Yoooou bet we can! I mean, I dunno about clinically allergic, but it definitely brings out the rashes and the bloating and all manner of fun reactions.
No. Allergies are the immune system incorrectly reacting to proteins that are actually harmless (specifically an immunoglobulin E or IgE reaction).
Sugar is definitionally not a protein so cannot be involved in an allergic reaction. Now people can have a “sensitivity” to sugar. And I suppose it is possible that could be a side effect of depression, though I have never heard of it.
And cola. And pork. And chocolate. In other words, all my favorite foods… X(
I’ll admit, I’m no doctor, but it was medically diagnosed that essentially it can & used to quite often have a rather negative effect on me. One of those is my body starts producing as much insulin as it can, to the point where that part of my body almost burnt itself out & shut down.
Another effect (probably related) is that it…destabilizes my emotions, sending my on a wilder ride than a pregnant lady with overacting hormones. When I was happy, I was the happiest kid on the planet. When I was sad, I was pretty bad (with 1 prescription meant to help me sending me deep into suicidal depression land, stopped immediately thank God…). And when I was angry….RUN! FOR! THE! HILLS!! Enough said there…
And no, this is not Screwball & Daniel the Human’s Daniel, this the REAL Daniel. I am allergic to sugar. I was tested for allergies halfway through Aussie Year 8, & I literally completely changed personality within the week I was sent cold turkey on wheat was my favorite foods. I also went through withdrawal symptoms, because all my favorite foods, with all their reactions including the mind-altering, were now off limits.
This is all 100% truth.
My head may be pretty messed up now, in many ways directly & indirectly due to my allergies, but at least I know about it & have learnt to control & manage it. If I hadn’t, I know I would be either in jail, in a looney-bin or in a hole 6 feet under…
Not a medical doctor, either, but what you describe (except for the severe emotional side effects, maybe) sounds more like (Type II(?)) diabetes than an allergy.
Diabetes is when you don’t produce insulin. What my body does is produce too much insulin, to the point where it almost burnt that organ out & became diabetes. I usually just say I’m the opposite to a diabetic, They don’t make enough/any, I make too much…
That’s only exclusive to Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 is when your pancreas doesn’t produce insulin correctly (but still produces it). Most often it’s not enough, but too much can also happen.
Fair enough, but that’s just 1 effect my allergies have on me. Plus they were rather specific in that it wasn’t diabetes when my Mum got worried about that…
Just noticed how much of a rant my “allergy declaration” 😛 was, sorry about that. It’s just I’ve had to tell people about it many times, & a few of those times they didn’t believe me. Almost got in trouble once or twice at work because my allergy to Alcohol (the sugar in it + the alcohol itself), too much fumes & my head spins, meaning I gotta sit & reset. They thought I was slacking off (yet they were the slackers), not believing my allergy…
I agree, I don’t think you can technically be allergic to sugar. I definitely have some type of sensitivity to sugar too though (and no, I’m not diabetic – my GP has confirmed that with blood tests), as consuming foods or drinks high in sugar makes me feel really sleepy.
At my last job, I took a bottle of juice to the office each day to drink while I worked, to help me keep awake. It always made me really tired and I’d start to nod off at my desk. When I switched to the bottle of juice for one of water, I had no trouble staying awake all day at my desk. Thus I figured, it was the sugar making me feel sleepy. So instead of getting a sugar rush, I tend to get a sugar crash. :/
LOL, turning into a Me Vs Everyone debate about my own allergies I’ve lived with for 22 years…
…strangely enough, It’s not entirely unusual…
Yeah, for me the extra insulin usually gives me a bit of a cheap sugar rush, adding to the destabilized emotions. I have learnt to to control & manage the emotions well enough for me to CAREFULLY power up a bit with strategically consumed sugary foods. After a long Friday night shift I’ve been known to keep going Sat with the help of a lollipop… 😛
Allergies are not just “foods that have a negative medical effect”–they’re a specific form of autoimmune reactions that can lead to anaphylaxis in certain individuals.
