today in #9chickweedlane i learned i want more newspaper comic strips where children ask their mothers why they're such filthy sluts
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Oh, is that what’s supposed to be happening here? I thought this was just one of those days where Brooke jerks off to the thesaurus rather than to drawings of Edda.
aug 10, 2025, 1:29 pm • 5 0 • view
What happened to this guy? I have vague memories of this comic actually being somewhat enjoyable, if a bit milquetoast. This is…bizarre? As in, not comprehensible?
aug 10, 2025, 10:19 pm • 2 0 • view
It was a gradual slide that suddenly picked up speed and became a void of horrors.
aug 10, 2025, 10:54 pm • 5 0 • view
It certainly is that.
aug 11, 2025, 12:00 am • 1 0 • view
Notably, she didn't ask what the definition of "slatternly" was, and she certainly didn't ask for synonyms - she asked her mother what being a slattern was *like*, and her mother's response was to go to the thesaurus anyway, like a kid (or a chatbot) faking their way through an essay.
aug 10, 2025, 1:47 pm • 11 0 • view
"What is being slatternly like? This is a question many have asked, and the answer is more complex than you might think. According to Roget's Thesaurus [1], one of the many synonyms of 'slatternly' is 'pettifoggery'. From this, we may assume that slatterns and pettifogs share many traits."
aug 10, 2025, 1:47 pm • 17 1 • view
The first generation of kids raised entirely by LLMs are gonna have a hard time.
aug 10, 2025, 1:48 pm • 13 0 • view
At least people will stop saying Idiocracy was a documentary. In the future people won't be stupid. They'll be flatlined. Unable to think without the machine delivering thoughts to them when prompted. A whole generation of very literal NPCs.
aug 10, 2025, 6:39 pm • 4 0 • view
I saw someone on this app saying they run escape rooms, and they've seen people walk into the room, spot a puzzle (that, by definition, shouldn't be on the Internet yet) and immediately ask their LLM how to solve it. Like, even if that works... why are you paying money for this experience?
aug 10, 2025, 6:44 pm • 3 0 • view
Finally! Machines can do all these terrible hobbies I have to engage with! I can finally focus on my TRUE passion! Consumption! I can't wait to post about this escape room! It's gonna do numbers!
aug 10, 2025, 6:48 pm • 2 0 • view
...that confuses me only because I thought Escape Rooms had a fairly universal policy of leaving your phone outside while you're in the room.
aug 11, 2025, 8:43 am • 0 0 • view
Predicting a pretty poor survival rate from the generations taking advice from the "add glue to your pizza for stringier cheese" machines.
aug 10, 2025, 2:57 pm • 2 0 • view
Enh. Their owners will run out of money and retire them long before then
aug 10, 2025, 5:33 pm • 1 0 • view
I could understand the mother being incredibly confused and grabbing whatever she had on hand to try and figure out what she even means... if the rest of the conversation didn't just get less and less coherent.
aug 17, 2025, 9:25 am • 0 0 • view
Then again, are we that surprised that this guy's first instinct is "check the Thesaurus"
aug 10, 2025, 2:34 pm • 3 0 • view
Long Time Readers, of course, know that Juliet was a very sexy high schooler who had sex in her dad's car.
aug 10, 2025, 10:55 pm • 5 0 • view
I was beginning to worry that I knew too much, by this point, but cheerfully surprised to know that there's yet more horror still
aug 11, 2025, 8:42 am • 1 0 • view
"Boy, this Piglet is a caution" Absolutely a normal sentence that has definitely been said before by a human being. Also, the fact that, to Brooke, the first thing you grab when you want to know what a word means is a thesaurus and not, y'know, a dictionary says a lot about him.
aug 10, 2025, 1:37 pm • 12 0 • view
He walk in the door
aug 10, 2025, 1:31 pm • 0 0 • view
“ wrong home anyway shut up whoever you are”
aug 10, 2025, 1:32 pm • 0 0 • view
still upset that 9cl is the only reason i even know that "slattern" is a word that exists
aug 10, 2025, 1:40 pm • 46 0 • view
I don't need to get into why I use it regularly, but it's also the name of a monster in Pacific Rim which led to my gf going 'this? You mean THIS?' with a gif.
