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Netflix and Kill

Netflix and Kill

by Adam Huber on November 19, 2019 at 7:51 pm
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  1. DTIBA
    DTIBA
    November 19, 2019, 10:34 pm | # | Reply

    I will never understand the appeal of horror or crime series.

  2. Quantum Jack
    Quantum Jack
    November 19, 2019, 11:42 pm | # | Reply

    “the ends don’t justify the means but the means are pretty darn bingeable”

    i think you got that backwards. the “ends” is the part that is bingeable, the means is the murder.

    • Ourorboros
      Ourorboros
      November 20, 2019, 12:11 am | # | Reply

      They make shows about the means, which are then binge watched. People watch true crime shows – the subject is the means, the ends is the show that is wrapped around it.

    • Marquar
      Marquar
      November 20, 2019, 9:23 am | # | Reply

      I think Adam had it right. The means is the process of the murders and follow up. Binging the ends would be watching a fresh grave and/or watching a man sit in prison.

  3. the_verTigO
    the_verTigO
    November 20, 2019, 10:30 am | # | Reply

    Panel 1: Isn’t it called “rep” from “reputation”?
    English is not my first language though, so maybe this is just a word I don’t know.

    • Chug
      Chug
      November 20, 2019, 11:02 am | # | Reply

      It is ‘bad rap’, but only because English is weird and nonsensical.
      https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/usage-bad-rap-vs-bad-rep-vs-bad-wrap

      • DTIBA
        DTIBA
        November 20, 2019, 5:17 pm | # | Reply

        For those who don’t bother to click Chug’s link: “bad rap” and “bad rep” are both equally valid by the standards of modern English, and if you try to insist that one is more correct than the other, you’re fighting a losing battle against changing usage.
        https://www.xkcd.com/2039/

        • Andrew Wheeler
          Andrew Wheeler
          November 20, 2019, 8:13 pm | # | Reply

          As I understand it, “rep” does come from “reputation,” and it would be perfectly suitable in this usage.

          But “rap” is also fine here: it comes from “rap sheet,” a police arrest record for a particular individual. A “bad rap” is a long list of things a person did wrong.

          So these are two English idioms that sound almost identical, mean practically the same thing, but come from vastly different places.

          • Alpha-Sigma
            Alpha-Sigma
            November 21, 2019, 9:31 pm | #

            Usually, “bad rep/rap” is used when the ill opinions are undeserved. “Rap sheet” being used in this context refers to the portion of the arrest record which details the punishments administered upon the arrestee; therefore, “bad rap” would properly be elongated as “an undeserved suffering”.

            Second Wednesday comic in a row where a comment prompted discussion of the English language’s innumerable idiosyncracies. I just want to express how much I love being a part of a reader community in which neither of these conversations became offensive. Everyone who reads Bug Martini is that much more awesome that there’s never a flame war in the comments.

          • the_verTigO
            the_verTigO
            November 27, 2019, 3:44 pm | #

            I learned something new today. Thank you all!

  4. Matthew
    Matthew
    November 22, 2019, 7:06 pm | # | Reply

    Where is the friday comic?

    • Alpha-Sigma
      Alpha-Sigma
      November 22, 2019, 10:52 pm | # | Reply

      https://www.bugmartini.com/comic/fools-flush-in/
      Is your browser giving you hell and showing this one as kost recent? Try backing to the Sunday Teaser and then going forward to see if it lets you forward to Fools Flush In.

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