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A Pintsize Joke
🕑 Added 2025-02-28 01:29:53 +0000 UTCheh
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alphanor
the comic before this one should have been 5516
Not that Patrick Foltz
The last comic was mis numbered
Benjamin Leingang
Just noticed this one is numbered 5517 when the previous was 5515.
Comics Ladybird
Anh should be careful, as “The day of our invasion shall be known as... bidet” (Naga Royal Guard, Warcraft III The Frozen Throne)
Miyaa
And Anh is the wealth management specialist that Faye didn’t know she’ll need.
legobil
Ah. Faye and bidets. It’s been proposed before: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4971
legobil
There was also an earlier arc or discussion in CoD during Marten/Claires initial trip to Cubetown (Faye being depressed about the soon to be move) about sanitation units for robots, I think bidets was in that discussion too.
Claudia D.
From your mouth to Jeph’s ears.
Claudia D.
*replying to Packy* Yay, yes, it’s Yay!
Opus the Poet
Sorry to say but the creator of Too Much Information died last year and the comic site is not there anymore. RIP Andy.
Doc Gumby
It was a short lived anime side project that Sam ad Emmet watched but didn't really like.
ValdVin
You bet. It crossed over to here along with butts disease.
ValdVin
I swear I saw every season of The Venture Bros. but I don't remember those two characters.
Pete
Whacked?
BookBeard
Snobbè Armoùr
Stewart MacWilliam
One more observation: Anh's body language through these strips is so well done. Watch those shoulders square up every time she summons her Snob Armour.* *Fancy spelling intentional. Her Snob Armour is bespoke.
Stewart MacWilliam
https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5416 Prediction: somewhere around Strip#7000, she will realize that Sven actually IS her soulmate.
BookBeard
Anh probably has little experience with sincerity, but Hanners' sincerity is a particularly powerful variety. It's like deciding to start drinking and immediately reaching for a tank of jet fuel. Anh never stood a chance.
Stewart MacWilliam
Yet another observation: The stray lock of hair that is still there, despite her attempt to armor back up with her perfect bun, is a lovely cartooning shorthand for where she is in her journey.
Stewart MacWilliam
Oh yeah. And bidets are funny because butts. <3
Stewart MacWilliam
More thoughts on Anh and her situation: (since I devolved the previous thread into wordplay) For her entire life, Anh has been rich and beautiful. From her drunken comments, she's been raised to believe that being rich and beautiful was all that mattered. Until Hannelore, she had never met anyone who was rich, beautiful and genuinely good. Since she has relied on sex as validation of her worth, she fixated on Hanners as an object of desire out of reflex. Her follow-up conversation was full of her trying to realign everything to some scenario in which everyone wanted to "rail" her. That didn't work. Her earlier condescension didn't work. Hanners' sincerity BROKE her. https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5429 (BTW: the flying hairpins in the last panel are brilliant cartooning.) Her reflex was to redefine herself as Rich, Beautiful, and Bisexual so she could re-establish her projection of superiority. Coming to Faye is her mostly subconscious attempt to learn to be a complete person with a sense of self-worth. In these strips, she keeps reflexively being condescending because that has been her entire personality until the wedding. Look at her face in this episode. In all but the fifth panel, she is being a genuine person instead of an intimidating pillar of superiority. (The hesitant smile in panel 4 is heartbreaking) Since all of our original main characters have pretty much gotten their shit together, we're now getting a bunch of new characters who haven't. Besides Anh, we now have Ayo, Liz, Moray, and the entire population of Cubetown to be hilarious and yet heartfelt messes.
Corvus Cardia
OMG now I follow and of course Pintsize would know 😓 Edit: we don’t kinkshame in this kitchen though 😅
Michael Steamweed
Seems that's a bidet for AIs. Not an actual AI that is a bidet. I was horrified at the idea of being an AI that is a bidet. :O (i'm sure pintsize already knows a few.)
Michael Steamweed
*applauds BookBeard
Colleen Dewis
Excellent use of cattywhompus.
