I think that’s part of the joke too. Like the whole comic has been written out of order due to race conditions; rather than just the father represents race conditions.
It’s one degree of humour too far though, if that’s the case, doesn’t really land.
I would tattoo “Staycation” on my arse if it deleted the word Holibob from existence.
Ding ding ding.
Square go?
I used to classify these as PICNIC.
Problem In Chair, Not In Computer.
Not to be confused with “No.”
They stagger down the Sauchiehall in single file to hide their numbers.
At first a nibble. Then a slow tempting lick. I suck and munch my liquid lunch; And then I swallow quick.
Why?
Poor Monty, you ever die young, or live long enough to resemble a Peter Howson painting.
Just the basics, a prime really, the bare minimum before you’re allowed to get behind the wheel of a two tonne vehicle.
I listen to mostly upbeat stuff.
Surrealist/Absurd Comedy
Dungeons & Dragons
Star Trek
My parents started calling me it about thirty years ago; it’s either an allusion to the fact I have broken so many bones, or a tacit admission that I was an unplanned pregnancy. Or both.
The hivemind is an analogy for the way the average person had turned on the war and viewed it as a national disgrace. Just watch that opening act of Rambo, the soldiers returning from Nam late in the conflict came home to joblessness and derision. A far cry from the parades and support of the GI bill the generation before had.
Haldeman is trying to show a universal truth of long wars, at some point the home you left stops existing, and you return to a place that isn’t what you fought for in the first place, though of course Haldeman takes this to absurdity almost. Like many vets of Vietnam Mandela and his fellow soldiers are now so feared and removed that society doesn’t have a mechanism for integration. Haldeman uses genetic and cultural shifts to represent the more subtle social ones.
Forever War and Forever Free are an amazing duo. I don’t think they are amateurish though, Haldeman writes these exactly as they need to be to represent the difficulty Vietnam vets faced returning home.
Edit: I confused the novels Forever Free and Forever Peace. Forever Free is the duet to Forever War, while Forever Peace is disconnected but plays with similar themes as both Forever War and Ender’s Game.
Aye, they added a fair bit of salt to their tea that day!
The best use of this meme format in years.
Belfast?
Careers Fair; 2024
Teen: “Excuse me; how do I become a Tech Lead like you someday” Lead: “By simple luck of the draw I am the best at googling other people’s solutions to my team’s YAML config issues.”
Prismic structures give me horrible indigestion I’m afraid.
This is just one man’s take, but, Neds and Chavs aren’t quite the same (I grew up in Glasgow but have also lived south of the border for most of the last 18 years). Neds are criminals, Chavs are anti-social. The equivalent to Chavs in Scots would be Jakey, Bam, or Gadgie.