That was easier than I’d thought.
on May 22, 2018 at 12:01 amChapter: By Any Other Name
Characters: Britjas, David Walkerton, Flankman the Britja, Jason Chesterfield, Joyce Brown, Penny Worthington, Sal Walters
Location: Transparent Steel Chamber
She’s a villain! Villains can say awful words.
*out-of-frame tries to nudge various Shortpacked! panels under the rug with his foot*
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It’s why all the cool villains smoke or drink juice.
Was “retarded” as an insult ever even a thing in Britain, where she’s supposed to be from?
Maybe replace it with “spastic”?
yes, very much an insult over here, probably much more of one. same with spastic (and much to many transformer’s fans chagrin, Slag)
it’s simmilar to how the the C-word is considered quite low-key cursing, around equal to damn, in most parts of Britain, while it’s a much more offensive term in america from what I’ve seen. some words carry much more serious connotations depending where your from
so yeah, penny’s a jerk.
Honestly, I tend to see the low key c-word more as an Australian thing than a British one, but I’m also a posh southerner so it might be a thing in other parts of the country.
Have noticed that Americans take “twat” a lot more seriously than we do though, despite American pronounciation making it sound way less serious.
I have never heard an American seriously say “twat” unless trying to sound British. And I say that as an American.
I think I’ve heard it used from time to time, but certainly not often.
Amusing that you have a Dalek gravatar making these observations, though XD
Sometimes it seems inconsistent within the same country. My regional manager at a previous job here in Washington state often said “d”bag, but when I was growing up in Texas I got the impression that term was extremely offensive because it involved genital cleaning devices.
. . . Apparently, in my recent life I have heard “dickbag” more often than “douchebag,” judging by how I filled in that word at first.
I think we can all agree that’s strange.
I’d really argue against the c-word being considered “low key cussing” in most parts of the UK. People might say it a lot in regular speech, but I suspect that they’d react more strongly to someone using the c-word in front of their 4 year old kid than they would to “damn”.
Basically, swear words change with geography and class status, but almost every poll of offensive words ever done in the UK has the c-word in the top three.
Good thing Walky has abductee strength, because his falling on the floor like that would’ve hurt a lot more.
I forgot it took this many days for this particular scene to play out. I have things I want to say tangential to tomorrow’s strip… they’ll hold.
Why does it look like Sal and Jason are poorly executing a three-legged race?
The distance models in the first panel are doing fun things to the seriousness of this situation.
It was a less enlightened era.
I mean, it was what? 15 years ago?