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It's not up yet, and I'm trying to avoid grading midterms. It's been a while since I started one of these...
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Steve and Cosette come along with Marten to the dance thing. It turns out Cosette knows Padma, and their past interaction has not been a good thing. Most likely one of Cosette's past accidents caused injury to Padma as well. Or Cosette was obsessed with someone Padma was involved with.
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But Cosette and Padma met once, and there was no indication they'd met before, or that they'd interact after that.
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Curses, foiled by my ageing memory.
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I can't help but wonder in what direction the Dale/Marigold storyline would be taken if Marigold did stop playing WoW. As much as I'd like to see Marigold come out of her shell, I've been enjoying the jousting between them.
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- more robots
- more Sweet-tits
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Added. It changed one person's vote, but that person should be able to change it back...
Edit: Maybe not. I hit the checkbox that allows people to chenge votes when the poll was made, does that functionality get lost when the poll is edited? I can always readjust the totals in the poll report if I have to...
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Yes, it does. I used to make polls so that people could change their votes when I added more options, but adding options disabled vote changing. Grr.
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Thanks for changing the poll...
...but that was mainly just my way of getting a post in early so I could get updates in the "unread replies" button.
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I used to make polls so that people could change their votes when I added more options, but adding options disabled vote changing. Grr.
Admins and global mods can enable it again; I've done so.
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Curses, foiled by my ageing memory.
No curses at all. It was a bad idea in the first place. The kind of cheesy "fan fiction" storyline one better tries to avoid.
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Marigold doesn't have to throw away everything she likes in order to become socially competent. She just has to learn balance and self-control.
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Marigold doesn't have to throw away everything she likes in order to become socially competent. She just has to learn balance and self-control.
I hereby vote you "way too down on earth" for this webcomic. (No offense, just kidding)
Anybody else want this dancing thing to be accompanied by music? Can someone tell Jeph to make the parteh-wohoo-comics have music in them? God, I love the modern age sequential art possibilites. :-D
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Its up its up its up!
And also... when did "Butts!" become a disease? I like butts. oO
(A lesser man who might think bad things about this statement)
Hannelore needs her own spin-off science-fiction comic series. Hannelore the Psychic. Or Houdilore / Hannedini the great Magician from outer space!
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I'd read the shite out of that.
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The rest of the cast should buttress themselves against this terrible disease.
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@Soulsynger: Some butts are indeed awesome. But not all of them and not all the time. That's the disease.
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So panel 1 with Steve and Marten. Yeah. That's all I'm going to say.
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Handhelds are like a nicotine patch for gamers - not the real thing, but it helps to ease the craving :P
Also, does Hanners really think she is psychic, or is that simply an attempt to calm Marten with humour? ("wtf Hanners haz no human emotions, lollore")
Though what she says about Steve confuses me :lol:
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The rest of the cast should buttress themselves against this terrible disease.
I say only a flying buttress will give enough support for the entire crew.
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Those of you who follow Jeph on other media will already know that "butts" is something that tends to come up from time to time.
In other news, it seems that Marten and Steve's friendship hasn't been damaged yet by any rough-housing.
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And Marten's head appears intact. We should, however, keep Steve under close surveillance for any sudden hand movements.
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Starting to be concerned about the whole butts-disease situation :psyduck:
I totally dig the fact that nobody questions Hanners' fortunetelling :-)
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And Marten's head appears intact. We should, however, keep Steve under close surveillance for any sudden hand movements.
And apparently for sudden butt movements too! :psyduck:
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Butts brick joke in the future? Possibly.
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Also, does Hanners really think she is psychic, or is that simply an attempt to calm Marten with humour?
I'm going to say it's the latter, and...
Though what she says about Steve confuses me :lol:
... personally, I thought this was pretty much the clincher.
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Again, surprisingly I still agree with Steve. Marten does need to stop worrying so much. Although Steve should consider rethinking his strategy: slapping Marten is apparently not being effective. Perhaps a water pistol (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=557)?
Also, I just love Hanner's sense of humor here. "Butts" indeed. :evil:
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@Soulsynger: Some butts are indeed awesome. But not all of them and not all the time. That's the disease.
Ooooh, you're right of course! I forgot that everything in this world has a weirdly compulsory version somewhere. oO
At this point I should probably reassure myself that I don't have it... probably.
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Didn't see that coming...
I love it when Hanners messes with people!
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She is definitely psychic - you can't argue with the results.
It uses the same technology as the Worry Hat.
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I think Hannerdad has some explaining to do about this......
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Wait a minute was it ever established that Hanners had psychic powers
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More importantly, has it been established that she doesn't??
:psyduck:
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More importantly, has it been established that she doesn't??
:psyduck:
You're not Jesus, dude.
Schroedinger's cat, guys. At this point she both DOES and DOESN'T have psychic powers.
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I'm a bit more concerned with the electricity apparently escaping from Hanners' head than Steve's future.
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Schroedinger's cat, guys. At this point she both DOES and DOESN'T have psychic powers.
...I wouldn't be surprised if Schrödinger's cat was actually named Hannelore... :-D
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Schrödinger, being a friend of Hannerdad*, was supposed to be feeding Hannelore's cat while she was in orbit with her dad; but the cat got lost, possibly as the result of hiding in a box.
* Yes, we know that QC time is rather flexible, don't we?
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look what I've found! :police:
http://twitter.com/jephjacques/qccast
hanneloreEC:
I'm not actually psychic. That would violate causality and be terrible!
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Ah, but what if she's just saying that so the nice young men in their clean white coats won't come and take her away? Then again, depending on how nice and clean they are, Hanners might enjoy that. :evil:
Disclaimer: No, I don't think Hannelore is psychic. Still, it's fun to speculate about.
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"THIS PLACE IS A BUTT AND YOU ARE ALSO A BUTT!" (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1846)
It's butts all the way down!
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I've seen websites like that...
:angel:
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look what I've found! :police:
http://twitter.com/jephjacques/qccast
hanneloreEC:
I'm not actually psychic. That would violate causality and be terrible!
I bet she's just saying that to throw us off the scent. WE'RE ONTO YOUR SCHEME, MISS ELLICOTT-CHATHAM!!
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I do believe Hannelore was just playing with Marten. With Steve, I dunno.
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But she has also changed her twitter pic to show her psychic powers in use!
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I think Hannerdad has some explaining to do about this......
It's about time we actually got to see him. But the idea comes to mind that we'll see Steve's parents before we see her dad. Don't ask me why.
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"THIS PLACE IS A BUTT AND YOU ARE ALSO A BUTT!" (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1846)
It's butts all the way down!
Ninja'd!! : :laugh:
New avatar: Psychic Hanners. Loving the derpy eyes.
...I believe iduguphergrave had dibs on Kid-Dino Marten. :-)
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So Hannelore finally took the vegan plunge.
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...I believe iduguphergrave had dibs on Kid-Dino Marten. :-)
Oh wow I can't believe you actually remember that; thanks! I like my current pic, but once I get sick of it I'm glad I can use my Marty-dino icon. Better yet, I'll put it up in like a week and it'll fit the upcoming Halloween. Sweet! /dork
Cute comicking today. Though I was a little disappointed Marigold didn't actually have any speaking lines.
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"THIS PLACE IS A BUTT AND YOU ARE ALSO A BUTT!" (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1846)
It's butts all the way down!
But how low can we sink?
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I think we've already hit...bottom, don't you?
*cue chorus of groans*
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I think we should stop before we make asses of ourselves.
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So much for Marigold's epiphany: she's already playing (Nintendo DS? some kind of hand-held game thingy). And smiling like she just got her crack pipe back.
= = =
Oh, butts disease is spreading, stage 1: puns abound. What a callypigean conundrum.
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I think we should stop before we make asses of ourselves.
Asses? Damn near killed him!
wait...
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I think we should stop before we make asses of ourselves.
Isn't it a bit late for that? :evil:
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I think we should stop before we make asses of ourselves.
Asses? Damn near killed him!
wait...
*golf clap* well played, sir.
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Isn't it a butt late for that? :evil:
FYP
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This is almost as bad as the comment section for almost any page of Guilded Age (http://guildedage.net/).
OK, maybe not todays, but just go back some...
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for counter:=1 to 100 do
writeln('I will never, ever, again ask, "how low we can sink?"');
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I think we should stop before we make asses of ourselves.
Asses? Damn near killed him!
wait...
*golf clap* well played, sir.*
Ma'am.*
Thank you!
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On Marigold's game-thing there; it appears to be a Nintendo DS Lite, but it also seems to have a gold Triforce on the case. Now, there hasn't been a limited edition DSL exactly like that released in our world, that I can discover anyway, so that leaves us with a special edition unique to the QC-verse (always assuming it doesn't turn out to be part of the Whately-verse in the end…) or, Mari has a custom job. Which is in many ways more interesting because she either really wanted a Zelda-themed DS that wasn't garish, or made it herself, which is a newly revealed skill with which she could bond with Faye.
/over-analysis
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Or, you know...a sticker.
/under-analysis
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And this is where we find out that Hanners is related on her mothers side to The Great Kerskin. :-D
As well as foreseeing The Great Butts Disaster of 2011
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Schroedinger's cat, guys.
*rings bell*
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Schroedinger's cat, guys.
*rings bell*
[LurchVoice] "You rang?" [/LurchVoice]
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We need another comic to restore sense to this thread.
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I think I've fallen behind in this discussion.
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I'll say. It feels like most of us are bumming around.
(Also, I love the fact that both steve and marten don't question Hanners' powers)
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Schroedinger's cat, guys.
*rings bell*
(http://www.perthstreetbikes.com/95726/Our-Generations-defining-moment--/drooling_homer.gif)
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I think you're confusing Schrodinger's cat with Pavlov's dog.
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And at the same time, they are not.
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The Goonies ARE the Matrix!
....wait, what?
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I think you're confusing Schrodinger's cat with Pavlov's dog.
Technically, cesariojpn was, I was just going along with it.
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Schroedinger's cat, guys.
*rings bell*
[LurchVoice] "You rang?" [/LurchVoice]
WIN.
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We need another comic to restore sense to this thread.
And I think that should be your permanent signature. ;)
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It's about time we actually got to see him. But the idea comes to mind that we'll see Steve's parents before we see her dad. Don't ask me why.
Hannerdad's a disembodied intellect uploaded to the Net? He looks like a Guild Navigator?
So Hannelore finally took the vegan plunge.
As long as she doesn't start reading her poetry (http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Vogon_Poetry).
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(Also, I love the fact that both steve and marten don't question Hanners' powers)
Of course not. She just used her other psychic powers to prevent them from even considering the idea of questioning them.
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Wait, so if you put Pavlov's dog in a box and ring the bell, did he salivate?
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No, the cat died.
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Or not.
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Or changed his name to Pixel
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Is it deeply wrong that I find these butt puns extremely hilarious?
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I still say Hannelore really does have psychic powers, and the Twitter post was just obfuscation.
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Yeah, she's just covering her backside.
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I think you're confusing Schrodinger's cat with Pavlov's dog.
Technically, cesariojpn was, I was just going along with it.
Ohnonono, don't pin the blame entirely on me.......
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Yeah, she's just covering her backside.
Wouldn't you? It is Steve, after all (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=578)...
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I think you're confusing Schrodinger's cat with Pavlov's dog.
Technically, cesariojpn was, I was just going along with it.
Ohnonono, don't pin the blame entirely on me.......
Ha, what else would the bell be a reference to? Either way, I chose that over this (http://xkcd.com/45/).
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I think you're confusing Schrodinger's cat with Pavlov's dog.
Technically, cesariojpn was, I was just going along with it.
Ohnonono, don't pin the blame entirely on me.......
Ha, what else would the bell be a reference to? Either way, I chose that over this (http://xkcd.com/45/).
The Two and a half men.....okay, that was a bark, not a meow.
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It looks as though that last post was written in English.
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I thought The Last Post was a Trumpet solo.
Good heavens! Great Uncle Bulgaria!
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It is. It's also a poem*. :-D
And yes, I decided it was time for a new avatar, and through a process of random association only slightly stranger than this thread, I ended up at the wombles.
* Did you like that recovery?
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Clearly Hanners IS psychic (possibly doesn't even realize it yet?!) and foresaw that Cosette is about to buy a double-ended-dildo because she saw how much Steve enjoyed anal and wants the two of them to experiment further.
I think you might have pegged it...
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Wait, I thought that the QC twitter accounts weren't canon...
:psyduck:
On the one hand, if the powers aren't real, then it was nice of her to not only try to reassure Marten, but actually get it completely right.
On the other hand, if they ARE real, then I guess maybe Steve is the sort of person who suggests going to a strip club on a whim (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1849). So maybe...
And hey, Marigold's got back to at least some form of gaming (even if it isn't yet WoW)! I guess Hannelore was nice enough to lift the ban. :D
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I think Jeph's said the twitter accounts are canon, but in any case of inconsistency the comic takes precedence; what you'd expect, really.
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Boys, the butts disease is messing with our mental abilities to keep a steady line of reasoning.
ARGAFARGL!
Anyone ever thought about Hanner's psychic powers as being somewhat Delphic in nature? Meaning her predictions aren't supposed to be taken literally... I wonder what "butts" could mean if we try to unsimplify it.
Also... who mistakes Schroedinger's Cat with Pavlov's Dog? By god, that would be like mistaking a healthy, mouthwatering dinner with dieing slowly in a radiation filled chamber. oO
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And all this talk in the comic about Marten WORRYING and no one thought about maybe finally handing him the darned WORRY HAT?! This society is deteriorating!
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Unless by "radiation filled" you mean the opposite, I think you're confusing schrodingers cat with something else too…
The original thought experiment involved a single unstable atom and no other sources of radiation. The deadly agent was an instant-acting airborne nerve toxin released by a radiation detector pointed at said atom.
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Does it really matter? The cat will die of suffocation anyway if you don't let it out of the damned box...
Herr Schrodinger? There are some people from PETA with pitchforks and torches outside...
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On the one hand, if the powers aren't real ...
On the other hand, if they ARE real ...
Did someone ask Hanners "are those real"?
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No point - Jeph has made it clear that the twitter accounts will not respond to real life people. He did a Hanners Q&A on Tumblr, I recall, but hasn't repeated the idea.
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So Hannelore finally took the vegan plunge.
Took me a second, then I was delighted.
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Question: What's in store for this week?
more Dale and Marigold 5 (7.9%)
more epiphanies 3 (4.8%)
more drama 8 (12.7%)
more dope-slaps 1 (1.6%)
more dancing (I know, we haven't seen any yet, but it's a theme...) 19 (30.2%)
more arguments in the forum (0_o) 15 (23.8%)
More robots 2 (3.2%)
More sweet-tits 5 (7.9%)
MOAR WAFFLZ!! 5 (7.9%)
Total Voters: 63
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Ah, the innocence of robots!
I guess...
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Not any more!
Also, NEW POLL!
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Unless by "radiation filled" you mean the opposite, I think you're confusing schrodingers cat with something else too…
The original thought experiment involved a single unstable atom and no other sources of radiation. The deadly agent was an instant-acting airborne nerve toxin released by a radiation detector pointed at said atom.
Haha, I admit, I did not differentiate between toxin filled and radiation filled. Something must've criss-crossed in my buh-rain, what are we gonna do tonight? NARF!
Why do Momo's ponytails swell up, btw? Are they data storages?
And Jeph has hereby settled the dispute once and for all: Victorian Era pornography is the leash holding back the robot revolution.
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Why do Momo's ponytails swell up, btw? Are they data storages?
They've just had steam blow through them.
