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WCDT strips 4046-4050 (15 - 19 July 2019)
brasca:
--- Quote from: Gus_Smedstad on 16 Jul 2019, 18:39 ---Hannelore discovered the Poop Buddha.
As for poop being poop, I had to struggle to reach the same point. There's a pretty good reason for having a poop-touching taboo, since it's full of harmful microbes. But at the end of the day, if you're careful about washing, it's pretty much like handling dirt. Getting it on you isn't going to kill you, you just need to be a bit extra careful about really, really cleaning it off. Preferably with something that's good at killing off those microbes.
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That's what I'm hoping. Poop is disgusting on its own but it's what's inside that counts. There's a reason the mortality rate dropped when sanitation improved. If Hannelore treats contact with fecal matter without freaking out then good for her, but I hope her psychosis hasn't swung in the opposite direction. She'd be in for a hell of relapse the first time she gets sick eating at a greasy spoon.
OldGoat:
It's likely Hanners sought out challenging experiences which very probably included lunching on surströmming in Sweden. Her system now scoffs at greasy spoons.
jmsr:
--- Quote from: andrybak on 15 Jul 2019, 04:33 ---
--- Quote from: jmsr on 14 Jul 2019, 19:50 ---
--- Quote from: hedgie on 14 Jul 2019, 19:09 ---I'm pretty sure that SB's dogs are greyhounds.
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Hm, you may be right. The only place we see their dogs is in this strip here: https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3418 and the tail of one of them here: https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3969 . In contrast, we see mrs augustus' new borzoi in https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3878 https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3879 https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3881 and in today's strip here https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4046
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There's also #3901 "Multiple Anatomy". It's overwritten for some reason on questionablecontent.net with "Family Citrus" (compare #3901 and #3906), but is saved on imgur.
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Huh, i never saw that 'multiple anatomy' strip, and i remember checking it every day over christmas and new years break. That pretty conclusively puts "Spookybot" or "Yay" or whatever they go by as having two grayhound dogs which are named Azathoth and Mr. Smooches. tyvm!
BenRG:
What I find very interesting about Hannelore's sermon is it is very much in character for her. Waaay back when she was first introduced, she told Marten and Faye that she handles the whole defecation issue by lighting scented candles, putting on a blindfold and trying to totally divorce her conscious awareness from what is happening. For her, getting through a dirty, icky and unhygienic thing that is life requires that she teach her brain to somehow dance around the subject. Oddly enough, I'm pretty sure that everyone has to do this about something.
No, for me, the real interesting part of this comic is her comments in panels 1 and 2 about realising that she was doing the 'rich white girl finding herself/tourist' thing. I do think that people in developing world countries can rightly be a bit annoyed about these people from the First World with no problems coming to them, dripping with disposable wealth and wanting to 'experience' different cultures without any real personal stake other than curiosity and some condescending attitude about 'noble and exotic primitive ways'. What progress Hannelore made in understanding her connection with the world around her strongly depended on the fact that she forced herself out of her comfort zone to actually live it.
--- Quote from: shanejayell on 16 Jul 2019, 19:18 ---I do hope Hanners remains somewhat quirky, or she'll just fade into the background....
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That's the thing; this isn't a 'cure by any sense of the word. What she's done is found a useful mind-exercise to help her basically not freak out all the time when dealing with the unhygienic. However, it is still a conscious process, so I think she'll be caught out on occasion. I suspect that she'll always have some issues with spontaneous acts on others' parts and something simple like making out with someone she fancies will require some before-and-after meditation to handle. Basically, she's just taken a few more steps along the road to functionality, one that makes it easier to express the love that she feels for all her friends, that's all.
Y:
'Holy shit'. Perhaps doing something extreme can turn your feeling about it. It's how I got cured from my shyness, I did something very 'unshy'. Perhaps she had to do baby steps to get that point and visit someone's hairy art installation among the way.
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