PA - Parenting Arcade
Tune in next Friday when we MIGHT have a comic about video games.
How about on Friday you spare us all by tuning in to some other comic.
Sorry, my mistake for expressing anything other than praise for PA. In all their perfection.
I'll correct this behavior and never speak out against our immaculate comic overlords again, oh unbiased forum dictator.
Dude
Your complaint was not a particularly valid one. The comic before this was literally about a video game, the one before that about gaming journalism, and before that another game.
Four back and it's about cowboy hats which frankly need more comics about them anyway.
Even imagining something bad is wrong. We are putting the finishing touches on Hell, and we got here by trying to make Heaven. Do you people ever fucking read?
Holy fuck, those three sentences hit like a ton of bricks.
I read that and thought the exact same. Why can't anyone see that trying to create a non-violent/non-imaginative paradise has created a knee-jerk bureaucracy, all the same? And if they won't read, can't they at least watch that one episode of "The Simpsons" when they tried to create a utopia out of Springfield?
Supposedly he threatened to make his friend disappear, suggesting a clear lack of understanding in how the One Ring works. The school told his father they take all threats (including magical ones) very seriously.
Actually, the kid does seem to understand how the ring works. From the NY Daily News article
Aiden claimed Thursday he could put a ring on his friend's head and make him invisible like Bilbo Baggins
. I imagine that's supposed to be "friend's hand", because putting a ring on someone's head makes no sense at all. From reading a couple different articles it seems that he wasn't actually threatening his friend at all, it was rather meant as an offer of a super-power in a co-op make believe game.
Well, that context doesn't even make it sound like a threat anymore, it was an offer. Kid was trying to motherfucking share and got suspended for it.
why not just get those giant eagles to fly over and drop the damn ring into Mt. Doom?
seriously Gandalf? hires a fucking midget? to walk the whole goddamn way there? past like, 3 armies of fucking orcs and undead and shit?
Gandalf the Grey more liek Gandalf the Stupid
I know this isn't about that, but just so you know, the eagles were like, super proud and weren't just airplanes, and gandalf thought that if they did get the eagles to help, then the flying ringwraiths would find them easily because magic and that would defeat the whole purpose of sneaking in.
why not just get those giant eagles to fly over and drop the damn ring into Mt. Doom?
seriously Gandalf? hires a fucking midget? to walk the whole goddamn way there? past like, 3 armies of fucking orcs and undead and shit?
Gandalf the Grey more liek Gandalf the Stupid
I know this isn't about that, but just so you know, the eagles were like, super proud and weren't just airplanes, and gandalf thought that if they did get the eagles to help, then the flying ringwraiths would find them easily because magic and that would defeat the whole purpose of sneaking in.
It's been a long time since I read the Silmarillion, but if I remember right, weren't those eagles also among the various groups like the ents and most of the elves that didn't really care all that much what happened to mortal races either way?
Tossing Gandalf (a Maia - basically a god among the races of Middle Earth) the occasional solid is a far cry from putting their lives on the line for something they have spent three ages giving zero fucks about.
why not just get those giant eagles to fly over and drop the damn ring into Mt. Doom?
seriously Gandalf? hires a fucking midget? to walk the whole goddamn way there? past like, 3 armies of fucking orcs and undead and shit?
Gandalf the Grey more liek Gandalf the Stupid
I know this isn't about that, but just so you know, the eagles were like, super proud and weren't just airplanes, and gandalf thought that if they did get the eagles to help, then the flying ringwraiths would find them easily because magic and that would defeat the whole purpose of sneaking in.
This. Everyone knows you have to suppress enemy air defense before flying transports in. Inserting a covert ops team to accomplish that instead of sending in the Wild Weasels is still a questionable decision, but not totally stupid.
Supposedly he threatened to make his friend disappear, suggesting a clear lack of understanding in how the One Ring works. The school told his father they take all threats (including magical ones) very seriously.
Actually, the kid does seem to understand how the ring works. From the NY Daily News article
Aiden claimed Thursday he could put a ring on his friend's head and make him invisible like Bilbo Baggins
. I imagine that's supposed to be "friend's hand", because putting a ring on someone's head makes no sense at all. From reading a couple different articles it seems that he wasn't actually threatening his friend at all, it was rather meant as an offer of a super-power in a co-op make believe game.
Well, that context doesn't even make it sound like a threat anymore, it was an offer. Kid was trying to motherfucking share and got suspended for it.
he was tempting his friend with dark powers :P
I for one think it's good to teach kids the hard lessons early. Everyone you offer to share with is going to get all nuts about it, probably growing big and dark and stormy and babbling about the treacherous sea. Yet if you don't share with someone, they will try to kill you and get filled with arrows and/or eat all your lembas.
Even imagining something bad is wrong. We are putting the finishing touches on Hell, and we got here by trying to make Heaven. Do you people ever fucking read?
Holy fuck, those three sentences hit like a ton of bricks.
