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WCDT Strips 3191-3195 (4th to 8th April 2016)

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Doc:
I don't think a giant walking toaster would be a good idea.

You need to put several whole breads in them in stead of just two slices to fill them up, you will have to run after them if they walk away.
Just too much activity when all you want is to have a peaceful cosy breakfast.

Skewbrow:

--- Quote from: hedgie on 05 Apr 2016, 01:09 ---The main problem with Seals is that they're terrified of Canadians.

--- End quote ---

Of all Canadians or the Arctic Native ones (Inuits) in particular?

BenRG:
@Doc,

Yeah, because "... a giant walking toaster..." has worked out so well for humans in the past in the fictional multiverse, hasn't it?



"All this has happened before and will happen again..."

All in all "they take our jobs" suddenly seems such a welcome alternative.

MrNumbers:
This is reminding me of perhaps the most heartwarming scene in the otherwise dark and morbid John Darnielle novel Wolf in White Van.

The protagonist, whose view we experience the story from, has been the victim of a horrible... something and required complete facial reconstruction. His tongue is mostly missing and his face is described as looking like a truck tire held to a blowtorch and allowed to melt into a fleshy trackmark.

And he's hanging out around a little strip of shops and he sees some teenagers staring at his face. And he feels good about it, because everybody does, but they try to be polite about it, they try to avoid it, and he can feel the weight of their pity and judgement. And here are some dumb kids who aren't afraid to look him in the eye and just go;

"Woah. You're a freak."

And he fucking owns it and smiles and just goes; "Yeah. Yeah, I am."

"Dude, that is so cool. Can we see?"

and they talk and hang out and drink beers. They offer him a cigarette and talk about what his face looks like, one upping each other with terrible, morbid jokes and he feels so free because these idiots are being friendly in their cruelty. They're not trying to look away, they're taking him for what he is and being open about it, rather than acting like he should be ashamed of it. And it takes something that you would think would crush a man who'd already had to deal with so much, and just lets him feel normal for the first time in decades by openly allowing him feel like the freak everyone refuses to acknowledge he is.

And then you have these chucklefucks who throw fucking prejudice into an already volatile mix, and now I want to tell their parents what they did.

ZoeB:
I hate to think what the situation of AIs is in North Carolina.

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