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WCDT: 2406-2410 (18-22 March, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: Akima on 19 Mar 2013, 14:57 ---I hold the handle of a spoon like the top chopstick in the right-hand drawing, with the hollow on the same side as my thumb, obviously:
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Me too... I wonder if it's because I learnt to use chopsticks at a relatively early age? I was in boarding school, and a boy there was in the UK while his family were in Singapore. He could pick up ball-bearings, not just individual grains of rice.
Method of Madness:
Why would one need to pick up an individual grain? That seems an inefficient way to eat rice :psyduck:
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: jesslc on 19 Mar 2013, 12:25 ---Please no! :x
This is trolling I would definitely not like. Clinton is creepy - his lack of understanding of boundaries in his first few appearances was disturbing. And while he's improved a little, I still don't like him much.
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Wouldn't it be nice though if they could help heal each other? Clinton has issues too, ones that disturb others.
Ok, hopeless romantic that I am, I *like* happy endings. I don't mean Clinton and Hanners becoming a couple so much as helping one another become more complete people. Hanners has boundaries that confine her, Clinton's lack of boundaries is a handicap. Maybe between the two they can help each other.
Told you I was a hopeless romantic.
I also have a soft spot for Clinton. Despite being an irresistable target for boy-teasing, he came to the defence of his sister in a way I found rather sweet, and attractive in a man. I think there's potential there.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 19 Mar 2013, 17:31 ---Why would one need to pick up an individual grain? That seems an inefficient way to eat rice :psyduck:
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Ball bearings may also be more iron than a typical diet requires.
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 19 Mar 2013, 17:31 ---Why would one need to pick up an individual grain?
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You've never been in boarding school, have you?
It was 1966, only 14 years after rationing ended. Food was something you didn't waste. Not even the last grain of rice in a bowl.
I was 10 years old before I first saw a cantaloupe, and that was on the way to Australia. Older before I saw an avocado, pineapple, etc. Bananas and apricots were as exotic as jackfruit, durian, starfruit or dragonfruit today.
A lot of people my age or older from Europe still have problems leaving plates not completely empty. Rationing became more, not less, stringent in the UK after WWII, too many people actually starving to death just over the channel for us not to get a little hungry exporting food. The limited shipping was needed to transport exports to rebuild a shattered economy. It was illegal to buy many items, they had to be sent overseas to get money to buy the machinery to replace everything that had been destroyed. Selling sliced bread was good for a year in jail in 1950 (unless you collected the breadcrumbs and supplied those too). 1984 was written in 1948. It wasn't much of a stretch to imagine standard of living continuing that way rather than improving.
Sometimes I feel antedeluvian. My older sister can remember when sugar was no longer rationed, and Mars bars became legal to buy again - more than one per family per week.
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