I don't really see a delivery job working for someone like Brun who lives by her set routines. Doing Pizza deliveries means navigating to endless new addresses, and constant interactions with new strangers in new environments. Brun was so thrown by her sudden new habitations that she forgot something simple like taking a shower. I think making deliveries would be hellish for her, never being able to inhabit her comfort zone.
Theoretically, Brun's job at the Whale will eventually open back up. Meantime, she'll want another situation involving set routines, I'm thinking. Not sure what it would be, though. Now, if she were to become a US Mail carrier (as opposed to delivering pizzas), there's lots of routine in that; always going back to the same addresses, and less need to deal with humans. But those kinds of jobs tend to be hard to get, I think.
WRT integrating Brun into the main cast, I think the path is fairly clear. She'll encounter Clinton again (maybe at COD), and there'll be a conflict between Renee and Clinton (probably played for laughs). Perhaps Brun will eventually became a COD regular.
Am I the only one who thinks Brun meeting Clinton again might not be such a big deal? Yeah, Jeph is playing it up big with foreshadowing and suspense of all kinds. But really, aside from having shared a traumatic experience, and both being single, what do they have in common? Do we have any indication of attraction on either part? Any indication of what they would talk about together, or how their personalities are complementary?
What if she meets him again, she's happy to see him, he asks her out, and she can't be bothered? Or vice versa?
The bow, or thoughts of daughters, apparently have a rejuvenating effect. Jim's temples lost their grey in the last panel.
The bow, or thoughts of daughters, apparently have a rejuvenating effect. Jim's temples lost their grey in the last panel.
Methinks it's Brun's content-cat-smile in the last panel, but I'll go with that explanation ...
It's clear that Brun requires little from this life to be truly happy. Day-old muffins and an animé-esque hair bow go a long way to reassuring her that all is right with the world!
This does open an interesting possible insight into Brun's inner world, though. Does she base all of her assumptions about the correct modes of behaviour, dress codes and the like on animé coming-of-age films? If so, this may lead to her having some pretty weird ideas about some careers and some people, especially if she's an affectionado of Miyazaki!
I thought of a "bow and arrow" and figured she was looking for a replacement for the harpoon.
Sam doesn't strike me as the bow-in-hair type.
I'm pretty sure that the skull-and-bow motif would work fine in a Tim Burton animation!
The bow, or thoughts of daughters, apparently have a rejuvenating effect. Jim's temples lost their grey in the last panel.
Methinks it's Brun's content-cat-smile in the last panel, but I'll go with that explanation ...
Funny, I came here myself to post that with that bow and smile as the final indicator, Brun totally reminds me of a cat in her attitudes and behaviours.
I'm pretty sure that the skull-and-bow motif would work fine in a Tim Burton animation!
I hope I'm not the only one who immediately thought of the "bow and arrow" variety of a bow at first. Hell, it took me until the last panel to realize what she meant...
I thought of a "bow and arrow" and figured she was looking for a replacement for the harpoon.
I also thought it would have been an archery bow which would have made Jim's comment about having a daughter more accurate. That is the thing I would expect Sam to keep lying around in her dad's office.
"Too late, Renee," I LOVE ITShe should probably just walk away.
Doesn't Elliott bounce at the Horrible Revelation? Gets off work there at 3 am, shows up at the bakery at 4:30...
Doesn't get much sleep, does he? Maybe a good afternoon nap helps.
Pretty sure there was a question or it was discussed at some point, but are there two Renee's or is it just the one?
P.S.:
I do not believe in coincidences in Jeph's art. Open Mic night at Harry's is going to be significant somehow.
Now... Has Elliott been in a fight or is that one of those 'nasal passage strips' that some people wear when exercising because it's supposed to increase the amount of oxygen you can inhale with every breath?Well, he does work as a bouncer (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2937), and that does look like a Band-Aid®. I imagine he has a "mighty glacier" fighting style, so he might cop a few nicks from faster opponents before the wall falls on them. In Soviet Northamption, wall lean on you!
Not all that surprised by this. Elliot is a gentle giant.
Renee may not want to live in an animé but Elliot is clearly overjoyed at the prospect! I believe that, if nothing else, Brun can go through this day safe in the knowledge that she has made at least one geek happy; so happy that he has stars in his eyes! :wink:She does have experience as a
Now... Has Elliott been in a fight or is that one of those 'nasal passage strips' that some people wear when exercising because it's supposed to increase the amount of oxygen you can inhale with every breath?
P.S.:
I do not believe in coincidences in Jeph's art. Open Mic night at Harry's is going to be significant somehow.
Now... Has Elliott been in a fight or is that one of those 'nasal passage strips' that some people wear when exercising because it's supposed to increase the amount of oxygen you can inhale with every breath?
