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[Victoria Waterfield]

http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=11072007

Being gay is an ability.

[melack]

Best part of about this strip? I had totally forgotten about the glory of overlapped bubble lettering. This brings me back to youth, man.

[AugustWest]

Ray is all about education.

[littlefallsmets]

Is Phillipe old enough to know cursive? Christ, I'm 28 and I don't know cursive properly. When I entered Junior High, my English teacher told me to just print until I could learn to type. My cursive was simply that bad.

He is very young, he is imaginary and he isn't even a person and his cursive is better than mine.

He is wise enough, however, understand the way that we are afraid of very attractive women because we understand that if a lady is pretty enough, we can easily be made to kill just to be allowed to keep looking at her. And how scary that is, upon reflection.

Hm. Maybe Phillipe is just really advanced for his age.

[Victoria Waterfield]

Hm. Maybe Phillipe is just really advanced for his age.

Well, he has been five for a long time.

[Arachno-capitalist]

when I moved in i didnt know if my roommate was gay. so i asked him and he said yes. The next day there were pictures of topless men taped to his door.
I asked if he was gay, and he proved it.

[V-Adore]

That lettering is straight old-school.

Things that make me glad that Achewood does not have a substantial fandom: the abject lack of terrible "Ability Man"-themed slash fiction.

[oball]

Is Phillipe old enough to know cursive? Christ, I'm 28 and I don't know cursive properly. When I entered Junior High, my English teacher told me to just print until I could learn to type. My cursive was simply that bad.

We had handwriting lessons in primary school, and I hated them.  Absolutely loathed them.  I was actually happy when I had a dentist's appointment one day, because it was on at the same time as handwriting, so I got out of the lesson.

We were supposed to get our handwriting to the point where we could pass a test, and then we obtained our "pen license" and were allowed to write with a biro.  I told the teacher that I wasn't going to bother, because cursive is stupid and hard to read (which it is - my mother has the best handwriting British schools in the 50s could teach, and it's illegible), and that I'd just write with a pencil until I got to high school where they don't care how you write.  I just handed in blank paper at the end of each handwriting lesson. 

Even now I print everything, just like my dad.  My older brother goes one step further and writes everything in block capitals.  My little brother writes in the most horrible, sloppy, unreadable cursive ever, but he's training to be a doctor so bad handwriting goes with the territory.

[Doc]

I remember being in year 7 and my teacher making weird semi-veiled threats that I'd have to be kept back or go to summer classes or something because my hand writing was so bad. She was one of my favourite teachers but that's so fuck*ng odd.
My handwriting was/is fairly attrocious though.

That overlapping bubble writing though, that's the shizzle. I might have to go re-label my lab books right now.

[theauthors]

liked this better the first time around

[CortJstr]

I have yet to find a single person who can explain the existence or necessity of cursive to me. My mom who is in her 38th year teaching says it's so that you know how to sign your name. She honestly believes that a signature has to be each letter in your name and be totally legible. Why one has to learn letters that aren't in their names she has no answer for. Besides, last I checked learning cursive actually slows a child's development in other areas, because they're using so much brain power remembering how to write squiggly letters that they'll never use again after 6th grade.

Philippe should also make Pat's super-hero chest symbol that weird S thing that people used to draw all over every available surface.

[side_show]

Locally the teachers are talking about taking cursive out of the cirriculm. 

As I understand it cursive (when everybody was more proficient at it and it was the only other option) is faster than printing due to the fewer times needed to lift the pen.  But with computers taking the place of handwritting, cursive has become more or less obsolete. 

I remember back in kid times, I was told I was only allowed to have a bank account if I knew how to write in cursive, because according to mom and a bank teller "you must use cursive to fill out a check!"  Aparently cursive is a lot harder to forge?  So once I learned it I got a kid's savings account where I put my allowance.  The only time I use cursive now is for writting out checks.  A part of me thinks my checks wont be accepted unless they're filled out in cursive.  Eighty-dollars and Twelve Cents to the gass company calls for squiggles and loops you see.

[CortJstr]

Locally the teachers are talking about taking cursive out of the cirriculm. 

As I understand it cursive (when everybody was more proficient at it and it was the only other option) is faster than printing due to the fewer times needed to lift the pen.  But with computers taking the place of handwritting, cursive has become more or less obsolete. 

I remember back in kid times, I was told I was only allowed to have a bank account if I knew how to write in cursive, because according to mom and a bank teller "you must use cursive to fill out a check!"  Aparently cursive is a lot harder to forge?  So once I learned it I got a kid's savings account where I put my allowance.  The only time I use cursive now is for writting out checks.  A part of me thinks my checks wont be accepted unless they're filled out in cursive.  Eighty-dollars and Twelve Cents to the gass company calls for squiggles and loops you see.

What's a check?

Actually I wish my band would sell me a book of deposit slips. Because a book of checks has 25 checks and like 6 deposit slips. 25 checks last me 12-18 months, but I use 2 deposit slips a month (for the SO's half of the rent) so I run out of those pretty much immediately. If my building let us pay the rent online like the fancier apartment buildings I don't think I'd need checks at all.

[robot_god]

cursive actually slows a child's development in other areas, because they're using so much brain power remembering how to write squiggly letters that they'll never use again after 6th grade.

Wow, that's right, I never thought about what a waste of time it was.



Ya know what?  Fuck cursive.

[dejavroom]

Well, I tend to consider writing in cursive along with other stuff that, when done well, can be beautiful.

I get pleasure from reading regular, elegant handwriting, and when I do it I try to do it as carefully (not to be confused with laboriously) as I can, as one would do a drawing.

My penmanship used to be quite shitty as I grew up being all fucked-up (not literally, just your run-of-the-mill growing up fucked-up), but now I'm actually owning the bitch and it feels good, like a part of my personality that finally got it together - that finally assembled itself into a functional whole that shows through the balance and cleanliness of my cursive. I look at what I wrote and think "No way I'd put a kitten on a blender, look at how damn *suave* I made this "f"!!"

I'm probably, alas, reading too much into it.