I think I know which poll option is going to win. :-DYeah, but it's important to have options.
Penny was never employed at a pizza place, Pizza Girl was/is.:mrgreen: You can deny it all you want, we know that Penny is Pizza Girl.
Screw space stations, I want to work somewhere I get to dress up as a Victorian gent.
So many people voting Space Station :psyduck: Why? It requires a lot of exercise, you are locked up with the same 200 people or so and you cannot get out. Sure, the view is great, and you get bragging rights, but otherwise I fail to see the appeal.Lasers! (Hopefully not dye lasers, though)
As a (future) scientist, the only viable option for me is the space station. SPAAAAAAAAACE! (yes, that was a portal joke)
It does lack a certain atmosphere
But if he tips it over, how will it ever hold any more puns?Cesium already tipped it over, that's why it's sideways.
Screw space stations, I want to work somewhere I get to dress up as a Victorian gent.
*dances on the poll in a very erotic fashion**throws the quarters that Loki keeps demanding for the pun jar at GarandMarine*
No coins please.
So many people voting Space Station :psyduck: Why?Two words: Spathe. Ham.
It does lack a certain atmosphere, but I think I could make myself useful on the station. I'd volunteer for a lot of EVA window cleaning duty.A lot of stardust building up there. Your employment will be secure!
I have no such dignity, so I would be happy to be, e.g. a janitor on the space station or something. That'd be awesome. (It's about the only thing I would qualify for up there. Probably every other job involves literal rocket science.)Can you follow and memorize simple directions in English? If so I'll hire you as an assistant in my lab on the space station to help with running the lasers.
Source?
Penelope had a job at a bookstore being ogled by the manager.
Actually, that's a point; what do you suppose the CoD crew would do to him should he ever turn up? The place can't be too far away if penne-lope was stopping there on her way home….
I also picked the space station, since I consider myself as a future scientist, too. I'm surprised so few people picked CoD, though. That would definitely have been my second option. Or maybe the library.
As for Jim and Veronica: I sort of don't see that happen. And that has absolutely nothing to do with age difference. I mean, how would they happen to meet if Marten does not want to participate in setting them up (which I in his situation certainly would not do).
..., although being a theoretical physicist, there's not really any reason for me to be in space other than the cool factor.
Edit: Fixed typo.
Come to think of it, though, microgravity might not be the best for skirt-wearing, and I do so very much enjoy skirts. Perhaps I should reconsider.
I do not see any incompatibility between zero gravity and skirts. :evil:Come to think of it, though, microgravity might not be the best for skirt-wearing, and I do so very much enjoy skirts. Perhaps I should reconsider.The residential areas are spun up, at least. Even if you did something experimental, the only lab we saw seemed to be as well.
That aside Martinmom is B. awesome.I have to disagree with that. It's going to take several dozen more positive appearances, or at least some regret, for me to forgive her conduct after The Breakup.
*dances on the poll in a very erotic fashion**Chucks shredded and supercompressed dollar bills*
No coins please.
Why does Claire think Veronica is really nice?
Jeph is asking on Twitter what the verb is for what a dominatrix does.Dominate? Suddenly I have a flash of a Dalek in a leather bikini shouting "Dom-in-ate! Dom-in-ATE! Dom-IN-ATE! DOM-IN-ATE!"
Not that I know anything at all about the dynamics of a BDSM/vanilla mixed relationships (assuming he is v.) as pretty much the sum total of my knowledge of BDSM comes from Wikipedia and listening to Dan Savage.
I think I can guess the panel for the next QC Captions entry. :-D
Everyone knows about the Microsoft Dalek, right?
Veronica's first meeting with Claire was a bit too overbearing for me to have considered it "very nice" had I been in Claire's place. Maybe when they were offscreen she saw the other side of her personality. We saw that side when VV was quite gentlemanly to Faye except for the threat.
Claire also spent a good bit of that visit making friends with scotch. That may have tinted her view a bit!If they became friends, it's a pretty abusive relationship.
A rom-com...where the female is an ex-dominatrix, looking to retire?!SHE is a dominatrix trying to get out of the field. HE is a bakery owner. THEY FIGHT CRIME.
