haha, It’s not what you say, but how you say it. You’re the doo doo could mean the same thing, but it definitely sounds a bit more on the negative “wtf did you just say?” side… but if you add an exclamation point at the end and say it cheerfully it changes the meaning, no? haha

Thanks for adding some humor to my day =)

A good point, you have made.

haha you think of the funniest things

It comes from drugs. As in ” you got the shit?” It was initially derogatory, but the euphoric high is coveted and sought after, thus it became a complement to say that someone is “the shit”

I never got that either…  but your illustration of “the shit” is spot on and hilarious!

U da bomb!

… ‘bring on the corn!’ haaahahah omg.

your comics are da shit!

this strip is the sh*t!!!  🙂

I hypothesize the compliment was originally lengthier, something to the effect of “The Sh!t-stomping Motherf#cking King!”  Later, people shortened to the compliment to simply “The Sh!t.”

Lol. Gotta admire the way your brain works. Your rendition of the talking poop is a bit disturbing though, not nearly as cute as Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo. Lol.

Similarly, when people say “stick it to The Man” and when people say “You da Man!”, they must mean different ‘Men’.

hahaha

you can try to call someone the poop, and see if they take it as a compliment

This post was the shit.

My interpretation of it is that during the vietnam war, US Soldiers would drink Vietnamese coffee that had the beans fermented in civet dung. This coffee was so better than regular coffee because the enzymes in the digestive tract of a civet would break down the proteins and enhance the flavor. Therefore…the coffee was better because it was the shit. Stood by among the soldiers that “the shit” was good and therefore became common lingo to use in other forms of communication.

Of course i’m talking completely out of my ass right now, but i figured this would be a fun way of answering your comic 🙂

so the entire time i was reading this, I kept wonder “what is that green juice they are drinking?” are those mojitos? but there’s stuff at the bottom of the glasses…please fulfill my curiosity.

also as everyone mentioned, this comic was the shit. lol

I guess this mystery will never be solved!

haha this post was the shit of all shits!

You’re the shit of all shits.  ❤

u never having kids r u!

yay, more kitty friends!

HA!!!

I was somewhere…I don’t remember where and this kid behind me had a flag.  He waved it over my seat and it was constantly hitting me in the head.  Turning around and glaring at him didn’t help so I started glaring at his mom which didn’t help either.  I think the kid knew what he was doing but was a little shit head and didn’t care.  Finally, the kid had to pee or something and they walked away from their seats but left that damn flag…which I grabbed from his seat and snapped in two pieces.  When they got back to their seats he cried that his flag was broken and even though the crying was annoying, I had some satisfaction.  🙂

One of my friends told me once that parents have the ability to tune their kids out when they’re horribly annoying & forget (or don’t care) that other people can’t.

boo no kitties….anyways completely agree with you.

my mom would have killed me if i acted like that.

This is why I hate most children. Whenever I get a kicking kid on a plane, I don’t even let more than 10 minutes go by; I let him/her and the parent know as soon as it starts happening by getting up immediately and giving both of them the fuck-off face (then by proceeding to ask ‘nicely’ to stop) so I don’t feel grumpy the entire flight.

But when I have kids, I’m seriously not tolerating any of that crap. I can’t stand it. It’s like the parents succumb to their own children and it’s annoying.

Traveling on a plane with a bratty child sitting next to you should be added to the penal code as an available punishment for criminals – although it would probably be ruled out as cruel and unusual.

The problem is too many people put themselves in the “PC” trap of not wanting to make a fuss or complain, so they suck it up and seethe on the inside.

When I was on the plane one time – “little junior” decided to sit sideways and rest his feet on me occasionally. I looked at “mom”, who pretended not to notice. Rather than just grin and bear it, I asked her to do something about it – I even threw in a please in there. 🙂 Her response was “I don’t think I can get him to stop!”, but quickly came up with the solution of switching seats so little junior was now on the other side.

If she had not solved the problem, I would have called an attendant and complained.

