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Another week of qc. Probably not as sexy as last week. But we'll see.
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I'm pretty sure the next step will be Faye running into Bubbles at the Fighting League building and there being a very awkward conversation as they both try to apologise to each other and get frustrated by their inability to handle such an unfamiliar act.
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Indeed
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It will prove quite enlightening when Bubbles comes out of her shell. Both figuratively and literally.
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Buy cat food. Just in case.
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Definitely do not look up brimping if you are Hanners.
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Yes, that is a seriously disturbing to-do list.
I hope Jeph gets his old fonts back soon.
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I'm going to guess that "brimping" involves preparing shrimp in a brine solution.
*checks Urban Dictionary*
Nope!
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Y'know, I'm happier not knowing...
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Fossilized dinosaur crap: merry xmass Dad!
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Y'know, I'm happier not knowing...
I envy your ability to know this and follow through.
I knew this, yet I looked it up anyway.
Actually not that scarring, tell the truth. I know of worse
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I, too, was happier not knowing what brimping means.
But I still think this needs to be added as a poll option: :-P
"I looked up brimping from UD".
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Get well soon Jeph!
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I'm pretty sure the next step will be Faye running into Bubbles at the Fighting League building and there being a very awkward conversation as they both try to apologise to each other and get frustrated by their inability to handle such an unfamiliar act.
I couldn't read this sentence without the voice of the guy from Superfriends butting in with "IN THE GREAT HALL OF THE FIGHTING LEAGUE!"
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Actually not that scarring, tell the truth.
Not for you and me, but Hanners would probably want to tear her hair out.
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I suppose that I understand why Hannelore just destroyed her list. After all, would you want a reminder that you had got that drunk? Everything about that list proves that Hanners' life went in a strange direction last night. I think that it is understandable that she's taking the opportunity of a hangover-induced reset button when it is offered to her.
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But I still think this needs to be added as a poll option: :P
"I looked up brimping from UD".
That can be arranged :P
(Personally the initial poll options for this week made me rather uncomfortable)
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(Personally the initial poll options for this week made me rather uncomfortable)
I'm just sad cereal got edited over. Breakfast is important!
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That was oversight more than anything, was on my phone when I did that. Breakfast is important.
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Fossilized dinosaur crap: merry xmass Dad!
To be fair, like all fossils, it's just a rock.
Although to be even more fair, this is Hanners, she'd probably have the site nuked from orbit, just to be sure.
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Fossilized dinosaur crap: merry xmass Dad!
I'm wondering if May misheard 'coprolite' and heard 'cowboy boner' and started teasing her and Marigold about their turn-ons. Hanners, being Hanners, was fascinated and repelled in equal amounts.
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I looked up brimping :psyduck:
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I looked up brimping too... and now I'm sorta curious.
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I looked up brimping too... and now I'm sorta curious.
Me too, but only as to the answer of the question: "Just how far does Rule 36 actually go?"
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I looked up brimping too... and now I'm sorta curious.
Me too, but only as to the answer of the question: "Just how far does Rule 36 actually go?"
Do not try to research this. It leads to dark places, and the answer is always the same: forever.
I've seen toothpaste porn. As in toothpaste-toothbrush Bukkake. I use this as an example of the weird-but-not-totally-disturbing things I've found. That is my safe for work example.
The internet is a strange and terrifying place.
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There is no limit to rule 36 and by extension rule 34.
"What about-"
YES, EVEN THAT
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The continuation of the rules explains this.
Rule 37: if no porn exists of it, there soon will be.
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Fossilized dinosaur crap: merry xmass Dad!
So it's not just a nicer way to say "ebay shit"?
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The continuation of the rules explains this.
Rule 37: if no porn exists of it, there soon will be.
Pretty sure that's Rule 34.
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"Drunken Notes to Future Self" are the Wurst ...
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34a, I thought.
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"Drunken Notes to Future Self" are the Wurst ...
It is never weiss to write such notes to oneself, but Hanners has a knack for it. She grew up from being a brat on a space station, and now she thinks she needs to apologize to Faye in order to curry favor from her.
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Get Cat food just in case
Destroy and forget the rest.
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The hair gets trapped under the foreskin.
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The continuation of the rules explains this.
Rule 37: if no porn exists of it, there soon will be.
Pretty sure that's Rule 34.
