I am Liberal as Fuck but Obama's political maneuvering is just as shitty as Romney's.
Yelling Bird: In the same vein as FilmCritHulk, Yelling Bird found a handy niche for his persona and talents as a blogger with emphasis on politics and society, who used his crude way of communicating to deliver some surprisingly intelligent analysis and discourse. To this day, his Twitter account remains active, and is considered by many a bastion of common sense and obscenity.
Yelling Bird for President!
The message content seems to have distracted people from the startling fact that YB washed his mouth out to deliver it!Well with all the alcohol he undoubtedly consumes it should have been sterilized by now.
So, how long before this thread attracts political trolls?
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..."Reptilian"...?
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:psyduck:
No, it was not a public holiday here.It wasn't even Labour Day...
No, it was not a public holiday here.It wasn't even Labour Day...
If I were a US citizen, I would be feeling pretty much likeJephYelling Bird. But at least he doesn't have to put up with Tony Abbott...
Yelling Bird for President!
As usual, any genuine political discussion will be taken to the appropriate forum; trolls of any kind will be treated as they deserve.
I presume you mean "crossed the aisle" - otherwise it could be taken as referring to Australia!
If I were a US citizen, I would be feeling pretty much likeJephYelling Bird. But at least he doesn't have to put up with Tony Abbott...
Do I really need to explain my joke?
I think it hits home all the more for it. After all, it's pretty startling to read a YB strip with no obscenities.
The amount of fodder Yelling Bird has access to would be an entire comic series in and of itself. However, the state of politics being as it is, we have to vote for not who will fix the problems with the country, but who will screw it up the least.If I were a US citizen, I would be feeling pretty much likeJephYelling Bird. But at least he doesn't have to put up with Tony Abbott...
Don't get me started...
It's too bad, though. A yelling bird rant about Tony Abbott could be entertaining. Or at least cathartic.
I'm pretty sure that Terry Pratchett once said or wrote something along the lines of "Revolution doesn't bring change, it just leaves a bloody mess all over the place."I don't remember that in any of the Discworld series (or at least up to "Thud"), or was this one of his quotes? Still... the man has a penchant for making sense.
He did, however write "And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up."
The message content seems to have distracted people from the startling fact that YB washed his mouth out to deliver it!
The second one is definitely a Vimes-ism, at a guess, I'd say from Night Watch. The first one, ironically given your signature, feels like it comes from Interesting Times itself.I'm pretty sure that Terry Pratchett once said or wrote something along the lines of "Revolution doesn't bring change, it just leaves a bloody mess all over the place."I don't remember that in any of the Discworld series (or at least up to "Thud"), or was this one of his quotes? Still... the man has a penchant for making sense.
He did, however write "And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up."
I am frightened that I am finding the Yelling Birds commentary compelling.
The second one is definitely a Vimes-ism, at a guess, I'd say from Night Watch. The first one, ironically given your signature, feels like it comes from Interesting Times itself.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1307824/
At which point the aggrieved gentleman proceedes to beat the man in question vigorously about the head and shoulders with a brass knobbed cane, all while his fellow legislators say things like,Hmm... Brass knuckles would be more like it... Possibly broken bottles...
But. Yelling Bird with no obscenity? It's like.....he's naked!
Ugh, what a bunch of whining. "Oh I'm Jeph, I make a living doing what I love. Isn't America such a corrupt and broken country? Listen to me bitch and complain instead of doing something constructive."
Cannot wait till tomorrow.
That musta startled the hell out of Angus.
Unless...unless he's used to it...
It's almost as though Marten was reading the forums...
Yeah... my memory is kind of static-y sometimes. Well, I'm re-reading the series anyway (up to Moving Pictures at this point), so I'll probably find out in a few months.The second one is definitely a Vimes-ism, at a guess, I'd say from Night Watch. The first one, ironically given your signature, feels like it comes from Interesting Times itself.I'm pretty sure that Terry Pratchett once said or wrote something along the lines of "Revolution doesn't bring change, it just leaves a bloody mess all over the place."I don't remember that in any of the Discworld series (or at least up to "Thud"), or was this one of his quotes? Still... the man has a penchant for making sense.
