(Remember how I said that Monday’s strip was supposed run the previous Friday but I’d miscounted strips? Casualty of that, this wasn’t supposed to be this weekend’s cliffhanger, either. Whoops!)
(Remember how I said that Monday’s strip was supposed run the previous Friday but I’d miscounted strips? Casualty of that, this wasn’t supposed to be this weekend’s cliffhanger, either. Whoops!)
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Walky looks funny with bedhead. And besides that, he looks a bit, distressed from seeing things… (also, I am praying I’m NOT first.)
So I see Willis went and deleted my resonnse of stupidity over this fact. Clever girl… Er… I mean dude…
I knew there was something different about him.
NO! YOU’RE JUST SEEING THINGS! You’re clearly delusional. QUICK! What’s 2+2? Why is the sky blue? Why do fools fall in love? If Liquid and Solid Snake are twins, then how come they have different voice actors?
Solid, Liquid, and Solidus are surviving fraternal octuplets, not identical twins.
I know. It’s a line from somewhere, but I forget.
ACTUALLY WAIT! We’re both wrong. Solid and Liquid are twins and came first from the original batch of clones. Solidus came a bit later, but the amount of time given is not specific (I looked this up on the MGS4 database.)
My bad then, I never played 4. I knew that Solid & Liquid were part of the Les Enfants Terribles, of which there were 8 children made, and Solid & Liquid were the only ones that survived to childbirth. When Solidus appeared, I thought he was one of the others that was reported aborted, but wasn’t. My bad.
Eh it’s fine. Oh and the MGS4 database is free on PSN, so you don’t need MGS4 to use it, that is if you want to use it.
It’s something crazy, like Solidus is an exact clone as opposed to a modified one.
took a shower at the same time as joe, huh?
if Joe is jewish wouldn’t he be circumcised? Does that mean Walky is jewish in this world?
No, it just means he’s an American. Most American parents choose to circumcise their boy infants. That’s not so much the case in Europe.
really?!
fo’ sho’
yep.
There are all kinds of horrible websites out there that profit over this idiotic tradition, from synthetic foreskins to skin stretchers.
Oh, america…
Circumcision was popularized in America in the late 1800s as a way to prevent boys from masturbating. The surgery is routinely performed on newborns, often without anesthesia.
Fun fact: Partial circumcision is becoming popular among young adults in Japan. Marketing targeted at young women has convinced a large portion of the population that a full-length foreskin is an unhealthy, unsightly deformity that should be surgically “corrected.” Thus, there is a booming demand among men who would like to sleep with young women to get circumcision surgery, an expensive procedure.
And now you know even MORE than you ever wanted to know about the subject!
Also, smegma. (What builds up when the uncircumcised do not clean themselves properly.)
Where did you think the Red Dwarf expression “smeg head” came from?
Seriously, some teenage males are unhygenic enough *without* adding that to the mix.
In response to AIDS being less common amongst circumcised people, I also read that there are other sorts of diseases that are MORE common amongst those who are circumcised. Don’t know how legit it is.
I still prefer un though. 😛
Annnnd I replied to the wrong thread. lol
Everyl, that’s one of the saddest things I’ve ever heard! Especially since it stifles my hopes of sleeping with a young Japanese woman!
Reminds me of the S*P arc where Davan’s girlfriend wouldn’t shut up about the superiority of uncircumcised penises.
*is European :D*
why would people get their kids sniped if not for religious reasons?
In my case my mother worked as a nurse in a geriatric ward, and saw a whole hosted of issues she could avoid for me with a prosedute I’ll never remember.
Ever heard about phimosis?
The US circumcision rate is apparently dropping, but, some people get it done just because it’s tradition. I’ve heard of parents saying that they want their son’s penis to look like his dad’s or something creepy like that.
@ R
That makes carved in the image of his father have a whole new meaning…
Basically, about a hundred years ago, there were some doctors who thought circumcision led to better health, or at least to less masturbation, which more or less amounted to the same thing in their eyes. It was the sort of quackery that America has always embraced more readily than Europe, but it’s proved unusually long-lasting.
