Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for January 26, 2024

Finally the straight — manure — from Dez!

STOP WHINY

Yep, that’s it!

What? No mystic infusion of exotic teas? Words straight from the shoulder and aimed right between the eyes!

Woohoo! Dez!! Atta girl! Give it to Bets straight. “Get off your whiny butt, and get on with life.”

Straight talk from Dez, Very clear and precise.

I like Des.

Dez should talk more like that,

Bets Malone, do something new?

Is her butt what is whining?

Well said, Dez! I mean the stop whining one not the other one. She needs that swift kick in the butt.

Spot on!! Go Dez!!

No, Bets’s butt is not whining. Dez remains just non-mystical enough not to have literally meant that Bets’s butt is whiny.

’Nuf sed!

As I said yesterday, Dez was talking metaphorically. Bets, like so many here, couldn’t interpret it, so Dez had to spell it out for her. Good for Dez. Let’s see if Bets will move forward with this new knowledge. I see this as positive for Bets who may end up more likable for all the Bets haters here.

Credit where it’s due here people. Dez has been talking in metaphors all week. And probably would have continued, if Bets hadn’t put her foot down. Plus her advice doesn’t quite touch Bets’ main issue. Her pathological need for attention and/or approval.

About time!!!

Finally!

I think that was supposed to be “sow new crops.”

Move on, and let Gunther be Gunther.

Well said! Was that plain enough for you?

Oooooooo……….

That is the most direct statement Dez has ever made, and she made it good.

Bets needed some time to feel bad and scared about the decisions she’s made and still has to make. But yes, it’s time for her to have a plan: Go back online or try something else for work? Stick with Gunther or cut him loose, so they could each meet someone else? I’m hoping for the breakup — Bets wasn’t a conflicted or unhappy person early in their relationship, when she was already very involved with her online world. But if there’s something else she’d like to do, she needs to get any old job for money while figuring out what her next big goal could be.

Move on, Bets. Dez wants a crack at Gunther for herself.

As Candide says at the end of his novel, “…we must cultivate our own gardens.”

AHA! Dez speaks English.

Bravo!

‘Get off your whiny b u t t and get on with life!’

‘Please stop it with the metaphors!’

‘Okay! Get off your whiny @$$, get it in gear and figure it out before you drive everyone here in th comic and all the readers of the comic crazy!! Now get out of here!’

‘OMG!! Someone please help! Dez jus had a stroke! Help!! Dez? Dez? DEZ?!? Oh, nooo..’

Also, here’s a hoe. Start working.

For me, Dez remains the one of the few likable characters. She tried to be kind, Betts was snotty about it. Betts criticized her ways and told her to just say what she means, Dez delivered. The bluntness came only after it was requested.

FINALLY! Cutting through Dez’s BS.

This veiled lecture on social media is rich considering this forum, and others like it depend on it so much.

Whatever!

There. Was it so hard to just speak a declarative sentence?

See Calvin & Hobbs for temporary relief from Psych 103!

Good advice because this thread is borrrrrrr-ing!

Okay, go back to the mystic metaphors.

Yeah, Bets, I was getting a little woozy from the Mystic Metaphors myself.

Sure thing Dez! I’ll just start a blog called “Dez’s ditzy advice”, build a lucrative fan base, and see how you like being attacked online. Bets has as much of a pulse as the rest of the characters on here, she does have a “life”. She doesn’t need to meet anyone else’s standards for a “life” other than that. At best, the reason she doesn’t appear to have a “life” per Dez is because she chose to give up a subject she was interested in and compensated for to hitch her buggy to Gunther’s non existent “life” plans. Bets needs to have a talk with Gunther about there mutual future and HIS role in it (providing for her? Moving out? Getting a more lucrative job than TA? Coming to terms with the “old Bets” being gone and supporting that chainge?). If Gunther isn’t willing to chainge, maybe it IS time to pull the plug on that relationship and get a better defined relationship elsewhere.

I really hate what G&K are doing to Bets. 1. Bets is in Business School. 2. Bets is extremely intelligent, remember she helped Tiffany in studies. 3. Bets has to do an internship. BTW, it should be in 2024 or 2025. 4. Bets should get a finance degree. I see only one problem with Bets, she’s way out of Gunther’s league.

Bets needs to admit that she was only interested in Gunther as long as she could use him to get hits on the internet. Without that component, she has no use for him.

And is Dez still a student? What’s her major? Have we ever seen her actually going to a class or doing anything school related, other than living in a dorm?

I’m with Dez. Bets has been steeped in her own pity party for too long. She’s swinging between extremes and catastrophizing her situation. Get on with it.

Brutal honesty gets the point across

FINALLY, Dez is making sense in the last panel.

And despite what some “folks” say here today it’s pretty GOOD advice.

Although I don’t see why Bets needs to be told that, since she was perfectly willing to “get on with her life” each time she broke up with her so-called “liars and cheaters” in the past.

Metaphors can get really annoying.

she’s kind of an attention hoe . . .

Just go back to social media!! Get back to work!!

