For some reason, I’m reminded of the scene in History of the World, Part I, where Bea Arthur’s character tell’s Mel Brook’s character “so, you’re a bulls*****r”
You forgot to include your Snapgram and your followers in your list of loves. You love followers because they mean money for you. I suspect your top love is money, Bets.
“What have I been doing? Oh dumb teen stuff like courting liars and cheaters. And then, when I met the one genuine guy that I was looking for in the first place, I responded by taking him for granted and discarding him in a parking lot. Needless to say, I’m Ready to take on Corporate America! Madison Avenue here I come!” – Bets
I couldn’t even get Google to tell me what “Social Transcendence” is. In Metaphysics, do you get a degree, or so you just finally become aware of everything?
Whatna h*ll just happened? Weren’t they (and we) just standing at the dorm room door waiting for Tiff to beat the living dog dirt out of Stef ….. and now this "Hi old buddy, howya been ….. " crapp?? It seem like a whole segment of this series has been misfiled!
Oh Dez. What are you thinking trying to use university as a method of self-actualization and personal fulfillment? Instead of that worthless endeavor, learn spreadsheets and get a job in business administration. You won’t be happy, but you’ll maybe be more employable (no guarantees and you’ll still be in debt).
This ought to be an interesting week. Last week we had the caloric Tiff-Stef dust up on the B-side. This week is starting as as sanguine opposite over on the A-side. Will this dichotomy continue as the main direction of the strip?
OR will we get a mix-and-match goings on??? And how will Kip boy play into this little stage play?
Pretty honest portrayal, in humerous detail, on how college students distill their goals—until life fully intervenes. Such a difference between the two sisters-in-kind across the way and the two in color—a new stage—here. Now where is the story going?
Has it been suggested that Dez swap rooms with Tiffany yet? After all, Dez is so groovy and zen and at one with herself and nature, so Steff and Kip can do whatever it is they do and she won’t mind. (Steff n Kip sounds like a cereal brand.)
Tiffany has outgrown this college gaggle, it’s not working. She needs something more mature. Like what? I don’t know. But, I do know that Greg has not been kind to her. She has a mansion to live in, and Greg has stuck her in a crowded dorm with a locker room floozie as her roommate.
“Transcendence refers to the very highest and most inclusive or holistic levels of human consciousness, behaving and relating, as ends rather than means, to oneself, to significant others, to human beings in general, to other species, to nature, and to the cosmos”
Embrace your differences and the qualities about you that you think are weird. Eventually, they’re going to be the only things separating you from everyone else.
I find the Dez character to be wholly pretentious and self righteous. She can’t even remember the name of their camp. That whole Zen “I am one with the universe” stuff is just another way of acting self important. She’s always spouting vague little quips that really mean nothing at all. Her little “Inside Out-Outside In” comment is just a put-down in disguise, intended to portray her goals as being more valuable than those of Bets. Bets of course is never fazed by that kind of nonsense!
I heard the principal walked in on a Metaphysics class. He said to the instructor, “It looks like all your students are sleeping.” The instructor replied, “Shhhh! They’re taking the final exam.”
Dez will have a happier life filled with peace and contentment. Bets will have a life spent chasing her next material possession and never feeling satisfied with what she has.
Bets: source of income is social media and Dez has an unknown source of income. Dez has traveled the world. Has free time to work the community gardens. Her family might be wealthy.
OMG I’m surprised Bets doesn’t have an obnoxious Hustle Culture account on Twitter full of aphorisms about how to “Visualize, Actualize, Grasp, and Claw.” But there’s really not that many degrees of separation between that and an Instant Karma type who thinks “Metaphysics” means “New Age woo.”
So one wants to support herself, her family and maybe be able to help others, while the other wants to be a burden while trying to guilt people into supporting her and those that chose as she did.
When living in the dorm, I never worried about being similar to my roommates. One was rather taken aback, apparently, and commented that while she had a large poster of Mark Spitz, the Olympic swimmer, I had a 5-foot tall poster of Frankenstein! (I also liked her poster; she never mentioned whether she grew to like mine.)
Templo S.U.D. about 3 years ago
What fine lives those two live.
AnyFace about 3 years ago
Hey, whatever works. ✨
Brdshtt Premium Member about 3 years ago
I wonder what Arnold the Pig has been up to since “Green Acres” was cancelled.
alasko about 3 years ago
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Ahuehuete about 3 years ago
For some reason, I’m reminded of the scene in History of the World, Part I, where Bea Arthur’s character tell’s Mel Brook’s character “so, you’re a bulls*****r”
Vilyehm about 3 years ago
It would be more funny if Bets had posted this on the door to Stef and Tiffany’s room.
….and they both took it personally.
Brdshtt Premium Member about 3 years ago
I wonder where Ivlax is tonight. He usually likes to be first…
jea9hrkr about 3 years ago
Maybe they will cancel each other out living together and become more balanced whole real people.
dhoneyx about 3 years ago
Tee up for a drawn out roommate swap.
lvlax about 3 years ago
I wonder what job Dez thinks she’s going to get by majoring in Social Transcendence?!?