Not saying that what you have doesn’t severely suck, but there’s value in being accurate here.
You know, noone’s ever suggested those. That said, if ^Dragon is right, that’ll be a good reason why… 😛
Despite it being around 22 years ago, I still remember the doctors telling me about my newly discovered allergies. Bit hard to forget, considerably-life-changing-event & all. LOL Batman had his parents killed in front of him, Iron man got shrapnel in his heart, I discovered I was allergic to my favorite foods & went cold turkey complete with withdrawal symptoms… 😛
I have a friend with similar over-production of insulin, and it turns out there is an illness that is sort of a reverse diabetic situation, where the pancreas is overactive as is the thyroid, and it reallllly screws with you on a mental/emotional level. Idk if you’ve seen an endocrinologist or other specialist for hormonal hijinks, but it might be worth looking into?
Not entirely accurate – there are sugars that can cause a true allergic reaction (drastic increase in IgE level, leading to anaphylaxis). One example is galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose (alpha-gal), which is contained in meat and is the source of a strange tick-borne contagious meat allergy in rural parts of the US. Some researchers are also suspecting some corn allergens to be sugar-based instead of protein-based. Plus, there are rare triggers of anaphylaxis that do not involve an immunological response – cold urticaria, for example.
…but yeah, regular food sugar is probably not a trigger. 🙂
You should look up the Alpha-gal allergy. It is spread in the US, by the Lone Star tick. It has made me break out after eating anything with mammalian meat in it.
Sugar is only a “poison” in the absolute loosest sense. In that sense, every calorie we burn is a poison, and so is oxygen. Which can be a valid way of looking at things, especially when considering things like aging. But yeah sugar isn’t any more (or less) a poison than lipids (fat) and protein.
Mind you, getting, say, 80% of your calories from simple sugar will be worse for you than getting 80% from complex carbs or something. But that is just what humans are balanced for. Hummingbirds do just fine, after all.
Mirai Nikki never wanted to be cute it reveled in how disturbing it was, hell I just watched it see how insane she could become, though I finally had to quit cause the writing gradually got worse as it progressed (and it wasn’t that great to start with…)
“I sense . . . booze . . . and strong sexual attraction, Captain.”
“No shit, Counselor. Please tell me we aren’t PAYING you for these observations!”
“Commander Riker has me covered on that, sir.” *winks*
ouch. thats a really familar feeling, that little burst of worry and anxiety that your partner spontaneously died overnight. it doesnt have to make sense to cause anxiety.
Well, given that Billie was likely unconscious from alcohol poisoning, it’s fairly likely she could have missed any signs.
(Also IIRC it causes vomiting in most cases[which can lead to suffocation] but otherwise it’s fairly often just you pass out>your heart slows down>you die. The fact that it’s so peaceful is one of the reasons so many people die of it.)
Yeah, but that’s a perfectly fine position for expiring from alcohol poisoning. Not that that would have been a whole lot less dickish than the more direct forms of suicide.
Other than the technicians and engineers and scientists and meteorologists. Oh, and military. The entire country isn’t backwater ignorant of the rest of the entire effing planet, honest.
Well, it’s good to know that Ruth is still alive. The fact that Billie deemed it necessary to check raises some questions. Is Billie having flashbacks to the time she broke down the door and found Ruth passed out, or is this in reference to more recent events? What has been going on with those two? David Willis has hinted that we won’t be seeing too much of them until the next storyline, That Perfect Girl, so we may not find out exactly what’s going on with them for a while.
Usually I’d go in and close them myself, but recently there’s been this weird bug where if I edit a post, sometimes it’ll reattribute the entire comment to me?????
Okay, thought the comment didn’t go through, so I posted again. I got an error message. I must have clicked the post button twice. I’m just proving my point here, it seems.
