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by Erika Moen on July 14, 2009 at 12:01 am
Posted In: comic

└ Tags: helmet, hurt, injury, neck, old people

Discussion (26) ¬

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  1. Matt Bernier
    Matt Bernier
    July 14, 2009 at 12:13 am | #

    I love how you’re sort of mooing the “Bawwwwwww” at him.

  2. Minivet
    Minivet
    July 14, 2009 at 12:27 am | #

    I totally have no idea what actually happened to your neck based on the comic. Did you catch skin between the buckle?

  3. stokerbramwell
    stokerbramwell
    July 14, 2009 at 12:28 am | #

    *snerk* Oh, that last panel…I feel like I’m going to hell for snickering. XD

  4. Erika Moen
    Erika Moen
    July 14, 2009 at 12:30 am | #

    Minivet, I jerked my head at a tiny bizarre angle that… strained? pulled? twisted? my neck muscles in the most excruciating way imaginable.

    Because I’m just that awesome.

  5. Atcote
    Atcote
    July 14, 2009 at 12:38 am | #

    That was the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time – mostly because I do the same thing with my girlfriend’s riding helmets.
    Yes, it’s even more embarressing if you’re a man and it happens… Plus I’m pretty sure the horse laughed at me.

  6. Anthony
    Anthony
    July 14, 2009 at 5:28 am | #

    I hate it when that happens!

  7. DCM
    DCM
    July 14, 2009 at 7:32 am | #

    I’m incredibly depressed that I won’t be able to afford the poster until the 20th. ;.;

  8. radishey
    radishey
    July 14, 2009 at 8:13 am | #

    Ahahaha. I caught the skin on my neck in the fastening when I was six, and was terrified of bike helmets for the next four years… xD

  9. Sammy
    Sammy
    July 14, 2009 at 8:14 am | #

    Something similar happened to me, the result of very poor ergonomics over several years. I don’t know how you carry yourself when you work, but if you’re like most of us you are causing incredible strain and pressure on your neck/spine and this definitely will happen again. (My neck is an S curve instead of a C curve, maybe yours is too!)

  10. Pete
    Pete
    July 14, 2009 at 1:54 pm | #

    Just letting you know that you are not the only person capable of hurting themselves on Safety Equipment. Two of the worst bruises I’ve had in years were from the Safety Guards on a couple of pieces of Bakery Equipment at Work. It was embarrassing.

  11. Erouse
    Erouse
    July 14, 2009 at 2:02 pm | #

    Ouch. looks like it hurt!

    I understand your pain, I have done similar things to my neck. It’s soooo sensitive to just the wrong movement!

  12. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    July 16, 2009 at 8:45 pm | #

    Aww, poor baby! Just wait until you’re 50 and survived a few wrecks and people trying to kill you for riding your bike and then tell me how you feel… Damn, I wish I lived in Portland.

  13. Chistery
    Chistery
    July 17, 2009 at 2:51 pm | #

    If it makes you feel any better, I managed to break a rib with a teeny cough this semester — just in time for my final!

    I dragged my way to class, in excruciating pain. So surely you are not as full of failure as I! :D

  14. aeridus
    aeridus
    July 17, 2009 at 11:05 pm | #

    Damn, the poster is sold out. :-( I gave up checking the store after a while because I wasn’t sure when it would be available. Will more be printed soon? <3

  15. aeridus
    aeridus
    July 17, 2009 at 11:07 pm | #

    I suppose I could get the small one for now…

  16. Crab
    Crab
    July 18, 2009 at 9:32 am | #

    argh. I know. I used to catch my chin in the buckle all the time :(

  17. Almost Literally
    Almost Literally
    July 19, 2009 at 6:40 am | #

    Ughggughgughg, I know the feeling. I HATE getting a crick in my neck.

  18. Jill
    Jill
    August 19, 2009 at 2:26 am | #

    You think that’s dumb? I fucked up my neck like that a couple years ago reaching up and backwards for something while lying in bed (thank god that something wasn’t a vibrator otherwise i’d really feel like I’d failed as a human)

  19. Rat Skull
    Rat Skull
    November 2, 2009 at 6:00 pm | #

    Haha, this happens to me alot when I’m dancing around, then I’m kind of like
    “Lala Heeeee hee hee-huuuuuuh mmmm owwwww…huh haaah huh huh”
    And then I roll and bend in slow motion kinda like that lady in the Life Alert commercials. My pain sounds alot like an orgasm.

  20. goom
    goom
    November 16, 2009 at 1:50 am | #

    funny, but what’s with the tags on this one, though?

  21. Quarkenzyme
    Quarkenzyme
    January 3, 2010 at 5:12 pm | #

    your expressions in this particular strip remind me of the artwork of charles schulz

  22. tahrey
    tahrey
    February 14, 2010 at 7:42 pm | #

    owwwwwwwww

    sympathies – my “favourite” (hm.) pastime is putting my shoulder out trying to struggle a high-vis vest over a motorbike jacket… why they can’t come built-in is a mystery.

  23. Crisjin
    Crisjin
    March 17, 2010 at 11:06 pm | #

    Great line at the end, lol

  24. Jenny Creed
    Jenny Creed
    June 14, 2010 at 5:56 am | #

    I like the sound effect. An onomatopoetic “torque” eh?

  25. Eli
    Eli
    August 1, 2010 at 10:39 pm | #

    xDDDD Erika, you’re so funny, you have a great sense of humor, that’s why people read you!

  26. Some new reader
    Some new reader
    October 7, 2010 at 8:18 pm | #

    This is why you should never wear a helmet.

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