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WCDT: 2031-2035 (10-14 October 2011)
pwhodges:
And if Padma had said "I knew Elliott was pining for someone, but I never guessed it was me so I kept my feelings to myself - now I can tell him how I feel as well!", would everyone still be saying what a bad thing Marten did? He gave advice; it could have worked out, but it didn't. Sometimes things roll that way.
gangler:
You can rely on the kindness of strangers, but you can't rely on their competence. Certainly you can't expect strangers to be functionally oracles. Marten gave some advice to a guy who looked like he needed it. Elliot rolled the dice and got snake eyes. Not that big a deal.
Throg:
Oh for fuck's sake, snubnose. Asian, hispanic, black -- it's flat-out LAME to confess to someone who's leaving the area 'by the way, I've been in love with you for years. Just wanted to get that off my chest. No, it's okay if you don't love me back. Bye."
Cuz that leaves the woman with NO CLUE about how to respond. Hell, Padma's showing that's she basically a nice person by feeling guilty. A woman would be perfectly justified in being completely creeped out: who knows what mental constructions a guy has in that situation? Everything from simple unrequited longing (the nice end of the spectrum) to mentall living in an imaginary full-on relationship (somewhat creepy/unbalanced) to fantasizing about your co-worker week after week (creepy).
Monkey Says Yes:
Marten did the right thing. She's moving, man! Elliot did a ballsy thing, and maybe next time he meets someone that's awesome, he'll ask her out.
Also, Padma is freaking beautiful. Jeph, you sure do draw pretty girls, man. I salute you, sir!
Edit: I missed a comic yesterday? Hurrah, Sweet Tits!
vsonics:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 10 Oct 2011, 23:39 ---
--- Quote from: vsonics on 10 Oct 2011, 18:40 ---On my computer screen at least, our redhead has obviously blue eyes in this comic. Which leads me to believe that she might very well be someone else - in her colored appearance in 1901 Sweet-tit's eyes are green. Of course the bird care book strongly hints to a Yelling Bird reference, and looking over all of the sightings we have her, the eye color hasn't been consistent at all.
Blue:
2031
1858
1919
Green:
1863
Brown:
1184
Either we've got three Sweet-tits lookalikes and we're reading a little bit too much into this or her eyes change colors. Her hair hasn't been very constant either.
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Err ... thats why I dont think all these "appearances" are Sweettitts.
Also, brown ? The last comic is simply from much too far distance to still see the color of the iris.
Finally, people can have either blue or green eyes, depending upon the light. Thats actually very common.
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You would THINK that you can't tell the color of her eyes in the last one - and, in fact, there is one appearance where the person in question is too far away and the only color in her eyes is grey, which I didn't include - but if you zoom in a great deal and use the eye dropper tool you will find that there are at least two distinct pixels that have different shades of brown in her eyes.
Of course doing that would be creepy and obsessive, so I don't know why you would.
As far as today's comic goes, I still think that being honest about his feelings for Padma was the right thing for Elliot to do. Of course the way he went about it was clearly all wrong - doing it over the phone is bad enough, but then bailing on work the next day? He could have handled the situation much better. Or, you know, a year ago. Hopefully he still has time to pull himself together and patch it all up before she moves.
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