Topic: WCDT: 2191-2195 (21-25 May 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread (Read 43969 times)

J · « **Reply #50 on:** 22 May 2012, 05:51 »

i've never understood what the shape of the container has to do with the specific beverage a person is supposed to drink it out of.

and horny is totally an emotion. it's one of the 6 Officially Sanctioned Male Emotions that it is socially acceptable to express. (hungry, angry, happy, sad, tired, & horney)

Quote from: Kugai on 22 May 2012, 00:45

I'm surprised that Sven hasn't exploded yet.

after months, he probably feels like he's walking around with a pair of armed grenades down his pants.

Soulsynger · « **Reply #51 on:** 22 May 2012, 06:05 »

Quote from: J on 22 May 2012, 05:51

and horny is totally an emotion. it's one of the 6 Officially Sanctioned Male Emotions that it is socially acceptable to express. (hungry, angry, happy, sad, tired, & horney)

References? What/which officials sanctioned something like that? I GOTS TO KNOW!

Penheart · « **Reply #52 on:** 22 May 2012, 06:45 »

Quote from: Border Reiver on 22 May 2012, 04:22

Drinkin' out of a mason jar isn't any different from drinkin' out of any glass mug in my experience any way.

Try drinking out of a juice box the experience will be both childlike grown up.

don't really see the whole controlling the conversation thing or maybe that was a joke and I just didn't get it.

Also I hope the apology won't go too long I've been feeling a strange development brewing for Marten.

Near Lurker · « **Reply #53 on:** 22 May 2012, 07:12 »

Quote from: J on 22 May 2012, 05:51

and horny is totally an emotion. it's one of the 6 Officially Sanctioned Male Emotions that it is socially acceptable to express. (hungry, angry, happy, sad, tired, & horney)

I'm pretty sure "sad" isn't on the list. In fact, it's kind of the canonical emotion not on the list.

And mason jars are really popular in PV restaurants for some reason...

JRDelirio · « **Reply #54 on:** 22 May 2012, 07:25 »

Quote from: Penheart on 22 May 2012, 06:45

don't really see the whole controlling the conversation thing or maybe that was a joke and I just didn't get it.

Dora starts to apologize, but then in the very same sentence -- when she justifies herself as to how it's concern over his "having meaningless sex with random women" -- she comes across as unable to resist an urge to judge.

Sorflakne · « **Reply #55 on:** 22 May 2012, 08:29 »

I have a mason jar wineglass. Yeah...a mason jar mounted on a stem and base...because I got style.

Redball · « **Reply #56 on:** 22 May 2012, 08:39 »

Quote from: Sorflakne on 22 May 2012, 08:29

I have a mason jar wineglass. Yeah...a mason jar mounted on a stem and base...because I got style.

Photo? I like style.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #57 on:** 22 May 2012, 09:55 »

What is a cracker barrel? A barrel of actual crackers? Something to do with cheese? A third option?

DSL · « **Reply #58 on:** 22 May 2012, 10:07 »

Quote from: Method of Madness on 22 May 2012, 09:55

What is a cracker barrel? A barrel of actual crackers? Something to do with cheese? A third option?

Originally, yes. More commonly nowadays, a (mostly) eastern-U.S. restaurant chain specializing in comfort food and country kitsch. Most menu items can be consumed in five minutes. Within five minutes of finishing, you are unable to remember what it tasted like.

Mr_Rose · « **Reply #59 on:** 22 May 2012, 10:21 »

Unable?
Or unwilling?

Barmymoo · « **Reply #60 on:** 22 May 2012, 10:41 »

I drink most of my alcohol out of a metal goblet shared by at least half a dozen other people.

Bachi-Atari · « **Reply #61 on:** 22 May 2012, 10:44 »

Quote from: Mr_Rose on 22 May 2012, 10:21

Unable?
Or unwilling?

