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Title: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 02 Mar 2014, 21:47
Somewhere, Dale is doing a dance, and doesn't know why.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: HauntingPoem on 02 Mar 2014, 22:24
They are now linked in a way that defies all known physics and reality, the dance of the booty!
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Loki on 02 Mar 2014, 22:42
Oh, so entanglement is actually about limbs? :-D
Why, this certainly explains why people find quantum physics so interesting.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: St.Clair on 02 Mar 2014, 22:49
That you certainly do, Mare, that you certainly do.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Near Lurker on 02 Mar 2014, 23:01
Jeez, Angus, is this the first time you've met a dude let down by a one-night stand?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Loki on 02 Mar 2014, 23:03
In other news, Dina from Dumbing of Age joins Marbear in her dance (http://itswalky.tumblr.com/post/78413719726/jephjacques-so-cute-ahljghzlguhulghagl).
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Akima on 03 Mar 2014, 00:40
Jeez, Angus, is this the first time you've met a dude let down by a one-night stand?
Maybe it's the first time he cared, as opposed to enjoying it for the lulz?

Dance, Marigold, until your shoes file a restraining order.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Thrillho on 03 Mar 2014, 00:44
Yes, Marigold, especially in that frame, you DO got some booty.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: cesariojpn on 03 Mar 2014, 00:57
Wait, wouldn't Dale technically be getting booty, and Marigold getting some cock/sex?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Thrillho on 03 Mar 2014, 01:03
You're being too technical. 'Booty' is a general slang term for sex. You can have people you know who are 'booty calls' because you meet up to fuck them.

Saying that, your thought also only works if we are to assume that Dale fucked her in the ass, which... you know, more power to him, but seems unlikely for a first real date, eh?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: techkid on 03 Mar 2014, 02:22
Marbear is proof positive that anyone can eventually find happiness. You earned the right to dance, missy!

Oh, so entanglement is actually about limbs? :-D
Why, this certainly explains why people find quantum physics so interesting.

There certainly was plenty of entanglement between the two otherwise distant bodies the other week! :parrot:  Of that, I am not uncertain :D

I regret nothing!
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 03 Mar 2014, 02:23
Gareth: I assume that's a technical term? ;)

Onto our early polling results:

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Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: cesariojpn on 03 Mar 2014, 04:29
Saying that, your thought also only works if we are to assume that Dale fucked her in the ass, which... you know, more power to him, but seems unlikely for a first real date, eh?

I thought their first real date was more of the "shotgun date" Momo forced them into?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Thrillho on 03 Mar 2014, 04:45
Anal on a second date/first time having sex also seems pretty unlikely, albeit not impossible ;)
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Storel on 03 Mar 2014, 04:55
Not impossible, no, but I'm pretty sure Dale is not that kind of guy. And that Marigold is not that kind of gal, for that matter.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: NilsO on 03 Mar 2014, 05:21
They are now linked in a way that defies all known physics and reality, the dance of the booty!
Quantum entanglement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement) is also known as "spooky action at a distance". Meaning, somewhere (probably at CoD) Dale is now helplessly dancing behind the counter. As a rookie, he probably is not alone on duty. I imagine Dora is there with him, after Faye's shift ended. Dora and the customers are probably applauding, making Dale dance even more, and poor, entangled Marigold must follow suit. Eventually, they will both collapse from exhaustion.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: cesium133 on 03 Mar 2014, 05:54
They are now linked in a way that defies all known physics and reality, the dance of the booty!
Their actions that morning have collapsed their wavefunctions into the same energy level. Thus, when Marigold performs the action of dancing, Faye and Angus can assume that, given that Dale is in the same energy level, Dale is also dancing.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: themacnut on 03 Mar 2014, 06:44
Jeez, Angus, is this the first time you've met a dude let down by a one-night stand?

Most guys would be reluctant to admit to other guys that they were let down by a one-night stand, mainly because of the reaction coming from Angus. So even aside from the fact that many guys would just be happy they had sex (especially if it's been awhile), I can believe this is the first time Angus has heard another guy express disappointment.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Schmorgluck on 03 Mar 2014, 06:48
Not impossible, no, but I'm pretty sure Dale is not that kind of guy. And that Marigold is not that kind of gal, for that matter.
There are no kinds in these matters. Only innumerable variations.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: snubnose on 03 Mar 2014, 07:34
For the record, I'm a dude and I never needed to "try" ONS to know they arent for me.

I dont think Marten was really going for an ONS, either. Its only natural he's disappointed that it turned out to be one.


Marbear is proof positive that anyone can eventually find happiness.
We can find it, just not permanently.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Thrillho on 03 Mar 2014, 07:39
>_>
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Drunken Old Man on 03 Mar 2014, 08:08
For the record, I'm a dude and I never needed to "try" ONS to know they arent for me.

I dont think Marten was really going for an ONS, either. Its only natural he's disappointed that it turned out to be one.

Agreed.  I think if Marten had known up front that the sex would lead to nothing, he wouldn't have bothered.  Some guys just aren't built to "hit it and quit it".  Indeed, I doubt that a person who WAS built that way would have so many devoted female friends, since a certain  lack of respect for one's partners is implied in such an attitude.

Marbear is proof positive that anyone can eventually find happiness.
We can find it, just not permanently.

Also agreed but only for certain values of "happy".  Permanent happiness on the level that Dale and Marigold are enjoying right now is not only impossible but would be unhealthy IF possible. Human minds and bodies are not designed to maintain such strong emotions, positive or not, for prolonged periods.

Lower baseline emotions...more of a general "happy" or "contentment"...certainly can be maintained for longer periods, interrupted occasionally by annoyance or tragedy or even good fortune, but always returning to base "content" status.

Of course, even this isn't permanent.  Nothing is when dealing with mortal beings.

On another note, I am glad to see that Faye is beginning to see Marten's growing discontent.  Now that I know that she is aware there's a problem, I am confident that she'll find some way to cheer him up soon..though Angus appears to be little help in that.

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Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: HauntingPoem on 03 Mar 2014, 08:59
Not impossible, no, but I'm pretty sure Dale is not that kind of guy. And that Marigold is not that kind of gal, for that matter.

I have to agree with you there. Although surprises do happen on occasion. This does make me question exactly what they used the pancake syrup for.... or maybe i'm just a perv.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Pilchard123 on 03 Mar 2014, 09:38
Quantum entanglement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement) is also known as "spooky action at a distance".

Spookybutt action at a distance?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Mr_Rose on 03 Mar 2014, 10:21
Anal on a second date/first time having sex also seems pretty unlikely, albeit not impossible ;)
Depends on their attitude to certain things; I am given to understand that certain regional cultures place such an emphasis on waiting for marriage (to have vaginal sex) that the younger set have taken to using anal sex as a "technically legal" substitute before marriage. Similarly, there are folks that use anal sex as a form of contraception since, again for cultural reasons, they are reluctant to use more, ah (I was gonna say intrusive, but…), artificial means to prevent pregnancy.
No idea what they do about STIs though.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Socky on 03 Mar 2014, 10:24
Some guys just aren't built to "hit it and quit it".

Cause them punks like to hit it and quit it
And Marten'd rather stay and play...
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Kugai on 03 Mar 2014, 11:22
A POLL

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Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Redball on 03 Mar 2014, 11:28
Depends on their attitude to certain things; I am given to understand that certain regional cultures place such an emphasis on waiting for marriage (to have vaginal sex) that the younger set have taken to using anal sex as a "technically legal" substitute before marriage.
Audio NSFW.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Schmorgluck on 03 Mar 2014, 11:52
Indeed, I doubt that a person who WAS built that way would have so many devoted female friends, since a certain  lack of respect for one's partners is implied in such an attitude.
I don't see how there's a lack of respect, if said partners are on the same page.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: marsman57 on 03 Mar 2014, 11:57
Depends on their attitude to certain things; I am given to understand that certain regional cultures place such an emphasis on waiting for marriage (to have vaginal sex) that the younger set have taken to using anal sex as a "technically legal" substitute before marriage.
Audio NSFW.

Right at the climax of the video I realized the dark haired girl is the girl Raj dated on The Big Bang Theory.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: FunkyTuba on 03 Mar 2014, 12:22
Garfunkel and Oates  FTW!
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Storel on 03 Mar 2014, 14:14
Not impossible, no, but I'm pretty sure Dale is not that kind of guy. And that Marigold is not that kind of gal, for that matter.
There are no kinds in these matters. Only innumerable variations.

Fair enough; I could have worded that better. I wasn't trying to imply that either Dale or Marigold falls into a particular "type" (unless "someone who doesn't want to have anal sex on the first date" can be considered a type), just that I don't think either of them would want to try that on the first date, based on what I know about their personalities. I'm not sure Marigold would want to try it at all, honestly.

Depends on their attitude to certain things; I am given to understand that certain regional cultures place such an emphasis on waiting for marriage (to have vaginal sex) that the younger set have taken to using anal sex as a "technically legal" substitute before marriage.
Audio NSFW.

Excellent point, Mr_Rose, and Redball chose the perfect song to illustrate and explain that point of view. I really should have thought of that -- I've seen that video before! (And found it hilarious.) However, I just don't get the impression that either Marigold or Dale were brought up that way.

Right at the climax of the video I realized the dark haired girl is the girl Raj dated on The Big Bang Theory.

She also appeared on Scrubs, where she and one of the regular male cast members sang a duet called, on TV, "Screw You." (The actual title as recorded by Garfunkel & Oates contained one of those words you can't say on television -- at least not during prime time.  8-)) You can find it on YouTube.

Garfunkel and Oates  FTW!

Yes!  :-D
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Coffee_Kaioken on 03 Mar 2014, 18:02
^ She also appeared on How I Met Your Mother as a marriage clerk (I think season 2 when Marshall & Lily were rushing to get married).

Ugh, I should've been on the boards in time to make that reference (the Garfunkel and Oates video). I saw them in a concert once.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: cesium133 on 03 Mar 2014, 20:46
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: celticgeek on 03 Mar 2014, 20:50
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang!  And the Southern accent goes down the tubes.

"By the pricking of my thumb, something wicked this way comes."
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: mustang6172 on 03 Mar 2014, 20:54
I'd like to think Marigold was brushing her teeth when she heard the screaming and instinctively knew it was because Faye said, "Wicked."
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 03 Mar 2014, 21:01
I started using wicked after like a week in New Hampshire (and I only lived there for three months). I'll still use it sometimes because why not.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Platypodes on 03 Mar 2014, 21:17
Jeez, Angus, is this the first time you've met a dude let down by a one-night stand?

Most guys would be reluctant to admit to other guys that they were let down by a one-night stand, mainly because of the reaction coming from Angus. So even aside from the fact that many guys would just be happy they had sex (especially if it's been awhile), I can believe this is the first time Angus has heard another guy express disappointment.
Thank you, that was a helpful perspective.  I was having the same thought as Near Lurker since I've heard lots of dudes express more or less the same feelings as Marten...  But I'm not a dude, so they probably feel more comfortable saying it to me.

