Nah. Where everyone else has all sorts of shades of cool, Danny’s Cool/Uncool operates via a form of Binary Hysteresis. Once a specific threshold is reached he snaps from absolute zero cool to 100% cool and then back again.
It’s also Sarah’s, so I dunno if she’d be on board with that. though, it also might be as close to her admitting she’d like a costume party as she’d come
An untied tie does not a stylish scarf make. I keep expecting Leslie to materialize from the aether and knot it like the doting mother she wants to be.
I think different people’s brains are just wired differently. For instance, I am incredible at remembering faces, but I’m horrible at matching names to them. I generally will only remember a person’s name if I see them on a regular basis.
Meanwhile, I have a cousin who is the exact opposite; she’s fantastic at remembering names, but has a more difficult time putting faces to them. Like, she knows that my 2nd uncle has 5 kids and that their names are Joshua, Alex, Rita, Samantha and Alesha (names changed for privacy reasons), but because they live overseas and we don’t meet up often, when they do actually come for a visit, she’s always getting the siblings mixed up.
Imagine if it were Joe or any other male character that said they only remember “hot chicks”. Would the conversation be about brain wiring and relatable difficulties remembering faces?
Danny, ukeleles are only fun when being played by Rebecca Sugar and Steven Universe. Unless you decide to play the soundtrack of Steven Universe, get something else or stop trying to be a hipster just because of your bi angst.
Also, does anybody besides Joe and Danny’s exes know Danny as a person? Willis desire to make Danny a cosmic punchbag for the past 10 years or more is noticeable.
Of course Becky would ignore positive themes of responsibility, redemption and progress. The only time Becky and responsibility appear in the same sentences is “Becky and the main cast of DOA don’t understand personal responsibility”.
We had a Danny one year at college but with a guitar. He literally looked like the sensitive guitar guy at the toga party in, “Animal House,” and we all wanted to do to his guitar what Bluto did to his. He tried to start hootenannies in the cafeteria and was extremely insulted when yelled at to knock it off.
I know this is weird, but I kinda totally want Danny and Joyce to form a friendship, if not become briefly romantically entangled. I actually LIKE DoA Danny, even though he’s a big doof. I think they would have an interesting dynamic.
90% of what’s wrong with DoA Joyce can be fixed with a little time for her to experience the world outside of her fundy bubble, see the real world instead of the distortions and outright lies she has been given up until now.
Being horrible at respecting boundaries is literally Cult 101 and also abuser 101 and absolutely would be part of an extreme religious sect’s 101 too to control people. You can’t be brainwashed into following your religion blindly if you believe you have free thought and can make your own choices and should be respected for making your choices instead of disparaged for them.
Not that I’m defending where Joyce has actively chosen to refuse to learn though. She should have listened to Dorothy about the Jacob thing, didn’t and it has blown up in all of their faces. Whereas in other areas (entering rooms without knocking) people give her a pass a lot of the time, so there hasn’t been as much opportunity to learn to stop doing that and reactions vary.
Purposefully bad at boundaries is totally abuser 101. Accidentally bad at boundaries is often an abused kid thing because they were brought up in a household where their boundaries and their peers’ boundaries didn’t matter.
Hey, somebody has to be the person who shows up first to the party and hangs around awkwardly until others get there. Danny seems to be perfect for that.
b) Is your Swedish Netflix showing “The Great British Bake-Off”?
If that is also the case, you really need to watch it, if you haven’t already.
For anyone who hasn’t already watched it:
It’s basically a bunch of British people being incredibly nice and adorable and total DOOFUSES (in a very British way, of course) as they try to win a baking competition. It has -none- of the interpersonal drama usually associated with such television. Everyone is always being nice; and if someone has time*, they will always, always offer to help someone who’s behind schedule**.
And I always end up loving -every single contestant- because they are always so wholesome and nice to one another; and whenever someone has a bad bake or is eliminated, it hits me so much in The Feels.
*Which is practically never, because the time limits on their baking are strict as hell.
Yeah, that whole “Election to sort out a parliamentary majority for one way of dealing with brexit, but where the big party refuse to give specific information on how they will deal with brexit, and where everything will end up in a confusing coalition with no common idea of how to get brexit done” has already been done.
But I like the twist that this time Tories suggestion for a deal has already been published, and they STILL act like they don’t want commit to it.
My favourite episode of the current season is “The Three Letters”, one presenting a deal for Brexit, the other saying that the deal should not be accepted, and the third explaining WHY the deal shouldn’t be accepted.
Only one of them was signed, who could possibly have written the other two? Gosh, I hope they reveal the answer to that mystery instead of pulling a LOST on us. Edge of my seat, I tell ya.