I read that and thought the exact same. Why can't anyone see that trying to create a non-violent/non-imaginative paradise has created a knee-jerk bureaucracy, all the same? And if they won't read, can't they at least watch that one episode of "The Simpsons" when they tried to create a utopia out of Springfield?
why not just get those giant eagles to fly over and drop the damn ring into Mt. Doom?
seriously Gandalf? hires a fucking midget? to walk the whole goddamn way there? past like, 3 armies of fucking orcs and undead and shit?
Gandalf the Grey more liek Gandalf the Stupid
I know this isn't about that, but just so you know, the eagles were like, super proud and weren't just airplanes, and gandalf thought that if they did get the eagles to help, then the flying ringwraiths would find them easily because magic and that would defeat the whole purpose of sneaking in.
This. Everyone knows you have to suppress enemy air defense before flying transports in. Inserting a covert ops team to accomplish that instead of sending in the Wild Weasels is still a questionable decision, but not totally stupid.
There's actually a guy who explained why Gandalf didn't take the eagles. Or at least, why it didn't appear that he did .
I liked the cartoon, but I read the Snopes article about this and it sounds like maybe it didn't happen that way at all? It seemed like it could have been true, or the parents might be making it up. Complex.
I liked the cartoon, but I read the Snopes article about this and it sounds like maybe it didn't happen that way at all? It seemed like it could have been true, or the parents might be making it up. Complex.
Yeah, I get the feeling that the story is a lot more complicated than the humorous newsbite makes it out to be.
When I was in elementary school, we used to draw pictures of monsters, and play games on the playground about fighting robots. Using the One Ring to make someone disappear? That's nothing.
Whiners like this who throw a fit and suspend kids over things like gun-shaped pop-tarts are what's wrong with the school system these days. Well, that and all the other things...
This is as bad as the story about the kid in kindergarten who was a "hugger", and almost got charged with sexual assault for hugging a female classmate.
Yeah cuz you know, 5 year olds are all about the hugrape...
This all happens because someone sued the school, and got an out of court settlement because it was cheaper than litigation. Maybe not that school, maybe not that 'problem,' but something like it.
For a large entity like a school district, it is safer legally and financially to back-up idiotic calls like this, rather than risk expensive lawsuit. After all, schools do not care about bad publicity, their customers usually don't have much of a choice. But a budget shortfall from a lawsuit is murder to a school district.
That doesn't make it right, or fair; but that's what it is.
why not just get those giant eagles to fly over and drop the damn ring into Mt. Doom?
seriously Gandalf? hires a fucking midget? to walk the whole goddamn way there? past like, 3 armies of fucking orcs and undead and shit?
Gandalf the Grey more liek Gandalf the Stupid
I'm no Tolkien expert, but doesn't the ring turn any non-Hobbits who touch it evil and corrupt?
It does a number on Hobbits, too - Gollum was one originally, and it messed up Frodo pretty good (remember by the end he was just going to walk back out of Mount Doom with it, the only reason it actually got destroyed was because Gollum also wanted to walk back out with it and he was clumsy). It was implied that Dwarves had some resistance to the effects of magic artifacts because they tended to hoard their baubles in big piles where they couldn't work, and they had a bad habit of losing those piles to dragons - all seven of their rings were lost this way, and they also lost a good chunk of the silmarils.
Unrelated to the reply: This whole discussion forced me to dig out the books and look this up. I was pretty close with my last post, the Eagles basically gave zero fucks about the war, along with most of the elves, all of the dwarves, and pretty much the 90% of Middle Earth that wasn't Gondor and Rohan. They've given various characters rides or rescued them several times, but usually in repayment of a favor or to secure one themselves. They'd actively refused to join any of the multiple wars against Sauron or Melkor. They've been around since the sun and moon were still on pillars, and generally felt that petty matters like the fate of the world and the battle against ultimate evil were beneath them.
God, it's like he didn't even READ Lord of the Rings. Kids these days...
As I pointed out earlier, both Snopes and PA (because they read it from Snopes) got it wrong. The kid knows exactly how the ring works, and he said he could make his friend invisible by putting the ring on the friend's hand. Snopes just didn't read the source article that they themselves linked to
why not just get those giant eagles to fly over and drop the damn ring into Mt. Doom?
seriously Gandalf? hires a fucking midget? to walk the whole goddamn way there? past like, 3 armies of fucking orcs and undead and shit?
Gandalf the Grey more liek Gandalf the Stupid
I'm no Tolkien expert, but doesn't the ring turn any non-Hobbits who touch it evil and corrupt?
Hobbits too, it just took longer for Bilbo and Frodo because they were both pure of heart. Frodo and Gollum were both corrupted by the ring.
With this in mind, it seems like the reason Gandalf didn't ask the Eagles to do it is because they weren't pure of heart, and as such would have just become corrupted by the ring like everyone else.
why not just get those giant eagles to fly over and drop the damn ring into Mt. Doom?
seriously Gandalf? hires a fucking midget? to walk the whole goddamn way there? past like, 3 armies of fucking orcs and undead and shit?