Scarlet Shimmer about 3 years ago
The motto of every successful influencer.
marilynnbyerly about 3 years ago
Can college kids actually go into debt for the rest of their lives for degrees in Spirtual Enlightenment?
jea9hrkr about 3 years ago
Has anyone noticed Steph has a giant head and not just her hair?
ronaldspence about 3 years ago
Nice to see some diversity in the comics…a capitalist and a humanitarian…
capricorn9th about 3 years ago
You forgot to include your Snapgram and your followers in your list of loves. You love followers because they mean money for you. I suspect your top love is money, Bets.
Mordock999 Premium Member about 3 years ago
“What have I been doing? Oh dumb teen stuff like courting liars and cheaters. And then, when I met the one genuine guy that I was looking for in the first place, I responded by taking him for granted and discarding him in a parking lot. Needless to say, I’m Ready to take on Corporate America! Madison Avenue here I come!” – Bets
Ruth Brown about 3 years ago
Is Gunther part of Bets’ dumb teen stuff.
BabyBlue about 3 years ago
I like these two. At least they have goals beyond a mrs degree.
R.W.Singer -SF about 3 years ago
What kinda major is that? Methinks someone will be homeless shortly after graduation….
C about 3 years ago
Dine & dash poster
notbornyesterday about 3 years ago
Well, if ever saw “Pulp Fiction” you might surmise that Arnold’s “makin’ bacon”
Airman about 3 years ago
With those majors, Dez will create beautiful flower arrangements in a high class florist shop, and Bets will own the shop.
Airman about 3 years ago
After being infested by Steff and Kip, Tiffany needs to take a shower………….hold on, I’ll join you.
Willow Mt Lyon about 3 years ago
After college, maybe Dez will continue her studies at Unity Village.
Susan00100 about 3 years ago
Bets is a Trump-style capitalist. Sad.
Aladar30 Premium Member about 3 years ago
No wonder Dez is so wise and able of dealing with every kinds of situations♡! It’s nice to finally know her major.
dadoctah about 3 years ago
Left Brain, meet Right Brain.
gnmnrbl about 3 years ago
Hmmmm: Flash+ sass+ dash= cash. I wonder what this might lead to?
Sanspareil about 3 years ago
Well, if you believe in spirituality and the gift of man, Dez will be going to a different place than Bets!
jea9hrkr about 3 years ago
Failure in every aspect.
kenhense about 3 years ago
I couldn’t even get Google to tell me what “Social Transcendence” is. In Metaphysics, do you get a degree, or so you just finally become aware of everything?
ACTIVIST1234 about 3 years ago
Dueling posters.
D.E.N. about 3 years ago
Whatna h*ll just happened? Weren’t they (and we) just standing at the dorm room door waiting for Tiff to beat the living dog dirt out of Stef ….. and now this "Hi old buddy, howya been ….. " crapp?? It seem like a whole segment of this series has been misfiled!
Troglodyte about 3 years ago
Okay, “same difference”, sort of…
Johnnyrico about 3 years ago
Rumblings of trouble in paradise on the horizon…
Queen of America about 3 years ago
Where do you apply for a job in that field?
Decepticomic about 3 years ago
Oh Dez. What are you thinking trying to use university as a method of self-actualization and personal fulfillment? Instead of that worthless endeavor, learn spreadsheets and get a job in business administration. You won’t be happy, but you’ll maybe be more employable (no guarantees and you’ll still be in debt).
Ellis97 about 3 years ago
Oppositely the same? What?
Purple People Eater about 3 years ago
You can major in social transcendence? Are there many jobs available in that field?
rrsltx about 3 years ago
Oh the joys of being self-centered, ruthless, materialistic, and narcissistic. Poor Gunth. If only he had a set.
Tyge about 3 years ago
Well… looks like we’re off to another dragging week at Mooney Uni. Maybe GnK will surprise up with something.
Caldonia about 3 years ago
Ughh, could Dez please stop being such a neo-hippie stereotype? And a smug one, at that.
Tyge about 3 years ago
This ought to be an interesting week. Last week we had the caloric Tiff-Stef dust up on the B-side. This week is starting as as sanguine opposite over on the A-side. Will this dichotomy continue as the main direction of the strip?
OR will we get a mix-and-match goings on??? And how will Kip boy play into this little stage play?
rothj Premium Member about 3 years ago
https://ask.metafilter.com/56309/Metaphysics-or-metafraud
ctolson about 3 years ago
Mirror images of each other, at least in personal goals.
GaryCooper about 3 years ago
Mooney U offers a degree in “Metaphysic and Social Transcendence”? And one in business? What kind of college is this?
jamesamber29 about 3 years ago
I love this. ❤
ellisc about 3 years ago
Easy to guess which of them will be successful after graduation!
Ignatz Premium Member about 3 years ago
And they seem to like each other, and don’t mind the differences.
artegal about 3 years ago
And another college graduate with a completely worthless degree.
luann1212 about 3 years ago
Pretty honest portrayal, in humerous detail, on how college students distill their goals—until life fully intervenes. Such a difference between the two sisters-in-kind across the way and the two in color—a new stage—here. Now where is the story going?
dv1093 about 3 years ago
Cosplay?
