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WCDT: 2882-2886 (26-30 January 2015)
Beroli:
No one drinks constantly (and when Faye started actually doing so she quickly wound up in the hospital, demonstrating that that definition of "alcoholic" would make "life expectancy of a week" part of the definition of an alcoholic!).
Is Faye addicted to alcohol? Debatable, I guess.
Does Faye drink when her words indicate she would prefer she wasn't drinking? Yes.
Does Faye drink to the detriment of her health, personal relationships, and social standing? Most definitely yes.
So yes, she's an alcoholic--and has been established as one since the first comic where someone suggested she shouldn't take a drink and she deflected with humor and did so anyway, a very long time ago. She's usually a high-functioning alcoholic. Like my father-in-law (who maintained both a career as a lawyer and his drinking habit for decades). Since Angus got the job she's started being a low-functioning alcoholic--kind of like my father-in-law when the court told him that, in two weeks, he needed to have a device attached to his steering wheel that would give him a Breathalyzer test whenever he tried to start the car and prevent the car from starting if he failed it, and he set out to cram the next 20 years of drunkenness into those two weeks.
Zebediah:
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--- Quote from: DillyDolly on 30 Jan 2015, 06:43 ---Yeah, but what is the timeline?
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Amazingly, Faye and Angus had their last argument and went their separate ways only about a week ago, in-comic time.
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According to the calculations of AprilArcus, our resident time cop, Angus and Faye split on Sunday September 3, and Dora fired Faye on Thursday September 7. Which would make the current strip take place on Friday September 8.
Hell, it's only been since Friday September 1 that Sven told Faye he loved her. She's had one hell of a week.
Schwungrad:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 30 Jan 2015, 06:18 ---An alcoholic, to me, is somebody who drinks constantly, not somebody who drinks too much because of an immediate and current reason.
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Alcoholism is about a person's relation to alcohol consumption, the role alcohol plays in their life, not the amount or frequency of consumption.
--- Quote from: Beroli on 30 Jan 2015, 07:08 ---No one drinks constantly (and when Faye started actually doing so she quickly wound up in the hospital, demonstrating that that definition of "alcoholic" would make "life expectancy of a week" part of the definition of an alcoholic!).
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There's such things like habituation, and there are indeed a lot of people who drink regularly during the day so they always stay slightly drunk.
lummo:
I gotta give up on lurking this forum- I don't really enjoy the speculation that much, and some of the silly arguing is just silly. But it's become a guilty pleasure this week, what with "current developments" and the fact that I'm home with a NASTY cold these past few days.
I've been a fan of QC for years now. Read one, went back to the beginning and got the warm fuzzies seeing how much the art had improved. The story reminds me rather a bit of my own twenty something years - working in bookstores and libraries, playing in bands, hanging out in bars, waiting for friends at the ER - all that good stuff. Jeph captures it well, and I have to figure that anyone for whom the characters don't ring true simply hasn't lived in that sort of place.
Really, I'm posting to let you all know - Oily is just trolling, and he might not even know it. He might even think he's doing some good.
As a musician who...isn't famous, I've been on the receiving end of browbeatings from supposedly well intentioned people to the effect of "You'll have to grow up someday". Hasn't happened yet and I'm in my fifties. A large number of my friends - artists, writers, and musicians stashed all over this world - are in the same boat. I'd rather be on that boat than any other.
The "grownups" are pretty much ruining the world. The empty schoolyard bullies with nothing to do but what they are "supposed to do" are the ones who "grow up". It's sad that they have to try to spread the disorder.
Pilchard123:
Growing older is compulsory.
Growing up is optional.
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