In fairness, this one isn’t cropped - the artist didn’t include any signature deets. And they’ve linked to the original artist’s post.
That said, I’d also much rather the OP didn’t post at all than continue to remove artist credits like they do in other posts.
Both of their orders are wrong.
The first person’s doughnut (pictured) has a single grain on it, so instead of getting “hundreds and thousands”, they’ve got a “one”.
The second person’s order has been messed up in a more surreal way - instead of rainbow sprinkles, they’ve received a single sprinkle that isn’t actually any of the colours of the rainbow.
I think it may have been over-complicated by having two punchlines in the last panel. Either of them could have stood on their own but having both on the last panel takes some of the impact out of the punch. Also, having two separate strips about this shop messing up orders would help establish this location in the comic’s world.
And here comes the guy with unsolicited advice…
“I keep sleeping…”
And
“I keep sleeping with dead people”
Would work a lot better, because “sleeping with” is an actual euphemism for “having sex with”.
It’s probably worth mentioning that this doesn’t just stop at legislation. A lot of things in the UK are the way they are, just because that’s the way they’ve always been.
What’s the official flag of the UK? It doesn’t have one. The Union Jack was a naval flag that became our defacto national flag. Before WW1, people could have lived their entire life without seeing a Union Jack.
What’s the official national anthem of the UK? It doesn’t have one. God save the King / Queen is our defacto national anthem. It was a song that gained popularity and people adopted it unofficially.
OK then. What’s the official language of the UK? You probably guessed - it doesn’t have one. English is only the defacto language of the UK. In fact, the only official language anywhere in the UK is Welsh, in Wales (obviously), where the vast majority of people speak English as their first language anyway.
Seeing as you start the question with “In the show”, I can fairly confidently say no, Squidward is never explicitly stated to be a communist.
True!
Although, for a clearer comparison, it might help if I described what their normal food was.
From what I remember (it was about 20 years ago!), and ranked from their favourite to least favourite, the food mix consisted of:
I guess the closest food we have is dry cereal. If I just had a huge bowl of mixed dry cereal to communally eat from for the entire day, and then one day a whole lettuce was next to the bowl, I’d probably try to eat as much of it as I could before it was taken away too.
Ha, it reminds me of when we left our pet mice at my parents’ house while we went on holiday.
We showed them how much food to put in the food bowl, and said if they ever wanted to treat the mice, they could put in a little bit of lettuce or a slice of cucumber.
When we came back a fortnight later, we found all three of the mice looking healthy, doing normal mice things. My parents were concerned, though. They mentioned that even though they refilled it every day, the mice had barely touched any of their food.
This surprised me because normally they eat almost everything. This is by design - the amount we put in takes into account that the mice will eat the bits they like best first, but because it’s nutritionally balanced, they need to eat the other stuff too.
I wondered if the mice were unnerved or something by being moved into my parents’ house, so I asked if they ever put anything in as a treat. I was told, yes, and the mice always ate it all.
It turned out that I hadn’t been clear about what a “little bit” meant and they’d been giving them one or two entire leaves of lettuce a day. The mice weren’t touching their food because they’d been living a Willy Wonka-esque existence of having room-sized treats delivered to them on a daily basis.
I imagine “good for them”.
My kids are Anglican, they go to a Catholic school. Half of all students there are from denominations other than Catholicism.
There isn’t really any animosity there.
Could not agree more - Christianity is supposed to be about the teachings of Jesus.
The vast majority of the Bible is not about that stuff, but it provides context for it.
Jesus taught respect for others and unconditional love. Surprisingly, Penny Arcade probably summed it up in the most succinct way I’ve ever seen it phrased: "Jesus says “don’t be a dick” ".
Someone would have to be delusional to look at the people that Jesus mixed with and advocated for, and conclude that he wouldn’t have similarly defended the marginalised groups of our time.
Wow, that’s a lot more complicated than I would have expected!
Our system, although it’s basically the way it is because things change slowly here, kind of works for us. Between 16-18 here, you’re no longer in school, you go to college (different meaning than in the US!) or vocational training. It’s an in-between child and adult stage, where most people start doing grown-up things for the first time.
But isn’t the age of consent 18 in the US? How does that work?
In the UK you used to be able to get married at 16, but the age of consent is 16, so it kind of made sense.
I don’t know why you posted that image, but I’m glad you did. I didn’t know about Quasimodox before - they’re fantastic!
The main image on their landing page is of Makoto, my favourite SFIII:3S character, so that’s 100 points before even entering the site.
It was a McDonald’s customer who turned him in. (Edit: the article I read has been updated)
But I can’t help but find the whole thing really suspicious. In his possession they found a gun, silencer, and three-page hand written manifesto.
Who handwrites an essay before going out to kill someone? That just feels hard to believe.
Oooh, you said the 愛 word. A million downvotes for you.