[0403] Three Teachings Of Larisa
└ posted on Thursday, 16 August 2012, by Novil
- Larisa: Your date will usually treat you like a princess at first. So to judge his character, pay particular attention to how he treats strangers.
- Larisa: Arguing with other internet users is just marginally more productive than counting the ants in your garden.
- Larisa: Before you leave the house: keys, wallet, phone!
- History teacher: Those certainly weren’t three important teachings of Aristotle, but I’ll give you a plus for those words of wisdom anyway.
S&W in German/auf Deutsch
![[0403] Three Teachings Of Larisa](/comics/2012-08-16-0403-three-teachings-of-larisa.png "[0403] Three Teachings Of Larisa")
She forgot to mention that licking doorknobs is illegal on other planets.
Larissa is easily the best character
I disagree on Internet arguments. They’re only pointless if you want to win them no matter what. If you’re willing to admit that others may be right, they can be quite interesting.
Otherwise, funny strip. 🙂
And the lesson that every teacher is afraid she might apply…
“Mark me down and your house goes up.”
OMG I think the same thing when I leave my house, only in a backward sequence
I have to admit, I love Larissa more for her philosophies than her artwork.
the message is… if you forgot to study, you can always wing it.
This reminds me of a saying Fluffy Iglesias said. (I say Fluffy because he calls himself that and I forgot his first name.)
[Paraphrasing] “You got a shot IF you can make them laugh.”
@ pip25:
I DISAGREE!
(lol)
What exactly is a “plus”? I’ve never heard of grading like that.
This, from the girl who knows the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and so many other philosophical things…
That awkward moment where you find yourself counting ants in your garden. Or in my case, on my fig tree.
1: Or people that are strangers to Them but not you as they are in actuality cleverly placed friends/co-workers.
2: I count ants all the time. Its the Reason for doing so that’s important:
‘One ant that ate the borax+icing sugar and will take it back to the colony’ ‘two’ ‘three’
‘Good enough now to spread it somewhere else.’
3: Clothes!
@ Insectoid:
Young people are inconsistent.
The 3rd panel is my life’s checklist
…he might have said something similar to the first.
This time, this worked….
@ HardWearJunkie:
Enrique?
@ HardWearJunkie:
Whoops, sorry, it should have been Gabriel! Every time I see the name “Iglesias” my mind automatically heads straight to “Enrique”!
@ orphandidgeridoo:
there is a grading system where you get numbers from 1 to 10…
I could just refer to a plus one to her grade, ore plus 0,1.
My teacher uses that phrase all the time, you get a plus for yadadada
School lessons my throw her, but she nails life lessons.
Surprised at the second lesson from Larissa. I would have figured her for one who enjoys the hot flames of an Internet
debateargument. Then again, maybe she recognizes the difference between enjoyable and productive.I particularly like that second one.
@ orphandidgeridoo:
American grading is kinda screwy. a + is usually just at the edge of the next letter up and a minus is down. 88-89 is a B+ because 90 and up is an A. In this case however he’s saying he’ll give her a few points for the wisdom, even if they aren’t exactly part of her assignment.
TEACHER: I’ll give you a plus for that… that should bring your total to 82%…
LARISA: What are you giving me? Pluses?
TEACHER: Not plusES… just A plus, Larisa. That’s all you will get out of me.
LARISA: Whoo! A+!
TEACHER: Not that kind of A…
LARISA: Too late. I’ve recorded this and am bringing it to the principal to demand my grade.
TEACHER: I never even i–
LARISA’S CELL PHONE RECORDING:
LARISA: ;P
“Keys, wallet, phone” should be “keys, knife, flashlight, wallet, phone”. 😉
@ orphandidgeridoo:
Sometimes instead of a grading scale (1-100; 1-10; A, B, C, D, F…etc…), teachers use a “plus” or a “check” method. If you get a plus, you pass; if you don’t, you fail. Usually really only used for small little speeches/presentations to the class, or for class participation in my experience.
@ PretendtheEnds:
So it’s like either full points or no points – probably would have been a good thing to add on to that haha
Pretty much because Larisa didn’t get anywhere close to answering the question, she should have failed, instead he gave her the plus for being her special self lol
For my own comment – I’m surprised a lighter isn’t on her checklist from the third panel ;D
@ Moriquende:
Didn’t you forget something, such as a disposable lighter, a box of matches, or a couple of flints? 🙂
@ HardWearJunkie:
It is Gabriel Iglesias
mittfh wrote:
That goes in the messenger bag. 😉
@ Moriquende:
You forgot the rope!