Is that kind of like the US vs UK versions of Kitchen Nightmares? Here they made Gordon Ramsay turn up the wick on his angry chef persona to keep us dumb ‘muricans entertained, but the UK version is more wholesome and he mostly saves the yelling for people who deserve it.
Paul Hollywood is stern and strict, but he’s not a yeller.
And (in the first few seasons) Mary Berry is basically your grandmother, who will like almost anything you make her, and never get mad at you for trying. But she will do something far more evil if you fail…
…She will be a bit disappointed in you.
Mary Berry.
A bit disappointed.
In you.
That’s like your favourite grandmother not hanging up your drawing of you and her on the wall.
Gordon Ramsey yelling at you is weak sauce compared to that.
I second this; it’s one of the best TV shows in Britain. I really loved this year’s batch of contestants. (The side show An Extra Slice is quite fun too, but I don’t know if it’s available overseas or indeed anywhere after the initial broadcast)
Absolutely. It’s so much more enjoyable and relaxed than a competitive cooking series. And Mary Berry is the extra grandmother we never knew we wanted, until we knew we did.
I’m sure that Becky didn’t mean it in a negative way, but I gotta say that saying outright that you don’t remember people unless you find them hot and/or sexually attractive is INCREDIBLY offensive. That is such a Joe thing to say. :/
Frankly, for similar reasons as Joe. They are both spending a lot of time projecting their persona. Joe as someone who LIKES TO FUCK! Becky as GUESS WHAT, SHE IS A LESBIAN!!!!
One of the two people at the table was Jocelyne, which I’m fairly certain ranks low on the “persecuting” end of persecutions.
(as a side note which I’ve just noticed because I went back to that strip, she’s the one with blue eyes, John’s are black – I keep forgetting that the Brown children’s eyes seem to be colour-coded by gender)
Ouch on that second paragraph. We had something somewhat similar to the Hitler Youth here before the revolution (less racial supremacy, more ultranationalism), and I never heard anyone make that sort of comment.
Personally I just wish more people were that honest in real life. It would make things so much simpler. But at least you are judging her with the same criteria you would a male who said the same thing. That is very refreshing.
Oh, I KNOW that whenever people meet each other, among other things they’re going to judge the other person on how sexually/physically attractive they are. It’s just how our biology is wired. (Seriously, it’s an unconscious thing that takes effect in the split second you first look at someone.) What I take exception to is actually stating out loud that fact because it shows that they have no consideration for how their words would actually affect the other person. Sure, you may not find someone physically attractive, but that does not in itself diminish that person’s worth. What Becky is saying here is essentially “I do not find you attractive. Therefore, you are of no importance to me.” That’s where I draw the line, because fundamentally that’s no different to discriminating against someone based on their gender, sexuality, race or religion.
It’s superficially similar, but much different in intent than anything Joe would say. He’d actually be using it to hit on some hot chick, even if it was performatively.
the oboe is badass, just isn’t your everyday instrument. Anyone who disses the oboe might as well diss the harpsichord. I don’t even like the harpsichord, but I’ll stick up for these instruments
Okay, everyone! Time to place your markers: Who is going to end up locked in the laundry room with Danny (for being basically a very annoying guest at a party) and will the two of them end up making out?
I think Willis keeps tryna make Danny look more goofy and hipster, but it’s backfiring because he’s only getting cuter to me. I would be all over him at this party lol
And then if she actually got shot she had a coin flip chance* of not being treated because her sexual orientation was against the provider’s religious beliefs. But what’s a little murder between family members?
*Is the fact that it’s Indiana countered by the fact that apparently the U town is pretty progressive?
@plasticwrap: Nobody’s “getting a pass here”? Even if it were Joe or some other big dude like him saying this, it merits like, an eye roll at most.
The main problem with Joe’s behavior was never been that he’s horny, or even that he openly talks about what he’s into. It’s that he would never talk about anything else, and would persistently ignore women’s boundaries, on top of not respecting them as people
Becky is playfully referencing the fact that she is a lesbian. She doesn’t need to be given a pass for that
Technically he’d respect boundaries in the sense that he does take “no” and “not interested” for an answer. I mean, that’s a really low bar to clear but it’s infuriating how often men fail even that test.
Short version is: Old Joe doesn’t actually respect a no.
When he is hitting on someone, he keeps hitting on them -until they have to yell out their “NO!” to him. And even then, he still tries making it seem like they are over-reacting to him.
Just ask Sarah how many times he tried to keep hitting on her after that first no.
However, the New Joe may or may not start learning to respect that first no, in addition to not ranking women on his shitty list. We’ll see.