In your situation, what you should have done was complain to the restaurant about “kid tweeter”, with the emphasis that you may not be returning because you’re having an unpleasant dining experience. The restaurant will do the math quickly and solve the problem if enough people voiced their opinions.

Having your own kids allows you to sympathize only slightly.  I HATED all those situations you described and if my son ever acted that way in public, I’d “jerk a knot in his tail,” as my mom would say.  Of course, today it is a delicate process of how to “spank” and discipline in public because some crazy people might call the appropriate authorities, but so far my kid knows that if he doesn’t cut it out by the time I count to three, I’m good for my word and he gets spanked (so he usually stops at one or two).

I wish folks would teach their kids manners, too.

I doubt you could be firm nowadays without being accused of child abuse.

I think there’s a disconnect somewhere between when we were children and today’s parents. My brother was annoying but my parents would always set him in line with the whole, “if you do that again your life is going to be hell” look. They’d never let us get away with bad behavior. problem is, the little shits will grow up thinking it’s okay to piss others off with no consequences, and will beget another generation who does the same. If that happens, ima shank a couple of parents so they get the hint.

I was on a flight from LA to Boston with an infant that cried the entire flight. The. Entire. Flight. I would have said something to the mother, but since the kid was a baby, there was nothing she could have done either. She did apologize to all of us, though…

http://www.economist.com/node/21543122?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/nonnonandnon

Parents need to teach their kids tough love. As in discipline and telling the kids to shut it in appropriate times.

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I totally sympathize with the frustration of being trapped on a plane with loud/obnoxious/misbehaving children. The thing is, I’m not always sure what exactly a parent can do at that very moment. Misbehavior is more of a problem built up over time and as pandora_x2 point out above, if the parent tries to spank the child, someone will call the authorities. Plus, you’d then have to deal with the crying and screaming of the spanked child!

My friend Cyndi has a daughter that’s in her terrible 2. She’s 2 years old, and she tends to throw a temper tantrum when we go out and eat. Common courtesy, we would take her baby outside the restaurant and try to calm her down. We will attempt this 3 times. If by the 3rd time she doesn’t calm down, we just bag our food to go. I mean, it’s common courtesy. Now, when I worked at my old restaurant, we had a “kids eats for free” policy. 3 adults, 10 kids. I shit you not. I kicked them out.

The problem is we’re not spanking our kids anymore. Kids, god bless’em, can’t be made to behave without the fear of death in them. Sometimes I’d like to spank my kid but rather than damage his mental health, I’ll let him damage any stranger’s.

I’ve never let my boy do anything dumb like that.  I know how annoying kids can be.  He’s usually very good when we go out, but sometimes he has an off day.  When he’s being a little turd nugget, we just ask for our food to go and we leave.  No sense in bothering anyone else with his nonsense.

Sigh. Why are there so many people who shouldn’t be parents, parents??!?!!!

I think a lot of parents coddle their kids these days as opposed to actually being parents.

Sedate your baby! Stick something in their mouth–anything, your finger will even work! for goodness sakes make it stop!!!!!

I was stuck on a red eye 12 hr plane ride with this annoying lap baby. Mom was chubby, which is not a crime but when you’re already big and those airplane seats pack us like sardines, how on earth do you fit a squirming baby in your lap? The stupid kid kept kicking my chair while the lights were off and everyone was sleeping. I kept turning around to look at the woman and of course she was asleep and didn’t care at all. I straightened my seat all the way up and baby still kicked, every time I dozed off, kick!

People who can’t properly discipline their children or unwilling to do so, should not be allowed to have babies. Those undisciplined children are the same ones at high risk for becoming law breakers, stealers, cheaters of society. They are led to believe they can get away with anything b/c that’s how it was at home. So innocent people like us end up being punished for their craptastic parenting.

I was on a flight with a set of parents and 2 young kids behind us. And part way through, one of the kids threw a tantrum and was crying, screaming, and kicking the chair in front of her. And her parents tried really hard to get the kid to stop. Including asking them nicely, then sternly, then even holding down the kid, and other various things. And the parents apologized to our row. But in that case, I mean, what can you do? The parents cared and really tried to stop it but the kid was in a funk.