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Is Momo actually able to turn that old cartoon symbolism into reality? The hilarity!
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Ah, the innocence of robots!
I guess...
How bad was it considering that we already know that Momo's been exposed to a lot of porn (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2000)?
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Aww... Momo is way too cute in this one. I sure hope her system isn't overheating too much. :-o
Also, why do I have the looming fear that someone is going to create a Victorian-era pornographic fanfic thread starring a time-traveling Sven sometime in the near future? :evil:
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:psyduck:
...is every update this week going to make me think "did I miss a strip"? First Hanners is psychic, now Tai is stuffing Momo with porn... what's tomorrow, Dora training as a mage cop?
And Mar had better be careful - this is what got Pee-Wee pinched, after all.
(Also, to anyone protecting Momo's innocence, two words: "eel handling.")
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The more I think about it the more I find it hard to understand Momo's reaction:
[list=1]- After all it has been pointed out that she isn't that innocent and
- Isn't the library database just an index of what is available rather than the stuff itself?
Then again, we don't know how active her imagination is? Maybe she's reacting to the image of the Victorian era?
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As anytime that Victorian pornography is mentioned, I would like to link people to The Pearl.
http://www.libidomag.com/fiction/pearl01.html
Mind you, this is the genteel and literary side of Victorian pornography. The nastier stuff isn't as easily accessible online...
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Is Momo actually able to turn that old cartoon symbolism into reality? The hilarity!
Well, I think it was also established near when Momo was introduced that she could also do the anime sweatdrop if needed, and her scary face when threatening Marigold with her electric shock.
On a side note, Momo's ponytails in the last panel remind me of what Ranka Lee's hair would do in Macross Frontier.
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I think her reaction is more she just wasn't expecting to get filled with even more literary porn.
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I read it as there was so much data, the transfer was overheating her. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BellisariosMaxim)
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(Also, I love the fact that both steve and marten don't question Hanners' powers)
Of course not. She just used her other psychic powers to prevent them from even considering the idea of questioning them.
Are you going to question the lady with lightning coming out of her ears?
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Are you going to question the lady with lightning coming out of her ears?
Hold on! What has this got to do with my wife?! :-P
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A Warrior's Taking
The Perfect Seduction
Taken by the Laird
Seducing the Governess
Ravished by a Highlander
His Conquest
Knight of Desire
Highland Heat
A Lady's Lesson in Scandal
Bedding the Enemy
The Many Sins of Lord Cameron
A Night to Surrender
Ecstasy Wears Emeralds
0/////0 I thought there'd be more textbooks in here
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The explanation is right under the comic.
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The explanation is right under the comic.
"BROS BROS BROS"?
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A Warrior's Taking
The Perfect Seduction
Taken by the Laird
Seducing the Governess
Ravished by a Highlander
His Conquest
Knight of Desire
Highland Heat
A Lady's Lesson in Scandal
Bedding the Enemy
The Many Sins of Lord Cameron
A Night to Surrender
Ecstasy Wears Emeralds
0/////0 I thought there'd be more textbooks in here
Those sound more like Harlequin titles...
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And also... who even asked any question about Momo overheating? I just asked a question about her ponytails. °_o
Its also a bit hard to picture Tai getting a red face (formerly: red head) about ANYTHING at all related to pornography or intercourse in general.
(Btw I couldn't decide which would've been funnier, writing that word in a small or overly large fontsize ... I went with the less offensive one. There are responsible adults frequenting this thread after all. But still, in preview, written in size 8, it was HILARIOUS!)
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Years at Smith have jaded her. You should've seen her as a freshman (OK, "first year") when she found all that stuff in the library.
Why do you think she applied for her job in the first place?
Hint: Two words...
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I think I get it... oO
Yeh, okay, I forgot she would have had access to that particular shelve for as long as she was going to Smith, not just working in the library.
Which begs the question: Shouldn't that particular area have some kind of a minimum age requirement? And the necessary employee-power to enforce it?
And what would've driven her to sneak past that into that particular area in the first place? (... English language center dteriroating, need... food, argafargl.)
("American Universities... rottin' your child's brain into lesbianism since before t'was called that.")
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Momo is adorable! I'm taking her home with me! (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImTakingHerHomeWithMe?from=Main.ptitleztvf5oz5)
Ok! So, now that I've overcome the Cuteness Proximity (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CutenessProximity) effect without overloading (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CutenessOverload), I must say I'm amused by the subject matter. I originally wondered why they would have so much porn on file, but then I recalled that SMIF is a liberal arts school. As their diplomas are more useful as laminated doormats, it makes sense that the contents of their library would have less than practical applications.
Yes, I went to an engineering university, why do you ask?
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I think her reaction is more she just wasn't expecting to get filled with even more literary porn.
And not all victorian porn was literary - Daugerre's photographic process was developed in 1839, and guess what one of its first uses was (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_erotic_depictions#Photography)? The moving picture was developed in 1895, and the earliest porno flick we know of was in 1896...
Early adopters and all that.
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Which begs the question: Shouldn't that particular area have some kind of a minimum age requirement? And the necessary employee-power to enforce it?
Considering that they didn't deny Pintsize access to that section (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=770) I think they are pretty permissive.
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I forgot the little reprobate had visited the library. At least no one will be worrying about Momo sharing her newfound knowledge with him, it's already too late.
Speaking of the tiny terror we still haven't seen what happened to Momo's old body. Hopefully he hasn't gotten his paws on it.
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Clearly Hanners IS psychic (possibly doesn't even realize it yet?!) and foresaw that Cosette is about to buy a double-ended-dildo because she saw how much Steve enjoyed anal and wants the two of them to experiment further.
I think you might have pegged it...
You win one internet and two Autonomous Systems.
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I forgot the little reprobate had visited the library. At least no one will be worrying about Momo sharing her newfound knowledge with him, it's already too late.
Speaking of the tiny terror we still haven't seen what happened to Momo's old body. Hopefully he hasn't gotten his paws on it.
That possibility is something we all both dread and anticipate.
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Hannelore's Q&A (http://www.formspring.me/hanneloreec)
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Which begs the question: Shouldn't that particular area have some kind of a minimum age requirement? And the necessary employee-power to enforce it?
And what would've driven her to sneak past that into that particular area in the first place?
If they're in college they're probably old enough to handle it.
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(http://mama.indstate.edu/users/garrett/avatars/momo_victorian_porn_avatar.gif)
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a bit too slow to be really good. didn't even realize it was animated first. :police:
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:psyduck:
...is every update this week going to make me think "did I miss a strip"? First Hanners is psychic, now Tai is stuffing Momo with porn... what's tomorrow, Dora training as a mage cop?
Nope, she's getting secret tutelage from Veronica Vance in becoming a Dominatrix.
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Ahh, the Victorian Era...if people had only known how much Queen Vicky actually enjoyed sex...
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Ahh, the Victorian Era...if people had only known how much Queen Vicky actually enjoyed sex...
Just wait until Momo accesses the Ming Dynasty porn erotic art and poetry over at the Department of Oriental Studies...
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Ahh, the Victorian Era...if people had only known how much Queen Vicky actually enjoyed sex...
(Dials package store) "Hello, do you have Prince Albert in a can?"
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Wednesday: Momo sees butts.
Tuesday: Hannelore sees butts.
Monday: Marigold discovers that WoW is a butt and Dale is also a butt.
What next?
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Jimbo smoking a butt :-D
Hmmmmm. I wonder just how many Terraquads of data Momo can actually store in her new chassis
And yes, nice recovery Tova. Melody will now not shoot you ;)
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Since the "you are a butt and this place is also a butt" comment, I've thought that a butt was pretty much the worst insult that Hanners can use. Not because she's a prude, but because a butt is the source of lots and lots of germs. It might literally be the worst thing she can think of.
So... what does that mean she thinks of Steve? was this banter or was her 6th sense reflecting something she just kind of knows about steve?
or is it just a joke?
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It's a disease.
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Ahh, the Victorian Era...if people had only known how much Queen Vicky actually enjoyed sex...
Just wait until Momo accesses the Ming Dynasty porn erotic art and poetry over at the Department of Oriental Studies...
She'll have to defrag herself once she goes to the African Studies Department Photo Collection of Indigenous People!!
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Hmmmmm. I wonder just how many Terraquads of data Momo can actually store in her new chassis
Approximately 1.21 GIGABUTTS
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1.21 GIGABUTTS??! Great Scot!
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Concerning Momo's ponytails puffing up like that, I'm thinking some form of heat dissipation mechanism. Heat sinks tied directly to her hair. The hotter her system gets, the bigger her hair gets.
Just remember to shut her down when it gets into seventies fro mode.
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1.21 GIGABUTTS??! Great Scot!
I think this thread just hit 88 miles an hour!
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The idea of DJ Squeekz amuses me
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Saying "Beans of Doom" out loud makes me giggle. I have no idea why. :D
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Work can spring for a pricey room in NYC, but Angus has a roomate...
:psyduck:
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So, I'm not entirely sure where this might go (it has been awhile since I've been here, and I guess for that I'm a :psyduck: ), however:
I want a shirt of the sign in the background of Wed. Comic: "Coffee. Fuckin' Drink Some!" with the CoD gals all grouped together... even maybe a silhouette of Sara?
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Must....have......knives shirt..............
Actually when putting it that way makes it sound like a shirt made out of knives. Awesome.
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Work can spring for a pricey room in NYC, but Angus has a roomate... :psyduck:
Eh? Why is this confusing? Employers/clients have paid for me to stay in nice hotels (the Hong Kong Hilton for example) in the centre of distant cities that I certainly could not afford out of my own pocket.
I think Jeph should draw DJSqueekZ! Or is that Skrillex?
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"Beans of Doom!" WantWantWant.
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I'm picturing Knives Chau with that shirt (in the library incident).
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Angus looks cross-eyed in the first frame.
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I want an avatar of DJ Sqeekz. Somehow that mental image of a disc-jockeying mouse is tickling my brain... in a good way.
And can someone photoshop a faint SFX:"ROMPLE" into the near righthand background of panel three? I totally envisioned the poor customer falling over in a most hilarious cartoon~y fashion. :-D
Also, I'm gonna make a shirt with "1.21 GIGABUTTS?! GREAT SCOTT!".
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I came here to infect you with my vision of a rapping rodent, but was instead infected by yours. :psyduck:
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Must....have......knives shirt..............
I'm with ya!
Work can spring for a pricey room in NYC, but Angus has a roomate... :psyduck:
Eh? Why is this confusing? Employers/clients have paid for me to stay in nice hotels (the Hong Kong Hilton for example) in the centre of distant cities that I certainly could not afford out of my own pocket.
It's not confusing, but it just raises some questions that have never really been addressed before...
Just how important is Angus in his workplace, anyways? Apparently important enough to warrant first-class travel accommodations? That's a pretty sweet deal, especially for a trip with such a short turn around that's only a short train ride away.
Most workplaces would make him stay in the Newark Super 8, is all I'm sayin' :-P
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Hey, you could be right, but ... you got all of that from "fancy hotel room"?
He's talking about rapping rats. It could mean anything.
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It's not confusing, but it just raises some questions that have never really been addressed before...
Just how important is Angus in his workplace, anyways? Apparently important enough to warrant first-class travel accommodations? That's a pretty sweet deal, especially for a trip with such a short turn around that's only a short train ride away.
Most workplaces would make him stay in the Newark Super 8, is all I'm sayin' :-P
He doesn't have a workplace, he has clients and venues. Assuming a real world correlation, he's probably being hired by some Wall Street firm to strawman the Occupy Wall Street views and present them in a bad light. That means money and a desire for close proximity so he can get around, which means lower Manhattan, which means few cheap hotels even if they wanted to set him up in one.
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Just how important is Angus in his workplace, anyways?
I've always imagined he must be a freelance. I can't imagine the professional strawman business having salaried employees somehow.
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And as a freelance worker myself, he could easily do really well at times and not so well at others. Would explain why he sometimes has clients who are putting out enough money for him to stay in swanky hotels, but still prefers the lower cost of living with a roommate.
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Or maybe he is acustomed to living frugally from a time in his life where he wasn't rolling in loot, and chooses to keep his expenses low and bank the rest.
Didn't he say something about going to some high end boarding school?
He strikes me as the kind of guy who doesn't need to make a big deal out of "living large."
Angus could have a five or six digit trust fund squirrelled away somewhere.
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Faye has a great facial expression as she tosses the beans (not a euphemism). I can almost see the "I was going to open these and make you some coffee. But not now. Busy now. Whatever. Chew on this."
1.21 GIGABUTTS??! Great Scot!
I think this thread just hit 88 miles an hour!
I'm late, but I just wish to say: 88 piles an hour.
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Knives to meet you! That's brilliant! I want that T-shirt! :-D
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Looking at some of Angus' facial expression, I somehow get the feeling he might have ulterior motives for dragging Faye to the big apple.
Also, a sudden sense of impending doom comes over me. What if Faye looses Angus in the crowd ... even for just one second? It'd be trauma-town all over again. I don't like this.
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Could be Angus has finally sacked up and will ask Faye to marry him.
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soooooo, did Jeph go to NY Comic-Con, that just wrapped up around here? Maybe he's got some photo refs for NYC backgrounds.
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Maybe Faye and Angus will get shot in the backstreets and this is them being written out of the comic FOREVAR.
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Maybe Faye and Angus will get shot in the backstreets and this is them being written out of the comic FOREVAR.
If I was capable of emotion, that still wouldn't have fazed me at all. You're clearly so very obviously over-interpreting this.
They're just being written out of the comic for a year or so of real time. Then they'll come back either as a corporation-erasing duo-force specializing in zassing corrupt managers to death or as sidekicks to the then-famous DJ Sqeekz and his pumping alternative post-neo-dubstep-core music.
Or as potatoes, carried under his feather~y wings by Yelling Bird... your pick.
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Ugh, I hate it when people nowhere near New York* call it "the city." It just feels like buckling to their self-aggrandizing.
I should just remind everyone of a city in Greece that the everyone got into the habit of calling just "the city"... you know, when they would talk about things "eis ten polin"...
(*No, they are not "near New York." I'm a tiny-stater.)
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Re: Angus' hotel room.
My father was an industrial consultant. The consulting firm he worked for flew him wherever first class, put him up in swanky places, he made fantastic comissions.
When he worked.
So yeah, first class accomodations =/= wealth or even regular paychecks. You squirrel away and mete out what you earn, and keep the expenses modest.
But my wife and I were able to stay at the Gramercy Park Hotel for a weekend during our honeymoon, because he was on a job in Manhatten and had gone home to Buffalo for the weekend. It was his wedding present to us :wink:
As for the predictions... :psyduck:
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Ugh, I hate it when people nowhere near New York* call it "the city." It just feels like buckling to their self-aggrandizing.
Besides, if you're in NorthHampton, wouldn't "the city" be Boston?
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Didn't he say something about going to some high end boarding school?
Yes, but like me, he could easily have been a scholarship kid. Money won't keep up an academic reputtion, they have to import smart kids sometimes.
:laugh: :roll: :-D
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Besides, if you're in NorthHampton, wouldn't "the city" be Boston?
You desert-staters have a fucked up sense of scale.
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In most of the UK, at least among the older generation, saying "I'm going up to town" pretty much always means London.
NorthHampton
I'm interested to note that in many of the Northamptons (one "h") in the US, there is a parallel usage of "North Hampton" in names of institutions. In the town of Northampton in the UK, there is no such usage that I'm aware of. (Same goes for Southampton.)
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Besides, if you're in NorthHampton, wouldn't "the city" be Boston?