There’s actually a much simpler explanation… y’all have easily forgettable faces.
No but really though. Most white men walk through the world assuming that they have memorable faces because they interact with predominately other white men (most people group with ppl similar to them, that’s not a dis) and details are easier to distinguish in homogenous communities. It’s one of the reasons why (racist) people say that Japanese and Chinese faces look the same. If you aren’t used to distinguishing details with a specific ethnic group, you don’t notice those details.
Lesbians have no reason to distinguish men’s faces. We’re not attracted to you and because of the way women and men are socialized to be friends with people of the same sex, we probably hang out with predominately women from a platonic standpoint too. So a lesbian could potentially have a social circle without any men in it at all and, therefore, men in general fall outside of our homogeneity in a way that’s not true for the majority population – to the extent that I personally once confused Robert De Niro and Danny DeVito because their names both have “De” in them.
“I don’t remember people who aint hot chicks” sounds more shallow than it is because it is hard for people unused to being forgotten to imagine that they have a forgettable face. I’ve had this happen with me forgetting someone at least a dozen times and they’re always first shocked and then second crushed because in many cases it was the first time they’d ever had the experience of not being immediately recognized, and then also the second time the next time we ran into each other.
So yeah after the first half a dozen times of watching guys melt like a kicked puppy I started jabbing fun at myself for forgetting their face. “Sorry guy but you aren’t a hot chick #dontcare.”
I don’t really think any of that holds together.
It certainly doesn’t cover for the “hot” part of it – imagine Becky saying that to another woman.
I’d find it obnoxious, if it wasn’t obviously performative and part of Becky’s baby gay stage. She’s only been out a few weeks and out from a horribly repressive culture as well. I’ll bet Becky actually remembers Danny perfectly well.
Plenty of people have commented on the similarity to Joe’s comments, but I also see a parallel to Walky pretending not to remember various people’s names – particularly Amber when she unmasked.
I don’t think she remembers his name, but I do think she’s trying to joke around. Like, it’s not a great sentiment, and if she actually doesn’t remember/pay attention to people who aren’t “hot chicks,” yeah, that’s something to work on.
As it is, it’s a joking way to put the fault of not remembering Danny back on her (rather than “you’re an incredibly forgettable person,” for example) without really showing vulnerability.
My basic stance is that it’s not a great joke, but it’s a joke.
Or she’s just plain bad at faces, and hides it being being performatively A LESBIAN!!!! I’m extremely bad at pairing faces with names (or actually, bad at names AND faces). I keep confusing those three blond actors that were super popular at some point*, and it drove my teenage girlfriends crazy (but also they found it hilarious). And yet I’m attracted to guys.
Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio and the one who was married with the actress from Friends and then was with the brunette with the 6 or so adopted children.
Yes, that’s the one. I also remember the ladies’ names now, Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie. Names just don’t come readily to mind.
But that’s probably just projection and has nothing whatsoever to do with Becky’s attitude.
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Becky, you really haven’t seen Danny’s clip reel.
He was fine at Joe’s Donutpalooza.
Who even invited Danny, and why?
Eh, Danny’s harmless, and I could see Amber (who is Dina’s roommate) inviting him.
The real question is who invited Joe.
Maybe Joyce? They’re friends, more or less, in spite of everything.
Joe and Dina have never interacted, have they?
This could be… interesting.
She took a donut from him once.
That seems to be it.
Once.
All it takes is just one.
My headcanon is that Joyce invited Joe, and then let Danny come along.
Who invited Becky?
Danny and Becky is a very weird aesthetic.
Mainly because one was Joyce’s major crush in one universe, and the other had a major crush on Joyce in another.
But they otherwise have nothing in common.
They’re both Christians and queer, so there’s that. I also kinda love their outfits.
Also, they both are incapable of anything but maximum and minimum cool.
Danny’s got some pretty cool moments, like one of the sassiest lines in the history of this webcomic.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/01-the-only-dope-for-me-is-you/broken/
Yes, but does he have any kinda-cool moments? It’s all-or-nothing with these two.
Nah. Where everyone else has all sorts of shades of cool, Danny’s Cool/Uncool operates via a form of Binary Hysteresis. Once a specific threshold is reached he snaps from absolute zero cool to 100% cool and then back again.
Slander! Becky is ALWAYS maximum cool.
What about when she’s HOT tho
Love the outfits but damnit Becky get that necktie tied! Look good for your gal!
Tied ties do not look good. They make you look willing to do nonsensical things because some nonsensical person decided it was required to look good.
You’ve just described the entirety of human aesthetics.
Tie the tie, Becky.
If you don’t want to wear a tie, don’t wear a tie.
But if you’re going to wear a tie, tie the fucking thing.
