to be very therapeutic to know that you can, whether you actually ever do it or not. It’s also probably not very satisfying to stab Achilles, cause it doesn’t have ANY effect beyond slightly nudging him. No “hey, quit it.” or even “That tickles.” He’s fully on board, and then he sticks the knife between his teeth does a flying faceplant into a curb to see if he can break the blade.
The final Star Justice just came out. I’ve always done a fair bit of reading, sometimes books, sometimes comics or webcomics, but I think this series was the one that shifted my primary source of entertainment to book. It’s still in my top 5 series of all time, alongside Tamer, Paul Kidd’s Justicar trilogy, Three Square Meals, Binding Words, and Upon a Savage Shore. I really should make a page with links to all my favorites and the other recommendations I throw out there.
Anyway, Star Justice is some damned good high action space opera with a slow burn harem.
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Is the tag line referencing ‘Defenstration’?
Yes.
Defenestration is originaly a french word and implies a window ( fenestre in old french ) fenêtre ( in modern french )
Used the word ‘defenestration’ in official reports…twice :)
Once 40 years ago as Duty NCO in the military when a young Private fell out a barracks window
Once about 15 years ago as a peace officer when someone ‘fell’ out of a window (with help)
In both cases, wrote ‘defenestration occured at xxxx Hrs on date indicated’
Both times got told not to use words my superiors had to look up ;)
Which in the military is actually a legitimate critique since documentation is supposed to be at the 6th grade reading level.
Besides it sounds like the Private was a missed opportunity to use “autodefenestration”
I sadly wasn’t in the class that got to witness a teacher do that after stepping down into a bin but the whole school knew the word after that.
… defenestrate is not at the 6th grade level?
I’m pretty sure I knew that word when I was tested as reading at the 6th grade level. But I’d have needed to guess at or look up autodefenestration.
I will admit that I was not actually in the 6th grade when I took that test, and I think the test topped out at the 6th grade level, so it wasn’t necessarily saying I was limited to that level.
Probably tenth when I was growing up, late college now. Scores 100% on word difficulty scale, so it’s not one of the 20k most common words.
It’s on the “seventh grade, hard” spelling list. https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/131564
Today I learned that you can defenestrate an object, not just a person.
It might be. It pays to remember that not many people actually read at that high a level though. Common vocabulary is around 3rd or 4th grade level. People tend to lose vocabulary more advanced that that from non-use.
If you have to look up the word ‘defenestration’, then you’re not running with the right crowd.
There’s clearly a general lack of Czechs in the military, otherwise nobody would ask what defenestration means.
Not to mention balances.
I’m so Prague of you.
Well to be fair it saves on rope, timber, gunpowder, wine, wear in iron and steel, and firewood used in other methods of execution common at the time. That and it’s a method of execution/murder ( depending on your politics) that takes no prep time beyond opening the window
I’m pretty sure no one takes the time to open the window first. (TVTropes warning)
I just call it ‘feeding the dogs’.
Actualy historically for the historical defensrations of Prague it was remarked that they went through open windows. For the one Wallenstine attempted he suposedly was complaining for months afterword that they opened the windows but did not look out them untill afterwords.
Also remember, glass of any kind was expensive and time consuming to make at that time, never mind glass windows, and never mind repairing windows. Given that many windows consisted of multiple smaller pains that could cost as much as around 20 oz of spanish silver each for Viennese clear spun glass for a single piece that was roughly 4 Inches ( in Vienna 1650s, and that’s not counting what transportation costs were like during the 30 years war)( by comparison roughly the same size pain of glass in France for a admitidly inferior clarity was 10 silver per small pain, in England “common” glass was 3-7 English oz of silver by 1710, and bluntly it could be used to make privacy glass by our standards. But also adnitedly the price for all grades of glass was coming down compared to income, and it’s also possible that one of the effects of the 30 years was was to drive up the cost of glass in diferent places
Glass that could actually be seen through had to be first made, by means that varied depending on time and place, and then ground and polished smooth.
Grinding and polishing is not easy or quick, and applied a hefty multiple to the price. Otherwise glass at the time was for letting in light, not for looking through.
In developed countries where cities have sufficiently tall buildings in their cities, it’s common for architects to design windows that won’t open above a certain height. Not universal, but common. Either they weren’t designed to open at all, or the window is too small to fit a person through. They usually say that it’s to prevent accidents & suicides, but they try to avoid mentioning the third reason.
“Anti-defenestration glazing” is a marketing mouthful
No, it means you recently started running with the right crowd.
