Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 07, 2019

Rat shouldn’t bother showering, brushing his teeth, wiping his…

Come on, Pig and Goat, what did you expect? Rat is a rat and also he is a cynical.

Can’t wait for the commentary in the printed anthology book on this one where Pastis laments how painstaking it was to get that bed drawn.

Rat might be giving up breathing. Why inhale when you exhale seconds later.

I would go with slob.

Why read anything? I forget much of what I read a few days later.

Oddly, my stepdaughter has made the same comment. Her mother is not pleased.

This remind me that I must do my chores , and is only 11 AM .

Rat why are you saving time if you are not going to do anything ? ….. Croc Power !

I’ll go with Goat.

Best looking garden in my neighborhood is all native plants. Looks like a feild full of wildflowers

I’ll go with lazy. If he were wealthy enough, he’d probably find it more pleasant to live in a house where these things got done, but by servants.

Paris has never been more correct than he is today!

Putting eating into the endless tasks ongoing, we would be a thinner population, Nah, we gotta draw the line somewhere but not on our waistline.

Spending a ton of money to make the grass grow only to spend a ton of money to keep it from growing is SANE!!!???

And I’ll go with all three.

That sums it up great, Goat!

Rat wants to join these people: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/aug/05/i-dont-smell-meet-the-people-who-have-stopped-washing

Genius psychopathic loon. :D

My spirit animal. I would switch from “the Brain”, but Pastis would sue me. He is still sort of a lawyer.

I often have the same thoughts while doing the weekly cleaning, but I still do it again the next week

Some of that stuff is just social convention. But when one gets down to it, that’s about as real as it gets.

He needs to see a psychopathologist! ;o}

The difference is that grass uncut becomes a jungle, dishes unwashed become a mountain that could fall on you, and besides eventually you run out of dishes— all those examples are situations that have to be maintained or they become worse. The bed, on the other hand, just lays there unmade and unchanged, waiting for your next visit. I only make my bed when I expect company and just closing the door works most of the time even then.

Genius!

I seldom make my bed. This is a deliberate choice, not laziness. When I sleep, my body exudes sweat. If I make my bed on rising, that sweat is trapped under the blankets and makes the bed feel clammy when I crawl in at night. If I pull the sheet down to the foot of the bed, the mattress can air out all day.

When I wash my sheets, once per week, I do make my bed. Same if company is coming.

I also flip my mattress every six months (New Years and June 30) so it feels as soft and springy after 18 years as it did new.

RAT is getting so pathetic…lazy and becoming an alcoholic…. he needs an intervention from PIG GOAT ZEEBA and CROCS

I’m with Goat on that.

I’ll go with psycho-pathetic.

I know that feeling, Rat. I call it “happily ever after syndrome”.

Goat always gets it right.

My idol.

“I never do housework. After about four years the dirt stops accumulating.” Quentin Crisp

I gave up sex for similar reasons. The wife doesn’t seem to understand.

Before you make a costly decision, never threaten your reputation for the worse.

Bedbug eggs dry to dust in unmade beds.

As a young man, I made a remarkable discovery that has resulted in quite a bit of work over the years, but with an excellent payoff: Females tend to avoid you if you don’t meet minimal standards of hygiene … including keeping your house clean and the laundry and dishes washed. And they are actually attracted to guys who exceed that minimal standard. Woohoo!

Personally, I cannot sleep in an unmade bed—even if I have to make it right before I climb into it. On the other hand, I’ve never been able to see the purpose of dusting; whether I dust today or not, a week later it looks the same. So the point would be … ?

Maybe Rat’s a genius and a slob?

Rat has discovered the secret of my retirement, single-guy Lifestyle! Don’t knock it if you haven’t tried it….

Rats don’t have a very long lifespan

And showering. I shall not enter Rat’s house from now on.

Hey, I don’t entirely agree with him, but I see his point about not seeing the point of making the bed.