You desert-staters have a fucked up sense of scale.
Dude, I'm in west central Pennsylvania. When people go to "The City" around here, it's Pittsburgh. Unless they mean "the Capitol", Harrisburg. If anyone's sense of scale is effed up, it's east coasters New Yorkers...
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4d/Steinberg_New_Yorker_Cover.png) (http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/newyorker2.JPG)
And my folks live in Massachussetts. "The City" is Boston, to be avoided at all costs...
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From a foreign standpoint this is an interesting discussion to follow. In Germany we hardly use something like "in die Stadt" (roughly "to the city") unless we already live in it.
"Ich gehe mal in die Stadt." (I'm going into town.) usually means you're going to the central district of the town you live in to visit some stores or go shopping.
From the top of my head I don't know any city in Germany that is not referred to by name...
I always hear of New York being referred to as The Big Apple ... I never would've thought that wasn't canon in America.
(Then again, this is a mutual matter of many misunderstandings. F.e. not every German wears Lederhosen and eats Bratwurst mit Sauerkraut all day. :-D )
... why is Boston to be avoided? I have a friend there I am going to visit next summer... anything I should know? °-o
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Instead of the debat about what constitutes "The City" all that went through my mind was ,"She's turning down a weekend away with the BF?"
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Instead of the debat about what constitutes "The City" all that went through my mind was ,"She's turning down a weekend away with the BF?"
Initial dislike for the destination on her part aside, she still hasn't even remotely said anything final. It would be one hell of an awkward fight if she refused simply out of dislike for the destination, though...
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That was my first thought, too. But I don't see it as trouble in paradise - just Faye's neuroses getting the better of her.
Angus may yet be able to talk her into it...
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Didn't he say something about going to some high end boarding school?
Yes, but like me, he could easily have been a scholarship kid. Money won't keep up an academic reputtion, they have to import smart kids sometimes.
:laugh: :roll: :-D
That brings up the question of what kind of background Wil comes from given he went to a private school. I can just imagine it eventually cmoing out that he's from money, and lives like he does to keep his writing "authentic." This would likely not bode well for his relationship with Penelope, who is likely to be rather pissed off at someone "slumming," while she has to work hard to make a living on a barista's salary.
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Question: What's does the great and powerful Hanners really see?
I already said, "butts". 17 (30.9%)
Marten dancing ...poorly. But having fun. 8 (14.5%)
Padma's mind - and it's empty... 3 (5.5%)
The Robot Revolution 4 (7.3%)
Elliot, married with seven kids. 1 (1.8%)
Marigold on a raid date. 2 (3.6%)
Dora in a stable relationship. 0 (0%)
Sweet-Tits! 2 (3.6%)
"My god, it's full of WAFFLES!" 18 (32.7%)
Total Voters: 55
When I went to close this, they were neck and neck, so I'm calling it a tie.
New poll is UP!!
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Dude, I'm in west central Pennsylvania. When people go to "The City" around here, it's Pittsburgh. Unless they mean "the Capitol", Harrisburg. If anyone's sense of scale is effed up, it's east coasters New Yorkers...
Map snipped for bandwidth.
I am a New Yorker, born and bred, and can honestly say that map is 100% accurate. :laugh:
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That brings up the question of what kind of background Wil comes from given he went to a private school. I can just imagine it eventually cmoing out that he's from money, and lives like he does to keep his writing "authentic." This would likely not bode well for his relationship with Penelope, who is likely to be rather pissed off at someone "slumming," while she has to work hard to make a living on a barista's salary.
Did I miss something or are you confusing Angus with Wil? Or am I confusing the subject? Or are cucumbers actually pink? ... I gotta get home...
Wow... New York really is the center of the world to New Yorker's, huh?
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Angus could have a five or six digit trust fund squirrelled away somewhere.
Or have a trust fund or inheritance that he can't access until he reaches a certain age, or meets some other criteria.
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That brings up the question of what kind of background Wil comes from given he went to a private school. I can just imagine it eventually cmoing out that he's from money, and lives like he does to keep his writing "authentic." This would likely not bode well for his relationship with Penelope, who is likely to be rather pissed off at someone "slumming," while she has to work hard to make a living on a barista's salary.
Did I miss something or are you confusing Angus with Wil? ?
Wil went to something called Williston Academy as a kid, which sounds like a private school. It doesn't automatically mean he comes from a priviledged background, as people who aren't rich send kids to such schools because they think it wll be better academically or what have you. But he does kind of come across as someone who might have come from a pampered background without much experience in the real world. Thinking about it it's not hard to imagine Wil talking with the sort of upper crust Boston accent Charles Emerson Winchester had on MASH, and coming from that kind of upper class background.
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Be that as it may... but weren't we talking about Angus? (<- thats what I was confused about :) )
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The way he's springing this on her, she's got every right to turn him down. In fact, it might be setting a bad precedent not to.
And my folks live in Massachussetts. "The City" is Boston, to be avoided at all costs...
They probably live east of Worcester, then, is my point. Northampton's waaay outside the radius where people call Boston "the city."
NorthHampton
I'm interested to note that in many of the Northamptons (one "h") in the US, there is a parallel usage of "North Hampton" in names of institutions. In the town of Northampton in the UK, there is no such usage that I'm aware of. (Same goes for Southampton.)
Sometimes I've seen it abbreviated "NH," when it's clear from context that can't mean "New Hampshire" or "New Haven," but actually writing it out as two words, especially in CamelCase, is what folks call "wrong."
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I'm from upstate NY (I could hit Canada with a baseball if I manage a decent throw from my parents' yard) and if you said going you were going into the city, I would assume you meant either Ottawa or Montreal. I share Faye's disdain of cities in general, and NYC in particular, but I wouldn't pass up a freeish weekend stay in NYC, if only to visit museums while Angus is working.
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Has it ever been stated if Angus is more conservative, more liberal, etc?
I'm assuming Faye is fairly liberal, but Angus could go either way -- especially if he's employed as a strawman.
Also, I wonder if OWS is gonna show up in the QCverse -- although one would think that'd be very un-QC-like, to hew to any recent events whatsoever.
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Angus is secretly a post-fascist anarchist, which is a political affiliation that doesn't actually exist, specifically so that he can take jobs from anyone without feeling bad about it.
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That brings up the question of what kind of background Wil comes from given he went to a private school. I can just imagine it eventually cmoing out that he's from money, and lives like he does to keep his writing "authentic." This would likely not bode well for his relationship with Penelope, who is likely to be rather pissed off at someone "slumming," while she has to work hard to make a living on a barista's salary.
Did I miss something or are you confusing Angus with Wil? Or am I confusing the subject? Or are cucumbers actually pink? ... I gotta get home...
Wow... New York really is the center of the world to New Yorker's, huh?
Only because it's so damn difficult to get out of here =p
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And my folks live in Massachussetts. "The City" is Boston, to be avoided at all costs...
They probably live east of Worcester, then, is my point. Northampton's waaay outside the radius where people call Boston "the city."
Yeah, in Hyannis, the armpit of Cape Cod.
Someone else asked why Boston's to be avoided. The streets are narrow, ill-marked, and the surrounding maze of highways was unnavigable. I say "was" because the "big dig" was supposed to take care of all that. What it did was make the mess worse for several years, run over budget, and drive the last few nervous travellers away. It's finished now, but the bad taste still lingers...
That, and my folks are pushing 80. Mom's arthritic and dad's deaf as a post. So they've kind of given up.
All for the better.
NorthHampton
I'm interested to note that in many of the Northamptons (one "h") in the US, there is a parallel usage of "North Hampton" in names of institutions. In the town of Northampton in the UK, there is no such usage that I'm aware of. (Same goes for Southampton.)
Sometimes I've seen it abbreviated "NH," when it's clear from context that can't mean "New Hampshire" or "New Haven," but actually writing it out as two words, especially in CamelCase, is what folks call "wrong."
Well, excuuuuse me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zANvYB93u2g)! I just couldn't remember if it was one or two words, so went with the mashup.
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Over here the city just means the one you're in. Just like how if I said "The house is looking lovely today" you'd assume I meant the one we were standing in and not the whitehouse. As such the issue sounds a little foreign to me.
I'm personally of the opinion that we need to stop calling places like New York and Los Angeles cities anyway. If your population is in the hundred thousands you're a city. If your population is in the millions then you're not a city anymore. You're a Metropolis. You don't have cityfolk. You have Metropolitans.
I suppose the phrase that would substitute "Heading to The City" or "Going up to town" over here would be "Heading North". We all know what that means.
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Really? I've never heard anyone say "up to town" to mean "to London". (I'm not sure I've heard anyone say it at all).
In most of the UK, at least among the older generation, saying "I'm going up to town" pretty much always means London.
OK, I may be half a century behind with this; but Lord Peter Wimsey could be in an ancestral pile in the Lake District and say it perfectly naturally, and my parents used it (though we were not so far North).
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Faye might not have meant it as "The City." If someone invites you to a restaurant you can say, "I've already been to the restaurant, and I hated it" without it implying anything more than what you said. That's how I took it. She's already been to THAT city. Then again, I live a little more south, and I would definitely not think of NYC as THE city. If anyone said "I'm going to the city," I would have no idea where they meant. Haha.
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Well, if anyone wanted to know what DJ Squeekz looks like... (http://jephjacques.com/post/11660127526/dj-squeekz)
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I suppose the phrase that would substitute "Heading to The City" or "Going up to town" over here would be "Heading North". We all know what that means.
Out of curiosity, where is "over here" for you?
I've lived in many different parts of England, and rarely have people referred to the nearest big settlement as 'The City', though to be fair most of the places I've lived were the nearest big settlement. When people talk of "going to the town", they mean the town centre (interestingly, this is the case even in cities, probably a relic of when they were lots of small towns that have since been swallowed up). The only place I've heard people talk of 'the city' was when I lived in the suburbs of London, though most often it was known as 'Central London', or just 'London'. The very centre, the historical "City of London" is indeed known as "The City", but not really colloquially, only among twatty businessmen.
All that aside, however, I agree with Interlude's assessment.
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Ontario. What with how the population's spread aside from Toronto there's very little to be found by going north, so the phrase is generally pretty self-explanatory even if you haven't encountered it before.
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My understanding of the New York version of "The City" is the non-Harlem part of Manhattan Island, and is a name used ONLY by people who want you to know they are from the non-Harlem part of Manhattan Island. All other New Yorkers of my acquaintance say they're from New York -- though the one or two Brooklynites I know will tell you they're from Brooklyn if it comes up in conversation.
In my part of Ohio, at least, "town" or "into town" simply means the nearest incorporated agglomeration of structures, or the center part thereof. As in,"I'm going into town. Need anything?"
Residents of the suburbs of Ohio's big cities simply tell people from other parts of the state they're from that city, because it's simpler.That's been my experience, anyway.
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That's completely right. I live in one of the suburbs outside of Columbus but I usually just tell people I'm from Columbus. It's 10 minutes away anyway and I know the majority of the world hasn't even heard of the suburb I'm from. When someone has to go into the city proper usually I heard them refer to it as "going downtown."
Also, that's at least three people on this forum who are from/live in Ohio. What are the odds?
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It's all a matter of perspective and scale.
BTW, nice catch there by the customer.
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Yes, but like me, he could easily have been a scholarship kid.
Angus' original remarks (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1599) about his school seem to me to reveal an outsider's perspective. And going to a "fancy school" doesn't necessarily mean your parents are rich, or that you have a trust fund. Some parents just sacrifice practically everything to their kids' education.
I've lived in cities all my life. My hometown has a population of over 23 million, and when I'm there "the city" means the Shanghai metropolitan area. Now I live in the largest city in Australia, and "the city" is specifically the central business district south of the Harbour Bridge. Australians are incurably suburban. :-)
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Well, if anyone wanted to know what DJ Squeekz looks like... (http://jephjacques.com/post/11660127526/dj-squeekz)
That rat looks disturbingly like Marigold whe she was first ntroduced...
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That rat looks disturbingly like Marigold whe she was first introduced...
Naaah, I totally called it (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,27488.msg1059815.html#msg1059815). It's ratty Skrillex (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Moore).
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A few observations:
1. Those of you who are not from the US probably don't get the scale of the US - something that even New Yorkers don't quite get. It's based on how the country expanded from the 13 states along the eastern seaboard all the way to the Pacific - very slowly. For example: If someone from Northampton (by the way: it's one word) wanted to drive to San Diego and ComiCon in 2012, it would take them over five days of driving - one way - just to get there. (Over 2,900 miles, and that includes tollways and Interstate freeways). And you wouldn't even get to the Mississippi River (commonly the "dividing line" of the east/west part of the country) until the end of day 2. Kinda explains why Marten hasn't gone back to Cali to see his mom much.
2. A weekend away with the boyfriend/girlfriend is something of a "next step" in a relationship. Faye recognizes that, while Angus is just wanting to spend time with Faye. Angus isn't quite as clueless as Padma, but he probably doesn't realize that he's pushing a boundary for Faye.
3. This could go in a million different ways, all of them ending with a YouTube video that gets two million hits - minimum.
4. DJ Squeakz is da Bomb.
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So, if Faye actually does go with Angus, will we see New York? Jeph just pushed his art with the outdoor sequences for the hike strips, and New York might be another push sequence, depending on what he has to draw of course.
As far as the size of the US goes I've heard more than one amusing store of visitors who wanted to make a day trip from one part of the US to a part that would take several days by car. Or of writers doing the same thing, having their characters make a trip in an impossibly short time. The same thing can happen writing Canada as well. You can't drive from Toronto to Vancouver in a day.
Driver Alex Roy holds the US contental driving time record, driving from New York to LA in 31 hours and 4 minutes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Roy
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All of that applies to Australia as well.
http://maps.howstuffworks.com/australia-us-comparison-map.htm
Except that if you wanted to drive from, say, Sydney to Perth, it's not only days of driving, it's days of driving through the Nullabor.
I have relatives on the other side of the continent, but I fly. Even though it's kind of expensive. But apparently traveling through the Nullabor when it's flowering is pretty amazing.
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I just realized we never really used the phrase 'the city' where i lived in the Midwest
Back home was way out in the country and people usually said 'I'm going to town' if you were going anywhere but a neighbor's -- which, 'to town' meant going to the nearest place that sold milk. Usually a gas station. There may or may not be a stoplight involved too.
If you were in fact going to a city (which usually meant a place that had public transportation - anything else was 'a town') you'd say the name so people would know which one. Since they were all so far away they practically felt like another state anyway.
Now I actually live in a city (Indianapolis) but it's so spread out I still don't use the phrase, I just say 'downtown' and that means the places where the biggest buildings are. Anything else is 'northside', 'southside', etc. Or y'know, the actual names of the places like Speedway or Castleton.
Huh! I wonder if that's a Midwestern thing, because I just tried to say it and it does feel weird xD
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Except that if you wanted to drive from, say, Sydney to Perth, it's not only days of driving, it's days of driving through the Nullabor.
The actual Nullabor Plain is only a small part of the nearly 4400 kilometres from Brisbane-Perth (Easternmost major city to westernmost), but the route is pretty rugged from Port Augusta onwards, and the roads along the whole route can best be described as "ordinary". Google Maps hilariously suggests you could drive it in under 48 hours, but you'd need a good vehicle and multiple drivers to achieve that, and it would be hard going. Just for giggles, I asked Google Maps to plot me a route from Tongjiang, in Heilongjiang the Easternmost province of China, to Kashgar, in Xinjiang in the far West. It's just under 6200 kilometres, and Google thinks you could drive it in just under four days... :laugh:
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At one point there was an Easter Egg in Google Maps which, if you asked for directions from the US to Europe, gave you directions to the shore and then said "swim across the Atlantic".
