Grrl Power #1832 – Insuborgative interrordination
I’ve mentioned several times that I’ve never been in the military, and most of what I know about it I learned from movies and TV, especially Stargate SG-1, but even without checking sources or even doing a casual google, I feel confident this is pretty insubordinate. There will be consequences at some point. I still find it entertaining though, which is one of many reasons I don’t think I would have done well in the military, had there been a draft at any point during which I might have been a viable candidate for such a thing. That or my squad would be very good at doing laps and I would have been soap-in-a-sock’ed to death by the third day.
Sydney isn’t really trying to specifically give Max a hard time. She just has about a hundred off the wall questions queued up in case anyone gives her an opening like this. I had to google the thing about the Second Lady. It is true, even though no one has ever said that on the news ever as far as I can recall.
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I’m actually now wondering about the ststus of someone born to a Jewish father and a Hindu mother. A Judu if you will.
I know that in Judaism: If you have a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother you would have to convert in order to be considered part of the community. With a Jewish mother, you are considered a Jew even if you are completely nonreligious.
It varies! I believe the Reform movement allows patrilineal decent as long as the kid is raised Jewish.
I actually occasionally tell people “I’m Jewish on my father’s side which makes me not Jewish, and Scottish on my mother’s side which makes me not Scottish. So I’m half not Jewish and half not Scottish.”
You’re also half not a dragon
I think the issue is more that Jews are not only a religious but also an ethnic group. You can’t really be a member of tow religions, but you can be ethnically Jewish and religiously Hindu just fine.
Which opens awhole new can of fun, because you could be an ashkenazi jew, meaning you are religiously jewish but not ethnically jewish, or a semitic muslim, which would probably mean there’s some ethnically jewish blood somewhere in your bloodline but you do not profess the religion of judaism.
And just like that you get the first clue on why the Middle East is so fucked up.
The Hindjew is more of a binational situation, you still have to live somewhere.
Neither being a Jew nor hindu depends on where you live. There is a choice of which in any tradition to follow.
The Hindjew only works if you have two heads, three legs, and look like a puppet from a TV show.
How about three arms instead of three legs? Hellooooo Zaphod!
Case remain though, that what you can and cant get away with in the military is COMPLETELY irrelevant.
As the USA needs Sydney more than Sydney needs the military. Sydney provides a suite of power and utility only matched by Dabbler. So they will tolerate her quirks as the alternative is she goes and works for someone else, like Canada or Deus.
I think that if Sydney said “screw you guys, I’m going to Galtyn”, she’d get a very illegal visit from ARCDark and find the American equivalent of novichok in her morning coffee.
Or she’d wake up in that special cell, waiting for Xuriel to pop by with her brainwashing kit.
They will try but it’s not given they will success and the fallaout could be severe ,like Galtyn declaring war to US ,with forceshield stealth planes and a satrships who could perhaps intecept nukes.
You have canon fooder but US is with pre FTL tech …
For an US citizen and President it’s will be new , not being the bully …
Actauly US is perhaps teh most dangerous state , it’s an hybrid regime like Turkey with an huge arsenal…
According to the gardian of the US constitution , the supreme court a Republican president have absolute power.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes ?
Please don’t let your lack of personal experience in the military stop you from making fun of the people in the armes forces.
Sydney already pulled a stunt like this at least once before, so I’m surprised Maxima hasn’t made sure to dissuade her from doing it again.
I imagine that Maxima has tried, multiple times. But Sydney being herself, it didn’t stick.
“running to NGC 5946 Sydney?” asks Deus, “I made the distance with a 3 iron, that’s how I got to the arena” as he inevitably makes an appearance via his gate.
“How far is it to Alaris?”
“Several billion miles, O’Neill”
Stargate SG-1, “Window of Opportunity”
Several billion would leave you still in the solar system.
In fact 5 trillion would still leave you at home (the current best understanding is that the gravitational influence of our sun (being fairly big on a median scale despite its unfortunate label of yellow dwarf) extends to about a lightyear.
Or maybe two.
Sydney, there’s being funny and then there’s being annoying for its own sake.
And you definitely crossed over the dividing line, there. =_=
Heh.
I’ve actually been guilty of doing this to my colleagues during meetings.
Tony (supervisor): Has anyone got any questions?
Me: Yes.
Tony: …………. and?
Me: What?
Tony: What questions do you have?
Me: Is it coincidence that ‘heresy’ and ‘hearsay’ are almost identical?
Tony: Wh – what’s that got to do with our job?
Me: Nothing; I was just wondering, that’s all.
Tony: Wonder on your own time, will you. Now, if that’s all…
Me: Actually, I’ve got another question.
Tony: I bet you have. Is it relevant?
Me: Yep.
Tony: … What is it then?
Me: How d’you spell it?
Tony: Spell what?
Me: ‘Relevant’
Tony: What?
Me: Well, is it ‘relevEnt’ or ‘relevAnt’?
Tony: … Are you taking the piss right now?
