Mitigate
mit·i·gate \MIT-i-geyt\
verb
1. To lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate.
2. To make less severe: to mitigate a punishment.
3. To make (a person, one’s state of mind, disposition, etc.) milder or more gentle; mollify; appease.
4. To become milder; lessen in severity.
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WOI - 0030: MITIGATE
[ Panel 1 ]
:: A fancy gathering of people have an intense debate over dinner. ::
FANCY WOMAN: You sir, are a CHAUVINISTIC pig!
CHAUVINISTIC PIG: Nope.
[ Panel 2 ]
FANCY WOMAN: …but you WON’T open your mind to the ideas of A WOMAN!
CHAUVINISTIC PIG: That is NOT true. I trust my wife. In fact, let’s have her MITIGATE this situation, shall we?
[ Panel 3 ]
:: Another fancy woman, presumably the chauvinistic pig’s wife, swings back her arms as she readies her tools of mitigation; a golf club. ::
[ Panel 1 ]
:: A fancy gathering of people have an intense debate over dinner. ::
FANCY WOMAN: You sir, are a CHAUVINISTIC pig!
CHAUVINISTIC PIG: Nope.
[ Panel 2 ]
FANCY WOMAN: …but you WON’T open your mind to the ideas of A WOMAN!
CHAUVINISTIC PIG: That is NOT true. I trust my wife. In fact, let’s have her MITIGATE this situation, shall we?
[ Panel 3 ]
:: Another fancy woman, presumably the chauvinistic pig’s wife, swings back her arms as she readies her tools of mitigation; a golf club. ::
Now thats a lady I would get along with!
And the two of you’d go “clubbing” every night, wouldn’t you? :P
I have so often wished I could do this to people during terrible arguments like this. Everyone deals with crap situations like this different. For me, I start to drink more until the argument transforms into a pastiche of the original argument, Vietnamese cuisine, and something about how teenagers need to be sent off to the salt mines for two years to get some perspective on chores.Not much of a secret that I never talk unless I’ve had a few, in which case I turn rather loquacious. Unfortunately none of it’s cohesive like an idea salad where I start roaming around subjects, and randomly come back to them without warning or any kind of rational reason.
And that’s why it’s not often recommended to carry around a golf club while drinking. ^_~It’s probably best to derail conversations before the words that are exchanged are too harsh.
Also, you taught me the word “pastiche” today… i had to go ghetto google that shit.
Cool! Taught you something that wasn’t a new band!
I like me some words.
I tend to hold conversations like that when I’m sober. It gets amplified when I start drinking.
Sounds like college. :]
I can kind of remember college, I remember the stuff I learned, but outside of the classroom is a blur of raves, bars, concerts, and some other rooms that I can’t even remember where they were. Kind of like a fugue in some ways.So college was kind of fun :D At least the parts I remember D:
Your college experience sounds tons more fun than mine. I didn’t have a whole lot of friends while I was there so I spent a lot of nights home alone, drinking by myself.
Glad to see that everything seems to be up and running again.
Nearly killed me, but things are starting too look like they are back in order!
I have to say, I highly appreciate that this truly wonderful comic has returned to its rightful home – the internet!On the topic of this strip I have to note the words were somewhat to familiar, on the other hand it was a louder laugh than usual! :)
Perhaps Denis could use a couple words from Coldesta’s comment up there.
That made me laugh.
YOUR DOING IT WRONG!relax your shoulders and widen your stance if your going to go “swingin” you should learn how to do it right or dont do it at all
I wonder if the Mob teaches classes in how to kill with a golf club.
of course they do but you need to know the right family. maybe a little ass kissing and a couple of fake smiles but usually all you need to do is ask
I think less people know what chauvinistic means than mitigate.
Oh wow, I didn’t know the history behind the word at all. The older meaning of the word is unbelievable, yet the evolution of the word to the sexist meaning actually makes sense.
Ack, There is a grammar error. “You sir are chauvinistic pig”.. shouldn’t it be “You sir are “a” chauvinistic pig?”Also, you’re comics are awesome =) Keep it up!
LOL… wow, apparently I’m a foreigner new to Engrish. I’ll fix that in a moment. Thanks for pointing that out.