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FYI, for those of you looking for the latest in DJ Squeak news, Jeph has updated his tumblr (http://jephjacques.com/post/11675649838/new-dj-squeekz-track-leaked) to include his latest track. :P
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I just realized we never really used the phrase 'the city' where i lived in the Midwest
Back home was way out in the country and people usually said 'I'm going to town' if you were going anywhere but a neighbor's -- which, 'to town' meant going to the nearest place that sold milk. Usually a gas station. There may or may not be a stoplight involved too.
If you were in fact going to a city (which usually meant a place that had public transportation - anything else was 'a town') you'd say the name so people would know which one. Since they were all so far away they practically felt like another state anyway.
Now I actually live in a city (Indianapolis) but it's so spread out I still don't use the phrase, I just say 'downtown' and that means the places where the biggest buildings are. Anything else is 'northside', 'southside', etc. Or y'know, the actual names of the places like Speedway or Castleton.
Huh! I wonder if that's a Midwestern thing, because I just tried to say it and it does feel weird xD
That's not terribly different from life in Richmond, VA. Granted, the South is rather provincial like that. In Richmond, there's the downtown (subdivided into Shockhoe Slip and the Bottom), South Side, West End, East End, Carytown, the Fan, etc. Or even New Orleans: French Quarter, Ninth Ward, the West Bank (or wank; even though it's technically south of the city) Garden District, MidCity, Metairie, Kenner, etc. I feel like any city has that... in Europe it's generally either the Old Town or the various neighborhoods. Just one more way that people make themselves feel like it's home, and outsiders feel left out.
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Jeph has updated his tumblr (http://jephjacques.com/post/11675649838/new-dj-squeekz-track-leaked) to include his latest track. :P
I listened to that the whole way through. I think my brain just broke.
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It's got a good groove.
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D'awwwwwwww?
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I'm not surprised he said it. I'm not surprised he said it first. I'm rather surprised she said it back.
I suppose it could have been reflexive, or maybe Angus caught her off her guard enough that he inadvertently tricked her into admitting her feelings. Either way d'awwwww Angus :3
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No, no. You fill it up with scotch.
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Can: open!
Worms: EVERYWHERE!!!!!
:psyduck: :psyduck: :psyduck: :psyduck: :psyduck:
NOW HEAR THIS:
This is a five psyduck alarm!
This is NOT a drill!
I repeat
This is not a drill!
No, no. You fill it up with scotch.
Bourbon has always been Faye's choice. At least it's not Midnight Hobo. Yet.
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Damn, people, I only read the newest one before I started typing.
I'm surprised Faye said she loved him back. They've been dating...what, 2 weeks comic time? Or something?
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It begins...
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Come along, Pond.
Don't hit the coping mechanism too hard...
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Somebody needs to find Marten and tell him to get his ass to The Horrible Revalation right now...
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FIVE THOUSAND PAGES BY MIDNIGHT!
Yep, I'm calling it.
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I'll wait to see who posts in the next couple of pages before making that call ... :angel:
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Faye, I thought you knew better than to use that as a coping measure any more.
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Oh come on, I haven't even started typing yet!
Anyway, I now expect her to head to the karaoke and sing "Maps". Even more so now I know that the song title is apparently an acronym.
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No more previews either then. fine.
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Actually, what is she coping for?
The fact she acknowledged she had feelings for Angus? Or the fact Angus is not Marten? Or the fact he is not her father, which is why she couldn't be with Maarten either? (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EpilepticTrees)
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Oh, FFS!
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First reaction: Gah?!
First reaction and a half: Kinda called it.
Second reaction: Ah... the perrils of the early "I love you"-trap. The rock-and-hard-place of every young relationship. And most of the time (at least in my experience) it takes painfully careful handling to get through. I just hope Faye is already stable enough to do handle this. Seeing as she already had a "slight" (not judging from experience here) panic attack when she started making out with Angus, saying "I love you" too early might result in a minor psychic desaster.
Maybe she knows and is trying to mute everything going on in her head with alcohol before it overpowers her. In her eyes, the wisest decision.
I kinda wanna kick Angus in the shins for being so heedless about Faye's insecurities.°-o
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I disagree.
Drinking is the worst thing Faye can do right now.
She either needs to call a friend, (Marten probably, but Dora would work if he's not available) and unpack this, or call Angus and tell him she'll be on the next train.
Getting plastered is only going to cause her to make bad choices, and she needs to make good choices. Now more than ever.
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He just launched a cruise missile of truthiness... :mrgreen:
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Actually, what is she coping for?
She's missing her boyfling (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1943) already :p
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Actually, what is she coping for?
She is coping with the idea of once again being emotionally attached to someone that she might lose, after the pain and trauma of losing her father.
And I agree that she needs a friend right now. Much better coping mechanism.
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Getting plastered is only going to cause her to make bad choices, and she needs to make good choices. Now more than ever.
Thats why I added "in her eyes" in front of "the wisest decision" ;)
Seems her therapists hasn't been doing a good enough job in preparing her for this course of events. I recall her having a drinking problem to be one of the factors in her decision to go see a shrink/therapist.
Is this a full-blown relapse or is she just being self-sarcastic?
And if Wil calls someone now, I hope its Marten. Penelope would tell Dora first and Dora would probably rip Faye a new one. Marten would just be as forgiving and understanding as usual.
What time is it now, anyway? I mean in the comic. At which time would Marten and Steve be occupied with Padma and dancing here? Do Fayes drinking and the party coincide (timewise)? Or is it still early afternoon and Faye is being ridiculous with this?
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It's still daylight at the train station, and the bar is empty, so I'm guessing it't late afternoon, early evening.
I would think that a dancing date(?) would begin after dark.
The question is, when is Marten going to run into Faye, and how drunk will she be?
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Relapse is a bit too intense a word; remember, Faye wasn't quite an alcoholic, just borderline. She doesn't need to abstain from drinking completely, she just needs to watch when and how much she drinks. I'd say this is more backsliding; regressing. I too, hope someone calls Marten.
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Poll doesnt have Raven.
Why does the poll not have Raven !
The poll is a lie. (*)
(*) Thats an inside joke about Dragon Age: Origins, if you havent played the game, dont try to understand it.
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Relapse is a bit too intense a word; remember, Faye wasn't quite an alcoholic, just borderline. She doesn't need to abstain from drinking completely, she just needs to watch when and how much she drinks. I'd say this is more backsliding; regressing. I too, hope someone calls Marten.
Ah, right you are. I didn't quite mean it that strong, seems my psychology lingo isn't up to par on this one. ^^
Still... she should know quite a bit better. Even from a non-borderline standpoint, just thinking like a normally rational human, getting your booze on in the early hours of the afternoon is really f*cking dumb.
And WHO is covering CoD anyway? Didn't she say something about some shifts when she was arguing against going to NY with Angus?
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++++WARNING! THIS IS A DRUNK FAYE ALERT++++WARNING! THIS IS A DRUNK FAYE ALERT++++WARNING! THIS IS A DRUNK FAYE ALERT++++
All personnel are cautioned to immediately don DFA Protective Gear and report to your nearest DFA Underground Shelter.
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++ Warning! People have rediscovered marquees! God help our brains. ++
Jeez, you don't need a "drunk Faye" alert. You just need a constant "Faye" alert. The last time a character got really drunk, it was still Faye dishing out the harsh fist-shaped truths.
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Saying "Beans of Doom" out loud makes me giggle. I have no idea why. :D
Because it makes you think of the eating variety of beans, and the DOOOOOOOM they can cause...
Well, if anyone wanted to know what DJ Squeekz looks like... (http://jephjacques.com/post/11660127526/dj-squeekz)
Awww, poor Skrillex! Why does Jeph hate him so?
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I have very little to add that won't be said in the next 34 pages.
I do think that Faye was caught so off guard that she replied before thinking. The question is, did her mouth lap her brain, or simply outpace it?
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At one point there was an Easter Egg in Google Maps which, if you asked for directions from the US to Europe, gave you directions to the shore and then said "swim across the Atlantic".
There's still one when going from China to Japan...
http://g.co/maps/jdpqn
Check out #16 in the directions :lol: :lol:
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Warning! People have rediscovered marquees! God help our brains.
There's a reason I discourage their use in my notes on the rules.
[EDIT]
Marquees have no discernible use except to annoy people and parade childishness; oh look, they've broken! (I turned them off.)
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So Faye, how's that plan to control your alcohol intake going?
Is Wil the most informed member of the cast now? He's been with nearly everyone at their low points thanks to his job.
The train station looks kind of dumpy. Can a local inform us on that, because every station (5, only one of which had decent ridership due to being LA's Union Station) I've been to in California is nigh-immaculate.
Hmm, sarcasm, a question, and a criticism. I guess I'm not very positive tonight.
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Massachusetts is not California.
Trains are not as common a mode of transportation in the US as they are in Europe.
Only the Northeast and California have significant passenger rail service. The rest of the country is lucky if there is one train a day serving their area. Most passenger rail service is ran by Amtrak, which is subsidized by the Federal government, and runs on the freight railroads' tracks.
The only dedicated passenger line in the country is the Northeast Corridor which runs from Boston to Washington D.C. It was built over 100 years ago and is constantly in a bedraggled state.
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Wow, I thought she needed to cope for the absence of Angus (kinda oh-i-miss-him-so-much-already). I didn't get the L-word thing that everybody is freaking out for.
Well, I didn't get it until I came to the forum.
Now?
:psyduck:
I guess you're all right, because it's been only a couple of weeks of factual (fucktual?) relationship, but is difficult to keep track of the in-comic pass of time.
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I could have sworn that when I was in junior high the big Australian plain was named Nullarbor on the map (as in Zero Trees).
If the resident Australians agree on a different spelling, I need to update. But, as a former grad student put it, I only have WOM. :psyduck:
But this is cause for concern. Or is it? May be Faye will just reflect on her feelings for a moment at the bar, and go back to work? Then again a Friday strip is coming up, and Jeph is known to time cliffhangers well.
My prediction (ok, a wild guess, but calling it a prediction sounds better): In tomorrow's strip we see Sven entering the bar and finding a drunken Faye there. In Monday's strip we will see evidence of character growth from one or both of them.
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Massachusetts is not California.
Trains are not as common a mode of transportation in the US as they are in Europe.
Only the Northeast and California have significant passenger rail service. The rest of the country is lucky if there is one train a day serving their area. Most passenger rail service is ran by Amtrak, which is subsidized by the Federal government, and runs on the freight railroads' tracks.
Kinda knew all of that.
Only the Northeast and California have significant passenger rail service.
...It was built over 100 years ago and is constantly in a bedraggled state.
Which is why I was surprised by the state of the station. I can understand obsolete buildings and equipment, but the area around the tracks should be gravel, and trash pickup doesn't exactly require enormous expenditure of funds.
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The fact that she said it like this:
I- I love you too!
Makes me think that the issue is that she DOES and that's why she's freaking out. Not "omg, he said he loved me now what!?" or even "omg, I said I loved him but I'm not sure if I do or not" but "omg, I love him. OH SHIT HOW DID THIS HAPPEN HELP ME BOURBON YOU'RE MY ONLY HOPE!"
That's my best guess anyhow, we'll get clarification soon (I hope).
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Jeez, you don't need a "drunk Faye" alert. You just need a constant "Faye" alert. The last time a character got really drunk, it was still Faye dishing out the harsh fist-shaped truths.
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Psyducks on parade!
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Ahh.. plot development. Bound to happen, of course, just didn't expect it to be this soon.
Prediction: She will need to talk to Marten. She will talk to Marten. It will end in butts.
OH NO WHAT DID I JUST SAY CURSE THIS DISEASE
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Hm... if professional drama-firefighter Marten gets called in and misses the party, Hanners prediction will be void and thus, the universe implodes and all thats left is butts and waffles. (Wafflebutts?, hello, new custom title)
No seriously, can we leave Steve and Padma alone? (she did remark on his cuteness once or twice in my recollection)
@idontunderstand:
Now when you say "it will end in butts", you don't mean... I mean... do you?
@Compsarge:
:psyduck: ...and so on and so on ... :psyduck:
Psyducks on parade!
Thanks, now my brain is hemorrhaging.
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I predict Faye getting good and plastered. After that anything could happen, including her returning to work in an inebriated state and causing all manner of havoc, ending in Dora sending her home to sleep it off (after ripping her a new one of course).
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I think Jeph meant "The Coping Mechanism is a big barf of why I stopped drinking."
(bear with me, just got up after a night of really weird dreams)
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Psyducks on parade!
Shit! Does that mean I need the SecretPotion to get any further? :laugh:
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FYI, for those of you looking for the latest in DJ Squeak news, Jeph has updated his tumblr (http://jephjacques.com/post/11675649838/new-dj-squeekz-track-leaked) to include his latest track. :P
Well, to paraphrase Stan, it all sounds like squeak to me.
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Psyducks on parade!
I'm going to Hell, aren't I.
I am so, so, sorry. I thought psyducks running across the screen would be cute.
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(http://www.cslacker.com/images/file/mediums/stop_that.jpg)
Butts disease? Nah, marquees disease.
And also that Sqeekz track is pretty darn nicely done. Sounds a bit more like :Wumpscut: and Dolce Liquido in my mind than he probably intended but its awesome nontheless.
edit:
This week's thread will go down in forum history as "The Marquee Disaease-ter of late 2011". (Hah, nice wordplay, eh?)
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I could have sworn that when I was in junior high the big Australian plain was named Nullarbor on the map (as in Zero Trees). If the resident Australians agree on a different spelling, I need to update.
It seems you're correct, and that I've been spelling it wrongly for years. Aussies certainly pronounce it Nullabor, though.
Makes me think that the issue is that she DOES and that's why she's freaking out. Not "omg, he said he loved me now what!?" or even "omg, I said I loved him but I'm not sure if I do or not" but "omg, I love him. OH SHIT HOW DID THIS HAPPEN HELP ME BOURBON YOU'RE MY ONLY HOPE!"
Pretty much... And the strip straightens up into character/plot development after a detour into silliness and butts.
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The train station looks kind of dumpy. Can a local inform us on that, because every station (5, only one of which had decent ridership due to being LA's Union Station) I've been to in California is nigh-immaculate.
In the real world, they'd be taking a very dumpy station in Amherst. I've never actually been inside, but just from the outside, it doesn't look like much of a tourist destination.
EDIT: Went there this morning. It's basically just a shelter and a ticket booth. The drawing is spot-on.
(But what do you expect? It's not a huge stop...)
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The marqueepocalpyse seems to have ended, defeated by a great and mighty Mod.
I could have sworn that when I was in junior high the big Australian plain was named Nullarbor on the map (as in Zero Trees). If the resident Australians agree on a different spelling, I need to update.
It seems you're correct, and that I've been spelling it wrongly for years. Aussies certainly pronounce it Nullabor, though.
I recall a website that got linked to a few months ago on here that explained how Massachusetts placenames were pronounced, which often had next to nothing to do with how they were spelled. By comparison, dropping an 'r' is nothing to be ashamed of- unless you're a pirate.
HELP ME BOURBON YOU'RE MY ONLY HOPE!"
I can now think of nothing but Princess Leia saying that. No wonder Obi-wan went to the cantina- he needed to stock up!
In the real world, they'd be taking a very dumpy station in Amherst. I've never actually been inside, but just from the outside, it doesn't look like much of a tourist destination.
Ah. So it's not necessarily representative, perhaps just singularly sucky.
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@idontunderstand:
Now when you say "it will end in butts", you don't mean... I mean... do you?
I don't even know who I am anymore!
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Psyducks on parade!
Shit! Does that mean I need the SecretPotion to get any further? :laugh:
Has a creepy tall blonde woman in black visited you yet?
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Ah. So it's not necessarily representative, perhaps just singularly sucky.
It doesn't look that bad in the comic, really... it's just that everything on the West Coast is so damn sterile. (Manhattan, too...)
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What the monkeybuggering hell is everybody freaking out about?
Biggest overreaction I've ever seen here.
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What the monkeybuggering hell is everybody freaking out about?
Biggest overreaction I've ever seen here.
"Biggest overreaction" seems to be the status quo around here. It's not a WCDT without someone making a big deal out of nothing at least once!
I, personally am unsure as to why Faye needs said Coping Mechanism. Does she just miss Angus already? Was it the unexpected "I love you?" Is she regretting her decision to stay home for the weekend?
As the Daleks would say: EXPLAIN! EXPLAIN! EXPLAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIN!!
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What the monkeybuggering hell is everybody freaking out about?
Take your pick:
(1) Faye turning to drink as she realises she actually loves Angus;
(2) Jeph depicting several pieces of litter at a railway station.
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Maybe it´s just some "ugh, happy couples make me sick... gosh, I AM part of a happy couple" paradox.
She´ll get over it, that´s my guess. Nothing wrong with drinking liquour on friday afternoon once in a while.
I still got hope to see the beginning of MartenPadmaDateThatIsNotADate tomorrow O.o
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Wow. Just wow. Faye's been given a horrible revelation, so naturally her first thought is to turn to the Horrible Revelation for a coping mechanism. I agree with everyone that she needs a friend instead, but this isn't exactly surprising to be honest. That said, there are several possibilities for what happens next.
1) Marten or Dora shows up out of the blue on his/her own. Now normally Marten and Dora do not have interchangeable roles, but I think in this case either of them would provide good support for Faye.
2) Wil calls Marten or Dora, possibly after denying her request for a coping mechanism. Unlikely, but possible.
3) Sven or Marigold shows up out of the blue. While they would both handle the situation differently, either way the Awkwardness Zone would be virtually guaranteed at some point.
4) Marten shows up out of the blue, with Steve in tow. Definitely not what I'm hoping for, but it wouldn't surprise me.
5) Butts. Possibly with Steve in tow. :-o
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I've got an uncomfortable feeling we'll see Faye do something really stupid - maybe to Marten, which will ruin the dance-date-whatever for him... :|
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A brain denied answers (even if just for one day) goes into a state of "overdrive" resulting in an "overthink overkill". ... its just natural human brain-haviour.
@Paranoid:
I hope its Nr.5) (possibly with waffles!) ... then at least the universe won't implode.
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@Paranoid:
I hope its Nr.5) (possibly with waffles!) ... then at least the universe won't implode.
Um, no, eww! Butts are cool, waffles are cooler*, but ne'er the two shall meet. At least, not until the waffles are no longer recognizable as waffles anymore. :laugh:
*The validity of this statement is subject to personal preference and/or whether or not the waffles have been recently toasted. Some sales tax may apply.
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Maybe this will lead to a reappearance of Doctor Corrine.
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It's still daylight at the train station, and the bar is empty, so I'm guessing it't late afternoon, early evening.
I would think that a dancing date(?) would begin after dark.
The question is, when is Marten going to run into Faye, and how drunk will she be?
I'll respond to this one first: I suspect, if Angus is taking yon Amtrak train (assumably from the Amherst station), that it's probably early afternoon, about 1 PM. That's simply based on the Amtrak timetable; the only train going from the Noham area to NYC goes through Amherst at 1:19.
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I see that I'm late to the party this morning, but before I make my comment, I would like to thank our benevolent dictator/mod for disabling the marquees before I got here.
My first reaction brought a scene from the second season of BSG
Starbuck: "No take backs. You "Love" me. Lee Adama love me."
That is going to be a very happy Angus on that train.
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Prediction for tomorrow and next week: Faye gets blitzed, and wakes up in a tree with no recollection of what happened.
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How about:
Pintsize shows up. Whether he's helpful or completely messes things up is the obvious question.
Padma shows up. Faye spills her guts to Padma and Padma actually says something useful for a change. Or the two of them end up in a southern style barista-fu versus bakery style Kalarippayattu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalaripayat) sparring match.
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Or...
Friday: Faye, still internally conflicted, resolves to make a drunken pass at Marten...
...who then lays her out with one punch.
Monday: OWLS!!!
....quit looking at me like that. : P
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Padma shows up. Faye spills her guts to Padma and Padma actually says something useful for a change. Or the two of them end up in a southern style barista-fu versus bakery style Kalarippayattu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalaripayat) sparring match.
Never thought I'd ever see someone else use that word in a sentence. :-D
But didn't Faye use Punch-Fu, Savannah style (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1857)?
Plus, I think learning Kalarippayattu was forbidden for women.... not sure.
@Border Reiver:
I don't see Angus not noticing Faye's hesitance... he's probably in some deep thoughts, too.
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whaaaaaat
I think Faye has some strong feelings for Angus but that she takes "love" more seriously than he. She will drink too much all weekend and upon his return they will have a "serious talk" and the relationship will never be the same. After some time passes, the two will split and we'll all be single again!
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I remember how it felt the first time I automatically said "I love you too" before realizing what I was saying. I had a bit of a freak-out two beats later when I realized what I had just said. I compleltely understand Faye's need for a Coping Mechanism. Unlike Faye, however, I lean toward single malt.
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I compleltely understand Faye's need for a Coping Mechanism. Unlike Faye, however, I lean toward single malt.
Right.
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Wow. Clearly Jeph needed those first two silly strips as filler for this drama arc that has at least three strips, but probably more (he can't finish on a Friday, after all...)
Also, those who predicted Wil win the poll. New one up as soon as I can get my shit together (first day of an online course, and all that).
We've had three non-sequiters so far this week... who else will we be seeing?
Dora 8 (14.8%)
Cosette 1 (1.9%)
Sven 10 (18.5%)
Pintsize & Winslow 4 (7.4%)
Mieville & the Roombas (wait, isn't that a band?) 7 (13%)
Penelope and/or Wil 6 (11.1%)
Pizza Girl! 4 (7.4%)
Sara (?!?!?) 4 (7.4%)
Someone else really minor 1 (1.9%)
Someone entirely new! 4 (7.4%)
OK then - Raven 5 (9.3%)
Total Voters: 54
Also, thanks to the mod who added Raven, although I personally think she was included in the "someone else" since she's pretty minor now.
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I wonder if that's the first time someone's said a romantic "I love you" to Faye since her father died.
Given that her father died when she was quite young, I wonder if that's the first time anyone's said a romantic "I love you" to Faye.
Whatever the case, today's strip is a bummer. Here's to hoping Wil knows better than to let Faye get wasted when what she really needs to do is take a walk or call a friend and figure stuff out.
(I know, I know.... "it wouldn't be QC if...." :-D )
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Isn't he legally obligated to cut her off if she gets intoxicated?
At least she's not drinking alone.
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a) What's the problem? What, just that she found herself telling Angus she loved him too? Or that she felt "pressured" to say it because he said it first? Did he say it first? Is this a first-time thing?
b) "The city's not really my thing," says the girl in the city, who stays in the city because she doesn't like the city. :psyduck:
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A.) any combination of those will explain, unless it's something else.
B.) There are cities and there are cities. I live in something that is legally a city, occasionally visit three nearby agglomerations that are more realistically cities, and spent one long weekend in the lower part of Manhattan. I enjoyed myself but was glad to leave and return to my legally-a-city; saw no bongo-playing rats in The City, but damn that place is best experienced in small doses by a farm boy like me.
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a) What's the problem? What, just that she found herself telling Angus she loved him too? Or that she felt "pressured" to say it because he said it first? Did he say it first? Is this a first-time thing?
The last guy she loved on anything like that level shot himself in the head in front of her. I expect she's terrified that Angus will either get his dumb ass killed, or possibly that he'll realise she's not worth it and leave her like daddy did. Possibly both. Getting her to consciously realise that is going to be difficult, but that's Dr. Buenvenida's job.
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Isn't he legally obligated to cut her off if she gets intoxicated?
Well... yes, but no one really follows that unless they're at the point where they think there might be trouble, health or behavior-wise. She's probably going to be pretty far gone when and if Wil cuts her off, especially since he doesn't know her history.
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I'm surprised Faye said she loved him back. They've been dating...what, 2 weeks comic time? Or something?
I don't know if you are serious or not. I highly doubt they've been together for such a short amount of time. They were together even before Marten and Dora broke up...
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I'm willing to bet it's been at least three months. Maybe a little soon to say love but not unheard of. Most of my friends seem to think you should start to hear "I love you" 4-6 months into a relationship.
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Padma shows up. Faye spills her guts to Padma and Padma actually says something useful for a change. Or the two of them end up in a southern style barista-fu versus bakery style Kalarippayattu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalaripayat) sparring match.
Never thought I'd ever see someone else use that word in a sentence. :-D
But didn't Faye use Punch-Fu, Savannah style (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1857)?
Plus, I think learning Kalarippayattu was forbidden for women.... not sure.
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I was being a bit of a smarty pants with the reference. Just a case of knowing Indian unarmed martials arts exists, but not being overly familiar with it. Padma's more likely to be a student of some form of karate given that when she meets Faye in #1857 she uses knifehand strikes. Probably Shotokan, because it always seems when an American in fiction is portrayed as a karate student they practice Shotokan.
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b) "The city's not really my thing," says the girl in the city, who stays in the city because she doesn't like the city. :psyduck:
The city of 30,000...
No, she's not eis ten polin.
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EDIT: Went there this morning. It's basically just a shelter and a ticket booth. The drawing is spot-on.
(But what do you expect? It's not a huge stop...)
Well, I expect trash cleanup, and maybe some weed killing/prevention. And room service (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mnemonic_%28film%29). I've said it before, but just so it's clear I'm not criticizing the state of the structures, I'm surprised at the neglect of upkeep. Really, not even the one at the local county fairgrounds that basically only gets used when there's a fair (and thus similarly consists of a shelter, platform, ticket machine, and little else) has trash and leaves lingering on it at any point, despite being surrounded by eucalyptus and at the bad end of the city.
It doesn't look that bad in the comic, really... it's just that everything on the West Coast is so damn sterile. (Manhattan, too...)
On architecture, I think you confuse 'newer' with 'sterile'. We also use far less brick with its inherently random coloration, but that's because we have different architectural influences. On trash and weeds, we certainly do have a lot of that floating about, but not on train platforms. Even the Metro in south LA, surrounded by trash filled lots and people with spray cans and a disregard for others property has been well kept when I've ridden it.
What the monkeybuggering hell is everybody freaking out about?
Take your pick:
(2) Jeph depicting several pieces of litter at a railway station.
I think I'm the only one interested in that, actually. And I just found the contrast with my own experience notable and worthy of asking about.
My opinion on the "I love you" debate is that she said it reflexively, then realized that she meant it, and holy crap my relationship is reaching a new level but he just left, please comfort me you beautiful bottle of bourbon. So she's coping with that revelation.
On time, there's been at least one timeskip (remember, they hooked up and got serious before Marten and Dora (Mora? Dorten?) broke up) so it may be six months since they started dating.
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Surely this thread is far from the biggest overreaction seen around here... more like on par for any plot-related comic.
I could have sworn that when I was in junior high the big Australian plain was named Nullarbor on the map (as in Zero Trees). If the resident Australians agree on a different spelling, I need to update.
It seems you're correct, and that I've been spelling it wrongly for years. Aussies certainly pronounce it Nullabor, though.
Oops. Well, that's a little embarrasing. :roll: Years of pronouncing it 'nullabor' have destroyed my speeling.
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I was being a bit of a smarty pants with the reference. Just a case of knowing Indian unarmed martials arts exists, but not being overly familiar with it. Padma's more likely to be a student of some form of karate given that when she meets Faye in #1857 she uses knifehand strikes. Probably Shotokan, because it always seems when an American in fiction is portrayed as a karate student they practice Shotokan.
Ah, okay. Well.. you should read and video up on it. Its pretty darn interesting when being considered the VERY first martial art ever developed.
Hm... you're right. Those are Shutoken. Omote Shuto Ken, to be exact (omote -> inner hand facing up) ... strange as those are more commonly used in Nin-Jutsu techniques. I'm gonna have to investigate this further. ... or could just be Jeph was drawing whatever the hell he wanted/needed to just get across that two girls are fighting.
(On a sidenote, I would've expected Faye to use some form of Shako Ken (Talon or clawed hand), seeing as she is the feisty, sarcastic, FIERCE one of the bunch. ^^ )
... I kinda lost track the discussion right here. GOnna go to sleep nao.
@Tova:
Haha... "speeling" sounds like some male facial hygene product... sports peeling or something. :-D
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You know, it's funny - I think that the train station in Amherst is about a third of a mile away from where we figured Dora had her new apartment.
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Surely this thread is far from the biggest overreaction seen around here... more like on par for any plot-related comic.
Well, it seemed a bit worse until I turned the marquees off.
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You know, it's funny - I think that the train station in Amherst is about a third of a mile away from where we figured Dora had her new apartment.
It's very close to the town. You can walk to Umass from it, as I did twice in the rain :/.
Although, on a uber-technical note, there is only 1 track at the Amherst station. I thought for a minute Jeff was dreaming ahead to when they rebuild the Boston and Maine and bring the train back through Northampton. They were supposed to start this year, but apparently they didn't have the crews, the line requires considerable, considerable work, if anyone has been caught by a train, the speed limit is only 10mph.
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Although, on a uber-technical note, there is only 1 track at the Amherst station. I thought for a minute Jeff was dreaming ahead to when they rebuild the Boston and Maine and bring the train back through Northampton. They were supposed to start this year, but apparently they didn't have the crews, the line requires considerable, considerable work, if anyone has been caught by a train, the speed limit is only 10mph.
Maybe mass transit didn't degrade in development as badly in QCverse as it did in ours.
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A.) any combination of those will explain, unless it's something else.
B.) There are cities and there are cities. I live in something that is legally a city, occasionally visit three nearby agglomerations that are more realistically cities, and spent one long weekend in the lower part of Manhattan. I enjoyed myself but was glad to leave and return to my legally-a-city; saw no bongo-playing rats in The City, but damn that place is best experienced in small doses by a farm boy like me.
The only time I ever visited NYC I think the thing that struck me the most was how much it really felt like you were in a maze... It was like...there was street below, sky overhead but the only thing on all sides were buildings. Like just buildings, no matter where you were, all the roads led to buildings. I was someone used to a horizon line being visible at least some direction - I was feeling really claustrophobic by the end of the day, heh.
(But it was still an awesome trip if only because everyone was so nice. Like really friendly and helpful - being the public-transportation virgin I was, a bus driver even caught up to and stopped next to a bus I had to transfer to so I wouldn't miss it. Although it may have helped that my drawl was turned up to 11 at that time lol, I was quite obviously a lost little tourist.)
Awww @ the comic
That was really kind of awesome
I don't blame Angus though, if there's any time to say that, it's before a trip. And I like how Jeph had Faye stutter, really shows she was caught off guard and blurted it. Genuine, but still a surprise.
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My prediction for Friday
Knight Sabres
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Psyducks on parade!
Does that mean I need the SecretPotion to get any further? :laugh:
That is the BEST Pokémon reference I have EVER SEEN. :-D
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My prediction for Friday
Knight Sabres
Momo as Nene? Raven as Lina? Faye as Priss? Dora as Sylia? Pintsize as Mackie is obvious. Steve is probably a better choice for Leon than Marten.
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My prediction for Friday
Knight Sabres
Which one?
(http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a180/cesariojpn/224e2595.jpg)
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At the rate we're going, Angus will be back sometime after the first of the year (our time).
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Marten, I am disappoint.
You're not even gonna ask why your best friend is shit-faced before 8pm?
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That question would be much more productively asked when she is sober, no?
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Do you get the feeling this hasn't been the first time Faye's done this - and not just based on what we've seen "on camera" (so to speak)?
This... will not end well.
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Marten you're an ass!
You have a friend who struggles with alcoholism and undergoes thearpy for it who suddenly comes home drunk one day and the best you can do is tell her not to throw up?
What kind of friend puts dancing with a scatter brain girl who is moving away and not planning to come back anytime soon over being supportive of their best friend?
Faye was there for you through your break up with Dora...
You deserve to be single!
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Uh oh.
All hands, brace for impact!
(20 pages by Saturday, locked before Sunday?)
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At the rate we're going, Angus will be back sometime after the first of the year (our time).
I don't think it'll take that long, probably only about a month or so...
Aww, HELL no!!!
Jeph Jacques, so help me if you make Angus and Faye break-up right before Thanksgiving like you did with Marten and Dora I swear to God I'll...
I'll...
I'll...
...bitch about it on the forum but keep reading anyway.
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Marten you're an ass!
You have a friend who struggles with alcoholism and undergoes thearpy for it who suddenly comes home drunk one day and the best you can do is tell her not to throw up?
What kind of friend puts dancing with a scatter brain girl who is moving away and not planning to come back anytime soon over being supportive of their best friend?
Faye was there for you through your break up with Dora...
You deserve to be single!
Faye isn't really coherent enough to explain what's wrong. It's best to wait until she sobers up for a talk. She's also too shitfaced to go out again and(unless they have alcohol in the house already, which I doubt) isn't going to be drinking again in the immediate future. She will just go to sleep(as drunk people usually do) and they can talk when she is better at talking.
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Marten you're an ass!
You have a friend who struggles with alcoholism and undergoes thearpy for it who suddenly comes home drunk one day and the best you can do is tell her not to throw up?
What kind of friend puts dancing with a scatter brain girl who is moving away and not planning to come back anytime soon over being supportive of their best friend?
Faye was there for you through your break up with Dora...
You deserve to be single!
Lets get something straight: Faye was NOT an alcoholic. She had a problem, yes, but that's not (always) the same. She stopped it before it turned into alcoholism, and she didn't start seeing Dr. Corrine because of her drinking; it's just one of the things that Faye's talked about with her.
Marten's not being insensitive, Faye's not letting on something's wrong. She's very drunk, yes, but she's being a happy drunk; right now she's just coming off like she started celebrating early.
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To be fair to Marten, Faye is pretty good at hiding when something is really bothering her.
She's the queen of putting on a brave face.
In this case, however, it's a brave shit-face.
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Oy vey, here comes the Marten hate.
She's just acting like a happy drunk. He's not omniscient.
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My prediction for Friday
Knight Sabres
Momo as Nene? Raven as Lina? Faye as Priss? Dora as Sylia? Pintsize as Mackie is obvious. Steve is probably a better choice for Leon than Marten.
Hmmmm, sounds about right
But would Steve be a better Leon or Mason?
And who would be Galatia??
I think Faye is going to wind up either at Hanners or Marigolds - God help her if she stumbles into Tai in this state!
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Marten you're an ass!
You have a friend who struggles with alcoholism and undergoes thearpy for it who suddenly comes home drunk one day and the best you can do is tell her not to throw up?
What kind of friend puts dancing with a scatter brain girl who is moving away and not planning to come back anytime soon over being supportive of their best friend?
Faye was there for you through your break up with Dora...
You deserve to be single!
Faye isn't really coherent enough to explain what's wrong. It's best to wait until she sobers up for a talk. She's also too shitfaced to go out again and(unless they have alcohol in the house already, which I doubt) isn't going to be drinking again in the immediate future. She will just go to sleep(as drunk people usually do) and they can talk when she is better at talking.
No, I forsee something far worse than Faye sleeping. Well, she might sleep. I'm just concerned about any activities that occur before sleeping. It is that time of year for massive upheavals in story line. I'm not of a mood to archive browse, but wasn't The Talk right before Thanksgiving too? (Also, is it bad that we can say The Talk, or The Fight or The Break-Up and know exactly which comics the person is referencing?)
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Yay, Comic ! :D
Yay, Raven ! :D
Yay, weekend ! Have a nice one, you all ! :)
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Uh oh.
I felt a great disturbance in the forums, as if millions of forumites cried out if terror..
Im kinda suprised of Marten's reaction (which, imho seemed a bit harsh, but also kinda understandable), but Akronnick has a point. Faye is the master of hiding things from others, even when totally drunk, so he probably doesn't have a clue that she's in a kind of a"situation" here.
This has "Dooooooooooooooooom!" and/or "Drama!" *cue the dramatical sound effect* written all over it. Hopefully im guessing wrong this time..
My guess... 17 pages, no thread-locking, thanks to swift actions of mods
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Marten you're an ass!
You have a friend who struggles with alcoholism and undergoes thearpy for it who suddenly comes home drunk one day and the best you can do is tell her not to throw up?
What kind of friend puts dancing with a scatter brain girl who is moving away and not planning to come back anytime soon over being supportive of their best friend?
Faye was there for you through your break up with Dora...
You deserve to be single!
Faye isn't really coherent enough to explain what's wrong. It's best to wait until she sobers up for a talk. She's also too shitfaced to go out again and(unless they have alcohol in the house already, which I doubt) isn't going to be drinking again in the immediate future. She will just go to sleep(as drunk people usually do) and they can talk when she is better at talking.
No, I forsee something far worse than Faye sleeping. Well, she might sleep. I'm just concerned about any activities that occur before sleeping. It is that time of year for massive upheavals in story line. I'm not of a mood to archive browse, but wasn't The Talk right before Thanksgiving too? (Also, is it bad that we can say The Talk, or The Fight or The Break-Up and know exactly which comics the person is referencing?)
Sure, but that's a pretty meta way to judge. Saying ZOMG DRAMA TIME is one thing, hating on Marten for doing a rational thing is kinda silly.
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Marten's not being insensitive, Faye's not letting on something's wrong. She's very drunk, yes, but she's being a happy drunk; right now she's just coming off like she started celebrating early.
So, basically, right now they're both being idiots...
Faye did pick a thoroughly inappropriate timing for getting drunk, though.
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I'm gonna be conservative and say 12 pages by Monday; no locking.
Ranting guaranteed to provoke a response.
IT BEGINS!
Uh oh.
All hands, brace for impact!
Close the hatches and prepare the pumps, there be a shitstorm abrewin!
...bitch about it on the forum but keep reading anyway.
So say we all.
The only time I ever visited NYC I think the thing that struck me the most was how much it really felt like you were in a maze... It was like...there was street below, sky overhead but the only thing on all sides were buildings. Like just buildings, no matter where you were, all the roads led to buildings. I was someone used to a horizon line being visible at least some direction - I was feeling really claustrophobic by the end of the day, heh.
This reminds me of me when I visited central Florida. No mountains on the horizon, just endless 100 foot trees. Even when I climbed a tower bordering a prairie, in the distance there was just more formless trees, like the ocean but without the feeling that there was something wondrous just over the horizon. I was very happy to get back to chaparral.
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Oh, screw you.
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My prediction for Friday
Knight Sabres
Momo as Nene? Raven as Lina? Faye as Priss? Dora as Sylia? Pintsize as Mackie is obvious. Steve is probably a better choice for Leon than Marten.
Hmmmm, sounds about right
But would Steve be a better Leon or Mason?
And who would be Galatia??
Tai is Wong.
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That... went actually better than it might have (and what I feared). Faye made it back to the apartment before 8 o'clock and met Marten instead of some less trustworthy person. Sleep on it, and talk about it tomorrow. Alternatively Faye could just sob a little, tell Marten what happened, receive an encouraging word and a hug (IOW the underpants incident redone, but sans Dora and the boxer mishap).
A visit to Dr Corinne's may be coming given that Faye may need an experience observer's opinion to put all this in perspective. Like telling her that: "Look, you're at this point on the healing curve. Congratulations, but you still need to ..."
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Why is it that Marten looks like he's about to break out in tears on every single panel? The dude's going through something. I smell huge (butt-)explosions next week.
(Also healing curves are an afront to human individuality!)
Marten: "Try not to puke on anything important."
Faye: "Hergh... LIKE YOUR CROTCH? Hurr, I say, hurr, bollocks."
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I'm still giggling at "PIP PIP CHEERIO AND BUGGER ME BOLLOCKS".
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Do British people actually say "Pip, pip, cheerio?"
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I'm still giggling at "PIP PIP CHEERIO AND BUGGER ME BOLLOCKS".
Marten should've said "What's all this then?".
@akronnick:
They do say "Cheerio." from time to time. (rarer and rarer occasions), but I dont recall anyone ever using "Pip pip!" in any sentence or scenario. oO
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One thing I've always wondered is what the literal meaning of "bollocks" is.
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nuts
pills
balls
huevos
two veg
:-o
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Oh wow, it went right over my head that Angus leaving (and thus Faye getting drunk) co-incided with Padma throwing the dance party.
It's not like Faye to miss out on a party at all...
Actually, the fact that she deliberately got drunk BEFORE the party started indicates that she wants to avoid people right now, and therefore she's probably a lot more worried about this relationship than Angus or Marten or anyone could have reasonably predicted.
Although I guess something like this was bound to happen eventually. People don't just get over their hang-ups.
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the literal meaning of "bollocks"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollocks
No, it's actually surprisingly not a euphemism.
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I really don't buy the whole Marten can't sense something is up. Both him and Dora have called Faye out for drinking in the past and her going to the therapist is common knowledge and lastly this behaviour is out of character with all the improvements she has been making. I think there is enough there for Marten to at least stick around, wait for Faye to sober up and be there to talk. Him leaving the situation when she seems to be backtracking is just wrong.
Plus Faye drinking when the break up was happening is another clue that fits with her having problems and a dependency on alcohol to avoid some emotional problems.
I get the he has a thing for Padma but Faye deserves more from him. She's been a bitch in the past but considering how she has grown and being there for him through the Dora thing...
I say either Marten's an ass , blind or a blind ass.
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How do we know that it's out of character for Faye to be drunk? As I recall, the problem was that she was drinking as a coping mechanism for stress. While that is certainly the case here, Marten doesn't know that, and I don't blame him, because this time around, Faye is actually being cheerful. The only thing he has to go on is that she got drunk unusually early, and she's apparently putting on a British accent. Given that he doesn't have a good indicator of what's going on, it's very difficult for him to handle that situation well. Therefore, if I'd had to deal with that sort of situation, I probably would have left her to sober up as well. If there is a problem, she will be more coherent and less likely to have a mood swing when she is sober.
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Marten hasn't actually left yet, it's possible that Faye will do or say something in Moday's strip that will alert him that something is amiss.
I can hope right?
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I have to join the chorus and admit to being disappointed in Marten at the very least. Alcoholic or not, Faye does have a history of abuse, something Marten knows all too well. Now, I'm willing to go out on a limb here and suggest that he's still too nervous about dancing with Padma to think straight, but by now I would really like to think Marten would know Faye well enough that he doesn't need his full mental energy to figure out something is up. I mean even at her worse I doubt Faye's ever been slammed before 8 before*, at least not when she had plans later that evening. Now, I'm going to keep this in perspective and remember that Marten is not perfect, and that this comic wouldn't be as enjoyable to read if he was, but I still hope Hanners chews him out when he explains Faye's absence to her.
*Pre-moving in with Marten. I make no claims nor judgments about her behavior before she moved upstate, especially given the circumstances leading up to that move.
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I'd just like to put in that not letting her go out and make a fool of herself in public is considerate.
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I'd just like to put in that not letting her go out and make a fool of herself in public is considerate.
But he's not preventing that, he's ditching her. There's no telling what she might do if left to her own devices.
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I'd just like to put in that not letting her go out and make a fool of herself in public is considerate.
But he's not preventing that, he's ditching her. There's no telling what she might do if left to her own devices.
Anyone still remember the "show me your boobs" incident with Pintsize? He might get a second chance at that after all. The guy deserves some screen time, methinks.
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Leaving Faye at the apartement = "Oh noes, Marten is such a bad friend"
Staying to make sure Faye doesn't do anything stupid = "Oh noes, Marten is such a bossy jerk"
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Do British people actually say "Pip, pip, cheerio?"
Can I be British enough to have an answer for this, and pretend to be American enough to plead the fifth? :angel:
Okay, fine, Yes, I have on occasion used these words, and on at least one of those I was sober too!
Is Faye's speech a side-effect of the Awkward Zone clothing, thus hinting she's in an awkard zone right now?
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I'd just like to put in that not letting her go out and make a fool of herself in public is considerate.
But he's not preventing that, he's ditching her. There's no telling what she might do if left to her own devices.
I have to say that I'm more than happy the Marten-Faye relationship doesn't follow the same route as the Ross-Rachel one (Friends TV show)... :evil:
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Leaving Faye at the apartement = "Oh noes, Marten is such a bad friend"
Staying to make sure Faye doesn't do anything stupid = "Oh noes, Marten is such a bossy jerk"
Pretty much.
Remember, folks. We know things that Marten DOESN'T. He has no idea why Faye's drunk. He just knows that she came home after drinking too much. For all he knows she had a couple extra with Angus before he got on the train for NYC and came home silly. Blaming him for not asking her what's wrong only makes sense if you assume that he has a reason to equate Faye drinking with a "problem situation". Given how many times she's drank in the strip when there was NOTHING major going on this seems to be a silly leap to make. Faye did drink as a coping mechanism but it wasn't the ONLY reason she drank. Marten has no reason to assume anything out of the ordinary is going on and he's annoyed that his friend got trashed before they were going to go to a party so he plans to leave her at home. What's the big deal?
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Leaving Faye at the apartement = "Oh noes, Marten is such a bad friend"
Staying to make sure Faye doesn't do anything stupid = "Oh noes, Marten is such a bossy jerk"
Pretty much.
Remember, folks. We know things that Marten DOESN'T. He has no idea why Faye's drunk. He just knows that she came home after drinking too much. For all he knows she had a couple extra with Angus before he got on the train for NYC and came home silly. Blaming him for not asking her what's wrong only makes sense if you assume that he has a reason to equate Faye drinking with a "problem situation". Given how many times she's drank in the strip when there was NOTHING major going on this seems to be a silly leap to make. Faye did drink as a coping mechanism but it wasn't the ONLY reason she drank. Marten has no reason to assume anything out of the ordinary is going on and he's annoyed that his friend got trashed before they were going to go to a party so he plans to leave her at home. What's the big deal?
You stole my reply!
Seriously, my exact thought on reading VonKleist's post was "Pretty much", then I scrolled down to see someone had already said it.
There are some terribly judgemental people around here...
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Yeah I get the distinct feeling from Marten's behavior toward her that he thinks Faye just got plastered on a whim, just 'cause she likes her liquor strong and plentiful. As Cornan said, Faye also gets drunk for fun, not just when she's stressed. And since she's putting on this cheerful facade, how's he to know any different? He can't read her mind, and he didn't see the I Love You exchange between her and Angus, so he really has no reason to suspect anything's wrong. Not unless she starts sobbing or otherwise looking downcast, and she probably won't let herself do either until after he leaves.
Marten's a guy, so like most guys he tends to miss the subtleties of female behavior that indicate something may be wrong with the woman in his life. I also strongly suspect that Faye wouldn't tell him anything was wrong at this point even if he asked. She'd just maintain the cheerful drunk demeanor and deny anything was up.
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Yeah I get the distinct feeling from Marten's behavior toward her that he thinks Faye just got plastered on a whim, just 'cause she likes her liquor strong and plentiful. As Cornan said, Faye also gets drunk for fun, not just when she's stressed. And since she's putting on this cheerful facade, how's he to know any different? He can't read her mind, and he didn't see the I Love You exchange between her and Angus, so he really has no reason to suspect anything's wrong. Not unless she starts sobbing or otherwise looking downcast, and she probably won't let herself do either until after he leaves.
Marten's a guy, so like most guys he tends to miss the subtleties of female behavior that indicate something may be wrong with the woman in his life. I also strongly suspect that Faye wouldn't tell him anything was wrong at this point even if he asked. She'd just maintain the cheerful drunk demeanor and deny anything was up.
Why do you think it's a facade? Why would she sob or be downcast or have something wrong?
This isn't a negative event, this is a giant positive. She's reacting to its size, not its quality. The man she cares about said loves her, she said it back, and now she's grappling with the dimension of that. If she starts crying, they're gonna be tears of joy or tension, not sadness. Right now, she's genuinely, cheerfully happy- in vino veritas and all that.
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Because one does not order a "coping mechanism" if one if feeling cheerful.
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Because one does not order a "coping mechanism" if one if feeling cheerful.
Bourbon has always been Faye's "coping mechanism". She is probably calling it that with regard to her personal history. I'm sure she's a little unsettled by the events at the train station but perhaps not quite so much as that phrase might suggest.
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Well, I..uhh.. heard there supposedly are people who are uncomfortable with that kind of display of affection and that it makes them run away justasquick. Even though they care for the person very much.
I do hope Faye´s just gonna wake up hung over and come to the conclusion she might as well let it go for now and see how things´ll turn out if you don't instantly obsess about ´em.
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It could be a negative in that she's just realized how big the situation is, how attached she is to Angus and now the relationship isn't in the beginning, fun, casual stage any more. If the relationship ends now, it'll matter to her. She's scared of getting hurt again.
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Why do you think it's a facade? Why would she sob or be downcast or have something wrong?
This isn't a negative event, this is a giant positive. She's reacting to its size, not its quality. The man she cares about said loves her, she said it back, and now she's grappling with the dimension of that. If she starts crying, they're gonna be tears of joy or tension, not sadness. Right now, she's genuinely, cheerfully happy- in vino veritas and all that.
And if she is indeed genuinely happy over this (although she didn't seem that happy at the bar to me), considering it some kind of massive emotional breakthough, then Marten truly has no reason to suspect something's wrong requiring him to stay home and comfort her. He's perfectly justified in acting as he has, annoyed at the timing of this particular bender and resolving to leave her at home. I see nothing jerkish about that, especially if he doesn't think anything's wrong.
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Why do you think it's a facade? Why would she sob or be downcast or have something wrong?
This isn't a negative event, this is a giant positive. She's reacting to its size, not its quality. The man she cares about said loves her, she said it back, and now she's grappling with the dimension of that. If she starts crying, they're gonna be tears of joy or tension, not sadness. Right now, she's genuinely, cheerfully happy- in vino veritas and all that.
And if she is indeed genuinely happy over this (although she didn't seem that happy at the bar to me), considering it some kind of massive emotional breakthough, then Marten truly has no reason to suspect something's wrong requiring him to stay home and comfort her. He's perfectly justified in acting as he has, annoyed at the timing of this particular bender and resolving to leave her at home. I see nothing jerkish about that, especially if he doesn't think anything's wrong.
See, people are complicated. Faye is likely quite happy to be "in love" as in romantic devotion because it's actually quite a nice feeling all on its own and to have it treturned is amazing. But she's also probably terrified for subconscious reasons relating to her father's suicide and then on top of hat confused about why she's terrified of being in love all of a sudden and worried what that confusion really means for the long-term stability of her relationship that she actually likes being in.
Booze, by suppressing inhibitions, would probably make her feel happier up to a point since irrational terror is somewhat inhibitive and removing that also lessens the confusion and worry. But past that point the scale start to tip backwards with the removal of the deeper inhibition that prevents her recognising the source of the terror for what it is.
And so on.
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Huh. I'd always though Bollocks meant Butt. If it's Balls that entirely changes the meaning of her phrase "Bugger me Bollocks". Much less uncomfortable as a moment between friends. Actually thought that was part of why he was bailing the second she came in. Just like "Oh great. Drunk Faye's propositioning me. I so do not need this right now".
I'm gonna say that I'm in the party who thinks she's not too happy about this. Not to say she's mortified or anything, but she's freaking out a little. Maybe a little depressed and scared because she let her guard down just a tad more than she intended to. Situation with Angus is getting to the point where she's beginning to lose control and that's not a good feeling. I can relate and I don't have anything close to her own trauma based issues. It's a pretty human response.
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My only hope is that Jeph didn't just put Angus "on a bus". (I know, a train isn't the same as a bus, but you know what I mean.)
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For the record, personally I think Faye just doesnt like it that Angus isnt there.
Not that she's in any way upset that they said the words to each other.
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the meaning of her phrase "Bugger me Bollocks".
It has no meaning; she has just drunkenly thrown together a few British-sounding words.
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For the record, personally I think Faye just doesnt like it that Angus isnt there.
Not that she's in any way upset that they said the words to each other.
When I read yesterday's comic, my first thought was also that she realised how much she would miss him. It's not insignificant that she realises how attached she is at the very moment he leaves her. Leaving for the weekend, yes, but nonetheless leaving her. She's now left with this sudden awareness that she loves him, combined with her trust/abandonment issues, and she is all alone. That is obviously going to trigger emotions that she would struggle to cope with. The point of a coping mechanism, however, is to let you cope. At the moment she is drunk off her face, much less inhibited, and is staving off her issues for the time being. So of course, it's not going to come through in her behaviour that there's anything wrong. She was drinking so that even she would forget anything was wrong.
And Marten is perfectly justified. He may be her flatmate and her close friend, but he's not her mother, and he's not her partner. Marten had plans for that evening, plans involving other people, and plans which from the sound of it also were to involve Faye. If she comes in drunk and rambunctious, babbling in faux-English-gentspeak, that's no indication that he is somehow obliged to cancel his plans, only that she is clearly in no fit state to go out.
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I think that many of us raises hand are simply worried sick about the prospect of something horrible happening to Faye. Some of us want to blame Marten for not being an omniscient big brother to her at a time of need. Some of us want to rationalize it away one way or another. Some want to yell at others for not buying our pet theory.
Touching.
Really.
Hugs to all.
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As I understand it the "Pip pip" thing was something that appeared in British literature before the First World War (normally centred around upper class characters). I may be British but I'm not an expert on literature so I may be wrong. This discussion makes me think of a documentary I heard a while ago (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k8lg1) though I'm not sure if the phrase "Pip pip" turned up there.
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Sorry, I don't see Marten NOT being resentful on some level that Faye simply didn't want him.
I can see him having enough of her eventually, and this is just a sign of it - to me, anyway.
Well these are characters, not actual people, so the story would go different.
Sure would be something for Marten to move away to follow a chick AGAIN!
How could you handle a double-coast comic???
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...I'm starting to think I'm a terrible person because the only thought I came away with from today's comic was 'what bar doesn't let you in if you're already drunk??'
That was the only way we went to bars, you get toasty on cheap shitty wine & vodka beforehand at home so you don't have to spend as much at the bar to keep the buzz going/get drunker.
But on the real topic I guess lol
I am a bit surprised at Marten's reaction but I'll wait til Monday to see if there's a good reason for it
I will say Jeph might want to cut back on/lighten the lines under his eyes, they keep making him look upset/tired when I don't think he's supposed to be.
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For most pubs it depends on the type of drunk. As Marten said, Faye is obviously drunk and being a bit loud and rowdy. If you're just buzzing a bit but being civil, they either won't notice or won't care because they don't think you'll be trouble.
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You know I was actually proud of Marten here. If he canceled his plans and spent the night listening to Faye's BS, everyone would be whinging about what a doormat he is. He has plans and he's sticking with them. He's allowed to go off and have fun and not babysit and monitor all of Faye's issues. Especially when she has so many. You can be a good friend without giving away every single part of yourself to someone else. For F***s sake Marten, enjoy your damned dancing!
My QC-sense tells me that we are gonna be seeing Sven soon. IMHO, that's the real unresolved issue that still lingering around in Faye's subconsciousness.
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What would be entertaining here is if Faye tries to keep Marten from leaving, and then punch him unconscious in her drunken state, showing that no matter who drinks, Marten ends up floored.
- He misses his fun dancing.
- Faye wakes up sober.
- Hilarity or rather angst ensues
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Momo as Nene? Raven as Lina? Faye as Priss? Dora as Sylia? Pintsize as Mackie is obvious. Steve is probably a better choice for Leon than Marten.
Marten would be the mopey mechanic, Nigel.
8pm isn't an especially early hour to be drunk, especially on a Friday night. The pubs here are packed from 5pm on with the after-work drinking crowd, and not a few go home pretty merry. Belligerent doesn't mean what Marten seems to think it means either. But given Marten's well-known distaste for the Sex Pistols (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=412), I can see why he might be irritated with pseudo-British babbling.
I think that many of us raises hand are simply worried sick about the prospect of something horrible happening to Faye.
Why would one expect something horrible to happen to her? Hands up anyone who's ever had too much to drink, and then gone home and slept it off without anything horrible happening to them... A forest of hands, I thought so. :roll:
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Why would one expect something horrible to happen to her?
Jeph's comment.
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My only hope is that Jeph didn't just put Angus "on a bus". (I know, a train isn't the same as a bus, but you know what I mean.)
Seems like an unlikely way to do it. Angus is only supposed to be gone for a few days, not say weeks, or months. Unless you mean Angus meeting some horrible fate, which has never happened to any of the "on screen" cast(other than maybe Sara :-D), and would ramp up the current drama to kind of a ridiculous level.
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8pm isn't an especially early hour to be drunk, especially on a Friday night. The pubs here are packed from 5pm on with the after-work drinking crowd...
I think crowd is the main word there. I agree it's not a very early time but Faye went drinking alone in the group's dive which when she arrived looks totally empty, when there were already plans to go out later.
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My QC-sense tells me that we are gonna be seeing Sven soon....
Drunk dialing in 3, 2...
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Unplug the toaster before you leave, Marten ...
EDIT: Out of the drunken context, that's a cute Faye face in panel 3.
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in vino veritas and all that.
Haven't we been through this already? :psyduck:
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8pm isn't an especially early hour to be drunk, especially on a Friday night. The pubs here are packed from 5pm on with the after-work drinking crowd...
I think crowd is the main word there. I agree it's not a very early time but Faye went drinking alone in the group's dive which when she arrived looks totally empty, when there were already plans to go out later.
Agreed. Blowing off the dancing plans to get drunk should be a warning sign for anyone, much less about a known recovering alcoholic who really shouldn't be drinking anymore. And let's face it: even if Faye isn't* technically an alcoholic, she is close enough for most practical purposes. As her friend the least Marten could have done is ask her why she was so plastered, and be prepared to push to get a more substantial answer than "Owls made me do it." It's not about wanting him to be a doormat or a bossy jerk but rather him being a friend, and he should know her well enough by now to strongly suspect that something is wrong, even if he isn't 100% sure yet.
My QC-sense tells me that we are gonna be seeing Sven soon. IMHO, that's the real unresolved issue that still lingering around in Faye's subconsciousness.
Maybe not the "real" unresolved issue, but it wouldn't surprise me to find out that's part of her problem right now. For some reason I really think Sven would be a good person for her to talk to right now: yeah it'd get awkward, but in his heart Sven is a decent guy (especially since him and Faye broke up). I think he'd do the right thing and try to help her and not take advantage of the situation for himself, despite any temptation he might have. Then again, I already have a pretty bad record of predicting Jeph's plans, so take that for what you will.
*Present tense used to reflect the generally agreed upon fact that you never fully recover from alcoholism.
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OK, MotW poll is up. Final results on the Wednesday poll;
Dora 8 (11.8%)
Cosette 1 (1.5%)
Sven 12 (17.6%)
Pintsize & Winslow 4 (5.9%)
Mieville & the Roombas (wait, isn't that a band?) 11 (16.2%)
Penelope and/or Wil 7 (10.3%)
Pizza Girl! 5 (7.4%)
Sara (?!?!?) 5 (7.4%)
Someone else really minor 1 (1.5%)
Someone entirely new! 4 (5.9%)
OK then - Raven 10 (14.7%)
Total Voters: 68
Sven won anyway...
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At the rate we're going, Angus will be back sometime after the first of the year (our time).
I don't think it'll take that long, probably only about a month or so...
Aww, HELL no!!!
Jeph Jacques, so help me if you make Angus and Faye break-up right before Thanksgiving like you did with Marten and Dora I swear to God I'll...
I'll...
I'll...
...bitch about it on the forum but keep reading anyway.
Can I borrow this reaction as well? I'll keep it clean and properly maintained for when you need it back..
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Why do you think it's a facade? Why would she sob or be downcast or have something wrong?
This isn't a negative event, this is a giant positive. She's reacting to its size, not its quality. The man she cares about said loves her, she said it back, and now she's grappling with the dimension of that. If she starts crying, they're gonna be tears of joy or tension, not sadness. Right now, she's genuinely, cheerfully happy- in vino veritas and all that.
And if she is indeed genuinely happy over this (although she didn't seem that happy at the bar to me), considering it some kind of massive emotional breakthough, then Marten truly has no reason to suspect something's wrong requiring him to stay home and comfort her. He's perfectly justified in acting as he has, annoyed at the timing of this particular bender and resolving to leave her at home. I see nothing jerkish about that, especially if he doesn't think anything's wrong.
Kinda This.
She did not seem very happy at the bar. She didn't seem scared or overwhelmed. Just not happy and rather irritated.
When she said "I love you" she hitched on it and that usually (not all the time) but usually happens when someone goes to say something because it's the expected thing to say, but half way through realizes they don't mean it, but at the same moment doesn't want to complicate the situation, so they finish saying it anyway.
This coupled with her seeming irritation at the bar, as opposed to being caught like a deer in the headlights going "Holy cow I'm in LOVE! Woah!", leads me to believe (for now) that while Faye is very fond of Angus, she's not ready for Love just yet. And there's nothing wrong with that! :-D
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8pm isn't an especially early hour to be drunk, especially on a Friday night. The pubs here are packed from 5pm on with the after-work drinking crowd...
I think crowd is the main word there. I agree it's not a very early time but Faye went drinking alone in the group's dive which when she arrived looks totally empty, when there were already plans to go out later.
Agreed. Blowing off the dancing plans to get drunk should be a warning sign for anyone, much less about a known recovering alcoholic who really shouldn't be drinking anymore. And let's face it: even if Faye isn't* technically an alcoholic, she is close enough for most practical purposes. As her friend the least Marten could have done is ask her why she was so plastered, and be prepared to push to get a more substantial answer than "Owls made me do it." It's not about wanting him to be a doormat or a bossy jerk but rather him being a friend, and he should know her well enough by now to strongly suspect that something is wrong, even if he isn't 100% sure yet.
My QC-sense tells me that we are gonna be seeing Sven soon. IMHO, that's the real unresolved issue that still lingering around in Faye's subconsciousness.
Maybe not the "real" unresolved issue, but it wouldn't surprise me to find out that's part of her problem right now. For some reason I really think Sven would be a good person for her to talk to right now: yeah it'd get awkward, but in his heart Sven is a decent guy (especially since him and Faye broke up). I think he'd do the right thing and try to help her and not take advantage of the situation for himself, despite any temptation he might have. Then again, I already have a pretty bad record of predicting Jeph's plans, so take that for what you will.
*Present tense used to reflect the generally agreed upon fact that you never fully recover from alcoholism.
Yeah, I'm rather surprised that Martin didn't seem more concerned about this. It's not usual for Faye to suddenly get this drunk this early and given her history I'm certain Martin knows something is up.
But he's got plans and it sounds like, this time, he's going to go out and let Faye (who is a grown adult after all and other than being drunk, doesn't seem distressed) sort herself out.
I can't say I blame him, but I probably would've tried to figure out what was going on a bit more (not that it would've been successful).
::shrug::
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the meaning of her phrase "Bugger me Bollocks".
It has no meaning; she has just drunkenly thrown together a few British-sounding words.
I can't say I blame her, I speak from personal experience when I say that doing this is so much fun.
RED TEXT - ha, whoa, our posts are not about the same thing, but they both contain the phrase "I can't say I blame". Eerie.
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I really, really hope Marten doesn't spend his whole evening with Padma worrying about Faye. Or even worse, worrying out loud to Padma.
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"Bugger my bollocks" = owww.
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I believe at the bar she was most immediately annoyed with the person who was between her and her bourbon and mentally weary- I'm not reading too much into her expression there.
For some reason, after looking back at the last two strips I can't remove the idea of Faye having a bubble blower tucked behind her other ear.
in vino veritas and all that.
Haven't we been through this already? :psyduck:
I was citing the concept, not holding it as scientifically proven fact. I came down on the other side of that discussion.
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This forum needs to be reminded that Marten is going to come home.
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"Bugger my bollocks" = owww.
My reaction as well.
Somethin's a-brewin in QCverse, an' it don't look purty.
Ah'm sure we'll see what's up come Monday.
In the meantime, Ah've got some popcorn and a sasparilly. I'll be at the other end o' the corral if'n ya need me.
(OK, it's not quite as much fun as "Bugger me bollocks", but I bet you're hearing Sam Elliott now...)
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Agreed. Blowing off the dancing plans to get drunk should be a warning sign for anyone, much less about a known recovering alcoholic who really shouldn't be drinking anymore. And let's face it: even if Faye isn't* technically an alcoholic, she is close enough for most practical purposes.
[snip]
*Present tense used to reflect the generally agreed upon fact that you never fully recover from alcoholism.
Hoo boy. A True Believer. Let me tell you: modern therapy is a destructive cult of the self, that will destroy you much more thoroughly than any drug ever will. It is their duty to make you dependent on them, and you will be dependent on them, not because they're evil, but because they're in a culture that aggrandizes what began as essentially a pseudoscientific reason to write about libertines and pedophiles in a repressed era, and over time built itself up with studies conducted to a standard of rigor that would get you laughed out of every other field to justify each contrary political or cultural zeitgeist in turn, and introduced elements of both Western and Eastern mythology to the mix. AA is worse, since it explicitly rests on the supernatural, however syncretic, and outright lies about its success rather than just bullshitting. At least the major religions are "observed" hypocritically by most, with nearly everyone recognizing that there is no God even if they don't recognize that they recognize it, but every believer in therapy is the equivalent of Jack Chick, right down to the proselytizing cartoons they give to children. It amazes me how much the defenses of modern "psychology" mirror fundie apologia.
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Jeph's comment.
Ah, I missed that. The zeal of the convert, I guess. I rarely drink myself, but zero?
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That comment is so inconspicuous down there, hidden between the comic and the T-shirt ad in its' small plain font. I never notice it there until someone mentions it in the forum.
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Why, yes, Nearlurker, my bachelor's degree was in Psychology. Why do you ask?
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Jeph's comment.
Ah, I missed that. The zeal of the convert, I guess. I rarely drink myself, but zero?
It's not a "drinking" zero. It's a "coping mechanism" zero.
I rarely drink, but I do not fear alcohol: I've never felt the lure of drinking to "cope". I've never "needed" a drink.
But I've known too many who were not so lucky.
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That's what I was gonna say.
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Three straight bourbons over several hours and she's this drunk? With her history? What, did she skip lunch?
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Agreed. Blowing off the dancing plans to get drunk should be a warning sign for anyone, much less about a known recovering alcoholic who really shouldn't be drinking anymore. And let's face it: even if Faye isn't* technically an alcoholic, she is close enough for most practical purposes.
[snip]
*Present tense used to reflect the generally agreed upon fact that you never fully recover from alcoholism.
Hoo boy. A True Believer. Let me tell you: modern therapy is a destructive cult of the self, that will destroy you much more thoroughly than any drug ever will. It is their duty to make you dependent on them, and you will be dependent on them, not because they're evil, but because they're in a culture that aggrandizes what began as essentially a pseudoscientific reason to write about libertines and pedophiles in a repressed era, and over time built itself up with studies conducted to a standard of rigor that would get you laughed out of every other field to justify each contrary political or cultural zeitgeist in turn, and introduced elements of both Western and Eastern mythology to the mix. AA is worse, since it explicitly rests on the supernatural, however syncretic, and outright lies about its success rather than just bullshitting. At least the major religions are "observed" hypocritically by most, with nearly everyone recognizing that there is no God even if they don't recognize that they recognize it, but every believer in therapy is the equivalent of Jack Chick, right down to the proselytizing cartoons they give to children. It amazes me how much the defenses of modern "psychology" mirror fundie apologia.
WTF? I mean, seriously, where did that rant come from? I'm really not sure how to respond to this. All I did was point out that it's a common belief that you can never fully get rid of an addiction, at least as it applies to alcohol. I never once mentioned therapy or religion as my source for that claim. And quite frankly, it is a common belief from what I can tell.
Also, that has to be the most venomous attack on modern therapy that I have ever read, at least outside of a L. Ron Hubbard book.
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ranting
Welcome to the forum Tom! It's been a long time since we had a famous person on here. So how is life? Are you pushing it pedal to the metal or just 'Cruise'ing along? HAHAHAhahahaaa... 8-)
That was a reference to Tom Cruise, noted Scientologist, the cult religion that rejects psychology, in case I was too subtle.
Also, is Near Lurker a logical name with over 700 posts?
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Well played, westrim, well played. :evil:
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the generally agreed upon fact that you never fully recover from alcoholism.
Hoo boy. A True Believer. Let me tell you: modern therapy is a destructive cult of the self, that will destroy you much more thoroughly than any drug ever will. It is their duty to make you dependent on them,
Your rant reads as if you have had or seen bad experiences of therapy (either that, or you've been reading too much Internet nonsense). Sure, they can happen, perhaps more often than in some other fields because it is a very imprecise art; but that doesn't invalidate the good that can be done as well (of which I have personal experience).
There are important biochemical and genetic components to addiction. Psychotherapy can't fix those, so criticising it for not being an effective cure is missing the point. If you want to argue your view more thoroughly, I suggest you take it to the DISCUSS! forum, as it will quickly get off-topic for here; but bring your hard evidence, because that forum is for serious debating.
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is Near Lurker a logical name with over 700 posts?
This forum is set up so that users can't change their account names; I don't intend to alter that.
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I rarely drink, but I do not fear alcohol: I've never felt the lure of drinking to "cope". I've never "needed" a drink. But I've known too many who were not so lucky.
Yes, while I was away from the keyboard, that dawned on me. My remark was borderline disrespectful, and I apologise.
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Popcorn anyone?
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Yeah, popcorn, but the good, buttery(or buttery substitute) kind. Not the light stuff, which is lacking in buttery goodness.
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Just saying, she doesn't look "belligerent" to me. Loud, yes... possibly giggly. But aggressive, looking for a fight? Hardly.
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By now all the local bars must know that Faye is a happy drunk.
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If by "happy" you mean "occasionally threatens and/or chucks patrons across the bar", then yes.
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There weren't any drunk bubbles on Faye when she hurled Angus across the room.
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Apropos of nothing...
I'm sentimental & voted for "I...I love you too!"
Bourbon as a coping mechanism is understandable. Bourbon as a coping mechanism for *being in love* is more problematic.
The artwork in the last frame of 2040 is excellent. Completely captures Marten's not wanting to deal with drunk Faye just now, and Faye's thinking she's silly, but she's actually just annoyingly drunk.
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If by "happy" you mean "occasionally threatens and/or chucks patrons across the bar", then yes.
In one case, it landed her a job offer for a bouncer. (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=783)
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Hm, Faye sometimes seemed menacing or rather silly when drunk. This time around I think she´s kinda cute :-)
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I think that's why Marten does't want to deal with her - despite the (albeit silly) cuteness, Faye can get violent, and they were to go dancing, not necessarily drinking and dancing (though the two often go hand in hand). Dragging a person who'd drunk enough to flop about and can't even hold a straight face, and who's known for having a temper and can be moody around on what's supposed to be a fun evening is just not a good idea, especially if you want to have fun.
Marten's reaction is fine and natural. Faye's is disturbing, but only if you know the reasons.
Go, Marten. Have fun. Let Faye sleep it off. You're still a good friend.
[reaches for the popcorn]
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Was anyone else expecting, if only briefly, the bottom two panels to involve headbutting and vomiting? (I'm glad they didn't.)
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I agree wholeheartedly with Carl's post. Marten staying with Faye and sacrificing his own evening would just be him allowing himself to be slave to her moods and whims, AND quite likely get knocked out again when Faye has a drunken mood swing and gets mad at him, probably in response to him getting snarky with her.
Yeah, it's healthier for Marten to go out than stay home with someone who's drunk AND has a temper. Again, healthier FOR Marten. If that makes him a "bad friend" cause he's looking out for his own interests for once, then so be it. I was a little worried that Faye would puke in Marten's lap and headbutt him in the nuts again, but it looks like Jeph's not gonna repeat that joke, thankfully.
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If I were Marten, I don't think it led a drunken Faye anywhere near my crotch!
Headbutt my nuts once, shame on you. Headbutt my nuts twice,...
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...well, your not gonna headbutt me in the nuts again.
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That's what SHE said!
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No, she said "BUGGER ME BOLLOCKS", which doesn't really sound all that much better...
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I am catching up this week after having some coping mechanisms of my own and I missed some of my favorite things! Relationship progressions! And irrational dislike of Faye! (I don't know if it's healthy or not but disliking a fictional character might help me find real people less annoying in comparison!)
Only the Roomba family could have made this better.
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No, she said "BUGGER ME BOLLOCKS", which doesn't really sound all that much better...
I'm not sure that it's even possible.
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I'm sure Faye can find a way.
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No, she said "BUGGER ME BOLLOCKS", which doesn't really sound all that much better...
I'm not sure that it's even possible.
You know how there's porn of everything, even impossible things?
Yeah.
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...well, your not gonna headbutt me in the nuts again.
Way to sneak in a Bush reference there.
I know that Faye is just a fictional character, but I wish she learned not to be so dependent on alcohol to deal with her emotional problems. Is it weird to feel compassion for cartoon characters?
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I know that Faye is just a fictional character, but I wish she learned not to be so dependent on alcohol to deal with her emotional problems. Is it weird to feel compassion for cartoon characters?
Not really. I mean, I think one of the reasons we get so passionate about our arguments on these forums is because of how attached we are to these characters. And the main reason we can do that is because of how realistic Jeph depicts them. Now, occasionally someone will go slightly out of character in order to set up or deliver a punch line, but only slightly. Now the setting definitely has its share of glaring inconsistencies, but the people behave like we expect them to. It's definitely a tribute to Jeph how he's able to deliver a consistently funny comic 5 days a week without turning the cast into the emotional equivalent of cardboard cutouts. So yes, it's perfectly fine to feel compassion for them. At least, it better be for my sake. :-o
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Well played, westrim, well played. :evil:
I do my best.
is Near Lurker a logical name with over 700 posts?
This forum is set up so that users can't change their account names; I don't intend to alter that.
I know, I tried to capitalize my name a while back only to find that it wasn't doable.
Yeah, popcorn, but the good, buttery(or buttery substitute) kind. Not the light stuff, which is lacking in buttery goodness.
I prefer kettle corn, myself.
You know how there's porn of everything, even impossible things?
Yeah.
Due to this I know that Africa and South America used to be close lovers, but continental drift forced them apart. SA hooked up with North America and Africa was until recently in a threeway with Europe and Asia before Europe broke up over Gibraltar 5 million years ago.
You're welcome :angel:
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That's not porn, that's a soap opera.
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That's not porn, that's a soap opera.
But it's explicit soap opera, with hot continent on continent action and lots of bumping and grinding.
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Ooh Baby, I want your Tectonic plate in my subduction zone...
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Ooh Baby, I want your Tectonic plate in my subduction zone...
Going dowwwwn...
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Due to this I know that Africa and South America used to be close lovers, but continental drift forced them apart. SA hooked up with North America and Africa was until recently in a threeway with Europe and Asia before Europe broke up over Gibraltar 5 million years ago.
So we have the Indian subcontinent forcefully penetrating Asia and a bunch of others ganging up giving the Pacific a rimming?
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Nothing like firing up the forums first thing in the morning, glancing at the last three posts first, and wondering how the hell the thread got there.
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Was anyone else expecting, if only briefly, the bottom two panels to involve headbutting and vomiting? (I'm glad they didn't.)
Then we'd have a hundred posts about how Jeph wasn't being original anymore.
Or a Kurtz-like post from Jeph saying "#### you guys, it's funny."
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That's tangential to why I'm glad they didn't.
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Nothing like firing up the forums first thing in the morning, glancing at the last three posts first, and wondering how the hell the thread got there.
I do my best. :angel:
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Nothing like firing up the forums first thing in the morning, glancing at the last three posts first, and wondering how the hell the thread got there.
I do my best. :angel:
Aaaaaaaand you're not original anymore.
(Like this? damn... I can see why Jeph didn't opt to got for vomit~y crotch headbutting again...)
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(http://www.gregslens.com/images/IMG_4994.jpg)
The real Amherst Amtrak for anyone interested.
Jeff was technically correct though, Amherst did once have two tracks, but the second one has been torn up except for a few ties and scrap rail.
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I've been on that train!
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Results for MotW:
Well well, look who it is. 0 (0%)
some of us have BETTER THINGS TO DO than just play VIDEO GAMES all the... 1 (1.6%)
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME 8 (12.9%)
Butts. 8 (12.9%)
The fact that it's plural really worries me. 1 (1.6%)
FWEEEE 3 (4.8%)
...that is a LOT of victorian pornography... 1 (1.6%)
No thanks. I've been to the city. It's loud and smelly. 0 (0%)
DJ Squeekz 3 (4.8%)
I...I love you too! 11 (17.7%)
Gimme a coping mechanism on the rocks. 5 (8.1%)
PIP PIP CHEERIO AND BUGGER ME BOLLOCKS 18 (29%)
None of the above 2 (3.2%)
DJ Wafflz 1 (1.6%)
Total Voters: 62
We have a winner!
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According to Jeph's Tumbler, it was Springfield Amtrak. I guess Angus needed a wider range of departures.
Completely ridiculous/insignificant question; did you base the background of the most recent strip on the Springfield Amtrak station?
Yup! It is wonderfully desolate.