Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2887-2891 (2-6 February 2015)
Mr. Black Licorice:
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--- Quote from: Mr. Black Licorice on 06 Feb 2015, 18:42 ---Part of the reason why controversial subjects are controversial is because we (people) don't talk about them and don't listen to each other. This may not be the time or place for this conversation, but, really when is a good time? Where is a good place? If what someone said was unintentionally hurtful, explaining why will get you further than outrage. With outrage, you just alienate the other person and shut down communication; controversial subjects stay controversial and no one learns.
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I would say that in many cases, many subjects that are considered controversial because people tend to do more talking than listening.
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I can agree with that....
ReindeerFlotilla:
Yo. Black guy here. I had no idea Dale was supposed to be black.
Just sayin'. If that's what Jeph was going for, he missed. I don't happen to care that much, but Dale came across as generically ethnic.
ischaemia:
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--- Quote from: explicit on 06 Feb 2015, 13:16 ---The only surgery I care about her getting is lasik, because she's cuter without glasses. I guess contacts work, but apparently they're scary. (I can't find the page, it's in there somewhere)
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I absolutely refuse to get contact lenses. Sure, glasses are a pain in the ass to deal with sometimes but the thought of poking something that you normally don't poke day after day is just unnerving. Also the thought of someone carving out my corneas with a laser is enough to send me into full heebie jeebie mode. I like Claire better with her glasses, but I just happen to find people more attractive with glasses more so than not.
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It's not that bad, and they give you a Percocet before you're barely cognizant of what's going on! The trade-off for me was losing my SUPER CLOSE (like centimetres away from my eye close) vision but being able to see things at a distance is quite nice. My right eye reverted a little, but my left eye is at 20/10 or something. I was 20/300 or worse in both before!
I did contacts sometimes in the past for first dates and stuff, and wearing colored ones is fun! That said, it can also get a little costly, so I didn't do it daily or anything.
It took me thirty minutes to get then in the first time, heh.
Oh, and with lasik there was also the part where I looked like an otherworldly abomination for about a month. Got these gnarly "eye hickeys" (my optometrist's words) where the suction was. Oh, yeah, there's a part where they suck your eye a little bit out of the socket to hold it steady for the flap cutting and cornea reshaping. Didn't hurt. Mostly pretty cool!! Probably the Percocet that made me think so. The whole thing smells like singed hair. Also, I got it while in Army so I didn't have to pay for it (well, other than in time, I guess) which was a huge incentive to enlist in the first place. ANYWAY, it's not that bad, I promise!!
Slightly on topic, I imagine Dale's hair is something like this dude's: http://youtu.be/PZuWg5M2ukQ also I feel like Jeph is kind of bad at drawing hair on a consistent model, perhaps. I have hypothesized that's why everyone has short hair eventually, like it's some kind of weird curse. I feel like Claire's hair in panel 4 could have been executed so much better.
Also, why is Claire's left arm so high when she's taking off her bra, there's totally nothing up there unless it's some weird racerback/clasp/cup thing?? Also WHY WOULD YOU WEAR A PLAIN WHITE SET TO SOMETHING LIKE THIS, GIRL SHOW OFF YOUR GOODS YOU'RE NOT GETTING MARRIED...yet
ReindeerFlotilla:
She's holding her hair back and doing the bra one handed.
Gladstone:
--- Quote from: Fig on 06 Feb 2015, 13:42 ---I absolutely refuse to get contact lenses. Sure, glasses are a pain in the ass to deal with sometimes but the thought of poking something that you normally don't poke day after day is just unnerving. Also the thought of someone carving out my corneas with a laser is enough to send me into full heebie jeebie mode. I like Claire better with her glasses, but I just happen to find people more attractive with glasses more so than not.
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I have keratoconus (weird corneas; the wiki link includes a photo as example), and although my optometrist recommended contacts I refused to wear them for several years because I had the same eye-poking issues. But then my glasses broke and I had to confront the fact that my vision was really fucked up and no new pair of glasses could possibly correct it, so I finally gave it and started wearing the contacts. Horribly uncomfortable at first, but once I found the proper fit I got used to them.
Then I lost the lens for my left eye and had to get a corneal transplant, but that's another story. True fact: once you've had a surgeon stitch a dead person's cornea onto your eyeball, then later remove each stitch one by one with a tiny needle, poking yourself in the eye is really no big deal.
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