Untied ties are only appropriate if you wore one properly all day and want to remove it, have nowhere to stash it.
Per manga and anime, then you tie it around your head.
Untied bow ties are acceptable at the end of the night, though. In Tie Law, that’s known as the Rat Pack Codicil.
That is not a tie. It’s a length of gift ribbon Becky decided to drape around her neck. Because birthday.
( Which means Dina should be the one to tie it for her. )
Would Dina be the one to untie it?
It’s rare for the birthday girl to wrap her present.
Well, if Toedad and Fuckstain are planning on making their move today, then it’s probably going to happen soon.
But that would cut in on their movienight/cable-news motel date-time.
Isn’t this Dina’s birthday party? Shouldn’t everyone be dressed as their favorite dinosaur (or other prehistoric creature)?
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It’s also Sarah’s, so I dunno if she’d be on board with that. though, it also might be as close to her admitting she’d like a costume party as she’d come
It could also take attention off of her, making it ‘primarily’ Dina’s party.
So, maybe “Come dressed as your favorite prehistoric creature or favorite misanthrope”?
they are all broke so a dinasour costume party sounds dificult.
BLOWJOB CAT IS ALWAYS WATCHING
He’s a peeping tomcat
And JUDGING.
Becky, either learn to tie a tie or stop wearing them…the ‘untied tie’ look only works at the end of a long day.
The proper ‘I’m wearing a tie, but I’m laid back’ look is to tie it but loosen it.
Becky is alternative-to-alternative.
And just when we thought our fame would last forever
Along came a band that refused to get together…
Back to Athens…
Beat me to it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq73FAo4x38
She might be MAD non-conformist material.
That is, if her hi-fi listening taste is bird calls, tap dance and exercise lessons, and transcripts of Senate Committe hearings.
(Note: In 1959, MAD magazine also mentions the hand-cranked Victrola as something MAD non-conformists would do, so they got that right.)
Tom Swift books! Yay!
Becky is following the example of Adam from Nier Automata.
Just another shortcoming in the father department.
But not in the freshly adopted mother department: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/04-the-do-list/broccoli/
If only Leslie could’ve been Becky’s mother for a few more days, then Becky would’ve known at least three different tie knots by now.
nah.
She doesn’t want to learn them herself, she wanted Leslie to mom on her.
and now she gave it all away *cries*
I have a book of 85 tie knots that someone gave me for my 35th birthday. It was written by mathematicians, and leaves out all the cool ones.
You’re a fool, my friend
An untied tie does not a stylish scarf make. I keep expecting Leslie to materialize from the aether and knot it like the doting mother she wants to be.
I never thought ripped and shredded jeans made a fashion statement either, but apparently I was wrong on that too.
Tying it only works never.
1) It is the end of a long day.
2) She’s had, like, a week to learn how to tie a tie, and is new to the internet so might not know just to YouTube it.
Let me be more specific.
Wearing a tie untied is only appropriate if, after a long day of being forced to wear one you want to take it off, but have nowhere to put it.
It is the universal symbol of being dead tired and/or half in the bag.
Somebody in their own home, perky, and wearing a tie by choice should not be wearing an untied tie.
And again, if she can’t tie it, or get somebody else to tie it for her, the proper thing to do is not wear it.
Couldn’t it just be untied because its still early and she hasn’t had time to tie it yet?
You clearly have a thing or two to learn about ties.
I have every thing to learn about ties.
Some times people have especially forgettable faces. Still, Becky should probably work on her memory problems if it’s a more general thing.
Or, to increase the shenaniganery (and Becky is all about shenaniganery), she could try remembering everyone she meets AS a hot chick.
“Hey, do you know if that total babe Danni is coming by? And is she bringing her friend Jo?”
Upvotes several.
To be fair, she met him like twice, she’s easier for him to remember since it was kind of a whirlwind of a situation, that saga.
Joyce, on the other hand, spitefully tries to not remember him because he’s Dorothy’s ex, and even that usually seems more impish than bongoy.
I don’t think Joyce forgets Danny out of spite. She just seems to really have a hard time remembering he exists.
I think different people’s brains are just wired differently. For instance, I am incredible at remembering faces, but I’m horrible at matching names to them. I generally will only remember a person’s name if I see them on a regular basis.
Meanwhile, I have a cousin who is the exact opposite; she’s fantastic at remembering names, but has a more difficult time putting faces to them. Like, she knows that my 2nd uncle has 5 kids and that their names are Joshua, Alex, Rita, Samantha and Alesha (names changed for privacy reasons), but because they live overseas and we don’t meet up often, when they do actually come for a visit, she’s always getting the siblings mixed up.