I was literally brought before the boss once for using ‘spelunking’ in an official reply (we had to suggest Unit-level activities for team-building). They thought I was taking the piss (I was!).
The joy that might have come from using that word is now lost to those of us that work in the IT industry, due to a certain product.
Love that word, first encountered it in a book series I was reading while growing up.
The characters had just gotten back from breaking in somewhere and were being “debriefed” on how it had gone.
1: “So any problems?”
2: “Ran into one guard but 3 dealt with him.”
1: “How’d you manage that 3?”
3: “Defenestration.”
1: “That’s a horrible thing to do to a man.”
3: “Throw him out a window? It’s fairly horrible to do to anyone.”
1: “Oh, is that what it means?”
3: “Yes, why? What’d you think it meant?”
1: “Never mind, carry on.”
Sounds like an exchange amongst the Night Watch, probably Sgt Fred and Nobby.
Pretty sure that’s from the ‘Tamuli’ by David Eddings. Also the place I first encountered the word, but in a different series. Probably the ‘Malloreon’.
I believe you are correct I read that series not long ago and remember the Kalten (The clever but dumb one) being one of the people in the conversation :)
“What was HE doing here?”
“Learning to fly, last I saw him.”
…
“Does bouncing count?”
Well to be fair, some people, like Collosus of the X-Men once he’s ‘armored up,” he may not be able to fly but he can land with the best of them.
He tends to leave a crater when he lands, though…
To quote Melvin the Ventriloquist Dummy from Jeff Dunham’s comedy routines:
Jeff: “Melvin, do you have any powers?”
Melvin: “Yes! I can fly!”
Jeff: “Really? How far?”
Melvin: “How… how far can you throw me?”
Also:
Jeff: “So Melvin, you can fly and have X-ray vision. Those are two of the same powers as Superman! Can you stop a speeding bullet?”
Melvin: “Once.” (audience laughter) “What? It hurts like hell!”
I remember when I was in college I got to use defenestration in an essay about an old French film. I was so happy to use it, I felt that I had won the moral victory of the essay, regardless of the grade I had aced it.
I only know that word because of TV Tropes. Which then led me to realize that happens A LOT in Chuck Norris movies.
It’s wrong though, because deportation is also a word. I’ve previously explained “defenestration” to people as “like deportation, but through an upstairs window instead of the front door”.
Or decanting. Only it’s not wine being poured out.
Debriefing. Removing someone’s briefs.
This pun has been used already in this comic
That’s deplurable. You can use it again.
that would be duplicatable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3Z2MP8vMWU
If someone is thrown through a porthole on a ship, would that be defenestration or dePORTation? (I’ll show myself out)
Depends on which side of the ship.
“He was defenestrated through the starboard porthole, and landed on the Port grounds.” ;-)
“Where his failure to bow to visiting dignitaries earned a stern reprimand.”
My favourite word in the English language.
You only think that because you haven’t encountered cornobble before.
Cornobble isn’t English. It is French for comfortable, and other than that I only see it in the Urban Dictionary. Although I am in favor of redefining French words in principle, because French anything is inherently funny, placing a definition in the Urban Dictionary doesn’t make either the word or the definition an official part of the language.
Cette tarte me met à cornabble. “This pie strikes me as fish.”
Cornobble is not a french word , I’m a native speaker born in Champigny-sur-Marne …
Confortable could be translated diferently in french according to context :
confortable for
English The sofa is comfortable.
French The sofa is comfortable.
a l’aise for
English At weekends, I always wear clothes that I feel comfortable in.
French Le week-end, je porte toujours des vêtements dans lesquels je suis à l’aise.
bien for
English Are you comfortable sitting on the floor?
French Tu es bien là, assis par terre ?
for exemples
Really? My favorite is “clitorides.”
Or maybe “vulpeculation.”
It seems strange, considering, that the second comes up more often than the first.
I feel this clip is very appropriate :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVZwoLZgrRs
I foresee a future of Sydney getting thrown off tall structures and/or places in general simply because it could provide the satisfaction of actually throwing her off a, shall we say bridge, without actually hurting her.
Of course, that satisfaction could possibly be shortlived when not followed by the accompanying splat.
Or if thrown off a bridge, without the expected splash.
Bad guy picks up Sydney and throws her off the deck of a bridge over a river. No splash or splat is heard.
Halo: [Flies back up to deck height] Hey, why did you throw me off the bridge?
Bad Guy: Well you are easier to throw than Anvil.