So we switch from a redhead with issues who has recently hooked up with an Asian girl to… another redhead with issues who has recently hooked up with a half Asian girl. 😀
too many shots are given, not enough are never poured. the fact that ruth got so far with the cold-turkey thing made this relapse all the more depressing
If you try to quit once and fail, trying again can have more severe side effects. Remember how messed up Ruth was the first time? She definitely should try again, but with professional help because otherwise she could die.
Oh, man. Back when my alcoholic family member was drinking, I never physically checked his body to make sure he was still breathing after passing out, but that several-times-daily routine of listening to make sure there are signs of life coming from the person’s general vicinity… that’s a bit of a thing. It’s like, “Okay, I don’t have to immediately worry about you, so I can just go back to chronically losing my mind with concern for you.” Good times.
This relationship is so far from healthy it should be quarantined by the CDC. It’s great that they care about each other, it’s not great that booze has them living on a death watch.
So I’m probably the only one who cared or noticed this but apparently ears are Fs again, they were 5s for so long. They haven’t been Fs since the early days.
These are strange days indeed.
If I had a dollar for everytime I said that about a girl in the morning, I’d have no money at all.
All jokes aside, when you wake up next to your partner (or pretty much pretty much anyone), and thats the first thing you gotta ask, then you know you got it all sorts of rough. Unless of course what your sleeping next to is a hungry carnivore. In which case, why did you sleep next to a hungry carnivore? The heck is wrong with you man?
I like to imagine that Ruth did the same thing to Bille a few minutes ago. It’s the alcoholic lesbian death pact equivalent of hitting the snooze button.
Well, I got a shiver from that! You are reminded of just how extreme Ruth’s issues are andtthe degree to which both young women in today’s strip are flirting with self-destruction!
Billie cares for Ruth and the feelings are mutual. However, I think that Ruth doesn’t care about herself. That makes this a high-stress relationship.
Ahh,well except the fact that Glados is a crazy went A.I.,she somehow has/had an unstable relationship with the others,which in this case Billie and Ruth kinda fit.And i hope they don’t reach the part with broken hearth …or tear each other to pieces.
I kinda want a split-universe parallel comic where it did go the other way. But that’s just the part of me that doesn’t really believe in happy endings talking.
Man it’s a bongo to remove alcohol scents from pillows… In the end Ruthless is going to have to just replace the whole dang thing because that odor simply doesn’t leave. It’s like cat urine for some reason. Steam clean it for days and it STILL WON’T LEAVE THE FLOOR.
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Speaking of sugar mamas…
Except the sugar is hard alcohol.
So, Rum Mama?
Bahama Mama moar liek
More like mama bear.
Dontcha mean “Mama Beer”? 😀
Well sugar is a poison of sorts, so…
I read some once that people who suffer from depression can get allergic to sugar.
Yoooou bet we can! I mean, I dunno about clinically allergic, but it definitely brings out the rashes and the bloating and all manner of fun reactions.
No. Allergies are the immune system incorrectly reacting to proteins that are actually harmless (specifically an immunoglobulin E or IgE reaction).
Sugar is definitionally not a protein so cannot be involved in an allergic reaction. Now people can have a “sensitivity” to sugar. And I suppose it is possible that could be a side effect of depression, though I have never heard of it.
Daniel here. I am allergic to sugar.
And cola. And pork. And chocolate. In other words, all my favorite foods… X(
I’ll admit, I’m no doctor, but it was medically diagnosed that essentially it can & used to quite often have a rather negative effect on me. One of those is my body starts producing as much insulin as it can, to the point where that part of my body almost burnt itself out & shut down.
Another effect (probably related) is that it…destabilizes my emotions, sending my on a wilder ride than a pregnant lady with overacting hormones. When I was happy, I was the happiest kid on the planet. When I was sad, I was pretty bad (with 1 prescription meant to help me sending me deep into suicidal depression land, stopped immediately thank God…). And when I was angry….RUN! FOR! THE! HILLS!! Enough said there…
And no, this is not Screwball & Daniel the Human’s Daniel, this the REAL Daniel. I am allergic to sugar. I was tested for allergies halfway through Aussie Year 8, & I literally completely changed personality within the week I was sent cold turkey on wheat was my favorite foods. I also went through withdrawal symptoms, because all my favorite foods, with all their reactions including the mind-altering, were now off limits.
