For some reason this reminds me of a DMV joke I’ve heard.
The reason that they insist that you don’t smile in your drivers’ license photo is that they want you to look like you normally look. And they can’t imagine anyone ever smiling willingly.
Personally, I’ve never had a bad DMV experience, though. I don’t know if there are some states with horrible, messed-up DMV services, or if it’s simply a matter of a handful of people having a few bad experiences and then the narrative created by those experiences being reinforced by selection bias of the 5% of people who have a bad experience.
I’ve seen people go into the DMV without having any of the proper documentation on hand, not understanding why they need all of that stuff, and being outraged at all of the supposed bureaucratic mess. That’s their fault, though. I’ve always had all of my documentation straightened out, so I’ve always been whisked right through the system with no snags.
I have experienced both. Small town DMV’s tend to be the best, but the local one here in Colorado Springs has had a major overhaul. It really was a rundown fleabag of a place, with all the employees acting like undead sloths. Then a new location opened up with a better service system and it feels more like standing in line for a movie theater. Vastly better.
The ones here in the Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, Cary, Chapel Hill (don’t ask)) in North Carolina have been great for decades. The ones out in rural North Carolina tend to be a lot crappier … but then North Carolina is a bit of a shit-hole in general, once you get outside of a major urban area. The mountains of North Carolina have one of the highest concentrations of snake-handling, Pentecostal cults in the US.
I like this series very much and have no criticisms of either the art or the scripting. My comment is about the comments.
The comments section of this strip is often so entertaining and also usually clears up things about the strip which dim-witted readers such as myself would not otherwise appreciate. In other words, it makes the strip a lot better.
But there are two recurring problems with the comments and some of the recurring commenters.
First, it is a shame that robot comment generators victimize this website with ads pretending to be comments and the like.
Second, sometimes a very few readers hijack the comments section to engage in “debates” or conversations with other similarly long-winded (figuratively speaking) readers. Often these debates/conversations become not really comments about the stories but rather egotistical flaunting of personal axes to grind.
These sorts of comments make it difficult to impossible for me to follow the actual comments which are not trying to push some religious or political or commercial agenda. I know that this only affects me because I am somehow just not as cool as the other readers but I wish it would stop.
Who’s that “Ü”-guy? Captain Narcolepsy?
I suspect he is Überman.
The only question that raises: Superman knockoff or just a guy who can get a ride anywhere?
No, that’s Ↄberman. It’s spelled with a “Ↄ” now. Haven’t you seen their new logo?
I’m getting a white square is that intentional
It looks like a backwards ‘c’ with serifs.
A quick search turned up that it was invented by the Roman Emperor Claudius and:
“Upper-case antisigma, resembling a reversed Roman numeral for one hundred. Used to replace BS and PS, much like X stood in for CS and GS.”
If so the check must be for dyslexia
It’s Captain Umlaut!
Heh, I like that interpretation.
I was going for Ültraman, but I like yours better.
His only weakness: misplaced umlauts. He couldn’t recover since the first release of “Spın̈al Tap”.
Take it Lazer Pony, you don’t want these people to be grumpy on you.
For some reason this reminds me of a DMV joke I’ve heard.
The reason that they insist that you don’t smile in your drivers’ license photo is that they want you to look like you normally look. And they can’t imagine anyone ever smiling willingly.
Nice.
Personally, I’ve never had a bad DMV experience, though. I don’t know if there are some states with horrible, messed-up DMV services, or if it’s simply a matter of a handful of people having a few bad experiences and then the narrative created by those experiences being reinforced by selection bias of the 5% of people who have a bad experience.
I’ve seen people go into the DMV without having any of the proper documentation on hand, not understanding why they need all of that stuff, and being outraged at all of the supposed bureaucratic mess. That’s their fault, though. I’ve always had all of my documentation straightened out, so I’ve always been whisked right through the system with no snags.
I have experienced both. Small town DMV’s tend to be the best, but the local one here in Colorado Springs has had a major overhaul. It really was a rundown fleabag of a place, with all the employees acting like undead sloths. Then a new location opened up with a better service system and it feels more like standing in line for a movie theater. Vastly better.
The ones here in the Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, Cary, Chapel Hill (don’t ask)) in North Carolina have been great for decades. The ones out in rural North Carolina tend to be a lot crappier … but then North Carolina is a bit of a shit-hole in general, once you get outside of a major urban area. The mountains of North Carolina have one of the highest concentrations of snake-handling, Pentecostal cults in the US.
Polite and overworked here in Hawaii, so bring a book if going in peak hours.
Yeah, you’re always going to have that sort of thing, though. As long as they’re competent and personable once you get there, I’m good.
My father’s home town he grew up in. Canton, NC
There’s an area that if you keep going up a mountain road, you start hearing banjos. In the distance, where there are only lots of trees.
* like you normally look when having to show your documents.
Hey, at least it helps keep up employee morale.
And they can always prank them back to normal.
She gets it!
I take it Keith was the one who changed the name.
Yeah, back around page 50 or 100. I’ll check the archive. I remember generally when it was.
Here we go:
http://superredundant.com/?comic=056-redundant
I’m surprised that it took Keith *this long* to make the Disabilities Office accept the name-change.
Well, that’s a bureaucracy for you…Slower progress than a snail trying to climb up a down-sliding glacier.
Hey it’s… Captain Unconscious. Kind of like Weekend with Bernie. His superpower is to do stuff while unconscious or dead.
But he doesn’t look …
Ohhhhhhhhhhh.
Remember those guys in line to be attended in “Bettlejuice”?
I mostly remember the woman in the sequin dress who was sawn in half. What were the others?
I remember the guy with shrunken head.
And the witch doctor who shrunk his head.
The most important part was the time spent waiting to be attended.
Yeah, I saw that guy, when I went back and pulled up the scene. The sawn-in-half lady just made more of an impression upon me, I guess.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The Adamatium Version of “Swiss Army Man”!
Well they put that extra s in Astronomus. Now I see we stick.
I like this series very much and have no criticisms of either the art or the scripting. My comment is about the comments.
The comments section of this strip is often so entertaining and also usually clears up things about the strip which dim-witted readers such as myself would not otherwise appreciate. In other words, it makes the strip a lot better.
But there are two recurring problems with the comments and some of the recurring commenters.
First, it is a shame that robot comment generators victimize this website with ads pretending to be comments and the like.
Second, sometimes a very few readers hijack the comments section to engage in “debates” or conversations with other similarly long-winded (figuratively speaking) readers. Often these debates/conversations become not really comments about the stories but rather egotistical flaunting of personal axes to grind.
These sorts of comments make it difficult to impossible for me to follow the actual comments which are not trying to push some religious or political or commercial agenda. I know that this only affects me because I am somehow just not as cool as the other readers but I wish it would stop.
Well, at least she’s honest.