Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 14, 2023

If Influencers are their usual clientele, they must serve some really strong booze.

I can feel a draught.

It’s better than Schadenfreude on tap.

Influencers, AKA idiots without jobs scamming products from companies that then rate as excellent, no matter how rotten the product is!

I’ve noticed that influencers only influence the ones that seem to be gullible. If that’s the case, then it’s nothing new.

I’m not the droid you’re looking for; I’m not even a droid.

Zeitgeist: The idiotic alcoholic spirit of the times. (See also “Trumpgeist”.)

Tasting notes: A heady concoction that quickly becomes unpalatable past its sell-by date.

Does his “social media translator” know if they’re brewing beer or brewing coffee"?

Everyone inside will just be sitting ,staring into their phones

all right, i’d like to know the average net worth of people over 50 and under.

A couple of years ago on New Year’s Eve, we wound up in a bar full of college kids. And they were playing Neil Young on the jukebox.

And the college Hardware Store near here plays Hendrix.

Influencers? Are those the self-absorbed narcissists perpetually posing for selfies? I Like them not!

I know what’s going on. I just don’t care for it.

As one of those who should have paid more attention while in school, I was forced to do the following:

Google: zeitgeist meaning

whatever…

It usually seems like the other way around to me.But that’s just me.

Ouch.

Was dealt double 8’s yesterday – my birthday. I can say without fear of contradiction that I have enjoyed the ‘spirit or mood’ of a number of eras. [see following comment]

I’ve never walked to the beat of a different drummer. I’ve got a whole freakin’ marching band up there.

So, whenever I hear anyone trash the past as being out of date, I reply, ‘Buckle up, Bud. It’s your turn.’

[For some reason, the idiot censor would not let me include this sentence in the first comment block. Go figure]

Seems the censor does not like the phrase, ‘nobody does that anymore.’ Anybody have a clue on that?

You could say THAT again! ;-)

There are at least 360 million people in the United States. If we use the standard adopted by educational professionals that the average I.Q. is 100, then that means at least 180 million are “below average”. Fertile ground for those who can be influenced by those with nothing useful to offer.

There are at least 360 million people in the United States. If we use the standard adopted by educational professionals that the average I.Q. is 100, then that means at least 180 million are “below average”. Fertile ground for those who can be influenced by those with nothing useful to offer.

I’ve often contemplated the irony of bars and liquor stores being required to close on election day so their patrons can elect a candidate that is going to drive them to drink for the next four years.

Remember all those loud, annoying people who used to shout from the TV screens hawking one product or another? Influencers are their unemployed kids and grandkids, making commercials from their bedrooms.

Influencers – the modern day equivalent of a carnival barker.

…which actually might not be a bad thing

All I can say is, “STAY OFF MY LAWN!”

I can relate to this.

Spokesmodels, aren’t they?

Funny and triple the price.

I have no time for influencers. They are just digital telemarketers.

This is one reason why immortality might not be all it’s cracked up to be. You could conceivably age out of being able to survive navigating day to day necessities. Of course I don’t mean influencers or keeping up on cultural zeitgeist, but the advance of technologies and new methods and ways of doing things, and the loss of what has become habitual for you. There might be work arounds, I suppose. If you were rich enough, you could pay other people to navigate for you; but it does raise a host of issues that would seem to make living forever an increasingly difficult challenge. Maybe if you remained perpetually 25, you might have the moxie to do it. I know the older I get, the harder it is to keep up in some areas.

Just get a lobotomy and then enter…You’ll fit right in!

Nobody will look up from their phones long enough to drink their beer

I abandoned years ago.

So there are people younger than 50 who know what’s going on? Show me!

I’m a little curious about that “ye who are over 50” bit. I suspect that a lot of commenters on GoComics are, like me, well into their later years, with time on their hands and chores to avoid. Anyone else wanna fess up to being in the “abandon hope” target audience?

Age discrimination is real. I don’t know who does those medicare supplement commercials. The one with “Martha” is particularly annoying. The makers of the commercial apparently believe that us old folk are crabby, stupid and senile. Another commercial repeats the same message about 6 times in the 30 seconds, as if senior citizens have to be told things over and over like little children so they can understand simple concepts.

I’m not buying it – literally.

call them what they are Shills

It’s a living. Since they are too lazy to knock on my door and try to sell me something I neither need nor want, I leave them alone.

Going home from there, take care not to get arrested for driving under the Influence.

Made me laugh

I’m still somewhat south of 50, and still would feel lost there.