Yeah, Europeans at the time was too busy murdering each other to accept circumcision as a common practice.
@addude: Its considered by many doctors (or at least was) to be a hygienic thing. Stuff can get… er… dirty and smelly under that, if not cleaned properly… ew. Mental image at my own answer.
@addude: I know you meant snipped,but I got a good case of the giggles at the thought of parents hiring hitmen to snipe at their kids for religious reasons =p
So glad I was born in Australia, Americans are just wierd.
@Shift I never got that argument, it gets dity you clean it. How could people not figure that out?
The practice was invented a few thousand years ago in arid regions where water to wash sand out of your ding-dong could be harder to come by than a good knife, so it made sense then and there. The rest can be summarized, in one word, as “conservatism”.
*Not American*
So glad for this reason.
As an American, I kinda like bein’ snipped. It makes me exotic when I go abroad.
In response to all ya’ll non-Americans, I shall play “America! Fuck yeah!” from Team America: World Police all day long.
I had precisely zero discussions about wang maintenance with my parents – being religious, the only wang-related subject they ever discussed was abstinence. America is riddled with parents as religious (and sexually uncommunicative) as mine.
So we’ve ruled out being *taught* to wash, when, or (to the degree there are any specific details that need to be attended to) how. Could each kid figure it out? On their own initiative? Of course they could, at least the 50% above average IQ. But will they?
My parents were -somewhat- open, and they aren’t all absistency, but most of what I know about sex comes from some porno writing my mom bought me thinking it was fantasy 😛
First I thought Walky said “circumcised”. Then I thought it was a typo. Then I thought Walky had lived an extremely sheltered life. Then I thought he had suddenly turned Jewish. Then I thought he was just retarded.
…I mean, how can a boy grow up not knowing what an uncircumcised penis looks like? Doesn’t the brain atrophy after a few years without that knowledge? 😉
Serious question: If it is so common in America, then why are there so many American jokes about it being typically jewish?
Because JEWS, man. Come on.
And an fyi for all the “circumcision is super terrible!” peeps: y’all saw the study that demonstrated that circumcision reduces transmission of AIDS by 50%, right? Yeah, apparently HIV loves foreskin. Odd but true.
An FYI back at you- I’ve dated two circumcised guys (one of whom I am now engaged to). Both practiced safe sex, and both had trouble orgasming because of the operation.
And both had had to have the operation as babies/children due to, er, problems (as opposed to religion, as neither set of parents were religious.) As a European, the idea of removing a part of your child for religious reasons, or even worse “just because”, or worst yet in order to reduce their sexual pleasure later in life, is horrifying to me. Treating it as normal and okay just makes it worse. And yes, that is the reason it reduces masturbation.
Okay, commenting on an old strip, but it’s something I had to get off my chest.
Cancer seems to love breasts, we dont remove them on baby girls.
Also those studies are in in places that dont have running water.
When you compare western countries the difference in rates disappears.
What you dont know is that the rates of permanent genital damage, death and even complete penis loss from infant circumcision is about the same the rates of STDS and problems from being intact.
Modern male circumcision ( full foreskinectomy ) isnt Biblical either.
The original operation was a more minor cut. It was radically changed So jews couldnt pretend to be Greeks .
Its unethical and closer in tissue loss to the less extreme version ( removal of prepuce ) than many people know. The majority of the most sensitive skin on the penis is removed
#NoCirc
Because it didn’t used to be common, and those are OOOOOLD jokes.
Plus, if you’re not cut, you’re clearly NOT Jewish.
50% is an odd I wouln’d be willing to risk, so using a condom still seems a much safer and more pleasant alternative to mutilation.
And about the hygiene argument, it’s so damn easy to clean it, I don’t see the point. I mean, would you cut off your ear so you don’t have to wash it?
@Cracker: Now the flaw with that argument is that any time that 60% protection for the GUY is relevant. The 99.99% of the condom should be used or shouldn’t happen at all.