Anal on a second date/first time having sex also seems pretty unlikely, albeit not impossible ;)
Depends on their attitude to certain things; I am given to understand that certain regional cultures place such an emphasis on waiting for marriage (to have vaginal sex) that the younger set have taken to using anal sex as a "technically legal" substitute before marriage. Similarly, there are folks that use anal sex as a form of contraception since, again for cultural reasons, they are reluctant to use more, ah (I was gonna say intrusive, but…), artificial means to prevent pregnancy.
No idea what they do about STIs though.
Cultures in which people aren't comfortable with condoms and expect everyone to stay virgin till marriage usually aren't very good at educating their young folks about STIs and other sexual health matters.  The technical-virgin bum-fuckers probably don't do anything about STI's except catch them.  :-(

Given how insufferably smug both of them are about having gotten laid, I'm pretty sure the last thing Marigold or Dale would've wanted was to retain any kind of technical virginity.

And, yeah, I'd agree that two shy virgins who were still fumbling with things like how to put on a condom probably didn't have anal.  Even if they're both interested in doing anal eventually, they would've found it too intimidating for the first time.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 03 Mar 2014, 21:18
insufferably smug
Because they're doing a booty dance? (In Dale's case it was a booty hover, but still)
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: GarandMarine on 03 Mar 2014, 21:24
I use wicked all the time... it's not a mainstay of my speech pattern but it's there. I have spent a grand total of two weeks in Maine outside of traveling/vacations, and the entire time I was in Maine I had 0 contact with the locals.

I'm right with you guys on the whole one night stand thing. Angus is being kinda shitty here. In fact everyone's being kinda shitty here as previously discussed. Depression aside I'm usually a pretty cheery dude for an introvert. I've experienced enough of the sex to know what my partners like and what I like, and what I don't like is one night stands. They don't do anything for me. It's just not good nookie. I'd rather go eat a cookie. Or see my bookie.


I'll stop now.

Any way. One night stands not being fun does not immediately mean un-fun Marten friend is king of the suck and fail. Just means they aren't for him.


Thought. This may have actually been Marten's first one night stand. As I recall he was with Ol'whatshername most of HS, then he moved out here and got dumped, wallowed, met Pintsize, met Steve and was pretty much solo till he ended up with Dora. Might have been some dates here and there but that doesn't mean he sealed the deal, and as we just saw, Marten is to being smooth like a sand blaster at full power is to gentle exfoliation...
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 03 Mar 2014, 21:25
Ol' whats her name was in college (and if I remember correctly just the last few months of college), but I'm pretty sure you're right about it being his first one night stand.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: GarandMarine on 03 Mar 2014, 21:31
Oh right. College. Not HS. Beg pardon good netizens.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: celticgeek on 03 Mar 2014, 21:36
Vicky, in college. (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=0252)
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Platypodes on 03 Mar 2014, 21:56
insufferably smug
Because they're doing a booty dance? (In Dale's case it was a booty hover, but still)
In Dale's case, I was thinking of this (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2642).  As for Marigold, yeah, now that you say it, I can see that she might just be providing some vocal accompaniment to her booty dance.  I initially read "I got some booty, I got some booty" as a singsong chant (same tone as nyeah nyeah-nyeah nyeah nyeah), but if I picture it sung in a different way, it stops sounding smug.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Loki on 03 Mar 2014, 22:00
Question: Is it still that noticeable from one word where in the USA somebody hails from in the day and age of the Internet? I know some of us did a test which was linked on Neko's Facebook profile and was supposed to tell you where you are from based on the regional words you use. Mine showed up as mixed parts from New York, Honolulu and Frisco, I think.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: hedgie on 03 Mar 2014, 22:05
"Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco," which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of a High Misdemeanor, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars."  -- Emperor Joshua Norton of the United States and Protector of Mexico.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: KOK on 03 Mar 2014, 23:32
Wikipedia knows no less than nine towns and/or cities named Frisco. Also a bridge and a railway depot.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 03 Mar 2014, 23:33
You're probably less likely to use regional slang on the internet than you are when talking with local friends.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Loki on 03 Mar 2014, 23:41
An abbreviation for San Francisco, used as such in e.g. the book "The Cruise of the Dazzler", brought to you by Jack London, who in turn is mostly known for "White Fang".
TL;DR: take it up with dead classics :P
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: St.Clair on 03 Mar 2014, 23:57
I'd like to think Marigold was brushing her teeth when she heard the screaming and instinctively knew it was because Faye said, "Wicked."

"That is the sound of wicked suffering."
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: KOK on 04 Mar 2014, 00:02

Thought. This may have actually been Marten's first one night stand. As I recall he was with Ol'whatshername most of HS, then he moved out here and got dumped, wallowed, met Pintsize, met Steve and was pretty much solo till he ended up with Dora. Might have been some dates here and there but that doesn't mean he sealed the deal, and as we just saw, Marten is to being smooth like a sand blaster at full power is to gentle exfoliation...

There was Padma. But that does not invalidate your point.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: NilsO on 04 Mar 2014, 00:08
Apart from the wicked sidetrack, it appears Angus has plans for Marten. Last time, it involved fancy clothes and getting wicked drunk (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1425). I would guess Angus has some other idea this time, but it probably will be some kind of male bonding, and alcohol will in all probability be consumed.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: cesariojpn on 04 Mar 2014, 00:51
Wikipedia knows no less than nine towns and/or cities named Frisco. Also a bridge and a railway depot.

And the nickname of an actual fallen flag (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_flag) railroad. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis%E2%80%93San_Francisco_Railway)
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Schmorgluck on 04 Mar 2014, 00:55
Thought. This may have actually been Marten's first one night stand. As I recall he was with Ol'whatshername most of HS, then he moved out here and got dumped, wallowed, met Pintsize, met Steve and was pretty much solo till he ended up with Dora. Might have been some dates here and there but that doesn't mean he sealed the deal, and as we just saw, Marten is to being smooth like a sand blaster at full power is to gentle exfoliation...
There was Padma. But that does not invalidate your point.
I understood GM's post as speaking of the time between Vicky and the beginning of the story.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Storel on 04 Mar 2014, 01:19
I use wicked all the time... it's not a mainstay of my speech pattern but it's there. I have spent a grand total of two weeks in Maine outside of traveling/vacations, and the entire time I was in Maine I had 0 contact with the locals.

I use it occasionally, but can't remember where I picked it up. Been living in California since I was four. Spent several days somewhere on Cape Cod (Falmouth?) for a business trip a long time ago, but don't remember the natives saying "wicked" like that.

Didn't Steve Jobs use to describe things as "wicked fast" or "wicked cool" or something like that? I may have gotten it from him. I was a Mac owner for a long time back in the '90s.

Vicky, in college. (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=0252)

Actually, I believe that's Vicky after graduating college and moving back home to Northampton, no?

"Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco," which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of a High Misdemeanor, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars."  -- Emperor Joshua Norton of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

Haha, great quote. I never heard that particular one before, and I've lived in San Francisco most of my life. Can't say I'm too familiar with the Quotations of Emperor Norton, although I've certainly heard of him.

An abbreviation for San Francisco, used as such in e.g. the book "The Cruise of the Dazzler", brought to you by Jack London, who in turn is mostly known for "White Fang".

For White Fang (http://www.amazon.com/White-Fang-Jack-London/dp/1492320773/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1393924225&sr=1-5), The Call of the Wild (http://www.amazon.com/Call-Wild-Jack-London/dp/1629100110/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1393924225&sr=1-1), and The Sea Wolf (http://www.amazon.com/Sea-Wolf-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486411087/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1393924225&sr=1-10), I'd say. I read the first two as a kid and The Sea Wolf in a high school English class. I've never heard of The Cruise of the Dazzler, though; how did you run across it?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: KOK on 04 Mar 2014, 01:19
I like the black background. It underlines her panic.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: pwhodges on 04 Mar 2014, 01:40
Didn't Steve Jobs use to describe things as "wicked fast" or "wicked cool" or something like that? I may have gotten it from him. I was a Mac owner for a long time back in the '90s.

Did every Mac come with a copy of Steve Jobs?  It seems I missed out by going the PC route!
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: snubnose on 04 Mar 2014, 02:02
Did every Mac come with a copy of Steve Jobs?  It seems I missed out by going the PC route!
They tried to sell a copy of Bill Gates with Windows PCs, but nobody liked this addition much.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: snubnose on 04 Mar 2014, 02:06
There was Padma. But that does not invalidate your point.
Padma and Marten was kind of not such a happy relationship. But just because it was short doesnt mean it really was a ONS - i.e. met one day, separated the next day again. Also, if memory serves, I think they had at least two times they got carnal with each other.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Zebediah on 04 Mar 2014, 04:03
As they say in Boston: wicked pissah awesome.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: KOK on 04 Mar 2014, 04:22
There was Padma. But that does not invalidate your point.
Padma and Marten was kind of not such a happy relationship. But just because it was short doesnt mean it really was a ONS - i.e. met one day, separated the next day again. Also, if memory serves, I think they had at least two times they got carnal with each other.

My impression was that it was more than that.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Neko_Ali on 04 Mar 2014, 07:36
Question: Is it still that noticeable from one word where in the USA somebody hails from in the day and age of the Internet? I know some of us did a test which was linked on Neko's Facebook profile and was supposed to tell you where you are from based on the regional words you use. Mine showed up as mixed parts from New York, Honolulu and Frisco, I think.

Ummm.. I'm guessing that's Nekowafer? I do some of those personality tests for fun on my facebook too, but they tend to be more geek oriented than that... It just gets confusing when people say 'Neko' here, because there are two of us. I should probably start using my other internet handle here to get rid of confusion....
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Zuli_Muli on 04 Mar 2014, 07:36
wait when did I miss the scar on Faye's boob?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Barmymoo on 04 Mar 2014, 08:04
It's a pretty crucial plot point, she got it when she tried to kill herself due to the trauma of her dad's suicide.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Srxjo on 04 Mar 2014, 08:39
It's a pretty crucial plot point, she got it when she tried to kill herself due to the trauma of her dad's suicide.