Wow. Look at this thread!
Imagine if it were Joe or any other male character that said they only remember “hot chicks”. Would the conversation be about brain wiring and relatable difficulties remembering faces?
This. She’s being a jerk.
Agreed, with both Tom and Eyebrow. If Becky was a guy, the discussion would be far less polite.
lesbian/bi solidarity
Mlem/wulwuh solidarity
Does Becky still not believe bisexuals exist?
Dina informed her otherwise, and Becky admitted her error.
*sees that it’s Becky’s birthday party*
*Remembers that Joyce’s dad tried to call her*
In the words of someone once beloved the internet over, “YOU FOOOOOL!”
Who, Galasso?
It’s Dina and Sarah’s actually
Danny, ukeleles are only fun when being played by Rebecca Sugar and Steven Universe. Unless you decide to play the soundtrack of Steven Universe, get something else or stop trying to be a hipster just because of your bi angst.
Also, does anybody besides Joe and Danny’s exes know Danny as a person? Willis desire to make Danny a cosmic punchbag for the past 10 years or more is noticeable.
Actually, if I recall, Danny actually CAN play the SU theme.
That is a useful skill, but I doubt Becky watches SU since she just got out of her fundie upbringing just like a month ago.
I dunno, though, she DID stay with Leslie, who is a big fan.
I imagine someone with Becky’s upbringing would be on a figurative IV drip of SU, after 18 years and then “nuking the closet”.
Becky: So what’s this show you want me to see about?
Leslie: It’s a coming of age story with lots of plots dealing with responsibility and redemption, and heavy progressive themes.
Becky: Pass.
Leslie: It’s about hot queer chicks from space.
Becky: Sold!
Of course Becky would ignore positive themes of responsibility, redemption and progress. The only time Becky and responsibility appear in the same sentences is “Becky and the main cast of DOA don’t understand personal responsibility”.
Sal and Ethan, basically.
You want fun ukulele? You want ukulele magic?
Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0ypW7gvH8E
I swear, it sounds like someone is playing two or even three instruments at once.
For one brief moment I got excited thinking someone else found the Kazookelele.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfRUU1WTb2c
This is super fun!
Wait, we’re actually getting the fireworks factory that is Becky’s Party? I just assumed we would Xeno’s Paradox it for eternity.
Aw, Becky, come on, he can play Steven Universe songs or maybe OK KO songs. They’re both pretty gay.
He can also play “Hurt”, which I’m sure will just immediately drill itself through Becky’s many layers of defenses, and hit her right in The Feels.
Or maybe by this point, he’s learned to do a Ukulele version of “Tragedy + time”.
Of he can allow down the Steven Universe thence and play “Creep”, which might work well for some of the other folks.
I guess ukelele guy is still better than guitar guy at a party. . .
We had a Danny one year at college but with a guitar. He literally looked like the sensitive guitar guy at the toga party in, “Animal House,” and we all wanted to do to his guitar what Bluto did to his. He tried to start hootenannies in the cafeteria and was extremely insulted when yelled at to knock it off.
*crunch*
“Sorry.”
Lemme guess, he played a lot of “Wonderwall” and “Hey There, Delilah”?
Those two songs made me LOATHE the acoustic guitar.
I know this is weird, but I kinda totally want Danny and Joyce to form a friendship, if not become briefly romantically entangled. I actually LIKE DoA Danny, even though he’s a big doof. I think they would have an interesting dynamic.
I like DoA Danny, but not DoA Joyce.
90% of what’s wrong with DoA Joyce can be fixed with a little time for her to experience the world outside of her fundy bubble, see the real world instead of the distortions and outright lies she has been given up until now.
I don’t think ‘horrible at respecting boundaries’ is part of the fundy bubble.
It kind of is. At least Joyce’s fundy bubble. It’s all linked to being raised without being allowed any boundaries of her own.
It absolutely is. Where do you think she leaned it? Can’t properly control people if you’re respecting their boundaries.
Being horrible at respecting boundaries is literally Cult 101 and also abuser 101 and absolutely would be part of an extreme religious sect’s 101 too to control people. You can’t be brainwashed into following your religion blindly if you believe you have free thought and can make your own choices and should be respected for making your choices instead of disparaged for them.
Not that I’m defending where Joyce has actively chosen to refuse to learn though. She should have listened to Dorothy about the Jacob thing, didn’t and it has blown up in all of their faces. Whereas in other areas (entering rooms without knocking) people give her a pass a lot of the time, so there hasn’t been as much opportunity to learn to stop doing that and reactions vary.
Purposefully bad at boundaries is totally abuser 101. Accidentally bad at boundaries is often an abused kid thing because they were brought up in a household where their boundaries and their peers’ boundaries didn’t matter.
