You Blu-Ray owners know what Jaffa’s talking about. It’s a gamble, when you pay a bit extra for better picture, sound and behind-the-scenes extras, but if the movie sucks, all that stuff is worthless.
Perhaps Jaffa should have just watched it on Netflix or something first. Hindsight is 20/20 and all that.
I’m off on holidays so there will be a couple of weeks until the next comic strip.
Mat
There’s always something amiss after the daylight savings change, some routine thing that catches you out. Our devices are getting smarter and will update the time for us, but there are still a lot of dumb devices and it seems like every appliance has a clock that needs changing twice a year.
When I was brainstorming the strip, the old ‘spring forward, fall back’ phrase stuck out – it’s so useful, but it could work both ways and really mess you up if you misremember it, or some ginger cat steers you wrong.
Mat
There’s two football grand finals on in one weekend and I would be hard pressed to tell you who was playing in either.
The term ‘sportsball’ got it’s start back in 2010 with this video. Since then, it’s become internet shorthand for any sport that has ‘ball’ in the name.
May your chosen sportsball team score all of the points.
Mat
I was searching around for an idea for today’s strip – on the shortlist was the growing concern around North Korea, but it doesn’t really feel like ‘joke’ material right now. That led to wondering what Trump thinks ‘diplomacy’ means. I figure he either thinks it means either a long-necked dinosaur, a French cheese sauce or just two plomacies.
Then I moved to something more general, like overused platitudes. I had settled on using ‘it has to be somewhere’ in regards to lost items. That idea led to Sunday being the ‘day of rest’. I even got to sneak a second platitude in there with ‘practice makes perfect’.
Mat
A few years ago, we were told that sitting down all day – on the couch, in an office or in your car – is super bad for you. Get a standing desk or treadmill desk, spend all day on your feet and you can live forever.
Except that it turns out standing all day is super bad for you as well.
The moral of the story is everything is bad for you, but try not to let it bother you.
Mat
We’ve been re-watching The West Wing, so the original idea for this strip was having CJ, Josh and President Bartlett doing things that Trump’s White House has been doing. Then I asked: is this idea actually funny, or is it just meme funny.
I could see it more easily as list on Buzzfeed – 25 times the West Wing appears to be talking right to Trump – so I took the meme funny idea and turned it into this.
Mat
Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there. Don’t spend your Bunnings Gift Cards all in one place.
Mat
This was not an easy comic strip to make. I’ve been a Joss Whedon fan for a good many years – his blend of humour, heart and feminist ideas made his creations resonate with me.
A week ago, Joss’ ex-wife Kai Cole revealed that, during their marriage, he had many affairs with other women, including some with women that worked for him on his TV shows.
Yes, he’s not the first person in Hollywood to do something like this, but his pro-women agenda has always been front and centre in his work. If he is someone who can take advantage of women who reported to him and treat his wife in such a terrible fashion, then he is definitely not practicing what he is preaching.
His shows (Buffy, Firefly) and his movies (Avengers 1 & 2) are still good, but can the artist ever be separated from the art they make?
The main Joss fansite doesn’t think so – after 15 years, Whedonesque closed up shop right after Kai’s essay was published.
Mat
A couple of days ago, news sites started covering the recall for Ford Focus (2011-2015) due to an issue with the fuel tank. Words like ‘safety risk’ and ‘fire’ were tossed around, so I got in touch with Ford to find out if my little Focus was going to try and kill me.
I was told to wait for a letter from Ford, which would cover the recall and possible repair.
This is not the first issue with my car – earlier this year the clutch was replaced as it suffered from the same problem that the ACCC are taking Ford to court over.
I love my little car, and the fuel tank thing is unlikely to be an issue for me as it’s only worrisome when driven in dusty in environments, but how dusty is too dusty.
Time to check the letterbox again.
Mat
A plebiscite for marriage equality is an expensive scam – if Australia votes yes, the Libs are going to consider allowing a free vote in parliament. They could do it now without the postal vote, but they don’t want to and the people will have to make them.
If you’re having trouble figuring out if the plebiscite is a good move or a bad move, look at the supporters and detractors. Trumpist bible-bashing buffoon Tony Abbott thinks it’s a great idea and pro-equality groups don’t. Equality groups would rather see the money spent elsewhere, and the vote will give a voice to all the close-minded morons to shout and scream about how this will ruin the sanctity of marriage and won’t somebody think of the children, on our dime no less. Some same-sex marriage campaigners are even encouraging a boycott.
I think you should absolutely vote Yes for marriage equality when the material comes in the mail, but know that this is the government’s $160 million Get Out of Jail Free card – a way to defer a decision about same-sex marriage without looking like, well, old white homophobes.
How is that working out?
Mat
