Well done Rat, to end the problems, you have to eliminate their origin, you are on track to achieve it. Although that sadly will drag you to your ruin.
I wake up by reading the comics with my coffee and heading off to work at a mental health ward/chem-dep unit. Rat’s realization could easily be the summary* of 50% of the people I care for. ( *substitute drug / vice of choice.)
I think the worst part of it all is that there are thousands of people who are actually doing this, without the intellectual honesty to have that mental discussion out loud or admit it.
I understand the draw to almost all vices, I really do. Humans aren’t much different from each other in that respect. But drugs and alcohol just confuse me. You really wanna drink some liquid until you can’t control your body or mind? You really wanna shoot up until you’re so wired you can’t put two thoughts together? I just don’t understand it… I really don’t. It kinda scares me to be honest, the thought of altering your mental state like that.
20 years old, never been drunk or high, and never will be. Here’s to listening to the wisdom of those who have gone before!
Let’s see now ……….. for hundreds of thousands of years, people are just another critter, geographically widespread but not numerous anywhere. Beer is invented. First result: people stop dying of dysentery and the population increases. Second result: that ugly broad who makes you barf is suddenly the most desirable woman you have ever met (works the other way around, too) and the population increases even more.
Conclusion: beer is the cause of overpopulation and the ultimate cause of climate change.
BE THIS GUY about 5 years ago
Rat has become comfortably drunk.
Kveldulf about 5 years ago
Can’t figure out whether this or Non Sequitur better describes my life.
DennisinSeattle Premium Member about 5 years ago
We’ll always have Rat!
jvn about 5 years ago
Who, indeed?
Bilan about 5 years ago
Was there another reason to drink beer?
wldhrsy2luv about 5 years ago
You need a reason to drink beer?
B UTTONS about 5 years ago
Rat, you downed my ROOT Beer!
juncarlo about 5 years ago
Well done Rat, to end the problems, you have to eliminate their origin, you are on track to achieve it. Although that sadly will drag you to your ruin.
blunebottle about 5 years ago
Yep, Rat’s got it all figured out.
jackhammer165 about 5 years ago
So what did people do before beer?
SonicFan91 about 5 years ago
Stop weirding me out Stetphan
Gent about 5 years ago
Needs… more… beer!
Troglodyte about 5 years ago
Even Goat has given up on Rat. Inevitable.
Owhatadoc Premium Member about 5 years ago
I wake up by reading the comics with my coffee and heading off to work at a mental health ward/chem-dep unit. Rat’s realization could easily be the summary* of 50% of the people I care for. ( *substitute drug / vice of choice.)
Breadboard about 5 years ago
Rat you need a shot of Bourbon to go with that Beer ! ……. Croc Power !
Zebrastripes about 5 years ago
RAT is in serious denial….ker-plunk
jpayne4040 about 5 years ago
In other words, we’ll just continue to make dumb choices and do stupid things.
wllilly1960 about 5 years ago
…Rat’s last statement – the title of the next PBS book!!!!!!!!!
I AM CARTOON LADY! about 5 years ago
Reality sucks beer…
RobinHood about 5 years ago
Here’s to beer that tastes like beer. An Amber glass of wholesome cheer. A noble brew without one peer
Willywise52 Premium Member about 5 years ago
I realize I need lots more beer.Thanks,Rat.
grafdog about 5 years ago
I think the worst part of it all is that there are thousands of people who are actually doing this, without the intellectual honesty to have that mental discussion out loud or admit it.
I understand the draw to almost all vices, I really do. Humans aren’t much different from each other in that respect. But drugs and alcohol just confuse me. You really wanna drink some liquid until you can’t control your body or mind? You really wanna shoot up until you’re so wired you can’t put two thoughts together? I just don’t understand it… I really don’t. It kinda scares me to be honest, the thought of altering your mental state like that.
20 years old, never been drunk or high, and never will be. Here’s to listening to the wisdom of those who have gone before!
dadlivonia about 5 years ago
Beer solves every problem! Well, tequila too.
DCBakerEsq about 5 years ago
Beer is my religion.
Holden Awn about 5 years ago
Take personal responsibility?!? OMG, civilization (or at least American civilization) will end as we know it!
the lost wizard about 5 years ago
Beer. The cause of and solution to all of life’s problems.
Kveldulf about 5 years ago
Let’s see now ……….. for hundreds of thousands of years, people are just another critter, geographically widespread but not numerous anywhere. Beer is invented. First result: people stop dying of dysentery and the population increases. Second result: that ugly broad who makes you barf is suddenly the most desirable woman you have ever met (works the other way around, too) and the population increases even more.
Conclusion: beer is the cause of overpopulation and the ultimate cause of climate change.
chris_weaver about 5 years ago
Budweiser therapy!
Concretionist about 5 years ago
Three roads to happiness: Change yourself, change the world, get drunk. Only one of these is quick, easy, and ultimately self defeating.
diverleo about 5 years ago
Thank god he’s thinking clearly.
Lyons Group, Inc. about 5 years ago
“So what did people do before beer?”
Had their trust in God. That is, before realists came along.
prrdh about 5 years ago
Say, for what were hop-yards meant,
Or why was Burton built on Trent?
Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God’s ways to man.
Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink
For fellows whom it hurts to think:
Look into the pewter pot
To see the world as the world’s not.
And faith, ’tis pleasant till ’tis past:
The mischief is that ’twill not last.
Oh I have been to Ludlow fair
And left my necktie God knows where,
And carried half way home, or near,
Pints and quarts of Ludlow beer:
Then the world seemed none so bad,
And I myself a sterling lad;
And down in lovely muck I’ve lain,
Happy till I woke again.
Then I saw the morning sky:
Heigho, the tale was all a lie;
The world, it was the old world yet,
I was I, my things were wet,
And nothing now remained to do
But begin the game anew.—A.E. Housman, “Terence, this is stupid stuff”
Sisyphos about 5 years ago
Maybe you should apply your trusty baseball bat to Cartoon-Boy’s head once more, Rat. Blame it all on him!
jonesbeltone about 5 years ago
I am on board.
PBS1! over 3 years ago
I think Rat might occasionally break character like this because he’s just pretending to be mean for the sake of satire.