Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT strips 3781 - 3785 (9-13 July 2018)
gopher:
Re the poll.
http://lib.ru/ADAMS/liff.txt
BenRG:
--- Quote from: hakko504 on 09 Jul 2018, 23:40 ---Also, the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is missing.
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Arguably, that is not a valid answer as we do not know the question.
dna_level_c:
w h a t d o y o u g e t w h e n y o u m u l t i p l y s i x b y n i n e ?
Neko_Ali:
--- Quote from: Tova on 09 Jul 2018, 23:44 ---So, I don't think that anyone has missed the point that Clinton has an unresolved issue. On the other hand, what I haven't seen mentioned yet is the complete ease with which Clinton was able to discuss it, with people he has only relatively recently met, on the barest of pretexts (the mere mention of raisins). Compare that with the difficulty Faye before he finally spilled the beans in the famous discussion with Marten. I'm not trying to compare the issues themselves, but the ease with which both characters find themselves willing to discuss them to any degree.
Does this mean that Clinton has already worked through it to some degree, or that the issue is currently festering and he now feels (consciously or otherwise) a strong need to expose it to the light? Either way, it will be interesting to see if this revelation brings any of these characters a little closer to each other.
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The circumstances between Faye's dad and elder Augustus are vastly different. Faye had no sign there was anything bothering her father, whom she loved dearly, until he committed suicide right in front of her. If I remember correctly she still doesn't know why. Humans are desperate to know why a tragedy occurs to them, they need to understand so bad they'll invent reasons if they have to. Faye never had that closure. Just one day he was her loving, seeming happy father and with a literal bang he was gone, leaving her with nothing but pain and questions. Faye also tends to be reserved and tight lipped about her own feelings, burying them away or trying to drink them away previously.
Clinton and Claire's experience is quite different. As far as they/we know their father is still alive. He's just a cheating asshole they have and want nothing to do with. And it certainly looks like his cheating and abusive nature was well known for a long before he finally left for good and their parents were divorced. The source of their trauma is less sudden and intense. And they open up about their feelings and past a lot more readily. Therapy about it probably, and they had each other for support where as Faye closed herself off. The pain may never go away, and some things may trigger a stress or panic reaction as we've seen. But when you've talked and told so many people about it, telling a few more becomes routine, and does help lessen the sting of it. That is part of the point of group therapy sessions.
Theta9:
--- Quote from: dna_level_c on 10 Jul 2018, 04:30 ---w h a t d o y o u g e t w h e n y o u m u l t i p l y s i x b y n i n e ?
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Wrong question, as Ford pointed out, because Arthur is descended from the Golgafrincham colonists and not from the indigenous Earth people, who died out after the Golgafrincham landing.
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