Joyce is getting better at boundaries. Slowly.
Though she actually made a big step recently with knocking on Sal’s door in the morning – much to Becky’s confusion.
Hey, somebody has to be the person who shows up first to the party and hangs around awkwardly until others get there. Danny seems to be perfect for that.
In fact, he is so used to awkward that the extra level of awkward that comes with showing up first is hardly a blip above his baseline.
Danny is a walking community service.
Look out, party goers. Danny got game in the laundry room
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/03-when-god-closes-the-door/kindness-4/
By the way, Bagge, do you have:
a) Netflix, and if so,
b) Is your Swedish Netflix showing “The Great British Bake-Off”?
If that is also the case, you really need to watch it, if you haven’t already.
For anyone who hasn’t already watched it:
It’s basically a bunch of British people being incredibly nice and adorable and total DOOFUSES (in a very British way, of course) as they try to win a baking competition. It has -none- of the interpersonal drama usually associated with such television. Everyone is always being nice; and if someone has time*, they will always, always offer to help someone who’s behind schedule**.
And I always end up loving -every single contestant- because they are always so wholesome and nice to one another; and whenever someone has a bad bake or is eliminated, it hits me so much in The Feels.
*Which is practically never, because the time limits on their baking are strict as hell.
**I.e. pretty much everyone else
That sounds like the best thing ever!
It sure sounds more wholesome than my other favorite British TV-show: Brexit.
That thing is on season 5 and it SOMEHOW keeps being renewed by the network, even though they just keep rehashing the same plotlines from season 1.
Yeah, that whole “Election to sort out a parliamentary majority for one way of dealing with brexit, but where the big party refuse to give specific information on how they will deal with brexit, and where everything will end up in a confusing coalition with no common idea of how to get brexit done” has already been done.
But I like the twist that this time Tories suggestion for a deal has already been published, and they STILL act like they don’t want commit to it.
My favourite episode of the current season is “The Three Letters”, one presenting a deal for Brexit, the other saying that the deal should not be accepted, and the third explaining WHY the deal shouldn’t be accepted.
Only one of them was signed, who could possibly have written the other two? Gosh, I hope they reveal the answer to that mystery instead of pulling a LOST on us. Edge of my seat, I tell ya.
Is that kind of like the US vs UK versions of Kitchen Nightmares? Here they made Gordon Ramsay turn up the wick on his angry chef persona to keep us dumb ‘muricans entertained, but the UK version is more wholesome and he mostly saves the yelling for people who deserve it.
There is no yelling.
Paul Hollywood is stern and strict, but he’s not a yeller.
And (in the first few seasons) Mary Berry is basically your grandmother, who will like almost anything you make her, and never get mad at you for trying. But she will do something far more evil if you fail…
…She will be a bit disappointed in you.
Mary Berry.
A bit disappointed.
In you.
That’s like your favourite grandmother not hanging up your drawing of you and her on the wall.
Gordon Ramsey yelling at you is weak sauce compared to that.
I second this; it’s one of the best TV shows in Britain. I really loved this year’s batch of contestants. (The side show An Extra Slice is quite fun too, but I don’t know if it’s available overseas or indeed anywhere after the initial broadcast)
Absolutely. It’s so much more enjoyable and relaxed than a competitive cooking series. And Mary Berry is the extra grandmother we never knew we wanted, until we knew we did.
Well I guess playing a ukulele is better than being the “Douche-Who-Plays-His-Acoustic-Guitar-At-Every-Party”
If he breaks out into “Wonderwall”, then he’s worse.
Well, its smaller. Cuter.
But is it better?
Poor Danny is about to find that no-one welcomes a ukulele player at a party!
That’s one of those things where it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission.
Sadly, Becky will lock him in and he’ll be found having died of a detergent allergy.
Weeks later,.
DANNY’S GHOST: “Figures.”
Everyone’s hating on Danny, but I’d like some ambient music as I enter a party. That sounds nice.
You are nothing but generous to refer to ukulele playing as music.
It is literally music? What’s wrong with y’all?
Danny did nothing wrong.
This time.
You have to go in the laundry too. Sorry, I don’t make the rules. Becky has established that as the punishment room.
I’m sure that Becky didn’t mean it in a negative way, but I gotta say that saying outright that you don’t remember people unless you find them hot and/or sexually attractive is INCREDIBLY offensive. That is such a Joe thing to say. :/
Oh, absolutely.
Frankly, for similar reasons as Joe. They are both spending a lot of time projecting their persona. Joe as someone who LIKES TO FUCK! Becky as GUESS WHAT, SHE IS A LESBIAN!!!!
