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Faye

Shebly

Something involving butts

[Rghfrgl]

I'm pretty sure Hanners' car flies and has a cloaking device.

Edit-I keep refreshing for K1dmor's magic avatar!

[Is it cold in here?]

Every car-owning character I can think of is either at Coffee of Doom or is Tai. Steve has a truck.

It would be awkward to approach anyone from CoD right now. Archive masters, does it look like Tai's car?

Jeph's Twitter says he'll be editing out the misplaced seat belt.

[Is it cold in here?]

I'm wondering that too. No matter who she's borrowing it from, there is an interesting story.

If it were Hannelore's car, wouldn't she be driving?

BTW, any objection to merging this thread with the WCDT?

[Indicible]

HANDS AT TEN AND TWO!

Don't say that! This could trigger a depressive episode for Faye.

What are the odds Faye finds work in this arc?

[K1dmor]

Every car-owning character I can think of is either at Coffee of Doom or is Tai. Steve has a truck.

 Angus has a blue car, and Dale has a gray one.

 The only one with a white car seems to be Marigold. But it's unlikely that she let them use her car, instead of driving herself.

[jwhouk]

There's always the possibility of Hour Car or Zip Car (hourly car rental services)...

[pwhodges]

Oh, those wacky Brits. Giving us a language to destroy, recreate, and then, letting us look back and judge the original...

Typically, we are the ones who have changed it, while the older version is preserved in the US, actually.  The classic example is Fall for Autumn; Fall was the word in Dr Johnson's dictionary.

[BenRG]

Whoever's car that is, it seems to have a disproportionately large steering wheel! Closer to truck-sized!

Now, this may be just me. However, am I the only one who, when they read Hannelore say 'What if they misdiagnose me?', they also felt that there was a subtext? Basically, Hanners isn't sure what scares her more - if the clinic were to confirm her fears or if they were to give her the all-clear. It's a strange thing about people who suffer from hypochondria that, on a certain level, they don't want to know that they are well.

I'm also glad to see I'm not alone in repeatedly just wanting to hug Hanners. If Faye has that urge, then no-one is immune!

[Endellion]

It would appear so. Also..."kit"? That usage is unfamiliar to me.

I'm sorry, that was too British for you? How about we get a spot of tea and have a chinwag about the cricket, what what? :p

I'll go for "loud mouth American" and not "cheeky chappy Brit" next time

Anyway, back on topic Claire has a green car If anyone was wondering if Faye might have GTA'd hers.

[TinPenguin]

She takes auto safety very seriously, but she wears her seatbelt shoulder strap under her armpit? Except she wears it right in panel 3, and then goes back to wearing it wrong in #4.

Faye could do with adjusting hers, too. But from the apparent slack in Hannelore's strap, it could well be broken.

[mikmaxs]

A little late to the draw, but:
I bet Hannelore has Lupus.

[Thrillho]

Ahh, like how they call pants "trousers".

And as I recall, 'pants' is underwear over there. Could be remembering wrong, though.

Yep. Except in the north, where depending on what dialect you're speaking, 'pants' can also mean trousers.

[Thrillho]

Mine. It's my car.

Mysery solved.

[Mlle Germain]

Hah, I came to the forum to see if anyone new about the car; and right away there's this handy thread! 

[swapna]

I think it's Hanners' car - she did offer to drive Marten. (White is also very much Hanners' colour, since it's easy to clean) And she wouldn't be safe to drive, all worried and everything, so I think Faye would offer.

As for Faye still having her license: Why wouldn't she? She had one accident we know of, and it didn't hurt anybody else, and she wasn't driving under the influence.

I must say, I enjoy the Faye and Hanners interacting - they're so different, but trust and depend on each other. And they are emotionally honest, which is rare at least for Faye.

(Also, what's with that HUGE-ass wheel? IS IT SECRETLY A TRUCK??)

[Akima]

Here, trousers can be "trousers", "pants", "strides" or "daks" (originally a brand name). Underpants (for men) can be known as underdaks.

The seat-belts in that car seriously need adjusting.

[hedgie]

If it were Hannelore's car, wouldn't she be driving?

Having anxiety problems, including germophobia myself, I know that even if I owned a car, I'd have someone else drive if I was in panic-mode. 

[jwhouk]

White cars get the dirtiest - fastest.

Jeph "fixed the seatbelt issue.

[osaka]

So the QC universe has sentient toasters but not self driving cars?

For some reason, at least in this world, most people don't trust a means of transport that drives itself. Probably happens in the QC-Verse too.

White cars get the dirtiest - fastest.

They also retain their white look even if they're super-dirty. So it might depend on your perception.
Red cars. Now those are extremely critical about getting dirty and even sunlight for their look.

[jwhouk]

I live in the land of dirt roads, bad pavement and worse winter driving.

White cars get VERY dirty.

[osaka]

And I didn't wash my car in about 6 years. It kept raining. I also know what a dirty car is.