@Shade/Parka
Should a condom be used in any situation where you don’t have a very strong/valid reason to trust your partner? Absolutely. Will it actually be used 100% of the time in situations other than that? Seriously, have you MET a frat boy/teenager/actually pretty much guys in general? Not really a good bet to make, IMO. If I ever have a son, I’m planning on getting him snipped, and a significant part of that will be wanting to protect him (even if just very partially) from the likelihood that even if he’s a smart guy, he’s still likely to act like a dumbass at least a couple times in his life.
@Parka/everybody else talking about “mutilation”: you know that all this business about how circumcision deadens/reduces sexual feeling/functionality comes from cherrypicking studies from an overall literature that is at best highly conflicted and inconclusive… right?
I think the Jewish cut-dick jokes is because it’s something Jews do because its part of their faith. Babies pop out, they have a big party where the entire family shows up and watch as a rabbi has himself a time of removing foreskin. It was a long standing tradition/right of passage that was adapted by everyone else. I’m not sure WHY they do it, but it’s their faith.
Its that old comedy thing: Penis + Religion = Comedy. Or a religious scandal and at least one person traumatized.
@Cracker.Please:
I had a look at that trial. Yeaaaaahhhhh. They didn’t exactly remove the other variables, did they? All they did was keep tabs on circumcised and uncircumcised men to see how many contracted HIV.
Hardly conclusive.
I would also like to point out that if you have no foreskin, then the head of your penis is exposed to rubbing against the inside of your clothing. This is not comfortable. All you uncircumcised men, try rolling your foreskin back, pulling your trousers up, then going for a jog. Tell me the results.
@MrGBH:
That “trial”, singular? It took me roughly 5 seconds on Google to find a CDC page that refers to at least a couple dozen studies on the topic which show very strong scientific design and that support this finding. Here, have a look for yourself: http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/circumcision.htm
So… yeah. And while your study on dick-comfort does sound VERY scientific, I can’t really report that it seems to be true in my case. Who knows, maybe I’m just a penile miracle case. I’d be okay with that. 😀
@Shift:
The religious explanation is that this was something God told Abraham to do to himself to mark their covenant. Since that covenant is seen as extending down the line to the Jews of today, the men of the Jewish faith do the same.
I don’t get what the problem is. I’m circumcised and have no problem with it, whatsoever. Didn’t know what an uncircumcised one looked like until I started viewing porn when I got older. To me the uncircumcised penis looks like something alien and disgusting, but that’s because I’m so used to mine.
“America! Fuck yeah!”
Honestly, I didn’t know what one looked like before joining the army. It wasn’t that I made an effort to look at other wang (and hell, I never freaking realized what foreskin was) I thought some of the guys in my unit either had some kinda freaky ass disease or were deformed. Seriously, 3 am, lights come on, and some moron drops off his bunk, wang winds up about 3 feet from my face. All I can think is… why the fuck is there some kinda alien worm here… holy shit, that’s some dude’s junk! HOLY SHIT WTF IS WRONG WITH HIS JOHNSON?!
And about 18 hours later I’m off duty on a weekend pass, drinking myself stupid while my girl laughs her ass off. Needless to say, she apparently wasn’t as “sheltered” as I had been.
As an israely person i still don’t know what an uncircumsied penis looks like.
HOT CHICK IN THE LOBBY!
…oh, wait
People shower in your lobby? Must be an interesting building 😉
Its really a Brothel, but don’t tell Jen Aside that…
I remember that realization. I thought mine was broken or something :/
I didn’t even know I was circumcised until I saw a picture of an uncircumcised one. It was a life changing event that caused me to question everything that I knew… until a picture of boobs drew my attention away.
I’m sorry, but your comment made me think that both instances were on the same picture. XP
Welcome to communal showers, Walky. Unnerving, innit?
A second look suggests he’s leaving the shower, then happens to look back in and see foreskin… uh.
Walky is now a man
He can now do great things
Like vote
Thanks for the nightmare fuel…
Never had to deal with this. All the showers at my dorm had a curtain in front of the changing area.