I mean, it’s still better than calling a bunch of people nazis because they’re blond with blue eyes, so, yay, improvement?
It couldn’t possibly have had anything to do with the persecution she was living through right then, just random people with blond hair and blue eyes.
One of the two people at the table was Jocelyne, which I’m fairly certain ranks low on the “persecuting” end of persecutions.
(as a side note which I’ve just noticed because I went back to that strip, she’s the one with blue eyes, John’s are black – I keep forgetting that the Brown children’s eyes seem to be colour-coded by gender)
Also note that Joe is Jewish.
Joe wasn’t involved in that incident – it was John and Jocelyne at the table.
In fairness, Becky doesn’t know about Jocelyne. To her, she’s ‘Joshua’ Joyce’s older brother.
According to Willis, this was also not an uncommon ‘friendly asshole’ thing to say where he grew up.
Ouch on that second paragraph. We had something somewhat similar to the Hitler Youth here before the revolution (less racial supremacy, more ultranationalism), and I never heard anyone make that sort of comment.
Personally I just wish more people were that honest in real life. It would make things so much simpler. But at least you are judging her with the same criteria you would a male who said the same thing. That is very refreshing.
Oh, I KNOW that whenever people meet each other, among other things they’re going to judge the other person on how sexually/physically attractive they are. It’s just how our biology is wired. (Seriously, it’s an unconscious thing that takes effect in the split second you first look at someone.) What I take exception to is actually stating out loud that fact because it shows that they have no consideration for how their words would actually affect the other person. Sure, you may not find someone physically attractive, but that does not in itself diminish that person’s worth. What Becky is saying here is essentially “I do not find you attractive. Therefore, you are of no importance to me.” That’s where I draw the line, because fundamentally that’s no different to discriminating against someone based on their gender, sexuality, race or religion.
It’s superficially similar, but much different in intent than anything Joe would say. He’d actually be using it to hit on some hot chick, even if it was performatively.
Like the banjo, the accordion, and the viola, the ukulele gets no respect.
And the bagpipe.
But the OBOE? Now you’re talking!
You’re only talking with the oboe if you’re the Grandfather in Peter and the Wolf.
A+ reference.
(or possibly some other key, I’m not sure)
D Minor, I believe.
the oboe is badass, just isn’t your everyday instrument. Anyone who disses the oboe might as well diss the harpsichord. I don’t even like the harpsichord, but I’ll stick up for these instruments
Well, that may well be true, but in this instances the more important factor in the lack of respect shown is that DANNY gets no respect.
Okay accordion deserved more respect and that’s a hill I’ll die on
– a Jason Webley fan
Somebody wanna start a banjo, accordion, viola, ukulele combo?
Okay, everyone! Time to place your markers: Who is going to end up locked in the laundry room with Danny (for being basically a very annoying guest at a party) and will the two of them end up making out?
My money’s on Ethan if he’s invited
Joe.
But it’s dark, they won’t know who each other are.
And yes.
Danny is love; Danny is life.
Sit down and strum anywhere you like, you good egg you.
Ah, laundry room music. Our campus bluegrass band met in laundry rooms when the weather sucked or it was too cold. Good times, good memories.
aka the hotbox 😉
Becky is right. Go in the laundry ukulele boy.
I think Willis keeps tryna make Danny look more goofy and hipster, but it’s backfiring because he’s only getting cuter to me. I would be all over him at this party lol
“I don’t remember people who aint hot chicks”, is something an earlier Joe would have said. Egh, thats pretty superficial.
Well, Becky is coping with 6-8 years of sexuality hitting her all in the past few weeks, so I am willing to cut her some slack on shallowness.
this, but also LGBTQ+ people get a pass, haven’t you heard?
I thought they could only pass when they were in the closet. Becky can’t go back there, the fallout won’t have decayed enough yet.
They get a pass when they’re not getting thrown out of their house, beaten up or in this case kidnapped at gun point by their bigoted dad.
It’s so easy being queer.
And then if she actually got shot she had a coin flip chance* of not being treated because her sexual orientation was against the provider’s religious beliefs. But what’s a little murder between family members?
*Is the fact that it’s Indiana countered by the fact that apparently the U town is pretty progressive?
@plasticwrap: Nobody’s “getting a pass here”? Even if it were Joe or some other big dude like him saying this, it merits like, an eye roll at most.
The main problem with Joe’s behavior was never been that he’s horny, or even that he openly talks about what he’s into. It’s that he would never talk about anything else, and would persistently ignore women’s boundaries, on top of not respecting them as people
Becky is playfully referencing the fact that she is a lesbian. She doesn’t need to be given a pass for that
Technically he’d respect boundaries in the sense that he does take “no” and “not interested” for an answer. I mean, that’s a really low bar to clear but it’s infuriating how often men fail even that test.
