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WCDT Strips 3176 to 3180 (14 - 18 March 2016)
wdfarmer:
Look at my sweater / My sweater's amazing
Tug on its corner, and then you'll feel warmer
Stretch it over a frame / It turns into a plane
And then it turns back again / When you tug on its winky
TinPenguin:
At least Bubbles won't need to worry about the cardigan chopping off her hair.
chaospersonified:
--- Quote from: wdfarmer on 18 Mar 2016, 01:09 ---Look at my sweater / My sweater's amazing
Tug on its corner, and then you'll feel warmer
Stretch it over a frame / It turns into a plane
And then it turns back again / When you tug on its winky
--- End quote ---
I know the reference, and I respond with my own:
If you want to destroy my sweater,
Pull this thread as I walk away
it won't actually do anything
it's what we call the placebo effect
improvnerd:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 18 Mar 2016, 00:25 ---In normal interaction, she hovers above 'barely functional'.
--- End quote ---
I don't see that. She seems quite happy and quite functional. Just not normal. Like many occupants of the QCniverse.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: improvnerd on 18 Mar 2016, 02:29 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 18 Mar 2016, 00:25 ---In normal interaction, she hovers above 'barely functional'.
--- End quote ---
I don't see that. She seems quite happy and quite functional. Just not normal. Like many occupants of the QCniverse.
--- End quote ---
That's not how I read her. Yes, she's capable of quite complex communication but she just doesn't seem to have any instinct for social interaction. I mean, read her apology in panel 2. Doesn't that read like something she's rehearsed or even been told by her parents or maybe her therapist? She may agree with the general spirit of the words but, from the way she's expressing herself, she doesn't come across as fully understanding it.
What does she do then? Like a six-year-old child presenting a flower to seal the apology, she gives Bubbles a idiosyncratic gift!
I'm not talking Emily down. She's a perfectly nice, sweet and good-hearted young woman. All I'm saying is that, on a certain level, she'll always have this childlike aspect in which she fails to consider or even fully understand the social consequences of her whims.
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