I want to see Dora run into Faye
Awkwardness, hesitant conversation and exposition followed by Coffee and hugs.
Tai's idea of 'high fashion'
Claire's hair hides a terrible secret!
Quote from: PollClaire's hair hides a terrible secret!
Third ear? Nah, Claire can't be telepathic, she was so surprised when Marten told her he liked her.
(Dammit, now I want to reread the Wayside School series...)
Hannerbutt.
Last week, whilst he was doing the 'Hanners skin condition' strips, Jeph mentioned that one of his reference photo searches had 'horrified' his girlfriend. What could it have been? I admit to being clueless so I tried to be as broad-spectrum as possible in my poll options.
Skin's easier to clean than clothes I guess?
Hardwood floors are much easier to keep clean than carpeting. (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=633)
Haven't we seen this doctor, by the way? She looks familiar.I don't believe we've seen her specifically before, but she does seem familiar.
There is quite a good chance that, like me (I also deal with OCD, though to a much lesser extent), that she has multiple articles of clothing that look exactly the same. When I buy clothing, unless it's something for a special occasion, or anime/band shirts, I try to make everything pretty much the same. All of my boots look alike, for example. I did force myself to break some of that mould when I had to move to sunnier/hotter climes, and started buying stuff that is in grey instead of black.
I want to see Dora run into FayeI very much don't.
I want to see Dora run into FayeI very much don't.
Edit: Holy shit, there was an animated Wayside movie starring Michael Cera? How did I not know of this?
She correctly guessed the plot of every single House episode.It's never lupus...except that time when it was.
Your pants are on fire and you killed a man earlier.
Your pants are on fire and you killed a man earlier.
I read this on waking up, and I am incredibly sore all over and surprisingly pantsless for no apparent reason.
What I'm saying is that your guess is frighteningly possible.
Blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer extortion! The x makes it sound cool.What we were referencing.
I doubt she'd be happy to see Gregory House treating her tho.
Hanners' characterization feels a bit jarring to me here - she's always had the OCD "quirk" and she's concerned about germs and such, but it feels like fairly large leap to this level of "running around screaming, waving hands in the air like a muppet" hypochondria. Her attitude is just *bugging* me, but I suppose you can't please all of the fans all of the time.
Hanners' characterization feels a bit jarring to me here - she's always had the OCD "quirk" and she's concerned about germs and such, but it feels like fairly large leap to this level of "running around screaming, waving hands in the air like a muppet" hypochondria. Her attitude is just *bugging* me, but I suppose you can't please all of the fans all of the time.
The succesful treatment has obviously done nothing against her anexieties. Her fear of undiscovered illnesses appears weird for someone who doesn´t suffer from hypochondrosis. But to have to life under such fears every day must be terrible. :-(I think that hypochondria is anything but weird or unusual and fits very naturally with Hanners' other anxieties which center on the fear of germs and not being in control of her environment. It seems to me that it is a very common form of anxiety which lots of people suffer from to some degree.
Absolutely. I don't think most bullfighters would be brave enough to face up to what Hannelore deals with daily.
Agreed. It's humbling how many people have to play the game of life in Nightmare Mode, and make it look easy in spite of it.
is there a bit of piss taking going on in this strip or are there really people who worry about some unspecified future problem just because they have such cosy lives in the present?
qcworld is sometimes an all together ridiculous place.
very very funny last panel today though.
This might be easier with an optics diagram...Okay, so past-you is the virtual image and present you is the object. Future you is a real image. No matter how much you want to, you cannot strangle a virtual image. Stupid past me. I hate that guy.
I know someone with this condition and I have to watch what I say. If I even hint about something medically-related, by the end of the conversation, he'll be sure he has a serious illness simply because he's been thinking too hard about it. It's no different from any other anxiety disorder - it has no real basis in reality but is nonetheless potentially disabling and always very distressing.Whow. I cannot even truely imagine that.
It's not the first time Hanners has freaked out (http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1119) over something relatively innocuous.
Okay, just a general comment about anxiety disorders: The basis for them is irrational. So anyone saying "that doesn't make any sense" is missing the point. Of course they don't make sense; that's why they are a problem. And no amount of logical argument is going to alleviate them because they are aren't based in any logic to begin with. They grab hold of a person's thought processes and do not let go, and the person suffering from them has no control over this.
I'm baffled how much Hanners can emulate the ramblings of a physicist, but obviously without actually knowing what she's talking about.I'm not a physicist but I studied to be one and surprisingly, I understood what was being postulated.
And she was producing by budding...I loved that game when it was first published
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/starfrontiers/images/4/43/Dralasite.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080128211314
:)
But Jephs comment "Hannelore has a beautiful mind" speaks for itself here
My phone is refusing to let me see these photos. There is a butt? Okay, now I am angry. CURSE YOU, PHONE
Okay, just a general comment about anxiety disorders: The basis for them is irrational.Minor exception - Adjustment Disorder. This one's tricky, as the basis is perfectly rational, only the involuntary reaction to it unhelpful.
Tai was there?
Considering her earliest contacts were with the personnel and staff at her dads Space Station, it doesn't surprise me that she has a basic knowledge of some scientific principles.I can't be bothered to do an archive trawl to find all the quotations, but Hanners has repeatedly demonstrated (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2130) that her grasp of QC-universe science is much more than basic.
You know, Hannelore's monologue in this strip reminds me so strongly of DSL's QC Captions post (https://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,30679.msg1321427.html#msg1321427) from the other day that I wonder if Jeph was inspired by DSL. :-D
Pintsized has a new trick!
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It's apparently something other than shrinking, growing, and otherwise changing tge shape of his head!
I'm a little afraid now of what it might be!
I have no doubt that he'll wake up tomorrow, look at this strip and say something along the lines of: "What the fuck is that?!?"Oh, that explains it. Thank you.
Kinda hard to see how this joke is going to work in print format. Perhaps a cardboard cut-out Pintsize head secured to the page with a short wide spring that bobbles about when you open the book.