Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 25-29 Apr 2011 (1911-1915)
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 28 Apr 2011, 00:40 ---I'm confused. The dialog says they're in front of Dora's new place...but what's Tai doing just wandering around Amherst?
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Hmm. I interpreted the dialogue saying that they just got all of Dora's stuff out of Sven's place. Apparently there's a loaded truck/van/uhaul-trailer/whatever just next to them. After all, if this isn't Sven's place, why would Tai have gone in to pick up anything?!! Conclusion: This isn't Amherst.
Well. If we accept that bit, then the couch was on its way out in the previous strip, leaving us with a minor logical gap?? Wait! I got it. The sofa was at Sven's basement, and they were hauling it up the stairs to the ground floor.
So Tai can tag along and give a hand at the Amherst end of the move (provided that she can help carry anything other than plush toys). Wonder what's Tai's fixation in wanting to help Dora move.
Edit: Scratch all of the above. I did not notice Tai entering a truck as opposed to a hallway, where they might have piled Dora's stuff temporarily waiting for the truck. So the mystery of Tai wandering around Amherst remains.
Odin:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 27 Apr 2011, 12:25 ---Something being common makes it normal...but not necessarily correct.
Modifier: Also, what bothers me about the "states rights" argument is that they make the argument that states rights not only trump the right of the federal government to make national laws, but also the right of individuals to not be owned by someone else.
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The "States Rights" argument is pure shit, given The Confederate Cornerstone Speech given by Alexander H. Stephens. Especially these tidbits:
--- Quote ---But not to be tedious in enumerating the numerous changes for the better, allow me to allude to one other though last, not least. The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the "rock upon which the old Union would split." He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with, but the general opinion of the men of that day was that, somehow or other in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This idea, though not incorporated in the constitution, was the prevailing idea at that time. The constitution, it is true, secured every essential guarantee to the institution while it should last, and hence no argument can be justly urged against the constitutional guarantees thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the government built upon it fell when the "storm came and the wind blew."
Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
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Anyway, this is silly:
--- Quote from: John_Knee on 27 Apr 2011, 12:40 ---Statistically, a person is more likely to be hetrosexual rather than homosexuality. Are you implying that because homosexuality is not the most common type of sexuality that people who are gay are abnormal and acting wrongly?
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Two points:
1) You're starting from a flawed premise, because human sexuality is not a binary position and actually exists on a sliding scale (going from Heterosexual -> Bisexual -> Homosexual; with most people being somewhere between the three points and there being very few hardline heterosexual or homosexual people, not to mention the phenomena of people who are sexuality-phobes usually turning out to be in denial about their own sexuality--the vast majority of people are actually some degree of bisexual with Hetero/Homosexuals being the outliers).
2) Are you being deliberately obtuse and equating beliefs about human sexuality with racist beliefs?
--- Quote ---People giving themselves a verbal peptalk is common enough that other people don't immediately assume they are suffering from schizofenia (spelling?) and locked up under the mental health act for doing so. Since the idea of people giving themsleves a verbial peptalk is something that psychologists sometimes advise their patients to do, we'll assume that in their professional expert opinion is that talking to oneself can be an acceptably correct and normal behaviour.
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Psychologists are not Psychiatrists (the former tends to be a researcher, with very small pools of direct patient contact for when they're not working on a specific research subject, not to mention usually a whole hell of a lot more expensive to get appointments with), but even granting that you're going to have to provide a bit more evidence since I've always heard and read that it was an intermediate step in therapy prior to moving on to internalizing those actions and making them require far less conscious effort.
--- Quote ---In terms of your extreme example, since I am not american and therefore not fully knowledgable on the finer points of the American Civil War then I cannot answer the question. I am assuming on the basis of the tone of the question that the answer you seek is "yes".
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Given the presence of the word "not" in the question I asked, you may want to re-read the post you quoted and think about it a bit. The way I worded the question doesn't exactly allow for a simple "Yes or No" response without a follow-up explanation.
--- Quote from: Antario on 28 Apr 2011, 03:02 ---oh...and somebody explain this shirt to me, im not familiar with the reference
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The shirt Jeph posted at the bottom of the comic or the shirt Sven is wearing that everyone is talking about?
If it's the first one, it isn't exactly "new" since Hot Topic used to have one back when End of Evangelion was released and it has been on various Cafepress t-shirt stores over the years (though usually with a different background, like the words imposed over fanart of Asuka beating the shit out of Shinji or something), if it's about Sven's shirt, I have no idea other than it being a continuation of everyone in the comic wearing "hipster" shirts.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: WaffleIron on 28 Apr 2011, 02:19 ---Who can figure out what the box had written on it?
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I happened to see as Jeph was drawing it; the crossed out word is DILDOS. I took it to be a modified reference to the "Party Favors" box here.
SJCrew:
--- Quote from: Antario on 28 Apr 2011, 03:02 ---oh...and somebody explain this shirt to me, im not familiar with the reference
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The main character of Neon Genesis Evangelion is a whiny, spineless teenager with daddy issues named Shinji. His internal conflict tends to get in the way of him piloting his giant robot and saving the world. The T-shirt is in reference to the mass of frustration fans and non-fans alike have experienced in watching the show and having to put up with his shit while a much more interesting conflict around him unfolds.
Antario:
--- Quote from: SJCrew on 28 Apr 2011, 03:56 ---
--- Quote from: Antario on 28 Apr 2011, 03:02 ---oh...and somebody explain this shirt to me, im not familiar with the reference
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The main character of Neon Genesis Evangelion is a whiny, spineless teenager with daddy issues named Shinji. His internal conflict tends to get in the way of him piloting his giant robot and saving the world. The T-shirt is in reference to the mass of frustration fans and non-fans alike have experienced in watching the show and having to put up with his shit while a much more interesting conflict around him unfolds.
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hm, il go check that one out see if i like it :P
but for now its F5'ing for naruto for the next half hour.....
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