Other colleague: What do you think, genius?
Me *grins cheekily because we’re all mates.
Tony: …. just piss off, will you?
There’s a sort of follow-up to this at another meeting, a week or so later.
Tony: Has anyone got any – /not you, Spike/ – questions?
Tony learned quickly, huh?
I think it’s easy to forget that Max is also a blonde or at least she was born one which means this is an entire team of blondes! I also find it funny that despite one being a super genius, one having a quantumly entangled brain, and generally consisting of the most powerful supers on Earth this conversation somehow still happened! Go team Dumb Blondes!
Is harem wearing heavy makeup? Normally I recognize her by her freckles, but I don’t see any in this one.
Freckles at that distance would be drawn too large, or require a ridiculously fine pen that might not show up at this resolution.
It’s a weird choice to have Blonde Harem here, as the least distinct woth this group. (Especially since it set up short-hair)
In this situation, “Least Distinct Harem” was probably a tactical decision.
I see Sydney’s channeling her inner Frank Herbert by asking about the Hindjew.
Myself, I was thinking Larry Niven.
The second lady was mentioned a lot when she went to Greenland, also last year the second husband was mention in the news.
Kamala Harris’s husband Doug was officially the Second Gentleman.
Sydney entendre means ‘hear’ a double entendre means hear twice. Referring to things with more than one meaning.
Intelligent canines would start by calling them pantpants, but like sweatpants it would abbreviate to pants or panties.
Sounds like a 90’s comedy. We should see if De Niro is up for the role.
Also you forgot your ADHD medicine, again.
The vice president’s wife is rarely newsworthy, but when, for example, Jill Biden was relevant to the news while Obama was in office, they did indeed call her the Second Lady.
A single entendre has come up a couple of times. VH1’S 80s retrospective used the term to refer to Warrant’s Cherry Pie music video. It also shows up in the second season of Buffy:
Larry: “Man! Oz, I would love to get me some of that Buffy and Willow action, if you know what I mean.”
Oz: “That’s great, Larry. You’ve really mastered the single entendre.”
Technically, a double entendre means that what you said has a second meaning, but we don’t use it to refer to puns or dog whistles. It’s specifically sexual innuendo. Therefore, a single entendre is sexual innuendo that’s so blatant there’s no other meaning worth counting.
“Maid Man” is a long-established character in Adam Warren’s Empowered comic, and any attempt to make a movie using that name would no doubt get his lawyers involved right quick. Sydney should know that as a top-tier comic book nerd.
If you’re unfamiliar with him, he’s essentially Hypercompetent Batman if Batman wore a French maid outfit and his gadgets were re-themed to fit.
He’s also a Dissociative Identity of someone who’s heavily implied to be a “made man”.
Yes, but there really should have been a Maid Man movie before Empowered was a thing. It feels like something that would have been aired in the 70s or 80s.
Maid Man? Is that an Emp reference?
How can Sydney *not* use her powers? Her “powers” are having freaking orbs circling her head constantly!
I was actually expecting her to bring that up when Max asked if there were any questions.
Sydney knows how to pop them in a carry tube. That’s literally how they start out in the comic.
Since they’ll be in disguise as non-humans and in potentially very dangerous situations, a better option would be to incorporate the orbs into the disguise. Maybe hide the unknown orb, tent-orb, and PPO out of reach unless in a life-threatening emergency to keep her from accidentally blowing something up or otherwise exposing herself. Have the defensive shield, comm, and atmosphere orbs fixed to her disguise in a way she can still reach them. Definitely not circling her head. As for the flight orb, either hide it also (the passive/feather-fall would still work), or have it fixed and available but incorporate wings or a fake jet-pack into her disguise.
I have to wonder about that to be honest. We know from Grrl Power #98 – Triple facepalm and a sidebutt that she tried using other parts of her body to no effect, only her hands. But does she have to truly hold them, or would seating one against the back of her hand also let her use it? I imagine if she accidentally bumped one with the back of her hand Newton’s Third law would come into play and it would just float away from her hand. Testing that wouldn’t be the easiest thing for her to try due to limited options or funds to develop a glove able to hold the orbs.
Did you seriously forget the first 85 pages and 2 years of this comic?
You know, the entire time beforre the Orbs were shown?
So, are they going to get, or make a silly hat for the balls, or fake head thing, or are they going to depend on not needing to use them, and try to keep em in a bag/container?
OR are they going to make giant mittens that conceal the balls by her hands and she being called “giant hand alien” or something? :)
I’m thorn between taking offense and appreciating the pun of “hindjew”.
I don’t know about Hinduism but as others mentioned, being Jewish isn’t just a religion but also belonging to the people. Anyone who has a Jewish mother or converted will forever be Jewish regardless of religious believes and belonging to any other peoples.
For example, Islam is also patrilineal so someone with a Jewish mother and a Muslim father is assumed to be both Jewish and Muslim, but being muslim actually depends on religious believes and practices so if they don’t believe in Muhamad they are not Muslim.
