Quote from: Jeph's TwitterWell that's the next week's comics written. This is 100% a case of "write what you know"
I'm guessing we'll be seeing more Faye this week.
Either that or five days of Yelling Bird and Shebly. Either's good.
the google image reference photos I need for monday's comic are seriously grossing me out D:
Unless it's going to be a peek inside "Prolapse Monthly." I think that would gross just about anyone out.
What in the heck would she have picked to cause a scab like that to bleed? :psyduck:
Its not a case of "I moved to Louisiana and now I have skin picking disease
You know, if Jeph had thrown "The End" in there in the final panel, that might have been the most dark and twisted ending not involving an eldritch abomination.
You know, if Jeph had thrown "The End" in there in the final panel, that might have been the most dark and twisted ending not involving an eldritch abomination.
You know, if Jeph had thrown "The End" in there in the final panel, that might have been the most dark and twisted ending not involving an eldritch abomination.
Does it make me evil that if I were Jeph, I would have done exactly this, only to post another, entirely irrelevant strip the next day, as if I hadn't claimed the last to be a finale?
I'd go see a doc.
How will Claire react if Hanners comes screaming, half-naked, into Marten's room?
Read your poster, Hannelore.
That looks more like a scab than a mole to me. Maybe she got a very small wound without noticing.
FWIW, I'm wondering if, rather than focus on maybe being sick, Jeph will focus on how this brush with mortality affects Hannelore's thinking. Maybe she starts brooding about all the things that she hasn't done yet because she is letting her fears paralyse her. So she writes a "things to do before I die" list. Some are sweet ('Have a first kiss'), some are silly ('Eat a fantastically unhealthy but delicious meal') and some show her wilder side ('Learn to pole dance').This is a very good and plausible theory. Although Hanners has progressed a lot throughout the series, there are a lot of phobias still remaining. My opinion is that Hanners will not be cured before she finally gets laid. A lot of hygienic phobias can be cured by irresistible libido. She may need this scare to finally break out of her shell.
Hanners will not be cured before she finally gets laidCatch-22, surely?
That looks more like a scab than a mole to me. Maybe she got a very small wound without noticing.
FWIW, I'm wondering if, rather than focus on maybe being sick, Jeph will focus on how this brush with mortality affects Hannelore's thinking. Maybe she starts brooding about all the things that she hasn't done yet because she is letting her fears paralyse her. So she writes a "things to do before I die" list. Some are sweet ('Have a first kiss'), some are silly ('Eat a fantastically unhealthy but delicious meal') and some show her wilder side ('Learn to pole dance').This is a very good and plausible theory. Although Hanners has progressed a lot throughout the series, there are a lot of phobias still remaining. My opinion is that Hanners will not be cured before she finally gets laid. A lot of hygienic phobias can be cured by irresistible libido. She may need this scare to finally break out of her shell.
NilsO, OCD and mental health in general is not something that has an easy cure. People live with their mental health issues their whole lives and often only manage to find coping mechanisms that make it easier to function in daily life. Saying someone can just be "cured", especially with something as condescending as "loosen up and get laid", is ableist and ridiculously ignorant.Think of it as a variant of exposure therapy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_therapy). It might work. But my main argument was that your deeper instincts may overcome phobias, rational thinking, and learned behavior. Countless sex scandals support this theory.
NilsO, OCD and mental health in general is not something that has an easy cure. People live with their mental health issues their whole lives and often only manage to find coping mechanisms that make it easier to function in daily life. Saying someone can just be "cured", especially with something as condescending as "loosen up and get laid", is ableist and ridiculously ignorant.Think of it as a variant of exposure therapy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_therapy). It might work. But my main argument was that your deeper instincts may overcome phobias, rational thinking, and learned behavior. Countless sex scandals support this theory.
Relax, it is just a comic.
She scratched a spot, or a mole, and it bled. That shit happens to me all the time. I assumed this comic was an indication of 'Hannelore freaks out over something, perhaps unnecessarily' rather than 'THERE IS SOMETHING MEDICALLY WRONG WITH HER'.
The Staph thing would certainly match up with Jeph's comment about gross pictures, as they can turn quite nasty.
ketchupShame on you, that's disgusting.
We've seen short bursts of possible hypochondria from Hannelore.
Absolutely everything people write in the internet is true !!! :evil:
WebMD results: You are going to die. In fifty years, give or take fifty years.
My take on this is that it is perfectly normal to become concerned about something like this, but for someone with anxiety issues, concern could boil over into something quite traumatic.
Doctor Google is scary.
I asked him: How many diseases do I have (https://www.google.nl/search?q=how+many+diseases+do+i+have)? and he gave me 338.000.000 results!
