figmentPez
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Bean Dad is anti-Semitic
The Internet will never satisfy its lust for bizarre and weird things.
- Thread starter GasBandit
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Today I stumbled upon a subreddit that has fathers posting lewd/nude pics of their daughters. I mean sure, for all I know it's not really fathers posting salacious images of their daughters, it's probably just a bunch of people posting porn pics and assigning made-up titles and stories to them. But nonetheless that's the theme of the subreddit and it makes me very uncomfortable. And that's saying something.
figmentPez
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Made with real (dried) beans, I don't think these will be evenly weighted.
I would be compelled to wash my hands after every throw.
figmentPez
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I'd heard that the comic Heathcliff has gone off the rails, but...
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Bees are friends, but what does that have to do with anything?
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Bees are friends, but what does that have to do with anything?
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GasBandit
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Apparently there's a system for rating the weirdness of a given Heathcliff comic
The Heathcliff Weirdness Level: A Daily Index of Heathcliff Comics - John Simcoe's Comics on the Brain
To determine the Daily Weirdness Level of a Heathcliff comic, please note the elements in the comic, consult the chart below and make a sum [...]
www.comicsonthebrain.com
figmentPez
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Non-Fungible Tokens... that's a bubble waiting to burst.
figmentPez
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Wow, you ain't wrong about 9 Chickweed Lane...
I remember that comic being a little off back when I still read comics in the paper, with how horny it could be about teenage Edda, but holy crap it's just horny all the time now.
Truth be told, I never saw 9CL in print. None of the papers we got in NY/NJ/Philly carried it. I only learned of it via the internet many, many years ago, and was not impressed. The artwork has always been horrid.
But thanks (no thanks, actually) to DW's Twitter I still get updated on it. It's managed to get worse, but it always reminds me of hardcore porn; not because it's sexy or titillating, but because it's emotionless, unpassionate and going through the motions. And then he added the homunculi that are supposed to be children they largely ignore. Does Brooke McEldowney know what human relationships/interactions are really like?
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Honestly though, once you start looking at them in any serious way rather than a 5 second chuckle 5 times a week, this holds true for most "newspaper" comics.
Calvin and Hobbes is pretty much the exception that proves the rule.
It's also why PvP could technically still be a syndicated paper comic... Except that Scott can't manage a deadline.
Anyway, most newspaper comics, especially the older and "beloved" ones, really aren't anywhere near good quality, with line work that would not meet criteria to be picked up anywhere on the web, characters who will never, ever, ever evolve, progress or go through any sort of arc. No story lines of any complexity, no changes to the status quo, no deep thoughts, no actual fun, etc. At most some basic ad libbing on standard cliches.
I agree with a lot of this, especially when it seems like by the early 2000's, papers were less likely to take on something new. Although, I remember reading that when comic strips w began to be printed much smaller than they originally were, detailed artwork became a smudgy detriment a lot of the time. Not that it should excuse some of the shoddy work some cartoonists have gotten away with. As for the "5 second chuckle", 95% of them can't even illicit that.
There are definitely a few exception. I think Bloom County in it's heyday managed to craft good story and detailed artwork. And before she went off the rails with her thinly-veiled family wish-fulfillment, Lynn Johnston managed to age her cast in realtime for, what, 30+ years in For Better or For Worse.
For Better or for Worse - TV Tropes
One of the more popular Comic Strips of its time, Lynn Johnston's For Better or for Worse debuted in 1979 and ran until 2008, appearing in over 2,000 newspapers at its peak. Set in Milborough (a fictional suburb of Toronto, Ontario, Canada), the …
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You may underestimate how deeply some people feel about Whataburger.
www.fox26houston.com
Texas man enters contest, wins free Whataburger for the next 10 years
It doesn't take much for a Texan to love Whataburger. It's a totally different story to love the burger chain so much, that you get it tattooed on your body for eternity.
Huh, I've never heard of Bucee. I figured the second big brand Tgexans were willing to die for would be Blue Bell Ice Cream
GasBandit
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Nobody would dare declare war on Blue Bell. Texans preferred listeria to Blue Bell shutting down.
It doesn't surprise me that you haven't heard of Bucee's, but here, it's a rapidly growing cult. Yes, based on a gas station.
Bucee's is a gas station. It has the cleanest restrooms in all of the US and the stall doors ARE ACTUAL DOORS! (at least all the ones I've been in do). and their corporate headquarters is like a 5 minute drive from my house
I live on one side of the Sheetz/Wawa divide, so I can see it.
Around here, at least, the devotion to Sheets/Wawa is nothing like Bucees. Bucees is practically religion.
Buc-ee's, the convenience-store chain with a cult following and 'world-famous' bathrooms, is growing outside of Texas for the first time. Here's what its stores are like to visit.
Buc-ee's is a convenience chain with a following in Texas. It's a pit stop with "world famous" bathrooms, branded T-shirts, and freshly made fudge.
www.businessinsider.com