Joe Is Smart
Aug29
Tally ho!
I kinda liked this one, because I started to write Mick as a dumbass in it, but that’s when the character piped up in my skull and said “No, Grant. I wouldn’t be that much of a dumbass.” I love hearing voices in my head, don’t you? Especially the flaming Goat of Hastur, who tells me to kill the Dalai Lama once every Equinox.
You’re in for some fun tomorrow.
He’s gonna stick his dick in her
Now it’s likely TWO unbalanced women with guns might shoot him
At least the other one is a confirmed bi who enjoys the group thing.
Assuming that the whole “cheating thing” is okay
(I’m guessing not)
Naw, he ain’t THAT stupid. Course, I don’t know how he could get it up knowing that the NSA is judging him on his skills.
We’re all that stupid. Alas.
We should start a pool on whether he sticks his dick in her. I bet he does.
Good to know the murderous voices in your head can be counted on only one hand and to not constitute a majority.
Don’t know about voices, but I do know about characters insisting on their own development. Good sign there.
Glad all the speculation yesterday was wrong, including mine…driver. 🙂
Not ALL the speculation. Stimpynarf got why she shot somebody, Bikergeek got who she shot, and Pope Joan II got why she was calling Mick.
Now the next thing to speculate is whether he’ll stick his dick in her. If he does, it could mess things up with Alex. So, hot recovering drug-addict goth, or hot crazy redhead? Not a decision I’d like to have to make (although it would have its upsides).
Even if he doesn’t “stick his dick in her”, it’s gonna screw things up with Alex. Badly. It’ll be his word versus her suspicions. He’s gonna lose, either way, at least in the short term.
But did he just get the detectives name from Heidi, or did he ring the cops etc? If he just rang the cops, why would they tell him anything about an active investigation??
heh. Heheheheheh.
If the early draft was somehome MOAR dumbass than this, I shudder to think what that was like. (Hey, can we see an outtake strip at some point?)
This move is making Omar look like the smart one.
Omar IS the smart one.
Marked up .22LR for high profit? NSA sex all the time? Omar’s a genius compared to Mick.
“Don’t stick your dick in the crazy.”
– Advice I should have followed.
“Son, I want you to do two things for me. If you do these two things and nothing else, I will be happy with you.
Number-1, Don’t get arrested while ‘COPS’ is filming you. I don’t want to watch you get arrested on national tv.
Number-2, Do NOT stick your dick in crazy. You will be tempted to but don’t do it or your life will become ugly for a while.”
I broke #2 once in my life. I shtupped a stripper in Honolulu. The next 5 weeks were ugly as predicted.
Dad was very wise.
“I’m not a complete idiot” is apparently a confession that one is at least half an idiot. 🙂
Bi-sexual Joe. Best wingman ever.
eh, thats not quite confirmed I thought he was using it to intro a new charecter but you could be right.
To address the hover-text – NY has the no-cellphone law, and while it won’t ever stop it completely, I think it is very much a deterrent. Every time I go to OH/IN where they don’t have it, the percentage of people doing boneheaded things on the road while talking on the phone is much higher. It’s one of those things where fear of the law/fines seems to be working better than common sense…
Except that the law doesn’t affect hands-free usage, and the problem with using a cell phone while driving is “cognitive distraction”, not physically holding the device. It’s much like banning holding a bottle of alcohol while driving, but not banning getting drunk and then driving; it’s not whether you’re holding it that’s the problem. If anything, the law sends the message that talking on a hands-free device is fine.
Hands free usage is no more distracting than having a conversation with a passenger. It’s actually LESS distracting because the temptation to turn your head to look at the person you’re talking to isn’t there. The ‘research’ refered to on that site is flawed in that it does not take into account any other distractions that are commonly acceptable among American drivers, such as eating while driving, using the entertainment/climate controls, or as I said above, interacting with passengers. Even then, it does show that hands free cellphone use is far less distracting than any other forms of cellphone use.
And before anyone suggests that ANY distraction is too much, keep in mind that the only way to ensure a completely non-distracted driver is to encapsulate them inside a cockpit seperate from all potential distractions. Even then you can’t really succeed because there will always be outside distractions within view of the driver.