It’s awkward, you can’t look each other in the eyes, but you also can’t look down at their junk. The whole timeyour just staring at other mens nipples
the fact your avatar is female makes me think of beautiful, dirty things
me too, until “other mens’ nipples”. thaaaaat sorta killed it for me.
We didn’t have changing areas. There was just a place to hang clothes right outside the shower stall (if you wore clothes down to the shower at all. The result was a naked guys in the hallways clutching at towels.
Winter was the worst…
This is what I mean. I NEVER had to deal with this. The dorms I had (Albright College in Reading, just so we know) had seperate showers. Nobody was clumped into this whole awkward situation of seeing someone in the buff.
It was JROTC for me. And we all hadn’t showered for about a week and a half. We were on a FTX.
I, for one, am on the edge of my seat. What could it possibly look like?
You know, I don’t think I’ve ever seen one either.
google image search? (…i’m not looking though)
Not really interested in seeing one – thanks though.
That is NOT recommended. Unless foreskins don’t scare you (but they do me, as do water heaters and old vacuum cleaners. I have a lot of unreasonable fears).
It’s not all that great.
I almost just described it, but I don’t think that would be smart.
I meant that more as a “haha! R is a dyke and hasn’t see many guys naked!” :-p Not a serious request for information… thanks for the thoughts tho.
Your avatar makes me giggle when I read this 😀 like a little girl… Man I’m tired…
I thought he was looking at the silhouette on the MEN sign beside the door, which makes it much funnier.
Wait, he wasn’t?
I dunno, from the comments I thought he was supposed to have seen someone inside the bathroom and just came out kind of surprised. Either is good, but I think the sign is better.
This strip manages to be much funnier by being on a Friday.
Anti-climatic in your FAAAACE!
If it bothers you that this strip is the week’s cliffhanger, fell free to post the next one tomorrow, so we can start next week off as you intended.
I was about to suggest this myself.
inadvertent cliffhangers FTW.
Well Walky now you know. An knowing is half the something something
Yo, Joe!
THIS IS THE BEST CLIFFHANGER EVER
MORE LIKE CLIFFWANGER AMIRITE???
(I apologize in advance for this comment, end-of-semester sleep madness is upon me)
ELL OH ELL
Lulz, cliffwanger. Fantastic. Now to popularize this term!
…Great. Now I feel like I’m reading Penny Arcade.
That’s a bad thing?
It is on us all maaaan on us ALLLLLL….
NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR FUNNIES.
And by that I mean “dick jokes.” Never apologize for dick jokes.
Aww, oh well, mistakes happen, Mr. Willis.
O_O Wait, Walky didn’t know what one looked like be—
Poor Walky.
Poor, Poor Walky. D:
Hell, I STILL don’t know what one looks like.
D: I see!
More InformaTion Than I Needed… Or M.I.T.T.I.N for short :O
The elevator is near the bathroom! I wonder how many sleepy people have made the mistake of getting the two mixed up.
Also, Walky… no shower slippers? Bathrooms in the dorm I was in during orientation was kinda ick.
Its Walky’s first time.
And I don’t see him as the kind of guy to buy slippers right away.
Maybe he’ll bring his flip flops from now on.
“Walky’s first time” after he comments about not seeing an uncircumcised penis before just comes out wrong
how about:
“It was Walky’s first time in a communal shower, and he didn’t know what to expect of the floors therein”
Aww, you killed the joke.
He looks frazzled.
Aw, my gravatar’s not working properly.
And an epic way to end the week…
Didn’t he take gym class in high school?
Not all gym classes require you to take showers. Mine didn’t, just change into gym shorts
Yeah, I would totally wear slippers in a dorm restroom… ick…
So I take it Walky was never forced to take a shower after high school gym class… or watch European porn… or look at the internet porn.
Now, I’m left to ponder who’s uncircumcised dick he was looking at… Hopefully it was someone cute.
As stated earlier, we can rule out Joe on a count of Jewishness. And Danny if this takes place at the same as the last few strips.
I’m simultaneously amused and grossed out by how serious people are about which fictional character is or isn’t circumcised.