I’d give her points just for the first one. The rest are kind of common sense, if not personal opinion. The first one though? I sort of knew that. I don’t really have to though, because I’m a guy. XD
If Aristotle was alive today he’d have his own blog and probably drive a Jeep Cherokee 4×4.
He’d also be pretty darn old. 😉
Larisa’s my favorite BTW.
Hm.
I can see it being a three-level grading system, I used to do the same thing.
“+” – Exceeds requirements/expectations. Display of initiative.
“o” – Meets requirements/expectations. Minimal/no display of initiative. May or may not have understood underlying purpose of assignment.
“-” – Fails to meet requirements/expectations. Fails to display initiative. Did not understand assignment or underlying purpose.
As far as checklist leaving the house?
– Wallet
– Money (don’t keep it in my wallet, I’ve had to deal with “dips” too often…)
– Small bag of change (vending machines or those wretched parking meters)
– At least two blades
– A couple of challenge coins (I hang around other ex-military types, I get “coined” a lot)
– Lighter
– Good small flashlight (usually a SureFire 6P)
– Spare batteries for flashlight
– Keys
– Dog tags with EDC gear on chain (useful stuff)
– Pen
Go to tvtropes.org and look up “Crazy Prepared.” If I’m carrying a bag, I’ve got even more stuff (multitools, custom small toolkit, at lease one scientific calculator – hey, I’m an engineer! – paper, small food items, …)
However, note that a cellphone is NOT on that list. I do have one, I just don’t carry it very often (pay-as-you-go, I spend about $40/year on it. And I don’t usually use even all of that…)
@ orphandidgeridoo:
I’m pretty sure the teahcer means ‘A plus’/’A+’, as in the grade.
@ Kipfall:
Kipfall wrote:
There is no grade “A” in Germany, just 1 (“sehr gut” – very good) to 6 (“nicht genügend” – not enough).
A plus (“+”) is just one point towards a good/better grade at the end of a semester/year. Having pluses will help you, not having any won’t necessarily hurt you either, minuses should be avoided. But in the end what counts most are the grades you get on your tests.
@ illeatyourself:
Oh, there is not that much difference in love blindness between girls ans guys, you know? So this advise is sensible towards both sexes
Is Larisa the reincarnation of Marcus Aurelius? =^.^=
JKelley wrote:
All fair so far…
This is what inside pockets, chain clips, or at least billfolds are for.
Can’t dip what you can’t reach and/or easily detach from its owner. And the latter doesn’t look/feel like a regular wallet.
Unless you mean something like the one ¤5 bill such as I might secrete in a separate pocket as a last-resort resource.
Again, that can surely go in the wallet, unless yours is a really slimline thing used for cards only. Even if it gets taken, are you that bothered about losing a few genericreds in silver?
Mind you, does remind me that I need to get round to filling up another couple bank coin-bag with a “emergency” cash stashes in … one for the car, one for the bike … to avoid getting caught out with no dough at all should the wallet either be forgotten, lost, or simply bled dry. Not that much, maybe £20 between a couple of £5 notes, a few £1 coins, and a bunch of random silver and copper. Enough to pay road tolls, parking fees, buy a couple hundred miles of low-speed travel, a shorter hop in a taxi, leave as security for something etc.
Problem is I hit such a situation twice and never got round to re-preparing for the third, partly because the bags went missing.
What. Where TF do you live?!
OK, you’re gonna have to explain that one, in case I regret googling for it.
Unless you’re a smoker and live somewhere without streetlights, or hang around with smokers, this seems a little bit McGuyver.
In any case, these days, if you have a phone, you also have a reasonably powerful LED torch. It might not last more than an hour or so, but any situation where you need a torch for more than an hour without access to a phone charger (AC or in-car) counts as “camping way too far out in the wilderness” to me, something for which I’ll spend at least a half hour packing various gear for.
If I was to be unkind, I’d say your focus is all out of whack here. Unless you’re actually going to be doing a job, or likely to be off on some kind of activity adventure (or as the police might say, “going equipped”), your likelihood of needing a leatherman, toolkit, scientific calculator, more than a couple small scraps of paper, or pre-purchased food is pretty low.
