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Metta Lawson says "Oh, y'know, plus ca drokkin' change."

Does anyone know what that means? I can't parse it at all.

I absolutely loathe "Welp", or even "Whelp", but the word that's really stupid in my mind is 'yeet"

My pet peev is people doing the disco call. I was struggling to figure out how to write it down, but you can hear complete bastards doing it en masse at the start of this video. I realize I'm not being reasonable, but if there was a button I could press whereby anyone who ever made that sound had their head explode ... I'd press it.

As for neighbors making noise - it always makes me think of this: Billy Balowski: The Young Ones (from 2:50).

iirc you could buy the mugs retail or the 2000AD shop but mine came as a combined Tooth/Meg subscriber gift, I'm guessing 2005 or 2006?.

Thanks for posting the pics - gave me nostalgia kicks. Figure mine must have been a sub-gift, as I don't tend to go out of my way for the merch.

Technically gatefold covers, but would the softcover Annuals/Yearbooks from the early to mid 1990s be included in a Tooth wrap-around list?

I have those for a later post - and I had to scan them in because I couldn't find any images of them online. Here's a sneaky peek of one:

TBH, most attempts to shoehorn another IP into the Prog (which, to the best of my recollection, only consists of 'A Life Less Ordinary' and 'Urban Strike') were not terribly successful, but the 'Stainless Steel Rat' stories were properly great.

In general agreement, but then I remembered that Shaun of the Dead (There's Something About Mary) - from prog 1834 -  wasn't bad as these things go. Not on the same scale and joy-of-reading as the Rat, though.

The cover to Prog 400 should of course be labelled 'After Irv Novick' very promanently.

Ah - I didn't know! Dave Gibbons has some fun with that over here.

[03 - Stainless Steel Staples]

03 - Stainless Steel Staples

Three of Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat novels were adapted into comics by Kelvin Gosnell and Carlos Ezquerra. We got three wraparounds...


Prog 171 (1980):

I dunno - that guy on the left looks like maybe he shouldn't be trusted.


Prog 393 (1984):





Prog 400 (1985):




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Next: he knows, you know...

I dug out Prog 144 and inside is a competition to win a poster of the cover signed by artist Bolland and colourist John Burns

Thanks, Swerty - I had (wrongly) assumed the art was split, because the lower part looks non-Bollandy - I guess that's just due to it being such a direct rendition of the source photo.

That helmetless, face-changed Dredd from the very early progs was based on some actor too, iirc? Can't remember who though, or find the image.

In Luna Wars (prog 52):



[It was reprinted in the Games Workshop JD RPG - which is where I first saw it.]

Today, four days late, I got my pay packet for the last calendar month. There was £300 in it. I was overjoyed, a £50 pay rise, at last, after all those months of asking. I thanked my boss and told her how big a difference this would make.

But she'd miscounted. Thanked me for my honesty.

And asked for the money back.

I can't believe she asked for the money back. Here's to hoping that she has some other, more positive qualities.

Pat Mills has said that Slaine was modelled on a young Jack Nicholson.

As soon as you said it, I saw it:

TikToker crying for being shouted at for asking for accomodation with her "Time Blindness" & lateness

https://www.comicsands.com/time-blindness-accommodations-tiktok-debate-2662286937.html?

Just thought I'd reply to this to point out that time blindness is an actual thing which doesn't necessitate quotation marks, and is relatively common among folk on the autistic spectrum and also those with ADHD. So, (depending on what the job is), it's not totally unreasonable for her to ask about it.

It's one of those things (the story) that probably gets a lot of mileage from people who are ready to get all gammon-faced about a supposed lack of worth in a younger generation, or the fact that mental health support is now stronger and more talked about (& more diagnosed, and more understood) than it has been in the past.

Of course, looking at it simplistically, it isn't okay (all things being equal) to rock up to work late. On the other hand, one might imagine that someone who struggles with estimating or tracking the passage of time might struggle to get to work on time - and especially perhaps for their first couple of shifts.

It doesn't take too much brain power to figure out that there are methods we can use to help, though. Without wanting to be facetious, we have access to time-telling devices, and even travel-time estimators (usually in our pockets) that would allow us to fight back against our nature (if it were tripping us up).

On balance - and it's not really entirely clear from this young person's TikTok - it does appear that they may be somewhat deluded about how much the world is willing to bend, as regards being able to rock up to work on time. (At the same time, it should be possible to explain that to them without being aggressive or belittling.)

Accommodations are things that tend to happen for folk in education, and allow them some leeway. The world of work isn't really set up the same way, for the most part. So, one can imagine a young person's confusion switching from one system to the other.

(Or, y'know, shelve your humanity entirely, go off and make a Netflix special in which you belittle the f*ck out of a bunch of minorities for $$$, like Ricky COCK Gervais. My favorite rebuttal so far has been by Frankie Boyle, although I also appreciated James Acaster's take.)

So good. I had the mug, but it went the way of all things.

Possible spoilers: this was my favorite part of Rebel Moon: Tarak rides Bennu!

My boss is all like "a week off nearly drove me nuts - I'm so glad we're all back at work, aren't you?"

Must ... resist ... urges!

See, there's hope for the world: Tetris: US teenager claims to be first to beat video game