Hands-free usage is *MUCH* more distracting than having a conversation with a passenger. First, the low quality of the speakers makes it harder to hear and understand what the cell-phone is saying, so more of your brainpower is diverted to comprehension and less is available for driving. Second, when a person is riding with you in the car, they adjust their speech according to what’s happening on the road; e.g., if a car pulls out in front of you, they’ll stop talking, which alerts you that you need to pay attention to the road. A person on the cellphone will continue to talk and distract you while you run into said car.
Studies have shown that the impairment caused by hands-free cell-phone usage is equal to that caused by being legally drunk.
Actually in a lot of cases accidents are not caused because someone was TALKING on the phone, but rather dropping the phone somewhere inaccessibly and trying to find it while still driving. I admit to being guilty of this once or twice, which is why I mostly don’t like talking to people on the phone while driving, and now if I drop it the call is over. Sometimes, though, the instinct can kick in and before you know it your head is at the floor fumbling for the device. Just like eating while driving is mostly only unsafe because we have the instinct to look at whatever sauce/food fell out of our hands and onto our nice new shirt. Hands free is FAR less distracting than this. Speaker quality has nothing to do with it as long as you spend more than $20 on your hands free set.
Also I might add that the study you are referring to done by a pair of psychologists at the university of Utah comparing talking on the phone to drunk driving was NOT hands free. It was also 7 years ago. Hands free technology (blue-tooth) was not as widely available at the time because it was somewhat prohibitively expensive.
A framed quote on my office wall:
“Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some are called mad, and are locked in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers, and do pretty much the same thing.”
He’s gonna put his dick in her.
Or, alternately, given what we know about Heidi this is a complete mindfuck and the “detective” he called is just someone Heidi set up for this occasion and she’s waiting to spring some serious bullshit on him.
No, he IS a complete dumbass.
Broken up, the way they did it–which was not “we can still be friends”–means broken up. Separated. Finito. Heidi should now be
just somebody that he used to know.
Acting like anything else is AN EXCUSE.
Stupid stupid stupid stupd
The next comic is 403 forbidden for me, could you please look into that?
Same here.
Yeah. The text in the RSS says that you’re going on vacation…I hope you’re still around to see this and fix the problem. Or somebody is.
+1 on the forbidden/404 error.
Most of us men are suckers for the lady in distress, especially if it’s real. I hear it subsides wit age though.
Interesting study was recently released. Apparently, all of the research that said how unsafe talking on the phone while driving is was done by taking someone and sticking them in a driving simulator, talking to them on the phone, and seeing how they reacted when the simulator threw a threatening situation in front of them.
Recently, it occurred to someone to see what actually happens in the real world. They figured that
a) since a lot of cell phone plans have free calling times that begin at 9:00 PM, then there would be a pretty sizable difference between the number of calls made from 8:30-9:00 vs. 9-9:30
b) a large portion of calls that move from one tower to another during the course of a short call do so because the caller is in a moving car, and the majority of them are driving. This meant that the increase in calls made was quantifiable.
They reasoned that this created a situation where the number of people talking on the phone while driving would significantly spike in a measurable way at 9:00, and that if talking on the phone while driving were as dangerous as previously thought, there would be a concomitant significant spike in traffic accidents.
There wasn’t.
Cell phone calls spiked as predicted, but the number of crashes didn’t.
Source: http://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/sds/docs/bhargava/BhargavaPathania2013_AEJ.pdf
Joe is absolutely right. The prudent (and charitable) response would be, “Heidi, ask the cop working your case for the name and number of the department’s therapist. Then go see whoever that is.”
Not that I’m sure I’d have enough balance and perspective to do it, in Mick’s situation.
I know my limits, when it comes to driving and talking on the cell phone. I always increase follow distance, usually by 50-100%. I can get away with discussing groceries and the like while driving in my sleepy little two stoplight town, but more serious conversations (or bad traffic) will require me to pull over. A passenger is more likely to shut up or call my attention to potential hazards than than the person I’m talking with who’s miles away.