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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: jwhouk on 08 Jul 2012, 06:01
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And here we go with the pre-SDCC stuff!
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Is it really that hot in San Diego? I went to a conference in Anaheim last month and it wasn't hot there at all. I don't think San Diego is all that different.
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Should be pretty cool (pun intended) in San Diego. (http://www.weather.com/weather/today/San+Diego+CA+USCA0982)
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23C cool? It would be nice if our UK summer managed to get back up to such dizzy heights!
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It is when it's 40C here...
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23C cool? It would be horrific if our UK summer managed to get back up to such dizzy heights!
I am definitely going to die in the States this summer. Tell my cats I love them.
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Only if I get to keep one of them. I imagine British cats are much better for channeling my supervillainy than American cats.
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I am definitely going to die in the States this summer. Tell my cats I love them.
OK, if you and Edith get up this way, I won't heat the pool. It was 88F yesterday, but cooling today.
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What's that in real numbers?
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What's that in real numbers?
31C
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A week of Yelling Bird strips, strips that play on fandom shipping, strips that skew events that happened in the strip, and a crossover not seen since......Faye told that one customer she was ugly or some shit from Shortpacked.
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That would be Amber. Sorry, I haven't been following Shortpacked as of late.
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Livestream is up.
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A week of Yelling Bird strips, strips that play on fandom shipping, strips that skew events that happened in the strip, and a crossover not seen since......Faye told that one customer she was ugly or some shit from Shortpacked.
Shipping? No way. What are you talking about?
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very hard not to vote for the first one ... hope everything's straightened out there
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Oh god, the shoutbox feed for the livestream is friggin' hilarious.
"Oh god, no Faye! Noooooooo"
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Way to 'help' there.
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THus the 'oh god no Faye' commentary from the Livesteam :-D
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Well, I'll throw in an "Aw geez, Marten," right here.
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Well, I'll throw in an "Aw geez, Marten," right here.
I know. "its cool if you make out w/tai"?? It's three extra letters Marten, don't be lazy just because it's a text.
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To be fair, "w/" is a legit abbreviation for "with", there are much more grave sins most texters commit.
Like spelling it "txt". Taking away that vowel when texting makes you a bad person.
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I'm going to assume that there was a typo and the last message was supposed to be from Pintsize.
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You'd think so, but I don't think Pintsize would be considerate enough to suggest proper lubrication.
Also, Dora's face after Marten's text is priceless.
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Dammit, Faye. And, yeah, Marten needs to chill , too. I think maybe alcohol consumption was continued after Dora and Tai left. Except for the post breakup period, Marten is generally a happy drunk. Faye tends to get happily belligerent. Both of them are being asses in thier own special way.
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Dora in panel 3.2 reminded me of Sweet Tits.
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And now Dora knows what Tai wants.
Nice going Faye and Marten, great subtle hints.
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Did she really not already?
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Or, alternately- this is actually Faye and Marten keeping Tai from ambushing Dora at the end of the walk- by the time they get to Tai's place, Dora will have had time to think of a way to let Tai down easy rather than react to it instinctively and probably hurtfully.
Dora is a much nicer person when she has a chance to step back and think for a bit.
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Did she really not already?
Dora dosen't seem to have Padma levels of obliviousness, but, yeah, all evidence points to her being a bit dense on this one issue.
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Or, alternately- this is actually Faye and Marten keeping Tai from ambushing Dora at the end of the walk- by the time they get to Tai's place, Dora will have had time to think of a way to let Tai down easy rather than react to it instinctively and probably hurtfully.
That was my reaction when I saw Faye's message - that it was deliberate sabotage.
Marten's message was just confusing whichever way you look at it. As if she needs your permission, sheesh. :roll:
As for Dora's apparent obliviousness, she could be putting it on, but I wouldn't bet either way.
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To be fair, "w/" is a legit abbreviation for "with", there are much more grave sins most texters commit.
Like spelling it "txt". Taking away that vowel when texting makes you a bad person.
Actually I was just trolling DSL since I'm quite sure he wasn't berating Marten for his text grammar.
I'm guessing Marten's text was a poor attempt to balance out Faye's inappropriate text. I can just seem him saying "would you please not send that?! Goddammit...*picks up phone*"
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Or, alternately- this is actually Faye and Marten keeping Tai from ambushing Dora at the end of the walk- by the time they get to Tai's place, Dora will have had time to think of a way to let Tai down easy rather than react to it instinctively and probably hurtfully.
That was my reaction when I saw Faye's message - that it was deliberate sabotage.
Marten's message was just confusing whichever way you look at it. As if she needs your permission, sheesh. :roll:
As for Dora's apparent obliviousness, she could be putting it on, but I wouldn't bet either way.
Marten's message I get. With a little brain lubricant, it makes sense, kind of. Tai was worried about hooking up with Dora because it would be akward for Marten, who is her friend and co-worker. He has already assured her that he is fine with it. A little alcohol, and to Marten it is important to reassure Dora that he has no problem with her and Tai. From his slightly inebriated point of view, he has done a good thing by assuring both parties that he is fine with them getting together.
Faye, on the other hand, is being an ass.
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Is it just me, or does Tai's hair look thicker than usual?
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... ram WHAT EXACTLY in ?!?
Uh-hu. Webcomic movie. I bet they would get Keanu Reeves for Marten.
But thinking about it, it would be the FIRST webcomic movie ever, wouldnt it ? Then again, maybe we should leave it to a webcomic with less quality to be the first, so it gets popular and QC the movie can get better actors. :D
I wished these imperial units would finally vanish so I could understand what people are talking about. Fahrenheit ? Seriously ? I'm expected to subtract 32, divide through 9, mulitply by 5, all in my head ? Just because you want to freeze water at 32 and boil it at 200-something ? Gah.
You cant even give the weak excuse that Fahrenheit would be more "intuitive" than metric aka Kelvin / Celsius. Because, apparently, people seriously believe that "feet" would be intuitive. Whos feet ? And what the frak is "inch" or "mile" ? And how could stomething like "stone" be ever intuitive at all ?
Six units, everything else defined by these units, and when its thousands its kilo, millions its mega, trillions its giga, one thousands its milli, one millions its micro, etc. THATS intuitive.
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Marten's message I get. With a little brain lubricant, it makes sense, kind of. Tai was worried about hooking up with Dora because it would be akward for Marten, who is her friend and co-worker. He has already assured her that he is fine with it. A little alcohol, and to Marten it is important to reassure Dora that he has no problem with her and Tai. From his slightly inebriated point of view, he has done a good thing by assuring both parties that he is fine with them getting together.
You're right - the alcohol does explain it. I can see why he thinks he's helping, but he's not.
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I'm going to assume that there was a typo and the last message was supposed to be from Pintsize.
I suspect "Faye's" texts both came from Pintsize. Forging SMS messages would be right up his street.
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Fahrenheit ? Seriously ? I'm expected to subtract 32, divide through 9, mulitply by 5, all in my head ? Just because you want to freeze water at 32 and boil it at 200-something ? Gah.
Let us not forget that Daniel Gabriel Farenheit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gabriel_Fahrenheit) was German...
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Because we're apparently all about the tangents here, my favourite unit is the Outhouse aka one microbarn. :angel:
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And the milliHelen, a unit of beauty sufficient to launch one ship.
Dora's tweet raises an interesting question. There must be sentient phones in the QC universe. Why haven't we seen one? What are they like? What do they do with their intelligence?
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My favourite is the catty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catty) (斤), because it is divided into sixteen tael...
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I wished these imperial units would finally vanish so I could understand what people are talking about. Fahrenheit ? Seriously ? I'm expected to subtract 32, divide through 9, mulitply by 5, all in my head ? Just because you want to freeze water at 32 and boil it at 200-something ? Gah.
You cant even give the weak excuse that Fahrenheit would be more "intuitive" than metric aka Kelvin / Celsius. Because, apparently, people seriously believe that "feet" would be intuitive. Whos feet ? And what the frak is "inch" or "mile" ? And how could stomething like "stone" be ever intuitive at all ?
Six units, everything else defined by these units, and when its thousands its kilo, millions its mega, trillions its giga, one thousands its milli, one millions its micro, etc. THATS intuitive.
We gave a solid run at adopting the metric system in the States in the late 70s and early 80s. Road signs were printed in both miles and kilometers. Speedometers had two sets of numbers for the same. Auto manufacturers started switching to metric nuts and bolts as imports and shared platforms became more prevalent in the U.S. Working on a mid 80s GM, Ford or Chrysler product can be frustrating when the bolt you're loosening is metric and the one next to it is SAE.
The whole thing kind of fizzled out in the late 80s. There was never the political will to force the switch and there was real resistance to the idea, especially after that one Canadian airliner ran out of fuel mid flight because the ground crew didn't understand the difference between gallons and liters. The military still uses Kliks and meters for the most part, but the military does love their tradition so hoary units of measure like the knot are still used for ship and aircraft speed.
Adopting the metric system would be a good idea, but I don't see it happening here anytime soon. Can't have the Gubbmint telling us what to do, after all. It wouldn't be 'Murrican.
Marten's message I get. With a little brain lubricant, it makes sense, kind of. Tai was worried about hooking up with Dora because it would be akward for Marten, who is her friend and co-worker. He has already assured her that he is fine with it. A little alcohol, and to Marten it is important to reassure Dora that he has no problem with her and Tai. From his slightly inebriated point of view, he has done a good thing by assuring both parties that he is fine with them getting together.
You're right - the alcohol does explain it. I can see why he thinks he's helping, but he's not.
I agree. And I'll be suprised if Dora dosen't let Marten and Faye know how unhelpful they've been.
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Let us not forget that Daniel Gabriel Farenheit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gabriel_Fahrenheit) was German...
Let us also not forget that Celsius's original scale had water boiling as 0 degrees, and freezing as 100 degrees! It was the botanist Linnaeus who turned it around to make the final version.
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Imperial is fun.. 1760 yards in a mile you say? I shall sneer and laugh in my sophisticated old-world manner :D
Dora's second to last reaction face killed me!
