- Yuna: Faster, mommy, faster!
- Yuna: WHEEEEEEEEEE!!
- Girl: May I ride the roundabout?
- Woman: Absolutely not! That’s way too dangerous!
- Yuna: Mommy, why is the woman in the gray suit so evil?
- Ye Thuza: She’s one of those fun-hating lizardmen from Betelgeuse I’ve told you about.
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Oop, I smell trouble…or is that just the vomit?
They’re not aliens. The Silurians are from Earth, just like you Humans.
Lovely, just lovely. I love the motion in the second panel!
Sign: Roundabout is not intended to spin at more than 60rpm! (This is not a prohibition – it’s just that certain people have been giving others the wrong idea…)
>:=)>
And here’s Roundabout by Yes. (YouTube link) Because… why not?
The second panel is so adorable.
the Doctor wrote:
+10 internets
Part 1?
Betelgeuse? Like planet Betelgeuse from Space Dandy?
Man I love that show!! Only Betelgeusians ( cat like aliens) live on that planet. I haven’t seen any lizard folk.
1? This will have followups somehow? Curious…
Proof that, at heart, Ye Thurza is just as much a child as her children…
…And that there is absolutely NOTHING wrong about that.
This whole thing is just adorable, but I have a particular fondness for the first panel. Their enthusiasm is just…glowing.
Wikipedia:
“Betelgeuse
Not to be confused with Beetlejuice.”
Wait, what was this Beetlejuice?
Googling… “Beetlejuice is a…”
Oh. so how to get rid of this thing?
(ok, that doesen’t worked as well as I hoped, I tried to place this specific word three times in above but apparently I’m not good (I’m almost terrible) at this kind of stuff)
Where I live merry-go-rounds (we never called them roundabouts) have by and large disappeared form playgrounds, as have sesaws.
Heh. After that display, I can actually understand the second mother to some part. 😀
And not only is the geek strong in Ye Thuza. It’s also infectious and spreading on her children.
Gods, I remember how many times me and my classmates spun ourselves sick on one of those when I was in elementary school. (I always remember it being a group affair.)
Huh. Never heard them called Roundabouts before… always merry-go-rounds. Wonder what the regional map for the two dialects would look like.
Yes! A new arch.
@ the Doctor:
That comment just won you 10 billion credits, well Galifreyan credits but ya know all you have to do is find the place and you can cash them in……
Dangerous? Common teaching children to properly treat dangerous stuff should be part of upbringing… Just defending children from it will only make it worse later in the life.
P.S. And I almost died once when I was 4 years old, but that taught me a lifetime lesson too, not to make stupid bets on stupid dares and then dare to do something stupid…
@ The Emporer of Southia:
Too soon.
As if we needed another reason to like Ye Thuza.
Relevant: The Cult of Kiddie Danger
Novil: just to let you know, “roundabout” is British English. In the US we say “merry-go-round”.
The fun-hating lizardmen from Betelgeuse are actually quite fun-loving once they’ve had a few drinks (of the strong kind). That’s mostly the reason why for most of history it was believed that the species was genetically configured to die around their 40th year of life from liver failure.
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Not that knowing the real reasons actually changed anything…
… how the hell did we start getting into Dr who puns?
@ Switch Master:
Betelgeuse is a STAR, not a Planet.
Where I grew up that was considered the “Kiddie” go round.
When you got Older, you were allowed to ride the Real one.
It consisted of a 12 foot tall metal pole as the center Pivot that the whole thing was suspended from.
It not only went Around that pivot, the 12 foot height allowed the seats (Standing Benches, ) to Sway toward and away from the central pole.
So, you went Spinning around as fast as the Pushers could Run before they jumped on and everyone cooperated in seeing is we could Sway it back and forth so much that the inside ring hit the support pole.
Whhheeeeeeeee.
So soon after hearing the lizardmen spiel at Thanksgiving.
@ Xezlec:
I just imagined the “evil” lady and her girl with British accents. It makes it all the funnier!
