Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCT 24-28 January, 2011
pwhodges:
All the Doctors - starting with:
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: Akima on 26 Jan 2011, 15:50 ---
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 26 Jan 2011, 06:29 ---Nothing personal, Mr. Moderator sir, but FTFY (Americans call them that; "flats" are a type of women's shoes).
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So? Mr. Hodges is English (or at least lives in Oxford), and was not putting the word "flat" in the mouth of an American person or character, so why should he use anything but his native dialect of our mostly shared language? Are you going to start nitpicking my Australian English next*? Should I start using USAnian spelling conventions, for example, to avoid pricking your precious bubble of cultural uniformity? :-D
*In Australia we refer to "flats" as "units", and either is way shorter than "apartments". Short words have been preferred to polysyllables by users of English far more skilled than I, such as Abraham Lincoln, George Orwell, and Winston Churchill. :angel:
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Hey now! ;) Just remember: the USA, the UK and Australia are three nations divided by a common language. :lol:
Faye would refer to the place as an apartment, so that's where the FTFY came from. Either that or "place".
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Murphoid on 26 Jan 2011, 14:33 ---Dora is all messed up about the breakup too. I seem to remember she promised to seek help. I wonder if there is a moment in her past like the moment in Fae's past that caused her to be like she is.
Dora's brother is a sex addict of some kind and Dora seems to gravitate toward abusive relationships. Perhaps they have a shared trauma?
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This is a fascinating thought. I'm not convinced that Dora's problems can be accounted for without worse things in her past than we've seen.
Raoulleferre makes a case that their parents were neglectful.
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 26 Jan 2011, 17:39 ---<snip>
Raoulleferre makes a case that their parents were neglectful.
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Let's see: Dad spent his earlier years as a freelance photographer for National Geographic, which means he traveled all over the world; Mom seemed to be pretty free-wheeling (lighting up and fantasizing about Marten in front of Dora!). I'd suspect that they were like some of the parents in John Hughes movies - completely clueless, focused mostly on themselves, and pretty much expecting the school system to teach their children a sense of right and wrong.
Maybe that's not out-and-out child neglect, but it's damnably close.
Of course, we don't know when the Bianchis moved to Florida (as Dora mentioned in 442). Maybe they left in the middle of her HS years, when the "fake friends" were frequent?
cesariojpn:
--- Quote from: Akima on 26 Jan 2011, 00:54 ---And she has an unposted drafts folder too eh? Very sensible. There's nothing wrong with a good cathartic rant. Offline. In a text-editor with no "send" or "post" button.
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That reminds me.....Did Pintsize ever have access to Dora's Computer?
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