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[marsman57]

Checking the most recent WCDT topic, I feel like I may be alone. Does anyone else out there share my absolute hatred of yelling bird comics?

[Thrillho]

I'm pretty sure other people do as well.

I'm sure Jeph would very warmly put a hand on your shoulder... and tell you to deal with it, cause they're going nowhere. Warm hand on shoulder. Cold hard truth.

That's how he told me I wasn't pregnant. The bastard... 

[pwhodges]

I dislike most Yelling Bird stuff, I'm afraid.

[Zebediah]

Jeph doesn't do as many Yelling Bird strips as he used to, so there's that.

[Is it cold in here?]

They are missing the elements that attract me to the strip.

[J]

meh.

[Detachable Felix]

Now now, Yelling Bird fills in a necessary hole in the comic. He is how Jeph manages to avoid an unnecessary level of Butts and profanity in the regular comic by being an outlet for his Butts Disease.

[pwhodges]

Whereas Pintsize is a means of getting the same into the comic, thus negating the benefits of YB.

[Barmymoo]

I dislike Yelling Bird, but I appreciate the strips as an alternative to simply not having anything new on days when Jeph needs time off. Drawing the regular strips is hugely time consuming, he deserves a break.

[Detachable Felix]

BUT, Pintsize has been a lot more moderate in recent years (today's comic notwithstanding). Filler strips are filler strips. Better YB than Randy.

[marsman57]

The YB comics with Sweet-Tits are sometimes amusing, but the standard ones are just a bore.

[DSL]

I see YB as Jeph's method of railing against whatever's pissing him off. If he's feeling playful and subversive about it, the lines go to Pintsize. If heMs just out and out angry, out comes the dickcissel.

[Tova]

Checking the most recent WCDT topic, I feel like I may be alone. Does anyone else out there share my absolute hatred of yelling bird comics?

You're not alone. I can see the reasons why he throws them out there, and even sympathise with them to a certain degree. That doesn't mean I have to enjoy them. :p

As suggested by Gareth, I deal with it. If yelling bird comics were my biggest problem in life, life would be pretty sweet.

[Kugai]

Roast Chicken

[Sidhekin]

If yelling bird comics were my biggest problem in life, life would be pretty sweet.

Life wisdom from the forums once of pony leaks.

[Akima]

If yelling bird comics were my biggest problem in life, life would be pretty sweet.

Just so. But I don't like them much either.

[Thrudd]

I think of them as contrast. The little bits of float'y stuff bobbing down the picturesque, sun dappled, tree lined stream. The little things that remind you why you don't go swimming there or drinking water from that stream in the first place. And like those occasional bits of flotsam we see yelling bird for what it is. We see it. We may even acknowledge it. We than proceed to ignore it and never make mention of it ever again, unless there was something actually funny or memorable about it.

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Shame Orb and Frozen Burritos - hey, I laugh about it  still - I don't eat Burritos though

[Method of Madness]

They amuse me. So do Randy and Shebly.

[pwhodges]

Shebly has the benefit of being real, of course.

[Method of Madness]

No, you're thinking of Shelby

[pwhodges]

I'm pretty sure that Jeph has used that form of the name outside the comics (in twitter, at least).

[Lummer]

I legitimately love them, and find Yelling Bird immensely amusing.

Come at me.

[cesium133]

Come at me.

That's Yelling Bird's job.

[jwhouk]

Come at me.

That's Yelling Bird's job.

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[Method of Madness]

At, not in

...

[Is it cold in here?]

I legitimately love them, and find Yelling Bird immensely amusing.

I'm glad. It means the world is a happier place than it would be otherwise.

[techkid]

At, not in

...

Knowing Yelling Bird... both 

[Eddie 88]

I legitimately love them, and find Yelling Bird immensely amusing.

Come at me.

You're not alone, I love the Yelling Bird comics, especially the ones with Randy.

Though this may be influenced by the fact that I don't read the comic daily, I usually let a few months pile up then read them all at once, so coming across a YB comic doesn't feel so much like filler.

[Method of Madness]

See, I do read them every day, but I don't get the hate for them because when they show up it means the alternative was nothing. So instead of nothing at all, I get a chuckle. (shrugs)

[Lummer]

At, not in

...

Knowing Yelling Bird... both 

On, around, on top, beside, etc...

[Barmymoo]

We used to have a regular on the forum whose name was (and I believe still is!) Darryl. Even now I have to physically force myself to type Darryl instead of Darrly (I actually got it wrong the first time just now and had to go back and correct it to the right spelling). Maybe Jeph has a similar Shebly issue.

