Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 10, 2023

Sometimes we don’t get to choose the pool we end up in.

To PIG, I say, “You are correct, Sir!” Dan aka…

There used to be a Pool o’ Wokeness, but someone didn’t like the water, so it’s gone now.

Isn’t it The Pool O’ X Land now?

Friend of mine’s mother keeps sending me links to X. I’ve told her several times I don’t have the app, never did and never will. I just delete the links. My life is very free.

Just one rule to enter the Pool O ’Goodness…ditch the stupid red hat

My dad got kicked out of the car pool.

No it not that simple. Things ain’t simply black and white in life.

Pig, How true!

Baby Ruth time.

Some people are from the shallow end of the gene pool.

Wow, another profound one from Pastis.

All of us are part of the pool of humanity. And we all need to remember that.

Many are drowning in Twitter Land.

Please #DieAlready you cesspool formerly known as #Twitter.

I left soon after Musk arrived. NOT missing anything. Can’t even recall anything of value found there in many years of being used.

This is true. Twitter is trying to cancel MrBeast because it is racist to build wells in Africa for the people there !! Just some people..

Twitter is a horrible place.

Just don’t play in the gene pool !

Just the other day, I received a message from a friend saying “My Instagram has been hacked. Don’t pay attention to anything posted there.” The last thing I remember before passing out is the doctor saying “Call me when he stops laughing. I can’t operate a hernia if he keeps shaking!”

What happened to Pig in the last panel? Did the ink get smeared? Did AI draw him? Did he swim in the ink pool? What?!

Best Pearls ever!

Absolutely. I am firm believer that life is 10% what happens and 90% how we “choose” to react to it. I have no control over other people, but I have complete control over my attitude and actions

I have discovered no matter which pool you’re in there’s always that one person who takes a whizz in it

“X” is bring back Alex Jones to pollute the pool further!!

And it’s now owned by a guy who thought it wasn’t toxic enough, and needs to be even more of a sewer.

I start my mornings in the world of comics before facing the day.

I will never swim in the Twitter Land Pool.

It’s how you play the game!

Life’s not a bowl of cherries! Sometimes it’s the pits!

You’re judged b the company you keep!

Do unto others……

Go to the Pool O’ Websites That Copy Stupid Stories From Twitter and Reddit. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll feel so much better about yourself.

“X” marks the spot

Once upon a time, in FIDONET land, you could create a twit list, to remove people from those whose posts you would see.

Now, they do it voluntarily, and you have to go looking for them to find them.

That’s a step forward.

It’s important to periodically get out of the pool you’re in – to see what (else) is going on out there, to see what types of things others are doing, and to consider what else you might do.

I’d like the pool of goodness. I seem to be in the pool of blah.

Depends on how big a world one wants to design( and live in) for themselves.

You make your choices and you live with them.

Don’t pee in your pool.

Yeah, I for one don’t really care for public pools. And I NEVER use the pool or hot tubs on cruise ships.

The world according to Monty Python: “Life’s a piece of sh!t, when you look at it—so look on the bright side of life!” Don’t read the news—read the comics!

Liberals seem and frolic in De Nile river.

Is this a “Make lemonade when life hands you lemons” moment?

I’m only in it for the music posts

Hey – don’t be so judgemental – political trolls need a pool, too!

I get tired of people complaining on Twitter. I tried Bluesky and it is not much better there, so many complaints! As much as FB drives me nuts, I at least get to see posts from people swimming in the pool O goodness. There and on MeWe where I can pick and choose what I will let into my brain.

I don’t have Twitter / X. I don’t regret it.

My favorite part is the “The whole world’s BAD” guy’s expression I see WAAAAAAY too many people that look like that ALL the time XD

Social media is a scourge to our society.

The red hat is a clue.

Sadly, the people in Life’s Pool of Goodness are whistling past the graveyard.

Stay out of ALL political pools - the usual and customary swimmers there s-t in them.

Smarter than the wiseass on the hill is He…….

I think you ment X, pig

Ha! Haaaaaa! 乁⁠ ⁠˘⁠ ⁠o⁠ ⁠˘⁠ ⁠ㄏ

Still finding much entertainment in the reaction over Twitter turning into X.

Play nice, Pig. And be sure to play in the right pool…..

Who needs Twitter (never X!) when I’m literally surrounded by real-life Twits (aka red-hatted troglodytes)? As far as my eye can see, there ain’t no “Pool O’ Goodness.”

“Cess” should be at the beginning of the first word on the blue sign in the second to last panel. FIFY. You’re welcome.

I’m with Pig.

Another good one! Thank you Stephan!

Optimist v Pessimist

Here’s another “social media” I’ve quit: NextDoor. Originally when it came out it was easy to filter out all communities but your own neighborhood and stay in touch with neighbors and immediate-community goings on. But now it’s just another cesspool of mean conversation, hate talk, “I lost my dog,” “Did anyone hear a gunshot,” and “I’ve got these things for sale”, plus way too many ads — and I see comments from the states away! At one point I was designated as a Moderator, and couldn’t keep up with the complaints – many of which were basically “I didn’t like what he said.”

Ignorance is bliss. That is why those people who understand things are upset and concerned. Those who only hear what they want are the source of deep concern. They can laugh and play as “Rome burns”.

AMEN!!!!

There’s an old saying we had when I was a kid: garbage in, garbage out.

my tweeps talk about cars, movies, beautiful paintings, beautiful landscapes, and horrible puns.

Twitter became Elon gated.

now that Alex Jones is back on X, Twitter-land is even sadder (and more pathetic)

Life is pretty simple. When you get up in the morning, you decide if you are going to have a good day or a bad day. It’s what you make of it.(Unless brandon is still president then we’re still screwed).

Go to work for a couple of decades, and welcome to the Cesspool.

“X” marks the spot. :-)

The final panel is the main point. It’s like the old line about deciding which wolf to feed.

Panel 1: Pitcher Charlie Brown as a stick figure? d;o)

um actually, its called X now.

Two thumbs up.

That looks like fun.

Sometimes you don’t choose the pool you play in.

Yep! Excellent ’toon Stephan ♥

I don’t own a cell phone,……… my life is the third panel.

Sadly, there are a lot of people who are not in Life’s Pool O’ Goodness.

The ones who make Twitter look like that are Democrats. They are by far the most hateful people on the planet

Should have changed the name of this strip to “Pools are for wine”.