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WCDT 25-29 Apr 2011 (1911-1915)
TheEvilDog:
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--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 27 Apr 2011, 10:17 ---...wait, whose couch is that?
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I was wondering that myself.
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I can't tell you who actually owns the couch, but ask yourself, "Who is in the process of moving?" and maybe you'll come up with a plausable hypothysis.
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Except when Dora and Marten moved in together, they did something with her old couch, we don't know what. Seeing as how Marten and Faye have their own couch, I doubt they would have moved Dora's one into the apartment. So, it probably wasn't amongst the things that Sven collected after the break up and moved into his apartment. So, either Dora put her furniture into storage (which would have been a subconscious idea that the relationship wouldn't have worked) or she sold her stuff.
Tergon:
I think the confusion here is that people have assumed that Dora sold her couch when she moved in with Marten and Faye, yes? Since we know that she obviously had a couch in her old place before moving in with them. Well, we know that she rents storage to keep her car in, so maybe the couch and a few other items of furniture wound up there. Or, maybe she simply bought a new couch. Who knows? But it's not like couches are hard things to come by, really. And since they're moving Dora into her new apartment, and that couch is clearly being lifted up the stairs and thus being installed rather than removed, it's fairly simple to twig who the couch's owner is.
...it's Dora. Dora owns that couch.
Edit: Ninja'd by TheEvilDog! But yeah, it's pretty straightforward if you think about it.
DSL:
Well, Near Lurker, *I* thought it was funny.
John_Knee:
For me it is pretty clear that the couch is being moved upwards and not down - otherwise the position of the corner wouldn't be relevant as they would have passed it and been on the straight if they were going down.
For me, I always find it easier being the person on the lower step like Dora. The advantage is that you can often rest the coach (or whatever) on your trouser's belt as an extra "support" (a technique often used in The World's Strongest Man events). If you are going fowards rather than the backwards way that Dora is using, you can often partly rest the couch on your front leg that is on the next step up and conserve your energy. Being lower, you use your legs to lift but then lean over and use your body weight to move the couch forward. The person at the top while travelling backwards has to make sure the couch isn't moved forward too quickly or they will run out of room to raise their first leg onto the next step and at risk of falling over backwards. The people at the top often seem to hold the couch lower down their body in relation to the person at the bottom which means they can't utilise their leg muscles as effectively.
What they should be doing to get around the corner is for Sven and Faye to start to lift the top part of the couch to be vertical so that Dora positions the bottom part of the couch on the landing step. Once the couch is sitting there vertical, you then tip the couch sideways so that it is leaning towards the second part of the stairs....
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Odin on 27 Apr 2011, 11:00 ---Simple nervousness doesn't usually result in talking to yourself out loud (panels 1-4) as you try to psyche yourself up to do something (as opposed to, say, thought bubbles).
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But not infrequently it does. Why do persist in denying what happens not to be part of your own experience?
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