Like she said, the Wolverine effect. Now that she can fall safely, now she’s going to end up in a situation where she will have to fall for a whole hour for comedic effect.
She will be glad for the training when they are all affected by a “normal field” some day.
That scenario is unlikely, since DaveB doesn’t like universal power nullifiers.
Sydney-specific nullification has been seen twice so far: Concretia was able to effectively Sydney’s non-passives handily, and it looks like Varia may be able to take the Flight Orb which would nullify the passive featherfall.
It’s always a good idea to have non-super backup whenever possible, plus good for unit cohesion to have equivalence in minimum skills.
Universal nullifiers, especially of the passive fix-and-forget kind, no. Nullifiers that are limited to a specific situation, or that need constant targeting or Power exertion, no verdict yet.
Even though you can’t really interject tv episodes into here, the debut episode of Loki kinda has something to show Syd why she should have that skill,because you never know if your going to encounter something that knullifies your powers.
Why doesn’t the trainer have a harness?
I was going to say that. She doesn’t look Superhuman. {Wink!!}
I was also going to say “Shouldn’t Sydney’s harness be attached to a rope?”
I think Sydney’s lack of rope on that harness is why she needs to come back up and certify.
I seem to recall most of the trainers in the most rappelling experience I’ve partaken in were also not wearing harnesses. Admittedly that was a 20′ wall with a net below, and at the end, the instructors at the top without harnesses all used the net to get down. (I saw this, because my roommate and I were among the last to partake in the event, and he held back a bit to flirt with all of the ROTC chicks and a couple of the ROTC dudes who were putting on the event. None of them were interested, but he was a walking hormone and enough of a masochist to be really interested in women and pretty boys that much more muscular than him, so it wasn’t like the threat of physical harm was a deterrent.)
She definitely should, I just forgot.
Quick, assign her the superpower of “invisible ropes”!
Lighthook?
Nighthook.
Nighthook and practicing the night moves.
So if the passive ode of the flight ball gives slowfall, what would the PPO passive node give? All the effects seem quite noticeable, so I doubt it would be 5% fire damage :P
Personally I think its a sort of active defense. or perfect spacial awareness for better aiming.
Yeah, like automatic point defense beams that shoot down bullets and things that are incoming. That would be really useful in situations like the one she found herself in with Captain Lasagna.
Or flying bugs.
They really should develop a standard set of environmental and skill tests to run through every time Sydney spends a point. ArcLight’s nerds should be drooling over that project, although I suspect by now they’ve become at least a little jaded by routine access to superpowered experiments.
Considering the super advanced aliens with tech eons ahead were drooling over her orbs, that’s doubtful.
Quality is quality, after all.
Or they should just call Krona next time and see if she can identify what they do when the skill tree is out.
I’m guessing (hoping) autoreply.
“Whoops, had it set to ‘Reply All’, sorry Max.”
If I had to guess, it’s a not a defensive skill. Something like, possibly a predictive tracker HUD. “This thing needs to get blown up, this thing will go here if Maxima punches it, etc.” Biggest problem with a localized anti-projectile system would be that the shield passive probably makes that redundant.
I suspect that orbs don’t actually give true passives.
They allow the function of the orb to continue to be used to a lesser extent until turned off.
So if you had rapid fire shooting active, it would continue to target the last target aimed at until it was destroyed or unavailable.
You really don’t want a point defence system as that would involve involuntarily firing at things which might not be a true threat.
Likewise the tentacle orb would allow the tentacle to persist (but not move relative to the owner) until it’s dismissed, allowing Sydney to use it to hold something she’s already grasped and use other orbs.
Com-ball would allow constant true-sight
Now the interesting thing is that these passives might only last until the next passive is activated. Which could prove a disaster for Sydney. Imagine she touches the unknown orb which already has a passive on it. The passive switches to that one. Sydney jumps off a building expecting Featherfall and desperately needs to grab fly ball.
Maybe the last one’s passive is Sydney’s “tolerate my hijinks” field? It’s now turned off, which is why the instructor was able to throw her off the platform.
You all keep assuming that the point of the PPO ball is to destroy things. It’s true it does that well, but if it’s purpose was actually to reheat your dinner, or alert another nigh invulnerable being your your need for attention, the passive would be far, far different.
Also, did we ever find out exactly what the link between PPO and Flight does? That looks a lot like a passive in design.
the passive for the PPO could be having perfect targetting and being able to instantly calculate vectors.