Great comiiiiic.
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How many different lengths of mile can you think of? You have ten seconds...
When you've done that, try the same for the weight of an ounce... volume of a pint...
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I'm going to assume that there was a typo and the last message was supposed to be from Pintsize.
I suspect "Faye's" texts both came from Pintsize. Forging SMS messages would be right up his street.
I dunno...at the second message (or First!), there would've be implications of overt sexual acts that would've made Dora throw her phone into traffic in disgust. OMG, JUST LEZ OUT ALREADY!! or something similar. He would get to the point already and just say it.
The ones sent by Faye is tame by Pintsize standards.
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How many different lengths of mile can you think of? You have ten seconds...
When you've done that, try the same for the weight of an ounce... volume of a pint...
Ugh... nautical mile and... do they say "long" and "short" mile?
I know itīs done with ton. Long ton, short ton, metrical ton (tonne?).
Anyway, we use pounds too for foodstuffs and such.
For all I know the german navy uses sea-miles and knots and what not so...
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I guess Marten might have wanted to get the message across in a more civilized way. Apart from assuring her that it's alright (Tai had that doubt, so it's not unreasonable to think that Dora might), I think he might have assumed that after Faye's message, there wasn't a lot he could say that would be more embarrassing.
I also think the deliberate-sabotage-to-prevent-Dora-from-being-startled idea has considerable merit. After all, for all the signals that Tai has given of her attraction to Dora, not an awful lot of them have actually gone Dora's way. Dora did once dismiss the idea of a relationship (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1969) between her and Tai ... um, enTairely. Maybe the possibility just hasn't occurred to her yet.
What I'm getting from this is that Faye and Marten are serious Dora/Tai shippers. :P
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Dora did once dismiss the idea of a relationship (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1969) between her and Tai ... um, enTairely.
Actually, that seems rather ambivalent to me.
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*bzzzt bzzzt*
*drunk bubbles pour out of phone*
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I was going to say "Somebody reasonable like HANNELORE would have stopped them from drunk texting", but then I remembered that Hannelore has a considerable voyeuristic streak. :P
Come to think of it, I don't know if anybody COULD have stopped them.
EDIT - Wow, Dora and Tai are walking home at 3 in the morning. That was a gooood party.
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The military still uses Kliks and meters for the most part, but the military does love their tradition so hoary units of measure like the knot are still used for ship and aircraft speed.
It's nothing to do with tradition, a knot is one nautical mile (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_mile) per hour, and the nautical mile corresponds roughly to one minute of arc of longitude on the equator, or one minute of arc of latitude on any meridian. It facilitates the use of charts.
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[ ... ] But thinking about it, it would be the FIRST webcomic movie ever, wouldnt it ? [ ... ]
Nope, see Piled Higher and Deeper. :)
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It's nothing to do with tradition, a knot is one nautical mile (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_mile) per hour, and the nautical mile corresponds roughly to one minute of arc of longitude on the equator, or one minute of arc of latitude on any meridian. It facilitates the use of charts.
This illustrates the use of practical "friendly" units that relate to the task in hand rather than some all-encompassing ideal like the SI units scheme. Note for instance the continued informal use of "livre" or "pfund" in France or Germany when talking about groceries.
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Dora did once dismiss the idea of a relationship (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1969) between her and Tai ... um, enTairely.
Not really. Dora just misunderstood Tai's awkwardness, is all.
I was going to say "Somebody reasonable like HANNELORE would have stopped them from drunk texting", but then I remembered that Hannelore has a considerable voyeuristic streak. :P
True that. But Hannelore's methods would probably involve asking Pintsize to remote connect to Dora's phone to record their conversations (and waiting for the canoodling to begin...)
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Personally, I thought the texts were a wonderful way to let Dora know that Tai's intentions may not be entirely honourable, while having a little fun.
And man, Dora's expressions are priceless!
Although I love this strip - I think I'd rather see Schlock Mercenary as a web-comic movie.
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I wished these imperial units would finally vanish so I could understand what people are talking about. Fahrenheit ? Seriously ? I'm expected to subtract 32, divide through 9, mulitply by 5, all in my head ? Just because you want to freeze water at 32 and boil it at 200-something ? Gah.
You cant even give the weak excuse that Fahrenheit would be more "intuitive" than metric aka Kelvin / Celsius. Because,apparently, people seriously believe that "feet" would be intuitive. Whos feet ? And what the frak is "inch" or "mile" ? And how could stomething like "stone" be ever intuitive at all ?
Six units, everything else defined by these units, and when its thousands its kilo, millions its mega, trillions its giga, one thousands its milli, one millions its micro, etc. THATS intuitive.
I agree. It's a sign of American exceptionalism. We're too exceptional to do the sensible thing. I've been using some F and/or C references on the C25K thread. I'm OK with translating units every time; keeps my brain sharp. Now I gotta Google on metric time units.
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Interestingly, there are a lot of times us here in the US where we use both systems in slightly different context- I hear people talk about a 2 liter of soda all the time, but it's still a gallon of milk. If you know someone who uses marijuana, both grams and fractions of an ounce come up regularly. People use guns and bullets with caliber (100ths of an inch) and millimeter designations alternately or interchangeably, alongside the 'gauge' system for shotguns, with grains or milligrams for the weights of various things.
I think the real issue isn't that we can't use the metric system, it's that we're trying to juggle both systems simultaneously.
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I'm going to assume that there was a typo and the last message was supposed to be from Pintsize.
I suspect "Faye's" texts both came from Pintsize. Forging SMS messages would be right up his street.
Not like it hasn't happened before... he DID hack into her Twitter account a few years back...
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So Jeph's going to be headed to SDCC (We hope) - What's that mean for us?
Hopefully a healthy Cristi and a wonderful time in San Diego! 15 (42.9%) <-- WINNAH WINNAH Chicken DINNAH!
Hot weather. It's gonna be HOT. 2 (5.7%)
Creepers and stalkers and cosplayers - Oh my! 6 (17.1%)
A week of... guest strips. (And THEY'RE all gonna be in SD too... BOO!) 4 (11.4%)
Jeph meets with a Hollywood producer, and QC: The Movie hits theaters in 2013! 2 (5.7%)
Yeah, right. 2 (5.7%)
Waffles, Spathe Ham, Yellow Mellow (???) and Nicijou! 0 (0%)
Some new meme will suddenly take off this week! 1 (2.9%)
Who knows? I'm just here for the party. 3 (8.6%)
Total Members Voted: 35
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Personally, I thought the texts were a wonderful way to let Dora know that Tai's intentions may not be entirely honourable, while having a little fun.
And man, Dora's expressions are priceless!
Although I love this strip - I think I'd rather see Schlock Mercenary as a web-comic movie.
But who would you get to play Schlock?
Oh, wait, I know.
Charlie Sheen.
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RAM IT IN
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This poll is incredibly difficult and requires some concentrated thought.
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Yes it does and after some pondering I decided to go with either Pintsize or drunk Faye.
tee hee..
"ram it in"
hilarious *wipes tear*
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Dora's expression may make it onto the list of top 10 QC panels ever.
Now, will this play into Dora's control issues? Her closest friends drunk-text-trolling a hookup which Dora may-or-may-not have seen coming: that might just push Dora's buttons.
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Personally, I thought the texts were a wonderful way to let Dora know that Tai's intentions may not be entirely honourable, while having a little fun.
And man, Dora's expressions are priceless!
Although I love this strip - I think I'd rather see Schlock Mercenary as a web-comic movie.
But who would you get to play Schlock?
Oh, wait, I know.
Charlie Sheen.
The voice of Schlock needs to be by Mark Hamil - the man is a really good voice actor. and to keep the familal relationship Tagon can be Keiffer Sutherland and General (Ret'd) Tagon by Donald.
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I tend to prefer the FFF (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFF_system) system of units for everyday use.
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I envision that Dora and Tai WILL start getting into it, but there is the slight problem of Tai's piercing.
(a) she goes to get a dental damn and kills the mood
(b) she forgets the dental dam and gets an infection.
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lol wasn't that forever ago?
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Because we're apparently all about the tangents here, my favourite unit is the Outhouse aka one microbarn. :angel:
"My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!"
Fahrenheit ? Seriously ? I'm expected to subtract 32, divide through 9, mulitply by 5, all in my head ? Just because you want to freeze water at 32 and boil it at 200-something ? Gah.
The interesting thing is that Britain only started switching to the metric system in 1965, and didn't start issuing mandatory orders for the switch until 1978. So it's not like like America has been this longstanding bastion for imperial unit supremacy - even Britain only made it mandatory 30 years ago - and imperial units are still widespread over there. Interesting.
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Just for fun, the UK's Traffic Signs Manual requires that roadworks warning signs are placed at 200m intervals, and simultaneously requires that the signs contain indications in multiples of 200 yards.
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Just for fun, the UK's Traffic Signs Manual requires that roadworks warning signs are placed at 200m intervals, and simultaneously requires that the signs contain indications in multiples of 200 yards.
That sounds like fun. I think we've mostly abandoned the metric system for the U.S. highway system. Road signs only have distances and speed limits in miles now.
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I think we've mostly abandoned the metric system for the U.S. highway system. Road signs only have distances and speed limits in miles now.
The last time I saw a metric sign in the U.S. was on the interstate between Tucson and Nogales, AZ.
The U.S. should have gone metric around the time Canada and the UK did. We couldn't do that! We're special!
But as I think about it, the proximity of the UK to Europe, starting with trade and tourism, must have made it easier there. Canada switched about the same time. But Canada's practically a grownup.
This thread perhaps should go to DISCUSS, unless it's ready to die a natural death.
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We still use miles in the UK; not a kilometre to be seen, and no clear plans to change yet.
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That's a surprise. Didn't some UK shopkeepers get in trouble years ago for making sales in imperial units instead of metric? Pounds instead of kg?
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For the majority of cases, metric is the official system is the UK, but we still use imperial for distance, milk, and beer. And colloquially for height and weight.
