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WCDT: 13-17 Dec 2010 (1816-20)

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Laminator_X:

--- Quote from: GeoffTheLlama on 15 Dec 2010, 11:59 ---Can we please stop with the whole 'let's demonize overly-abusive Faye' thing now?  Please?

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I'm usually not bothered by her shenanigans. They're like Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown or Wile E Cyote getting hit by an anvil. If the perspective had followed Angus when she threw him clear across the bar, I'd fully have expected to see him with his tongue hanging out and little canaries circling his head rather than crumpled in a pile of broken bones and crying for an ambulance. That's fine, it's a comic.

Something about the seriousness of this situation though, kept it from feeling like cartoon bonks to me.  It seemed like violence.


--- Quote ---Oh, my comment was directed at Laminator X*.  Pretty sure we're in agreement here.

*EDIT TO FIX NAME BECAUSE I FAIL

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I appreciate the effort.  My real name is even longer.  :-)

The Pole:
Don't you dare speak ill of precious Hanners. That being said I'm also sorry for fouling your forums with my newbish ways but I must say Martin is imploding between the bourbon and the snide/jerky/assholeish remarks in a way I wish I hadn't seen. Those of you who think he's at the bottom, the lowest of the low, may be holding onto hope. I can see it getting much worse as you can see a hand still up, so therefore he is still conscious. Either way I'm seeing a serious injury, alcohol poisoning/ concussion(from the fall not so much the punch) or a completely different Martin if hes still conscious and stands up for more.  :psyduck: just stay down Martin, stay down  :psyduck:

Heliphyneau:

--- Quote from: Dr. ROFLPWN on 15 Dec 2010, 06:52 ---Okay, I...I will tell you, as a man who used to drink very regularly, alcohol does not "free" you from jack shit. It lowers your inhibitions, yes, but at the same time it poisons the emotional and logical centers of your brain in equal measure. Every time I gave tried to say something true while drunk, it was warped by the fact that I was fucking drunk. And woe betide me if I was upset about anything or worried about anything, because that was amplified up to the proverbial Eleven.

Drunk words are the sober thoughts of one's, as Akima put it, selfish inner two-year-old for whom everything is me, me, me. Alcohol is not a fucking mind freedom device, it is a brain poison. Faye is talking to a man with a poisoned brain.

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Well phrased.  Alcohol is not truth serum, it's hyperbole juice.

Hopefully Pintsize really is in the freezer, because if he's up to any shenanigans, he'll be in worse shape than Marten by morning.

xerada:
Hm, now I've had time to think about the comic (and having read some of the great comments), it occurred to me that a lot of QC characters seem to share a world view where a (hetero) girl/boy friendship is always about getting in each other's pants.

Faye expresses this, after the talk.
Dora expressed this, more than once, about Marten and Faye, before she got together with Marten and afterwards. (Especially with her it always seemed to be about this)

And now Marten, too? (Yes, I know, drunken logic and all. But there has to be SOME reason why he blurted this out.)

Man, and all this Marten Drama reminds me of how Faye used to drink too much. Her complaints were essentially the same: I get fixed up and try and everything and the only ones benefiting from it are Marten and Dora!

Hi-chew:
Okay, this doesn't exactly fit in with the context of the current discussion, but I'm surprised at the accuracy in Faye's Muay Thai stance. Her hips are forward, her spine is back and just a bit curved, and her hands are in exactly the right position for an enemy who is farther away. The only difference(and it's also possible that the school where I learned is just a bit different) is that her elbows are out a bit too wide- usually we keep our elbows in close to protect our ribs from rib shots, and we keep our hands close to protect the head from head shots. I guess it's not exactly important when your opponent's a drunk indie-rock boy who's knocked out on the floor, though.

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