Hugh Eckert
Or as in the antelope? Or Binky's illegitimate son?
Hugh Eckert
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
BookBeard
Bubbliterated.
Halloween Jack
Laughing out his ass, even.
Corvus Cardia
AI bidets are already taken. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4972
Doc Gumby
I mean Nemesis. That's the word.
Doc Gumby
The Evil Doctor Buttcheeks is laughing now, Human Bidet's supervillain!
Michael Steamweed
I was not aware of that thing. Now I must begin reading that thing. :)
Michael Steamweed
I hope she survives getting Bubblesed. (Bubbled? Bubblesated?)
Philip Masters
And when we say “hiding in the air ducts”, we must recall that the ventilation system environmental controls were built with far, far too much spare processing power. (Bloody Moore’s Law.) In fact, Yay now *is* the air ducts…
Stewart MacWilliam
My friend the Professional Philosopher suggests "missophontry"
Philip Masters
See *Spacetrawler*. The potty-bot encountered there is quite dedicated to its function in the universe.
Philip Masters
Misontopy would be a dislike of everything that exists, potentially including inanimate objects. I don’t think even Iris goes that far. “Sentience” is simply possessing senses, eighty years of misuse in science fiction notwithstanding. Iris appears to disdain all intelligent, self-aware life, and the word for that might be something like “missapienthropy”. Or just “miseryguts”.
Raymond Dannelly
Scene of a famous murder is still advertising... it could turn out for the best.
Stewart MacWilliam
I think maybe misontopy. "Onto" as in ontology.
Stephen Wells
Missentience?
Stewart MacWilliam
Speaking of Iris: we need a word that expands "misanthropy" to be more inclusive and include AIs. (MisAnthroPC heh)
Stewart MacWilliam
I hope she survives getting Irised.
Stewart MacWilliam
At the wedding party, Faye was brutally honest and brutally kind (as only Faye could be) at the point Anh's self-image was turned completely cattywhompus. Of course she's impressed upon Faye like a baby duck. Hannelored, then Fayed. What a devastating double-whammy. Twenty-some years of complete self-absorption and privilege won't be cured in an instant, but she's taken a step to try to become a better person.
Halloween Jack
Everyone thought that the Human Bidet was the worst superhero concept, but who's laughing now?
Stewart MacWilliam
Those two. Absolute brilliance. "Idle roomer" is the best line in the bit. And it's a throwaway!
Miyaa
Feel sorry for those people actually named after a day of the week. People keep blaming Monday for things, keep joking about hump day to Wednesday, and Friday is just way too popular.
Sam Trenery
Oh Anh, you'll never get it right, cause when you're laying in bed at night, watching roaches climb the wall, if you called your dad he could stop it all...
Miyaa
No the last thing we need is an anti-Brun (who also had their apartment & workplace burned down)!
Michael Steamweed
Robot AIs need their own robot bidets too!
Michael Steamweed
I think most of the world knows it, with the exception of those crazy backwards imperial-system-hugging 'mericans.
Michael Steamweed
"Bongo" as in the "DoA" bongo phenomenon?
Michael Steamweed
Rule 34 has several associates. One of them has to deal with "author makes up kinky-ass kink and later we all find out it's already a thing."
Michael Steamweed
That's next week.
Michael Steamweed
Faye might squeeze her; the shop certainly has several powered devices for squeezing soft squishy things.
Michael Steamweed
Most sensible development I can think of, is Anh has accounting / financial skills. Maybe connections. Something that can help expand the business. Assuming, of course, Faye doesn't murderize Anh.
Michael Steamweed
By the gods below, I am nigh-horrified at the prospect of AI-bidets. Not quite where Faye's mind went, but bad enough. May these terrible thoughts not bear fruition. :O
Rich Holmes
"I really what?"
Jonathan
I just looked over the list of words that start with "wha", and have no idea what word Ahn was about to say.
Stephen Wells
Optimum possible outcome: Anh turns out to have legit tech skills that complement Faye and Bubbles, can afford to do an unpaid internship at Union Robotics, genuinely wants to do something practical with her life, and will bond deeply with Faye over exactly how great bidets are. Second best outcome: just the bidet part.
