Monday, 19 August 2024

[dreadedcandiru2]

The one where April has yet to learn that if she wants to chill with the Mouse, she has to do it as an adult.

Synopsis: On the way home, they talk about picking up the car at Winnipeg International Airport and driving through the States to save time. This causes April to use Lynn-kidspeak and wonder why they ain't gonna go to Disneyworld.

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[howtheduck]

[dreadedcandiru2]

I'm wondering how she could pass up a chance to look down her nose at the United States and its people. It seems so like her to be so much Rick Mercer. About the only reason she doesn't is that she's afraid of Americans. I know that I've joked about her thinking that you'll invade and force us to celebrate Thanksgiving in November but this is a woman who grew up fearing Elvis and Superman. They had the power to reduce someone like her to a greasy smear so the cheap little bully in her makes her think that they want to.

[dreadedcandiru2]

Also, border guards are needlessly paranoid and treat Respectable Ladies like common criminals when they think rules that apply to The Lower Orders apply to busy mothers with no help and no time for themselves.

[jjamele]

Lynn's take: "These are nail scissors! Very dangerous! Must confiscate! We are State-Sponsored, Freedom-Hating Robots Who Want to Steal Your Stuff!"

Real life: "I'm sorry, but sharp objects are not allowed in carry-ons, you'll have to leave them here."

Lynn, just don't travel. Or if you choose to travel, follow the directions and quit yer b'tching. This ignorant right-wing blather isn't amusing or valuable in any way.

("Cigarette lighter?" Talk about dating the strip, though a Patterson just might be dumb enough to forget she has a cigarette lighter in her pocket at airport security. A Vape would be more likely today.)

[dreadedcandiru2]

This sort of nonsense really makes a nonsense of yesterday's performative greenwashing. It would be easier on everyone to take the train but John doesn't agree for some reason:

[jjamele]

WHY does Lynn ALWAYS portray laborers who are not her version of "professionals" like this? They are always buck-toothed, semi-literate slobs. Does she WANT people to think that she's an incurable snob?

[dreadedcandiru2]

She prefers the term realist. That's what incurable snobs do.

[aprilp_katje]

Related to that, she clearly spelled "private" as "privit" to make him seem like a boob. And the problem with that is... It's just a pronunciation spelling. That's how everyone pronounces it.

[jjamele]

Yet another "this is a crappy sitcom" strip, in which the punchline is delivered by a character staring right at the reader while their alleged audience is in the background. A person does not ask a question with their back to their audience, Lynn. The focus on April as she asks a question of us readers while the other characters decorate the background is lame and forced even for you.

[dreadedcandiru2]

At least Marciuliano admits that having everyone on one side of a table looks damn weird. He ascribes it to the Forth house being haunted by a ghost who loves sitcoms.

[jjamele]

I just caught a few minutes of a Hallmark movie featuring a woman and her father sitting down to have lunch together- and sitting side by side at a table with nobody else there. It looked so weird and awkward. Nobody intentionally sits so that they have to constantly turn sideways if they want to see the person they are sitting with.

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[dreadedcandiru2]

Stupid strip breaks fourth wall by stupid self.