Unable, unless it's the cheese then it's unwilling

that's some nasty cheese

Worst gift baskets ever too

DSL · « **Reply #62 on:** 22 May 2012, 11:01 »

Quote from: Mr_Rose on 22 May 2012, 10:21

Unable?
Or unwilling?

Unable. To my mind, it's neither good nor bad, just ... unmemorable. It's a fuel stop, not a dining place.

Redball · « **Reply #63 on:** 22 May 2012, 11:34 »

Quote from: Barmymoo on 22 May 2012, 10:41

I drink most of my alcohol out of a metal goblet shared by at least half a dozen other people.

That sounds like a religious experience.

Carl-E · « **Reply #64 on:** 22 May 2012, 11:41 »

...or a medieval one.

Blackjoker · « **Reply #65 on:** 22 May 2012, 12:14 »

I actually really like Svens expression in the last panel, as well as the somewhat morose comment about how how much further he has to go if horniness is not an emotion, and I actually wonder if it's an emotion or something closer to an urge...or perhaps a combination of the two.

iduguphergrave · « **Reply #66 on:** 22 May 2012, 12:37 »

I ate at cracker barrel once and mostly I remember that afterwards it was like there was a soft boulder in my stomach. It's so heavy

On the other hand, they have saltwater taffy.

Throg · « **Reply #67 on:** 22 May 2012, 13:13 »

five minutes?!

Cracker Barrel is an ode to flour and fat.

= = =

Post a pic of the mason jar wine goblet, Sorflakne!

Magdalena · « **Reply #68 on:** 22 May 2012, 13:51 »

Quote from: RyanW1019 on 20 May 2012, 21:36

I think the big thing that started Sven changing was Faye calling him out on a lot of his BS, which made him take another look at a lot of the feelings he'd been suppressing. Also, did the art change slightly? I feel like something changed for the better but I can't figure out what.

His glasses are round/oval-ish in these newer strips. His hair is draw differently making it look more rounded instead of rectangular) and his chin is pointy instead of very slightly squared at the tip. And his skin tone looks SLIGHTLY different, though that may be a case of lighting rather than actual coloration.

I like old Sven better. And yes I do have a crush on Sven. I noticed these things right away.

jwhouk · « **Reply #69 on:** 22 May 2012, 14:18 »

Now, y'all better not be dissin' the Cracker Barrel. Y'all don't want a bunch of angry lovers of the Uncle Herschel's Breakfast come charging after you with forks in one hand and home-made biscuits in the other...

DSL · « **Reply #70 on:** 22 May 2012, 15:26 »

We'll lose 'em in the chicken'n'dumplings patch.

celticgeek · « **Reply #71 on:** 22 May 2012, 15:33 »

Cracker Barrel serves perfect comfort food: Cholesterol surrounded by trans fat. And they have horehound drops.

Carl-E · « **Reply #72 on:** 22 May 2012, 18:16 »

I mostly stop into a Cracker Barrel when I'm on a long drive for a book on CD.

Which I promptly forget to return for three weeks...

which gets kinda expensive.

DSL · « **Reply #73 on:** 22 May 2012, 18:44 »

I liked 'em when I had to drive 50 miles to have lunch with my folks at one which was convenient to all of us.
Was happy when one opened a couple miles from where I lived.
Novelty wore off pretty quickly.

jwhouk · « **Reply #74 on:** 22 May 2012, 18:50 »

Truth.

Now that it's so freakin' far away, it's more special to go to one.

DSL · « **Reply #75 on:** 22 May 2012, 19:10 »

Now I go for the kitsch on the walls. There's one piece of 1920s advertising art that is so horrible it's good.

EDIT: Just had to share the photo.