William Burns
Why a duck? Already famous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om45xUUVYGw
William Burns
Being a time traveler is a real pain in the continuum. You'll need to be careful not to mention March 30, 2025. Hang on, which year is this?
Brian
Fair. I feel like I’m one of the very few to get a chuckle out of this one. Oh well, to each their own.
enchantedsleeper
😂 Yes, I buy that. (Including the last one)
Bagge
Isn't it more in fairness to Anh that she DIDN'T burn down her apartment? (as far as we know)
BookBeard
She's just running through a montage of all her most impulsive moments. Sleeping with Sven, drinking herself into the hospital, punching Corpse Witch in the face, murdering Anh. Oh wait umm... forget that last one. Spoilers.
Not that Patrick Foltz
Here's to hoping The Duct becomes a permanent character
enchantedsleeper
Faye would murder her almost immediately. She's been granted a stay of execution for now, but living together? No way.
enchantedsleeper
Any bets as to what memories specifically Faye is thinking about in panel 3? xD
BookBeard
It's always Thursday somewhere.
enchantedsleeper
It makes sense that they would get the joke, because they have been listening in on all conversations in their sensory radius since they arrived.
enchantedsleeper
You all confuse me when you say these things, because it's Friday in my timezone xD Thursday is a day where we do get a Patreon comic.
SpookyPenguin
omg that completely changed my view of the comic FAYE KNOWS
enchantedsleeper
Faye has; it was in the last comic xD
enchantedsleeper
I was hoping to see Anh go flying when Bubbles got there xD
enchantedsleeper
That would only make sense if Faye was in the room when Pintsize made the joke, though. It doesn't work particularly well as a callback if there's no link with the character who's saying it. Oh well; not every joke has to land, but I had higher hopes for a Pintsize joke in relation to Anh. Lots of good material there.
SpookyPenguin
woosh
Opus the Poet
@Sean there's a lot of that going around lately. Supplies are getting low.
enchantedsleeper
Oh, she's not going to let Anh WORK for them. They couldn't afford to hire May, and Faye likes May. Faye might still help her, though.
enchantedsleeper
In fairness to Faye, her apartment burned down...
enchantedsleeper
Shhhh bonus comic bonus comic
Pille
is Ang the new Marten, a new best friends in the hood? Is she gonna be the new roomie toooo?
Bagge
Honestly, she kinda pulled the same move Faye did when she shoved up on Marten's doorstep
Bagge
That panel 4 face!!!
legobil
Her mouth is such a doodle, and I’m here for it 🤣
JCfromNC
...and then I read a little further along in the comments and Bookbeard clued me in. It's a callback to this: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5260
JCfromNC
Ah. And **now** I get the joke.
JCfromNC
Me, too. I'd have pretty much the same reaction as Anh to what sounded like a complete non-sequitur, because I can't figure out how "what's his name" follows from "I use a bidet."
Sammitch
Jangff, I regret to inform you that it is once again Thursday.
Carrie
Then I'll squeeze her the pan way and change her life for the better. 😅😂😉
Grace Kieser
She didn't even hire Sam to clean the shop! I don't think we have anything to worry about with Anh
Grace Kieser
I just realized Anh pulled a Marten!
BookBeard
I don't think she's even considering hiring her (yet). To me this just reads as Faye realizing she's perhaps being a bit harsh on Anh in light of her own history.
Bel
I came to make this same comment. It's super duper important that she doesn't commit to anything before bubbles can talk with her about it.
Doug DeJulio
That's it, Anh goes into the compost heap.
GrumpyRage
Thank you. I was so lost.
Joseph Bonnar
All of us, Rich. All of us.
Corvus Cardia
That hopeful look on Anh’s face in panel 4 🥺… just want to squeeze her. Straightly, of course 😏😁
Packy Anderson
It's Yay!
