Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 29, 2022

Goat’s hobby is to rip other people’s hobbies.

“I guarantee that I won’t see me coming.”

Self sabotage stems from the truth that when we lie to ourselves, we usually believe it!

Existentialism: We do something with our lives in order to be doing something!

Some days I really feel like this comic gets me

Rat’s substitute for social media.

But if you don’t sabotage your own life, and nobody else cares enough to, how else do you explain your failure to succeed?

Goat is not at fault. Rat is the one who brought it up.

However, Goat is the one to blame.

And Goat is the one to thank (for playing the game) …

… and for helping Rat fill up his day.

After all, what is life if you don’t have something to complain about? and to fill up your days placing blame? and to be an annoyance in others lives?

Rat needs a “shrink”!

Rat’s hobby is to make people look bad and feel superior to them.

I do that too…Like reading or quilting when I should be exercising

Rat has the weirdest hobbies. I wonder why.

RAT and PIG are their own worst enemies ‼️☺️

I’m Rat in this strip and I don’t like it.

It’s much better for Rat to sabotage his own life, than it is for him to sabotage somebody else’s life, and if it’s a satisfying hobby for him, all the better.

Our Yorkie Poo’s hobby is finding the weakest point in his stuffed toys and removing the stuffing and spreading it all over the floor.

Rat’s hobby is to be the t*rd in everyone’s punch bowl.

If WE don’t like him,how can Rat like himself?

Rat, you only need some blood thinner for better brain circulation. Here, I have some great tasting warfarin for you.

Rat lives a pathetic life

OK, just so long as your life has some, ah, purpose!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE

New hobby: Finding ways to improve your life.

Sound advice from Bob Newhart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BjKS1-vjPs&ab_channel=ChaZacIsa

Rat thus deserves what he gets, for better or for worse. Probably mostly the latter….

(sigh)