Sort of like Cyclops’ secondary power (and why Scott Summers is so good at billiards and pool, according to the comic).
Sort of like with her special glasses. But even better.
One passive that would be super useful is if it charged the area immediately itself with energy at Sydney’s will, basically turning it into an energy mace.
No one would have convicted
The phrase is, “No jury in the Xevoarchy would have convicted her”. Or something like that.
I think the official term form what was done to Sydney is called Yeeting.
Wow. Sometimes I wonder if Sydney does it have potential to be a morale officer keeping everyone from breaking down due to emotional overbeance
“A form of wit to which the Wise stoop and fools aspire” –Ambrose Bierce
Wisdom and folly are situationally dependent.
Also, I prefer, “He who would pun would pick a pocket.”
I’ll take the left one.
(wrong pocket)
then I’ll take the pocket that’s left.
I want that pocket. its sewn shut?!? what is it with you people? its like you carry everything in an easily grabbed bag or something….
Seneca isn’t a super, so she should be wearing some sort of safety harness. That tower is tall enough that no muggle would survive the fall.
I agree, she’s pretty clearly not harnessed, and that’s a major safety violation.
The supers tend to have an excuse for that sort of carelessness, she does not.
that would be really therapeutic. pretty sure it would become a job really fast.
I guess she going be the fall lady from here on out.
Ah, descending to the level of puns are we? I underestimated the gravity of the situation.
this whole comment section has been punishing. I like it. are they any double listers out there?
Ah yes, but is Siddles really certifiable?
we need to ask Dr. Frost. her diagnosis is likely to be chilling though.
Well, at least then it will be crystal clear and everyone can stop wintering about it.
I’ve always believed that the pun is mightier than the sword.
I’m waiting for our resident anti-pun person to show up and approve of Sydney’s fate. then we can accuse Dave of pandering to him.
We’d never split up the party, this campaign has been a lot more fun with a lawyer that rules.
I want to be angry but that one was pretty good.
Anti-pun person? More like anti-FUN person am I right?
She will come after you for pun-itive damages.
Seneca would like to have a word with both of you!
*shakes fist angrily*
Please, this is a public forum. There will be no fisting here.
You’re already on The List!
1) her.
2) I am shaking my fist in solidarity with Seneca.
I apologize. so we can now accuse Dave of pandering to her. given his choices in artwork this is even more likely.
may i suggest an appropriate notebook from this collection:
https://wtfnotebooks.com/
Pandering to Pander.
Wtfnotebooks even has one for Deus: “Grocery lists and plans for world domination”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am going to buy at least 2 of those options for taking meeting notes if I ever have to go back into the office.
This may be a silly question but is the Voting link working for anyone? I can’t resolve the name (DNS problem, for the techies).
Just worked for me — that is, the link in Dave’s commentary. You may want to use an indie DNS rather than your ISP’s offering. I use OpenDNS, you should go to their site and find one in your part of the world. Also, put the DNS into your router rather than your computer. That way, every box in your network gets the benefit.
Being able to throw one of your friends off a cliff, guilt free, is probably a very liberating experience.
Also; nice to see that fear of heights is really, properly gone. To the point where Sydney can just laugh it off.
I’m sure as soon as throwing someone off the roof of a building starts a multi-decade war they’ll get around to making a one-word way to say it. The delay also might have something to do with confusing nomenclature as the roof equivalent of defenestration would be detectation.
You mean detoitate? Maybe you’ll get a chance to do that overmorrow.
The fact that Sidney’s flying orb now has a passive levitation mode permanently on means that everyone is now allowed to throw her off buildings when she annoys them.
Now that this is Sydney’s powerset i forsee her being knocked/thrown/falling off lots of high places. Its a low stakes whammie power (flashing back the the wolverine healing factor comment from way back when she signed on to the team)
What might happen if the orbs are trapped and Sydney is thrown off a building?
Then she slowly falls to the maximum distance she can be from the orbs and comes to a rest there.
At which point whoever threw her off, and the neighbourhood for a surprising radius, is subjected to a continuous stream of abuse until someone pulls her back up.
It’s similar to Sydney’s musing about whether she has ‘bad’ powers, which Maxima concluded was the result of bad comic book writing. Are you saying DaveB’s a bad comic book writer?
I mean, he’s lazy sometimes, but his writing’s…
….
…pretty good.
Ok, question: If the spectrometer didn’t detect anything, is it possible to record the orbs on camera at all? Because if so, then there should be some form of detection that should work, right?