Hawke · « **Reply #76 on:** 22 May 2012, 20:37 »

I wanted to say that I very much like Sven's pose in that last panel, where he's thinking. It's really well done - perspective is great, and the gesture/pose he has, with the finger curled in front of his mouth, is just so - well - perfect! It made me grin. It also made me realize how much your art has improved over just the last few months. The learning curve is beginning to look like a half-pipe

Re: Cracker Barrel. I have been there once. I have also eaten "real" country food in the sense of being served breakfast by a woman who grew up in a sharecropper's shack. Cracker Barrel isn't bad; but it's not real country food.

Note I am not saying not real comfort food. Just not authentically country to the area where I live at least (Deep South). Their biscuits are OK but that's about it. Everything else is just Shoney's in a country-kitsch package.

Well, okay, I take it back. I didn't get food poisoning at Cracker Barrel.

Blackjoker · « **Reply #77 on:** 22 May 2012, 20:51 »

I'm amused by the idea of a bianci going without sex causing an eldrich abomination to rise... Oddly that might explain Svens 'attempts' with Hannelore causing both HAnnelore and Dora to speak in the dark tongues of the elder ones.

SomeCanadianWeirdo · « **Reply #78 on:** 22 May 2012, 20:56 »

Now I want to see Dora's grandpa show up.

Tova · « **Reply #79 on:** 22 May 2012, 22:55 »

Well, maybe we want to see the Dark Lord Azathoth. Did you think of that? Does he drop anything good?

Near Lurker · « **Reply #80 on:** 22 May 2012, 23:10 »

I'm kind of wondering why she said "Dad," not "Mom and Dad"...

Carl-E · « **Reply #81 on:** 22 May 2012, 23:13 »

Those look like roughly quart jars. And he's getting them pretty full...

I think we'll be seeing little drunk bubbles soon!

Also, grampa reminded me of the right-hand end of this comic.

iduguphergrave · « **Reply #82 on:** 22 May 2012, 23:14 »

Quote from: Near Lurker on 22 May 2012, 23:10

I'm kind of wondering why she said "Dad," not "Mom and Dad"...

Because technically their dad is the Bianchi, not their mom.

Carl-E · « **Reply #83 on:** 22 May 2012, 23:15 »

Mom just married into the family...

Omega Entity · « **Reply #84 on:** 22 May 2012, 23:24 »

Quote from: Carl-E on 22 May 2012, 23:13

Those look like roughly quart jars. And he's getting them pretty full...

I think we'll be seeing little drunk bubbles soon!

Also, grampa reminded me of the right-hand end of this comic.

Nah, those look like pints to me. We do a -lot- of canning, and those look too small to be quarts to me.

Kugai · « **Reply #85 on:** 22 May 2012, 23:28 »

Well, that explains why there's a character named Raven in QC.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #86 on:** 22 May 2012, 23:51 »

I've never had a sister. Is that a normal brother-sister conversation?

Soulsynger · « **Reply #87 on:** 23 May 2012, 00:00 »

INB4 "Church of Azathoth" becoming a real thing.

Carl-E · « **Reply #88 on:** 23 May 2012, 00:03 »

Too late.

Akima · « **Reply #89 on:** 23 May 2012, 00:19 »

I don't understand why a well-off urbanite (Northampton MA calls itself a city anyway) would serve wine in Mason Jars. He isn't a backwoods hillbilly, and I doubt he's a keen fruit-bottler or jam-maker. Is this some sort of pretend-to-be-poor pose thing? If so, it is still weird. In Australia, 1 USPint (473ml) Mason Jars cost around A$35 for a dozen, while you can buy a dozen wine glasses at IKEA for around A$12, or a dozen 650ml tumblers for A$22. Perhaps it's beginning to make sense; it's like people who pay extra for brand new jeans or guitars that have been pre-distressed to look old and ratty.

I am beginning to sympathise with Penny.

snubnose · « **Reply #90 on:** 23 May 2012, 00:37 »

Sooo ... no more waffles ? Its all hatssss now ? Damn. They just dont taste at all !