Wait, it was confirmed she was trying to kill herself, i seem to recall she mentions blacking out or something when driving and that it may or may not of been her attempting suicide but she wasn't sure or not, but knowing me i'm probably remembering incorrectly
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 04 Mar 2014, 09:18
That's what I was thinking too, Srxjo. She may have subconsciously wanted to die but I don't think it was an outright suicide attempt.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Zuli_Muli on 04 Mar 2014, 09:25
that's right I forgot about the explanation, thanks for the refresher
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 04 Mar 2014, 09:35
She said a couple of times that nobody was sure. She told her therapist "may or may not have tried to kill myself" in strip 649.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Barmymoo on 04 Mar 2014, 09:52
Fair enough, the point is that's the accident it happened in :)
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Shjade on 04 Mar 2014, 10:34
Question: Is it still that noticeable from one word where in the USA somebody hails from in the day and age of the Internet? I know some of us did a test which was linked on Neko's Facebook profile and was supposed to tell you where you are from based on the regional words you use. Mine showed up as mixed parts from New York, Honolulu and Frisco, I think.

Not sure. I found the quiz you mentioned, though, and my favorite bit was when I responded in such a way that the entire USA map turned blue, meaning, "No one talks like that. Ever. What is wrong with you."

(It was for saying "I would only use 'diagonal' for that" with regard to persons on opposing corners of an intersection.)

Edit: the quiz ultimately ended up getting my area spot on...though apparently the "most distinctive" answers to determine it were "firefly" and "crawdad," which makes me wonder how much it would've changed if I'd said "crawfish" or "crayfish" instead (I honestly had to think about that one for a while, since I don't really talk about those much in general; been years since I've said any of those words at all, wasn't entirely sure what was most accurate). A lot of the more "standard conversation" answers I gave were either common across 90% of the states or uncommon everywhere, so...I dunno. Maybe?

I dunno. I'm pretty sure I've heard "wicked" used as an adjective in my non-New England area, but it would more likely be "sick."
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Thrudd on 04 Mar 2014, 10:52
And the nickname of an actual fallen flag (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_flag) railroad. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis%E2%80%93San_Francisco_Railway)
For shame. That is a bad as saying RIP in Peace. - this message copied and forwarded to you by the back up office for redundant ministry of redundancies and redundant duplication

There was Padma. But that does not invalidate your point.

Now I may be wrong here. I know, it is very rare but there may have been one occasion in the past.

Padme and Marten went into their relationship with two separate view going in.
Padme - short term fling with no restrictions, expectations or obligations - her outlook changed at the end
Marten - wanted more but changed his outlook and decided to make the best of what was dealt and share what little time they had together positively

Is Padme ever coming back? That all depends on the great hand of the narrator setting things moving in that direction once again.

[begin - idle speculation]
Padme went back to look after her mom. We know it was something medical but no details about the nature or the severity.
M - Our first factor is how long mom will need her around.
R - The second factor is if Padme sets root back home with mom and how strong those roots become.
H - Third would be how strong are her ties to the people back here.
D - Fourth would be how strong is her wanting to distance herself from her memories of her mom during the last days.
Stay = M ( R ) and Go = ( H + D ) / M
[end - idle speculation]
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Barmymoo on 04 Mar 2014, 10:54
To continue the noble tradition of nomular pedantry in the forum - Padma.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: KOK on 04 Mar 2014, 11:21
As far as I remember, Padma went back to take care of her grandmother.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Thrudd on 04 Mar 2014, 11:26
Gah - My typing dyslexia knows no bounds. I even had her name spelled correctly in the quote  :psyduck: Damn you Lucas you bastard.  :roll:
Which came first Padme (SWI - 1999) or Padma (QC - 1845 )?

Grandma? Oh swizzle stix. I'm as sharp as a bag of wet mice today.

I think I found the original test linked through the NY Times.
I'm either from Minneapolis or South Florida.  :-P and each is based on one specific word choice. A majority of my selections were either universal or nowhere at all.
Lets hear it for the lexicon of Mississauga Ontario. :-D

Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: DSL on 04 Mar 2014, 11:29
Padma, Padme ... I rather like the notion of Marten discovering his latent powers against the background of forbidden love and becoming a dark villain.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Roborat on 04 Mar 2014, 11:34
I think a blended southern/new England accent would be wicked ahsum.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Zebediah on 04 Mar 2014, 11:35
Padma, Padme ... I rather like the notion of Marten discovering his latent powers against the background of forbidden love and becoming a dark villain.
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Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Delator on 04 Mar 2014, 11:38
And the Southern accent goes down the tubes.

I like to think Faye went around for the rest of the day going Full Dixie on the accent.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 04 Mar 2014, 12:03
(It was for saying "I would only use 'diagonal' for that" with regard to persons on opposing corners of an intersection.)
What else could you use? :psyduck:

I dunno. I'm pretty sure I've heard "wicked" used as an adjective in my non-New England area, but it would more likely be "sick."
Different usage. In some regions, "wicked" can be an adjective meaning "cool". But in New England it is used as an adverb meaning "very".
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: 94ssd on 04 Mar 2014, 14:43
Though I've tried to fight it, I've slipped and used "y'all" a couple of times. Does that combined with my love of sweet tea makes me an official southerner?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Thrillho on 04 Mar 2014, 15:04
Amusingly, in 90s and early 00s youth culture, 'wicked' used to mean 'good.'
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 04 Mar 2014, 15:06
It doesn't anymore?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Thrillho on 04 Mar 2014, 15:25
Sorry I meant in this country specifically. It's certainly not 'trendy' language any more as far as I know, and I work with t'youth on a daily basis.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Barmymoo on 04 Mar 2014, 15:36
Yes, I've been thinking that a lot of this regional US slang sounds quite 90s to me! I have to admit to occasionally saying "y'all"; I believe Bob has heard this and almost burst a lung laughing at it.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Zebediah on 04 Mar 2014, 17:04
Though I've tried to fight it, I've slipped and used "y'all" a couple of times. Does that combined with my love of sweet tea makes me an official southerner?

Yeah, it'll do. Attending a NASCAR race is actually optional.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Schmee on 04 Mar 2014, 17:28
The only time I hear 'wicked' used as an intensifier, it's as a joke by people trying to sound as uncool as possible.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Neko_Ali on 04 Mar 2014, 17:37
Though I've tried to fight it, I've slipped and used "y'all" a couple of times. Does that combined with my love of sweet tea makes me an official southerner?

Nope. Unless you were born in the South, you'll always be a Damn Yankee, no matter how long you live down there. The same as me. :)
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Kugai on 04 Mar 2014, 17:45
You will be assimilated.  Resistance is futile.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: cesariojpn on 04 Mar 2014, 18:06
Amusingly, in 90s and early 00s youth culture, 'wicked' used to mean 'good.'

I thought it was "hella," or am I just confusing that with the crappy car modification with the same word in it?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 04 Mar 2014, 18:28
No, "hella" is used like "wicked" in New England. As an adverb, meaning "very". Jeph's used "hell of" which is just weird.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: celticgeek on 04 Mar 2014, 18:50
"I am NOT judging you", said the NOT jealous Claire.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Rghfrgl on 04 Mar 2014, 18:51
C..Clairepocalypse!
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 04 Mar 2014, 18:54
A POLL REDUX

Merry Marigold    3 (9.1%)
Moping Marten    4 (12.1%)
Dancin' Dale    3 (9.1%)
Astute Angus    2 (6.1%)
Fierce Faye    0 (0%)
Dreamy Dora    2 (6.1%)
Talky Tai    0 (0%)
Pornographic Pintsize    1 (3%)
Cybernetic Clinton    0 (0%)
Clairey Claire    11 (33.3%)
Wonderful Waffles    1 (3%)
Spacey Spathe Ham    0 (0%)
Purpley Monkey Dishwashers    1 (3%)
Seriously Elsewise    2 (6.1%)
Eerie Emily    3 (9.1%)

Total Members Voted: 33
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 04 Mar 2014, 19:06
Aside from feeling sick, I do need to point out a few things:

1. Marten may have had a "one night stand" as his "first time" (the "back of a VW" comment from The Talk).

2. "Wicked" is definitely a cue that you're speaking with a New England accent, just as "y'all" is a Southern thing.

3. Claire needs to be a bit more emphatic about not being judgmental. I don't think Marten's getting the point...  :roll:
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 04 Mar 2014, 19:17
Re: #1 - Knowing Marten, it was probably with his girlfriend at the time, whoever that was.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: bhtooefr on 04 Mar 2014, 20:04
Somehow I'm thinking Claire would go catatonic if she knew about Tai's past promiscuity.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: sluthy on 04 Mar 2014, 20:25
2. "Wicked" is definitely a cue that you're speaking with a New England accent, just as "y'all" is a Southern thing.

Apparently it's a Texas thing too (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvhnAgZ-RNU). (I believe Chad and Sam are Texas natives, I could be wrong?)
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: K1dmor on 04 Mar 2014, 20:53
Somehow I'm thinking Claire would go catatonic if she knew about Tai's past promiscuity.

 Or something like this (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2370)?
 Now that i think about it, maybe she's not judging but remembers that a one night stand was the reason for her parents' divorce?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: jmucchiello on 04 Mar 2014, 21:21
But did she pass the class?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: J on 04 Mar 2014, 21:48
clair is not-judging the living hell out of martin
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: HauntingPoem on 04 Mar 2014, 21:55
I really like the "texture" her hair has.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Arancaytar on 04 Mar 2014, 22:06
Does she sound jealous, or is that wishful shipper logic?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Neko_Ali on 04 Mar 2014, 22:13
I don't think it's jealousy here. Claire's parents split up because (I think?) her father was having affair(s). She's rather touchy about that sort of thing. So it's not a far stretch to think she's rather judgmental about random hook ups/one night stands, given what she said in this comic.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: GarandMarine on 04 Mar 2014, 22:14
Me thinks the lady doth protest too much.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Loki on 04 Mar 2014, 22:30
For White Fang (http://www.amazon.com/White-Fang-Jack-London/dp/1492320773/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1393924225&amp;sr=1-5), The Call of the Wild (http://www.amazon.com/Call-Wild-Jack-London/dp/1629100110/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1393924225&amp;sr=1-1), and The Sea Wolf (http://www.amazon.com/Sea-Wolf-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486411087/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1393924225&amp;sr=1-10), I'd say. I read the first two as a kid and The Sea Wolf in a high school English class. I've never heard of The Cruise of the Dazzler, though; how did you run across it?

Back when I was younger, we had what I believe were the collected works of London. Due to lack of having much to do otherwise, I did a lot of reading, some of it definitely *air quotes* age-inappropriate in retrospect.

I cannot help but notice Clare wears a rather nice top today.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Storel on 04 Mar 2014, 23:31
Me thinks the lady doth protest too much.

I'm not judging you, I'm not judging you, I'm NOT I'm NOT I'm NOT!

So there!  :-P
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Lubricus on 04 Mar 2014, 23:47
Does she sound jealous, or is that wishful shipper logic?

If it is, I'm guilty of it as well, I must confess.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: NilsO on 04 Mar 2014, 23:55
I'm not judging you, I'm not judging you, I'm NOT I'm NOT I'm NOT!
:mrgreen: Claire has been judgmental before (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2370), without knowing all the facts. Apparently, she has strong emotions about infidelity, or about casual flings in general.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Thrillho on 05 Mar 2014, 00:30
Amusingly, in 90s and early 00s youth culture, 'wicked' used to mean 'good.'

