Buyout 1
May30
WHAT A TWEEST! Yeah, I’m a genius. Sorta. Kinda.
Forgive my lack of online presence this week, but the internet itself has been getting me down pretty hard. Everyone is screaming about misogyny and guns and killing and rar rar rar.
In the end… we all just need to work together.
*applause* I totally forgot about this guy.
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RUN, Mick. RUN. “Don’t dip your wick in the company ink” goes double when you’re dipping in both the CO-owners at the same time.
(Seriously, I have never worked for any multi-owner business where the owners were not constantly at each others throats, often over the stupidest things you could imagine.)
…but what if the “company ink” is REALLY hot?
You’re right, though; there’s no way that this can go well. Then again, a comic would be pretty boring if it was “…and then everything worked out perfectly and they all lived happily ever after.” Fortunately, we have Mick to make sure that things go wrong. 😛
IRL, I would regard this as a work situation with EXTREMELY high potential for trouble. I’ve already mentioned that the difficulty of maintaining a sexual relationship between two peers is high enough that a good number of people fail, and that adding more peers makes things far more complicated and difficult. The strip started with Mick having just bombed out of one relationship, and it didn’t take too long for him to bomb out of another.
The biggest problem with having a sexual relationship with a coworker is that problems in the relationship become problems at work. I used to wait tables at a family restaurant. One of the other servers started a relationship with one of the grill cooks. For a little while, it was really cute. Then they broke up. And then they started screaming “fuck you!” back and forth at each other through the window. As the grill was pretty much in the dining room, I have no doubt that all of our customers could hear them. Traffic and my tips both suffered.
Mick has reason to be worried. Not only are any problems in the business relationships likely to impact the personal/sexual relationships, but also vice versa, which I would expect to be much more likely, and with a far higher potential for vindictiveness. A much better scenario would have been for Alex to buy the place outright (easy enough; Omar only wanted $1.7M, and she just won $20M) and hire Heidi as a consultant. Right now he can only hope that one of them buys the other one out.
The biggest fights are often over the smallest shit. Big shit tends to get handled, and done. Small shit festers.
I know, right? “The roof caved in from that massive snowfall!” …solved in a matter of hours. “Jim forgot to mop the floor before closing last night again.” …festers for YEARS.
Slacker, I hear ya. I worked for a business co-owned by identical twins and you couldn’t cut through the rivilry with a chain saw.
This should cheer you up then… took 2 new people to the range yesterday. Success was had by all, the guy hadn’t shot a gun in 40+ years, the gal filed her papers to buy (slave state.) I’d call that a win.
I took my co-worker, her son, and her partner’s son to the range on Monday. A good time was had by all, and she’s now an initiate of the Order of St John (Moses Browning).
Not entrant to the Cult of Samuel?
LOL I was hoping this was where the story was heading!
Not such a tweEEest. Several have predicted it, so not much of a surprise. :p OTOH, I expect Mick to get whipsawed on a daily basis, as the ladies use him like a catnip-filled toy.
He’ll like it.
Heh! Yeah, he does strike me as a bit /sub. 😀
I really like 2, The Ranting Gryhon. Nice mix of crazy and truth, reminds me of myself (except that I wear aviators and have hair on my head).
On positive news, my father bragged to some guests about my shooting a couple of days ago. Not a big deal until you consider that most of my family is anti-gun, my father is at best neutral on the issue.
Never underestimate the power of paternal pride. 🙂
2!! I didn’t expect to see this again. Loving the comic 🙂
I am going to work together to END YOUR FACE.
Wait. I think I’m doing it wrong.
Screaming about misogyny? I can’t believe that a BBC Radio 2 presenter complaining about the crap she used to play when she was a BBC Radio 1 presenter has made that much of an impression on the far side of thousands of miles of salt water. Did something else happen, apart from the usual honour killings, genital mutilation and gang-rape?
Some asshat decided to go postal in Cali because he was a 22 year old virgin and blamed women for not giving him sex. So he stabbed his 3 male roommates out of jealousy that THEY had no issues getting laid, and then drove around in his BMW randomly shooting at people (mostly women). Ended up killing 3 more and injuring over a dozen before blowing his own head off when the police cornered him. Apparently he had a long history of posting videos blaming women for not putting out and was active on a ton of male pride webgroups, etc. Essentially, the man was a douche, and the world is well rid of him, but his motivations have obviously annoyed and upset many folk.