You know, I thought something was up with the numbers, but I didn't feel like looking it up. Any case, you're almost right. We've been talking about rule 34 this whole time. I was referring to rule 35.
34a, I thought.
I only speak of the list I saw for the first time around '09-'10. There was no such thing as '34a.'
There was rule 34.
There remains rule 34.
Rule 35 goes with Rule 34.
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The thing that surprised me is that, according to Urban Dictionary, brimping "is generally how one knows that a relationship has become serious, and often symbolizes commitment." Seriously?
I am now officially old.
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There's only one definition, though - not the usual 27.
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Comic
See, that is exactly the shit I would do when I was drunk. I feel more connected to Hanners now than ever.
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Comic's up.
Drunkeness and OCD is a terrible combination.
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Drunkeness and OCD is a terrible combination.
I dunno if it's necessarily OCD or obsessive joke-making in my case. I suspect the second, given that I'm not OCD.
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I gotta admit, the last panel made me laugh hysterically out loud for a solid minute. Poor, chipper, sticky-noted Winslow.
Also, as far as "brimping" goes, I'm just glad I'm not in a relationship with the person who wrote that entry or any of the 40 people who've thumbed it up. My hair is Not For That.
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What kind of hair, though?
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What kind of hair, though?
Not amykathleen's.
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In other news, I zoomed in on a panel, and noticed one of the post-its is Na'vi.
"Hey! Listen!"
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What if that isn't Hanner's handwriting?
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This comic reminds me of this.
(http://i.imgur.com/MuIRwnv.jpg)
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Item 5 implies very gradial sexual maturing. Not just sexy cowboys anymore, now with boners! What this is leading to, maybe in comic 5000 there's a schlick joke and in comic 20000 she has a boyfriend. (Which, in QC-time, would be only a year or two.)
"Drunken Notes to Future Self" are the Wurst ...
Drunken videos are the worst. As in "I absolutely refuse to believe that!" *friend zips in their phone*. And then you try to not see anyone involved in few weeks...
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Obviously Hannelore knows herself too well... Which is an odd phrase, when you think about it. Seriously, if it was that important to her past self, she should at least think about it, no matter how nonsensical it seems to her now!
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Did Drunk Past Hanners set a cat adoption in motion?
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Did Drunk Past Hanners set a cat adoption in motion?
If she did, she's in for a shock. I've had two of the little cuddly, cute furballs in my life and they were both messy.
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My morning self would -totally- crumple up those notes.
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Y'know, I'm happier not knowing...
I envy your ability to know this and follow through.
I knew this, yet I looked it up anyway.
Actually not that scarring, tell the truth. I know of worse
Oh, indeed. I've heard much worse. I was all worried for nothing.
And today's strip made me laugh. That is so Hanners. :-D
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Having looked it up, I can see why Hanners might want to ask Marigold about brimping; she has longer hair.
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Hanners is clever on an impressively meta level. It's a damn good thing that she's not evil, 'cause she'd make for a horrifyingly effective supervillain.
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"Drunken Notes to Future Self" are the Wurst ...
It is never weiss to write such notes to oneself, but Hanners has a knack for it. She grew up from being a brat on a space station, and now she thinks she needs to apologize to Faye in order to curry favor from her.
:-D
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Hanners is clever on an impressively meta level. It's a damn good thing that she's not evil, 'cause she'd make for a horrifyingly effective supervillain.
ahem...
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2443
She could be her mother's daughter after all...
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Hanners is clever on an impressively meta level. It's a damn good thing that she's not evil, 'cause she'd make for a horrifyingly effective supervillain.
Uhmmmmmh, meta-cognition is kinda included in the standard OCD-package. It's not so much being clever as "being clever about being clever & hoping your other self won't figure you out"
It's a bit like "trying to look slightly past something", only mentally.
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It looks like she's not going to let herself forget
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To be fair, they are sexy fireman boners. I am just wondering about the cat food (just in case)... In case of what?
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To be fair, they are sexy fireman boners.
But they were cowboy boners! Hanners was very specific! :mrgreen:
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Cowboy Firemen??
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Are we talking about Blazing Saddles?
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Are we ever not?
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"I was wondering...what's inside...the human ear?
Don't tell me...there's a spiral."
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Welcome, Lioness!
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Thank you! :)
(I couldn't resist making a Junji Ito reference when I saw this comic, haha.)