I thought it was "hella," or am I just confusing that with the crappy car modification with the same word in it?

Not in England it didn't (just realised I didn't specify).
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Shjade on 05 Mar 2014, 01:29
(It was for saying "I would only use 'diagonal' for that" with regard to persons on opposing corners of an intersection.)
What else could you use? :psyduck:

I dunno. I'm pretty sure I've heard "wicked" used as an adjective in my non-New England area, but it would more likely be "sick."
Different usage. In some regions, "wicked" can be an adjective meaning "cool". But in New England it is used as an adverb meaning "very".

Ah, I see.

And the other options were mostly variations of "kitty-corner/catty-corner"

Does she sound jealous, or is that wishful shipper logic?
I suspect not so much jealousy as awkwardness, as in "I feel like I'm supposed to say something at this juncture but I'm not sure what."
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Akima on 05 Mar 2014, 01:38
You're probably less likely to use regional slang on the internet than you are when talking with local friends.
I try to avoid using too many Australianisms. My spelling would preclude "sounding" like anyone from the USA on the internet, of course.

For White Fang (http://www.amazon.com/White-Fang-Jack-London/dp/1492320773/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1393924225&amp;sr=1-5), The Call of the Wild (http://www.amazon.com/Call-Wild-Jack-London/dp/1629100110/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1393924225&amp;sr=1-1), and The Sea Wolf (http://www.amazon.com/Sea-Wolf-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486411087/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1393924225&amp;sr=1-10), I'd say.
It is probably as well for his reputation that hardly anybody reads Jack London's "The Unparalleled Invasion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unparalleled_Invasion)", though there may be some who harbour similar views who might enjoy it today. London's racism tars him pretty irredeemably as far as I am concerned. Yes, Jack, I am judging you!

Claire's shirt is a very good colour for her.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Detachable Felix on 05 Mar 2014, 01:44
Akima, when you say "Australianisms", are you referring to those nasal Eastern-State Australianisms? Or what people think we sound like - "shrimp on the barbie"et al ?

(Tbh, I've never really noticed anything spoken here in SA that constitutes an "Australianism")
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: J on 05 Mar 2014, 02:21
everything i know about australia, i learned from mad max, 90's jackie chan movies, and that one episode of the simpsons.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Detachable Felix on 05 Mar 2014, 02:24
everything i know about australia, i learned from mad max, 90's jackie chan movies, and that one episode of the simpsons.
Yes, and stereotype dictates that this is the point where I'm supposed to say "you call this a knife? *this* is a knife", and then proceed to pull out a spoon.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: J on 05 Mar 2014, 02:34
yes, but be warned for i have indeed played knifey-spoony before.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Schmorgluck on 05 Mar 2014, 02:48
My spelling would preclude "sounding" like anyone from the USA on the internet, of course.
Indeed.
Claire's shirt is a very good colour for her.
:-D
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Border Reiver on 05 Mar 2014, 02:50
I'm not judging you, I'm not judging you, I'm NOT I'm NOT I'm NOT!
:mrgreen: Claire has been judgmental before (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2370), without knowing all the facts. Apparently, she has strong emotions about infidelity, or about casual flings in general.

Yes, she has, however - her reaction was both normal, and worthy of a smile (because I'm not the one being judged).
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Detachable Felix on 05 Mar 2014, 02:51
Claire's shirt is a very good colour for her.
:-D
It's not our fault you people have a thing against the letter U and a weird thing for z's where there should be s's.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: NilsO on 05 Mar 2014, 02:51
I do not blame Jeph for including American English regional slang in his comics, but it can be hard for us non-Americans to achieve understanding sometimes. To our American friends, I would suggest you take this test: The Great English Dialect Quiz (http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/the-great-english-dialect-quiz).

After completing the test, you might begin to understand the problem.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: LittleKing on 05 Mar 2014, 02:54
Oh Marten, just move the fuck on already! :-P

Sorry for the insensitive post, but seriously! How long is he gonna dwell on this?
PC answer: as long as he needs, everybody's different and deals with things in different ways, yadda yadda yadda...

I'm kinda bored with Martens current storyline in case you didn't notice :-P
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Detachable Felix on 05 Mar 2014, 02:59
Sorry for the insensitive post, but seriously! How long is he gonna dwell on this?
Remember that comic time is a lot slower. For us, this arc's taken the last two months, but for Marten it's been like four days?

When you inevitably do your next marathon archive binge, it won't seem like a long time at all :P
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: ZoeB on 05 Mar 2014, 03:03
everything i know about australia, i learned from mad max, 90's jackie chan movies, and that one episode of the simpsons.
That's pretty much all you need.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: LittleKing on 05 Mar 2014, 03:05
Sorry for the insensitive post, but seriously! How long is he gonna dwell on this?
Remember that comic time is a lot slower. For us, this arc's taken the last two months, but for Marten it's been like four days?

When you inevitably do your next marathon archive binge, it won't seem like a long time at all :P
Good point. It all went by much much faster when I first started reading QC and had a lot of catching up to do.

But still, this Marten arc... Hopefully Claire will help him get over this issue :wink:
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: ZoeB on 05 Mar 2014, 03:06
I do not blame Jeph for including American English regional slang in his comics, but it can be hard for us non-Americans to achieve understanding sometimes. To our American friends, I would suggest you take this test: The Great English Dialect Quiz (http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/the-great-english-dialect-quiz).

After completing the test, you might begin to understand the problem.

While I'm "spectacularly south east", many of my rels are not. Of course I've gone native since 1968, but even my son has traces of a SE UK accent though, picked up from me.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Lubricus on 05 Mar 2014, 03:16
I do not blame Jeph for including American English regional slang in his comics, but it can be hard for us non-Americans to achieve understanding sometimes. To our American friends, I would suggest you take this test: The Great English Dialect Quiz (http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/the-great-english-dialect-quiz).

After completing the test, you might begin to understand the problem.

While I'm "spectacularly south east", many of my rels are not. Of course I've gone native since 1968, but even my son has traces of a SE UK accent though, picked up from me.

I, too, got "spectacularly south east". A bit surprising, since I come from the northernmost country in Europe... ;)
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: bhtooefr on 05 Mar 2014, 03:21
Two of those questions I couldn't even answer - I don't use any of those choices.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Detachable Felix on 05 Mar 2014, 03:27
I also got "spectacularly south east", which I suppose is apt, but I'm about eighteen thousand kilometres more south-east than the quiz intended :P
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: NilsO on 05 Mar 2014, 03:42
I also got "spectacularly south east", which I suppose is apt, but I'm about eighteen thousand kilometres more south-east than the quiz intended :P
I would guess all non-Brits end up being "Spectacularly South-East", but in the wrong country  :-D
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: pwhodges on 05 Mar 2014, 03:56
It's not our fault you people have [...] a weird thing for z's where there should be s's.

That's also Oxford (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling) University Press house style (and hence the preferred spellings in the OED); Cambridge falls the other way.  Curiously, Oxford University recommends the use of s in its publicity guidelines.  Some word processors have two British English spell-check settings to account for this.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: pwhodges on 05 Mar 2014, 04:01
Spectacularly South-East; well, there's a surprise.

After completing the test, you might begin to understand the problem.
As the first comment says:
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I think we can all agree that the author knows buggerall about English dialects.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Zebediah on 05 Mar 2014, 04:18
Spectacularly South-East. Which I am, in a different country.  :-D

In US dialect quizzes, I get different results depending on whether the quiz focuses on word usage or pronunciation. My vocabulary is typical of the southeastern US (and North Carolina specifically), but my accent was strongly influenced by my parents, who are from Pittsburgh.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Mlle Germain on 05 Mar 2014, 04:29
[...] but seriously! How long is he gonna dwell on this? [...]

I also think it's funny that Marten just runs around and tells anybody he meets (ok, friends only) about the somewhat unsuccessful one-night stand. Even funnier because he just looks mopey and then waits until people ask him "what's wrong?".
I think this is a very natural thing to do, though. When something bugs me, I very often try to find as many people as possible to talk about it. Not consciously, it just happens: If my brain has still not let go of the issue after thoroughly talking the thing through with one person, I really can't stop myself from bringing it up with the next friend I meet as well.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: snubnose on 05 Mar 2014, 04:45
NOBODY IS JUDGING YOU, YOU STINKING PILE OF ... UH, YOU SAW NOTHING !!! *runs*
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: NilsO on 05 Mar 2014, 04:53
[...] but seriously! How long is he gonna dwell on this? [...]
I also think it's funny that Marten just runs around and tells anybody he meets (ok, friends only) about the somewhat unsuccessful one-night stand. [...]
Agreed, it is enough by now. If I had been in a similar situation, I would not have told my friends anything at all. But then, I am not Marten.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: aphanisis81 on 05 Mar 2014, 05:00
I grew up on Cape Cod, lived in Northampton/Amherst for college for 5 years, lived in Boston the past 6.

So yeah, wicked. Those of us who had Cape Cod parents who took great pains either to keep the dreaded South Boston dialect out of our speech or to cultivate the Kennedy/Hyannispahwt/Boston Brahmin accent instead, now have a reaction pretty similar to Faye's when we find ourselves dropping a "wicked," which is, both in terms of meaning and metonymic significance, the MassHole version of "Beaucoup" in French or "Muy" in Spanish.

Of course, sometimes we'll say "wicked" ironically, which makes it okay.

I've basically only heard wicked used as an "intensifier" (what a great 10-dollar linguistics word; Angus must be a grammarian like me) for "good," "bad," and "awesome." Never "pissah." That's bush league, even to the kind of guy who owns six different Red Sox hats. Using that phrase to sound authentically Boston is like calling the city "Beantown." Or San Francisco "Frisco," apparently.

Funny story. My 3rd grade public school teacher was super Catholic; rumor had it she used to be a nun, but I don't know if that's really true. There are, of course, very few Catholics on the Cape; we're all descended from Puritans. Anyway, whenever some Mark Wahlberg wannabe 9-year-old would be mid-sentence and use "wicked" she'd be able to jump in fast enough, before the noun even got out of the kid's mouth, to interject "...means EVIL!!!"
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Nepiophage on 05 Mar 2014, 05:40
Remember that comic time is a lot slower. For us, this arc's taken the last two months, but for Marten it's been like four days?