Right. Over here, we’d heard all of that except the motivation.
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Okay, going to say it: there’s nothing wrong with being a virgin at 22. Whether you’re male, female or somewhere in between, whether you’re staying put, moving between places on that axis or already in a new place of your choosing, whether you’re straight, bi, gay, into anything with a pulse, into many things without pulses or totally asexual, there’s nothing wrong with being a virgin at 22. There’s nothing wrong with not being a virgin at 17, either, and if you’re not a virgin at 7 there is something wrong with that but it’s not your fault.
well said.
The bet on the end on what his reaction would be made me crack up
Are.. are they going to call themselves “red and blue”?
nice
I think there’s another comic that would take issue. 😉
Apropos of nothing, other than the general love Mosin-Nagant’s get here: Just picked up a Finnish 91/30 Mosin-Nagant. Tikkakoski armory. Non-matching serial numbers, and not sure what year it (or the various parts) was made (yet). Clearly, someone was assembling pieces-parts, and I’ll have a bit of project getting it in top mil-spec condition, but hey! the project will keep me off the street. 😀
Bore is dark, but clean and smooth, with strong rifling. Some superficial pitting on the rear sight cheek pieces, all other metal is in A+ condition. Stock has been refinished, and it’s a mediocre job, but the basic work is good, and it just needs some detail-work to bring it up to snuff – The wood itself is solid and tight, and very few marks or dings.
Also: They have a couple hundred thousand rounds of .22LR on the shelves – They’re only selling one brick of moderate-quality stuff, or one box of the good stuff, at a time, unless you’re buying a .22rimfire rifle, in which case you can buy a brick of the good stuff at the same time. Seems a bit… Controlling, but that means their prices aren’t insane, and they actually *have* it in stock. And will *keep* it in-stock.
If I had to guess, the furniture is 1920’s era Civil Guard-issue.
Or maybe not. Looks like that style of sling showed up all over the place. :p
You’re probably already familiar with this site, but if not:
http://7.62x54r.net
Might find answers to some questions there.
Just learning my way ’round that site – Much to read, much to learn. 🙂
Seeing as your brain needs time off from the Internet, and we get gun puns as a result, know any good gun puns involving revolvers (besides the ‘going off half cocked’ one)?
Mateba revolvers….. damn shame they never got popular and cheaper. The guns&anime otaku in me screams for one. Hell, a CZ was one of my first purchases simply because it was in ‘Gunsmith Cats’.
I have a problem with low-aligned barrels – It puts the frame-cylinder gap much closer to the firer’s hands. With low-power rounds, that not much of an issue. With high-power rounds and a two-hand grip, you could easily split your thumb. And the Mateba pretty much *requires* a heavy round to generate the necessary energy to operate.
Also: Almost no one is such a good shooter that changing the alignment of the barrel is going to make any real difference in their shooting.
The mechanism will still work with a top-aligned barrel, given a few minor tweaks. The real problem I always had with the Mateba is that it’s a solution looking for a problem to resolve; Double action trigger pull isn’t sufficiently odious to require such a complicated self-cocking feature.
The obvious answer to the gap being near the fingers is to make the cylinder longer and fire 5.56x45mm from it.
The obvious answer to the gap being near the fingers is to accept that after 180 years we’ve settled on a pretty good solution, and therefore stop trying to reinvent the wheelgun.
I’d never heard of the … er … Mateba … and by the soudns of things I don’t want to bother finding out about them.
I just thought the proposal of a 5.56mm revolver might get an interesting response.
No revolvers found, but … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX0GustTcn8
Heh, there is another 2 video (old!) which should be relevant to this site…
I’m not a member of the cult of the Mosin-nagant. I respect it, but I really prefer the SMLE. I have two sporterized (commercially, not shadetree gunsmith) ones and my dad has a few different original versions.
Realistically, thought the .30-06 is a great round, we could have skipped it, the .30-40 Krag, AND the 7.62x51mm if the idiots had looked at what else was available by 1893. 6.5 Carcano, 7mm Mauser, 7.5×55 Swiss, 7.65 Argentine, and 7.92×57 were all available, and rimless. The rimmed 7.62x54r and .303 British were also available. If I had a time machine… Not that kicking a couple of the morons in the cojones would be first priority, but it might have fewer paradox issues than shooting Stalin, Lenin, Hitler or Marx.