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WCDT 25-29 Apr 2011 (1911-1915)
akronnick:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 27 Apr 2011, 11:45 ---
--- Quote from: akronnick on 27 Apr 2011, 11:25 ---Dora's couch at Marten's Apartment.
The brown one on the left.
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So it's Dora's couch. That doesn't answer the question of where they are, which would answer the question of up or down. Unless I'm missing something.
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I wasn't addressing the question of up or down, merely the disposition of the couch during the period when Dora lived with Marten.
The location of the stairwell in today's comic, and thus the direction of the couch, remains unclear, unless someone can produce a link that can establish the location of the stairwell in question.
Odin:
--- Quote from: John_Knee on 27 Apr 2011, 11:51 ---Actually, the time line is a lot more simple than that thanks to this http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1907 comic which is on the same day as today's comic. In it Martin comments that "it's been weeks, we've both had plenty of time to chill out". The only thing it can possibly refer to is the breakup night when they last saw each other. For me, "weeks" would be 2-3 weeks (as 4 weeks would probably be referred to as a month).
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Jeph seems to be being intentionally vague on this point, but it has been more than 2-3 weeks because people have changed hair styles (longer hair) and Marten has been going to the Secret Bakery for a few weeks already (pretty sure Hannelore commented on this).
--- Quote ---Interestingly this helps disproves Odin's previous arguments that Martin should stop being a whiney little bitch for not being over Dora on the basis that it has been months since the breakup - I'm paraphrasing Odin's argument as to whether it would be acceptable for Tai to make a move on Dora post break up. We still don't know how long they were together - probably 6 months or more, but not a year - but we know the breakup was "weeks" ago. The question is whether or not 2-3 weeks is plenty of time for someone to get over a relationship that both parties were taking seriously but split up spectacularly rather than die a natural death.
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In one of the previous arguments about this I also said that Marten should be farther along getting over it because there have been plenty of clues along the way that Dora was going to break up with him if he ever grew a spine and stood up to her, with that easy stipulation that this doesn't really apply if Marten is literally that inexperienced in the dating/relationship world and Dora was literally his third "serious" attempt at a relationship (after the two failures we know about with the ex he moved across the country for and the non-starter with Faye).
John_Knee:
--- Quote from: Odin on 27 Apr 2011, 11:30 ---
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 27 Apr 2011, 11:18 ---But not infrequently it does. Why do persist in denying what happens not to be part of your own experience?
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I'm sane? If there is nobody around to hear me and I'm not specifically talking to someone, I don't say anything out loud (unless I've stubbed my toe in the dark or something, and then it's just a stream of fucks and damnits).
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It is quite a common exercise that people without confidence are sometimes advised to do is to look in the mirror and say out loud lines such as "I am strong, I am capable and I can X" where X is whatever task is that the person has to do that day. I've known people who have counted down vocally with the intention of acting once they hit zero if they are nervous about what they have to do.
People giving themselves an audiable peptalk before doing something is surprisingly common.
John_Knee:
--- Quote from: Odin on 27 Apr 2011, 12:01 ---
--- Quote from: John_Knee on 27 Apr 2011, 11:51 ---Actually, the time line is a lot more simple than that thanks to this http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1907 comic which is on the same day as today's comic. In it Martin comments that "it's been weeks, we've both had plenty of time to chill out". The only thing it can possibly refer to is the breakup night when they last saw each other. For me, "weeks" would be 2-3 weeks (as 4 weeks would probably be referred to as a month).
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Jeph seems to be being intentionally vague on this point, but it has been more than 2-3 weeks because people have changed hair styles (longer hair) and Marten has been going to the Secret Bakery for a few weeks already (pretty sure Hannelore commented on this).
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So although Martin comments it has been weeks, and Hannelore might have commented that Martin has been going to the Secret Bakery for weeks (something Martin only going to days at most post break up) then clearly what both meant to say was "months" and not "weeks" which was a typo on Jeph's part.
And flicking back through the achives from the most recent one backwards, I'd say quite a few characters appear to have recently had haircuts - whose hiar do you think has got significantly longer that would suggest months?
Odin:
^^^Faye is the one whose hair got longer, then got cut. There was a thread about it and everything.
--- Quote from: John_Knee on 27 Apr 2011, 12:02 ---It is quite a common exercise that people without confidence are sometimes advised to do is to look in the mirror and say out loud lines such as "I am strong, I am capable and I can X" where X is whatever task is that the person has to do that day. I've known people who have counted down vocally with the intention of acting once they hit zero if they are nervous about what they have to do.
People giving themselves an audiable peptalk before doing something is surprisingly common.
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So something being common means it should be considered correct/normal? Here is a more extreme example: Should the 52% of Americans that believe the Civil War was not entirely due to the racist Confederacy's stance on Slavery (completely ignoring obvious evidence to the contrary like the Cornerstone Speech the VP of the Confederate States gave) not be derided for their stupidity?
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