I make it less than two days. Party Saturday evening,  today's strip Monday morning
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Akima on 05 Mar 2014, 05:47
Akima, when you say "Australianisms", are you referring to those nasal Eastern-State Australianisms? Or what people think we sound like - "shrimp on the barbie"et al ?
Mate, I didn't have accents in mind so much as vocabulary, but if you're going to put the acid on me, I'd better come up with something and give you the full SP before you go burko! Australian English comes within a bull's roar of British English, but if we're fair dinkum about it, there are more oddities than you can shake a stick at. If you dress badly, you're a warb. A member of the "deserving poor" is a battler, but if you think they're lazy or otherwise undeserving, they become a bludger (bludge is a verb too, especially in the phrase "bludge on the dole"), pronounced "bluja". You barrack for your football or cricket team, and after the game you soothe your throat with a schooner of beer. And so on. There are some Australians who might claim they never use such expressions, but I suspect they are would-be members of the bunyip aristocracy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunyip_aristocracy) who are just putting on the dog.

Chowdah? That's how I pronounce it; doesn't everyone? :angel:
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 05 Mar 2014, 07:54
"Divided by a common language".
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 05 Mar 2014, 08:40
Oh, fer criminy cripes sake. Howsa long you guys gonna put all this bull hockey out dere hey about different accents, aina?

"Divided by a common language".

Which is what I was getting to.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Half Empty Coffee Cup on 05 Mar 2014, 09:52
Hm. The moment Marten explains himself, I think Claire's going to settle down.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Near Lurker on 05 Mar 2014, 09:59
Funny story. My 3rd grade public school teacher was super Catholic; rumor had it she used to be a nun, but I don't know if that's really true. There are, of course, very few Catholics on the Cape; we're all descended from Puritans.

...er.

I'm not sure you're actually from the Cape.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Rghfrgl on 05 Mar 2014, 10:38
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Sorry for the insensitive post, but seriously! How long is he gonna dwell on this?

I'm interested again now because Claire, jealousy and judging so hard, but it was definitely dragging on until that point.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Barmymoo on 05 Mar 2014, 10:47
We shake sticks at things in the UK too.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 05 Mar 2014, 10:51
Yeah, that was the only one I've heard used in the states. The others were all new to me.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: sitnspin on 05 Mar 2014, 11:00
Stick shaking occurs in the States as well, although it is not a phrase I can ever recall using myself.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: aphanisis81 on 05 Mar 2014, 11:10
Funny story. My 3rd grade public school teacher was super Catholic; rumor had it she used to be a nun, but I don't know if that's really true. There are, of course, very few Catholics on the Cape; we're all descended from Puritans.

...er.

I'm not sure you're actually from the Cape.

I assure you I am. 'Twas sarcasm.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Schmorgluck on 05 Mar 2014, 12:38
Claire's shirt is a very good colour for her.
:-D
It's not our fault you people have a thing against the letter U and a weird thing for z's where there should be s's.
Hey, don't blame me on this, I'm not even a native English speaker.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Kugai on 05 Mar 2014, 13:09
Judge Claire.


Somebody make sure she's not packing a Lawgiver.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Schwungrad on 05 Mar 2014, 13:22
I would guess all non-Brits end up being "Spectacularly South-East", but in the wrong country  :-D
Yup, me too. I suppose the South-East just speaks the most "vanilla", "standard" English.

On a completely unrelated note, I wonder whether it is just the shading or whether Marten is starting to go grey (or gray?)
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: cesium133 on 05 Mar 2014, 13:24
I tried that quiz and got "Spectacularly South-East", though I only got that result after randomly picking an option on question 4 because none of them were something that I would say as a greeting.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Barmymoo on 05 Mar 2014, 13:51
I got incredibly northern or something, but "northern" appeared to encompass the entire top half of the UK, including the Midlands where there is quite a distinctive dialect which bears no resemblance to, for instance, the Yorkshire or Newcastle dialects. It's oversimplified, basically.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Akima on 05 Mar 2014, 14:07
I got Spectacularly South-East in the quiz compared to England (and let's face it, you don't get much further South-East unless you're a Kiwi), but I got rather odd results (http://nyti.ms/1q7Y1GY) when I did an on-line quiz relating my English to the USA. I just seem to be vaguely "coastal urban"?

We shake sticks at things in the UK too.
Many, probably most, "Australianisms" originated in the UK, I think. Even so Australian expression as "fair dinkum" originated, I believe, in an English dialect. To describe a person/action as "not fair dinkum" is a fairly serious insult to, or criticism of, their/its honesty. Don't throw it in someones face here unless you intend to provoke a confrontation.

A few Australian words, like "cooee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooee)" (a bushman's shout; a moderate distance, usually in the context "within cooee of <object>"), "yakka" (work, especially in the form "hard yakka"), "billabong" (pond or pool, often transitory following heavy rain, river-flooding etc.), "gibber" (a boulder or stone) etc. are drawn from indigenous Australian languages. So, of course, are the names of many places (Woolongong, Oodnadatta), animals (kangaroo, koala), and cultural artefacts (boomerang, digeridoo).
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 05 Mar 2014, 14:09
What does "dinkum" mean by itself?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Akima on 05 Mar 2014, 14:23
I believe "dinkum" was originally an English dialect word meaning "work". "Fair dinkum" related to fair pay for work, or a "fair go" (another important Australian idea), and mutated to meaning "honest dealing" generally. Nowadays "dinkum" used alone in Australia is just an abbreviation of "fair dinkum" and means "genuine", usually in the expression "Dinkum Aussie". Sadly, the sort of person who uses that expression generally would not apply it to Australians like me.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Pilchard123 on 05 Mar 2014, 15:02
Apparently, I'm spectacularly south-east for the UK one, or from Jersey City, Baltimore or Honolulu for the US.

I actually live in Somerset, becoming Wurzel/Cornish when driving.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: pwhodges on 05 Mar 2014, 15:03
The Oxford dictionaries give the origin of dinkum as "unknown", but all imply that it originated in Australia or New Zealand.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Akima on 05 Mar 2014, 17:07
The Australian National University on the origin of dinkum (http://web.archive.org/web/20020511010247/http://www.anu.edu.au/ANDC/Ozwords/November_98/7._dinkum.htm). Melvyn Bragg takes the same line in his book The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language.

It seems that American dialect map offers different qustions if you take it more than once. I took the quiz again and got this result (http://nyti.ms/1dtt6zv), even more polarised to New York and Los Angeles. I wonder if my foreignness is breaking the quiz?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: ZoeB on 05 Mar 2014, 17:17
I would guess all non-Brits end up being "Spectacularly South-East", but in the wrong country  :-D
Yup, me too. I suppose the South-East just speaks the most "vanilla", "standard" English.

It pretty much defines what "standard" English is. Oxford BBC Announcer.
For those of us born there, it's just the local dielect, no better or worse than any other.
It can cause problems overseas though, as many think we're putting on airs and graces. Faking it.

One place I did find where it was an advantage was in Honkers. My badly butchered Cantonese with a SE UK accent apparently made me sound like a native.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: ZoeB on 05 Mar 2014, 17:21
Nowadays "dinkum" used alone in Australia is just an abbreviation of "fair dinkum" and means "genuine", usually in the expression "Dinkum Aussie". Sadly, the sort of person who uses that expression generally would not apply it to Australians like me.
Yes, that sort are not Fair Dinkum.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Detachable Felix on 05 Mar 2014, 17:35
Nowadays "dinkum" used alone in Australia is just an abbreviation of "fair dinkum" and means "genuine", usually in the expression "Dinkum Aussie". Sadly, the sort of person who uses that expression generally would not apply it to Australians like me.
Yes, that sort are not Fair Dinkum.
"... Everything I Know About Being Australian I Learned From Tone Abet...."
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 05 Mar 2014, 19:58
I remember taking that dialect exam before. I definitely have a Milwaukee dialect (http://nyti.ms/1dtQPQ4).
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 05 Mar 2014, 20:07
Just for fun I sent that quiz to an Icelandic friend. She placed in or near Maine.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: celticgeek on 05 Mar 2014, 20:29
Well, so much for rained out parades.

Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 05 Mar 2014, 20:39
The parade wasn't only rained out, it was canceled and rescheduled for three weeks from now.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: SomeCanadianWeirdo on 05 Mar 2014, 20:59
Not being honest with Tai might not be such a good idea.  There's a good chance she's going to find out that Marten didn't find the one night stand appealing given how many of his friends he's already told.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 05 Mar 2014, 21:13
Yeah, but that wouldn't be funny.

And this is a comic strip.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: rschill on 05 Mar 2014, 21:56
It's a polite lie.  Tai would understand.

Claire seemed not so much jealous as let down at Marten.  I think she sorta looks up to him:  http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2431

Anyway, I hope there's a  lot more Claire because she's adorable. 
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 05 Mar 2014, 22:03
It's not a lie at all. He answered one of her questions and ignored the other. He did have fun at the time.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: rschill on 05 Mar 2014, 22:31
It's not a lie at all. He answered one of her questions and ignored the other. He did have fun at the time.

Something like that. 

But the upshot was that he deliberately led Tai into thinking he was happy about what transpired for the sake of her feelings.  He's a good friend for that. 

That thing with Delila probably will end up making Marten happier in the long run though.  It'll be something he'll never have to wonder if he should have done. 
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: KOK on 05 Mar 2014, 22:44
I tried that quiz and got "Spectacularly South-East", though I only got that result after randomly picking an option on question 4 because none of them were something that I would say as a greeting.

Ditto
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Valdís on 05 Mar 2014, 22:45
It's not a lie at all. He answered one of her questions and ignored the other.

If you have to justify something with "Technically..".. You're in the wrong. Just a heads up.

Not that I think Tai'd take the lie all that badly or anything.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 05 Mar 2014, 22:52
When did I justify anything with "technically"?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Valdís on 05 Mar 2014, 23:04
His answer is meant to, and successfully does, deceive her. Things like specifically answering part of her inquiry in a manner that'll be interpreted as directed at the whole would definitely be a technicality.

For instance if I were in a relationship where I suspected cheating and I asked "Is there another woman?" and he was cheating with a person of other genders than that, but answered "No there isn't" then that would be a lie. Because that's not the question actually being asked. Honesty doesn't really work like that.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Loki on 05 Mar 2014, 23:13
Oh goddammit Marten.

Not being honest with Tai might not be such a good idea.  There's a good chance she's going to find out that Marten didn't find the one night stand appealing given how many of his friends he's already told.
Or maybe Delilah noticed he was bummed out and spoke about it with her friends, so it might get to Tai from that side of the circle.

If Tai doesn't find out, she's bound to try hooking him up for more ONSes, as a good friemd would do.

Oh damnit, I just realized. Claire probably doesn't take kindly to "I am not going to tell you the truth about my sex life because I don't want you to be sad when you know."

I really hope she chews Marten out for that.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: anahata on 06 Mar 2014, 00:05
If Delilah's feelings about the matter are as she says , she's probably (a) not mentioned it to anyone and (b) pretty much forgotten all about it.