This is all 100% truth.
My head may be pretty messed up now, in many ways directly & indirectly due to my allergies, but at least I know about it & have learnt to control & manage it. If I hadn’t, I know I would be either in jail, in a looney-bin or in a hole 6 feet under…
Not a medical doctor, either, but what you describe (except for the severe emotional side effects, maybe) sounds more like (Type II(?)) diabetes than an allergy.
Diabetes is when you don’t produce insulin. What my body does is produce too much insulin, to the point where it almost burnt that organ out & became diabetes. I usually just say I’m the opposite to a diabetic, They don’t make enough/any, I make too much…
That’s only exclusive to Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 is when your pancreas doesn’t produce insulin correctly (but still produces it). Most often it’s not enough, but too much can also happen.
Fair enough, but that’s just 1 effect my allergies have on me. Plus they were rather specific in that it wasn’t diabetes when my Mum got worried about that…
Just noticed how much of a rant my “allergy declaration” 😛 was, sorry about that. It’s just I’ve had to tell people about it many times, & a few of those times they didn’t believe me. Almost got in trouble once or twice at work because my allergy to Alcohol (the sugar in it + the alcohol itself), too much fumes & my head spins, meaning I gotta sit & reset. They thought I was slacking off (yet they were the slackers), not believing my allergy…
I agree, I don’t think you can technically be allergic to sugar. I definitely have some type of sensitivity to sugar too though (and no, I’m not diabetic – my GP has confirmed that with blood tests), as consuming foods or drinks high in sugar makes me feel really sleepy.
At my last job, I took a bottle of juice to the office each day to drink while I worked, to help me keep awake. It always made me really tired and I’d start to nod off at my desk. When I switched to the bottle of juice for one of water, I had no trouble staying awake all day at my desk. Thus I figured, it was the sugar making me feel sleepy. So instead of getting a sugar rush, I tend to get a sugar crash. :/
LOL, turning into a Me Vs Everyone debate about my own allergies I’ve lived with for 22 years…
…strangely enough, It’s not entirely unusual…
Yeah, for me the extra insulin usually gives me a bit of a cheap sugar rush, adding to the destabilized emotions. I have learnt to to control & manage the emotions well enough for me to CAREFULLY power up a bit with strategically consumed sugary foods. After a long Friday night shift I’ve been known to keep going Sat with the help of a lollipop… 😛
Allergies are not just “foods that have a negative medical effect”–they’re a specific form of autoimmune reactions that can lead to anaphylaxis in certain individuals.
Not saying that what you have doesn’t severely suck, but there’s value in being accurate here.
It certainly sounds like you have a severe reaction to it! 🙁 That’s unfortunate; I’m glad you’ve figured out what’s causing it!
I’m curious; do antihistamines have any effect? Do they help at all?
antihistamines are for environmental allergies. They don’t help with food allergies.
You know, noone’s ever suggested those. That said, if ^Dragon is right, that’ll be a good reason why… 😛
Despite it being around 22 years ago, I still remember the doctors telling me about my newly discovered allergies. Bit hard to forget, considerably-life-changing-event & all. LOL Batman had his parents killed in front of him, Iron man got shrapnel in his heart, I discovered I was allergic to my favorite foods & went cold turkey complete with withdrawal symptoms… 😛
There are always way too many people ready and willing to fight you on your own life story. The author of this comic could sympathize.
Sorry so many people are way too quick to correct everyone on their personal experiences. Also, RIP your sweet tooth. Sadness.