They seemed to appear in the ‘selfie’ taken with a fan, so seems digital camera’s can record the orbs, and the lighthook.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-305-the-harem-relay/
Only the ‘level up’ grid is invisible to cameras.
Okay, so a relatively simple Digicam-sensor can record them, but highly advanced tech, including Dabbler’s, can’t detect literally anything? Did Dabbler forget to try the frequencies for R, G and B? ;-) But a spectrometer of all things should include everything a digital camera includes, right? I mean, even sensors from cameras record more than just exactly these three frequencies. The ranges of frequencies they react to even overlap.
The only thing I can come up with is that these orbs are sentient and exist outside of our time, so they can either predict which sensors were meant for detection or they just expunge any info retroactively.
Anyway, thanks for the answers.
They show up in the visible light spectrum, but effectively don’t exist outside it as verified by Dabbler, Specs, and now the mass spectrometer. Perhaps the orbs consist only of the particle aspect of photons, strictly from frequencies within the humanoid-visible part of the EM spectrum, and their powers come purely from manipulating the energy from the wave aspects. A single source of power with multiple manifestations, similar to the unified theory of Superman’s powers.
I wonder if she can turn it off though. Sure, it is fun for these kind of situations, or when you are about to trip, but shouldn’t this also prevent her from quickly going down a stairs? Or down a slide, or any other situation where she needs to go down fast and can’t use the fly ball for some reason?
The next couple of pages should address that.
Ohhhh…. THAT’s why Sydney is harnessed but not roped!!
The next pass will be with a rope to test if the ‘slow fall’ mode
can be deactivated.
Will Sydney have to touch the Fly Orb to override the safety?
The simplest solution (in my mind) would be that when she holds the Flight Orb a new symbol is visible that allows her to toggle the featherfall on and off.
If there really is a toggle like that she should see if she can find a similar symbol on the Air Orb and check if it was on or off already.
She can, we see her casually use it while standing in an conference room where there was nothing to fall off from.
I’ve noticed you like harem stories so you might check out My Dungeon Life: Rise of the Slave Harem. It’s available on Amazon but Royal Road has it for free. Only up to the 7th book there though, 10 on Amazon. https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/25568/my-dungeon-life-rise-of-the-slave-harem
So Sydney is either REALLY light or Seneca may be much stronger than she appears because she just yeeted Syd with no problem.
Seneca probably knows how to do it – because she regularly/often throws (properly secured) recruits off the edge. Methinks.
This. The one time I went rappelling, a woman smaller than Seneca yeeted my roommate who was larger than Seneca with similar ease to what Seneca did here. (As indicated above, my roommate totally merited such treatment, as he was holding up the line and being a pest. He was connected to the rope, so he technically rappelled, but the documentation we signed indicated that he’d not get another go if he fell off the wall without the rope if either he slipped on his own or he was being belligerent.)
Fair enough points.
Do those clouds and city backdrop look like they’ve been photoshopped?
they were drawn. I doubt that Dave bought them in a shop.
One of the very few pages with Seneca where she doesn’t eat anything. I had to go back and check to see that it isn’t the very first such.
Is ‘slow-fall’ grabbing Sydney the way Tubie did in the double digit episodes?
If so then the Fly Orb should always be the last orb when she falls.
It’s funny that the commentary mentioned Achilles face-planting into the ground because I actually used that exact example earlier today (even referencing this comic).
I was watching Deadpool and it was the start of the big fight at the end. Angel did her “superhero landing” with Deadpool himself commenting that it’s “Very impractical, but they all do it.” Really, the only way you can do it without shattering your kneecaps (and other bones) is to be super strong that the muscles can take the shock instead of the bones, heal so fast that it doesn’t matter, or be invulnerable.
I was a bit punchy because I didn’t sleep well last night and posted on my FB page about it and commented that it would be funny if an invincible character (such as Achilles) didn’t bother with the “superhero landing” just did a swan dive off the building into a full-out belly-flop onto the pavement, then simply got up, brushed himself off, and continued on.
“Efficient AND unnerving”.
(Because who wouldn’t be caught off guard and end up having to take a moment to process that just after seeing it. A bit like him blocking Heavenly Sword’s blade with his eyeball.)
I’m pretty sure this has been done. Also the head first dive with hands not outstretched in front. (The latter’s better for making an impression, if you’re into that kind of a thing, but you need to be careful the ground’s not too soft or one might autobury themselves. Depending on the material in question, the invulnerable hero could have other issues with the head first. I am recalling a work in which two heros landed side by side. One of them hit the road they were aiming for, the other landed in the well-fertilized field right beside the road and ended up buried to his armpits. Those were feet-first landings, but I can imagine that going the other way.)
