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Even though he TOOK THE BEST YEARS of MY LIFE and THREW IT ALL AWAY.

13 (13.1%)

(Throw in something about being an amazing lover)

9 (9.1%)

Love can be a complicated thing.

1 (1%)

There was bitterness. Recrinimiation. Pain. But love was still there.

10 (10.1%)

Sorry for going off-script.

4 (4%)

Does he still get to flip the table?

25 (25.3%)

I'm waiting for Marten's speech.

5 (5.1%)

Claire REALLY has to wonder about Marten's parents.

13 (13.1%)

ALL the FEELS!

19 (19.2%)

Total Members Voted: 92

[Is it cold in here?]

Tai's a DJ off hours, isn't she? Or am I thinking of someone else?

Your memory is correct.

[Aquaisces]

Marten would totally be able to deal

[DrBear]

Boobs:  the cause of (and solution to) all of life's problems.

I believe you're thinking of alcohol.

But boobs are a solid Nos. 2 and 3.

[Is it cold in here?]

Drag-queens ≠ Transgender people..

Of course.

But if Marten still has a hangup about being flirted with by female-presenting people with MAAB phenotypes it could affect Claire as well.

[Soulsynger]

My first thought:
"Well, those can hardly be called boobs, sweety."

Second one:
"What the hell is WRONG with me?!"

[Indicible]

So, Dora's twin peaches are becoming weapons of mass distraction?
So, I take it Ellen Allen is pretty famous, uh?

[Loki]

So, I take it Ellen Allen is pretty famous, uh?

I think the expression "widely known within small circles" applies.

I don't think we have ever seen Dora's cleavage before, have we?

[Soulsynger]

On multiple occasions actually. But my archive-fu is hindered by my work-fu.

[chrisa1]

So, I take it Ellen Allen is pretty famous, uh?

I think the expression "widely known within small circles" applies.

I believe it's Ellen *Allien*.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Allien

[Lubricus]

So, I take it Ellen Allen is pretty famous, uh?

I think the expression "widely known within small circles" applies.

I believe it's Ellen *Allien*.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Allien

Indeed it is. And as Loki suggests, she is a major name in a (fairly) small world.

[Sidhekin]

Also, http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=802 implies Tai's a fan.

[LovelyAngel]

And no women on the forum past what? 50 or so? Any guesses might merit a thread over in chatter.

February 1955. But I don't visit the forum very often (hence my being late to this age-rank discussion)

I think I'm a member of Zoe's Club. Photo from my 58th birthday last month:

[GarandMarine]

Edit: Posted without actually typing anything...

Any way! Comic! The last Questionable Content Comic I will see with my current eyes! And it has Doraboobs, that's gotta be a good omen right?

Re: Yesterday's comic, I'm kinda disappointed that Marten didn't break into the Princess Bridge "Mawwage" speech when he BSOD'd out, and snark Claire has won my heart all over again!

On to the age discussion! I posted an old dress blues photo before at one point

Me now:



I feel really... young all of the sudden around here. If it makes y'all feel better, I'll probably be walking with a cane by the end of the year thanks to some knee damage I picked up while I was in.

Fun fact: The Irish whiskey I'm drinking is old enough to order it's own whiskey... actually it's exactly my age. Knappogue castle used to bottle their booze by vintage like wine. The 1990 bottle I had cost more then I like to think about... but my goddess of sea and sky... cannot even describe the deliciousness.

[Oglokoog]

Also, http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=802 implies Tai's a fan.

Fizheuer Zieheuer is an excellent track, by the way.

[BryanP]

And no women on the forum past what? 50 or so? Any guesses might merit a thread over in chatter.

February 1955. But I don't visit the forum very often (hence my being late to this age-rank discussion)

I think I'm a member of Zoe's Club. Photo from my 58th birthday last month:

Very nice picture. I figured I was one of the oldest people here at 44. LovelyAngel, eh?  Say hi to Kei & Yuri.

[TinPenguin]

My first thought was "wait, why are Dora and Tai in bed together?" then I remembered "oh yeah, they're dating now. I'd forgotten that."

[Loki]

On to the age discussion! I posted an old dress blues photo before at one point

Me now:

--snip--

Why are you Iron Man?

All the best for your surgery!