Hoping to help ease her fears, Faye agrees. Marten and Claire come in to witness the resulting scene without any context. Marten insists that Hannelore and Faye are adults and he is therefore 'cool' with whatever they want to do. However, he does insist that the bedroom and sock-on-handle rules be respected.
Hoping to help ease her fears, Faye agrees. Marten and Claire come in to witness the resulting scene without any context. Marten insists that Hannelore and Faye are adults and he is therefore 'cool' with whatever they want to do. However, he does insist that the bedroom and sock-on-handle rules be respected.
Tsk!
This is perilously close to a forbidden level of shipping (e.g. any involving Hanners), and I cannot imagine that Jeph would go this route either.
Come on, it's a joke,
I wonder if this won't turn out to be foreshadowing of Faye deciding to become a doctor.
I wonder if this won't turn out to be foreshadowing of Faye deciding to become a doctor.
Worse than Dr Cox.
Worse than House.
'I tried to remove the tumour surgically, but it didn't work, so I'm going to punch it out of you.''But ... but why would you punch it?'
I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touchhay fever, I fancy it was. I got down the book, and read all I came to read; and then, in an unthinking moment, I idly turned the leaves, and began to indolently study diseases, generally. I forget which was the first distemper I plunged intosome fearful, devastating scourge, I knowand, before I had glanced half down the list of "premonitory symptoms," it was borne in upon me that I had fairly got it.
I sat for awhile, frozen with horror; and then, in the listlessness of despair, I again turned over the pages. I came to typhoid fever--read the symptoms--discovered that I had typhoid fever, must have had it for months without knowing it--wondered what else I had got; turned up St. Vitus's Dance--found, as I expected, that I had that too,--began to get interested in my case, and determined to sift it to the bottom, and so started alphabetically--read up ague, and learnt that I was sickening for it, and that the acute stage would commence in about another fortnight. Bright's disease, I was relieved to find, I had only in a modified form, and, so far as that was concerned, I might live for years. Cholera I had, with severe complications; and diphtheria I seemed to have been born with. I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.
Jerome K Jerome, Three Men in a Boat, 1889
'Ordinarily I'd use booze as a disinfectant, but I'm not allowed to have booze anymore, so you'll have to hope it doesn't get infected.''I tried to remove the tumour surgically, but it didn't work, so I'm going to punch it out of you.''But ... but why would you punch it?'
'Because I don't have my blowtorch here right now.'
[...] But Fayes reaction in the last panel appears to me a bit too strong. [...]How so ? Its a perfectly natural Faye reaction.
It would appear so. Also..."kit"? That usage is unfamiliar to me.You see, Hanners skinned some kittens to make her clothing. Thus, her clothing is her 'kit'. :clairedoge:
Ahh, like how they call pants "trousers".
I wonder if this won't turn out to be foreshadowing of Faye deciding to become a doctor.
Worse than Dr Cox.
Worse than House.
'I tried to remove the tumour surgically, but it didn't work, so I'm going to punch it out of you.'
I have no idea what that means.
The UK and the US are two countries divided by a common tongue. Also, when did Faye get a car?
Also, when did Faye get a car?
Faye fails at sympathetic empathy. Mostly because she's Faye and Hannelore is Hannelore. In many ways, it's a relief that all the troubles that Faye has gone through hasn't altered her basically impatient and unpleasant personality.
Prediction: Doctor Faye will prescribe a Band-Aid for Hanners' boo-boo.
...Faye doesn't have a car.
HANDS AT TEN AND TWO!
Every car-owning character I can think of is either at Coffee of Doom or is Tai. Steve has a truck.
Oh, those wacky Brits. Giving us a language to destroy, recreate, and then, letting us look back and judge the original...
It would appear so. Also..."kit"? That usage is unfamiliar to me.
She takes auto safety very seriously, but she wears her seatbelt shoulder strap under her armpit? Except she wears it right in panel 3, and then goes back to wearing it wrong in #4. :psyduck:
Ahh, like how they call pants "trousers".
And as I recall, 'pants' is underwear over there. Could be remembering wrong, though.
If it were Hannelore's car, wouldn't she be driving?
So the QC universe has sentient toasters but not self driving cars?
White cars get the dirtiest - fastest.
Oh, those wacky Brits. Giving us a language to destroy, recreate, and then, letting us look back and judge the original...
Typically, we are the ones who have changed it, while the older version is preserved in the US, actually. The classic example is Fall for Autumn; Fall was the word in Dr Johnson's dictionary.
