Why Work Parties Always Suck [COMIC]
Basic Instructions is a twice weekly updating web comic that offers absurd advice on how to live your life. Some of those updates will be happening here on Cracked.
Previously Scott has taught us Why Conspiracy Theories Always Win and provided A Guide to Encountering Douchebags in the Wild .
I don't wish to criticise the strip per se - I quite like them (sometimes) - but guys, "party" is absolutely not a verb, and if you think it is, then you are an illiterate fuckwit.
Reply Hide All See All 7 RepliesRubbish. Party is both a noun and a verb. You need to brush up on your English.
HAHAHAHAHAHA No.
Yeah bro, either you're the f*****g new dictionary and the whole world should be reporting to you, or you're straight up wrong. Hows about you go to an online dictionary, you know, one of the ones that are updated and checked regularly, and then come back and tell us all again who's the illiterate fuckwit. Hell, even if it wasn't in multiple dictionaries as a verb, anybody who doesn't live in a cave has heard of someone who's going to party. Just because it's often used in an unofficial manner doesn't mean it isn't a word.
Perhaps before you call people idiots you should make 100% sure that you're right. As a matter of fact even then acting like a jackass probably isn't cool, but when you're wrong it just makes you look like an ignorant, stupid jackass, and those are the worst kinds of jackasses.
Of course he lives in a cave. That's where trolls live. Idiots.
Party (verb) to enjoy oneself thoroughly and without restraint; indulge in pleasure.
Obviously never heard of 'to party', As is, "I'm going to Party my nose clean off my face"
yes, it is. buy yourself a dictionary.
I liked it, observational dry humor has it's place in the world.
ReplyThird panel was okay, but the rest were awesome.
Replyi don't get the hate in the comments. this is great dry humor. why do people gotta wet their pants by laughing at a comic. why not keep things dry and civilized sometimes?
ReplyDry? Yes. Great? No.
It's tired, cornball observational humor. How about those long lines at the DMV? Airplane food, am I right? And those work parties, forget about it!
It's not just "not funny", it's a travesty. Scott Meyer is a humorless, talentless hack.
whom hasn't this had happen to him? Great stuff man
Reply Hide All See All 4 Repliesuh... what?
YOU SPELT RETARD WRONG IN UR NAME DUMBASS
Using "who" when you should use "whom" makes you look ignorant. Using "whom" when you should use "who" makes you look like ignorant, pretentious, and just generally shitty.
You spelt "your" wrong dumbass. By the way, did you know YOUR Caps Lock is on? Oh, and don't forget the dot at the end of YOUR sentence like this.
Meh. Got a smirk out of me at best.
ReplyIt's like when you want gorgonzolla cheese but it's really brie time, baby.
ReplyWhat?
Step into my office. You're f**kin' fired.
still sucks
ReplyI just wish Scott would have added a panel with the party, that would have made my chuckle complete.
ReplyA WHOLE COMPLETE CHUCKLE WOW THAT WUD HAVE BEEN AWSUM CMON SCOTT LIFT UR GAME MAYBE UR TOO BUSY WITH UR 10 YR PROFESSINL COMEDY CAREER LOL
All caps is cool bro. Like 'I'm a 40-something year old social outcast who wastes their time playing online bingo all day' cool.
I like basic instructions the more of them I read. And as far as I can see the comments aren't full of vehement, personal hate. Tis a conspiracy!
ReplyA punchline would be nice
ReplyAnother week, another slimy pile of lizard s**t.
Replylol
That made me laugh harder than the article. Thank you.
My old work parties used to be pretty good. Usually involved me getting wasted, breaking into somewhere & stealing Xmas decorations, hitting on someone who wanted nothing to do with me, yadda yadda. Actually, in retrospect, they sucked. Sigh.
ReplyI liked the second panel the best. Clever.
ReplyZOMG!1!! IF IT IS AS CLEVER AS CHANGING CEE FOR A KAY LIKE IN UR NAME MY HEAD WIL PROBABLY NOT BE ABLE TO TAKE HOW CLEVAR IT IS I WILL CHECK IT OUT HOLD ON HEY WAIT A MINUTE I JUST READ IT U R RETARDED ARENT YOU COULD YOU PLEASE TELL US THAT IN UR OP NEXT TIME PLUS BTW I CAN TELL U R A f*gGAT TOO EVERYONE HERE NOS IT
@TheDoranator Why you trollin' ?
Meh. Decent. Good job(no, really).
ReplyThe concept of the office party has always been strange to me. You're getting people together that are only forced to interact with each other for the job and expect them to spend their free time doing so.
Reply Hide All See All 5 RepliesWith the added bonus of alcohol, saying or doing something that can't be lived down. Forcing an even more awkward work situation or resulting in someone quitting.
you dont understand it because you never managed to make friends at work. You probably never understood school proms and stuff either right? I mean they were just getting people together that were only forced to interact with eachother for the lessons.
Thanks for clearing that up for me. I always thought friends you made at work got together every Tuesday for lunch and every second night after work for drinks. Friday was the special occasion blow-out night to get plastered with the boss.
@))panda))
I HATED my classmates and never once understood the school prom, despite the fact you meant it as sarcasm, the school prom really is just getting people together that were only forced to interact with each other for lessons.
As for making friends at work, I can't really say because my job doesn't really have "co-workers" in the traditional sense, I think it would be safe to say that I would probably hate my co-workers if I had any though.
I'm probably not a sociopath though because deep down I'm pretty sure everyone else also hates their co-workers. They're just better at hiding it.
No, I'm pretty sure you're just a sociopath. I have never hated any of my co-workers. I'm still friends with a lot of them.
Friends you make at work are like your family. You don't get to choose one way or the other. You're just simply forced to adapt to a situation that is thrust upon you. That's what an office party is.
That I have already gone to such lengths to explain such a simple concept is actually even more strange to me.
i liked it.
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f**k, I love this comic.
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