aug 10, 2025, 1:42 pm • 4 0 • view
Yep, that's where I heard it too. Let's see if they mention Raiju and Scunner tomorrow!
aug 10, 2025, 1:52 pm • 2 0 • view
Sounds like someone's headmaster.
aug 10, 2025, 4:01 pm • 0 0 • view
That's just proof that you aren't his target audience (an arrogant know-it-all that read dictionaries for fun during down times in class in grade school).
aug 10, 2025, 10:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh Brooke and his Word A Day calendar….
aug 10, 2025, 1:46 pm • 2 0 • view
it's a word if you're a Victorian moralist
aug 10, 2025, 1:48 pm • 3 0 • view
fine, a word that existed
aug 10, 2025, 1:59 pm • 2 0 • view
this is also the guy who loves the word "wedlock", which to me always sounds like something bad that happens to your old car
aug 10, 2025, 2:00 pm • 2 0 • view
brooke's thesaurus pages mysteriously stuck together
aug 10, 2025, 1:43 pm • 25 0 • view
Dude does go back to that well a lot, huh ..... Ironically
aug 11, 2025, 6:42 am • 0 0 • view
It was Neal Adams for me (Hey comics fans: if you wish 9CL was less about sex and legs and more about Batman and the Hollow Earth conspiracy, check out "Batman: Odyssey"! It somehow makes just as much sense!)
aug 10, 2025, 2:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Are all these sentences supposed to be from the same conversation?
aug 10, 2025, 1:26 pm • 20 0 • view
I have long been fond of the word 'slatternly' because it is an adjective ending in -ly.
aug 10, 2025, 5:13 pm • 2 0 • view
Timely comment!
aug 10, 2025, 7:11 pm • 1 0 • view
I sincerely hope that Brooke McTooHornyForMcMeel develops arthritis so he can never draw this ABYSSAL PILE OF FUCK comic strip ever again
aug 12, 2025, 3:39 am • 0 0 • view
I feel like I’m having a stroke
aug 10, 2025, 1:30 pm • 4 0 • view
I would much rather see her explain what gays and penetrate means. (Penetrating gaze).
aug 10, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 10, 2025, 4:22 pm • 3 0 • view
Is... is the throwaway panel suggesting that Winnie the Pooh's Piglet is a slut?
aug 10, 2025, 1:24 pm • 15 0 • view
oh are you the last to realize
aug 10, 2025, 1:24 pm • 14 0 • view
aug 10, 2025, 1:26 pm • 11 0 • view
Well, she *appears* to be reading the thesaurus, though the cover does change from panel to panel so maybe she's swapping between books and Brooke couldn't be bothered drawing that.
aug 10, 2025, 1:40 pm • 2 0 • view
I didn't need to know but my curiosity and love of learning new words took over.. So at worse the kid is asking her mom whats it like to be slutty. At best she is asking her mom whats it like to be unkempt/messy/dirty..... Both are... not great. ..
aug 10, 2025, 4:00 pm • 1 0 • view
And none of these seem at all related to hygiene. Let alone money. Does he use a thesaurus that groups rogether unrelated words?
aug 10, 2025, 5:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Perhaps Google AI
sep 2, 2025, 4:41 am • 0 0 • view
Kind of want to point out that Pettifoggery isn't a synonym for Slatternly (it's not even an adjective!) but that would itself be pettifoggery because it describes the behaviour of a pedant rather than a slattern so maybe I'd be falling into his trap and that's the real gag here
aug 11, 2025, 10:32 am • 3 0 • view
This reads like that one kid who used a Thesaurus for the first time in a presentation in grade school and doesn’t actually grasp contextual nuances.
aug 10, 2025, 1:30 pm • 6 0 • view
That's Brooke for you yeah
aug 10, 2025, 1:34 pm • 6 0 • view
forget "kids don't talk like that," this is full on "humans don't talk like that"
aug 10, 2025, 1:36 pm • 26 0 • view
"Ma, what's it like to be a wanton harlot? I need to know to prepare for my future, where I plan to be vaguely horny about a man who resembles a clenched fist on legs...then marry my one and only friend and spend the rest of my life throwing myself at him" "First, let's talk synonyms"
aug 10, 2025, 5:38 pm • 5 0 • view