So, like, F+ on Respects Women?
Short version is: Old Joe doesn’t actually respect a no.
When he is hitting on someone, he keeps hitting on them -until they have to yell out their “NO!” to him. And even then, he still tries making it seem like they are over-reacting to him.
Just ask Sarah how many times he tried to keep hitting on her after that first no.
However, the New Joe may or may not start learning to respect that first no, in addition to not ranking women on his shitty list. We’ll see.
Dangit, I keep forgetting how little time has actually passed since she came out.
In reading time, its like 5 years. In series time its 5 weeks or so?
I give her a pass because Danny is just a hat with no body.
A hat that played the ukulele would be pretty remarkable, I would think.
They remember the hat and ukelule but don’t remember the person beneath.
He’s like Marcie the Invisible Girl from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
There’s actually a much simpler explanation… y’all have easily forgettable faces.
No but really though. Most white men walk through the world assuming that they have memorable faces because they interact with predominately other white men (most people group with ppl similar to them, that’s not a dis) and details are easier to distinguish in homogenous communities. It’s one of the reasons why (racist) people say that Japanese and Chinese faces look the same. If you aren’t used to distinguishing details with a specific ethnic group, you don’t notice those details.
Lesbians have no reason to distinguish men’s faces. We’re not attracted to you and because of the way women and men are socialized to be friends with people of the same sex, we probably hang out with predominately women from a platonic standpoint too. So a lesbian could potentially have a social circle without any men in it at all and, therefore, men in general fall outside of our homogeneity in a way that’s not true for the majority population – to the extent that I personally once confused Robert De Niro and Danny DeVito because their names both have “De” in them.
“I don’t remember people who aint hot chicks” sounds more shallow than it is because it is hard for people unused to being forgotten to imagine that they have a forgettable face. I’ve had this happen with me forgetting someone at least a dozen times and they’re always first shocked and then second crushed because in many cases it was the first time they’d ever had the experience of not being immediately recognized, and then also the second time the next time we ran into each other.
So yeah after the first half a dozen times of watching guys melt like a kicked puppy I started jabbing fun at myself for forgetting their face. “Sorry guy but you aren’t a hot chick #dontcare.”
I’m a generic glasses-wearing nerd.
We are therefore indistinguishable.
I don’t really think any of that holds together.
It certainly doesn’t cover for the “hot” part of it – imagine Becky saying that to another woman.
I’d find it obnoxious, if it wasn’t obviously performative and part of Becky’s baby gay stage. She’s only been out a few weeks and out from a horribly repressive culture as well. I’ll bet Becky actually remembers Danny perfectly well.
Plenty of people have commented on the similarity to Joe’s comments, but I also see a parallel to Walky pretending not to remember various people’s names – particularly Amber when she unmasked.
I don’t think she remembers his name, but I do think she’s trying to joke around. Like, it’s not a great sentiment, and if she actually doesn’t remember/pay attention to people who aren’t “hot chicks,” yeah, that’s something to work on.
As it is, it’s a joking way to put the fault of not remembering Danny back on her (rather than “you’re an incredibly forgettable person,” for example) without really showing vulnerability.
My basic stance is that it’s not a great joke, but it’s a joke.
Or she’s just plain bad at faces, and hides it being being performatively A LESBIAN!!!! I’m extremely bad at pairing faces with names (or actually, bad at names AND faces). I keep confusing those three blond actors that were super popular at some point*, and it drove my teenage girlfriends crazy (but also they found it hilarious). And yet I’m attracted to guys.
Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio and the one who was married with the actress from Friends and then was with the brunette with the 6 or so adopted children.
Brad Pitt?
Yes, that’s the one. I also remember the ladies’ names now, Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie. Names just don’t come readily to mind.
But that’s probably just projection and has nothing whatsoever to do with Becky’s attitude.
Its also possible Becky is just being an ass to someone who showed up at her party uninvited.
What. Only remembering peoples faces that one is attracted to is shallow as all heck. Regardless of gender or sexual orientation.
Not only is it shallow and kinda mean to the ones one forgets, but its also a pretty weird attitude to have towards the people one is attracted to.
“I’m only gonna remember you if i want to do you” kinda sucks.
Becky, acting a bit superficial ? why, never, lol
Oh Daniel. Oh no.
Becky: Who invited a boy here?
note : Becky sings in the laundry room
Becky went around shouting, “HEY, GUESS WHAT, I’M A LESBIAN!” in every room of the house as part of her moving in process.