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Who's the one person you do NOT want to get a Text from?
Pintsize, of course. (If you have to ask...) 9 (39.1%)
Drunk Faye. (She'd be asking how long it is/big they are.) 1 (4.3%)
Drunk Marten. (He'd be all emo about it.) 0 (0%)
Angry Dora. (You didn't know she can swear in Swahili, right? Dad taught her.) 2 (8.7%)
Mopey Marigold. (You ever read her tweets?) 1 (4.3%)
Hannelore. (Most of it would be OHGODOHGODOHGOD GERMS OHGODOHGODOHGOD) 0 (0%)
One of Sven's Ex's (And he gave her YOUR phone number!) 2 (8.7%)
Yelling Bird. (Have you seen HIS Tweets?) 3 (13%)
Station. (He has you on targeting radar... what's that red dot on your forehead?) 3 (13%)
PWHodges ("I'm sorry, there's a problem with the forum software. It'll be down indefinitely.") 1 (4.3%)
Tai (and you're not even FEMALE!) 1 (4.3%)
Your choice (and why, please) 0 (0%)
Total Members Voted: 23
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It's an EU legal requirement that everything is sold in metric weights, so many market stall holders have both the lb and g prices on their produce. They also have to be able to weigh sufficiently accurately in grams - there's a regulation about how accurate the scales need to be.
I use feet and inches for how tall I am, centimetres for the circumference of my waist, inches for the circumference of my chest, kilograms for what I weigh, lbs for how much I've lost, miles for distance, and so forth. I think I was still being taught to convert from imperial to metric at school - and also vague memories of converting old money to new (and I was born in 1991!).
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especially after that one Canadian airliner ran out of fuel mid flight because the ground crew didn't understand the difference between gallons and liters. The military still uses Kliks and meters for the most part, but the military does love their tradition so hoary units of measure like the knot are still used for ship and aircraft speed.
Actually that's what the film of the incident stated. However, if you look at a documentary of the incident (aka the Air Transat glider incident), what actually happened was that there was a fuel leak. From what I remember of the Air Crash Investigation's episode on it:
The leak was in an unusual location (i.e. it was leaking through the engine) so the warnings that came up in the cockpit were unusual so the captain suspected it was a problem with computer software. Even the ground-based technician the he called suspected it was a computer fault. Therefore, the captain didn't take the action necessary to stop the fuel leaking. It was lucky that ATC had diverted him earlier, due to weather conditions, otherwise the plane would not have been in gliding range of the Azores.
It was a twin engine Airbus with Rolls Royce engines.
The investigators found that the initial fault had been that a technician had put a part designed for another Rolls Royce engine in that engine because he didn't have the one for that particular engine to hand.
Whilst the air crew were hailed as heroes for getting the airline down safely, the investigators criticised them for not using their common sense and shutting down the number 2 engine.
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Ouch. That's as bad as the DC10 getting a bad rap for a major design flaw, when in reality it was rushed maintinence procedures that caused the engine pylons to develop cracks and drop engines in mid flight.
It's an EU legal requirement that everything is sold in metric weights, so many market stall holders have both the lb and g prices on their produce. They also have to be able to weigh sufficiently accurately in grams - there's a regulation about how accurate the scales need to be.
I use feet and inches for how tall I am, centimetres for the circumference of my waist, inches for the circumference of my chest, kilograms for what I weigh, lbs for how much I've lost, miles for distance, and so forth. I think I was still being taught to convert from imperial to metric at school - and also vague memories of converting old money to new (and I was born in 1991!).
I grew up with Imperial mesurements and still have to do minor mental gymnastics when I'm presented with anything in metrics. Grumble, grumble, 1.6 kilometers to a mile, 2.2 pounds to a kilogram and so forth. I guess it's the way my brain is wired. I know what a gallon or a foot or pound look and feel like. I have to think about metrics. Not logical, but there it is.
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Ouch. That's as bad as the DC10 getting a bad rap for a major design flaw, when in reality it was rushed maintinence procedures that caused the engine pylons to develop cracks and drop engines in mid flight.
The DC10 did have a design flaw but the flaw that I am aware of wasn't anything to do with the engines.
Under US and International Law it should be impossible for a plane's baggage door to seem to be locked when it isn't. It that happens then you can get explosive decompression. It happened twice! The first time DC10s were grounded but the head of the NTSB overruled the order and had a gentleman's agreement with the head of McDonald Douglas to rectify the problem. They did make a couple alterations that allowed a baggage handler to (one of them was a small window in the door to the baggage compartment) see if it didn't lock properly but did not issue any guidance do the industry of how to use its modifications. When the second crash occurred the baggage hander was blamed in the first instance but, after the 2nd investigation was complete, DC10s were grounded until the flaw as corrected.
Let's get this back on topic (sort of):
What phone is Dora using?
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I envision that Dora and Tai WILL start getting into it, but there is the slight problem of Tai's piercing.
(a) she goes to get a dental damn and kills the mood
(b) she forgets the dental dam and gets an infection.
And she's allergic to latex!! (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1248)
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I envision that Dora and Tai WILL start getting into it, but there is the slight problem of Tai's piercing.
(a) she goes to get a dental damn and kills the mood
(b) she forgets the dental dam and gets an infection.
And she's allergic to latex!! (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1248)
I am pretty sure that by this point the healing is long over and anything that could happen can happen.
Of course, Faye and Marten are doing their level unintentional best to deep-six anything happening to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, but maybe Dora will R-R-RAM IT IN yet! Or maybe Tai will get let down, levels of "easiness" to be determined.
Secretly I hope that R-R-RAM IT IN will happen just for memetic fulfillment, but it is looking like the logical conclusion is the other end of the spectrum.
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especially after that one Canadian airliner ran out of fuel mid flight because the ground crew didn't understand the difference between gallons and liters. The military still uses Kliks and meters for the most part, but the military does love their tradition so hoary units of measure like the knot are still used for ship and aircraft speed.
Actually that's what the film of the incident stated. However, if you look at a documentary of the incident (aka the Air Transat glider incident), what actually happened was that there was a fuel leak. From what I remember of the Air Crash Investigation's episode on it:
The leak was in an unusual location (i.e. it was leaking through the engine) so the warnings that came up in the cockpit were unusual so the captain suspected it was a problem with computer software. Even the ground-based technician the he called suspected it was a computer fault. Therefore, the captain didn't take the action necessary to stop the fuel leaking. It was lucky that ATC had diverted him earlier, due to weather conditions, otherwise the plane would not have been in gliding range of the Azores.
It was a twin engine Airbus with Rolls Royce engines.
The investigators found that the initial fault had been that a technician had put a part designed for another Rolls Royce engine in that engine because he didn't have the one for that particular engine to hand.
Whilst the air crew were hailed as heroes for getting the airline down safely, the investigators criticised them for not using their common sense and shutting down the number 2 engine.
You are confusing Air Canada 143 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_glider) (ground crew and pilot error with respect to converting to metric, confounded by Fuel Monitoring System malfunction) with Air Transat 236 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236) (fuel leak and pilot error).
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@HiFrank; Some kind of blackberry? As a small business owner, I doubt she'd blow money on the newest and most up to date tech. I think she'd stick to an older phone until it finaly broke for good and she had to upgrade.
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Shouldn't a Goth have acquired a RAZR?
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She had that same phone back when Marten's dad visited way back when (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1516).
I suspect she probably got it as part of a business deal with a cell phone store in the Pioneer Valley that was selling corporate plans with multiple phones - which led to all the barista girls getting them at CoD, as well as Marty.
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At the risk of sounding like a QC-Trekkie (A QC-kie?) ...
We've seen Marten with an iPhone or one of its lookalikes and Faye with a flip phone.
If I'm wrong or out of date, please correct me. Frankly, I'll take it as a sign I have a life.
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It just occured to me that Faye doesn't actually think Dora should date now (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2219); maybe she's trying to sabotage it on purpose for Dora's own good. (I'm not saying it would be, but that would just be her reasoning)
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Faye had a cell phone way back when. (http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=12) It definitely looks like an old model, though.
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I envision that Dora and Tai WILL start getting into it, but there is the slight problem of Tai's piercing.
(a) she goes to get a dental damn and kills the mood
(b) she forgets the dental dam and gets an infection.
And she's allergic to latex!! (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1248)
I am pretty sure that by this point the healing is long over and anything that could happen can happen.
Um, how can you "heal" from an allergy?
And before someone points it out, the piercer could've been using Nitrile gloves. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrile) Like them as they are tougher to abuse from use.
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I think they were referring to healing from the initial piercing, not from the allergy.
But then again, I've heard of people growing into and out of allergies before.
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And the milliHelen, a unit of beauty sufficient to launch one ship.
I like the even more practical μHelen, a unit of beauty sufficient to launch one canoe.
I've never met a Helen, actually have met two or three ladies who might well be a mHelen, but I've known quite a few ladies in the 10-100 μHelen range. Michigan State University had canoe rentals on the Red Cedar River and they kept busy...!
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It just occured to me that Faye doesn't actually think Dora should date now (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2219); maybe she's trying to sabotage it on purpose for Dora's own good. (I'm not saying it would be, but that would just be her reasoning)
Faye is more direct when she disapproves of a pairing. See for example her initial reaction to Jim.
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Shouldn't a Goth have acquired a RAZR?
LOL! The RAZR is about as hip and up-to-date as Dora's one-time gothiness...
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@cold Jim being Jimbo or am I completely forgetting someone? Either way, :?
@Akima There's a new Android-based RAZR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_RAZR).
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My choice for who I don't want to be texted to by?
Everyone. I don't text.
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@cold Jim being Jimbo or am I completely forgetting someone? Either way, :?
The owner of the Secret Bakery, and almost a boyfriend for Dora.
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Ok, wow, how'd I forget that dude.
I don't text.
Machete don't text. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueZGsuOvXlU)
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Looking at the livestream, I'd say that Dora just looks REALLY freaked. We might have to wait for another therapist comic, but I'll bet from the reaction that she still likes Tai. Otherwise she wouldn't freak out so hard.