This makes Clinton so jealous that he challenges Elliott to a duel to the death with either the swords or foam pool noodles.This is Clin-ton we're talking about.[1] If he falls for Brun and Challenges Elliot (who wouldn't fight, regardless), he'd find a way to impale himself on a foam pool noodle.
(I am an ingestion zen master.)
So Hannelore has an eating disorder?
I was going to say that Hanners has problems somewhat unlike anything others go through. However, that isn't entirely true, is it?
(http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view7/2953647/drinking-problem-o.gif)
Easily solved. Add liquid and blend.
More like a case of the Centipede's Dilemma. She overthinks the process of eating to the point where she has difficulty performing the otherwise simple task.
Edit: And in the pseudo-alt-text, Jeph mentions having the same thing happening to him. IIRC, poor Hanners' various anxieties and situations surrounding them are things that Jeph deals with, but turned to 11.
Hanners seems to be doing so well recently. I almost thought that she had gotten over all her fears of things like germs. I guess she just replaced them with food.
It is why I prefer to cut food to nice bite-sized blocks if possible. A muffing with no soft filling cuts up perfectly into nice and interesting segments to eat. If need be add fork.
Easily solved. Add liquid and blend.
Oh no ... absolutely no.
Easily solved. Add liquid and blend.
Oh no ... absolutely no.
Oh, yes!
A little story...
on Nov 6th, 1986, whilst biking to class, I came around a sharp blind curve to find a truck parked illegally. The end result was a shattered jaw (4 pieces, and a pulverized chin) that had me wired shut for two months.
Right through the holidays.
That blender was my closest friend. I was singing "Turkey through a straw" at Thanksgiving, and discovered that a Steak and Shake burger blends perfectly as-is, and tastes no different. The oral surgeon was amazed, I was the only patient he'd ever had that actually put 5 pounds on by the time the wires came off.
I'm still fond of drinking my pasta, but I haven't done so in years. It turns other people off a bit. :roll:
Not all that surprised by this. Elliot is a gentle giant.
IME, most RL giants are.
OCD ... at least it never gets boring ... :-\
So the alternative of cutting up her food has crossed her mind. Wonder if this applies to solid foods or if she can have soup.
What's the number of the Internet Rule that states that whatever it is, someone's doing an academic paper on it?
So the alternative of cutting up her food has crossed her mind. Wonder if this applies to solid foods or if she can have soup.
She said foods she has to "take a bite out of", so I'm guessing soup is not a problem. Probably not food that gets eaten with a knife and fork either. So her problem would likely be with stuff like sandwiches, muffins, doughnuts, and other baked goods and finger foods.
keep running in little circles outside the front of your home until your GPS watch indicates that you have run a pleasingly round number of kilometres (as opposed to, for instance, 9.89 kilometres, which would simply be too awful to contemplate).
Make as many Banach-Tarski copies as the number of bites you need, then crush each one to fit in your mouth. Emily should have thought of this.
While all this is going on in the comic, a bunch of my friends on Facebook are having a discussion on how vitally important it is, at the end of a run, to keep running in little circles outside the front of your home until your GPS watch indicates that you have run a pleasingly round number of kilometres (as opposed to, for instance, 9.89 kilometres, which would simply be too awful to contemplate).I find it hard to decide whether these people should be mocked or pitied.
I find it hard to decide whether these people should be mocked or pitied.Congratulated.
I wonder if its possible to slice a pizza with a pattern of identical tiles in which there is no central point?
I wonder if its possible to slice a pizza with a pattern of identical tiles in which there is no central point?
Taking pleasure in small, essentially pointless activities, is surely a life enhancing exercise.
You've never met a 'chihuahua', have you? Not the dog or some one from the state of Chihuahua, one of those people (almost always male) that's an extremely arrogant shit with a fragile ego. They constantly pick fights they can't win to try to prove themselves. They're quite irritating to deal with, and often have a glass jaw.Not all that surprised by this. Elliot is a gentle giant.
IME, most RL giants are.
It's true. When you're a 2-meter tall 320-pound weightlifter, you absolutely never have to resort to violence. Mostly because people are afraid you'd be too damn good at it.
Your next challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to defend their habit of delightfully describing this habit as "so OCD." :roll:Hmm, that sounds like a bit of a minefield to me, and I've always felt the best thing to do with minefields, if you lack professional expertise and equipment, is to walk around them...
Your next challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to defend their habit of delightfully describing this habit as "so OCD." :roll:Hmm, that sounds like a bit of a minefield to me, and I've always felt the best thing to do with minefields, if you lack professional expertise and equipment, is to walk around them...