He did, however write "And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up."
Pintsize orange juice. I wonder what's in it...Some things are best left unknown.
What did people think "change" meant anyway? I just took it to mean a black president and was pretty content.
ROAR!
Dunno if this has already been brought up in previous comments or whatnot, but interesting:
Apparently Marten was originally not cool with the prospect of Dora/Tai makeouts. (http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1937)
So I guess Marten's views and feelings have been evolving, and he's finally come to this place through introspection, etc. Makes much sense to those of us who were all "How is Marten just fine with it?" Big ups to Jeph to believable character development.
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LOL! Friggin' awesome.
ROAR!
Does she really measure success by whether someone comes into her place on the first date?
I think Martin's patience is going to be sorely tested in the coming weeks. If he makes it without a major outburst, he should be nominated for sainthood .
Does she really measure success by whether someone comes into her place on the first date?
If Dora grabs your butt, you can make a note here...huge success.
Liked the comic title today.Does she really measure success by whether someone comes into her place on the first date?
I think she simply has no idea how to measure "success", because this all new territory for her.
Something I noticed - Dora got away from butt-grabbing for quite some time in the strip.
I think Martin's patience is going to be sorely tested in the coming weeks. If he makes it without a major outburst, he should be nominated for sainthood .
I don't know. Marten looks like he's enjoying knowing more about Dora than Tai does - it's always nice knowing more about something than your boss does. Or maybe he's altruistic enough that he wants Dora to be happy, so he's happy if she is.
Hello everyone, by the way - I've just de-lurked. Been enjoying QC for over a year and this forum for a couple of months, about time I said something...
I have trouble seeing Dora not reacting badly to the knowledge that Tai has four or five "exes" she can't really talk to any more.I think Dora'd prefer that to Tai having exes she does talk to.
Keep working at it, it'll come!Hehe, thanks. :-D
I kid, I kid! Your posts are great!
I am a fairly early riser, and always the first one up in the house. There have been times when I've come downstairs in my pyjamas to see one of our friends nervously pacing in the living room floor or sitting at the table and smoking in the kitchen. I blame my wife, to whom myriad people turn for help and advice.
Including me...
If Dora grabs your butt, you can make a note here...huge success.Coffee of Doo-oom. We insult you because we can. For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead...
Lemme check here. Tai was worried cause Dora didn't come inside.
Everyone interpreted as "Dora didn't want to hook up on the first date"
I interpreted as "Dora didn't want to come in and hang out"
An invitation in is not necessarily an invitation to a roll in the hay. Tai may well have just wanted the date to go on longer, into the wee hours she's more accustomed to as a student.
Yeah, right.
Friendsight? That deserves to be a real word.
Tai may be a grad student, in fact.
Tai may be a grad student, in fact.
I think that has been stated somewhere. My archive fu is weak.
As far as bad relationships, Okay yeah. But while Dora and Marten were good, they were very good. While there was some on screen conflict prior to the underpants incident, it still felt like it was going to work out. That marked the beginning of the end. Things may have petered out with Padma, but the Padma fling got him solidly past Dora. So it was good in it's way too.
Friendsight is awesome. Wish I had it, in any form. Hell I'd settle for casualacquaintancesight.
Nice to see Marty and Tai all friendlike and whatnot.
I have one question: What does 'friendsight' and '20/20' mean? Google results are unconclusive for non-native speaker :psyduck:
And when you have freindsight mixed with crippling self-doubt and anxiety, it goes out the window, gets run over by a 16-wheeler, and gets pissed on by a squirrel.Having God/Jeph script your life like Job probably doesn't help either.
No, then he'd be sitting naked in a pile of ashes from what was left of the apartment building afterPintsize nuked itFaye made some more toast.
Ow, Marten's poor arm in panel 4. :oops:Looks to me like he rotated his forearm and hand to make a gesture.