[GarandMarine]

On to the age discussion! I posted an old dress blues photo before at one point

Me now:

--snip--

Why are you Iron Man?

All the best for your surgery!

It's my night job! Actually it was a costume test for Denver Comic Con.

Thank you for the well wishes. I hope to see you all again shortly. Depending on how fast my eyes heal up I might even still be on narcotic pain killers, and that could be highly amusing for everyone.

[Mr. Doctor]

Inappropiate Metal Horns FTW... It works perfectly to show off something to a friend, specially if he/she is likes that particular something/someone more than you do.

[Tai Fanboi]

I think i had the same reaction when a friend did this to me, but no boobs to make up for it .  Long and short of it, I'm a historian.  I specialize in WWII small arms and weaponry.  Have actually loaned a few pieces of my collection to the History channel and Hollywood (Sparingly, they don't treat them as well as History Channel does) 

I was supposed to do a firing test on a new acquisition with a buddy of mine at my county run range but got called into work.  While sitting at my desk going over some rather boring notes and to make sure everything was normal with a study that was coming up to be published, I get a text from my range partner who had gone on without me.

Him.  Standing with R. Lee Ermey, and a table of some very nice, very rare, and some of my favorite WWII firearms.  Poor Tai, it's going to be so much worse when she runs into Marten and he goes into EXCRUCIATING detail of everything. 

[LovelyAngel]

...LovelyAngel, eh?  Say hi to Kei & Yuri.

Indeed! My LovelyAngel Explanation Page. 

[Zebediah]

My first thought:
"Well, those can hardly be called boobs, sweety."

Second one:
"What the hell is WRONG with me?!"

My first thought: Dora wears her bra to bed?

Yes, I know, Jeph is trying to keep this more-or-less SFW. But still. 

[Akima]

Inappropiate Metal Horns FTW...

Yes... I mean, what other hand-gesture would be more appropriate?

[Mr_Rose]

My first thought:
"Well, those can hardly be called boobs, sweety."

Second one:
"What the hell is WRONG with me?!"

My first thought: Dora wears her bra to bed?

Yes, I know, Jeph is trying to keep this more-or-less SFW. But still. 

I don't think they're "in bed" as in there for sleeping, or even sexytimes, but are instead using it as a couch with built in foot rest because its warmer ad they won't be disturbed by house/flat mates wanting to watch the TV or whatever.

[Lubricus]

My first thought:
"Well, those can hardly be called boobs, sweety."

Second one:
"What the hell is WRONG with me?!"

My first thought: Dora wears her bra to bed?

Yes, I know, Jeph is trying to keep this more-or-less SFW. But still. 

I don't think they're "in bed" as in there for sleeping, or even sexytimes, but are instead using it as a couch with built in foot rest because its warmer ad they won't be disturbed by house/flat mates wanting to watch the TV or whatever.

Dora lives by herself these days, I think. But I agree, they do not look like they're "in bed", per se.

[HueItzCoatl]

I wish more woman were willing to show off there boobs as a means of distraction. The world would be a much better place methinks.

[Loki]

I don't think they're "in bed" as in there for sleeping, or even sexytimes, but are instead using it as a couch with built in foot rest because its warmer ad they won't be disturbed by house/flat mates wanting to watch the TV or whatever.

I assumed they were doing the "watch a movie together while progressing to snuggling" thing. Dora has a hand on Tai's hip in the first two panels.

Also, can anyone explain the title of the comic to me?

[Bluesummers]

Also, can anyone explain the title of the comic to me?

The "Metal horns" thing that Marten's doing with his hand doesn't quite match with the music of Ellen Allien, which is more of a trance/dance genre.

[Lubricus]

I don't think they're "in bed" as in there for sleeping, or even sexytimes, but are instead using it as a couch with built in foot rest because its warmer ad they won't be disturbed by house/flat mates wanting to watch the TV or whatever.

I assumed they were doing the "watch a movie together while progressing to snuggling" thing. Dora has a hand on Tai's hip in the first two panels.

Also, can anyone explain the title of the comic to me?

Arrgh! I was gonna answer this, but:

Warning - while you were reading the universe has suffered heat death. You may wish to review your post.

[Zebediah]

Warning - while you were reading the universe has suffered heat death. You may wish to review your post.

Damn. I hate it when that happens.

[Soulsynger]

Inappropiate Metal Horns FTW...

