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[PA Comic] Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - Them There End Times
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I think this guy could just as easily be from some Spokane exurb.
I find the expression on the baby's face highly amusing.
Amazing. All my life I've had folks adopt this shitty mode of speech as soon as they hear I'm from the South, and it's always baffled me. It would be truly crazy if folks thought that's how Southerners talk based on people they've known who lived in the absolute farthest point from the South in all of the continental United States.
I'm pretty sure Jerry has referred to this as something along the lines of "Modern Carny," so it's not supposed to be a Southern thing.
More importantly I desperately want that middle panel sans text.
"They're going to take pictures of my backyard, analyzing my dog's shit. Figure out what kind of dog food he's eating. Send me some kind of goddamn coupe for what he likes best."
Thanks. Now I see it.
I grew up in Michigan and aside from the "gul demm" and "animalizin" I hear somebody talking like this every few months or so. Every few days if it's an election year. It has gone down substantially now that I'm not working in retail, at least.
I honestly don't see the point. Seems like it'd be cheaper (and not much slower, barring traffic issues) just to hire a kid and get a van to deliver your stuff locally if that's what they want to do. And with that you don't have any of the crazy problems you might have with a drone, like the package being exposed to open air the entire time or, you know, possibly being dropped in the middle of nowhere if something goes wrong :P
A drone will deliver videogames to me in 30 minutes
;P
oversensitive white people, apparently
hooooooooooooooooooo
Come now, you know that people just wait around for every comic to get posted and try to make make up SOMETHING to be angry about. Sometimes they have to reach a bit further than others to really get that anger rolling.
Would anybody be interested in talking about the merits and problems of the actual Amazon drone delivery idea here?
Nah, I think it's too patently ridiculous to consider as a real thing. Drones are for reconnaissance and assassination, the idea of using them for retail deliveries is so laughably futuristic it sounds like jetpacks and robot maids to my brain.
I can't take the idea seriously.
My God. It would be Elite, for real.
As someone who has lived in Alabama, Arkansas, and Texas (not the same I know but close) for the vast majority of his life...it's pretty accurate to rural and even suburban southern accents. I honestly don't know how you could live in the south without running into it.
It's a product of smaller, closer knit communities. To get all nerdy ass linguistics n' shit about it, when you have a close community of people of similar education levels, words merge, lose letters, and blend together because communication becomes increasingly colloquial and commonly understood. You need less words, enunciation, and clarity in what you are saying because people get you because they're your people.
It's not restricted to rural communities either. You see it in close-knit urban communities too, or in nomadic or transient communities that keep more to themselves. My father's an Irish Traveller, and hel'fuck bey, lemme fuckin' ta'you sa'thing ba'how tey fuckin' go, bey.
So if you're from the South of America (but not, you know, South America, because that's not confusing nomenclature) and this comic is making you feel reflexively defensive, you need to relax.
Don't some of you guys have better things to do than display overblown outrage over comic strips
Especially since amazon baby thief drone is one of the funniest gags.
yeah there's like cops and the prison system to rage about
we just call that The South
alternately, Sherman's Slip 'n' Slide
Holy shit...
You should look into becoming a professional boxer. This is the longest reach I've ever seen!
Sit down and have a serious think about whether this is the stupidest fucking comparison you could possibly make.
maybe it's the Irish equivalent of taking back the n-word