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I think that look more like confusion than freaked-outness, especially if you take the previous panel into consideration.
Also, it was Tai that had a thing for Dora, not the other way around.
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I think that look more like confusion than freaked-outness, especially if you take the previous panel into consideration.
Also, it was Tai that had a thing for Dora, not the other way around.
I know that; "still" probably wasn't the right word to choose. At any rate, we'll see what's really happening in a little while.
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Okay, I am completely satisfied with leaving this arc here for a week. That comic was incredibly well-done.
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Yes, and Tai's thing for Dora is snow out in the open.
Oh, my.
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Well I was prepared to say RAWR! But i suppose I don't have to now. Though I wonder how Dora will evade Faye's questioning. I am assuming with the broadsword
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Tai is growing up. She kept her pants on.
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Tai is growing up. She kept her pants on.
And broke Dora at the same time. Good comic.
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Tai confessed her feelings to Dora!!! What will happen now? Will Dora use this to get over her issues? Will the plotline remain forever unresolved? :psyduck: :psyduck:
Also, we need to come up with a term for fans of QC. Somebody tried QC-kies earlier; I suggest we just go straight to QuiCkies. :lol:
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You are confusing Air Canada 143 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_glider) (ground crew and pilot error with respect to converting to metric, confounded by Fuel Monitoring System malfunction) with Air Transat 236 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236) (fuel leak and pilot error).
I didn't realise that there were two incidents. After all, they both involved Canadian airlines that safely glided.
Tai is growing up. She kept her pants on.
She also gave Dora something to think about. Hopefully, Dora would think about the advice Tai gave her.
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*Sound effect of the USS Excelsior from STIII*
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Dang, Tai.
More like Daaaaaaannggg, Tai! Amirite?
*Sound effect of the USS Excelsior from STIII*
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Tai may not be completely clear on what she's after. She offered Dora an NSA hookup earlier: trying to do that with someone you're crazy about is asking for trouble.
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She was joking - when Dora appeared to be up for it, she was clearly not actually.
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Tai with the double reverse fake out wins. You think she gets all the chicks just because she's cuter that a Labrador Retriever puppy? She know the mind of women and how to set the hook and land the big ones.
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I think Tai is clear about what she wants, but not how to get it. This strategy seems wiser than her previous approaches.
QC fans should be "QC-kers" IMHO.
@Akima There's a new Android-based RAZR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_RAZR).
If a RAZR fell in a forest of droidphones, did anybody care? It's been a long time since Motorola was cool.
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...that's it, I'm stealing Tai's line.
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Great, now Dora has to drive home with her head full of fuck.
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I never thought that Tai was a genius.
Until now...
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I was kind of hoping she would do something like this, but wasn't expecting anything quite that impressive.
Edit: Poll was a no-brainer.
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Nooo, I don't want cutesy romance I demand cynicism and utterly downtrodden characters :-(
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Good comic today! Well played, Mr. Jacques.
She also gave Dora something to think about.
I bet she'd like to give dora something to think about hurr hurr.
Also, we need to come up with a term for fans of QC.
QC-pies :angel:
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Tai...acting in a mature manner when under the effect of drunk bubbles??? :psyduck: :psyduck: :psyduck:
Never liked Tai too much as a character personally, but this sent up my respect level for her a few points.
I love this comic, well done Jeph!
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Every so often, I think "Jeph Jacques is a genius".
Usually this is when he saves the finest punchlines (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1949) for the most depressing parts (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2160) of a given story arc, because well-done catharsis makes me feel good about life.
I still think it applies here though. While this story arc hasn't been depressing, it had enormous potential to go wrong, in a 'characters-making-bad-decisions' kind of way. Personally, I was prepared for a certain level of misunderstanding (which could easily have been facilitated by the text messages) which, while getting Tai's attraction to Dora out in the open, would have made things really awkward between them for the next hundred strips or so. Or they could have done too much too soon, regretted it, and made things really awkward between them for the next hundred strips or so.
This was neither, and it was fantastic. ;D
EDIT:- Oh! By the way, nice callback (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1458)!
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Damn if that doesn't come up in Dora's next therapy session...
Despite the beatings Marten and Faye are going to get (not so much being "in her face" as more "up her ass" in that situation), I'd say she handled it pretty well. And given her boyfriend history (I remember it mentioned in the comic that Dora's past boyfriends were all douchebags, but I forget which), she's probably never actually been wooed before (Marten was a nice guy, but he never really went out of his way to be nice to Dora, it was just "what he does"), so this may actually work. Best of luck...
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I never thought that Tai was a genius.
Until now...
+1
That was brilliant
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damn.
just damn.
tai is one high level playa.
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I agree with the "QC-kers". (pronounced "cue-see-kers")
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I found it really good not because of how Tai is going about revealing her feelings, (which is pretty slick) but how with just a few sentences, she can change Dora right the hell around 180 and her life is suddenly different.
It's amazing the power words can have.
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Make it "Questionables" and you have my vote.
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Well, jwhouk now has a new poll to run, anyway. I like "Questionables".
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Tai has always presented as something of a character without a lot of depth: the freewheeling party-girl lesbian hookup artist, out to have a good time, and not taken too seriously when it comes to personal life. Neither Marten nor Faye seemed to take Tai as much of a possibility other than a one-night stand, a NSA hookup. Now Tai has suddenly shown such character, with such good dialogue, to the point of being about the only character to really appreciate Dora in a certain way, the storyline opens way, way up.
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What would be worse than texts from Pintsize? Texts from drunken Pintsize (or under the effects of video card drivers Pintsize)
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My first reaction was "Very smooth, Tai. Veeeeeryy smoooth."
Seriously. She baffled me. And Dora too, apparently.
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Did Dora have girlfriends before? Pretty sure we haven't heard about it yet.
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Idea for a QC spinoff/sequel/buddy movie:
Tai and Hanners.
Helping the world get over its shit, one person at a time.
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Damn if that doesn't come up in Dora's next therapy session...
Assuming she goes back.
...she can change Dora right the hell around 180 and her life is suddenly different.
It's amazing the power words can have.
The whole "You got issues? So does everybody else!" (I'm OK / you're OK) attitude keeps a lot of people who need help from getting it. Dora may well self sabotage this, too, assuming it goes where it looks like it's heading.
We'll see...
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Tai...acting in a mature manner when under the effect of drunk bubbles??? :psyduck: :psyduck: :psyduck:
Never liked Tai too much as a character personally, but this sent up my respect level for her a few points.
I love this comic, well done Jeph!
Agreed. In fact, I'm actually starting to like the idea of Tai and Dora getting together...
Did Dora have girlfriends before? Pretty sure we haven't heard about it yet.
I was thinking about the same thing. Sven's comment about her past boyfriends implies no more than yes. And we do know that she found out she liked girls via Veronica Vance, so it's possible she's never even had a drunken experiment. It's not so rare for someone to be bisexual without ever having actually experienced the 'other side'.
Edit: then again, she was in a coven, and who knows what those witchy types get up to in the dead of night.
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Dora has said that she loves adorable little butch girls. (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=776)
Dora and Veronica Vance (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1047)
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Dora has said that she loves adorable little butch girls. (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=776)
That may not have been a "active" verb. I mean, I "love" old VW's, but... well... you know, not that way...
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New poll is gonna have to wait until I'm a bit more awake to put it up. Keep the suggestions coming, though.
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Damn if that doesn't come up in Dora's next therapy session...
Assuming she goes back.
...she can change Dora right the hell around 180 and her life is suddenly different.
It's amazing the power words can have.
The whole "You got issues? So does everybody else!" (I'm OK / you're OK) attitude keeps a lot of people who need help from getting it. Dora may well self sabotage this, too, assuming it goes where it looks like it's heading.
We'll see...
I didn't particularly think that was a smart play by Tai either, which is why I question the kinda relationship that Tai and Dora would have. Tai cares for Dora, that much is evident. But the whole, you're fucked up, I'm fucked up, everyone is fucked up really solves nothing. It's like telling Marty, hey man, you're passive, and that's cool, even if it screws you over a lot. :psyduck:
While I agree with another who said that Tai is one of the first to actively go for Dora, given Tai's tendencies and character so far as a party lesbian player of epic proportions, those too shacking up seems like a recipe for disaster should it happen. I may be way over analyzing this, as Tai said some good things and also some really short sighted things, like panel 3. Just covering up "issues" with "ass kicking". I know Tai was trying to make Dora feel better, but that's a callous statement. Obvious Dora was more than just "issues". She has massive mental and relational blocks stemming from dating "douche bags". So the "holding yourself to a higher standard" is the cause of her issues. Well, not really Tai. Bah, maybe I'm over analyzing this as this appeared to be meant as a sweet stripe, but...urghgh.
Dora really needs to finish her counseling...Don't fill her head with nonsense Tai. Her counseling is finally starting to help.
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I happened to look again and just noticed the difference between the last two panels, didn't notice the redness the first time.
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Dora has said that she loves adorable little butch girls. (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=776)
That may not have been a "active" verb. I mean, I "love" old VW's, but... well... you know, not that way...
So that wasn't you on that website then? Good.
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...that's it, I'm stealing Tai's line.
Oh man totally. Tai won so many high fives from me.
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Dora, you are so adorable.
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Some posters with way more knowledge of therapy matters than I have, question Tai's approach of "You have issues and so does everyone else," as being dismissive of Dora's "issues." (I hate that word when used that wayi but can't think of anything better at the moment.) I don't want to deny the validity of that viewpoint, but I read Tai's dialogue as trying to persuade Dora to not deny her achievements because she has problems in other areas -- an interpretation I wholeheartedly support, especially when I'm trying to give myself a pep talk.