Yes... I mean, what other hand-gesture would be more appropriate?

A wave. No hand gesture. Peace/victory sign. Arm around shoulder. Pointing.

Hand in the air. Jazz hands. Any o' this? Picking his nose.

Hand in mouth. Hand in pants, furiously masturbating. Man I don't even know anymore...

[Bluesummers]

Inappropiate Metal Horns FTW...

Yes... I mean, what other hand-gesture would be more appropriate?

THIS.
V
V
V


Insert her head where the iPad is. Yeah, THAT's more appropriate. And totally not creepy.

[jwhouk]

Boobs:  the cause of (and solution to) all of life's problems.

I believe you're thinking of alcohol.

But boobs are a solid Nos. 2 and 3.

ISWYDT.

[jwhouk]

Dora lives by herself these days, I think. But I agree, they do not look like they're "in bed", per se.

That does appear to be a bed. It's a headboard, and they do appear to be sitting up and watching a DVD on a laptop... and it appears Tai may have Russian Fingers.

EDIT: And the wandering eyes of Hannelore on the cover of Volume 3 make it creepier. 

[Lubricus]

Dora lives by herself these days, I think. But I agree, they do not look like they're "in bed", per se.

That does appear to be a bed. It's a headboard, and they do appear to be sitting up and watching a DVD on a laptop... and it appears Tai may have Russian Fingers.

Yes, of course, I just mean that they haven't gone to bed in as in preparing to sleep, or whatever. They just use the bed as a seat.

[ZoeB]

And no women on the forum past what? 50 or so? Any guesses might merit a thread over in chatter.

February 1955. But I don't visit the forum very often (hence my being late to this age-rank discussion)

I think I'm a member of Zoe's Club. Photo from my 58th birthday last month:

Better at it than I am too.

[sitnspin]

Boobs are indeed quite awesome and can serve well as distractions for me, but really any well formed part of the female anatomy is awesome.

I am happy to see that things are progressing nicely with Dora and Tai, the two characters who most remind me of myself in different aspects.



And it is June 1985 for me.

[sitnspin]

As someone who doesn't own a couch (or other furniture for that matter) or a tv, I find that the bed makes a nice cozy place to snuggle up to watch a movie. On a laptop.

[ZoeB]

But if Marten still has a hangup about being flirted with by female-presenting people with MAAB phenotypes it could affect Claire as well.

I can absolutely guarantee that regardless of other factors, a girl who transitioned as young as Claire did has totally female pheremones. You can't look like that otherwise.
Similarly, trans guys, a few days after a T shot, have interesting effects on any straight female that gets within a metre.
Yes, I speak from personal experience, and it's entirely involuntary. Reliably reproducible experimentally too.

On the other hand, I've been reliably informed that Trans guys a few days after a T shot have their own psychological reactions, that some find unsettling at the start of transition. To someone in a state of chronic testosterone starvation, having that relieved leads to a condition that in cis males would be called "blue balls".

Apparently, males are/tend to be more visually oriented, females are/tend to be more smell and taste oriented. Trans women are female-typical neurologically here.
See:
Male-to-female transsexuals show sex-atypical hypothalamus activation when smelling odorous steroids. by Berglund et al Cerebral Cortex 2008 18(:1900-1908;

...the data implicate that transsexuality may be associated with sex-atypical physiological responses in specific hypothalamic circuits, possibly as a consequence of a variant neuronal differentiation.

[jwhouk]

And it is June 1985 for me.

...The month I graduated from high school.

[ZoeB]

Long and short of it, I'm a historian.  I specialize in WWII small arms and weaponry.  Have actually loaned a few pieces of my collection to the History channel and Hollywood (Sparingly, they don't treat them as well as History Channel does)

I must put you in contact with a G/F of mine. Lynette Nusbacher. In a previous incarnation she appeared on many military history programs on the History Channel.

I can still remember the "Immediate Action - Gas Stoppage" drill on the Bren Mk 1. Mk 2 was easier IIRC. Lovely weapon, even I could put all 3 rounds of a burst into a dinnerplate sized target exposed for 5 secs at 200 metres.

