Lies and Coverups
Jul09
It amuses me to no end that a few people seem to think that I’m trying to promote homophobia with my comic when Tom speaks.
Tom is a total asshole. I am nothing like him. He’s pretty much my exact opposite. He’s a tacti-cool security guard cop wannabe, bigot, asshole. He’s a foil in this comic, and nobody should try to emulate this fucking idiot. He’s not a role model.
I haven’t mentioned Joerg Sprave in a bit, but this video prompts me to do so. Cold Steel sends him some knives, he decides to “weaponize” them. Holy fucking hell.
Only this guy would look at these knives and think “I need to find a way to launch them off my M-16.”
Why, I don’t think Tom wanted to help Mick out at all!
Holy hell is right. I had to add the vid to the Throwing Your Sword Always Works – Real Life entry on TV Tropes.
As a confirmed atheist, Joerg Sprave to deeply and fundamentally disturbing.
For if he is not evidence of gods walking among us / avatars of divine intervention…
Sorry, should read:
As a confirmed atheist, I find Joerg Sprave to deeply and fundamentally disturbing.
Oh-fer?
Regardless, your point is well made and taken.
I have so much fun reading Tom’s dialogue with the voice of Scruffy the Janitor from Futurama.
Exactly how I hear him in my head. Honestly, he’s one of my favorite characters in FTF.
I have a coworker like Tom.
He doesn’t have the mustache, but that’s about the only difference.
I don’t think Tom’s a homophobe, honestly. I’m a gay and I’ve met a lot of guys like him. They’re usually just incurious dumb assholes who aren’t interested in upgrading their insult list and spend a lot of time thinking about their own dicks. Get Tom and Joe in the same room, you’ll see.
Who hasn’t fantasized about having an assault rifle with underbarrel knife/sword/machete/chainsaw launcher? Jörg on the other hand, doesn’t just fantasize, he does it and he does it magnificently.
That’s the whole reason “Gears of War” exists.
Jörg could use a bit of muzzle discipline with the M16, but overall, fantastic.
It’s his trigger finger discipline that really worries me. He just could not keep that booger hook off the bang switch.
I thought the same thing when watching it, but then I read the description. It’s been “deactivated”, which appears to be equivalent of demilling, to make it legal for purchase in Germany. It’s essentially a very accurate toy or a parts kit at this point.
For some reason that doesn’t bother me as much. It really should, I know, because it potentially builds bad habits with actual firearms. Hell, I index my cordless drills and infra-red thermometers…
How do you spot a gun nut with a bottle of Windex? Finger indexed on the spray nozzle.
I’ve always been amused by knife-throwing (why would you give your opponent a perfectly good weapon?), but this is definitely “special”.
How could anyone think Tom is supposed to be voicing your opinions, or promoting anything? Then again some people think Mark Twain is bad because he uses the “N” word, never seeming to catch on that he was doing so to mock and denounce the kind of people who use it.
It’s a pretty ineffectual idea, but it may have been as much about getting your opponent to duck, dodge or move to deflect it, which either allows you time to prepare or gives you an advantage to press upon.
Most people don’t seem to grasp the concept of satire. Or sarcasm. Or being able to comment on things without agreeing with the point of view that you’re discussing. I once made a comment in a discussion about how gender roles for most of history were shaped by evolution and was called a male chauvinist pig as a result.
I personally suspect Tom is actually a deeply closeted leather Daddy. He probably has a secret room in his house with a sling, restraints, 50 gallon drum of Probe, and the complete line of Mr. S. dildos.
I had to google Mr. S. dildos. Thank god I was not at work when I did that.
NTTIAWWT 🙂
I personally think he’s Armored Closet Gay, myself. A lot of really, intensely homophobic guys are, mostly because they can’t cope with their own same-sex attraction. And yes, I-D brand lube does come in 55 gallon drums. You know, for the next time you host That Kind Of Party.
Or, maybe he’s…ya know…a fictional character in a comic strip…
Funny, I think Tom would make a fantastic politician. Younguns would turn out in droves to vote for someone who spake thus.
Who would Gecko45 pick for his running mate?
http://www.geekosystem.com/condom-slingshot/
Joerg needs to build a chainsaw launcher. No, realy. There are some rather small ones that don´t weight all that much. 🙂
He did. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru0sY_IPJIQ
… You know, I don’t know more than one or two of my closest friends who wouldn’t respond the way Tom did to this situation. Apparently my friends are all giant, glorious assholes.
I’ve suddenly decided Tom’s too funny of a dickwad to not like.
Don’t blow this, Mick. Don’t turn your back on Heidi for that loser Alex!