Insubordinate or not, after each breafing our captain would ask “questions?” and without fail one of use would ask something like “how long does a horse live?”.
After a month, he corrected his question to “Questions? Too late.”, without any pause between :)
If the graphic behind Maxima is their planned route displayed on the Milky Way Galaxy, that is a really long distance. Using Star Trek FTL speeds a trip that long would take years!
And we already know time dilation is a thing in this universe.
Sydney, your space-boyfriend is basically a sapient dog, and you’ve been in a position to notice if he sweats or pants on multiple occasions (although you were understandable distracted during said occasions). If the latter, you’d be better off asking him what his people would likely call such clothing items. I mean, his first answer will probably be unpronounceable without a woof (or succubus*) tongue, but he’d certainly be in a better position to answer the question than Max.
That is, if you’re actually curious about these things and aren’t just trolling. It’s obvious the trolling is part of it, but I can’t help but think this is the sort of stuff Sydney genuinely wonders about.
*Actually, is Dabbler’s ability to pronounce his name due to being a succubus or due to being a doppelganger? Obviously the former is going to have some impressive dexterity with their tongues, but not necessarily what would be needed to properly pronounce woofese (or whatever it’s called), while I could readily see her using her doppelganger heritage to shapeshift her tongue to be able to pronounce her friend’s name.
So, good news bad news:
Halo might reveal they are from earth simply talking using earth references.
Halo might also drive any AI tracking them into suicide by simply talking.
True.
Since one of Harem’s versions is a plaything of Deus he’s probably going to know about this scheme. I wonder what he’s going to do about it?
Buy a ticket?
Should we be worried that all the girls being brought on this trip are blond. Even max technically.
I think in the case of Arc Swat and being military, they’d have to be very different than the armerd forces. They may pay a lot, but people can quit and with super powers, they can likely make just as much money elsewhere.
I’d actually wonder how anyone could look at the government pay of them and not go “Hold up now”
Sydney, being a comic store owner and connoisseur, would know the answer to “Maid Man”
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/maid-man/4005-78294/
or
https://comicsalliance.com/empowered-maidman-comic/
If the potential downside here is “complete destruction of Earth”, how can there possibly be a good enough potential upside to justify this?
One assumes you are familiar with The 213 things Skippy is no longer allowed to do in the U.S. Army: https://skippyslist.com/list/
I feel that’s about how you’d fit in.
Would it be Second Sir, or Second Man?
Second Gentleman
(if I understood your question correctly)
In Re DaveB’s thoughts on joining the military, I gave serious consideration to joining the Airforce while in my late teens early twenties. I took a couple of semesters of Army ROTC, mostly for the phys. ed. credit but I was also kind of interested. The people who were the actual full on signed up cadets quickly led me to realize that these were not really people I could work with. That aside, I’ve sometimes wondered forty later how far I would have made it into boot camp before spinal stenosis washed me out. It dawned on my after my first back surgery that being flat on my back for a couple of days at 23 might have been a barrier to enlistment.
Speaking as a vet, a lot of how something like this would be treated would depend on the NCO and Officers that were there- in Basic or similar, yeah- this would absolutely get you yelled at and dropped, and failure to do so would have you kicked out for “failure to train”- assuming making your squad do pushups or similar didn’t work via peer pressure, and you’d be assigned either to a reception group or something else- but if you just flat out refuse to follow any orders including corrective actions, you’d just end up in a holding area until they could process you out, and they’d fine you into the ground (and take your tax returns for a few years until you paid).
Once out of training though, it really depends on the unit. I’ve had commanders who wouldn’t put up with anything but parade ground perfection, and commanders who were far more lax- a good example was one who would consistently call masks ‘face diapers’ during COVID- but was quite strict about actually wearing them. So this is fairly accurate- Maxima is pretty lax in garrison, and since she’s OIC that most of ARC-SWAT see, her attitudes towards culture would permeate the rest of the unit- and Gen. Fawkes’ could be seen as allowing it for the good of the mission, since it’s obviously getting results. It’s also pretty common in the ‘elite’ units/SF/Ranger types to have a more lax discipline outside of combat. “Operator beards” are a joke for a reason. So no, this isn’t entirely unrealistic for the unit, and Peggy being more ‘ho-ah’ fits as well given her background. I would expect to see a regular Army unit being quite disturbed by this though, especially a non SF one.
I find it funny that the three selected to be on this mission are all blondes. There’s probably a joke in that somewhere.
Three blondes walk onto a space station…
I love how Sydney managed to ask two questions that resonated so well with her other teammates that they didn’t rag on her for being so Sydney in this moment.
Is Digit a super or just a normal human that happens to have a really nice body?
Sydney being Sydney at her most clueless/trolling. I am astonished Max has not long since learnt to ask for “Any relevant questions?” from hard experience when Sydney is in the audience. I guess that the novelty and uncertainty of this space mission is weighing on her mind and distracting her.