Perhaps a more approachable question is why they feel the need to use the phrase, which sounds as if its being used defensively.
It's actually very common for runners to joke that they "are OCD." It's not remotely defensive. They're showing off, if anything.
Uh oh. I think CoD is starting to feel the consequences for not having Faye around as a middle manager (miniboss).
Wish a plot , any plot, would be pursued. The jumping around is very disengaging.
Though it would be a great opportunity to see how Raven or Steve are doing.
"work" 8-)
"work" 8-)
Well, we don't know how busy it is and what there is that needs to be done. It's quite possible that they're in the "dead" period that happens after everyone has already obtained their morning fix, but before lunch, or the one that can occur in the afternoon. For all we know, they could have stocked everything, cleaned it twice, and done inventory so many times that even Hanners got sick of counting. There *are* bosses who insist that there's "always something to do", but it's really not true. Someone I used to work with and I were so damned efficient, there was about 1 1/2 hour of any given shift together where we were either messing with each other or playing hockey with brooms and expired baked goods.
Taking pleasure in small, essentially pointless activities, is surely a life enhancing exercise.
Thank you for changing my perpsective. That is a very nice way of looking at it.
Your next challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to defend their habit of delightfully describing this habit as "so OCD." :roll:
Thing is that it's *not* trivial for those of us who actually deal with OCD on a constant basis. I'll certainly joke about it, and I do expect constant shit from my friends[1] about it. But it doesn't help anyone to describe some silliness as an OCD trait. I'll indulge in odd things on a whim[2] and it can be fun. It's still a vast difference between harmless indulgence and a serious anxiety disorder.
Not all that surprised by this. Elliot is a gentle giant.
IME, most RL giants are.
It's true. When you're a 2-meter tall 320-pound weightlifter, you absolutely never have to resort to violence. Mostly because people are afraid you'd be too damn good at it.
By getting over it, and realizing you know and understand exactly what they mean by OCD so getting torqued that it isn't the exactly precise definition is actually just embarassing for you.
Also - recognizing that they're out running six miles a day while you're sitting on the internet complaining about their trivial word choices.I'm not sure how these things are mutually exclusive. Do people who run never complain on the internet? Does a person's exercise habits really change what they are saying and the meaning behind it? You're talking to people on a forum. The, "You're on the internet," argument is a bit flawed.
Thing is that it's *not* trivial for those of us who actually deal with OCD on a constant basis. I'll certainly joke about it, and I do expect constant shit from my friends[1] about it. But it doesn't help anyone to describe some silliness as an OCD trait. I'll indulge in odd things on a whim[2] and it can be fun. It's still a vast difference between harmless indulgence and a serious anxiety disorder.
People make exaggerations all the time. When someone compares a busy afternoon to a battlefield are they being insensitive to veterans? Lashing out at people for their benign ignorance doesn't really you do any favors because either they will avoid you because they don't want you to take it the wrong way or they'll resent being scolded like a child and double down.
By getting over it, and realizing you know and understand exactly what they mean by OCD so getting torqued that it isn't the exactly precise definition is actually just embarassing for you.
It's pretty bad form to tell someone that being concerned or bothered with how some people choose to regularly belittle their disorder, intentionally or not, is "embarrassing".QuoteAlso - recognizing that they're out running six miles a day while you're sitting on the internet complaining about their trivial word choices.I'm not sure how these things are mutually exclusive. Do people who run never complain on the internet? Does a person's exercise habits really change what they are saying and the meaning behind it? You're talking to people on a forum. The, "You're on the internet," argument is a bit flawed.Thing is that it's *not* trivial for those of us who actually deal with OCD on a constant basis. I'll certainly joke about it, and I do expect constant shit from my friends[1] about it. But it doesn't help anyone to describe some silliness as an OCD trait. I'll indulge in odd things on a whim[2] and it can be fun. It's still a vast difference between harmless indulgence and a serious anxiety disorder.
People make exaggerations all the time. When someone compares a busy afternoon to a battlefield are they being insensitive to veterans? Lashing out at people for their benign ignorance doesn't really you do any favors because either they will avoid you because they don't want you to take it the wrong way or they'll resent being scolded like a child and double down.
"It bothers me when you use the name of a disorder that has a huge impact on the daily life of many people to facetiously describe a part of your personality."
"Stop lashing out and scolding me."
Ignorance might not always be malicious but that does not mean it is not harmful. When someone is then informed of how their actions are having a negative impact and they choose to not listen and continue, that is malicious. Although sometimes people listen and consider how their words and actions affect others and change their behaviour out of thoughtfulness and compassion. So that is a favour someone can possibly do themselves by choosing to mention their concerns.