I have a friend with similar over-production of insulin, and it turns out there is an illness that is sort of a reverse diabetic situation, where the pancreas is overactive as is the thyroid, and it reallllly screws with you on a mental/emotional level. Idk if you’ve seen an endocrinologist or other specialist for hormonal hijinks, but it might be worth looking into?
Sounds like hypoglycemia to me! Hypoglycemia even causes people to have symptoms similar to clinical anxiety!
Not entirely accurate – there are sugars that can cause a true allergic reaction (drastic increase in IgE level, leading to anaphylaxis). One example is galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose (alpha-gal), which is contained in meat and is the source of a strange tick-borne contagious meat allergy in rural parts of the US. Some researchers are also suspecting some corn allergens to be sugar-based instead of protein-based. Plus, there are rare triggers of anaphylaxis that do not involve an immunological response – cold urticaria, for example.
…but yeah, regular food sugar is probably not a trigger. 🙂
You should look up the Alpha-gal allergy. It is spread in the US, by the Lone Star tick. It has made me break out after eating anything with mammalian meat in it.
Sugar is only a “poison” in the absolute loosest sense. In that sense, every calorie we burn is a poison, and so is oxygen. Which can be a valid way of looking at things, especially when considering things like aging. But yeah sugar isn’t any more (or less) a poison than lipids (fat) and protein.
Mind you, getting, say, 80% of your calories from simple sugar will be worse for you than getting 80% from complex carbs or something. But that is just what humans are balanced for. Hummingbirds do just fine, after all.
Actually, oxygen is toxic… it just takes a long-ass time to kill us. It’s why anti-oxidants are so important in our diets.
Still toxic enough to be the reason of the first global mass extinction of life on earth.
We all are creatures like Poison Ivy: Being able to live with and through the toxin!
As my biology advisor once said, everything is toxic. The only question is the lethal dose.
That’s worrying.
Just when I thought it couldn’t go cuter.
This is less cute and more dark and worrying.
Dark and worrying, yes, but it DOES make me want to reach into the comic and hug them in sympathy.
Well, one person’s “dark and worrying” might be someone else’s “cute.”
(for the record, I categorize this under the former)
I wish I could say I didn’t know Billie’s morning worry there.
But meh. 2 lovers in each other’s arms. Cute.
That explains why shows like Mirai Nikki and Madoka Magica are so well-loved.
Mirai Nikki never wanted to be cute it reveled in how disturbing it was, hell I just watched it see how insane she could become, though I finally had to quit cause the writing gradually got worse as it progressed (and it wasn’t that great to start with…)
At first people are all like
“oooh I want a yandere girlfriend !”
but then
“hurr durr don’t kill me”
Found it. sort of.
That’s why Yandere Simulaltor exists,to fullfill some people’s …ahh…pleasures.
2D Yandere is the only safe yandere.
It’s cute until that last panel.
I like to call them hordorable.
“Just when I thought it couldn’t go cuter…I was right!”
Priorities.
Make sure your GF is still breathing is a thing for college students? I thought that was reserved for us fogeys.
there’s a nice little rest period in-between
The difference is why you have to check.
Shit, man.
yeah whoa this is a little rough 🙁
Well, that’s depressing. And kind of scary.
“That means the next fifteen minutes are solid handholdin’ and smoochin’ minutes, ‘fore ya gotta go check again!”
some sentences are universally applicable!
Genius !
*eyetwitch*
Remember kids, it doesn’t count as necrophilia if she was alive when you started having sex.
SOMEbody’s been reading Oglaf! 😀
(hint: it was me)
*checks out Oglaf* Crikey Moses, it has been a while since I last checked Oglaf out, talk about timely.
I hope this was an Oglaf reference, because my dong twinged in pain just reading that sentence.
Lets just say it was, that way your dong can be in less pain.
Your mind works in strange and terrifying ways, Plasma Mongoose. I do not envy you.
Since I might very well have an undiagnosed personality disorder, that’s to be expected, but I’m too old to worry about it too much any more.
ok Oglaf
I feel like whatever lesson was to be taken from this, that definitely wasn’t it.