The cars of Questionable Content:
Amanda's rental car: Probably a 2000-2005 Ford Taurus (http://www.carfolio.com/images/dbimages/zgas/models/id/10624/2001%20ford%20taurus%20rear%20%C2%BE.jpg) (well, 2000-2007, but the comic was from 2004), shown in 175 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=175)
Amanda: 1999.5-2005.0 Volkswagen Jetta (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Volkswagen-Jetta-MK4-1.8T-Wolfsburg.jpg) (VW used to be bad about introducing a new model while the old one was still in production and part-way through a model year, and that's how the enthusiast community deals with it, half model years), shown and stated to be a Jetta in 609 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=609)
Angus: 2011-2013 Ford Fiesta hatch (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/2011_Ford_Fiesta_SES_hatchback_--_02-18-2011.jpg), shown in 2292 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2292)
Claire: 2011-2014 Mazda2 (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FoXyvaPSnVk/Ss5HxkUVkHI/AAAAAAACIqA/OmSAsTGHqUA/s1600/2010-MAZDA2-Facelift-3.jpg), shown in 2378 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2378)
Dale: Another Ford Fiesta hatch, we don't see enough details to tell whether it's a 2011-2013 or 2014-2015, shown in 2496 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2496)
Raven: 1998-2005 Volkswagen New Beetle TDI (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/1998-2005_Volkswagen_New_Beetle_--_03-24-2012.JPG), shown in 423 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=423), stated as a Bug (not that it was necessary) in 451 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=451), implied to be a TDI in 621 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=621)
Tai: 2003-2005 Volkswagen Jetta Wagon (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/%2701-%2703_Volkswagen_Jetta_1.8T_Wagon_%28Front%29.JPG) (and an interior shot (http://images.gtcarlot.com/pictures/47303827.jpg), and the sunglass holder (http://fsjbrutus.com/jetta/images/sunglassholder2.jpg) that gives it away as at least a 2003), shown in 1916 (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1916)
Whoa, I never realized K1dmor had a hodgatar.
As for Faye still having her license: Why wouldn't she? She had one accident we know of, and it didn't hurt anybody else, and she wasn't driving under the influence.
Is it just me or does Hanners look at bout 13 years old here? Is the car out of proportion?
Which is the actual answer... Faye cobbled together the car out of spare parts as a project to keep from drinking... So everything is all out of proportion to another being from random vehicles.Every car in Northampton is now missing one random part. It's going to be a bad day for the driver of the car with no brake rotors.
Which is the actual answer... Faye cobbled together the car out of spare parts as a project to keep from drinking... So everything is all out of proportion to another being from random vehicles.Every car in Northampton is now missing one random part. It's going to be a bad day for the driver of the car with no brake rotors.
I'm wondering that too. No matter who she's borrowing it from, there is an interesting story.
If it were Hannelore's car, wouldn't she be driving?
BTW, any objection to merging this thread with the WCDT?
I suppose Iīm wrong, but it seems to me that she is running around in her sleepware the whole time. Skimpy shirt, very short pants. Faye surely wouldnīt let her leave the house like that (I hope), but that was my first thought on todays comic. And Hanners doesnīt strike me as the hotpants-type. ;-)
You might want to have it removed, since it's already broken once...What are the implications that it has been broken once? Is there a risk for growth or what?
Medical question!QuoteYou might want to have it removed, since it's already broken once...
What are the implications that it has been broken once? Is there a risk for growth or what?
Yep, that is the case.Medical question!QuoteYou might want to have it removed, since it's already broken once...
What are the implications that it has been broken once? Is there a risk for growth or what?
I'm no doctor but even I know that a break in the skin is bad news. You can get serious blood and tissue infections that way, especially if the break can happen without you being aware of it. The problem is that, now it's broken once, it's likely to do so again.
Brave Hanners, she seems to accept the diagnosis. Iīm kinda relieved here. :-)
I suppose Iīm wrong, but it seems to me that she is running around in her sleepware the whole time. Skimpy shirt, very short pants. Faye surely wouldnīt let her leave the house like that (I hope), but that was my first thought on todays comic. And Hanners doesnīt strike me as the hotpants-type. ;-)
My completely unscientific from-what-I-know guess is that it's a seborrheic keratosis. My only source of doubt is that it's more of an older person's thing. But it's not cancerous, and images on the internet are kind of gross, especially when you introduce bleeding into your search terms.
For someone as germophobic as Hannelore, she tends to walk around with surprisingly little clothing to block the germs. The skimpy-shirt-and-shorts look seems to be her default summer wardrobe (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2920).
INdeed, yes. Here's another example. http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2886
Skin's easier to clean than clothes I guess?
If that hurts as much as people say, that Hannelore is willing to endure this reminds us of just how tough she is under that goofy, neurotic exterior. Now, I find myself wondering if Faye will buy her a lollipop for being brave. :wink:
Absolutely. I don't think most bullfighters would be brave enough to face up to what Hannelore deals with daily.
Also New Englanders tend to wear shorts and t-shirts in weather that most people would find too cool. For example, it's currently, 72°F, which I (a Southerner by birth) consider too cool for shorts, but Massachusetts natives think it's more than warm enough.