A person wishing to not have their mental health reduced and basically mocked is not lashing out or scolding. Consider that if a person has reached the point of talking about it, they've probably been quiet about it a lot more often. So by the time they talked about it, they might be blunt to be clear, which I would say has not happened here in the relevant posts. Asking to have feelings considered is not the same as being immediately raging and attacking someone, which is how you're making it sound.
Remember this is intended to be a welcoming forum for many types of people who feel the world around them doesn't have any desire to listen to or understand them based on things about themselves that are out of their control. This forum tries to be more sensitive than the average community. What you might call political correctness, we tend to call basic respect.
Remember this is intended to be a welcoming forum for many types of people who feel the world around them doesn't have any desire to listen to or understand them based on things about themselves that are out of their control. This forum tries to be more sensitive than the average community. What you might call political correctness, we tend to call basic respect.
A person wishing to not have their mental health reduced and basically mocked is not lashing out or scolding. Consider that if a person has reached the point of talking about it, they've probably been quiet about it a lot more often. So by the time they talked about it, they might be blunt to be clear, which I would say has not happened here in the relevant posts. Asking to have feelings considered is not the same as being immediately raging and attacking someone, which is how you're making it sound.
Remember this is intended to be a welcoming forum for many types of people who feel the world around them doesn't have any desire to listen to or understand them based on things about themselves that are out of their control. This forum tries to be more sensitive than the average community. What you might call political correctness, we tend to call basic respect.
Well it's just a suggestion. I've seen too many discussions devolve into name calling and mutual loathing because everyone assumes the other person is ignorant and thin skinned. There are people with actual OCD and there are also people who are very self conscious and don't handle criticism very well. Should their neurosis be so easily dismissed? For the sake of peace it's best to handle these matters in a civil matter.
Taking pleasure in small, essentially pointless activities, is surely a life enhancing exercise.
Thank you for changing my perpsective. That is a very nice way of looking at it.
Your next challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to defend their habit of delightfully describing this habit as "so OCD." :roll:
By getting over it, and realizing you know and understand exactly what they mean by OCD so getting torqued that it isn't the exactly precise definition is actually just embarassing for you.
Also - recognizing that they're out running six miles a day while you're sitting on the internet complaining about their trivial word choices.
I wasn't even aware that Barns could fart!If a Gazebo can then why not a Barn?
... or playing hockey with brooms and expired baked goods.
If it is starbucks then it is Bagels. Those things are classified as lethal weapons even before they go stale. Building matereals once folly set though.... or playing hockey with brooms and expired baked goods.Muffin puck!
If it is starbucks then it is Bagels. Those things are classified as lethal weapons even before they go stale. Building matereals once folly set though.... or playing hockey with brooms and expired baked goods.Muffin puck!
Lashing out at people for their benign ignorance doesn't really you do any favors because either they will avoid you because they don't want you to take it the wrong way or they'll resent being scolded like a child and double down.I don't think there is such a thing as benign ignorance. That would mean that the ignorance is positively good.
You spelled behaviour with a u so I'm going to assume you're not from the states, but there is a growing backlash against political correctness here in America and I think it's in large part by how people have gone about correcting others.Because it's perfectly OK to resent being corrected without sufficient forelock-tugging and kowtowing, while entirely wrong to resent being addressed or talked about in a trivialising, insulting, excluding or otherwise unpleasant manner without a shred of courtesy... :roll:
Lashing out at people for their benign ignorance doesn't really you do any favors because either they will avoid you because they don't want you to take it the wrong way or they'll resent being scolded like a child and double down.I don't think there is such a thing as benign ignorance. That would mean that the ignorance is positively good.
Lashing out at people for their benign ignorance doesn't really you do any favors because either they will avoid you because they don't want you to take it the wrong way or they'll resent being scolded like a child and double down.I don't think there is such a thing as benign ignorance. That would mean that the ignorance is positively good.
So anyway, that's my opinion, but I'll loan it out to you if you like it.
If you make a mistake, accept being corrected gracefully, and move on.
You don't have to be terrified of accidentally offending someone. That just makes things awkward. If you make a mistake and dwell on it, that's even more awkward. Even worse is starting an argument defending ignorance or assuming you know better than someone with obviously more education and experience on an issue. Being corrected is ok, and it doesn't make you stupid or insensitive. Just learn, and move on.
Anyway, back to discussing the comic.
"Barn fart" looks to me like a typo for or mishearing of the phrase "brain fart". What do you think?
Is Renee really equating being pissed at her mom with someone's home burning down?No, she's simply making a point that he is crushing on Brun and won't admit it to himself.
This is last week's thread, guys.Is Renee really equating being pissed at her mom with someone's home burning down?No, she's simply making a point that he is crushing on Brun and won't admit it to himself.