What About Me 2014-02-28

[jwhouk]

Poor Tina.

[Opus the Poet]

I call fowl. I did the back one and 2 forwards and still ended up with the Bud BSOD face. (and yes I spelled it that way on purpose because a little birdy told me to).

[jwhouk]

Pablo helps his FB followers.

In case you still can't get there: What About Me?

[TheDOCTOR]

Tina; "I wanna talk about ME!"

[Opus the Poet]

OK I can get there from FB but not from Wapsi Square? Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot, Interrogative.

[Dave]

Seems as if we (and Tina) will need to wait for Bud's circuit breakers to cool down and reset.

[Bookworm]

I suspect it has to do with caching software. I'm seeing the previous day's image myself.

I'll be checking through a different internet provider in about 3 minutes.

Okay - it's caching software on the internet provider's end. When I switched from Comcast to my T-mobile hotspot, I immediately got the most recent comic.

[jwhouk]

You can also get there via the archives.

[DilyV]

Poor Tina...... Someone fix Bud and lets commence to relaxin'!

[Fairportfan]

"What about me?" - the last line of Duck You Sucker.

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We are talking about you, sweetie - just that the Problem of You involves a lot of angles and offshoots you're not aware of.

[zachariah]

Tina needs to really talk to someone for a change. Usually she listens and adds a comment to help the others find their way. Now she is the one who needs some help. Sadly the rest don't seem to realize that Tina does need this help. They are so used to her being a silent listener in the group and someone who helps them. Now they don't even think about providing the same thing for her.

Monica and others have shown this behavior before towards Tina. Monica has never helped Tina with those shorthand notes. Nor has anyone helped Tina with her own history story even though she has asked for help a few times. It seems they all treat her like a useful tools that they only pay attention to when they need its help, like a lefty handed monkey wrench. You ignore it until you need it. That really isn't fair to Tina at all. So far all she has gotten is patted on the held and told not to worry about it. No one has taken the time to explain what a dream is, why people have them, and reasons for them. They should do more than just say don't worry you'll be fine. This is not reassuring Tina.

[Yamara]

Oh come on, Tina, you've waited trillions of years to get to this point, give us couple thousand to work out the kinks!

[eee]

There there, Tina. They'll get to you. Especially now that you have said the magic word 'Bia'. They just have to sort things through, first. And get Bud's brain working again...

(I agree, Tina's been getting short shift here. There are plenty of mysteries about Tina 1.0 that nobody has dug into. Mainly because events in WS tend to be crisis driven, and there hasn't been a crisis involving Tina for a while. Now there is, and a potentially big one. I think we'll be finding out a lot about things pretty quick.)

[Julie]

I'll talk to you about you Tina!! *hugsmoosh for Tina!!*

[Catawampus]

The First Rule of Wapsi Square Beach Party Tina-Helping Event is: you do not talk about Tina.

Perhaps they're all currently a bit unenthusiastic to begin the debriefing because for many of them at the moment briefs make up half of their total clothing.

One thing to keep in mind is that although this part of the storyline has been ongoing for a month for us, in story they've only just all gathered at the island and started relaxing. They may have been there for less than an hour. And it was only just that morning that Tina told anybody that anything was wrong. So it's not as though they've all been ignoring her problem for a long time. They could be thinking that there's plenty of time for everybody to unwind a bit before settling down and seriously addressing whatever is wrong.

[Catawampus]

I'll talk to you about you Tina!! *hugsmoosh for Tina!!*

But can you give her cute snake kisses, too?

[Julie]

I'll talk to you about you Tina!! *hugsmoosh for Tina!!*

But can you give her cute snake kisses, too?

No. Nor do I have an endearing Southern accent. I just have boobs.

[txmystic]

I'll talk to you about you Tina!! *hugsmoosh for Tina!!*

My thoughts exactly...my first reaction is that she needs a hug!

But I haven't the "smooshing" ability--hopefully the warmness of affection will compensate...

[txmystic]

Nor do I have an endearing Southern accent.

Say what? I thought that came natural to Texans...

[Catawampus]

What do Americans consider to be a "Southern accent"? Tucson and San Diego and Miami are definitely south, but you never hear their residents being referred to as having a Southern accent (unless they moved there from Georgia or someplace). Texan accents seem to be set off in a category of their own, too.

For that matter, I wonder what sort of an accent Tina has, given that she's a collection of demons manipulating a body's lungs and larynx. I can imagine some paranormal sociolinguistics professor listening to her and declaring, "By Jove, is that a hint of south-eastern Demon Realm I hear in your voice?"