I am reminded of the mini-storm a couple decades back when some disability advocates were quoted as decrying stories about physically disabled people doing extraordinary things (climbing mountains, sailing solo, etc.) ... the phrase used was "another supercrip story," opposition to which was based on the idea that such stories denied the difficulties in every day life faced by physically disabled people. I never understood that viewpoint; figuring the story of, say, a one-legged man sailing solo across the ocean might inspire another person in a wheelchair to deal with more mundane challenges. I also remember that mini-storm faded quickly without active media support; I think people as a whole would rather be inspired than discouraged.
tl;dr? Tai's heart is in the right place, even if her foot is occasionally in her mouth. And certainly Dora is the most conventionally successful of the main QC characters (I said "conventionally;" the Svens of the world, into whose laps success falls, are anomalies, no matter what the late-night get-rich commercials say.)
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This one made me happy. I am proud of Tai for handling the situation in a mature and smooth manner. She got her feelings across without being pushy and at the same time told Dora something she really needed to hear.
Also, Dora's blushing is so fricking adorable, I almost melted.
It helps that these are the two characters I most identify with.
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Gee, Tai is such an intuitive strong presense! Good job.
I know when my daughter goes off to college in four years, I hope she gets to be friends with the dorm slut who spends all day backing with a robot then getting drunk on expensive wine and hitting on her former boyfriend's ex. That is classic. Such neeto hipster cool.
But wait, there's more! She gives her big crush a pep talk on everyone has problems so deal (my wife is a psychologist so I ran this by her and she cringes at that blather) but she does say to her friend in therapy you have good qualities (good) and that is why I want you (disgustingly manipulative of someone you know is in therapy).
I know the hipster kids here think this is just great but it is repulsive. Tai is gross. She uses the term polymory to rationalize dorm room orgies, gets wasted all the time, now at work, hits on her friend's girl friend the day after they break up, and is generally a self involved doof. The perfect hero for this crowd given this forum.
Then there is Marten who almost has a cuck fetish about this. Giving his ex a pep talk to jump in bed with the drunk slut. Kind of weird.
I remember recenlty my former favorite comic Girls with Slingshots just spun into outer space weirdness to the point where I not only did not read it anymore, but I didn't miss it. As much as I have loved this comic over the years, as much as it pissed me off at times but I always crawled back, I seem to be hitting that point.
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Appreciation of this comic and its story is nothing to do with anyone here being hipsters. In any case, even among the younger members of this forum, that tendency is pretty much muted or absent.
Did your wife comment on her own reading of the comic (enough to understand the back-story and appreciate the development of the characters), or on your report of it? Because if you summarised it for her using the kind of language you're using here, I would say she wasn't actually commenting on the comic at all!
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@someone:
a) I think you are forgetting that Tai, like Sven, has undergone something of an unslutting since her first appearance.
b) Tai never told Dora to ignore her issues, just that everyone has them and they shouldn't cause you to deny your strengths. As for calling her behaviour manipulative, it's not like Dora's issues are that serious. Not 'daddy-blew-his-brains-out' serious.
c) As for Marten's casual acceptance of it all, this is mainly because he genuinely is over Dora (in turn this is mainly thanks to Padma).
[pseudopsychology]However, I wonder if some of it is down to Tai being a girl. Or more importantly, not a man. If this were to occur with, say, Steve or any of Marten's male friends, it would sting of betrayal. That's a biological instinct (and a bro-logical instinct). But because Tai is female (and therefore not about to pump her genes into Dora), she isn't perceived as a threat in the same way.[/pseudopsychology]
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I've never reported a post before. Excuse me while I go and read the guidelines for what is and is not acceptable to post.
EDIT:- Looks fine. Guess I just strongly disagree with more or less every aspect of it, that's all. And it's all academic if Hodges is reading.
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Certainly was a mouthful.
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Who's the one person you do NOT want to get a Text from?
Pintsize, of course. (If you have to ask...) 22 (34.9%)
Drunk Faye. (She'd be asking how long it is/big they are.) 2 (3.2%)
Drunk Marten. (He'd be all emo about it.) 3 (4.8%)
Angry Dora. (You didn't know she can swear in Swahili, right? Dad taught her.) 2 (3.2%)
Mopey Marigold. (You ever read her tweets?) 5 (7.9%)
Hannelore. (Most of it would be OHGODOHGODOHGOD GERMS OHGODOHGODOHGOD) 1 (1.6%)
One of Sven's Ex's (And he gave her YOUR phone number!) 3 (4.8%)
Yelling Bird. (Have you seen HIS Tweets?) 13 (20.6%)
Station. (He has you on targeting radar... what's that red dot on your forehead?) 5 (7.9%)
PWHodges ("I'm sorry, there's a problem with the forum software. It'll be down indefinitely.") 4 (6.3%)
Tai (and you're not even FEMALE!) 2 (3.2%)
Your choice (and why, please) 1 (1.6%)
Total Members Voted: 63
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@someone:
... liked how you stirred the pot there. Doesn't happen too often here.
But I think you're over-dramatizing. Maybe this whole thing was just Tai giving Dora an honest-to-goodness compliment in her own - definitely different - kind of way. Something Dora has NEVER before experienced since this webcomic started.
(Don't get me wrong, she has gotten many a compliment, but never one this sincere and ... serious.)
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I don't think Tai meant to hijack Dora's progress, I agree that she was trying to give an honest compliment.
Of course, the effect may be that Dora stops going to therapy - and Dora *IS* messed up, and Tai doesn't know anywhere near the full extent of that - but I really don't think that was Tai's intent.
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she does say to her friend in therapy you have good qualities (good) and that is why I want you (disgustingly manipulative of someone you know is in therapy).
Wait... You mean you're supposed to tell people you're attracted to them because of their bad qualities?
This poster has an interesting track record (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=72438).
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The mods are aware of this - as you see, one of those posts had a moderator edit.
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Re: Poll
QC-ers? ("Cue see-ers")
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Re: Poll
QC-ers? ("Cue see-ers")
Cussers? Clive Cussler?
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Re: Poll
QC-ers? ("Cue see-ers")
Cussers? Clive Cussler?
Jeph doesn't cameo in his strip nearly enough for us to invoke the Clive-ster.
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What about QCweed/QSeaweed?
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MalContents
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I don't think Tai meant to hijack Dora's progress, I agree that she was trying to give an honest compliment.
Of course, the effect may be that Dora stops going to therapy - and Dora *IS* messed up, and Tai doesn't know anywhere near the full extent of that - but I really don't think that was Tai's intent.
Of course. Not all. Tai genuinely likes Dora. She's just ignorant of Dora's problems. Understandable. She honestly doesn't know Dora all that well.
Her intent to cheer Dora up was great and get her to realize strengths, albeit in a roundabout and ignorant way was street. It's good for Dora to be appreciated.
Though personally, Tai would be a poor choice to get back on the horse as it were. She's a college party girl who loves getting laid with multiple gals, getting stoned, and is well. Pretty loose sexually. With Dora's control issues, Tai is the best choice, especially when Dora is finally getting somewhere.
Tai would be an unstable one. More of a one-night stander quality. I personally think she should go safe after the healing and stable. Not wild and freaky right off the bat with Tai. Tai still needs to mature A TON to handle Dora.
Rant over. That's pretty all I have to say about it.
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I think Tai didn't mean to undermine her issues but to put them in perspective that everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, has at least one personal demon/issue they have and hers could be a lot worse.
But after that I must say I am rather disgusted by Tai. Not the fact she is gunning for Dora now but the fact that she was gunning for her while she was still with Marten. And instead of giving Dora some time and space to recover after the break up, which is what she is trying to do, she is going on the offense (and damn what a good one to!).
Me just my 2 cents!
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To everyone talking about Tai's promiscuity as a problem, remember that Tai has always expressed interest in a monogamous relationship, but hasn't found one and has gotten caught up in the poly scene at her school.
She started out here http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=728 wanting to be exclusive with Bailey, and after Bailey rejected her, she got into a three-way while drunk and disappointed: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=765
Later she expresses her dissatisfaction and her desire to "settle down with one person" in http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1595 and http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1596
It doesn't seem fair to say that just because Tai has had casual sex and threesomes, she wouldn't be a good partner in a long-term monogamous relationship. Why couldn't she be capable of both? (EDIT: Also, it just occurred to me that I don't know if we can be sure Tai has actually had all that much casual or group sex. Ashley and Serena were her first threesome, and has she ever described any other hookups?)
I think part of Tai's problem with finding the sort of relationship she wants lies in her approach--getting drunk and taking off her pants, rushing into hookups, etc. This M.O. is more likely to attract party girls and casual partners. (Note: I'm not saying that all non-monogamous folks are party girls and casual partners, but I think most of Tai's partners have been).
Here, Tai tries a different approach. She doesn't move in for a makeout. She expresses her feelings in a way that's caring, romantic, and not overtly sexual. She demonstrates that she cares about Dora as more than just a potential hookup, and she shows Dora some of what she has to offer as a more-than-just-sexual partner--kindness, sensitivity, and support.
I don't see Tai's pep talk as discouraging Dora from going to therapy. Tai isn't telling Dora "you're perfect, stop trying to improve." She's telling Dora to stop beating up on herself.
One of Dora's issues is insecurity. She feels inadequate and inferior. Remember how she obsessed about the idea that Marten only went out with her as a second-best because he couldn't have Faye? Dora's self esteem could use a boost. Sitting around saying "I'm such a horrible mess because I have these issues" doesn't help you work on those issues, it gets in the way. If Dora learns to say, "I have some shit to work out, but I'm a strong and capable and awesome person," that will give her more confidence to face her issues and deal with them.
Tai is showing a new level of maturity here, and I think she totally rocked in how she handled this.
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I agree completely with Platypodes' post.
As someone who has had serious psychological issues and been through years of therapy, I can say that when you are going through such issues it gets really easy to see yourself as nothing more than your issues. You ignore any positive qualities about yourself and only see the mess. Sometimes you need someone to cut through all your self-deprecation and remind you that there is more to you than the mess. Not to dismiss your problems and the work you need to do, but simply to remind you that there are parts of you that are pretty kick ass too.
That is what Tai did here.
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Some of the commenters here are forgetting that we readers know more about each character's issues than the characters themselves. We're privy to conversations on both sides; for example we witnessed Marten and Dora's arguments and the aftermath with other friends.