Soulsynger · « **Reply #91 on:** 23 May 2012, 00:41 »

Quote from: Carl-E on 23 May 2012, 00:03

Too late.

Damn my youth and these cultural references.
Also this world where everything has been done already. (Mostly by the Simpsons. -.-)

Quote from: Akima on 23 May 2012, 00:19

I don't understand why a well-off urbanite (Northampton MA calls itself a city anyway) would serve wine in Mason Jars. He isn't a backwoods hillbilly, and I doubt he's a keen fruit-bottler or jam-maker. Is this some sort of pretend-to-be-poor pose thing? [ ... ]

I think its simply supposed to be "Indy". Or maybe he didn't do his dishes in a while.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #92 on:** 23 May 2012, 00:43 »

I liked Cracker Barrel when Camp Eed visited three years ago. There was a Christmas section. It was August. I bought a Dolly Parton album. It was wonderful.

I think this isn't an unusual sibling conversation, I talk about sex with my brother and he's only 18. In ten years we'll probably be even more casual about it.

Oh btw whoever commented on the shared-goblet thing, it is indeed a religious thing.

VonKleist · « **Reply #93 on:** 23 May 2012, 00:56 »

I like the mason-jar thing.

My family had a ton of empty mustard glasses to drink from

http://www.derheiko.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/cimg3827.jpg

Which is pretty commonplace in Germany.
Or at least was
In the 80´s
Oh dear.

TinPenguin · « **Reply #94 on:** 23 May 2012, 01:30 »

Quote from: Akima on 23 May 2012, 00:19

I don't understand why a well-off urbanite (Northampton MA calls itself a city anyway) would serve wine in Mason Jars. He isn't a backwoods hillbilly,

He does write songs for them, though.

Near Lurker · « **Reply #95 on:** 23 May 2012, 01:59 »

Quote from: Akima on 23 May 2012, 00:19

I don't understand why a well-off urbanite (Northampton MA calls itself a city anyway) would serve wine in Mason Jars. He isn't a backwoods hillbilly, and I doubt he's a keen fruit-bottler or jam-maker. Is this some sort of pretend-to-be-poor pose thing? If so, it is still weird.

Again, mason jars are pretty popular in PV. I can think of at least two restaurants where tea and water are automatically brought in mason jars. Even if that weren't the case, it's available, and it's quite likely he's a canner if nothing else.

techkid · « **Reply #96 on:** 23 May 2012, 02:02 »

Quote from: Near Lurker on 22 May 2012, 07:12

Quote from: J on 22 May 2012, 05:51
and horny is totally an emotion. it's one of the 6 Officially Sanctioned Male Emotions that it is socially acceptable to express. (hungry, angry, happy, sad, tired, & horny)
I'm pretty sure "sad" isn't on the list. In fact, it's kind of the canonical emotion not on the list.

I think that comes under "cutting onions" or "dirt in the eye". There are very few exceptions to the rule...

Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 22 May 2012, 23:51

I've never had a sister. Is that a normal brother-sister conversation?

I would say it's fairly common. Between me and my sister, we've talked pretty openly about stuff that we wouldn't under normal circumstances tell our parents. We more or less see each other as a cross between a best friend and a confessional booth.

idontunderstand · « **Reply #97 on:** 23 May 2012, 02:14 »

Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 22 May 2012, 23:51

I've never had a sister. Is that a normal brother-sister conversation?

I can't speak for anyone else and it of course depend on how close you are, but I can at least say it would be completely normal between me and my sister. Except for that "horny" comment..

TinPenguin · « **Reply #98 on:** 23 May 2012, 02:19 »

I can pretty conclusively say I'd never have this conversation with either of my siblings. Then again, I expect I'm too English to ever have this conversation with anybody.

pwhodges · « **Reply #99 on:** 23 May 2012, 02:34 »

I also never had such a conversation with my siblings - but I did have a somewhat similar one with my by then elderly mother after my divorce.

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