Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT: 2031-2035 (10-14 October 2011)
Is it cold in here?:
It is a comic, but it's also a work of fiction, an invitation to suspend disbelief and treat the characters as real for the sake of enjoying the story.
Your other point, that the enjoyment isn't showing up much, is well taken.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 14 Oct 2011, 12:22 ---I was gonna say, "dipping it in the inkwell", but even I'm not that old. Right, pwhodges? celticgeek? Anybody...?
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I was taught from 1955 to 1959 using a dip pen with relief nibs like these:
Only blue-black permanent ink - none of this washable royal blue rubbish. We had little china inkwells that fitted into a socket on the desk.
stoutfiles:
--- Quote from: wrwight on 14 Oct 2011, 06:45 ---
--- Quote from: stoutfiles on 14 Oct 2011, 05:26 ---By the way, I don't know what you're even saying here about 'friends' and 'people' because of "generalised". I also don't know what 'self-defence' is. These are not legitimate words so your statements make no sense. These are the words you chose to convey your meaning, and for which you are responsible. Do you see how annoying/demeaning this is? Please don't do that.
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Please tell me that you know those are real words, and yes, real English words. They aren't spelled the same as we spell them in America, but they are in fact real words which fit the meaning of Akima's context as I understand it quite well.
I've been trying to stay out of this debate, and I'm hoping perhaps I just misunderstood, but if that's to be taken the way it appears, then that's one of the most ignorant arguments I've seen. You don't seem like an ignorant person, so again, I'm hoping that I misunderstood, and asking for clarification, continuing to give you the benefit of the doubt until I have confirmation one way or the other.
Since I jumped in though, physical contact is not always a bad thing, and our definitions of pain might be different. I would imagine what Marten felt was more surprise than pain. I mean yes, he felt the hand hit the back of his head, but I doubt there was any pain. Then again I believe that things like that are very open to the "victim's" perception.
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No, I haven't seen the words spelled like that in so long I just thought they were typos. My bad there. Anyways, the point I was trying to make was that jumping on little things for the sake of argument to derail a conversation is demeaning/annoying. However, I'm not allowed to talk about that anymore per the mods rules.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: idontunderstand on 14 Oct 2011, 12:23 ---I'm not saying stuff can't be discussed in a serious way but at least realize that a joke is a joke is a joke. Not something to insult strangers over the internet over.
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There is nothing to prevent you or anyone ignoring any angsty parts of the discussion and talking about the things you enjoy instead; indeed, this might help to preserve balance.
Kugai:
Gendo Dale will now have to restratigise.
Dwww, ain't that cute - MariBear is actually maturing. Hanners, you've a lot to answer for!! :-D ;)
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