Some parents these days surely wouldn’t do anything about their kids even they are so freaking annoying. I did witness a kid crying his lungs out in a restaurant just about a month ago. I think there were two families dining together at the same table, and both families had one toddler each. While one kid was crying his lungs out in that tiny little restaurant, the other kid was just looking at him in awe. They both seemed to be the same age. My friend and I kept giving the looks to that table, but the parents of that crying kid wouldn’t even say a word to shut him up. It was really annoying. I really wish I’d never have kids like that when I have on my own. When we were that young, we had to behave even at “the look” by our parents. I don’t know if it’s just them or the time had totally changed which made the kids simply more annoying.

Seriously. What the fuck man! My sis in law cannot control her kid either but she doesnt know how to. She calls him retarded and stupid and annoying and he can’t talk yet so he has no idea what shes saying to him so he throws a hissy fit and then she gets even more annoyed and then he gets more frustrated and it’s just a fucking nightmare. She’s taking him a d her kid #2 on a trip to georgia by herself. Ummmm good luck. So glad im not going.

This is why you should always hit your kids.

i read the article you’re talking about. go jetblue for taking a stand.

This is the reason why so many parents I know leave their children at home when they go out!  haha

lmao, I hate children as well 😛

This makes me terrified to take my kids (age 1 & 2) on planes. My oldest lasted through a 6 hour flight, sound asleep, when he was 6 months old, but the flight back…he got about halfway through before he started crying. I felt like the WORST PERSON EVER.

As they’ve gotten bigger, I now am the bitch mom who will just leave wherever we are (dinner, ice cream, playground, whatever) once a tantrum starts. Yeah, it’s courtesy to the rest of the world who doesn’t want to hear my children’s pathetic whining, but more importantly it teaches the kids themselves that being a brat doesn’t get what you want.

feel kind of weird replying so much but omg, things seem just so obvious to most of us.. obviously..

@Still_Bruhaha – it’s true, once you have a kid, you can’t hear him/her! lol weird right…

I know there are bad kids but it’s parents’ jobs to teach kids not to act like little shits like that flag kid. Glaring at the parent didn’t help?  Bet that’s a badly behaved parent.

@pinksoda117 – someone once told me, why.. we need a license to get married, but we don’t to have kids?  kids are much more responsibility and there is no divorcing them!

@MJeeeeeeeezy – wow – jeez, tell her to read a book……. p.s. even though they may not know the real meaning of the words they are being called, such a tone of voice is easily decipherable to a child, plus, they may know the meaning anyway – kids pick up on things like that…  “She calls him retarded and stupid and annoying” — wow, you created him, and if that’s how you treat him, then you’re the one who’s retarded stupid and annoying…..
@smile4leena – talk about taking advantage…..

 

Reminds me of something I witnessed in a department store once: http://gwenstyles.com/2010/11/09/crying-baby-in-department-store/

GOODNESS GRACIOUS, I DON’T CARE HOW RUDE I WOULD’VE COME OFF AS, I’D TELL HER OFF.

Can’t stand kids like that.

Wow. Kids annoy me and personally I don’t think they should be allowed in most places. Leave the kids to fast food and Walmart. I’ve never been on a plane ride. Well once but I was a kid but I was told I sat quiet for the 3 hour flight. Anyway, parents just need to spank their children. I know that they say it’s wrong and all. But if they would bring he kid to the bathroom. Walk back out I’m sure there would be a wave of applause for the parent. And I think if I do ever go on a plane I’m taking some cards or something with me. I always figure if you can’t get the parent to stop the child you make the child stop by distracting them

If the child I am about to have does obnoxious crap, he is getting his bottom swatted. Being polite is important. My husband and I think that early and appropriate discipline is exactly what children need. Parents don’t start trying to reign in their children till they are 2, 5 or 7. Then they wonder why they are having such trouble. Now I haven’t had my child yet, so I don’t have personal experience. But it makes sense to me that telling your child no to things they shouldn’t do should happen as soon as they are able to understand the word no.