The problem is, the human arm doesn't rotate that way. Put your arm out with the elbow bent downward slightly, as if you were putting your arm around someone like Marten is. (His elbow isn't as bent in 4 as it was in 3, but it's still pretty clearly angled downward.) Now keep your arm in that position and try to rotate your hand so that your palm is pointing upward like Marten's is. :psyduck:
The problem is, the human arm doesn't rotate that way. Put your arm out with the elbow bent downward slightly, as if you were putting your arm around someone like Marten is. (His elbow isn't as bent in 4 as it was in 3, but it's still pretty clearly angled downward.) Now keep your arm in that position and try to rotate your hand so that your palm is pointing upward like Marten's is. :psyduck:
Unless I'm missing something, I can do it pretty easily. Hook my arm around an imaginary person, and just turn my forearm up and out so my hand is palm up. A bit tight towards my wrist, but nothing uncomfortable.
Marten will probably bottle up his pain in seeing his friend and co-worker with his ex and then explode later. Tai and Dora will break up due to the stress of knowing how it make Marten feels.
Everyone will be miserable.
Oh sure, it's pretty easy if you turn your forearm so that it's pointing upward (ie wrist above elbow). But that's not what Marten's arm is doing - his wrist is well below his elbow.So? I carefully adopted Marten's pose, and I can turn my palm up as he is doing without a problem. I can't get my palm horizontal, but nor has Marten; his thumb is clearly higher than his little finger. I'm with Midwesterner on this one.
I didn't care for Tai before this arc. I'm glad we get to see more of her sentimental side rather than 'lol, female Sven'.
Somehow I don't see Jeph doing a fetal alcohol syndrome storyline. :psyduck:Marten will probably bottle up his pain in seeing his friend and co-worker with his ex and then explode later. Tai and Dora will break up due to the stress of knowing how it make Marten feels.
Everyone will be miserable.
Hell yeah bro, Marten is all about exploding from bottled-up angst! He has almost done it like twenty times and then luckily avoided it BUT NOT THIS TIME.
Later Angus will break up with Faye because she still has feelings for Marten! And then she will succumb to overwhelming alcoholism. AND SHE WILL BE PREGNANT.
Unless I'm missing something, I can do it pretty easily. Hook my arm around an imaginary person, and just turn my forearm up and out so my hand is palm up. A bit tight towards my wrist, but nothing uncomfortable.
I carefully adopted Marten's pose, and I can turn my palm up as he is doing without a problem. I can't get my palm horizontal, but nor has Marten; his thumb is clearly higher than his little finger. I'm with Midwesterner on this one.
Oh sure, it's pretty easy if you turn your forearm so that it's pointing upward (ie wrist above elbow). But that's not what Marten's arm is doing - his wrist is well below his elbow.So? I carefully adopted Marten's pose, and I can turn my palm up as he is doing without a problem. I can't get my palm horizontal, but nor has Marten; his thumb is clearly higher than his little finger. I'm with Midwesterner on this one.
And you see Marten, Tai can multitask (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2270)!
Ahem
Find a helpful friend, neighbor, or two-foot-tall-stuffed-emperor-penguin to stand in for Tai. Be sure to get your elbow on their shoulder. It's really not that hard with a prop. Any awkwardness in this is due entirely to the penguin. I tried it with a friend first and it worked much better, but I wasn't totally comfy taking a random pic of her for an internet message board.
(http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab105/sassygirlygirl3792/IMG_20120907_205103.jpg)
We're tackling the big issues, I see."Contortionism and appendage geometry are important, dammit!"
Right up to the point where my wife does something to said butt that causes pain, discomfort and embarassment.
We're tackling the big issues, I see.
Could be both...
Could be both...
Could be both...
"And that comment," said Ridcully, "is either very perceptive, or very trite."
No. That area is forbidden.Right up to the point where my wife does something to said butt that causes pain, discomfort and embarassment.
You gotta relax, man. Deep breaths. Deep breaths, relax, and take it slow. There'll be much less pain and discomfort that way. You might even like it!
And it's only embarrassing because society tells you that you're not allowed to enjoy it. But let your beloved take you on that forbidden journey - trust her and expand your horizons of pleasure!
;-)