Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 14, 2023

Shut up, Betty.

Don’t be Bad Energy Betty.

You’re doing it wrong, Pig; you should walk away thinking, “Boy, am I glad I’m not Betty!”

If she just lost the keys first, she wouldn’t have gotten that parking ticket.

Debby Downer is no fun to be around, either.

she should have a cable news program, or at least a podcast!

After dealing with Rat for over 23 years, Pig should be used to this kind of person.

She’s not exactly Betty Boop.

Seems more like a Debby Downer

I see Pastis met my paternal grandmother.

Whenever I see the Bad Energy Betty I know, I end up feeling sorry for both of us.

Some of my coworkers refer to the female voice used in cockpit alert warnings as “B!tching Betty”.

Now pass it on to Rat. Oh, wait, Rat probably ratted her in hence the parking ticket.

O I see she’s met Karen!!

Unfortunately passing the cloud to Pig does not make Betty feel better.

Lots of Toxic persons out there, Pig! Best to avoid if you can!

Based on my mother. A true Karen for the ages.

I’d hate to see what Good Energy Betty looks like.

At least Joe Btfsplk meant well.

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Hey Betty, Pig only said hi. He didn’t actually ask you how you were doing. So keep those bad vibes to yourself yeah?

(even when people DO ask you how you’re doing, I suspect they don’t really want to know)

More than once I have crossed the street (figuratively and literally) to avoid a Debbie Downer. The one time I had more to gripe about than she could possibly have, she called in sick.

Nammering nabob of negativism.

We can all be like Betty, seems there are more than ever. We seem to go around in our own world. Everyone else just interefers

I have a SIL like that. Within the family, everyone ( behind her back ) calls her Nuestra Señora de los Dolores ( Our Lady of Sorrows ).

misery loves company… :L

It’s unknown why Lucy Van Pelt changed her name, but she has become exactly the kind of adult everyone imagined she would be. Sigh… If only she had married Charlie Brown and not Schroeder, she would have been so much happier.

Pig needs a hug from mom.

Happy Mother’s Day!

Don’t give up on her. Next time try this: Beep her nose. Then twiddle her nippies. Then nibble her ear lobe. Then, if you’ve survived, ask her out to dinner, dancing, and .. beyond.

Some people love to gripe because they somehow find validation in finding fault with others. It boosts their ego.

We have all known people like Betty. Long ago, a friend described his mother-in-law, “She will never be happy until all the fault is found and all the blame is assigned.”

That translates to never happy.

…She could win the lottery, and it would be the worst day ever for her…

After one “Downer” co-worker suffered a royal business failure, I (unsympathetically) said “Look at the bright side. This will give you something to b**** about for a good month. That should make you happy.”. She never spoke to me again. Oh, dear! So sad. LOL

She got it from Joe Btfsplk.

The basic philosophy of Fox “news”.

And the wannbees.

Listen to Michelle Obama, Pig, if they go low, you go high.(Not"Hi".)

One of the only comics I still read. Rubbish that most of them ran out of good ideas.

There are people like that, unfortunately.

The world is filled with Debbie Downers, Doomsday Donna’s, Worst Case Wanda’s, Apocalypse Annie’s and their equivalent male counter parts Paranoid Floyd’s, Victimized Victors, “I-told-you-so” Isaac’s, and Conspiracy Carlson’s. The list of persecution complexed whiners is endless and grows everyday!!!

She’s just not happy unless she’s miserable.

You can wave at her and keep on walking. No need to stop and talk. They are emotional vampires, they suck our your energy. I don’t give them a chance to do that to me.

For your keys, see Pete in Dreamcatcher (Timothy Olyphant).

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” The Buddha

Is that emanata? I think that’s emanata.

All you say is “gotta go, im sure you day will get better good by” walk away and do not look back, keep walking!

Sadly they do exist. Even more sadly it’s worse for them, since they can’t escape themselves.

Happy Mother’s Day!!

I have a feeling Bad Energy Betty is related to Mother Gargle in The Born Loser.

Those complaining attitudes do tend be contagious. You’ve got to fight it, Pig….

Send her back to Georgia