Gandalf the Grey more liek Gandalf the Stupid
I'm no Tolkien expert, but doesn't the ring turn any non-Hobbits who touch it evil and corrupt?
Hobbits too, it just took longer for Bilbo and Frodo because they were both pure of heart. Frodo and Gollum were both corrupted by the ring.
With this in mind, it seems like the reason Gandalf didn't ask the Eagles to do it is because they weren't pure of heart, and as such would have just become corrupted by the ring like everyone else.
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I always get the idea that the US school system is not familiar with the concept of fiction.
They can't legally discuss individual kids, as mentioned in the article Cambiata posted just above you, so that means that families can make up any old bollocks about why their kid was suspended, get loads of page hits on social media, and become a by-word for Political Correctness Gone Mad or whatever. By the time any details can actually be released, the public have moved on to the next sensationalist clickbait headline about how twerking gives you cancer or how Muslims got a swimming pool closed or whatever.
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Dude
Your complaint was not a particularly valid one. The comic before this was literally about a video game, the one before that about gaming journalism, and before that another game.
Four back and it's about cowboy hats which frankly need more comics about them anyway.
he was tempting his friend with dark powers :P
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I know this isn't about that, but just so you know, the eagles were like, super proud and weren't just airplanes, and gandalf thought that if they did get the eagles to help, then the flying ringwraiths would find them easily because magic and that would defeat the whole purpose of sneaking in.
It's been a long time since I read the Silmarillion, but if I remember right, weren't those eagles also among the various groups like the ents and most of the elves that didn't really care all that much what happened to mortal races either way?
Tossing Gandalf (a Maia - basically a god among the races of Middle Earth) the occasional solid is a far cry from putting their lives on the line for something they have spent three ages giving zero fucks about.
This. Everyone knows you have to suppress enemy air defense before flying transports in. Inserting a covert ops team to accomplish that instead of sending in the Wild Weasels is still a questionable decision, but not totally stupid.
I for one think it's good to teach kids the hard lessons early. Everyone you offer to share with is going to get all nuts about it, probably growing big and dark and stormy and babbling about the treacherous sea. Yet if you don't share with someone, they will try to kill you and get filled with arrows and/or eat all your lembas.
There's actually a guy who explained why Gandalf didn't take the eagles. Or at least, why it didn't appear that he did .
Whiners like this who throw a fit and suspend kids over things like gun-shaped pop-tarts are what's wrong with the school system these days. Well, that and all the other things...
Yeah cuz you know, 5 year olds are all about the hugrape...
For a large entity like a school district, it is safer legally and financially to back-up idiotic calls like this, rather than risk expensive lawsuit. After all, schools do not care about bad publicity, their customers usually don't have much of a choice. But a budget shortfall from a lawsuit is murder to a school district.
That doesn't make it right, or fair; but that's what it is.
I'm no Tolkien expert, but doesn't the ring turn any non-Hobbits who touch it evil and corrupt?
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THAT'S NOT HOW THE ONE RING WORKS, KID!
God, it's like he didn't even READ Lord of the Rings. Kids these days...
Hobbits too, it just took longer for Bilbo and Frodo because they were both pure of heart. Frodo and Gollum were both corrupted by the ring.
It does a number on Hobbits, too - Gollum was one originally, and it messed up Frodo pretty good (remember by the end he was just going to walk back out of Mount Doom with it, the only reason it actually got destroyed was because Gollum also wanted to walk back out with it and he was clumsy). It was implied that Dwarves had some resistance to the effects of magic artifacts because they tended to hoard their baubles in big piles where they couldn't work, and they had a bad habit of losing those piles to dragons - all seven of their rings were lost this way, and they also lost a good chunk of the silmarils.
Unrelated to the reply: This whole discussion forced me to dig out the books and look this up. I was pretty close with my last post, the Eagles basically gave zero fucks about the war, along with most of the elves, all of the dwarves, and pretty much the 90% of Middle Earth that wasn't Gondor and Rohan. They've given various characters rides or rescued them several times, but usually in repayment of a favor or to secure one themselves. They'd actively refused to join any of the multiple wars against Sauron or Melkor. They've been around since the sun and moon were still on pillars, and generally felt that petty matters like the fate of the world and the battle against ultimate evil were beneath them.
As I pointed out earlier, both Snopes and PA (because they read it from Snopes) got it wrong. The kid knows exactly how the ring works, and he said he could make his friend invisible by putting the ring on the friend's hand. Snopes just didn't read the source article that they themselves linked to
With this in mind, it seems like the reason Gandalf didn't ask the Eagles to do it is because they weren't pure of heart, and as such would have just become corrupted by the ring like everyone else.
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But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
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They can't legally discuss individual kids, as mentioned in the article Cambiata posted just above you, so that means that families can make up any old bollocks about why their kid was suspended, get loads of page hits on social media, and become a by-word for Political Correctness Gone Mad or whatever. By the time any details can actually be released, the public have moved on to the next sensationalist clickbait headline about how twerking gives you cancer or how Muslims got a swimming pool closed or whatever.