![[0633] Energy Crisis II](/comics/2014-11-13-0633-energy-crisis-ii.png "[0633] Energy Crisis II")
- Ye Thuza: To be fair, your fusion reactor is kinda impressive.
- Yuna: Thank you, mommy.
- Ye Thuza: What do you use as fuel?
- Yuna: A mixture of lithium, nickel, chili powder, …
- Yuna: … and shards of Cloud’s Princess Mononoke action figures.
- Ye Thuza: Now I finally understand why cold fusion has such a bad reputation.
|
she was putting them to a better use…. FOR SCIENCE!!!
Normally I wouldn’t approve spanking but right there, right then, I would be willing to make an exception.
Yuna, count yourself LUCKY. Ye Thuza is letting you LIVE.
At least she didn’t call them dolls.
Ask first!
Good job she was caught in the act before she could move on to the Spirited Away figures. She wouldn’t have gotten away with it so lightly then…
Oh, the pain! I couldn’t let her alive after that >:/
Action Figures link.
I’ve honestly never seen the anime, would anyone here recommend it?
I’ve never seen it (sadly) but it’s a Hayao Miazaki movie so it must be great.
@ Neospector:
Princess Mononoke is a beautiful masterpiece with an interesting storyline and peculiar characters. The animation is gorgeous. Even the English dub is pretty good. I would recommend it for anyone who enjoys fantasy anime.
This is great but I dont think cold fusion has a bad reputation. Nuclear fission has a bad reputation. Cold fusion is just infamous for being really difficult. A better final panel would be, “Now I finally understand why people aren’t pursuing cold fusion very much.”
“The device operates on the scientifically valid and sound principle of pissing off my elder brother! If younger sisters over the world adopted this method, we could solve the energy crisis and stop global warming, and so our brothers would be stuck with it! AH HA HA HA HA HAAAA!”
– Yuna Williams, failing to sway the decision of the Science
FundingSpanking Council.@ Luke:
At least they weren’t Akira action figures.
Hmm… I can’t find “child abuse” among the tags…
Yuna… you spend all your life in THIS family and you didn’t learn not to touch the others action figures or not to be disrespectfull towards items reflecting an anime masterpiece?
I wanted to praise your intelligence for creating a working cold fusion reactor, but now I really have massive doubts. That reactor might have been a fluke.
That spanking is definatly well deserved.*
*disclaimer:
In no way do I approve real physical violence against real children.
Never would have imagined that Ye Thuza had such a classic upbringing to enforce the ‘over the knee’ approach to child discipline. If she herself experienced it, it clearly produces excellent results when applied correctly.
@ Helz’Bayne:
Yes, I think a lot of people from poor countries have had “classic upbringings”.
SmartAlec105 wrote:
I don’t know if “difficult” is the word I would use. So far, all claims of cold fusion have turned out to be either poor science or deliberate fabrication. It does have a bad reputation. It is strongly associated with cranks.
“Hot” fusion, i.e. plain old ordinary fusion, has a reputation for being really difficult. ITER has a good chance of producing net energy output due to its favorable dimensions. However, like a lot of “big science”, it’s a very expensive and slow project. See here: http://www.iter.org
She deserved every one of those smacks on her bottom!
“Chili powder”
“Princess Monoke Figurines”
What are those figurines made out of???
@ Xezlec:
An so the world continues to depend on fossil fuels. 🙂
As a method of first resort, spanking holds out the very real possibility of losing its disciplinary impact, which begins the slide toward abuse. You don’t spank when you’re upset with the kid, only when they have dome something very wrong.
Like this. Extreme actions merit extreme punishments.
Still, Yuna is getting better cold fusion results than real-world cold-fusion researchers.
@ Rayman:
Because this is not child abuse, I’ve lived through child abuse and had my family torn apart by it, this is simply punishment. Now if Yuna left with a broken pelvis and wound up in hospital from the spanking, it’d be child abuse, but a simple spanking to punish is fine, but nazis like the government think this is appalling and make it criminal to do, which is leading to more and more children of today growing up to be criminals, or teen parents or other such stuff.
Should have used Majin Sonic because fun is infinite.
Shame on you YeThuza. You can do better than that. I’m sure slapping hams didn’t help you win tha war.
@ Rayman:
Down, Social Justicar. Raising a good child takes will, rearing a happy brat only takes letting them do as they please. They typically end up in prison or sucking the resources out of working individuals.
@ Rayman:
Simply put: because it is not
Unless she injures her worse than some bruising on the bum (if even that, which goes away quickly and provides no real issues) then it is alright. If she lacerates or breaks something of Yuna, then it is a problem.
Switch Master wrote:
Tha? Oh my god I f*cking hate my retarded ass phone’s auto correct!
@ Lygar:
Huh good point. Never thought of that.
@ Burger:
So would I! And somewhere in Japan I bet Hayao Miyazaki also approves of corporal punishment in this case.
She’s getting off lightly. My mum would’ve used a wooden spoon instead of her hand for that level of misbehaviour.
We usually tried to make sure she caught my brother first, because his bony butt kept breaking them. The rest of us just got the open palm after that.
Considering she threatened to sever Cloud’s head if he got Sandra pregnant, it’s safe to say she doesn’t play favorites with her children!