There’s nothing NOT serious about fictional foreskins.
I have the horrifying image of mike standing in the shower, arms crossed, constantly making angry eye contact with guys so they feel awkward.
And yes, arms are crossed at chest level.
Horrifying… Or wonderful?
Both.
Yes.
Mike isn’t uncircumcised per se. His wang, like the rest of him, is always whatever you’re least comfortable with.
I vote uncircumcised. When the doctor came near his junk with the scalpel, Baby Mike just turned his head…
… and stared at him. Just… Stared.
The doctor never practiced medicine again.
pagannerd is now my hero.
That was awesome.
If that doesn’t become canon, I’m adding it to my personal canon at the very least.
I assumed it was Mike from the get-go.
Is he erect in this image, or no? Just to calibrate the awkwardness level.
He’s “plumping up”. Just at that awkward stage where you see it, and think: “Damn. Is he… Is he getting hard, or just big?”. Just so you have to spend more time awkwardly trying to work it out without looking.
Because Mike is a bastard like that.
Great, I am now in the extreamly awkward position of being simultaniously creeped out, and turned on. I am begining to suspect that Pagannerd may acctually BE mike. (we do know that he is some kind of pagan, so very possible)
AAAAAAAAAND… eww.
when i read this comment landbaserd’s comment right above it + your avatar made this so much funnier
That avatar looks like Mike is standing under an icicle and waiting for it to drip in his mouth.
You think the uncircumcised guy was Joe, since he was just heading off to the shower in yesterday’s comic?
Yes. Joe ROSENTHAL is uncircumcised.
That could be a legitimate German last name. A part of Berlin is named Rosenthal.
Oh forgot he was jewish, maybe his family were just lazy jews?
Lookit that fukken n00b, barefoot in a dorm shower. He gon’ get AAAIIIDDDS.
I like the wobbly linework on this, it makes him look extra special weirded the hell out.
…Also, now we know what sort of porn Walky doesn’t look at.
He’ll be ok; he’s clearly circumcised.
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/2544/20101210snippedfixed.jpg
The obligatory edit.
…that made my day. XD
http://thelaughingmarcus.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/so-much-win.jpg
You are now my hero
I now ship Walky + uncircumcised Joyce.
I would hope joyce is uncircumcised, because otherwise that’d just be really creepy. pass the brain bleach please.
You are amazing.
Man, can I have the “annoyed Ruth” avatar forever? Everything I post with it ends up even more jerky!
This is an awesome cliffhanger strip. (And of course, you could always correct it by updating on Saturday. ;D just sayin).
Man, I remember that experience. In fact, I didn’t even realize I was circumcized until I saw an uncircumsized one in grad school. (I know what you’re wondering: 1. There wasn’t as much free porn on the internet back then; 2. I was a band geek in school so I got to skip gym.)
You got to skip gym because you were a band geek? I gotta go back in time and go to your high school and become a band geek.
Same here. I only got out of it because I was diagnosed with epilepsy around the end of the 1st semester, so they made me the athletic department’s personal slave. The funny part is that we were required to take 1 year of PE and I still got credit for spending half the year doing random crap for the gym teachers (very little of which was in any way considered physical education).
I just talked to the right people, asked the right questions, and found out what paperwork I had to fill out to replace phys. ed with an extra french credit. Best decision ever.
It was marching band. Apparently that counted as exercise. (Not enough to warrant a shower though.)
y’know its weird. I guess my school was cheap or lazy or something, they never had the gym class take showers.
Always an odd thought.
The sports teams did apparently, but that was never during school hours.
Mine, either. Which is extra weird because my middle school did.
LOL XD too early in the morning
I’ve heard of doctors circumcising boys without asking the parents first.
And Walky probably just skipped out of the shower part of gym class like I did, being a foolish and unhygienic boy.
PS Why does a fancy-looking residence hall like this one make students shower together? I don’t think such things exist at my alma mater except in the fitness centers.