That reminds me of another comic with a sorta invincible character in it. Somewhere soon after discovering he can’t be physically harmed by it and having to go down several flights of stairs he figured it was faster to just jump down than do it the normal way.
What’s a safe way to land from an extremely high fall?
If you are a squishy normal, there really isn’t one unless there is a considerable lateral component to your motion and you manage to roll. Beyond a certain point though you need secondary equipment such as a parachute.
The problem is spreading out the impulse from the impact. The more you take it from a sharp spike to a small hill, the better your survival chance.
Even wingsuit guys make their final descent via parachute for safety.
I don’t think a roll actually helps you if you’re falling from enough of a height that taking a fall properly straight would hurt you. It mostly helps you dissipate that horizontal momentum, doesn’t do squat for the vertical. If anything, it prevents you from landing perfectly.
I have landed from as high as 15 feet onto concrete and walked away without injury, but that was when I was a very flexible and buff teen, showing off. I hate to think the injuries that same fall would give me today, in my 60’s.
There have been some crazy claims about jumping unscathed from extreme heights, but the record appears to be diving 37ft 11in into just 12 inches of water. Unless you’re going to allow for parachutes, in which case the sky[strike]’s[/strike] isn’t the limit
stupid mixed tags stylesIf playing Assassin’s Creed has taught me anything, it’s that you can survive almost any fall if you either have 1) a haystack or snowdrift below you, or 2) you roll as you are about to hit the ground.
Is it actually possible for Sydney to let herself fall at normal speeds, in order to do something like rappelling? Or is she just in permanent low-gravity?
We see her activate and deactivate it in an office room, so presumably she can just turn it off if she wants to keep falling.
as far as Dave’s question- windows get a word because doors to the outside above the 1st floor have a phrase, and are rare.
Well, there are no free doors above the first level, only paid doors.
The real reason people use windows is so they don’t have to bill gates.
if they use windows they already paid gates. We also already have words for throwing out windows.
Throwing out Windows? Would that verb be Linuxation?
You thinking fire escape, or terrace door?
‘watch that first step, its a doozy’ that’s the phrase.
About DaveB’s favourite books, I really didn’t care for the Star Justice, but 2 others were much to my liking. I see DaveB is a man of the culture :)
Could Sydney be any more appealing.
yes but she is to embarrassed to do it, so far. Frix may work on that.
Sparta missed a great comeback here.
She could have said “Belay that! Get back up here for certification”
Technically, she’d have to throw her a line first, to use that one.
baring ruling from higher authority, I’d say that counts as a line in this case.
Shouldn’t that be “rappellant”?
I’ve helped operate climbing walls and rappelling groups with several organizations, and hung out with some semi-pro rock climbers, and just realized that I’ve never seen anyone tuck the belay loop under the belt as in panel 2. Seems like a safety hazard to me; on closer inspection I don’t see a waist strap either, wouldn’t trust someone’s weight to a belt buckle myself, but maybe this is some kind of lightweight half-harness I just haven’t come across…? Wondering now if this is a thing and my part of the country just doesn’t know about it, or just an art choice.
Good spot, that is in fact her (trousers) belt. I’ve seen harnesses with a similar configuration of leg loops/straps which included a waist loop as part of the harness, and just assumed that was what we were seeing here.
The harnesses I’ve used, and seen used, used loop-back fastenings rather than clip-buckles for strength, but in a setting with Supers it’s not unreasonable for stronger materials to be available. Clips would certainly make it easier and faster to don and doff the harness without needing to thread webbing or fit the legs (and any leg-mounted equipment) through the loops.
Arthur C. Clarke wrote a short story entitled “The Defenestration Of Erminitrude Inch” that was included in his “Tales From The White Hart” Ballantine paperback book. That was the first time I had ever encountered that word.
Repelling tower the best thing about basic training
it’s all fun until sydney is in a rapidly decending plane. then we have bolognese on the ceiling
The worst puns are the ones you don’t realize are puns for about a minute. (sometimes even repeating them) Then you get the double whammy of the pun being terrible and the embarrassment of missing it… Having said that, OUCH.
we call that the time release pun. its even worse when its a critical pun. in that case there are gastrointestinal side effects and you get a star by your name on a list.
The best compliment to pay to a punster is to YEET them off a cliff
Oh Ro… come here? I need to compliment you.