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WCDT strips 3666 to 3670 (29th January to 2nd February 2018)
ImVeryAngryItsNotButter:
--- Quote from: SpanielBear on 31 Jan 2018, 17:48 ---U.S.S Faye Whitaker, oblivious to the point of clinical blindness, plows on like an icebreaker through a polar bear's back yard.
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Speaking of shipping, Jeph has been teasing us for almost a month now. Goddamn man, either launch this ship or decommission it already! :psyduck:
SPK:
It's a healthy thing to be able to vent, holding it in won't do any good.
That third panel is a look of sheer terror on her face, I adore it.
*goes to make popcorn for the next few strips*
Zebediah:
Bornyl acetate is used as a scent in air fresheners. Why would anyone put it in a coolant?
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: Storel on 31 Jan 2018, 11:29 ---
--- Quote from: Morituri on 31 Jan 2018, 10:47 ---
--- Quote from: traroth on 31 Jan 2018, 06:49 ---What do you mean by "That's ... not even wrong"? That's not even a statement.
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"Not even wrong" is how we express in English that something is so ill-formulated that not only is it incorrect, but that it doesn't even address the subject it's supposed to be about. Tautologies, non Sequiturs, Paradoxes, and answers that merely restate the question are examples of things that are not even wrong.
They're "Not even wrong" because you can't even correct them. If I tell you that "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" what have I gotten wrong? You don't just have several choices, you have *EVERY POSSIBLE CHOICE* of what is wrong with that sentence. It's not even wrong.
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Wow. I'm a native English speaker and I had no idea what "That's... not even wrong" was supposed to mean. Despite feeling that there are so many things wrong with what was said that you can't address all of them, perhaps you could provide some specific examples of some of the things that are wrong with it? Because I for one don't see what the problem is.
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It's no doubt it's an attempt by some American student of freshman French at revenge for passé simple.
Akima:
--- Quote from: traroth on 31 Jan 2018, 09:14 ---I couldn't agree more. I get more and more the feeling Evie should somehow have used her clairvoyant powers to know how Bubbles was sensitive on some subjects...
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I think there is a difference between demanding clairvoyance, and expecting basic social toilet-training. I don't expect people to be clairvoyant about how I'm going to react, but I don't believe clairvoyance should be required to anticipate that saying, for example, "you can't help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies" would offend me. Comparing Bubbles's entire "species" to weapons of mass-destruction, is similar to regarding my entire people (I'm an ethnic Han) as part of the Yellow Peril, an attitude still widespread today.
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 31 Jan 2018, 18:10 ---Bornyl acetate is used as a scent in air fresheners. Why would anyone put it in a coolant?
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Because Bubbles is pining for Faye? :claireface: (I know she isn't, exactly, but I could not resist the pun.)
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