[sitnspin]

Interesting, ZoeB.  I am not trans, but I am totally visually stimulated. But, I am also an artist, so visuals are something I respond to in general.  I am not sure if my keying toward visual stimulation is a result of studying painting or if my predisposition toward the visual arts is a result of my tendency toward visual stimulation. I remember reading somewhere quite some time ago that lesbians tend to have more "male" structured brains, something to do with the release of testosterone during a key point in fetal gestation, but I don't know how much truth there is to that and I can't recall where I read it.

That being said, tastes and smells definitely aid in the arousal process.


jwouk, you are almost as old as my parents would have been if they were still alive.

[Carl-E]

Apparently, males are/tend to be more visually oriented, females are/tend to be more smell and taste oriented. Trans women are female-typical neurologically here.
See:
Male-to-female transsexuals show sex-atypical hypothalamus activation when smelling odorous steroids. by Berglund et al Cerebral Cortex 2008 18(:1900-1908;

...the data implicate that transsexuality may be associated with sex-atypical physiological responses in specific hypothalamic circuits, possibly as a consequence of a variant neuronal differentiation.

Interestingly, my sense of smell kicked in in high school.  I was at an all boys' school, but for choir at the end of the day we shipped in sopranos and altos from the girl's school up the street.  We'd be in the choir room, and they'd troop in... and the air changed.  Noticeably. 


It was my favorite time of day, even though after a few breaths I had trouble hiding the pitched tent with my music folder. 


OK, maybe that needed to go into the TMI thread.  Sorry. 

[sitnspin]

One of the many reasons I am glad I am not a man. Hiding my arousal is not difficult at all, unless the person has an decidedly acute sense of smell.

[ZoeB]

I remember reading somewhere quite some time ago that lesbians tend to have more "male" structured brains, something to do with the release of testosterone during a key point in fetal gestation, but I don't know how much truth there is to that and I can't recall where I read it.

Same thing causes Transsexuality, just at a different "Golden Moment", and different parts of the brain are involved. The foetus ends up more or less Androphillic/Gynephillic, and Male/Female identifying. Usally male genitaliais associated with male gender identity and gynephillia, but there are exceptions (ie gays exist, trans men exist, trans women exist, intersex people exist...)

fMRI Scan of Homosexual/Heterosexual Men/Women

[ysth]

The phone should have gone "fraatz fraatz fraatz".

[Ph2]

As someone who doesn't own a couch (or other furniture for that matter) or a tv, I find that the bed makes a nice cozy place to snuggle up to watch a movie. On a laptop.

This certainly makes sense, I can't imagine Dora, living by herself on a probably small income would have enough money/desire to go and buy a couch when a bed would suffice.

Also, is this the first of us seeing the new apartment set up? I know we saw it being set up a little, but not furnished.

[GarandMarine]

Long and short of it, I'm a historian.  I specialize in WWII small arms and weaponry.  Have actually loaned a few pieces of my collection to the History channel and Hollywood (Sparingly, they don't treat them as well as History Channel does)

I must put you in contact with a G/F of mine. Lynette Nusbacher. In a previous incarnation she appeared on many military history programs on the History Channel.

I can still remember the "Immediate Action - Gas Stoppage" drill on the Bren Mk 1. Mk 2 was easier IIRC. Lovely weapon, even I could put all 3 rounds of a burst into a dinnerplate sized target exposed for 5 secs at 200 metres.

Bren? So jealous <3 that said I'm still madly in love with the M2 I worked with in the Corps briefly, and any woman in my life has to accept that Ma Deuce will always be first in my heart.

And Fanboi, you gotta meet Gunny when you get the chance, I've meet him twice now and he's fantastic, there is no difference between his off screen "hanging with Marines" personality and how his is on his shows. Hell of a Marine, and one of the most deserved meritorious promotions to Gunnery Sergeant I've ever heard of.

[Sidhekin]

As someone who doesn't own a couch (or other furniture for that matter) or a tv, I find that the bed makes a nice cozy place to snuggle up to watch a movie. On a laptop.

This certainly makes sense, I can't imagine Dora, living by herself on a probably small income would have enough money/desire to go and buy a couch when a bed would suffice.

Also, is this the first of us seeing the new apartment set up? I know we saw it being set up a little, but not furnished.

Dora at least had a couch: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1913 – though they could have dropped it, I guess.

But you meant Tai, perhaps?

[LittleKing]

Nice comic today, it was good to see other QC faces outside the wedding. Marten was such a tease in this one, poor Tai!