Great comic. Too bad they don't really exist. They'd never be short of supplies for their charities, people couldn't hoard things they don't need, and you'd have an excuse to redecorate! "Honey, we need a new couch. The SASF stopped by today."

In some cultures, babies suck on the father's nipples, too (I guess it's like a pacifier). So this isn't all that weird; our disgust is probably just a cultural thing.

However, I am concerned that the woman didn't seem to understand basic biology. You're not going to get instant milk from a breast that hasn't produced any in many years!

@Dave

Yeah! What a great untapped market for anti-depressants. You know, with all the dying babies and whatnot, I'm sure there's a lot of depression. While we're at it, let's bring them some meds for blood pressure, arthritis, diabetes, insomnia... If they didn't have those problems before, they'll have them after meeting our "civilized" world. Along with all the other pathogens that they don't have any immunity for. But hey, we can pump them full of vaccines to deal with those!

That kind of condescending attitude ("our way is the BEST way and the ONLY way for these uncivilized natives") worked great in Africa, Asia, and the Americas... didn't it? Even if their mortality rates are as high as you claim, so what? It's all they know, and it probably isn't a big deal to them; it's just a part of life. Until, that is, you get some Western doctors in there, telling them that everyone should live into their 80s and babies should never die. Then they really will need some anti-depressants every time some member of the tribe dies "prematurely".

There is one advantage to being vegetarian. You don’t have to resort to questionable meat products as a protein source (I’m sure a can of beans is comparable in price to a can of Spam).

"Stabilize" probably isn't the most accurate word. The story's from Taiwan, so something may have gotten lost in translation. I can still understand it, though. If you saw a guy lying in a freezer with a dead body, you'd probably be freaked out for a while.

I have the same complaint about the American version of the show: too many crowd shots. Unless it's "The Audience's Got Talent", then show the frickin' stage!

A dead dear? Who was it? His mother? Oh, deer.

I think part of the problem here is the wording. Perhaps these people have obsessive compulsive tendencies. But that's a far cry from obsessive compulsive disorder. The fact that they have been able to work in their chosen fields well enough and long enough to become famous suggests that they are not completely debilitated by the condition.

Too bad more disputes couldn't be settled in this way. Not enough profits to be made, I guess.

Maybe it's nature's way of keeping things at 50/50. As Retrokatze said, some cultures get rid of their girls. So it may be that there will be pockets of higher girl to boy ratios popping up here and there to offset that.

Although, what the mechanism behind that would be is anyone's guess.

70% for me, but I had to guess based on the pictures. I've never eaten most of those items!

Doesn't a free gun with the purchase of a car seem a bit like it's (subconsciously) promoting road rage?

"Maybe at $6 or $7 a gallon, it becomes less attractive to go to work."

Attractive or not, it still has to be done. What's worse... spending more net income on gasoline or not making any net income at all?

Someone needs to invent a molecular transporter, and quick!

I don't like other people's hair, either. If it's on their head, fine. But when you find a hair just sitting on something (or in your food)... well, that's just icky!

This would be useful... if I could find a watermelon with seeds! I've been looking, but haven't been able to find one; they're all seedless now.