A world without chairs
I think Glenn may be institutionalised… and the institution is Trusthouse Forte Hotels. One page to go in this story!
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I think Glenn may be institutionalised… and the institution is Trusthouse Forte Hotels. One page to go in this story!
I once thought a friend of mine had monogrammed carpets… until I discovered they were offcuts from Richard Shops (RIP).
I can’t count how much stuff I’ve had in my life that had been cast out by wasteful businesses. Fax machines, CD players, computers, furniture… Glyme is really growing on me.
Gleb, so much happier to be free of the past year’s horrifying grind.
Jam Queen and Milk Cup sound like an animated crime fighting duo from the 70’s. In Australia.
I like it – that or “Jam Queen And The Milk Cup” are a revivalist 70s psych-rock band whose first release is getting a lot of play on Giles Peterson’s 6 Music show.
The next big mystery: the story of Gurb’s life debt to Jobby.
So Grouse is a Kiwi? I’ll have to reimagine his voice in the proper accent.
Glenn came to New Zealand? I would love to knows ĺ
To knows more about him and his dreams. I like how much he’s practical and knows how to save money.
those are the skills of the average Kiwi
Gland gets more interesting with each passing strip!
I hoped I was wrong about Clemb’s dumpster diving, but I was horribly, horribly right.
Also, do we know what the building they’re Guardianing was? Until advised otherwise I’m going with a minimum security incarceration centre for the criminally insane.
I’m happy to be an Aotearoa New Zealand consultant if you need one! However, I expect you’ve done very thorough research as usual (long white cloud – nice).
how likely is it that Glorm will become involved in the coffee shop, being a Te Aro…ite(?)
Ygln is making a case for sticking around for more of the story!
Madame Grote is always iconic, but Jam Queen is particularly excellent and I need it in my life.
Also, Bobbinsverse reader for 20 years, first time poster. Hi!
For some some reason Glenn turning out to be a Kiwi is a bigger shocker than him being an android or a clone. I guess that’s the Bobbinsverse for you.
The one does not automatically rule out the other… it is the Bobbinsverse, after all.
I was a bit confused by so many people here being surprised to learn that Glenn’s from New Zealand because I thought I remembered that being revealed early on, but looking through the actual pages, it was John’s comment in the discussion that (combined with a small detail of the comic) strongly implied that Glenn was from New Zealand, rather than being explicitly stated in the comic. https://badmachinery.com/comic/are-you-choking/
Wow, you are totally right. I had somehow forgotten that discussion, and I even participated in it!
I take total credit for starting that discussion. You’re welcome.
Dumpster-diving (within limits) is actually an ecologically friendly “re-use” activity. I used to live in an apartment complex with a lot of uni-student residents. At the end of the academic year, instead of moving their furniture (and electronics) home, they’d just toss them out. Hello, flat-screen televisions, gamer-quality sound systems, etc. You just had to de-louse them.
I can’t believe people do this now. It would have been unthinkable when I was a student. I’ve even heard about luxury cars being left behind when very rich overseas students vacate high-end accommodation.
The waste is astonishing but fortunately the planet is in better shape than ever!
As long as we’re talking about the pros of dumpster diving, Mark Evanier (half of the team behind Groo the Wanderer) told a story a few years ago about when he and a friend were 60s high school young-uns in LA on “a secret mission” to grab TV film prints out of the bins behind Television City on a day they were told the network was clearing vault space. In some cases, they scored the only known prints of certain things. Otherwise, they would’ve been landfill.
So if you’ve ever seen the pilot film of Groucho Marx’s “You Bet Your Life” on YouTube, it’s more than likely because those school kids literally fished it out of a skip in an alley behind CBS.
Mark Evanier anecdotes; once again, The Content I Live For. This is a great tale.
I will say that in the past several years, my local uni campus has set up storage pods outside the dorms where students can donate useful things when they depart, which is actually a good idea so I’m not sure how it got approved.
I’ve heard that there’s a sort of cottage industry of collecting appliances abandoned by students, cleaning them up, and selling them cheaply to next-term arrivals. Everybody wins except the retailers.
Clearly the hotel were also throwing out a pantechnicon. He didn’t fit all of that in the boot of his car…
Don’t underestimate Glymm’s organizational skills!
The boot is bigger on the inside.
“I need it delivered. ”
For you, Mr. Durgan. Anything.’
Friends in low places is a very, very real thing. I spent years on the road, and getting the lend of the hotel shuttle to move something was well within the bounds.
Did ever manage to travel extensively using only a network of free hotel shuttles?
Honestly I’d be deeply worried about that mattress being infested with something. Then again, I suppose it’s possible that’s because I’m an American and I’m just used to poor maintenance.
It’s infested with GLENN
I’m pretty sure that everything Glenn took had literally just been thrown out, and probably didn’t have time to get infested with anything yet.
As long as it wasn’t thrown out because it was infested. Bed bugs are a major problem in hotels.
GLENN BUGS more like
It was all thrown out because they were refurbishing the hotel, I believe.
I Didn’t want to mention them by name but that would be my exact fear. Once you’ve had them it’s something you never forget.
There’s the 15 second rule for food on the floor (this varies an alarming amount from person to person), what’s the window for tossed out furniture?
You’re a fine one to talk about being an outlier on the scatter graph, Miss Solved My First Murder At 12.
Well, that’s an outlier in the scatter graph of the UK as a whole, not the scatter graph of Tackleford
I’m not sure if it’s an indication of my impending dotage or if it’s a matter of something common on the other side of the pond and uncommon here, but I’m stumped. What is that corded white cylinder on the nightstand?
it’s a sideways lamp, slightly broken, subtype: bland
I’ve been in Murka so long that I became dewey-eyed simply at the comic rendition of the outlet (sorry, socket, dammit) with a switch next to it. They do things very differently over here.
Glenn is a good name. I like it a lot.