Having had a younger sibling that enjoyed destroying my stuff, I gotta admit I probably enjoyed this one more than I should have, lol
I think I see the decapitated wolf’s head. 3rd panel, to the left of bottom-middle. (Bottom is also an unintended pun, but I’ll go with it. 😉 )
NOOOOO NOT THE PRINCESS MONONOKE FIGURES!
Also the fact that Studio Gibhli’s figurines are very expensive. Their themed music boxes even cost 30-50 bucks each.
Ok so this is an Anime.
Let me tell you something Yuna. Unless it’s Boku or another bad anime, Don’t ever distrespect the Anime ever again. Or YeThuza will set you straight. I didn’t know YeThuza was into Anime.
In my country opinions are divided to physical punishment, but according to my personal experience on my home, it really works. I’m totally fine, if it is wisely used.
@ The Aussie Bloke:
Mom would have opted for a chancla sandal
The Skunk Works at Lockheed-Martin announced they will have a working fusion reactor by 2018. It should fit on the trailer of an 18 wheeler. This is the holy grail of physics — unlimited electrical power with little pollution. Uses deuterium from sea water or the moon’s surface. Hydrogen from sea water to replace gasoline with only oxygen and water as pollution.
@ Switch Master:
I would say it would depend on the show/movie. Princess Monokoke would hit most points of interest YeThuza has in her entertainments. I doubt she cares about the various high school drama shows.
If Cloud was keeping action figures of The Adventures of Kotetsu she may have commended Yuna for feeding them to her mad science machine.
While I generally think of corporal punishment as the “atomic bomb” of discipline, to be used just as sparingly, I also believe that there are certain types of disobedience and misbehaviour for which a spanking is the only appropriate response.
This is one such case. 🙂
This could lead into an interesting sequel where Yuna has her pocket-money stopped in order to replace the figures, but then Cloud decides to be an awesome big brother and persuades Ye Thuza that he’s forgiven the debt.
One does not break those things and expect to get away with it so easily.
My family used a paddle. We even still have it after all these years. What’s funny is that it brings a lot of nostalgia when my brother and I see it.
Wow. That’s cold.
I’d opt for the switch instead of the hand if my child destroyed my figures (which are in this case, Gundam figures).
Poor Cloud, those Mononoke figures had to be worth a fortune.
@ Switch Master:
Her son’s name is Cloud…
On corporal punishment, its efficacy, and where it crosses into abuse: This article says it better than I can. Especially the linked review by Elizabeth Thompson Gershoff, PhD, of the National Center for Children in Poverty at Columbia University… back in 2002.
The functional result of corporal punishment is to get immediate compliance. However its danger is in it becoming physically damaging (maltreatment).
From my personal point of view, the extremely important thing is the verbal explanation and clear statement of expectations (preferably beforehand), and what the consequences will be. Especially to a child older than a toddler who’s fully capable of handling language.
I would hope that stealing and breaking other people’s property, and the punishments, were already covered for Yuna. Also that “your brother counts as ‘people’,” which is often a point siblings tend to forget.
Child abuse?
No, mental abuse is way worse than a spanking. Sometimes a kid learns that he can do whatever he wants because people who don’t have kids or have rare goody two-shoe sports want to take away spankings or rough grabs of the arm.
Kid punches another, gets talked to, does it again right in front of his parent
What do you recommend the parent do, no spank advocate?
Lygar wrote:
Hmm, I have grown up with 7 who were abused- caused them to laugh off “regular” punishment and even spankings.
Had to call the police a few times, one tried to kill me.
Yup. There is indeed that fine line and I know exactly how right you are.
Fwiw the guy who tried to kill me was the one who underwent the mental abuse.
My above example was a wealthy white punk from a wealthy neighborhood with a very well behaved sister. Doc finally broke out the switch and it worked. His sister got a big kick out of it.
@ Rayman:
Oh go cry a river.
Tell it to the kids who get flung across rooms, beaten with rods, bats and fists…kids who get raped, cut, shocked and choked by people they had trusted or can’t escape from.
Then tell them that you think being spanked is abusive!
@ Kobrag:
Oh yeah, so nice to see the mindset here is “Well, you didn’t get abused as bad as this other kid, therefore you didn’t get abused”.
Spanking, by the way, is child abuse in quite a few countries and there are studies backing up the fact it does psychological damage to a child.
I usually let this shit fly in comics because they are comics, and it works there. But the attitude in this comment section is apalling.
@ Rayman:
And if you see Garfiend kicking the dog, ppl are not crying out “animal abuse” eiter.. because the extreme comic situation is exatuating it 😉
@ RWB:
I agree with you. In Sweden, where I come from, spanking and all kinds of psysical punishment towards kids is illegal since 1979. It has worked out fine here. But I guess it’s different with the USA (I assume most readers of this comic are from there). I’m very much against child abuse (including spanking) but I didn’t mean to start a discussion. I was just surprised by the comic and wanted to drop a sour comment, sort of.
@ Gathererbyheart:
Yeah, I guess so. I think I reacted because the characters here are people, and one of them is doing it to a kid. But I see what you’re coming at. 🙂