Also, we're running out of people who might ask Marten how the party went and get any kind of detailed answer, so that particular sub-theme can't last any longer. Tai's posture as she bumps fists with Marten suggests to me that that's the end of the conversation as far as she's concerned.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Lubricus on 06 Mar 2014, 00:11
I agree, anahata. There might be a bit more about Claire's reaction to things, but it seems like we're reaching the end of this sub-arc.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Akima on 06 Mar 2014, 00:41
If you have to justify something with "Technically..".. You're in the wrong. Just a heads up.
A good rule of thumb.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: KOK on 06 Mar 2014, 01:56
His answer is meant to, and successfully does, deceive her. Things like specifically answering part of her inquiry in a manner that'll be interpreted as directed at the whole would definitely be a technicality.

For instance if I were in a relationship where I suspected cheating and I asked "Is there another woman?" and he was cheating with a person of other genders than that, but answered "No there isn't" then that would be a lie. Because that's not the question actually being asked. Honesty doesn't really work like that.

There is a big difference. Marten lied about something that doesn't concern Tai anyway, and he did it in order to spare her feelings.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: pwhodges on 06 Mar 2014, 02:15
If you have to justify something with "Technically..".. You're in the wrong.

In my perception, the "technically" usage isn't a justification for your own belief; rather, it means that you don't actually agree with something, but are suggesting why someone else might.  As in: "Technically, <this>; but actually, <that>."
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 06 Mar 2014, 02:25
Inc. magazine had an entire article that said using the word "actually" undermines your credibility.

Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: cesariojpn on 06 Mar 2014, 02:52
Inc. magazine had an entire article that said using the word "actually" undermines your credibility.

So by you using it in that context, you just lost credibility?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: ZoeB on 06 Mar 2014, 03:02
I like Marten. He's kind.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 06 Mar 2014, 03:02
No, because I cite my source:

One Word that Kills Your Credibility in Presentations (http://www.inc.com/eric-v-holtzclaw/1-word-that-kills-your-credibility.html)
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: ZoeB on 06 Mar 2014, 03:06
Nowadays "dinkum" used alone in Australia is just an abbreviation of "fair dinkum" and means "genuine", usually in the expression "Dinkum Aussie". Sadly, the sort of person who uses that expression generally would not apply it to Australians like me.
Yes, that sort are not Fair Dinkum.
"... Everything I Know About Being Australian I Learned From Tone Abet...."

At the risk of thread derailment, and injecting politics into things, a no-no... this recent speech in the Senate has been recognised by all sides as typically Australian. You don't have to agree with it to see it's ridgy-didge.

Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: pwhodges on 06 Mar 2014, 03:17
One Word that Kills Your Credibility in Presentations (http://www.inc.com/eric-v-holtzclaw/1-word-that-kills-your-credibility.html)
Quote from: above article
Let me explain.  When you use the word "actually" properly, you are comparing two thoughts and providing clarification.

Exactly as in my example which apparently prompted this diversion.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Schwungrad on 06 Mar 2014, 05:00
Regardless of Marten's noble motive of "sparing her feelings", if he doesn't want to talk with Tai about his feelings concerning Delilah, that's his good right, and saying something like "yeah, fine, all went well" is IMO a perfectly acceptable way of avoiding the topic.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Valdís on 06 Mar 2014, 05:29
There is a big difference. Marten lied about something that doesn't concern Tai anyway, and he did it in order to spare her feelings.

Of course there is and I didn't claim otherwise. But you're agreeing here that it is a lie, regardless of manipulating the language for excuses. I also said that Tai probably wouldn't care about it. I find it more likely that she'd be concerned about the fact that he was bummed out as a result n' stuff.

As in: "Technically, <this>; but actually, <that>."

Exactly, and it's in that manner it creates excuses. It's just conveniently not mentioning the second half again.

"Technically I didn't answer that part of the question; but in reality I clearly did so with the intent of having you take it as an answer to both."
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Masterpiece on 06 Mar 2014, 05:33
Joined the comic threads for the first time in months to say

JESUS CHRIST MARTEN
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: snubnose on 06 Mar 2014, 05:39
JESUS CHRIST MARTEN
I think Marten is an OK dude, but calling him Jesus Christ ? Thats kind of going too far !
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: judemorrigan on 06 Mar 2014, 06:02
I got incredibly northern or something, but "northern" appeared to encompass the entire top half of the UK, including the Midlands where there is quite a distinctive dialect which bears no resemblance to, for instance, the Yorkshire or Newcastle dialects. It's oversimplified, basically.
Plus, I have it on good authority that lots of planets have a north.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Detachable Felix on 06 Mar 2014, 06:05
Quote from: ZoeB
... this recent speech in the Senate has been recognised by all sides as typically Australian....
I wouldn't call it 'typically australian', more so Senator Ludlam 'typically being a decent fucking human being'. Is there a section for Australian politics on this forum? I feel like this is a thing I need to get on if it exists.


Anyway, yes. Comic. Very good. Rain on parade. Yes. Comic!
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: NilsO on 06 Mar 2014, 06:07
JESUS CHRIST MARTEN
I think Marten is an OK dude, but calling him Jesus Christ ? Thats kind of going too far !
Agreed. JC had compassion and no carnal desires, whereas Marten is all emo by now. He should grow longer hair, stop showering, and find some shabby clothes to complete the transformation.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: GarandMarine on 06 Mar 2014, 06:45
Well. By all accounts Jesus was a regular man. Abstaining is not the same as lacking. He also had a marketable trade skill (very successful carpenter under his "step father" Joeseph) which Marten could probably stand to gain. Not that music, library science and drinking coffee are unworthy.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 06 Mar 2014, 07:10
According to the mythology, stepfather is accurate and needs no quote marks :roll:
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: GarandMarine on 06 Mar 2014, 08:50
According to the mythology Jesus didn't have any siblings either. Now I'll accept the miracle of the virgin birth, but if you think Mary and Joeseph, a married couple, didn't get down and have some more kids after Jesus's birth? You are outta your mind.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 06 Mar 2014, 09:03
Someone's seen Dogma :roll:
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Zebediah on 06 Mar 2014, 09:22
Tai is happier about Marten's random hookup than Marten is.  :roll:

And yeah, Claire is acting mighty disappointed in Marten right now. Whatever other feelings she may or may not have for him, she respects him, and that respect has been damaged. How damaged remains to be seen. But whenever someone says "I'm not judging you," they are definitely judging you.

Ah well. I expect it's nothing a few drinks at the Horrible Revelation won't put right. And I have a feeling that Claire may become a regular there once she's introduced to it.

Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Pilchard123 on 06 Mar 2014, 09:31
No siblings?

Quote from: Mark 6:3, King James Bible
Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: aphanisis81 on 06 Mar 2014, 10:22
Well. By all accounts Jesus was a regular man. Abstaining is not the same as lacking. He also had a marketable trade skill (very successful carpenter under his "step father" Joeseph) which Marten could probably stand to gain. Not that music, library science and drinking coffee are unworthy.

I'm pretty sure that associating Marten's job with Library Science is like saying a paper boy is working in journalism.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Kugai on 06 Mar 2014, 10:54
The truth will set you free

Or at least won't be so painful once Tai actually finds out the truth from Delilah.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: FunkyTuba on 06 Mar 2014, 11:07
Marten obviously needs to start a webcomic.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Zebediah on 06 Mar 2014, 11:30
About a guy named Jeph and his guitar collection.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Kugai on 06 Mar 2014, 11:35
There's a song in that.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Shjade on 06 Mar 2014, 12:12
His answer is meant to, and successfully does, deceive her. Things like specifically answering part of her inquiry in a manner that'll be interpreted as directed at the whole would definitely be a technicality.
Which does not, by default, mean he is "in the wrong." Tai's a friend, but she is in no way owed this information about his personal life. He has a right to tell her whatever he wants; if he doesn't want to tell her the truth, that's perfectly fine. He's not doing the wrong thing by some objective measure in making that decision.

If they were in some kind of committed relationship that would be another story. They're not.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Thrillho on 06 Mar 2014, 13:05
I hate Dogma.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Mr_Rose on 06 Mar 2014, 13:14
I hate Dogma.
Why?
I assume you mean the film since you capitalised it; if you just meant dogma in general though, I probably concur: it's simply too easy to use it as an excuse to do or not do almost anything, up to and including genocide.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 06 Mar 2014, 13:20
I'd also like to know why.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: cesariojpn on 06 Mar 2014, 13:28
Tai is happier about Marten's random hookup than Marten is.  :roll:

She hit it previously.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 06 Mar 2014, 13:38
If that's the case, they've now both fucked each other by proxy.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Loki on 06 Mar 2014, 13:42
If fucking by proxy is a thing, then I have certainly fucked *counts* ...a lot of people.

Some more thoughts: If you have sex with someone who has sex with a lot of people by proxy, and then you stop having sex with that person, are you still fucking all the other people by proxy?  Even if you have no sex at all? Or are you... unfucking all the people?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: judemorrigan on 06 Mar 2014, 13:53
No siblings?

Quote from: Mark 6:3, King James Bible
Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.
It's not unequivocable that adelphios in this context necessary means full siblings and not half-siblings or cousins.  This is an old, old, old debate.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Valdís on 06 Mar 2014, 14:11
Which does not, by default, mean he is "in the wrong."

Actually it does mean he's in the wrong. Because the claim that it technically wasn't deceitful came from Method. So he's wrong. I never talked about the thing you're on about at all. Nor anything about the morality or need for honesty in any particular situation.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 06 Mar 2014, 14:18
If fucking by proxy is a thing, then I have certainly fucked *counts* ...a lot of people.

Some more thoughts: If you have sex with someone who has sex with a lot of people by proxy, and then you stop having sex with that person, are you still fucking all the other people by proxy?  Even if you have no sex at all? Or are you... unfucking all the people?

You're only proxy-fucking the people they've had sex with before you have sex with them. Tai and Dora getting together meant Tai fucked Marten by proxy, but not vice versa, at least until Delilah (and that's assuming Tai and Delilah do have a history of any kind). Not that this matters, mind you.

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Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: aphanisis81 on 06 Mar 2014, 14:40
I hate Dogma.

Me too. Why? Five words.

Kevin "My Films Suck" Smith.

His films are so goddamn bad. Clerks is amusing, and the fact that he nearly beggared himself to get it made is kinda neat, but wow, it does NOT hold up to repeated viewings. Have you watched it recently? That dialogue, good lord. Has anyone ever failed so spectacularly at trying that hard to be a north Jersey Tarantino? Christ.

Everything after Clerks? Same shit, bigger budget. If you found Chasing Amy moving or legitimately affective, please go read a Nicholas Sparks novel, pretend there's a squeaky-voiced lesbian in it, and leave it at that. That final "we have to have a threesome" speech was the dumbest thing ever, and you could tell Smith thought it was comparable to Act III Scene I of motherfucking Hamlet.

