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Akima:

--- Quote from: Black Sword on 28 Sep 2011, 12:24 ---It'd be troubling if you suddenly were not confrontational.
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Why thank you!


--- Quote ---If your automatic reaction to a choice of words is to put it through a filter about whether or not it's "offensive" rather than "descriptive" or "evocative," you really need to turn off the Politically Correct Decision Matrix.
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My reaction to writers' choices of words is: "what meaning, emotional tone etc. did they intend to convey?". My reaction to "tentacle" when used as a metaphor for influence is: "this writer regards the influence as malign". The dictionaries I consulted to check my initial reaction back me up on this. Every one, in supplying examples of this kind of use of "tentacle", offered such usages as "the tentacles of organized crime", "the tentacles of corruption", etc. The Oxford American goes so far as to give: "An insidious* spread of influence and control: the Party's tentacles reached into every nook and cranny of people's lives." People are entitled to their opinions, and entitled to express them, but also wholly responsible for what they say, and how they say it. Playing the "political correctness" card is a cop-out.

*My emphasis.

Tova:

--- Quote from: TinPenguin on 28 Sep 2011, 16:58 ---Equally, though, you don't overcome your fear of falling of the bike by trying to jump on it as it's about to board a plane to the other side of the country.

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Interesting mixed metaphor. :)

I don't think he's going to break his neck or anything like that. Maybe her reaction will be "oh, sorry, I don't feel that way" and that will at least bring some closure. And maybe he won't be so scared to talk a bit earlier next time. On the other hand, he might be surprised by her reaction. Discovering that she's fond of him after all could lead to a variety of scenarios, but I see all of them as being an improvement over sitting and crying in your beer.

Is it cold in here?:
Martenmom pointed out that he's "built a nice little life" in MA surrounded by people who care about him: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1836. He had said, if memory serves, that there wasn't much holding him in California.

ecstaticjoy:
Dude, did Elliot really expect her to puts the moves on him first?
If she was ever into him in the first place she def stopped being into his pansy ass when he sat back and waited for her to read his mind.

LeeC:
If Elliot can sing he should be in the band?

edit: gasp! what about Sven? He rights songs perhaps he could sing?

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