Ah, you two. I love you both, but jeez, you need counselling.
* Paging Dr. Leslie Bean *
She would be a lot better than Deanna Troi, that’s for sure.
“I sense . . . booze . . . and strong sexual attraction, Captain.”
“No shit, Counselor. Please tell me we aren’t PAYING you for these observations!”
“Commander Riker has me covered on that, sir.” *winks*
Dr. Jack Daniels just isn’t cutting it anymore.
ouch. thats a really familar feeling, that little burst of worry and anxiety that your partner spontaneously died overnight. it doesnt have to make sense to cause anxiety.
Y’know, Ruth’s arms wrapped around her should have been enough for Billie to know that Ruth was still alive.
I mean, it would have been pretty difficult for Ruth to kill herself while maintaining that position. Also pretty dickish.
Death by alcohol poisoning.
Ruth would not have to kill herself by violence, she could succumb to alcohol poisoning.
So does alcohol poisoning not cause any convulsions or anything?
Well, given that Billie was likely unconscious from alcohol poisoning, it’s fairly likely she could have missed any signs.
(Also IIRC it causes vomiting in most cases[which can lead to suffocation] but otherwise it’s fairly often just you pass out>your heart slows down>you die. The fact that it’s so peaceful is one of the reasons so many people die of it.)
Billie has a hangover…NOT alcohol poisoning!
Yeah, but that’s a perfectly fine position for expiring from alcohol poisoning. Not that that would have been a whole lot less dickish than the more direct forms of suicide.
if there’s one thing ruth could never be, it’s dickish.
…
…
I certainly did not order this cute-fear cocktail.
but billie ain’t sendin’ it back, amirite? eh?
…
Did you wanted to be shaken or stirred?
wouldn’t kick her out of bed just for dying, huh?
Only if she wasn’t interested in having a cold one.
*slow, horrified clap*
On the rocks. Large ones.
Boulders essentially.
They should never drink beyond the pint of no return.
I’m trying really hard to figure out of that was a typo or a pun.
Or auto correct.
Cheers, mine’s a Guiness.
So we are getting to the sad parts now? 🙁
I’m weirdly less concerned about the breathing bit than I am the fact that they’re…lying in a heap of used bottles..
they are both clearly working toward a common goal, but billie is just checking that ruth doesn’t get ahead of her
It would be more concerning if they were lying in a heap of unused bottles, since that would mean that they robbed a bottle factory the night before.
I think the whole “hey, if we’re sharing the bottles, we’ll drink less” plan has officially gone all the way off the rails at this point.
“How do people not smell this from 20 meters away”
Because this comic is in America so no-one knows how far a meter is?
Pfeh.
There are more of us who are familiar with the metric system than one might think.
Other than the technicians and engineers and scientists and meteorologists. Oh, and military. The entire country isn’t backwater ignorant of the rest of the entire effing planet, honest.
I pay that comment for a dollar.
Who says they don’t? Everyone already knows that Billie is Boozezilla and nobody wants to eb anywhere near Ruth.
*plays “Monday Monday” on the Muzak*
i was thinking more “gloomy sunday”
Better than sunday bloody sunday.
*grabs neck brace* Jesus, Willis, watch it with the mood whiplash!
I’m sure those are just empty bottles of rootbeer…yes rootbeer.
no, a boatload of fuckin’ snapple.
Not Your Father’s Root Beer.
I’ve had that. It’s really good. It’s almost dangerously good.
Well, it’s good to know that Ruth is still alive. The fact that Billie deemed it necessary to check raises some questions. Is Billie having flashbacks to the time she broke down the door and found Ruth passed out, or is this in reference to more recent events? What has been going on with those two? David Willis has hinted that we won’t be seeing too much of them until the next storyline, That Perfect Girl, so we may not find out exactly what’s going on with them for a while.