Dez is spot on. Bets isn’t getting on with life yet, and she needs to. Right now, she’s still mourning her influence r life. It’s a stage and largely a self pity party. When/if she gets to a point where she stops looking at a door that’s closing and looks towards doors that are opening – then she’ll be properly moving on.

About time someone told her that.

THANK YOU BETS! Finally! Someone has told Dez to shut up with her pretentious, self-righteous gibberish!

there you go

Well, Dez definitely got to the point. Sooo, is Bets getting on with her life going to be w/o Gunther as we can figure she’s going to get back with her social media.

Betts is ADDICTED to social media. She is either all in ( and that ruins her life with Gunn) or she is all out, no other option. If she wants a life with Gunn (who plays second fiddle to her “fan”) then she has to step away from her addiction.

Dez just learned some people aren’t too bright…

Chauncey Gardner!

The dump truck may beep again soon.

THANK you!!!

Have Betts break up some of the ground with her hands. It will help her feel grounded.

Let’s go back to the colorful metaphors, please.

Dez has a point. But I preferred her metaphors, they are more poetic. I think she agrees to be direct with Bers because they have been friends for years. Her advice is good, but what to do is something that Bets has decides and I wonder what she will do. She has to rethink an entire career and it’s not easy. I hope Tiffany is involved in all of that. The two together can do great things.

Good for Dez! Hit the nail smack on the head!!!

Dez has difficulty speaking regular English.

Could have saved us all a week of BS and just said that a few days ago, Dez.

Thank you, Dez! Thank you very much!

Bets may not yet have completely internalized the idea that posting isn’t the same thing as living (credit: Margaret Lyons, The New York Times).

Hooray! Go Dez!

“My empty life”. That is what some people would call a “Freudian Slip”. Sounds like Bets needs to get honest and break up with Gunther so that she can have the freedom to decide who she really is and what she really wants to be, without the pressure of trying to conform to his ideals and expectations. She has the ability to fly, but right now, and for some time, Gunther has been an anchor around her neck. I would have been done with him after the disastrous dinner with Al and Irma when he didn’t stick up for her, personally.

To the readers who cry when the stories take too long, there is another thing you could all do. Follow your own advice and get on with your lives.

Oh well….it is just a comic……

“All this bi_chin’ and moanin’ pitchin’ a fit — Get over it, get over it”

(Don Hendley)

Thank you, Dez. The girl was getting on my nerves

That is almost always helpful advice.

Isaiah 58:11 New Living Translation (NLT)The LORD will guide you continually, giving you water when you are dry and restoring your strength. You will be like a well-watered garden, like an ever-flowing spring.

Dez reminds me of StarWars character “ Old Big Wand Come Blow Me.”

Get active and selective and interesting achievements will happen to you.

Well the kind subtle approach didn’t work so Dez has decided to just lay it on the line. She’s right. No one but Bets can fix this. No one can do the work for her. I get it that she’s lost and empty and depressed. So she should talk to a real counselor—-not Bernice! I don’t agree with those who say she should return to social media “just a little” in order to make income. She clearly cannot handle that right now and would soon be just as obsessed as she was before. She needs to take Dez’s advice and focus on finding OTHER THINGS positive things that she can do to nurture her sense of self without the quick easy fix of adoring “fans”. No matter what she would like to believe the “fans” are not her family and if they were they would be a bad and dysfunctional family. She has many other better relationships in her life, including a guy who loves her and friends who care about her. All the rest is just junk food for the soul.

“….to put it diplomatically.”

Misery loves company

Beautifully said Dez, maybe she will understand that.

Bets just got much better advice from Dez than Luann has ever gotten from Bernice.

As the expression goes, “you can’t see what is ahead if you are always looking behind.”

who knew Dez could be succinct?

Tomorrow,Dez has to explain to Bets what a “parsnip” is.

Yeah, get off your whiny butt and exit this strip forever.

Good one, Dee! Now go over and have a chat with Luann and Beatrice.

I feel like Des is actually an old woman in disguise. She is way too wise not to have lived longer…

First one who sings “Farmer In The Dell” gets brained with a shovel

Love it! Love Dez!

As Dr. Phil says, “Build a bridge and get over it.”

Wow! Dez rarely gets upset!

Finally!

If people really were to get off their whiny butts the social media site formerly called Twitter would pack up over night.

“Mulch Ado About Nothing”

“Want Some Cheese With That Whiny?”

“I Never Metaphor I Didn’t Like”

“But Me No Butts”

Good advice. If it was harming her mentally (which it was at the end) it doesn’t matter how lucrative it was. Time to find a healthier passion.

You asked for it Betts, and, you got it. Now follow Dez’s plain talk advice, and, get on witha non-influencer life.

Earth Mother™! We love stereotypes!

Straight and to the point.

And there it is.

Sometimes you gotta tell it like it is. Go Des.

Bravo, Dez.

FINALLY! :)

tomorrow: Bets kicks dirt at Dez. :-/

BOOM. Dez comes off as a cosmic, hippy, free flow type, but deep down she’s more grounded and knows what’s what than all of them. Good job, Dez.

A direct and simple talk, I like that, I feel that this way you get better results!