Michelle Morgan is way too young! What about Marisa Tomei?Future proofing. It could take years to get this project off the ground and we want someone who can stick around for a few seasons at least.
Well, then you thought wrong and shall be punished appropriately :xMore like PUN-ished, amirite?
The only reason for this gag is to embarrass Marten, which it seems to be succeeding in doing. I see absolutely no likelihood of it happening.
An Internet weighs about as much as a strawberry.
Not a valid youtube URL
Of course, this way Marten gets to call Jim "Dad III; Vengeance"
(I am not. I lift the tipped pun jar, and put in 3 internets)But... but I already replaced it with a pun box. I gave it a lid and everything!
Comments like that could be job-endingly bad for Tai if Claire complains.
Emily you cannot possibly be THAT oblivious. :psyduck:
Comments like that could be job-endingly bad for Tai if Claire complains.Given the comic's title today, don't you mean "if Claire dies"?
Never underestimate a character trait that exists for the sake of comedy like Emilys obliviousness.Emily you cannot possibly be THAT oblivious. :psyduck:
We know Emily's a cloud cuckoolander. We know she's so oblivious that she's aware of anime tropes and such, yet doesn't know what anime is.
Also, time to overanalyze panel #3. Is Claire taken aback by Tai propositioning one of her employees for another employee, or is Claire taken aback by Marten being one of those employees?
Also I'm surprised nobody has pointed Claire's shocked expression in reply of Tai's question. I thought that would be a great deal for all the Claire/Marten shippers. But I doubt that it means anything like that. I would have the same expression in her place…Sometimes that warning message is actually pertinent. Look one post up.
Damn, something's definitely wrong with the hosting of this comic. It took me now ten hours to read today's comic and enter the forum.
Damn, something's definitely wrong with the hosting of this comic. It took me now ten hours to read today's comic and enter the forum. I was able to open the forum for a short time in between, but only the main page, I couldn't load any of the subforums. I sincerely hope that this post will come through…
Pings and TCP connections time out all the time, on both domains, questionablecontent.net and forums.questionablecontent.net. I'm surprised nobody seems to have these problems, as the problem occured device and ISP independent here. Not even webproxies or VPN helped…
The CloudFlare caching service that the comic (and forum, as it's on the same server) uses has had problems at multiple nodes of its infrastructure today. There were two hours when I couldn't connect at all. Their status page (https://www.cloudflare.com/system-status) still shows service degradation at a number of their nodes, including Frankfurt.
So I wasn't the only one who had trouble with accessing from Germany today.
Is this a problem specific to Germany?
Also I'm surprised nobody has pointed Claire's shocked expression in reply of Tai's question. I thought that would be a great deal for all the Claire/Marten shippers.I am a shipper but I doubt it happening so I no longer hope it happens.
Newark was the epicentre of their problems, I understand.Different Newark, I suspect - not the one in Ohio. ;)
cat in a tubeI don't think this implementation of the protocol allows for an easy three-way-handshake. :-D
Emily you cannot possibly be THAT oblivious. :psyduck:De-lurking to note the same question was asked repeatedly about Padma.
But which is more frighteningI think that if Emily does get it, she's covering for the fact that she is extremely socially awkward. People are more likely to forgive social gaffes if they think you're five beers short of a six pack than if they think you're on top of things and are offensive unintentionally.
The thought that Emily is that oblivious, or that she gets it and acts that oblivious.
And was Claire having a wishful thinking moment there?!
Newark, New Jersey: Part of the New York City metropolitan area (so a lot of stuff that needs to be near NYC, but needs to be cheaper, goes there).I grew up 15 minutes from there.
I'm beginning to think that Emily must have been an Irish setter in a previous life, because as dogs go Irish setters are the happiest, friendliest and most extraordinarily goofy of all.
If Emily had picked up her ancestral culture it would be plausible that she deliberately misunderstood in order to avoid a confrontation and then adroitly picked a double-entendre to flirt but have plausible deniability about it.
Not for an instant do I think that's what happened.