Brittany Huckey
Ma'am, respectfully. You better talk to Bubbles about this. Better yet. Let Bubbles take over this "interview"
Miyaa
And the winner of this month’s BookBeard challenge is Mark!
Populuxe
Faye, are you going to make another decision about the shop without consulting your partner? Remember how that went last time?
Not that Patrick Foltz
Good, I'm not the only one who thought today was Wednesday!
Alcaria Swain
It only took 5517 comics, but I think this might be the first time a QC joke landed flat for me. I mean, that was a pretty impressive run.
Jack Foy
FAYE NO
Doc Gumby
I feel that Faye is giving in to reason too quickly, there hasn't even been a little mayhem yet!
Andrew
“It has a label on the side - Made by Union Robotics. Who did you make it for?”
Vilinda
🤣🤣🤣
Diptych
Just make sure you don't turn it up all the way... https://www.wigucomics.com/oc/index.php?comic=1484
Rich Holmes
Heh
Rich Holmes
Awright, who's been praying to Jeph?
BobC
It's the difference between wet and dry sandpaper!
BobC
Nah, that's what folks say when opening a fifth.
Mark Eichin
callback to https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5260 (Ayo squashing pintsize's face to shut him up might have been the most sensible/normal thing she's done all comic)
Melissa Wilson
It’s a special gift because Jeph loves us!
Melissa Wilson
🤫
Swaggy
I don’t like where this is going. :(
Shawn K. Younkin
HER name is Ms. Sparkly Butt
BookBeard
I see Pintsize has been regaling Faye with his encyclopedic knowledge of obscure sex acts. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5260
Cass
This is canon and I will not hear another word on the subject.
Mark Eichin
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4964 "If I scream, don't worry"
Nancie
And potentially both really cheap, and something an idiot can install. (Me. I’m the idiot. In regard to plumbing anyway.)
Melissa Wilson
Yeah? What’s his name?
Rich Holmes
An update on Thursday? Anh really is causing chaos.
Melissa Wilson
If you know, you know!
Melissa Wilson
Or is it… pASSed?
Miyaa
Ooh, a @BookBeard challenge!
ValdVin
"Bidet? You've said the secret word!" Ahn has passed Faye's secret "Is she really a rich bongo?" test.
Thunder
In fairness, Faye is already somewhat familiar. I can't remember which specific page, but Hannalore did have one installed in the coffee shop.
Holly Nelson
Nope, nope, I’d better not.
Holly Nelson
At the risk of soliciting Too Much Information…
Cody Renton
The speech bubble has no tail, Yay is hiding in the air ducts
Holly Nelson
Ah, breaking the fifth wall.
Nilbog Nerw
I'm surprised he got approved for the prescription, given his cheekered past
Sean Kinlin
All they can offer is palliative treatment. Every day he has to get an injection of Assinine.
Shawn K. Younkin
Of course it's clean, it uses a bidet!
Melissa Wilson
💯 CRUSHING it!
Sean Kinlin
It's the voice of Jeph from on high.
Sean Kinlin
At least it's a clean joke.
Sean Kinlin
Anh the throne, using a bidet.
Nilbog Nerw
It may be cruel of me, but I hope they never find a cure for Jeph's butts disease
Noah
notgoingtosayitnotgoingtosayitnotgoingtosayit *clamps hands over mouth*
Holly Nelson
Who is the heh? An amused poltergeist living in the air ducting?
Shawn K. Younkin
Shhhh! No one tell Jeph this is a Thursday!
Lorelei
Bidets are *really good*.
Miyaa
Faye, let Anh invite you to the wonderful world of Asian bidet, whether it’s the high tech Japanese wonders or the more Vietnamese (and Thai really) sink spray attached to the side of the toilet where the cold water line flows bidet. You will eventually thank her.
Michael Boettger
Maybe Pintsize is looking to diversify
Melissa Wilson
Butts. Classic Jeph! 😀
Bill Silvia
Not an unreasonable question in this world.
Brendan Jones
Faye is winning the “Best Final Panel Face” category so far this year.
Cyclomo
Heh
LH
that's a little too vanilla for Pintsize tbh