Oh, and of course, Smith himself as Silent Bob opens his stupid mouth to deliver a soliloquy about how a girl he liked got away. La-dee-da, join the club, dickhead. You think that stupid character actually saying something is deep? Maybe if he was actually developed as a character up to that point instead of just being a mute manifestation of your ego. But of course, you treat that moment like your fans have just been dying to see it. Like it's on par with when we finally get to see Yoda throw down with a light saber. But I guess it's better than in Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, where you spend the whole movie making up for your lack of dialogue by mugging for the camera like some 5th-rate silent film reject.

Speaking of, Smith, the whole Star Was fascination thing is stupid. Star Wars is the most overrated thing ever, and only arrested development limpdicks fetishize it. Oh wait, I just described all of your characters.

There's more believable human feeling from a single panel of an early QC strip than in that man's whole oeuvre. Oh hey, and did you know that he's fat and was once insulted by an airline? Cry me a river, you hack.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Thrillho on 06 Mar 2014, 14:46
I hate Dogma.
Why?
I assume you mean the film since you capitalised it; if you just meant dogma in general though, I probably concur: it's simply too easy to use it as an excuse to do or not do almost anything, up to and including genocide.

- Central actress doesn't act. She is a plank of wood. She is irritating.
- HI! I'M CHRIS ROCK! I'M HERE TO BURP UP HUGE PILES OF EXPOSITION BECAUSE THIS STORY IS STUPIDLY COMPLEX AND THE GUY WRITING IT ISN'T COMPETENT ENOUGH TO FILL IN THE GAPS!
- Seriously, a shit demon?
- The film deliberately seeks to offend basically everyone, which is just a dick move. I don't find it offensive or blasphemous - I find it irritating because it thinks it's both of those things, but worse yet, thinks that makes it clever.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 06 Mar 2014, 14:54
Marten obviously needs to start a webcomic.
About a guy named Jeph and his guitar collection.
There's a song in that.

This is so meta.

EDIT: Oh, and I heartily agree with Gareth and aphanisis81. Kevin Smith inhales voluminously.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: aphanisis81 on 06 Mar 2014, 15:06
Marten obviously needs to start a webcomic.
About a guy named Jeph and his guitar collection.
There's a song in that.

This is so meta.

EDIT: Oh, and I heartily agree with Gareth and aphanisis81. Kevin Smith inhales voluminously.

Thanks, man. I've gone back and added on to that post like 7 times in the last half hour. I just keep thinking of more things to hate about him.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Thrillho on 06 Mar 2014, 15:10
For what it's worth, I don't hate Kevin Smith's work in general, I just hate Dogma. I've mixed feelings on the majority of Smith's work.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: aphanisis81 on 06 Mar 2014, 15:13
For what it's worth, I don't hate Kevin Smith's work in general, I just hate Dogma. I've mixed feelings on the majority of Smith's work.

I don't know if you could tell, but my feeling on the majority of Smith's work is that it sucks.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 06 Mar 2014, 15:23
I hate Kevin Smith, Star Wars and Arrested Development
Well, ok then. I didn't like Chasing Amy, and it's been ages since I've seen Clerks, but everything else in the Askewniverse has been solid or better. (I'll never understand the Mallrats hate.)

Gareth, your Dogma criticisms are valid (especially the shit-demon...yeesh). I still love it though, and that's fine.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Thrillho on 06 Mar 2014, 15:26
For what it's worth, I don't hate Kevin Smith's work in general, I just hate Dogma. I've mixed feelings on the majority of Smith's work.

I don't know if you could tell, but my feeling on the majority of Smith's work is that it sucks.

I'm not sure that was necessary to restate. Your post was pretty clear cut on that particular score.

I mean I was all set to file it under 'indifferent towards Martin Scorsese,' but then I had a quick re-read and realised 'hates Kevin Smith' was the correct category after all.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: aphanisis81 on 06 Mar 2014, 15:27
I hate Kevin Smith, Star Wars and Arrested Development
Well, ok then. I didn't like Chasing Amy, and it's been ages since I've seen Clerks, but everything else in the Askewniverse has been solid or better. (I'll never understand the Mallrats hate.)

Gareth, your Dogma criticisms are valid (especially the shit-demon...yeesh). I still love it though, and that's fine.

I don't know where that so-called quotation came from, but I didn't say that. I hate Kevin Smith's films, I think Star Wars is stupid but I wouldn't say I hate it, and I have no opinion on Arrested Development the television program.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: aphanisis81 on 06 Mar 2014, 15:28
For what it's worth, I don't hate Kevin Smith's work in general, I just hate Dogma. I've mixed feelings on the majority of Smith's work.

I don't know if you could tell, but my feeling on the majority of Smith's work is that it sucks.

I'm not sure that was necessary to restate. Your post was pretty clear cut on that particular score.

I mean I was all set to file it under 'indifferent towards Martin Scorsese,' but then I had a quick re-read and realised 'hates Kevin Smith' was the correct category after all.

I'll be totally honest, it started off as just a blithe "yeah, Kevin Smith, Dogma, meh" kind of post, and then it turned into this fugue-state writing exercise. I'm pretty happy with it.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 06 Mar 2014, 15:29
but I didn't say that
Not in those words, no. But anyway, we're getting off topic. Feel free to take this to ENJOY.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: aphanisis81 on 06 Mar 2014, 15:32
but I didn't say that
Not in those words, no. But anyway, we're getting off topic. Feel free to take this to ENJOY.

On-topic: Tai proffering a fist bump as congratulations for Marten's successful booty-getting (even if she doesn't know he's unhappy about it; dramatic irony!!!) is the cutest thing.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Thrillho on 06 Mar 2014, 15:35
I met my best friend via a post-fuck high five. Complicated story.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: aphanisis81 on 06 Mar 2014, 15:36
I met my best friend via a post-fuck high five. Complicated story.

Well I hope you write creative non-fiction, because that's what we teachers of that genre call a kick-ass hook.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Thrillho on 06 Mar 2014, 15:46
One night after sleeping with the girl who would eventually become my wife (and is soon becoming my ex-wife, thank fuck) she was texting a friend of hers about me. We realised he did the same course as me at university (this is like two weeks into the first semester) and when she described him to me I was convinced I knew who she was referring to. I told her to text him that I would offer him a post-fuck high-five in the lecture theatre next time I saw him, presuming I was right about who it was. I did just that, I was right about who he was and we've been best friends for six years now.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: hedgie on 06 Mar 2014, 16:52

Gareth, your Dogma criticisms are valid (especially the shit-demon...yeesh). I still love it though, and that's fine.
Is it really any worse than Pintesize's cock golem? 

Personally, I found Dogma the sort of film that is enjoyable *once*.  I could set aside my need to pick it apart that first time, but the second time I tried watching it, I just couldn't.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 06 Mar 2014, 17:01
but I didn't say that
Not in those words, no. But anyway, we're getting off topic. Feel free to take this to ENJOY.

On-topic: Tai proffering a fist bump as congratulations for Marten's successful booty-getting (even if she doesn't know he's unhappy about it; dramatic irony!!!) is the cutest thing.

Now Emily will tell everyone she saw Tai fisting Marten.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: cesariojpn on 06 Mar 2014, 17:22
I hate Dogma.
Why?
I assume you mean the film since you capitalised it; if you just meant dogma in general though, I probably concur: it's simply too easy to use it as an excuse to do or not do almost anything, up to and including genocide.

- Central actress doesn't act. She is a plank of wood. She is irritating.
- HI! I'M CHRIS ROCK! I'M HERE TO BURP UP HUGE PILES OF EXPOSITION BECAUSE THIS STORY IS STUPIDLY COMPLEX AND THE GUY WRITING IT ISN'T COMPETENT ENOUGH TO FILL IN THE GAPS!
- Seriously, a shit demon?
- The film deliberately seeks to offend basically everyone, which is just a dick move. I don't find it offensive or blasphemous - I find it irritating because it thinks it's both of those things, but worse yet, thinks that makes it clever.

You could've just said "Alanis Morrosette" and get to the point. How she managed to get a recording deal with that voice is beyond me.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: K1dmor on 06 Mar 2014, 17:34
Now Emily will tell everyone she saw Tai fisting Marten.

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Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Gryphon on 06 Mar 2014, 18:02
Hadn't read QC since comic #2550 so was good to binge :p
Noooooooooo now it's only one a day :(
I love Dogma.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: mustang6172 on 06 Mar 2014, 18:11
Well. By all accounts Jesus was a regular man. Abstaining is not the same as lacking. He also had a marketable trade skill (very successful carpenter under his "step father" Joeseph) which Marten could probably stand to gain. Not that music, library science and drinking coffee are unworthy.

I was thinking that Marten could make some money by giving guitar lessons.  I'm not sure what his major was, but he might not make a terrible music teacher.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Zwammy on 06 Mar 2014, 18:19
Now Emily will tell everyone she saw Tai fisting Marten.

Marten better hope that doesn't get back to Pintsize, or Pintsize might get one of those Hulk-fists from the local novelty store and jack Marten up in the middle of the night.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 06 Mar 2014, 18:30
I hate Dogma.
Why?
I assume you mean the film since you capitalised it; if you just meant dogma in general though, I probably concur: it's simply too easy to use it as an excuse to do or not do almost anything, up to and including genocide.

- Central actress doesn't act. She is a plank of wood. She is irritating.
- HI! I'M CHRIS ROCK! I'M HERE TO BURP UP HUGE PILES OF EXPOSITION BECAUSE THIS STORY IS STUPIDLY COMPLEX AND THE GUY WRITING IT ISN'T COMPETENT ENOUGH TO FILL IN THE GAPS!
- Seriously, a shit demon?
- The film deliberately seeks to offend basically everyone, which is just a dick move. I don't find it offensive or blasphemous - I find it irritating because it thinks it's both of those things, but worse yet, thinks that makes it clever.

You could've just said "Alanis Morrosette" and get to the point. How she managed to get a recording deal with that voice is beyond me.
What's funny is if you hate her voice you should love that movie.
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Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 06 Mar 2014, 19:20
You could've just said "Alanis Morissette" and get to the point. How she managed to get a recording deal with that voice is beyond me.

Some guys just fall for Canadian accents, eh?