Tai doesn't have all of that info and she's just being honest and sincere about her feelings for Dora. Feelings that she's had for a while.
Dora didn't exactly break it off with Marten just a day or two ago either. I'd guess that a few months have passed since then.
So that's why Tai doesn't seem manipulative at all to me. Good for her, even if the relationship never happens.
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I know when my daughter goes off to college in four years, I hope she gets to be friends with the dorm slut who spends all day backing with a robot then getting drunk on expensive wine and hitting on her former boyfriend's ex. That is classic. Such neeto hipster cool.
I'm going to skip the broader problems with this post, and even the borderline-impersonatory username, and jump straight to the part where you seem to think Marten and Tai used to be a couple (as well as Marten & Dora).
Like the girl said, she has the right parts but a totally different instruction manual.
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On the one hand, yeah, Tai paid Dora a compliment, which is always a good way for boosting a person's confidence. She likes Dora, she told her as much and she finds her attractive. Ultimately, its a good thing to know that there are people who find you attractive and will say it to you.
On the other hand, Tai doesn't nearly know as much as we do. To say to someone "Everyone has issues, thats nothing new, so why not get over it?" (I'm paraphrasing here) isn't nearly as helpful as it might seem to be. What Tai knows about Dora and her issues would most likely come from Marten, which would probably seem to her to be the mumblings of a guy who got dumped, if indeed he did say anything.
We know far more about what's going on than Tai does, so she's happy in blissful ignorance. We also know this is going to end one of three ways.
1. Happily ever after with Dora and Tai running away to open a coffee house in Europe or somewhere.
2. Tai gets firsthand experience of what "issues" Dora might have (one step forward, two steps back)
3. Dora stands firm and decides to get herself sorted out, but still has to deal with Tai (ie, down like a lead balloon.....And no one mention Mythbusters for that particular idiom)
Consider what comic we're reading, you decide which is the most likely one to happen. (And yes, I would like someone else to get a happy ending, but where would the drama be?)
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I think Tai didn't mean to undermine her issues but to put them in perspective that everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, has at least one personal demon/issue they have and hers could be a lot worse.
Welcome, new person!
FWIW that's the way I took it as well.
Interesting that Tai is turning to one of the most successful characters, by conventional measures of success.
Dora has some awareness of what she's doing right in her life (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=562).
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I always like that page.
Also, I hereby modify my opinion of what's going on here. I think Platypodes pretty much hit the nail on the head with his/her analysis of Tai's desires, and that she's trying a more mature, responsible (no drunken makeouts) course of (in)action.
Sometimes, an indication of desire with no resolution is even more rousing than any action could ever be!
That blush in the last panel really does say it all!
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Damn you Jeph Jaques!!!
I hate being left hanging - especially before Friday.
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Hell, the resolution's going to take a few months anyway.
Besides, I like Amanda Lafrenais' stuff, and I really like her take on glitchy robots.
Of course, her server's broken now. The curse of Jaques...
Edit: fixed the name, 'cause I'm an idjit.
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Is infecting a sentient computer with malware legally considered assault?
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As far as Tai telling Dora she's kicking ass and that everyone has issues, well, she's right. Out of the main cast , Dora is the most accomplished. She has her own business, for crying out loud. As far as Tai's lifestyle/work habits, I think they need to be looked at in the context of the setting. We're talking about a Northampton where cops get high on the job. Where Air Force security personnel go through the motions of doing their jobs, even when they know those jobs are redundant. The singularity has happened, and the machines have decided they like humans and want to keep them around. That doesn't mean a certain amount of societal decay hasn't set in. If you knew the AI's could replace you in a heartbeatand had let you keep your job mainly because it gives you something to do, would you take it all that seriously? I'm betting lieutenant Potter is the exception rather than the rule.
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And again, Ian M. Banks comes to mind.
... this whole talk of Dora being accomplished really makes me wonder how she started out in the first place. Or where she got the idea.
... I know Jeph isn't totally above flashbacks (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=502) but would that be asking a bit much?
edit:
Suggestions for the poll:
- Questionable Contenders
- QC-ers
- QCies (like Cuties, my favorite)
- Questies
- QuesCos
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Is infecting a sentient computer with malware legally considered assault?
Keep your personal life to yourself you pervert.
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I didn't particularly think that was a smart play by Tai either, which is why I question the kinda relationship that Tai and Dora would have. Tai cares for Dora, that much is evident. But the whole, you're fucked up, I'm fucked up, everyone is fucked up really solves nothing. It's like telling Marty, hey man, you're passive, and that's cool, even if it screws you over a lot. :psyduck:
While I agree with another who said that Tai is one of the first to actively go for Dora, given Tai's tendencies and character so far as a party lesbian player of epic proportions, those too shacking up seems like a recipe for disaster should it happen. I may be way over analyzing this, as Tai said some good things and also some really short sighted things, like panel 3. Just covering up "issues" with "ass kicking". I know Tai was trying to make Dora feel better, but that's a callous statement. Obvious Dora was more than just "issues". She has massive mental and relational blocks stemming from dating "douche bags". So the "holding yourself to a higher standard" is the cause of her issues. Well, not really Tai. Bah, maybe I'm over analyzing this as this appeared to be meant as a sweet stripe, but...urghgh.
Ok, here's the thing: what Tai is telling Dora is actually very beneficial, not harmful. Like Tai said, everyone has issues - some more severe than others, sure, but everyone's got 'em, There are those of us, like Dora, who are overwhelmed by our issues - to the point that they're all we can see. We concentrate on everything that is negative about us, and completely ignore the positive things that we do in our lives. Tai isn't saying "ignore your issues" - she's saying, "look at all the awesome shit that you're doing, the things you don't recognize because you're blinded by your issues, which are really only a tiny part of who you are."
I mean, Tai's right - everyone Dora knows has a dead-end job except for her (and Sven). Her employees, while all her close friends, are not working towards anything. Marten - same deal. Hanners - nice girl, mega issues, no job. Tai - college job. Dora is running her own freakin' business. She really is kicking ass, and she doesn't realize it.
I think what Tai said was exactly what Dora needed to hear. Moreover, it was a great move for Tai, because there is NOTHING more intriguing to an issues-blinded person than someone who can celebrate the amazing things about you that you won't let yourself see.
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Tai could have worded that better, but the sentiment was good! Like really good. I agree with the posters who are pointing out that those words are probably very good for Dora and actually complement get work on her issues.
The scene felt too much like I was watching fucking Garden State or some Kevin Smith film for some reason, which makes me initially repulsed, but I think it's a good development and for once no one went home heartbroken???
Also ugh Iain M. Banks ugh, do not want
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Nice guest strip.
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Hanners - nice girl, mega issues, no job.
Agreed on all other counts, but Hanners has a job (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=523).
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I think she stopped doing that when she started working at Coffee of Doom...which of course is still a job, so that "no job" is still incorrect.
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Are we sure she just quit? I mean she could be continuing to count stuff in her free time from CoD; it was a freelance gig after all
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She might take fewer jobs or none at all, it hasn't come up, I don't think.
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Hannelore is still counting things (http://www.formspring.me/hanneloreEC/q/1905580144) even though counting is no longer as much fun (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=977). This is covered in the wiki.
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I don't think Hanners was working in the coffee shop yet when that comic happened. As for non-comic sources, they're fun to read, but I don't consider them canon.
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... anyway, she has a job.
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Jeph had originally planned to incorporate the Formspring answers into the comic. He chose not to do that in the end, but it's an argument that they should be considered canon.
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Don't know if it pays, but H. apparently still counts things for CoD. Girl can't help herself. (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1938)
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I mean, Tai's right - everyone Dora knows has a dead-end job except for her (and Sven). Her employees, while all her close friends, are not working towards anything. Marten - same deal. Hanners - nice girl, mega issues, no job. Tai - college job. Dora is running her own freakin' business. She really is kicking ass, and she doesn't realize it.
I think what Tai said was exactly what Dora needed to hear. Moreover, it was a great move for Tai, because there is NOTHING more intriguing to an issues-blinded person than someone who can celebrate the amazing things about you that you won't let yourself see.
I think this hits mostly on what is bothering me about what Tai is saying. Its this weird idea that what you are doing professionally with your life = success. I ran my own business for 10 years. I made decent money doing it. I don't do it anymore. And I'm much happier with my life since moving away from it. I now work for someone else, I make decent money and spending all the spare time I didn't have before with my family, and doing all the hobbies I enjoyed but didn't have the time to do anymore.
Success can be measured in so many different ways, yes, Dora running her business is a success, but Tai is basically saying "Look at all these other slubs who don't know what they are doing with their lives". Is Dora happier than Faye though? Despite the fact that Faye just works in a coffee shop? I mean, I really don't know. Faye has some nice things going in her life and is really straightening out some of her issues though. She seems to be in a happy, good relationship, which is something a lot of people look for forever and never really find. She seems to be getting back to doing sculpture (though we haven't seen that in a while, nothing indicates she has stopped working on it either).
Maybe she isn't motivated professionally, but is that really the only measure of success?
Its great to notice the things you do do, and it IS impressive that she is running her own business, I just find the whole need for comparison to "how much ass she is kicking compared to everyone else she knows" is just way too focused on Professional life = everything.
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Is infecting a sentient computer with malware legally considered assault?
Infecting a sentient human being with malware has never been...
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...unless said infection is considered deadly (i.e., intentional infection w/HIV or anthrax).
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...unless said infection is considered deadly (i.e., intentional infection w/HIV or anthrax).
A fair point, but I'd put that under attacking the hardware rather than loading damaging software.
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Success can be measured in so many different ways, yes, Dora running her business is a success, but Tai is basically saying "Look at all these other slubs who don't know what they are doing with their lives". Is Dora happier than Faye though?
This is getting a bit circular... Tai is saying she should be happier because she's successfully running a business, and you're countering that, saying she shouldn't be happy because she isn't really happy... :?
If she isn't happy, it's not due to the business. It should be pretty obvious from her history that she gets a fair bit of happiness and satisfaction from successfully running a business. It's obvious even from a mere handful of strips ago, but it's been apparent elsewhere as well.
No, obviously it is not the only measure of success, but no-one said that it was. That was your reading. But it is undoubtedly a successful part of her life, and a part of her life that she loves; and that's no small thing. Her life is not a *complete* mess. That's the whole point.
I definitely do get the point you're making about comparing her to others as not necessarily being the way to go... but I do also think that you are imposing your own values on Dora rather than objectively assessing Dora's own values.
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A fair point, but I'd put that under attacking the hardware rather than loading damaging software.
Alternately- it'd be fairly comparable to giving someone a powerful hallucinogen without their knowledge or consent. The effects will go away in both cases, either by rebooting the AI or letting the human metabolize it, but there's a lot of danger of ongoing, unfixable damage to the underlying personality. I'm not aware of something like that ever being prosecuted, so I can't tell you how it would end up.
Hopefully AI's in this world are capable of backing up their entire sentience and memory every once in a while and do so faithfully. If a program were to fully corrupt the one functioning piece of software that is Momo as we know her, that would destroy a sentient being. If not murder, it would at least be equivalent to driving someone into an irreversible coma.
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I believe drugging someone's drink is considered assault - think date rape drugs - so...
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We could sit here for a very long time testing the case of (say) knowingly infecting an AI with a virus against our current laws - and that's certainly what we just love to do around here - but I think that it would be fair to assert that the laws in the QC universe would have been modified such that infecting an AI with a virus would be some kind of criminal offence or at least a misdemeanor. Probably either some variety of assault or an entirely new offence. Particularly if there is any danger of permanent damage or death.
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Why is Momo spilling blood out of her left eye?
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Jeph had originally planned to incorporate the Formspring answers into the comic. He chose not to do that in the end, but it's an argument that they should be considered canon.
Canon's tricky, an argument could be made either way.
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Why is Momo spilling blood out of her left eye?
Are we reading different comics? All I see are her eyes going in two entirely different directions.
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Jeph had originally planned to incorporate the Formspring answers into the comic. He chose not to do that in the end, but it's an argument that they should be considered canon.
Canon's tricky, an argument could be made either way.
Especially given that the comic itself has had internal contradictions.
Re: viruses -- it seems like a safe bet that the legal system in the QC universe has not completely caught up with integrating AnthroPCs.
Isn't every heresy trial in history about punishing people for trying to infect others with what the prosecutors considered to be damaging software?
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This is getting a bit circular... Tai is saying she should be happier because she's successfully running a business, and you're countering that, saying she shouldn't be happy because she isn't really happy... :?
I'm not saying anything about how Dora is acting. Her being happy about her business would be awesome, and she DOES seem to enjoy it. My problem was with Tai's wording. The comparison part was what I found messed up. It wasn't how she was measuring Dora's success, it was how she was measuring everyone else to the same metric.
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Why is Momo spilling blood out of her left eye?
Are we reading different comics? All I see are her eyes going in two entirely different directions.
Oh for frells sakes....last panel of the strip.
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Why is Momo spilling blood out of her left eye?
Are we reading different comics? All I see are her eyes going in two entirely different directions.
Oh for frells sakes....last panel of the strip.
Which has the same red iris/pupil as the artist has used for the whole strip; the left eye (our right) is looking down while the other looks up, is all.
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I don't get it. Checking the linked Twitter account just confused me more. Although I think I remember Jeph mentioning "transethnic" on Twitter the other day and that it's apparently a Bad Tumblr Thing. I have no idea what it is, though.
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I don't get it. Checking the linked Twitter account just confused me more. Although I think I remember Jeph mentioning "transethnic" on Twitter the other day and that it's apparently a Bad Tumblr Thing. I have no idea what it is, though.
As far as I can tell a "transethnic" is someone who is genetically and socially WASP but feels they are actually African-American.
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The tumblr seems to me to be a send-up of various aspects of discrimination and anti-discrimination culture, based on a reductio ad absurdum; but I'm worried that I might be being discriminatory in interpreting it like that instead of literally...
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As far as I can tell a "transethnic" is someone who is genetically and socially WASP but feels they are actually African-American.
See, I've usually heard it as the slur commonly used against blacks (of African or other descent), but with the beginning N replaced with a W.
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Tumblr, birthplace of our generation's new age hippies?
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I first heard it as a parody of transsexuality from some radfem idiot. I still can't believe it's a real damn thing.
"Oh hey guys, let's coopt the rhetoric of a marginalized group to claim our brains are wired opposite to our bodies across a distinction that, biologically*, basically doesn't exist and is largely determined by an ancestry we don't have, so that we can try to reap the paltry advantages of another marginalized group that largely stem from our overarching culture's fetishization of marginality and the ruling class's attempts to mitigate and thereby maintain white privilege, without having to give up our own white privilege!" :psyduck:
(*I will point out the obvious that cultural distinctions between races are very real, just to stem accusations of total assimilationism.)
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This is getting a bit circular... Tai is saying she should be happier because she's successfully running a business, and you're countering that, saying she shouldn't be happy because she isn't really happy... :?
I'm not saying anything about how Dora is acting. Her being happy about her business would be awesome, and she DOES seem to enjoy it. My problem was with Tai's wording. The comparison part was what I found messed up. It wasn't how she was measuring Dora's success, it was how she was measuring everyone else to the same metric.
Dude, you're reading way too much into this. Dora's shop is just the biggest way in which she's content in life, in that it gives her focus and drive. Most of the other people (by their own admission) and still searching for that thing that drives them in life. It doesn't have to be a job, it could be anything - but by and large, they haven't found it. Dora seems to have done so, and she's good at it, so that kicks ass.
Also, Tai never mentioned any particular metric by which she was measuring everyone. I was the one who brought jobs, for better or worse.
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[ ... ]
"Oh hey guys, let's coopt the rhetoric of a marginalized group to claim our brains are wired opposite to our bodies across a distinction that, biologically*, basically doesn't exist and is largely determined by an ancestry we don't have, so that we can try to reap the paltry advantages of another marginalized group that largely stem from our overarching culture's fetishization of marginality and the ruling class's attempts to mitigate and thereby maintain white privilege, without having to give up our own white privilege!" :psyduck:
[ ... ]
.... mind if I frame that? (WITH the duck.)
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So - what SHOULD we call ourselves?
QC-kies 1 (2.4%)
QuiCkies 2 (4.9%)
QCkers 8 (19.5%)
Questionables 13 (31.7%)
UBMEOD Wielders 1 (2.4%)
Waffle Lovers of Pioneer Valley 2 (4.9%)
International Spathe Ham Society (ISHS) 2 (4.9%)
QC PonyLeakers 1 (2.4%)
"Fans of Questionable Content" 7 (17.1%)
Other (please explain for the rest of us) 4 (9.8%)
Total Members Voted: 41
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Beyond clicking links to look at stuff that Jeph has posted, I don't have any real contact with Tumbler. Or Twitter for that matter. So I really don't get today's guest strip. It's not the artists fault that I'm technologicly/socialy backwards in that way, but one of the things I like most about QC is that it gives me a window into a culture that I would normaly never experience. And Jeph makes that culture accesable to me. When the strip was refrencing obscure Indy rock bands left and right, it didn't matter that I didn't know any of the bands. What mattered was Marten and company's reactions and interactions. Yesterday's strip worked for me because it was a new take on the characters with another artist's perspective and it was something that felt "cannon" to the QC 'verse. It meshed with everything that has come before.
Today's strip is apparently a series of one liners based on Tumbler culture. Without the context of that culture to put it in, it makes no sense to me. It'd be like a comedian standing on stage screaming punchlines to jokes I'd never heard. Said comedian might be hilarious to folks that knew the jokes, but I'd be lost. And from the preceding posts, Tumbler is something I probably don't want to dive into. So I guess, Pretty good art and, I don't get it?
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(*I will point out the obvious that cultural distinctions between races are very real, just to stem accusations of total assimilationism.)
This needs a discuss thread. I'm not sure I agree that being a different "race" makes one inherently different.
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Not inherently different, but the traditional separations of races has led to different cultures evolving in many parts of the world. And there are always examples of people (past and present) who have been raised cross-culturally or in mixed cultures.
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Predictably, people on tumblr were offended by this strip. XD
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Oooooookaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy
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And from the preceding posts, Tumbler is something I probably don't want to dive into.
Tumblr is just a different kind of blogging; it's not that you want to avoid, but rather most unregulated (and even some regulated!) political and social discussion on the internet. It doesn't always end well. :-P
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"Oh hey guys, let's coopt the rhetoric of a marginalized group to claim our brains are wired opposite to our bodies across a distinction that, biologically*, basically doesn't exist and is largely determined by an ancestry we don't have, so that we can try to reap the paltry advantages of another marginalized group that largely stem from our overarching culture's fetishization of marginality and the ruling class's attempts to mitigate and thereby maintain white privilege, without having to give up our own white privilege!" :psyduck:
(*I will point out the obvious that cultural distinctions between races are very real, just to stem accusations of total assimilationism.)
I don't know how far this was seriously meant, but it is freighted with massive unspoken and unexamined assumptions about race and culture.
The idea that there is no biological difference between races is extremely debatable, and normally forms part of a propaganda narrative that pretends that race does not exist, so racism can't exist, so that members of ethnic minorities can't be experiencing racial discrimination, and should just shut up. It is legitimate to argue that the biological differences between races are trivial compared to what they have in common, or that the differences should not matter outside a few specialised medical contexts, but to argue that there are no biological differences at all strikes me as extremely dubious on factual grounds. If there were no biological difference between the races, rates of lactose intolerance, or density of melanin in the skin, for example, would be statistically uniform across the global human population, and this is simply not so.
The very idea of human "races" is profoundly and inescapably tied to ethnic appearance, which is a matter of biology, and not simply a cultural construct. When I walk down the street in Sydney and people perceive me as "Asian", it is not my culture that they are observing, but my phenotypic ethnic appearance which is biological.