@ Jerry:
Those suspended ones are relatively new.
Loved those older types when I was a kid. When I grew up, I used to push it for any child who wanted to ride, but after seeing some nearly slide off I made everyone brace their feet on the outer poles and hold on. I even demonstrated some physics by getting them to slide outward then push inward to change the speed (conservation of momentum).
I see Ye Thuza is a fan of David Icke, LOL!
Jerry wrote:
I was referring to a place in a show called Space Dandy.
Fortunately, most of them died in the Great Collapsing Hrung disaster.
@ Warcraft_III_gamer:
You mean, “arc”.
Gas Bandit wrote:
Same here. To me, a roundabout is a circular road that traffic feeds in and out of.
I just hope the mention of lizard people doesn’t draw in the UFO nuts. These people actually thought “Foil” by Weird Al was a warning about “Them”.
I remember the last time I rode one of those. Yeah… I flew off and hit the swing’s support bars. I’m fine sandwinch. I just have an issue with grables. Killroys!
I only remember one roundabout (or Merry-go-round, truthfully I just call them “Spinny things”) growing up, and it was like a couple miles away in another city. We never had one here.
We did have and still have this little playground with some monkey bars that have a hanging spinning wheel you can ride on, plus a little sand lot with a controllable scooper which I loved playing with, but that’s about it.
Jerry wrote:
in Science fiction it tipical to call a planet after it’s star.
such that Earth could be called Sol III
Should have shouted panel 4 so said lizard heard it and slithered off.
@ Switch Master:
Could be the Betelgeuse from the Hitchhikers series.
@ Jerry:
If you ran to get a merry-go-round up to speed, it would always be too slow for my taste. I would always stand in place spin it hand over hand until the kids that were already on it were passing me about twice per second. Then getting on was a fun challenge in itself involving a well timed jump and grab. It’s the centrifugal force of at least three times your body weight that make it fun.
Konrad wrote:
Wow, if those kind of moms (You know, the one who always try to protect their “Precious snowflakes”) run rampant, the playground will be empty in 2020!
Someone fell from a rundabout: “Remove this dangerous thing!”
Someone doesn’t get their turn in seesaw: “Remove this unfair contraption!”
Someone fell from the monkey bar: “Remove this deathtrap!”
Someone pushed down from the slider: “Remove this barbaric thing!”
Someone got sand in their eyes: “Remove this dirty sandpit!”
And again Ye Thuza wins best mum award xD
@ Jerry:When I was young (about 60 years ago) what you describe was an Ocean Wave. Far too dangerous for modern children. What is shown in the strip was a Teapot-lid. A merry-go-round was a (usually motorised) ride with model horses or motor-bikes or cars or bus or stage-coach to ride on or in.
A roundabout was any of the above, or the traffic junction thing, but especially a proper fairground Waltzer – where the chairs spun on their own axis as well as moving up and down and circling the centre of the ride, accompanied by music and lights.
Either
A. Fun hater.
B. Scared after seeing Ye Thuza’s antics.
Kinda funny, how we become “safety-prone” after child morality fell (i.e- One comment by a lord to use his son as catapult ammunition, which he can make another with hammer and anvil).
People in grey suits runing around and hating fun? Stay alert, the time bank is back to its old tricks again.
But the Syreen are at Betelgeuse.
I remember once my dad and 2 other kids dads were pushing it, flying is fun, land sucks, the other 2 kids got grass i got gravel. moral never egg on parents.
I called that thing a centrifuge
I would tell everyone (10 kids and runners lol) to spin it up then go to the center then hang on the outside
Nobody ever got hurt
Then someone used a scooter to get it going really fast and someone got hurt and it is gone
EBWOP *then hang on the outside one by one
This is a method for speeding it up by weight redistribution
Oh wow, so it’s evil for a mother to decide how to safely parent her own child? Come on, she’s not trying to force it on anyone else… yet.