Besides, she was cute in YCDTOTV.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: celticgeek on 06 Mar 2014, 20:26
Bros, bros, bros.  And beer.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 06 Mar 2014, 20:35
I love the look Angus and Marten give Steve in that penultimate panel. It's the "You gotta be ####ing me" look.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 06 Mar 2014, 20:37
A POLL REDUX

Merry Marigold    6 (13%)
Moping Marten    4 (8.7%)
Dancin' Dale    3 (6.5%)
Astute Angus    2 (4.3%)
Fierce Faye    1 (2.2%)
Dreamy Dora    2 (4.3%)
Talky Tai    0 (0%)
Pornographic Pintsize    1 (2.2%)
Cybernetic Clinton    0 (0%)
Clairey Claire    15 (32.6%) ... and she is TOTALLY NOT JUDGING YOU! if you didn't vote for her.
Wonderful Waffles    2 (4.3%)
Spacey Spathe Ham    0 (0%)
Purpley Monkey Dishwashers    1 (2.2%)
Seriously Elsewise    2 (4.3%)
Eerie Emily    7 (15.2%)

Total Members Voted: 46


Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Rghfrgl on 06 Mar 2014, 21:26
Aww, Claire's done slut shaming Marten.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 06 Mar 2014, 21:46
For now.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 06 Mar 2014, 22:05
Marten was going to be giving Natasha guitar lessons, so he's got some experience. He certainly has the patience.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Loki on 06 Mar 2014, 22:44
I spent a minute or so looking for differences between Marten&amp;Angus in the last and Marten&amp;Angus in the second-to-last panel.

So far, I've got:
* texture on Angus' hair
* his muttonchop (had to look that word up) is slightly different
* Marten has a slightly different clavicular line below his neck

But the most subtle and yet effective change? Both of their eyes are more closed by a few pixels. Yet their expressions look drastically different. Fascinating.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Drunken Old Man on 06 Mar 2014, 23:11
Is going out and getting boozed up really these guys' answer for EVERYTHING?

Yes, given my username, I AM aware of a certain irony to the above.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: KOK on 06 Mar 2014, 23:24
If that's the case, they've now both fucked each other by proxy.

Is that a thing?

It brings back a memory of a word that I have never heard, and seen in print only once. In a novel I read many years ago, one character asks another if they are now "hulsvogre".

"Svogre" is plural of "svoger" meaning brother-in-law. "Hul" means hole. A sweedism perhaps? The novel was translated from Swedish. Is that a thing?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Monkey Says Yes on 06 Mar 2014, 23:27
Fist bump, Celtic Geek!  It's always good to see Steve.

And Dogma's a solid flick.  Jason Lee, Alan Rickman, George Carlin - all fun roles.  And Janeane Garafalo, too!  Yeah, the shit demon was kinda lame, but I love Jason Lee's air-con line:  "No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air."
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 06 Mar 2014, 23:33
Is that a thing?
No, not really.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Shjade on 06 Mar 2014, 23:48
If that's the case, they've now both fucked each other by proxy.

Is that a thing?
Only for Kevin Bacon.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: snubnose on 07 Mar 2014, 00:23
A POLL REDUX

I really want to know why these poll summaries are always already up when I open the comic in the morning.

My votes are never counted.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: NilsO on 07 Mar 2014, 00:27
Bros, bros, bros.  And beer.
Well, Steve's presence might spoil Angus' plan, whatever it is. Angus looks slightly annoyed.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: cesariojpn on 07 Mar 2014, 00:46
What's funny is if you hate her voice you should love that movie.
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Nope, ruined the movie.
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I'm cool with, but that talentless tart? 

Bros, bros, bros.  And beer.
Well, Steve's presence might spoil Angus' plan, whatever it is. Angus looks slightly annoyed.

Angus tries to tell Marten a quickie fuck is okay, don't worry about it. Wait, that would've been Sven.......
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 07 Mar 2014, 01:01
Is going out and getting boozed up really these guys' answer for EVERYTHING?

Yes, given my username, I AM aware of a certain irony to the above.

Not just the guys!
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Thrillho on 07 Mar 2014, 01:05
What's funny is if you hate her voice you should love that movie.
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Nope, ruined the movie.
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I'm cool with, but that talentless tart? 

Hate her music all you like, but she's far from talentless and I don't know where the word 'tart' has come from.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 07 Mar 2014, 02:16
I really want to know why these poll summaries are always already up when I open the comic in the morning.

My votes are never counted.

It's a secret.

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Hate her music all you like, but she's far from talentless and I don't know where the word 'tart' has come from.

Ask Dave Coulier.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Thrillho on 07 Mar 2014, 02:24
So he used to date her and 'You Oughta Know' might be about him? That makes her a tart how?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: bhtooefr on 07 Mar 2014, 02:29
If that's the case, they've now both fucked each other by proxy.
Is that a thing?
Some forms of sex education in the US do actually try to claim that if you have sex with someone, it's like having sex with everyone they've had sex with, so on, so on, so on. (It's meant in an STD exposure sense, mind you.)

Yes, the "used goods" form of slut-shaming is actually taught to children in schools in the US.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Shadic on 07 Mar 2014, 02:42
Shityes, best three characters are gonna go get drunk together.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: LittleKing on 07 Mar 2014, 02:48
Wooo, guys night out! Finally! This should be good :-D
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Skewbrow on 07 Mar 2014, 03:37
If that's the case, they've now both fucked each other by proxy.

Is that a thing?

It brings back a memory of a word that I have never heard, and seen in print only once. In a novel I read many years ago, one character asks another if they are now "hulsvogre".

"Svogre" is plural of "svoger" meaning brother-in-law. "Hul" means hole. A sweedism perhaps? The novel was translated from Swedish. Is that a thing?
It is very likely that it is a sweedism. The corresponding term in Finnish slang also uses "brothers-in-law" as part of the term (obviously only when referring to two males). Instead of a "hole", the first part euphemistically refers to a belly-button, but the intended meaning is the same. That is probably a Finnish variant of the sweedism (we copy a lot from them), as  over here "below the belly-button" is a common euphemism referring to private parts.

Of course, the Swedes may themselves have adapted the term from somewhere else.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Zebediah on 07 Mar 2014, 04:20
So Marten, Angus and Steve are going to the Horrible Revelation. Wil and Elliot work there. Sven is a regular, so there's a strong chance he'll be there too. Jimbo practically lives there.

So all we need are plausible ways to get Amir, Dale and Clinton to show up there and we will have

ALL THE DUDES.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: GarandMarine on 07 Mar 2014, 04:24
Is going out and getting boozed up really these guys' answer for EVERYTHING?

It's certainly my answer to everything. Drinking is good for people who are have issues expressing or dealing with something. Done properly a beer or three with your bros (non-gender specific usage) will give you enough booze to shake off your own internal mental bullshit that's preventing your from either communicating or confronting what's going on in your head, but NOT enough booze that you do the death spiral and drown in your own bullshit for a little while.

It's group therapy. With a pint of stout. Which is what normal group therapy sorely needs.

Alternately it can be therapy by way of not talking about it. Fun having is important, thus have fun and feel better, in the case of a serious sad sack, or a serious issue this requires one to two semi-sober friends to keep the patient off topics that will induce death spiral.

(http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110616132853/questionablecontent/images/c/cb/Bros.jpg)
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Akima on 07 Mar 2014, 04:24
* his muttonchop (had to look that word up) is slightly different
Muttonchop? Sideburns perhaps, but none of those guys has real mutton-chop whiskers. Thankfully.
(http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff321/QuintAmity/Motivator-MuttonChops.jpg)
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Loki on 07 Mar 2014, 05:02
It's group therapy. With a pint of stout. Which is what normal group therapy sorely needs.

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2319
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 07 Mar 2014, 05:04
I really want to know why these poll summaries are always already up when I open the comic in the morning.

My votes are never counted.

It's a secret.

(click to show/hide)
It's not like the poll's locked, your vote is still counted.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: cesium133 on 07 Mar 2014, 07:48
A POLL REDUX

I really want to know why these poll summaries are always already up when I open the comic in the morning.

My votes are never counted.
Welcome to QC Forums, where everything's made up and the polls don't matter. 
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Border Reiver on 07 Mar 2014, 09:13
* his muttonchop (had to look that word up) is slightly different
Muttonchop? Sideburns perhaps, but none of those guys has real mutton-chop whiskers. Thankfully.
(http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff321/QuintAmity/Motivator-MuttonChops.jpg)

[outrageous offensive faux-Aussie accent]Muttonchops?  Those aren't muttonchops, THESE  (http://www.old-picture.com/crimean-war/000/Regiment-Butler-Major-28th.htm)are mutton chops![/outrageous offensive faux Aussie accent]

Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Thrudd on 07 Mar 2014, 12:31
[outrageous offensive faux-Aussie accent]Muttonchops?  Those aren't muttonchops, THESE  (http://www.old-picture.com/crimean-war/000/Regiment-Butler-Major-28th.htm)are mutton chops![/outrageous offensive faux Aussie accent]
[begin outrageous mock-Scottish accent]
Tha's no mutton chops. Tha's a neckbeard wit a ferret expired on 'is upper lip.
Nah this be what I can call a real man's mutton chops.
(click to show/hide)
It like he's got a wee lamb on each cheek.
[end outrageous mock-Scottish accent]
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Kugai on 07 Mar 2014, 13:00
A POLL REDUX

I really want to know why these poll summaries are always already up when I open the comic in the morning.

My votes are never counted.
Welcome to QC Forums, where everything's made up and the polls don't matter. 

Hello Clive Anderson.


Fancy Victorian Garb moment coming up.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Pilchard123 on 07 Mar 2014, 13:07
I thought they were called Picadilly weepers.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Zwammy on 07 Mar 2014, 19:30
You could've just said "Alanis Morrosette" and get to the point. How she managed to get a recording deal with that voice is beyond me.

Because different people like different stuff - lots of great stuff out there to choose from, no need to bag on someone else's choice. I mean if William Hung can get a recording contract, no telling what will sell.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 07 Mar 2014, 19:31
Confession: I enjoy Alanis Morissette's music, at least some of her songs.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: techkid on 07 Mar 2014, 21:46
Alanis Morissette? Meh. I don't really care for her songs, myself. I mean, she's not bad, as such, but she ain't working her way into my playlist.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 07 Mar 2014, 22:00
Well yeah, that's fair. I don't think I've ever made an effort to listen to her, but I won't make an effort to not listen to her either. Does that make sense to anyone?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: rschill on 08 Mar 2014, 13:09
Well yeah, that's fair. I don't think I've ever made an effort to listen to her, but I won't make an effort to not listen to her either. Does that make sense to anyone?

Would it be ironic if it didn't? 
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 08 Mar 2014, 13:20
Well done.
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: Method of Madness on 08 Mar 2014, 13:35
Well yeah, that's fair. I don't think I've ever made an effort to listen to her, but I won't make an effort to not listen to her either. Does that make sense to anyone?

Would it be ironic if it didn't?
Don't ya think?
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: rschill on 08 Mar 2014, 14:51
Well yeah, that's fair. I don't think I've ever made an effort to listen to her, but I won't make an effort to not listen to her either. Does that make sense to anyone?

Would it be ironic if it didn't?
Don't ya think?
I oughta know!
Title: Re: WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Post by: jwhouk on 08 Mar 2014, 15:02
...and you're still here?