Caldonia about 3 years ago
Has it been suggested that Dez swap rooms with Tiffany yet? After all, Dez is so groovy and zen and at one with herself and nature, so Steff and Kip can do whatever it is they do and she won’t mind. (Steff n Kip sounds like a cereal brand.)
illuminare about 3 years ago
Bets if you were any more plastic youd be a credit card.
me_the_polish_gull about 3 years ago
They’re gonna be great roommates. Way better than Stef and Tiffany.
Busrayne about 3 years ago
There is only one star in Bet’s universe – her. Gunther needs to escape her gravity well.
tcayer about 3 years ago
Notice there’s no cash in Des’ philosophy!
Serial Pedant about 3 years ago
He’s directing porn in the Gov’s mansion…you pick a state.
Airman about 3 years ago
Tiffany has outgrown this college gaggle, it’s not working. She needs something more mature. Like what? I don’t know. But, I do know that Greg has not been kind to her. She has a mansion to live in, and Greg has stuck her in a crowded dorm with a locker room floozie as her roommate.
Rhetorical_Question about 3 years ago
“Transcendence refers to the very highest and most inclusive or holistic levels of human consciousness, behaving and relating, as ends rather than means, to oneself, to significant others, to human beings in general, to other species, to nature, and to the cosmos”
asrialfeeple about 3 years ago
Dash certainly means cash.
Rhetorical_Question about 3 years ago
Embrace your differences and the qualities about you that you think are weird. Eventually, they’re going to be the only things separating you from everyone else.
Sebastian Stan
Joe1962 about 3 years ago
Dez there is a saying that change is good.
LOUHABY about 3 years ago
SORRY, But still can’t get the “pew” from yesterday,,,,,just dense.
comic reader 22 about 3 years ago
I find the Dez character to be wholly pretentious and self righteous. She can’t even remember the name of their camp. That whole Zen “I am one with the universe” stuff is just another way of acting self important. She’s always spouting vague little quips that really mean nothing at all. Her little “Inside Out-Outside In” comment is just a put-down in disguise, intended to portray her goals as being more valuable than those of Bets. Bets of course is never fazed by that kind of nonsense!
kenhense about 3 years ago
I heard the principal walked in on a Metaphysics class. He said to the instructor, “It looks like all your students are sleeping.” The instructor replied, “Shhhh! They’re taking the final exam.”
EugeneWilson about 3 years ago
Dear Greg and Karen, write Dez off and bring back Delta. Thank you.
locake about 3 years ago
Dez will have a happier life filled with peace and contentment. Bets will have a life spent chasing her next material possession and never feeling satisfied with what she has.
Rhetorical_Question about 3 years ago
The pursuit of Happiness goes to Desdemona while the pursuit of Hard cold Cash $$$ goes to Bets.
Adam-Stone(Soup) about 3 years ago
Complete opposites are usually what get along once common ground is found.
pontiac59 about 3 years ago
Looks like this is going to be a week to skip
GregNelson1 about 3 years ago
Looks like Dez plans to be unemployed with a large debt.
Rhetorical_Question about 3 years ago
Bets: source of income is social media and Dez has an unknown source of income. Dez has traveled the world. Has free time to work the community gardens. Her family might be wealthy.
RSH about 3 years ago
flash + sass + dash = cash… sad but probably true
HodgeElmwood about 3 years ago
Wait a sec, I thought these two were at Camp Buckaroo? Where’d Camp Coyote come from?
KevinCarson2 about 3 years ago
OMG I’m surprised Bets doesn’t have an obnoxious Hustle Culture account on Twitter full of aphorisms about how to “Visualize, Actualize, Grasp, and Claw.” But there’s really not that many degrees of separation between that and an Instant Karma type who thinks “Metaphysics” means “New Age woo.”
Mordock999 Premium Member about 3 years ago
It’s a long shot but maybe We’ll get a bit of Bets’ backstory this week.
Not crossing My fingers though………., ;-)
Sisyphos about 3 years ago
Dez and Bets are complementary types; together, they may conquer the world (or earn their degrees, at least).
Stef and Tiff, on the other hand, are too similar to get along well….
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace about 3 years ago
Different paths to success.
BlueKnight1966 about 3 years ago
So one wants to support herself, her family and maybe be able to help others, while the other wants to be a burden while trying to guilt people into supporting her and those that chose as she did.
Otis Rufus Driftwood about 3 years ago
Bets must have been a different girl back then.
finnygirl Premium Member about 3 years ago
When living in the dorm, I never worried about being similar to my roommates. One was rather taken aback, apparently, and commented that while she had a large poster of Mark Spitz, the Olympic swimmer, I had a 5-foot tall poster of Frankenstein! (I also liked her poster; she never mentioned whether she grew to like mine.)
CoreyTaylor1 about 3 years ago
Dez seems pretty covered up for someone thrilled to have just joined a naturalist group. You’d think she’d be dressing more like Tiffani and Stef!
MsPony about 3 years ago
You can major in metaphysics and social transcendence?
SMH
Original_Baskingshark about 3 years ago
Uh, the camp was called Camp Buckeroo a couple strips ago…