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This needs a discuss thread.
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Randy is not a shrew.
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"Oh hey guys, let's coopt the rhetoric of a marginalized group to claim our brains are wired opposite to our bodies across a distinction that, biologically*, basically doesn't exist and is largely determined by an ancestry we don't have, so that we can try to reap the paltry advantages of another marginalized group that largely stem from our overarching culture's fetishization of marginality and the ruling class's attempts to mitigate and thereby maintain white privilege, without having to give up our own white privilege!" :psyduck:
(*I will point out the obvious that cultural distinctions between races are very real, just to stem accusations of total assimilationism.)
I don't know how far this was seriously meant, but it is freighted with massive unspoken and unexamined assumptions about race and culture.
The idea that there is no biological difference between races is extremely debatable, and normally forms part of a propaganda narrative that pretends that race does not exist, so racism can't exist, so that members of ethnic minorities can't be experiencing racial discrimination, and should just shut up. It is legitimate to argue that the biological differences between races are trivial compared to what they have in common, or that the differences should not matter outside a few specialised medical contexts, but to argue that there are no biological differences at all strikes me as extremely dubious on factual grounds. If there were no biological difference between the races, rates of lactose intolerance, or density of melanin in the skin, for example, would be statistically uniform across the global human population, and this is simply not so.
The very idea of human "races" is profoundly and inescapably tied to ethnic appearance, which is a matter of biology, and not simply a cultural construct. When I walk down the street in Sydney and people perceive me as "Asian", it is not my culture that they are observing, but my phenotypic ethnic appearance which is biological.
It is interesting to note that if you define races by how genetically similar the people are, there are several races in Africa, and one other race that includes everybody else. I, a white guy in America likely share as many genes with a black guy in South Africa as that guy shares with a black guy in Kenya, and I share more genes with an Asian guy in Korea than the previous South Africa and Kenya comparison. This is because people left Africa a lot earlier than the various splits of people going to the ends of Asia and Europe and crossing the ice bridge to America, so there was a lot more time for branching and variation.
Of course we define race mostly by skin color and various secondary characteristics, but from a biological standpoint, there's no reason to.
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I'm just going to say that the comics for the last couple of days have been somewhat surreal, and leave it at that.
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I felt that I understood yesterday's, but today's doesn't do anything for me - not yet, anyway.
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I understood yesterday's comic - it was the world that the comic introduced me to that was surreal, to put it mildly.
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Today's comic reminded me of Steve's flashback comic. Just a day at the office for Pintsize.
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I felt that I understood yesterday's, but today's doesn't do anything for me - not yet, anyway.
Me too. Guest comics...
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... all I'm getting is "trite"... for some reason. Oo
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I rather liked the Multiverse guest comic. Day at the office for a 'bot everyone sees as a little slacker pervotron.
The Tumblr-verse guest comic I could wrap my brain around after a while and "get" the joke, but the gag seemed unfinished to me, more like notes for a concept someone realized they had to finish and submit because holy cow, here's the deadline. Those sometimes work spectacularly, sometimes land with a clunk.
Of course, all that means is that I liked one better than I liked the other, and other folks have other preferences.
EDIT: That pistol's not gonna work.
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EDIT: That pistol's not gonna work.
Winning at Russian roulette due to having no fingers .. inGENIOUS! Maybe thats why he's grinning so self-assuredly.
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EDIT: That pistol's not gonna work.
Winning at Russian roulette due to having no fingers .. inGENIOUS! Maybe thats why he's grinning so self-assuredly.
I'd think it was more due to his head being likely more cosmetic than functionally required with the bulk of his "brain" being in the main case that would be be a torso on a organic humanoid*.
*distinction of organic humanoid made due to Momo. Have no damn idea how her innards are laid out. Technically guessing in Pintsize's case too, but oh well.
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His brain is in the head as he was shown to be able to speak and interact without his rest of the body.
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No, I mean that pistol's not gonna work. No travel for the hammer, no way for ammo to be in the cylinder. Unless that's a disguised semiauto or energy weapon, and Russian Roulette with either one is kind of a foregone conclusion, unless you can convince the other guy to go first.
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Hitler? He never goes first.
Unless it's a road trip to Poland.
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His brain is in the head as he was shown to be able to speak and interact without his rest of the body.
Nope. Wi-Fi
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Hitler? He never goes first.
Unless it's a road trip to Poland.
I don't have the video chops to do it, but did anyone ever consider a QC-related "Downfall" meme?
The obvious one is "Hitler reacts to Marten and Dora breaking up." You could just thrown in lines from forum posts for that month as the subtitles.
Alternatively, "Hitler tries to place a phone order with Coffee of Doom."
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Ehhh, don't they not let those on YouTube anymore?
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Ehhh, don't they not let those on YouTube anymore?
Last I checked, admittedly months ago, new ones were going up as fast as YouTube was taking them down.
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No, I mean that pistol's not gonna work. No travel for the hammer, no way for ammo to be in the cylinder. Unless that's a disguised semiauto or energy weapon, and Russian Roulette with either one is kind of a foregone conclusion, unless you can convince the other guy to go first.
Its a double action revolver, you only have to pull back the hammer on a single action. With a double action revolver, pulling the trigger pulls back the hammer, rotates the cylinder and then releases the hammer, so before the trigger is pulled the hammer would be in the rest position.
/American
/I've never actually fired a gun so /badamerican.
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Burnt donkey hair does not smell like coconuts.
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It does if you use a cartoon cigarette lighter shaped like a gun that couldn't possibly work.
And filled with coconut oil.
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The tumblr comic made me curious enought to google fictive headmate. I'm quite glad I did. I've found out some interesting stuff about headmates and multiplicity.
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The tumblr comic made me curious enought to google fictive headmate. I'm quite glad I did. I've found out some interesting stuff about headmates and multiplicity.
Link? I'm as curious as you are, and the first few Google results are not helpful.
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The tumblr comic made me curious enought to google fictive headmate. I'm quite glad I did. I've found out some interesting stuff about headmates and multiplicity.
Link? I'm as curious as you are, and the first few Google results are not helpful.
This (http://healthymultiplicity.com/) is helpful. So is this (http://astraeasweb.net/plural/glossary.html) and this (http://astraeasweb.net/plural/faq.html). Oh, and this (http://www.karitas.net/blackbirds/layman/whatis.html) too.
For anyone else wondering, a headmate is a term for a person who shares your body. Although the term seems to be limited mostly to tumblr, the idea of multiplicity dates back at least as far as 2002. A fictive headmate (or more commonly just 'fictive') is one that is based on a fictional character.
If like me you googled 'fictive headmate' and then just 'headmate' you'll have found a load of tumblr posts (http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/headmate?before=1341785873) with the headmate tag, which isn't very helpful because none of them explained the context. But some of these mentioned multiplicity and multiple systems. So in the end I found out that 'multiple system -atrophy multiplicity' is a much better search term (without the quotes, but you knew that).
Edit: this one (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ZZuNjSZ8VLYJ:wearemagneton.tumblr.com/faq+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=firefox-a) too, but it's a google cache and the link will probably break soon.
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Ah, "Mults".
It's called MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder) when one of the personalities happens to be self-harming or harming of others.
Of course, some psychologists suggest we all have some form of MPD, where we play various "roles" in our everyday life.
And I won't go further, since this is the WCDT - though said week has ended.
"We need another comic to restore sense to this thread." - Paul Hodges
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This is irrelevant to recent comics, but I didn't think it warranted its own thread. I just noticed something trivial:
Faye has sex with Sven, she asks "Are you always this smug after you ravish a lady?"
Faye has sex with Angus, she asks "Are you always this hyperactive after sex?"
Clearly, Faye possesses a scientific interest in the post-coital activities of the human male.
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This (http://healthymultiplicity.com/) is helpful. So is this (http://astraeasweb.net/plural/glossary.html) and this (http://astraeasweb.net/plural/faq.html). Oh, and this (http://www.karitas.net/blackbirds/layman/whatis.html) too.
For anyone else wondering, a headmate is a term for a person who shares your body. Although the term seems to be limited mostly to tumblr, the idea of multiplicity dates back at least as far as 2002. A fictive headmate (or more commonly just 'fictive') is one that is based on a fictional character.
If like me you googled 'fictive headmate' and then just 'headmate' you'll have found a load of tumblr posts (http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/headmate?before=1341785873) with the headmate tag, which isn't very helpful because none of them explained the context. But some of these mentioned multiplicity and multiple systems. So in the end I found out that 'multiple system -atrophy multiplicity' is a much better search term (without the quotes, but you knew that).
Edit: this one (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ZZuNjSZ8VLYJ:wearemagneton.tumblr.com/faq+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=firefox-a) too, but it's a google cache and the link will probably break soon.
Hmmmmm. I'll be honest, from Spike's guest comic and the Tumblr.txt twitter I felt like their dismissive attitude to these aspects of tumblr may have some merit. The glossary on astraeasweb reeks of layman psychologist wank as well, or in the worst case, outright self-perpetuating delusions. But the bits about people experience multiple personalities in a non-pathological way is actually really interesting, because unlike the claims of being a different age, of a different species, or in a different world than you actually are (those are all supposed attributes of multiple personalities), it's entirely possible that a person's self-perception is a fluid thing and can play the role of different personalities. After all, your self-perception is entirely in your head, so how you feel as being is unquestionably real.
I once said to someone that every one of us is an actor who only knows how to play one role. Maybe a good enough actor can convince themselves that they can, in fact, play more than one role as their own self.
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I'm pretty sure I heard people talking about "fictive headmates" back in the nineties...
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But after that I must say I am rather disgusted by Tai. Not the fact she is gunning for Dora now but the fact that she was gunning for her while she was still with Marten. And instead of giving Dora some time and space to recover after the break up, which is what she is trying to do, she is going on the offense (and damn what a good one to!).
This is ironic considering how fast Dora jumped when Faye gave the greenlight for her to hit on Marten. Do you hate Dora for that too?
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Not quite the same, since Marten and Faye were never actually together, but that's a good point.