Friday, 8 November 2024

Nov 06, 2024 01:39


The one where we're hit over the head with Lynn's selfish need to pretend that children are actors.

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dreadedcandiru2 November 6 2024, 06:31:17 UTC

Now here we are with a reminder:


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jjamele November 6 2024, 10:48:05 UTC

You could be like most married women in North America, Elly, and be heading off to work yourself. Instead you claim that you are losing your sanity if you have to be around the people you produced as your side of the bargain for that house and the luxury of having someone pay your bills. Seriously, kiss off.

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dreadedcandiru2 November 6 2024, 10:50:30 UTC

Like I said, she's kind of stupid and can't deal with having to change her routine. The first pre-Patterson treasury was all about how pregnancy was an anxiety inducing pain. The second was defined by the cover with Mom and Dad ignoring Howling Baby. We start with the usual doctor-versus-mother conflict which leads into what made Elly nuts: colic. Elly needs kids to be doing bad stuff on purpose to keep her from being a raging loon.....which is why in the third one, Marian tells Elly what a joy it is to be around her only week or so out of the year. If she'd kept on doing it, by now, we'd be talking about the collection Why Do They Never Call?

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dreadedcandiru2 November 6 2024, 18:57:32 UTC

Also, let's remind ourselves that children are 'wrong' to set the agenda:


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jjamele November 6 2024, 10:46:44 UTC

We need to keep this site open for the next four years; like many many more of us in the once-Sane United States, I desperately need the distraction. Thanks for being here, guys.

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dreadedcandiru2 November 6 2024, 10:48:47 UTC

Happy to be of service.

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chocolate_frapp November 7 2024, 19:01:22 UTC

Now that I think about it, most of the characters in this stupid strip are EXACTLY the sort of people who voted for the orange fuckwad.

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dreadedcandiru2 November 7 2024, 19:05:32 UTC
Yeah. They are.

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dreadedcandiru2 November 6 2024, 11:46:27 UTC

Hello, Robot.

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dreadedcandiru2 November 8 2024, 08:06:09 UTC

No notes today.

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