Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT: 2878-2882 (19-23 January 2015)
xaszatm:
I'm gonna say that Faye is still alive. The way the comic is set up is way too undramatic for it to be her deathbed. I think she's in serious trouble but Marten's reaction would be more shock and horror than a quick cell phone call joke. Faye's still gonna need that ambulance though. Wonder if the punching intern still works there.
Jazzmaster:
--- Quote from: Lubricus on 22 Jan 2015, 22:21 ---
--- Quote from: Jazzmaster on 22 Jan 2015, 22:17 ---Anyways, hopefully Marten can be the calm in this shitstorm.
--- End quote ---
"Eye of the shitstorm", eh? Sounds nice...
I'm sad that Marten's date was cancelled. Damn you, Faye!
Warning - while you were typing an incalculable number of new replies have been posted. You may wish to review your math skills.
--- End quote ---
Yup. Hurricane Faye made landfall tonight as a category 5. Expect it to be the costliest event in QC history.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: SRRRRRRRR on 22 Jan 2015, 22:27 ---
It's not that she's overweight enough to cause breathing problems normally, it's that alcohol consumed in blackout quantities combines with a slightly above average weight to create those conditions. Admittedly, the correlation goes for just about anybody who weighs say 20 pounds or more above what would be the 'desired' weight for their body.
--- End quote ---
So is it the same mechanism that puts even modestly overweight people at risk for sleep apnea, but with the alcohol making things worse by blocking the wake-up reflex, even before it pulls its other trick of direct respiratory depression?
mikmaxs:
--- Quote from: plusorminus on 22 Jan 2015, 21:22 ---
--- Quote from: mikmaxs on 22 Jan 2015, 20:44 ---Hooray, Marten reacted with trying to help Faye once realizing how she had hit rock bottom. Instead of the other thing.
--- End quote ---
Right, because firing someone for coming in plastered and loading up again, against regulations is the exact same thing as finding your AI companion shut off or erased and said person passed out in a pool of their own vomit. :roll:
--- End quote ---
No, but being told that your best friend *intends* to drink themself into oblivion and desires to be drunk at all times is pretty similar to finding them passed out drunk and with vomit on the couch. That is, the thing Dora IGNORED.
Why do people keep acting like Faye's drinking at work came totally out of the blue?
SRRRRRRRR:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 22 Jan 2015, 22:37 ---
--- Quote from: SRRRRRRRR on 22 Jan 2015, 22:27 ---
It's not that she's overweight enough to cause breathing problems normally, it's that alcohol consumed in blackout quantities combines with a slightly above average weight to create those conditions. Admittedly, the correlation goes for just about anybody who weighs say 20 pounds or more above what would be the 'desired' weight for their body.
--- End quote ---
So is it the same mechanism that puts even modestly overweight people at risk for sleep apnea, but with the alcohol making things worse by blocking the wake-up reflex, even before it pulls its other trick of direct respiratory depression?
--- End quote ---
That sounds remarkably logical and much more well-worded than the way I would have expressed it. If it still sounds remarkably logical once the brandy has hit my brain, I'm going to note it down as fact. My training is a bit out of date, and not as in-depth as a medical professional. Are you a medical professional or some sort of specialist in the sciences of life? Because that was well written and I appreciate you putting logical words to my now semi-drunken floundering. Either way, I just remember being taught that being overweight or underweight are indicators that caution needs to be used when alcohol is being consumed in a 'binge' fashion, the former because of potential breathing problems (either exacerbated or created by the alcohol's effects on the body) and the latter because of lowered tolerance to the extent that the person is a 'one drink wonder'.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version