[Undrneath]

Oh, those wacky Brits. Giving us a language to destroy, recreate, and then, letting us look back and judge the original...

Typically, we are the ones who have changed it, while the older version is preserved in the US, actually.  The classic example is Fall for Autumn; Fall was the word in Dr Johnson's dictionary.

Language experts have said that the British accents have evolved more in the last three hundred years than the American so theoretically we Americans are saying everything correctly. Lol

[Zebediah]

There was a dialect spoken on the Outer Banks of North Carolina that linguists claimed was virtually identical to the way English was spoken (at least in the south of England) in Shakespeare's time. Alas, this dialect is rapidly dying out, but it was still common among older Outer Banks natives 30 years ago.

Now, the New England dialect is another thing altogether. Nobody claims that this is the way anyone else has spoken anywhere, ever. 

[Method of Madness]

Whoa, I never realized K1dmor had a hodgatar.

[bhtooefr]

It's not a car we've seen before:

The cars of Questionable Content:

Amanda's rental car: Probably a 2000-2005 Ford Taurus (well, 2000-2007, but the comic was from 2004), shown in 175
Amanda: 1999.5-2005.0 Volkswagen Jetta (VW used to be bad about introducing a new model while the old one was still in production and part-way through a model year, and that's how the enthusiast community deals with it, half model years), shown and stated to be a Jetta in 609
Angus: 2011-2013 Ford Fiesta hatch, shown in 2292
Claire: 2011-2014 Mazda2, shown in 2378
Dale: Another Ford Fiesta hatch, we don't see enough details to tell whether it's a 2011-2013 or 2014-2015, shown in 2496
Raven: 1998-2005 Volkswagen New Beetle TDI, shown in 423, stated as a Bug (not that it was necessary) in 451, implied to be a TDI in 621
Tai: 2003-2005 Volkswagen Jetta Wagon (and an interior shot, and the sunglass holder that gives it away as at least a 2003), shown in 1916

I suspect Jeph owns a Fiesta, really, and uses it as his reference for when he needs a car in QC, because this looks like yet another Fiesta.

[ZoeB]

"kit" means "equipment" in military jargon.
As in "yet another useless bit of kit we're stuck with".
"good kit that"

[jwhouk]

A point I made in the WCDT, but I think it might be of interest here:

ZipCar - a short-term rental car ("car-sharing") company - has a franchise in Northampton. It's entirely possible that Hanners and/or Faye may use the service for things like this.

[pwhodges]

Whoa, I never realized K1dmor had a hodgatar.

Heh, nor me!  In the past I set one up for one or two people and ran them for a while, but this is not one of mine.  It's coded differently, because it's not serving the various pictures itself (which mine does), but redirecting to multiple pictures on imgur.

[Timemaster]

Poor Hanners, I want to hug her too.
No, bad idea. Shame on you, Timemaster.

I only hope she is really looking for a diagnosis (and treatment if necessary). But people who suffer from hypochondrosis are often enough not looking for a independent diagnosis or poper information. Instead they are looking for comfirmation of their allready made-up oppinion: that they are sick and that their selfmade diagnosis is right. A diagnosis that they are not sick is often not accepted, but instead rejected as proof that the doctor is incapable and the diagnosis is wrong. So another doctor is consultated in the hope that he makes the "right" diagnosis.

This is a complicated topic and the psychological mechanisms and implications are complex. So I´m not gonna take this any further.
Let´s just hope that Hanners has enought trust in her doctors and in Faye to accept a negative diagnosis: that her bleeding mole is not malignant.

Keeping my fingers crossed:
TM

[amykathleen]

As for Faye still having her license: Why wouldn't she? She had one accident we know of, and it didn't hurt anybody else, and she wasn't driving under the influence.

As far as I know, if you move to another state you need to get a driver's license or state ID for the new state within 30 or 90 days or something like that.  She must have gotten some form of ID after she moved, or she would likely have encountered issues in buying alcohol at least once, but there's no guarantee she got a driver's license instead of just a state ID.

[jmucchiello]

Is it just me or does Hanners look at bout 13 years old here? Is the car out of proportion?

[chaospersonified]

Is it just me or does Hanners look at bout 13 years old here? Is the car out of proportion?

I mean, we've established that the steering wheel clearly belongs to a truck; I wouldn't be surprised if it was out of proportion in other ways.

That being said, I don't see what you're talking about. Hanners is small and skinny, that's just how she is.

[Neko_Ali]

Which is the actual answer... Faye cobbled together the car out of spare parts as a project to keep from drinking... So everything is all out of proportion to another being from random vehicles.

[Kugai]

They get out and we see it's one of these

[cesium133]

Which is the actual answer... Faye cobbled together the car out of spare parts as a project to keep from drinking... So everything is all out of proportion to another being from random vehicles.

Every car in Northampton is now missing one random part. It's going to be a bad day for the driver of the car with no brake rotors.

