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WCDT Strips 3141 to 3145 (25 - 29 January 2016)
Akima:
--- Quote from: osaka on 25 Jan 2016, 05:07 ---Off-topic: CoD's front door is huge. The average door I've seen wouldn't let anybody over 6'6" casually cross without at least getting their head down, yet it doesn't look like Bubbles is doing that.
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I thought about that too, but . There are a few factors to consider:
* COD is a commercial premises. It is common for shops to have larger doors than houses.
* I don't think Jeph posted Bubble's height in her "spec sheet" comic, so it is hard to be sure, but it would not be logical to build her far outside "tall man" physical norms, since the whole point of humanoid soldier-robots would be to fit into an environment built for homo sapiens.
* The point-of-view in the "Bubbles walks into COD" panel is level with Faye's eyes, and the door is behind Bubbles. The effect of perspective makes the door look smaller and lower, and that might have been a deliberate artistic choice by Jeph to emphasise Bubbles' physical presence.Standard door sizes for houses in Australia are 2040mm (6'8") high by 520-920mm (20-36") wide. The most common width is 820mm (32"), but the Australian standard for wheelchair access specifies a minimum "clear width" (from the face of the open door to the opposite frame) of 850mm (33.5").
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 25 Jan 2016, 15:39 ---I am looking at a British Government document that states that the legal requirements for wheelchair access are based on a wheelchair width of 700mm (2'3.6").
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Most AS-compliant "standard" manual wheelchairs are under 700mm wide, but "heavy duty" ones go up to 770mm I think, and obviously hand-clearance on both sides is required.
--- Quote from: Mad Cat on 25 Jan 2016, 16:39 ---There's a movement among American home builders for what's known as "Aging in Place".
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This is very much a thing here too. The Chinese tradition of the multi-generation household (四世同堂 - "Four generations under one roof") still exerts a waning but still strong influence too, so we want our houses to be suitable for at least three generations. In my family, we prefer lever-style door latches anyway, because they can be operated with your wrist, forearm, elbow or shoulder when both hands are occupied or dirty, and the ones that will operate by pushing the lever up or down are the best IMHO.
War Sparrow:
Bubbles looks really unsure on how to handle these emotional, anxious meatbags. And she gave Dora a really dainty handshake, I love it.
Hannelore looks increasingly like a human My Little Pony. Yes, I know they have a human spinoff, but MLP ended when I was about 6. I recognize no others.
Method of Madness:
A human spinoff? How is that...huh?
Also do you not even recognize Friendship is Magic?
War Sparrow:
Ya, it's called Equestria girls.
I recognize it exists, but it is not the MLP of my childhood, so naturally it's wrong. I don't condemn the people who watch it, but it offends some small part of my soul for some reason.
electromgneticDstroyosaur:
"Friendship is Magic!"
*stands awkwardly holding hands and thrusting heads forward, doing nothing to stop the Sirens*
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