Again, I forgot to close the tags. I shouldn’t be allowed near a keyboard late at night, it seems.
i’d say that the fact that we only saw the bottles in the last panel suggests that it has more to do with recent events
Aaand now is a good time to remember that ambulance & hospital preview.
(no, it’s not. God damnit brain)
Yay, she’s breathing!
Drinks all around!
perma-drunkeness: when you celebrate surviving each drink with a drink
see also: ruth/billie/winning
Breathing people are the best.
Opinions vary.
Again, I forgot to close the tags. I shouldn’t be allowed near a keyboard late at night, apparently.
Usually I’d go in and close them myself, but recently there’s been this weird bug where if I edit a post, sometimes it’ll reattribute the entire comment to me?????
oh well
Okay, thought the comment didn’t go through, so I posted again. I got an error message. I must have clicked the post button twice. I’m just proving my point here, it seems.
I do that. And for less reason. 🙁
It seems like a solid way for the “half empty” crowd to live. “Well, okay, I have at least established it won’t be THAT shitty of a day.”
And it’s only at this point that I realize how clever Willis framed this one. Kudos, Willis. Kudos for bringing on the sad through clever paneling.
like an interior designer trying to raise the appeal of a crappy kitchen
We go from the cute/sweet Dina Becky relationship to the dark/depressing Ruth Billie relationship.
So we switch from a redhead with issues who has recently hooked up with an Asian girl to… another redhead with issues who has recently hooked up with a half Asian girl. 😀
I’d really like them to give another shot at the sobriety thing. Yes, Billie slipped up, but that’s no reason to stop trying!
too many shots are given, not enough are never poured. the fact that ruth got so far with the cold-turkey thing made this relapse all the more depressing
If you try to quit once and fail, trying again can have more severe side effects. Remember how messed up Ruth was the first time? She definitely should try again, but with professional help because otherwise she could die.
Billie didn’t slip up, Billie never even tried, she was drinking the entire time.
horaaa~y! billie is always the bearer of good news.
“hey ruth, wake up!”
“wha-?”
“you’re not lying dead in a puddle of your own vomit! isn’t life just awesome?”
“…i need my morning drink”
Oh, man. Back when my alcoholic family member was drinking, I never physically checked his body to make sure he was still breathing after passing out, but that several-times-daily routine of listening to make sure there are signs of life coming from the person’s general vicinity… that’s a bit of a thing. It’s like, “Okay, I don’t have to immediately worry about you, so I can just go back to chronically losing my mind with concern for you.” Good times.
This relationship is so far from healthy it should be quarantined by the CDC. It’s great that they care about each other, it’s not great that booze has them living on a death watch.
It’s better than the death watch I just got finished with.
“It’s quiet. Good news, no yelling. Bad news, um, let me check?”
Uh.
Not alcoholic circunstances, but I feel you there.
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one with that worry/phobia. And then I’m not glad 😐
So I’m probably the only one who cared or noticed this but apparently ears are Fs again, they were 5s for so long. They haven’t been Fs since the early days.
These are strange days indeed.
Do you read Between Failures, by any chance?
No, but I’ve seen it a couple times.
Then I went and checked…so many different ears…I’m frightened.
But this chick has a 5 ear so all is well!…?
http://betweenfailures.com/comics1/1151-you
OH dear lord! In this strip the ears change with each panel O.O
http://betweenfailures.com/comics1/1011-he-and-me
She’s lying with her ear against Billie’s chest, but needs to put a hand up to Billie’s mouth to tell if she’s breathing?
If I had a dollar for everytime I said that about a girl in the morning, I’d have no money at all.
All jokes aside, when you wake up next to your partner (or pretty much pretty much anyone), and thats the first thing you gotta ask, then you know you got it all sorts of rough. Unless of course what your sleeping next to is a hungry carnivore. In which case, why did you sleep next to a hungry carnivore? The heck is wrong with you man?
I sleep next to a hungry carnivore regularly. She usually paws at me in hopes of getting me up because she can’t open the cans.
