That goth girl cartoon in the metro.

[Brendan]

So I?ve picked up a metro a few times over the last week or so and noticed this comic strip at the back. The one with the goth girl and her hilarious neuroses.

I can?t help but notice that she looks suspiciously similar to Neil Gaiman?s character, Death from the Sandman series.

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/ruohomaa/oma/enkeli/death.gif

[Ted Max]

I guess they all look the same to you.

http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/wp-content/images/2008/02/nemi/nemi.jpg

EDIT: 'kinell it looked OK on preview.

[Brendan]

that's a very nice picture of a little red X in a white box.

[bon3yard]

Isnt 'Emo' todays preferred nomenclature?

[Brendan]

Nope that's something different.

Similar but different.

[HonaloochieB]

bon3yard Wrote:

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> Isnt 'Emo' todays preferred nomenclature?

So the younger set are taking an interest in the lateRod Hull, are they?

Kids, I'll never understand 'em.

[Strawbs]

sometimes I dont get that cartoon.. makes me feel like a right twat..

[mockney piers]

Has it ever been funny. Do we have an example of one?

[annaj]

Funny?

Certainly not laugh out loud

[capt_birdseye]

Isn't it Dutch or Norwegian or something? Probably hilarious in it's original language, but clearly loses any humour or poignancy in translation.

[HonaloochieB]

It's funnier than Fred Basset but not as funny as Marmaduke.

I know, but it was the faintest praise I could think of on the spur of the moment.

[mockney piers]

Funny you should say that, working in Amsterdam at lunch time it was quite a regular occurence for a Dutch person to make a comment that would have all the Dutch in stitches while we'd look at each other and shrug. The exact reverse would also occur alot. Note that we did share alot of humour but certain strands just wouldn't cross the cultural divide at all.

I might add that none of them found the fast show 'he ish my colleague and alsho my lover' sketch in the least bit funny. :)

[Ted Max]

As it's Friday I feel like a bit of completely unjustifiable generalisation. I have found the Dutch I have worked with to be overwhelmingly straight of beam and steady of purpose. Like motivated Swiss.

Perhaps I have always just met the wrong kind of theDutch. But I put them up there with any of yer northern Europeans for their grim work ethic and need to conform.

At least the Finns, their equal in daytime taciturnity (root Tace: Ltn), all turn into superheroes after midnight and/or three litres of Estonian vodka.

[mockney piers]

Quite agree ted, they are, on the whole, so far remved from the cliche of the dope smoking chilled anything goes image it's actually funny. They are incredibly open about sex mind you. In fact that was generally the topic of conversation that left the Brits nonplussed.

- yesh, my wife and I had shexual intercourshe lasht night. I had to exshamine my wrist watch twishe before we both came.

Cue hilarity around table among Dutch, embarrassed and confused shuffling among Brits who swear blind they can hear the chirruping of crickets.