[Method of Madness]

Nah, Shebly is just how he'd imagine Shelby would say Shelby.

[pwhodges]

Or just a pet name formed by distorting the correct one; it's a thing people do with names.

[Method of Madness]

Nope!

(her name's actually SHELBY, but I don't think she knows how to pronounce it right).

[pwhodges]

Yeah; but Jeph has certainly used "Shebly" in tweets as well.

[Method of Madness]

Well yeah, but I was referring to the character Shebly. What he calls his actual dog is a separate matter.

[FunkyTuba]

Count me among the dickcissel enthusiasts.

[CrowFairy]

I like them because it's an interesting outlet to me. Jeph is not a mystical person whose only lot in life is to draw regular QC strips. Seeing him vent a bit is refreshing to me because it's healthy just to say the most insulting things you can think of so they're not just bogging you down and making you feel like your feelings aren't legitimate (when in reality everyone else feels like this sometimes but just doesn't express it as openly). I am all for random, directed rage because of how it is expressed and why.

But I also really like this song for the same reasons. I smile when I hear it (which would probably unsettle people, particularly because there was some stunned silence when my boyfriend told two friends of ours that I loved this song and then proceeded to play it). My boyfriend has mostly good taste in music (or at least taste that I appreciate), but he also rather likes Limp Bizkit, which I don't enjoy at all most of the time. He sometimes leaves the same CD in his car for weeks on end. A particular Limp Bizkit CD has had this place of honor several times. During the latest run, he kept choosing like the same several songs for most of the time. But one day he let it land on this song without switching to the next one he preferred. I loved it. It appeals to my morbid sensibility, mostly relating to not wanting to deal with people.

So maybe my opinion about this is really weird, compared to most people.

[Thrillho]

And as if by magic, my favourite Yelling Bird comic EVER goes up.

[Barmymoo]

Nah, Shebly is just how he'd imagine Shelby would say Shelby.

No, I get that - what I meant is, he might be so used to typing Shebly as part of that joke that his fingers automatically type that when he's tweeting. Kind of like how it took years of retraining for me to be able to spell grandfather correctly, not because I didn't know that there was a d in there but because I'd spent so many years writing granfather that my hand simply refused to let me put it in unless I was concentrating really hard.

[Is it cold in here?]

And as if by magic, my favourite Yelling Bird comic EVER goes up.

Mine too!

[Method of Madness]

Nah, Shebly is just how he'd imagine Shelby would say Shelby.

No, I get that - what I meant is, he might be so used to typing Shebly as part of that joke that his fingers automatically type that when he's tweeting. Kind of like how it took years of retraining for me to be able to spell grandfather correctly, not because I didn't know that there was a d in there but because I'd spent so many years writing granfather that my hand simply refused to let me put it in unless I was concentrating really hard.

Fair enough.

[Ben]

I'd rather just skip a day. I don't find them interesting or amusing and they don't add anything to the main comic

[Method of Madness]

Your loss

[Thrillho]

they don't add anything to the main comic

I fail to see how this is an issue. QC moves at such a glacial pace that like 50% of the actual comics don't add much of anything per se.

[Method of Madness]

That too. The way I see it, if they make me laugh, they've added something.

[Ben]

Well, yes. I find it an amusing diversion when I've nothing better to do but I'm glad none of my kids are such useless, aimless slackers. Dora has enough go in her to run the coffee shop, but most of them are trapped in the loop of having no jobs to speak of, no aims or goals, and what's left?

Momo is interesting because she actually has an agenda with some quite good questions included. Hanners is quite funny in a surreal sort of way, Faye's issues with her past give her some depth, but otherwise what?

[Loki]

Dale was until recently balancing a hundred jobs to support his mother, which may be considered an admirable trait.
Raven is working on her degree.
A lot of people work at the Horrible Revelation, Coffee of Doom or the Secret Bakery.

To expand on this, Hanners does have goals - she is working on her issues. Veronica wants a happy life and has taken a step towards it by moving to Northampton.

[pwhodges]

most of them are trapped in the loop of having no jobs to speak of, no aims or goals, and what's left?

They all earn enough money to keep themselves, as far as I'm aware, either from a job, or from freelance work using their skills.  Since they are all doing things that need to be done, in at least some sense, this is not "no jobs to speak of", but doing something useful.  If you're saying that no one should have low-level jobs, how do you expect the things that such workers do to happen?

[Sidhekin]

Robots!

... but then again ... would you trust an AnthroPC to make your coffee?