As for Claire's expressions, I honestly believe that Claire has no interest in being anything to Marten but his friend. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been so mortified by the cuddling incident, worrying that Marten might think she was interested in him because of it.
... or coming out of his cloaca
Happy Fourth of July to US forumites!
No laws apply in Yelling Bird's universe. He would be in jail if they did.
Mass is conserved, and Yelling Bird isn't getting any bigger, so they must be going somewhere.
That would be... hmmmm.... maybe she just wants us to think she's totally out of it, but is in fact in complete control of the situation, picking and choosing her words and behaviors to maximize her personal amusement and the confusion of others. Which would in fact make her the God Queen of Troll Kind.
We're talking the sub species Trollicus 4chanicus here Borde.
Cloaca is a humorous word.
And now, my traditional July 4th post:
"Good morning. Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world, and you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. Mankind, that word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences any more. We will be united in our common interest. Perhaps it's fate that today is the 4th of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom. Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution, but from annihilation. We're fighting for our right to live, to exist�and should we win the day, the 4th of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice, 'We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on, we're going to survive.' Today we celebrate our independence day!"
President Thomas Whitmore
July 4th, 1996
This feels contrived.Yes, I regret to say, it does.
The first hit in the actual Google search... is the Secret Bakery entry in the QC Wikia page. :)But the picture of Jim isn't the least bit cute . .
Ms. Vance permanently joining the cast in Northampton, MA would be the funniest thing ever. :-DYou and me have a different definition of funny. I shall be awaiting you at midday before the saloon doors.
A never-ending shitstorm of embarrassment and humiliation for Marten without a doubt, but still funny as hell. :evil:
Shipping. Well, if a pairing is realistic for the characters as written, and in the situation they are in, then it may well be reasonable to discuss. But the use of any portmanteau to describe a pairing is a big, big warning sign that offensive trivialisation is in play.
I think Jeph is doing a great job of poking at the shippers. ;-)
It seems Jeph is still logged in on google plus seeing we can see ph as last letters of the username.
Yes, he is…
All aboard the "Marten/Emily"!
I'd be curious as to what was making more than one person think of pairing us up more than just what he looked like.
I think Jeph is doing a great job of poking at the shippers. ;-)
On the bright side Veronica seems to be looking a lot younger these days. Clearly toyboys are good for the skin.Every time Veronica appears, she looks younger. Check out
I'd be curious as to what was making more than one person think of pairing us up more than just what he looked like.
This happen to you often?
she almost looks like just a slightly larger Dora (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=437).This occurred to me too. A little "work", a few work-outs, and a good hairdresser...
It'll all go wrong when she decides she does not wish to be a stepmother.
It'll all go wrong when she decides she does not wish to be a stepmother.
That, or she simply doesn't understand the basic give and take of a good relationship. She is a dominant personality.
The problem she will run into, even with her one night stands will be if her would be conquests get even a wiff of desperation from her. What makes her attractive, beyond her physical beauty, is het aura of self confidence. A hint that she is not as confident as she seemed will undermine that.
Also, what could sabotage a relationship with Jim would be a refusal to let her defenses down, to be at least a little vulnerable.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. This may amount to nothing. I am interested to see it play out, one way or the other.
I'm trying to imagine what it would be like for a rebellious teen to rebel against Ms. Reed.
I'm trying to imagine what it would be like for a rebellious teen to rebel against Ms. Reed.
Which all reminds me of a very old and very terrible joke:
Q. How does Veronica keep her youth?(click to show/hide)
I know some folks say the possible Veronica /Jim romance seems contrived. I respectfully disagree.
Veronica admitted to Marten back right after the breakup that she was lousy at relationships.
We know Mrs. Reed is more than capable from a sexual standpoint. She works as a professional dominatrix and can pick up men less than half her age for one night stands. Her problem is that she has no idea how to be in a healthy long term relationship, and at 57 is terrified of being alone. She is a beautiful attractive woman who has remained a "player" well into he fifties, but wether her fears are founded or not, she thinks she's running out of time to find someone to share her life with. She admitted at the wedding that she had no idea how to have a normal relationship and that everyone she knew was into the "scene".
