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WCDT: 2455-2459 (27-31 May, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread

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Tulpa:

--- Quote from: celticgeek on 31 May 2013, 17:30 ---sweet tea

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I like my tea bitter. But I would take that BLT and potato salad.  :mrgreen:

westrim:

--- Quote from: KOK on 31 May 2013, 11:21 ---
--- Quote from: Akima on 31 May 2013, 03:46 ---Unless Claire is a closet sub, indulging Pintsize might be a bad idea, acid tears or not.

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Look at her face in the last two frames. She does not look as if she is enjoying this.

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The third panel makes is her 'exasperated and accommodating a silly request' face. The fourth panel is her default expression.


--- Quote from: HueItzCoatl on 31 May 2013, 08:46 ---Holy shit, the look on his face as Pintsize is spanking her ass....fucking classic. I love her as a character, she's a trip.

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No, the Fucking Classic comes later and requires golf gloves. But really, must you be so vulgar?


--- Quote from: Storel on 31 May 2013, 17:01 ---
--- Quote from: Loki on 31 May 2013, 08:43 ---There was a fictional proverb in a book I once read. The proverb said that you can go around the world once without ever noticing how the cultures are changing.
I suppose it's similar to the "water never boils while you look at it" sentiment.

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I think it's closer to the "frogs in a pot of water don't jump out as it comes to a boil" thing, because the cultures change so gradually as you move that you don't notice the difference.

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While it's a nice idea and to a certain extent true, it doesn't match up with political reality. There's lots of lines in the world that you can cross and end up facing a very different culture from the one a mile back. Then there are enclaves, little pockets of culture within a different culture like immigrant districts or military bases.

Torlek:

--- Quote from: Zebediah on 31 May 2013, 12:39 ---Incidentally, the Mason-Dixon line (historically the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland) no longer makes a good border between North and South. It's moved southwards to the Rappahannock river in Virginia. Anything north of that is no longer Virginia, but "Northern Virginia" - or as a former boss called it, "Occupied Virginia". You cannot get decent sweet tea north of the Rappahannock, and forget about biscuits.

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The border moves South the further South you go until you get just South of Birmingham, then it kinda stays there (unless you're in Louisiana, then I think it just keeps moving until it runs into the Gulf).

94ssd:
Wait...didn't Claire come over to say something important to Marten? Earlier it seemed like she really needed to talk to him.

Moanerette:
This is why I need to keep a closer eye on these threads, in case of eruption into impassioned and erudite-seeming linguistics debates. Superb tangential riffing.

Late as I may be, I can shed some light on the rootbeer question from a UK perspective. In the 1980s, UK McDonalds did sell rootbeer; it was the only thing I liked about it the first time I ate there (age 10ish, Milton Keynes Shopping Centre, 1982ish). As I recall it wasn't that sweet, which is probably why I liked it. My understanding is that it was phased out of UK branches because it was generally unpopular, and I have heard somewhere that the drink is generally regarded as not suiting the European palate, so there has never been an attempt to mass market a rootbeer drink here. I don't have proper sources for those assertions though, they're just things I 'know'.

I would love it if QC suddenly went in to a paddlin' frenzy and the next fortnight's strips were dedicated to the whole cast catching up on their initiations.  PAP........PAP........PAP........PAP........PAP.......PAP.......PAP........PAP........

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