We were never forced to take showers after gym, probably because I live in redneck country and guys showering together can be considered gay, and gay things scare them. I find this odd, though, considering how many people in my school were voted “Most likely to do a dime in the slammer” (with one redneck being voted “Most likely to have a nation wide manhunt”).
Huh. I always assumed that I was uncircumsized because my family’s not religious, but I just went and looked up the difference. Whaddya know, I been cut.
That’s….. unsettleing
That’s….. unsettling
Some of the people here reveal too much about themselves.
Your avatar makes your comment awesome.
I like trains.
I can’t speak to brises but we use general anesthesia for our circumcisions at my hospital
During a bris, the baby’s given a little wine as a general anesthetic.
Gee, I always thought they “chopped off the wee-wee. Like they said in that one episode of South Park.
138 comments about uncut cock in a comic.
I feel so proud. 😀
Ok, firstly, wow. Can we just get off the stereotype of Americans being weird and stupid? Most of that stuff you hear about is just a small group screaming loudly. The rest of us are actually somewhat intelligent and therefore our reasons for circumcising children are perfectly reasonable and we don’t scream in your faces like rude little brats. Which, by the by, can be extremely entertaining on occaision: http://www.notalwaysright.com
Secondly, I love Walky’s bedhead.
No your reasons for mutilating your children’s genitals are not reasonable.
then stop fucking our children, and we’ll both be happy 🙂
My boyfriend is not circumcised, but he has to get it done. with that extra skin, if it gets hurt for any reason (cut) and then scars it tightens the skin and prevents it form coming out of that skin at all, or getting stuck inside.
so there’s a mental image for all you guys out there. and girls.. that means no fun for you either (cept what you could of done yourself DX
…I think if your boyfriend’s foreskin getting cut is a regular occurrence, you maaaaay be doing it wrong.
Unless, you know, you’re the Marquis de Sade. In which case you’re not trying hard enough. Having him get stuck is half the cruel, cruel fun.
*Disclaimer: I’m circumcised, so I guess I don’t really know for sure… maybe foreskins are just really freaking fragile? Like they scar at the touch of anything rougher than satin? I dunno.
As an uncircumcised individual I can say that, while foreskin isn’t the sturdiest material in the world, certainly wouldn’t build anything out of it, it’s serviceable. It’ll get cut if you hit it with something sharp, and can look a little worse for wear if there’s an… undue amount of friction. Otherwise it’s about what you’d expect of a flap of skin.
I love how Kaylah states that her boyfriend has to get it done. I’ll just never get tired of listening to people casually ask someone to mutilate their genitalia. I don’t even mean it in a judgemental way. It’s a cultural value we hold. It’s sometimes just funny to actually think about your own cultural quirks.
actually, it is medically necessary to get it done, as i stated. I personally don’t care either way. but he is having medical issues from it, so he has to get it done.
like i said, if it gets cut and scars, it needs to go. (because that what happened to his)
@gangler I don’t casually say anything. I never said that he had to get it done for me, i said he had to get it done. and that comes straight from his mouth, not mine. I just love how people casually assume it’s the woman’s idea.
actually.. this happened before we started dating.. and he wasn’t dating anyone at the time =/
Kaylah’s explanation explains why Sal looks so pissed there.
lol yes! XD
well, that’s more my BF’s face, I still get to have fun lol
And obviously Leslie has NEVER had that problem 🙂
I’m the opposite of Walky. I don’t know what a circumsized penis looks like. P.S. I’m female
all this yapping about un/circumcised males
and
no mention of un/circumcised females.
we need equality between the shanks. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
You mean un/mutilated vaginas? =|
Ok, I got curious, being european and not having seen many circumcised penises… So, googled it.. Man, I think that looks freaky! But then, that’s probably just a habitual thing..
It looks painful to me :/
I think uncircumsized penises looks freaky when they’re flaccid
other than that,they both look the same when erect
Is that what we used to call “Fuck hair”? So early in the morning? Whilst commenting on newfound information about penises? Walky, I do declare!
I thought the exact same thing.
Who’s uncut ween was walky looking at
This comic helped me discover that, after all these years, I actually AM circumcised.