Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 29 Dec 2014 - 02 Jan 2015 (Strips 2865-2869)
BenRG:
IMO, Faye is keeping herself just slightly inebriated so she doesn't have to feel the pain she feels at the failure of her relationship with Angus and think about whose fault it may or may not have been. If her friends force her to do without that crutch, I strongly suspect that it will be one of the darkest and hardest journeys she's had to go on for a while.
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: KOK on 01 Jan 2015, 23:42 ---
--- Quote from: MacGyver on 01 Jan 2015, 21:29 ---Technically, alcohol is a solution.
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Techically, alcohol by itself is not a solution. Liquor is a solution of alcohol (and usually other things) in water. Or vice versa.
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Yes, I thought that statement was a bit precipitate.
Now onto Faye - time to gather the clan. She's hurtin' bad. In need of help. A therapist visit certainly, but also supportive environment. Dora's efforts are a very, very good start, but she needs backup, stat.
themacnut:
--- Quote from: KOK on 02 Jan 2015, 04:01 ---
--- Quote from: hedgie on 02 Jan 2015, 03:16 ---Going cold turkey with booze is possibly deadly, though.
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Faye is not that far gone, though.
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Yep, that statement only applies to hard-core alcoholics who've been pounding down bottles of cheap hard liquor daily for years (this poster recalls Faye's hard-drinking history throughout the comic....). Uh oh. Maybe cold turkey won't be so good for Faye after all.
MacGyver:
--- Quote from: KOK on 01 Jan 2015, 23:42 ---
--- Quote from: MacGyver on 01 Jan 2015, 21:29 ---Technically, alcohol is a solution.
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Techically, alcohol by itself is not a solution. Liquor is a solution of alcohol (and usually other things) in water. Or vice versa.
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You're right, of course. Perhaps I should have been more precise, as I did use the word 'technically'. I was just going with alcohol ~ alcoholic beverages since Dora used it in that sense when she used the "Alcohol is not a solution" cliche.
Also, (I swear I knew this before I checked Wikipedia to be sure) ethanol produced along with water (such as in fermentation) can only be purified to around 95% by distillation. Other techniques need to be used to remove more of the water than that.
By the way, never try to drink 'denatured alcohol'. That is ethanol, but with extra stuff added to make it taste awful and be acutely toxic, so that it isn't subject to alcoholic beverage taxes.
Thanks for the welcome everyone!
Kugai:
Basically we can all distill this down to a need for some form of intervention by the gang to help Faye.
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