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WCDT Strips 3496 to 3500 (5 to 9 June 2017)
Emperor Norton:
--- Quote from: JimC on 06 Jun 2017, 02:14 ---Pity/sympathy milkshake; telling him whole staff has been listening in?
Seems like a good way to ensure you +never+ see that customer again unless social behaviour is very different your side of the pond...
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Idk, man. All I need is a bunch of friends who will go in with me, fake telling them I'm into them, have them turn me down, and it is free milkshakes for DAAAAAYS.
That or eventually they would stop feeling sorry for me and start wondering what kind of monster I am.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Emperor Norton on 06 Jun 2017, 03:09 ---
--- Quote from: JimC on 06 Jun 2017, 02:14 ---Pity/sympathy milkshake; telling him whole staff has been listening in?
Seems like a good way to ensure you +never+ see that customer again unless social behaviour is very different your side of the pond...
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Idk, man. All I need is a bunch of friends who will go in with me, fake telling them I'm into them, have them turn me down, and it is free milkshakes for DAAAAAYS.
That or eventually they would stop feeling sorry for me and start wondering what kind of monster I am.
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Well I suppose it would depend on how you want to be seen. On the one hand, you would be seen as some sort of inhuman monster. But on the other, more important hand, you'd have free milkshakes. And isn't that what everyone wants in the end?
(except mint. I hate mint milkshakes)
Jazzmaster:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 05 Jun 2017, 23:18 ---That said, I'm not sure that things are entirely as bad for him as some imagine they are. This is Brun we're talking about, after all. I don't think that her reaction would be like that of your average girl (who I'd expect to say 'yes' or 'no' immediately). For some reason, I genuinely think that Brun will go off and think about this 'new data' for some time.
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People said the same thing about Emily. Social awkwardness or not, eccentricities or not, I've always gone by the phrase "anything other than yes is no". Personally I'd rather Clinton take this and Emily's rejection and learn from them a little so he can continue to learn from them and get more comfortable with putting himself out there and meeting other people, because I feel like it's a more realistic portrayal of what guys like him would need to sort through if they're trying to find a partner. But that's not up to me, of course.
Neko_Ali:
In most other people, that is most often true. Social programming, especially for girls, is to avoid direct conflict whenever possible. So avoiding answering the question is thought of as 'better' than saying no. Emily and Brun do not follow your standard social cues though. Emily eventually explained that she just wasn't interested in dating anyone now. That wasn't a hard no on Clinton just a 'maybe later'. And I think we can say that was an honest answer, not a 'polite refusal'. Brun I doubt even realizes that in a situation like that, one is 'supposed' to tell the other person whether or not they find them attractive. She approaches most thing in a clinical, detached manner. And she's just realized that everything she thought she understood about romance and attraction is wrong, so she's likely reprocessing that. She'll probably be sitting in the Unemployment office in tomorrow's comic and realize 'oh. I should have said I liked him back.' That or she'll Tell Renee who will get all exasperated and explain it to her.
cesium133:
--- Quote from: Case on 05 Jun 2017, 23:39 ---That flashback of Clinton's in panel 2 - is this a reference to a recent comic? Which one? :oops:
In other news, I finally grokked the connection between Bubbles' noticing that Pintsize's money is damp and the title 'Invisible Hand' in comic 3490 - In your face, Adam Smith!
(Yesyes, I know - it's quickthinker month ...)
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I'm not sure if it's related, but it reminds me of the phrase Pecunia non olet (except in this case the money probably does stink).
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