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Title: Welcome to the lunatic asylum
Post by: Ohf on 03 Jan 2013, 10:08
... umm, this is a lunatic asylum, isn't it? A forum full of people discussing a web comic, duh! And now I'm part of it, duh ...

Discovered QC on Dec 27th, 2012, via a link from xkcd, and finished reading from strip #1 to #2353 on 2013's New Year's Day. Going from like 70 strips per hour down to five strips per week feels like hitting a solid wall at full throttle. So I guess that's why I got institutionalized here.

English is not my first language (German is) so please bear with me if I'm going to ask a few dumb questions about slang words or expressions in the future. You simply cannot just look them up in a dictionary, especially those relating to, uh, reproduction or metabolism  :wink:
Title: Re: Welcome to the lunatic asylum
Post by: celticgeek on 03 Jan 2013, 10:19
Ydy, mae'n gwallgofdy!
Croeso i gwallgofdy!

The above is just to confirm your thoughts about this being a lunatic asylum (not to mention the English problems).
Title: Re: Welcome to the lunatic asylum
Post by: Pilchard123 on 03 Jan 2013, 10:24
Ydych chi'n siŵr? Nid yw pobl Cymru yn wallgof, maent newydd gael eu holl gytseiniaid dwyn​​.

Uy, here's to Google stitching up my translation.
Title: Re: Welcome to the lunatic asylum
Post by: Redball on 03 Jan 2013, 10:50
Welcome. Yes, your cell is padded, your toilet facility is sort of utilitarian and the brightly colored foam plastic eating utensils are for your own protection. But you'll notice that you retain access to the entire QC database, from comics to Wikia to forum to Jeph's and the cast's Twitter. Let me call attention to another resource at your disposal: You'll find that Urban Dictionary will be useful at decoding some of the slang terms. Others may welcome you here, but we are all under strict orders not to provide any physical assistance. We expect you'll be released after another 2 or 3 archive binges, after which it's expected you'll have begun to integrate the QC-verse with the one you left. And good luck!
Title: Re: Welcome to the lunatic asylum
Post by: Thrillho on 03 Jan 2013, 12:42
Welcome.

Here are my testicles.

I'm sure you'll become well acquainted soon enough.
Title: Re: Welcome to the lunatic asylum
Post by: Asterus on 03 Jan 2013, 16:10
Just remember to be reasonable polite and listen to mods and everything will be perfectly Ok. If you somehow manage to cross a line of insanity though, no amount of cake, $1.98 drill presses, portable holes, Bags of Holding, Immovable rods, or noodles (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoodleImplements) will be able to save you.
Title: Re: Welcome to the lunatic asylum
Post by: Bluesummers on 03 Jan 2013, 16:31
Bonjour, mi amigo! I see I'm not the only one who followed an XKCD link to this dark corner of civilization...and yes, once you're in, you're in for good. Much like the Hotel California, you can check out anytime you like...but you can never leave.

There's better music here than that awful hotel anyway.
Title: Re: Welcome to the lunatic asylum
Post by: Kugai on 03 Jan 2013, 20:20
Greetings!



*Melts your Lug Wrench*
Title: Re: Welcome to the lunatic asylum
Post by: Carl-E on 04 Jan 2013, 07:42
 :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x

Bad Kugai, bad! 

No cookie.  Go lie down. 
Title: Re: Welcome to the lunatic asylum
Post by: Ohf on 04 Jan 2013, 14:58
Thank you for the warm welcome, everyone! And a special thanks to Redball for telling me about the Urban Dictionary. That's very helpful indeed.
Title: Re: Welcome to the lunatic asylum
Post by: Bluesummers on 04 Jan 2013, 18:30
And a special thanks to Redball for telling me about the Urban Dictionary. That's very helpful indeed.

It's a big help even to us native anglophones, to try and understand those young'ins and their newfangled thingamabobs.
Title: Re: Welcome to the lunatic asylum
Post by: Kugai on 04 Jan 2013, 19:14
:x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x

Bad Kugai, bad! 

No cookie.  Go lie down.

I'll take my Barrel of Bloodwine with me then.
Title: Re: Welcome to the lunatic asylum
Post by: celticgeek on 04 Jan 2013, 21:14
<slips Ohf a ceramic lug wrench>
Title: Re: Welcome to the lunatic asylum
Post by: Kugai on 05 Jan 2013, 10:59
Like I said, Thermite


 :evil: