Grrl Power #1262 – Law enforcement vs. water endorsement
If sitcoms have have taught us anything (and I will admit that an alarming amount of my knowledge comes from similar sources) it’s that firefighters and police have cartoonish rivalries.
What would you ask a stunt person? A stunter, if you will. A name they’re almost definitely not called in the biz. I feel like I covered the spread more or less here. I guess the “what’s the most dangerous” or “had the most potential to go wrong” is really where you start. After that, I think I’d ask, “what’s the most benign stunt?” Because studios usually won’t allow actors to do nearly anything these days. Obviously there are some very notable exceptions, but I guess it’s understandable they don’t want doing anything even remotely dangerous like… I dunno, sliding down a bannister or taking any kind of fall when they can’t pad the ground. If an actor twists an ankle or gets a tooth knocked out, it can hold up the production and cost the studio a ton of money. I bet the most lame stunts out there are things like getting water thrown in their face because some actress can’t help but inhale sharply when it happens to her and she winds up coughing and choking and ruining every take.
On a tangentially related note, has anyone ever noticed how often you see girls/women holding their nose when they jump in the water? I never see guys doing that, but like, half the women I see do it. Watch a few episodes of Wipeout and you’ll start to notice it. Assuming they didn’t just take a giant foam covered armature in the gut and are spinning as they go in. It’s probably just some weird bit of confirmation bias I’ve picked up. I mean, just exhale slightly through your nose when you hit the water. That’s enough to keep water out of your sinuses, unless you’re colliding with the water like you fell off a speedboat.
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Every so often I get the urge to try and draw Maxima all properly shiny, and this… isn’t my favorite attempt if I’m honest. I’ve been sitting on this for a little while doing little tweaks, and decided to finally publish it cause I’m already behind on these. The next one will (almost definitely) resume the trend of including a little mini comic to extend the scene a bit.
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I have a story about working on an independent movie in Utah where the stunt person they hired to play the monster backed out and I was the only one who the suit fitted on right after he left. It involves explosive squibs placed improperly, my blood, and incidental amounts of sweat that required emptying the boots out after every take because they got filled with sweat and dangerous to me walking around. The monster suit was made from a diver’s wet suit that I was wearing in the summer, in a desert in Utah west of Salt Lake City.
Sounds like the stunt guy had a reason to quit :P
Hope they paid you enough to cover your recovery and any hospital bills resulting in the gig :)
You are not the police Max. Even the most corrupt police don’t do the kinda stuff you get up to.
… Actually, she is the police, super-military police
I had this thought… We know that Max’s blood is blue and her lips are purple/red, so just like real people’s mucus membranes are pink and red because of the color of blood, so wouldn’t the inside of Max’s mouth and nose have a blue/purple hue? It’s like when Star Trek TOS decided that Spock had green blood, they started to use green makeup on his face and when ever he was injured, they added a green color to his makeup injuries.
I’m thinking kind of grayish. Not the most attractive color for a tongue. Or any other bits that are usually pink.
Her lips are red, not purple, without needing lipstick, according to Heatwave. Which is why she finally caught on to Harem’s kissy-face prank near the beginning of the webcomic. Her hair is purple. Her biochemistry is obviously not normal. :)
Yes I know, I said purple/red because of how dark the color was. Either way, they shouldn’t be that color if her blood is blue. Like a bruise, it turns purple and fades to green as it heals. I can figure out why, purple lips would look very weird and be hard to see in normal lighting.
Love the name of the Gazette
There was an episode of incredible hulk (TV show) when Stan Lee had a cameo as a Juror. He was supposed to jump down out of the jury box(about 2 ft). NOPE! Stunt double.
As a police officer, there are bad ones, but they are trained to be jerks. I do get that they deal with a lot of bad people. How would you react at YOUR job if you knew that 1 person you deal with out of every 50(or 100) was going to try to kill you?
Fair point. That would likely keep me on edge and not in the friendliest of moods.
As a citizen in an American city, I recognize mathematically that there are good cops out there somewhere. But the cops near where I live have been publicly recorded doing things ranging from shady to outright feloniously criminal if they didn’t have the all purpose protections of “Qualified Immunity” that they abuse with impunity, and any of the rare judgments against them when they get caught (and I do mean rare, anyone in North Las Vegas can tell you it’s gotten worse in the last 30 years and every one of us knows a family member or a friend that was shot ‘resisting arrest’ on the word of an officer with no other supporting evidence) and maybe you’ll understand why the public doesn’t blanket trust police even with the tidal waves of copaganda out there.
Well, I work with engineers. We call any sequence of weeks over fifty-five hours a “deathmarch”. We know it is unsustainable and that people get really cranky after a while. I see crankiness in post carriers, as they routinely pass this number.
So, I support the idea that police overtime gets capped at about 50 hours and everything over that goes into mandatory vacation. I know its hard for cities to hire more; got to be done. You need to work your police force through a lot of overtime because someone decided to host the World Trade Organization and bring the usual unrest? Plan on a lot of fishing the following month.
It’s not “fight the blue” or “defund the police”, its “make police officers’ jobs better” and “spend money wisely”.
Pizza delivery drivers get killed more than cops do.
Is this a reference to pizza flavored lipstick?
better than lipstick flavoured pizza
Kayley Cuoco required a stunt double on Big Bang Theory due to her leg was in a walking cast. The horse she was on for her character’s hemorrhoid cream commercial, tried to stomp her to death earlier in the season, doctors were not sure they were going to be able to save her leg at first. I think it is in the running for most benign stunt ever.
and she’s been a horse rider for a long, long time before that so it’s nothing out of the usual for her
Yes, zinger title. He _is_ ready, willing, and probably able. Hope springs eternal. And he’ll have that command position now, please, with a side order of pepperoni. *Snicker*
Just realized the bit on her nose is probably a callback to this: https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-1168/