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WCDT 25-29 Apr 2011 (1911-1915)
The Duke:
It seems to me that even if just one person is going to be lower than the others on the stairs, that person being Dora is not the most efficient way to operate. Based solely on appearances, I would say that Sven and Faye are both likely to be stronger than her.
I guess there's no joke then, though.
LoveJaneAusten:
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There is this constant force called Gravity, see. You may have heard of it, and that is the force that will prevent this from happening if you are the putz on the heavy end of the couch trying to go up stairs.
Marten and Dora aren't currently fighting because they have had no contact since the breakup, which was a pretty rough and hostile one due to Dora's "Fuck you I don't have to take this, I'm out!" when Marten was getting sick of never standing up for himself in an argument.
If it's light enough for Dora to take the heavy end going up the stairs, it really isn't that bad.
The progression is outlined briefly on Helping Psychology.com on one of their pages talking about personality trait theory, this isn't really that extraordinary a claim to make.
Argumentum ad populum is almost always wrong, you should know this.
Why should I countenance reactions that I've observed as always leading to worsening a given situation as being good and valid reactions to a given situation?
Like, in this case, asking a friend to relay a message to an ex after a particularly nasty breakup where the friend doing the asking was also a bit of a drunken asshole to the person they're asking a favor of not long after the breakup. Is Faye not allowed to still be aggravated about it or (as I've interpreted how she acts around Marten in the comic) nowhere near as close a friend as she used to be after that? Is she not allowed to make that decision with regard to how she treats Marten?
That is irrelevant, since we were talking about whether or not it required actual intelligence to do and not perspective.
Chaos theory doesn't say that systems become completely unpredictable, just that we're very bad at tracking all of the required variables at the precision required for some chaotic systems (never mind that the shorthand Crichton used in certain popular novels was wrong, but don't get me started on that).
Granted, but it isn't all that difficult to figure out that there should be two people at the heavy end of the couch when you're coming up on a corner in a stairwell (so that they can support the weight while the person at the light end lifts their end of the couch higher so the required turning radius to get the couch around the corner gets smaller).
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--- Quote from: Odin on 27 Apr 2011, 11:30 ---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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The urge to disagree with you, even when you're right (though I make no claims about that at the moment), is very strong simply because your posting is so reminiscent of the kid on the debate team that even the other debating dorks avoid.
akronnick:
--- Quote from: tender on 27 Apr 2011, 16:04 ---A shame the strip documenting the couch's long-established proof of existence wasn't issued earlier in this stirring internet discussion!
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Sheeesh!!!
Next they'll be wanting to see the couch's long form birth certificate! :psyduck:
St.Clair:
Late to the thread, but regarding Marten's alleged "Nice Guy"-ness:
As was pointed out, Nice Guys are essentially selfish. This would require Marten to have a self, which by observation, he does not.
We've seen many examples, including a solid two weeks that actually (finally) made some people uncomfortable, of Marten either meekly submitting to anything asked of/done to him or making a brief effort to resist and then being browbeaten into submitting anyway.
It seems to me that "Veronica Vance" raised herself a fine doormat, intentionally or not.
Marten doesn't do things for women in hopes/expectation of getting something out of them. He does it just because he's conditioned to it.
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: J on 27 Apr 2011, 04:57 ---god i hate moving
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