Heh.
d’awww
relationship ungoals?
This is like scoring on your own net.
aw geez….
The trick is to keep breathing.
That’s okay. Who needed happy fluffs, anyway?
The Dumbing of Age drinking game: Take a drink every time the storyline drives you to drinking.
I had actually grabbed a beer just before reading this strip. It was strictly coincidental, but still.
I4ll go get coffee.
I’d have expected you to put that beer down after seeing today’s comic.
My ex-wife used to say something like that when I’d sleep. I have a machine that helps me breathe, now! ^_^
Oh, sleep apnea ? Lemme tell you, it’s scary when seen/heard from the outside.
Good on you to have gotten that machine tho. It’s a litteral life saver.
There’s that trademarek Willis Mood Whiplash I’ve been
dreadinglooking for!And yet the blow is somewhat lessened; we’ve been waiting for just such an “other shoe” for a while now, have we not?
Billie’s checking for potential mouth smooches.
…seriously, what get’s me most is that this is not dramatic moment – this is a part of their everyday routine.
Wake up, wash the vomit off, check to make sure your girlfriend is alive, try not to give in to despair, class.
Annnnd that just went from “cute couple” to “oh god that’s toxic”.
I like to imagine that Ruth did the same thing to Bille a few minutes ago. It’s the alcoholic lesbian death pact equivalent of hitting the snooze button.
Also, this is incredibly sad.
Breathing is good.
I try to do it every day.
Man, I hope they get better soon. 🙁 Methinks this is an accident waiting to happen.
The worst thing is that none of this is accidental 🙁
Worried about possibly binge drinking yourself into a coma while alone? Then binge drink with a friend – they can call the medics when they wake up!
If they wake up at all.
And if that’s the case, you’re both dead!
This will end for them like Chasing Life for April some day…
Well, I got a shiver from that! You are reminded of just how extreme Ruth’s issues are andtthe degree to which both young women in today’s strip are flirting with self-destruction!
Billie cares for Ruth and the feelings are mutual. However, I think that Ruth doesn’t care about herself. That makes this a high-stress relationship.
Community! I request a revision to this video appropriate to the comic and Billie/Ruth! I have faith you can make it awesome.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/breathing/#comments
I think you linked the wrong thing.
Your right. Confounded by my own genius! And by genius I mean insomnia.
Right link here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI
Ahh,well except the fact that Glados is a crazy went A.I.,she somehow has/had an unstable relationship with the others,which in this case Billie and Ruth kinda fit.And i hope they don’t reach the part with broken hearth …or tear each other to pieces.
I keep forgetting these two even have a thing. It’s such a blissful ignorance.
Time for another round of fun and sunshine with Billie and Ruth. Yaayyy…
SOMEONE GET THESE TWO SERIOUS HELP, YESTERDAY.
And you thought this comic was already too dark…
I hope you enjoy my edit. ^_^
That feeling I had every morning before school. Except the dead person,of course.
I kinda want a split-universe parallel comic where it did go the other way. But that’s just the part of me that doesn’t really believe in happy endings talking.
Well it worked out for a bit in the Walkyverse.
Then Ruth acted with integrity and Danny stole her girl.
And we all learned never to act with integrity…
Well, it feels like it could’ve been canon…
She’s just lucky Ruth missed the self destruct button while she was flailing around.
Man it’s a bongo to remove alcohol scents from pillows… In the end Ruthless is going to have to just replace the whole dang thing because that odor simply doesn’t leave. It’s like cat urine for some reason. Steam clean it for days and it STILL WON’T LEAVE THE FLOOR.
Bongo!
Reminds me of these from Questionable Content;
Questionable Content
Is it just me or does her girlfriend look like the Wendy’s girl? >_>
I want to take this strip and rub it in the face of everyone who thinks these two have a cute and healthy relationship.
Y’know, I was just thinking of these two last night o.o
It all came crashing down.
“Nothing lasts forever”..and assorted sayings.
And in other lesbian news…