I think that she's so afraid of being rejected if she goes out and tries it on her own that she's paralyzed and won't act on her own.
Enter her son, calling about a possible prospect. Suddenly, she's not on her own. Marten has suggested someone for her to date, even if it was in a dismissive way. Veronica can feel safe trying to date Jim because it wasn't entirely her idea. If it all goes pear shaped, Marten is partially to blame, even if only a little.
That frees her up to try, where before, she couldn't for fear of a failure that would have been all her fault.
Mind this not a concious thought process on her part. But I think it explains why out of the myriad of possibilities she has, she's going to fly back to Northampton and attempt to romance a man mentioned in a casual conversation with her son.
My $.02.
That sounds kind of judgmental. Is it intended to be so?
Sam's well past the age where she'd need/desire an extra parent in the full sense of the term most likely. So I don't think that's really a consideration. I have no doubt that Sam would appreciate another woman around besides our favorite staff of sassy baristas to get life advice from, and Veronica certainly isn't shy about giving advice when asked, but it wouldn't be "parenting" in the involved sense of raising your offspring for 18 or so years.
Ah, right, I've heard of people talking about vanilla Android. But vanilla ice cream doesn't make sense, because how is it unmodified? It has vanilla in it!
It is in a way the most ordinary ice cream.
So vanilla sex is any sex that involves a vagina?It is in a way the most ordinary ice cream.
Reminder that the saying has nothing to do with actual ice cream:
"Vainilla is from the diminutive of vaina, from the Latin vagina (sheath) to describe the way the pod must be split open to expose the seeds."
The same could be said for yourself and Veronica, or almost any of us for that matter....
So vanilla sex is any sex that involves a vagina?
Try this - NSFW (http://docs.google.com/View?id=dd6tvmz9_8gqqsnwf6)
So vanilla sex is any sex that involves a vagina?
In the same sense that one might say "Intercourse in the missionary position for the purpose of reproduction" to describe lack of variety from what is common. Not literally that.
Try this - NSFW (http://docs.google.com/View?id=dd6tvmz9_8gqqsnwf6)
No, 4chan doesn't rage, it engages in mock horror at the perversion of consensual heterosexual sex in the missionary position. It's sometimes surprising how a mass of nameless and anarchic individuals can invoke the same false attitude for the sake of comedy without any breaking character.It's hilarious to request in ERP circles though, or on 4chan, so much rage.So vanilla sex is any sex that involves a vagina?In the same sense that one might say "Intercourse in the missionary position for the purpose of reproduction" to describe lack of variety from what is common. Not literally that.
This is a forum, not a dating service! Although, the last ice cream I had before reading it was cake batter, which hits way too close at the moment. At least it wasn't the 4chan definition of cake.
My favorite ice cream (strawberry) matches me surprisingly well.
Try this - NSFW (http://docs.google.com/View?id=dd6tvmz9_8gqqsnwf6)
My favorite ice cream (strawberry) matches me surprisingly well
If you're lactose-intolerant, you're a prude. :-D
Last ice cream I had was maple walnut, which isn't even close to anything on the list. You be the judge.
If you're lactose-intolerant, you're a prude. :-DConsidering that about 98% of the Thai population is lactose-intolerant, that seems unlikely.
Drinking another species's milk in adulthood is a little weird biologically.Drinking your own species's milk in adulthood is what's weird. Why would drinking another species's milk be weirder than eating its muscles?
IITCIHGoogle and UD were useless.
Hell, even if it ca't, we'll find a way...
Seriously? That sucks.In much of the world, and certainly in East and South East Asia, it is the continued ability to digest lactose beyond childhood that is unusual. You milk-drinkers are the mutants. Literally (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase_persistence). I am lactose-intolerant, as are about 95% of Chinese people. Ice-cream lovers of the world should consider themselves fortunate that they don't have to compete with with us!
I'm sorry to hear that you are lactose intolerant.It's no big. When you come from a culture where nearly everybody is lactose-intolerant, traditional dietary habits are different. And if I go with friends to an ice-cream place, I simply order a "gelato", which, in Australia, means an Italian-style water-ice.