[chaospersonified]

Which is the actual answer... Faye cobbled together the car out of spare parts as a project to keep from drinking... So everything is all out of proportion to another being from random vehicles.

Every car in Northampton is now missing one random part. It's going to be a bad day for the driver of the car with no brake rotors.

I'd imagine it was a bad hair day for whoever's windshield went missing. Probably multiple in a row, depending on who they knew

[jwhouk]

Some artists can't draw feet or hands. Jeph has issues with car interiors.

[Stoon]

If Hanners has a white car, it'd be this:


After all, it's the Magic Space Car
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla_model_s

[neurocase]

Comiiiic!

Good to see Hanners is okay, as if there was any doubt. She's being very brave, I have to say. Few years ago (real time, not comic time) she would have been practically catatonic.

Also are they freezing it off? Yow. I had a friend have that done, and apparently it hurts like blazes.

[jwhouk]

...and a Google search spike for "seborrheic keratoma" suddenly has Google wondering WTH is happening...

[chaospersonified]

Aww, poor Hanners, in pain and regretting past decisions... Sounds like me on certain mornings

[Deadcoder]

I'm wondering that too. No matter who she's borrowing it from, there is an interesting story.

If it were Hannelore's car, wouldn't she be driving?

BTW, any objection to merging this thread with the WCDT?

Feel free to merge. Gosh, that sounds dirty.

[Timemaster]

Brave Hanners, she seems to accept the diagnosis. I´m kinda relieved here.

I suppose I´m wrong, but it seems to me that she is running around in her sleepware the whole time. Skimpy shirt, very short pants. Faye surely wouldn´t let her leave the house like that (I hope), but that was my first thought on todays comic. And Hanners doesn´t strike me as the hotpants-type.

Now I am curious if this arc is finished here or if we will see more about this thing next week. Maybe some talk about internet diagnostics or painful suffering from her severe chestwound. Or comforting her in the group. Maybe even all of it.

Or maybe butts.
Yes definitely butts. And Pintsize.

TM

[Penquin47]

I suppose I´m wrong, but it seems to me that she is running around in her sleepware the whole time. Skimpy shirt, very short pants. Faye surely wouldn´t let her leave the house like that (I hope), but that was my first thought on todays comic. And Hanners doesn´t strike me as the hotpants-type.

This isn't the first time she's left the house in shorts that short.

[BenRG]

If that hurts as much as people say, that Hannelore is willing to endure this reminds us of just how tough she is under that goofy, neurotic exterior. Now, I find myself wondering if Faye will buy her a lollipop for being brave. 

This has been an interesting short story. It reminded us of the role that Marten and Faye have (Faye especially in this case) in Hannelore's emotional life. Those two have sort of become Hanners' carers, when she needs it, especially in helping her respond usefully to her anxieties rather than get locked into a fear and indecision loop. She really owes a lot of her current functioning to their friendship.

Now, question: Is that the same doctor who cared for Faye when she was recently hospitalised? If so, then as with its equivalent in House. M.D., we can assume that the walk-i n clinic is part of the hospital.

[Mr. Doctor]

Medical question!

You might want to have it removed, since it's already broken once...

What are the implications that it has been broken once? Is there a risk for growth or what?


And yeah, glad that Hannelore is calmer now, even though that looks like it hurts!

[BenRG]

Medical question!

You might want to have it removed, since it's already broken once...

What are the implications that it has been broken once? Is there a risk for growth or what?

I'm no doctor but even I know that a break in the skin is bad news. You can get serious blood and tissue infections that way, especially if the break can happen without you being aware of it. The problem is that, now it's broken once, it's likely to do so again.

[osaka]

And here I was, thinking Hanners was immune to cold. Oh well.

[Geographus]

Medical question!

You might want to have it removed, since it's already broken once...

What are the implications that it has been broken once? Is there a risk for growth or what?

I'm no doctor but even I know that a break in the skin is bad news. You can get serious blood and tissue infections that way, especially if the break can happen without you being aware of it. The problem is that, now it's broken once, it's likely to do so again.

Yep, that is the case.

I had something similar like Hanners on my leg a few years ago. It was also benign but the doctor
said that if it causes me problems I should think about removing it. I finally let it remove because
it was at the exact place where the legs of my sport pants would end so while I was doing
workouts they would constantly rub against it which was quite unplesant.

[Zebediah]

Brave Hanners, she seems to accept the diagnosis. I´m kinda relieved here.

I suppose I´m wrong, but it seems to me that she is running around in her sleepware the whole time. Skimpy shirt, very short pants. Faye surely wouldn´t let her leave the house like that (I hope), but that was my first thought on todays comic. And Hanners doesn´t strike me as the hotpants-type.

For someone as germophobic as Hannelore, she tends to walk around with surprisingly little clothing to block the germs. The skimpy-shirt-and-shorts look seems to be her default summer wardrobe.

Claire seems to have adopted the skimpy shirts as well recently. Wonder what made that happen.