But all that, and no phone… not even a Nokia 3310 let alone a smartphone? So … no low-profile flashlight, 2-way emergency contact device (voice or silent text) with integral within-about-a-mile homing beacon and high-volume noisemakers, audio recorder and still/video camera with instant playback ability (good for, e.g., double checking somewhere you’ve been … or the arrangement of a bunch of wires or other settings before you futz with them … or sending a picture of where you’ve got lost to a rescuer), SCIENTIFIC CALCULATOR WITH MORE POWER THAN PRETTY MUCH EVEN THE MOST EXPENSIVE ONE ON THE MARKET, a-GPS, infinite map with diagrammatic, satellite, aerial, street-level and topographical views plus route finder, live traffic, public transport and local services info, compass, sky map, universal encyclopaedia, offline reference texts (including first aid manuals & the like), note-taker with about the same input speed as ballpoint-on-pocket-pad, semi-collaborative calendar/reminder/task/meeting/alarm system, weather reports, FM radio, spirit level, supermarket price checker, local and world clock, stopwatch, countdown timer, electronic coin flipper… etc?
All of the above which I have in my pretty modest smartphone? OK, it’s probably closer to $400/year rather than $40 (£420 or so over 2 years, plus any overages for premium calls/texts – I’ve never yet gone over an otherwise modest inclusive call/text/data limit), but when you add on the general purpose digital camera, music player, e-reader and data storage (16gb substitutes for quite a lot of USB-stick-age), plus it’s ability as a gaming platform, and the fact that the handset came for “free” rather than having to be paid for up-front, I think I’m getting my money’s worth.
And it’d last just as long as the regular scientific calculator if I went and got a reasonably affordable solar and/or wind-up charger for it. As-is, I’ll just have to settle for the pretty compact AC adaptor… and the USB cord that plugs into either it, or generic car adaptor, or any other USB port in the world that also supplies 5V DC at 100mA or more.
Or, heck… don’t you even tote a cheap, basic wristwatch? You can then at least work out which way is south if you get lost, synch up with the bus timetable, and keep a handle on certain interval-timings.
But hey, each to his own. Maybe you are some kind of luddite urban commando and all this is irrelevant 😉
Thinking more about it …
Pre-purchased food AND money for vending machines (which are a bit of a rip-off anyway, unless you’re doing most of your away-from-home stuff in the wee small hours when the only things open are widely-spread ubermarkets and gas stations) …?
And that “any USB port in the world” also extends to, for example, the digital photo printing stations in yer average supermarket, which will almost certainly be pumping out the full 500mA for a good, moderately fast charge (10% of mine in less than 15 minutes). Plug phone in, pretend to be scrolling through looking for things for a while before “giving up”, voila, a few more scratchy % juice to make another call or send a few texts with. Could even make the call whilst plugged in.
ANYWAY
Larisa has pretty much nailed the facts of life here 🙂
And I’ll be sure to bear #1 in mind next time I’m on one of the laughable misadventures that counts as a date in my sad little world. It’s a rule I’ve heard before but sadly forgot about.
I wasn’t aware that there was a difference between their productivity levels at all…
I wish someone would post all the teachings of Aristotle, since that’s what this strip is about.
Michael A. L. wrote:
Try again: http://www.unc.edu/~tlcierny/teachings.html
But my phone is hardwired to the wall, and the earpiece doesn’t have much reception outside the house…
@ orphandidgeridoo:
A+ B+ C+
Oh geez, first time I’ve seen someone else use the ‘Keys-Wallet-Phone’ bit before leaving home. My kids know me for it. Keys so I can anywhere, wallet so I can buy stuff if I forgot it, and phone so I can call for help if things go wrong.
Usually, those three things are the LEAST of what I grab before leaving my house. For example:
-MK I hands-free flashlight prototype (a personal project of mine; basically, a powerful LED flashlight that clips to your glasses)
-two (2) AAA alkaline batteries
-laptop (I always carry this)
-charger cord
-external auxiliary battery (10,000 or 4,000 MaH, depending)
-swiss army knife
-my on-the-go electronics kit (for repairing the MK I flashlight)
-sewing needle/military grade thread (I patch my own equipment all the time)
-USB 7 cable
-Notebook #10 (I keep most of my referential designs, sketches and notes in this small, leather-bound book)
-Pentel Click 0.7mm mechanical pencil
-sketchbook
-pocket watch (I travel in style!)
-9 LED flashlight
-incandescent 1 AAA flashlight
-food, of some type or description
I’m prepared, brah.
“Never trust a dog with orange eyebrows.
Always get the young mans name and address.
Never get between two mirrors.”