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WCDT: 11-15 June 2018 (3761-3765)
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Overthinking is one of our favorite activities.
Faye and Angus did break out the L-word.
brasca:
I voted Wil and Penelope since it seems like a tidy way to write them out.
Bubbles is definitely wearing Faye’s shirt, but I don’t know how it could fit unless she mistakenly ordered a 3X by mistake and never returned it.
BenRG:
At some point, Bubbles is going to have to go into her 'settings' screen and move the 'Moral Intensity' slider down a little from it's current place at '11'. I mean, it's lovely the way she gets so passionate about things but, as we see here, it is possible to be too passionate and risk damaging your household Marten Reed.
It's nice the way Marten lets Faye and Bubbles take the lead though. He's got good reason to believe that the two have at least decided to be friends with benefits; maybe even a full relationship. However, he lets them decided how much they want to say to him. Compare that to, say, Dora, who'd likely offer a whole paragraph of innuendos and squeaky demands for 'details'. I'm not criticising Dora, I'm just saying that Marten seems to empathise better than her when it comes to dealing with friends in new and/or uncomfortable situations.
I have to say that, given the difference in size between Faye and Bubbles, brasca must be right about Faye having accidentally ordered an XXXL once and having never returned it. Her normal Angry Bear would be practically skin-tight on Bubbles!
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 10 Jun 2018, 20:37 ---...Cosette pregnant is a truly horrifying thought.
Remember how accident prone she is?
--- End quote ---
That would be an actual part of the running joke. You'd never see her holding the baby; it would be either Steve or one of the other ladies. It will never be explicitly stated that she's only allowed to hold the baby when seated and surrounded by soft pillows but we'll be allowed to think that.
gopher:
Probably time for one of the couple to find a new place. 4 Adults is too much for a two-bedroomed flat/apartment, imo.
oddtail:
Not much to say about the comic otherwise, but... okay, comparing Marten's (positive) impact to the conference of Yalta kinda rubs me the wrong way, with me being Polish and all.
For those who don't know, the prevailing Polish sentiment about what happened in Yalta is basically "Poland got screwed over by the West and basically shoved into USSR's loving arms". It has the connotations of our nation's history being decided FOR us, with world superpowers dividing Europe as they saw fit, despite the fact that we were the first country to fight Nazi Germany and such.
I'm aware the political reality of the time was much more complex, but comparing something that led to Faye and Bubbles being a couple with what led to Poland being stuck as a Soviet satellite country for the next 40+ years...
...to me, the implications are troubling at best.
The comic's fine otherwise, but this part is just, UGH.
EDIT: not to mention the redrawing of Polish eastern border. Which is a much more complicated issue (what with the people living in pre-partition Eastern Poland being nations other than Poles, which Poland for the most part always failed to acknowledge), but with the end result being that those nations got swallowed whole into USSR... yeah, Yalta sucked for pretty much ALL of Eastern Europe.
EDIT 2: this article sums up the issue pretty well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_betrayal
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