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Thank you Hanners, for saying what we were all thinking.
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If Jeph Jacques did the illustrations and explanations for my high school anatomy and physiology textbooks, I think I'd have understood things better!
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For some reason, I can see Faye helping poor Hanners as she regurgitates cookies into the toilet and glaring death daggers at Jeph today. Seriously, if there was ever a way to get your own creations to resent you, Jeph found the way! :wink:
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"Relax, it's just a comic."
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I'm really happy about today's comic. For the first time ever, I've finally seen something audiology related in a webcomic! :D Now people have some idea of the stuff I have to deal with in my job!
Hope it gets treated soon Jeph. :-)
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For some reason, I can see Faye helping poor Hanners as she regurgitates cookies into the toilet and glaring death daggers at Jeph today. Seriously, if there was ever a way to get your own creations to resent you, Jeph found the way! :wink:
I wouldn't want to be Jeph if Faye finds out who's responsible for her father's suicide.
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At least they don't need to use Hanners Reset button
Yet.
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...loss of balance. Now why did I first thought something entirely else and more gruesome to lose... Now I'm wondering if any diseases end up in losing that, though I don't think I would want to know.
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... I am just wondering about the cat food (just in case)... In case of what?
In case a hungry kitty appears, of course. (There are TWO kitties in QC. I have forgotten so much...)
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To do #6. Ask Marigold about Anime Dicks.
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Not how I wanted to start out my day, but now I'm consumed by the concept of "Anime dicks".
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So, we now know that Marigold draws H-Doujinshi, either as a hobby or as a side to her running her dad's shop's online shopping portal.
I wonder if Dale knows that he is expected to be a Bishie?
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Just to add that I have just noticed Marigold's cute-mischievous 'kitty-cat smile'. All of the QC girls have their moments of adorable and that particular smile is Marigold's.
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All anime guys do this thing where they touch their glasses like this, I don't know why.
At the risk of taking a joke too seriously, that's a difference of habit between North America and Japan. In N.A., when our glasses are sliding down our noses, we tend to push them back up by the bridge, while the Japanese tend to push them back up by the side.
It's similar to what was shown in "Inglorious Basterds", when ordering three beers, we would hold up the first three fingers, while Europeans hold up the thumb and first TWO fingers.
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All anime guys do this thing where they touch their glasses like this, I don't know why.
At the risk of taking a joke too seriously, that's a difference of habit between North America and Japan. In N.A., when our glasses are sliding down our noses, we tend to push them back up by the bridge, while the Japanese tend to push them back up by the side.
It's similar to what was shown in "Inglorious Bastards", when ordering three beers, we would hold up the first three fingers, while Europeans hold up the thumb and first TWO fingers.
Strange, it must be a manga thing so that the face is not obscured in the drawing because in the Anime series I have watched they push them up by the bridge, most likely for easier cell animation even though cells are computer rendered and then laser printed these days by most studios.
Here is the telling thing I have noticed though, if the character is any sort of jerk, or in the process of behaving like one in that scene, they use their middle finger, yet if they are not a bastard, will use three even though it looks weird.
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All anime guys do this thing where they touch their glasses like this, I don't know why.
At the risk of taking a joke too seriously, that's a difference of habit between North America and Japan. In N.A., when our glasses are sliding down our noses, we tend to push them back up by the bridge, while the Japanese tend to push them back up by the side.
It's similar to what was shown in "Inglorious Bastards", when ordering three beers, we would hold up the first three fingers, while Europeans hold up the thumb and first TWO fingers.
Strange, it must be a manga thing so that the face is not obscured in the drawing because in the Anime series I have watched they push them up by the bridge, most likely for easier cell animation even though cells are computer rendered and then laser printed these days by most studios.
Here is the telling thing I have noticed though, if the character is any sort of jerk, or in the process of behaving like one in that scene, they use their middle finger, yet if they are not a bastard, will use three even though it looks weird.
That's actually more of a North American thing, though some Japanese artists may have incorporated it into their mangas because American mannerisms might be viewed as subtle ways of being rude in Japan. I wouldn't know though, I've never read a manga. And all the megane characters I've seen in animes never push the glasses up by the bridge, always either by the side or by grasping one stem and lifting the glasses back up teir nose. One character even used the heel of his hand to do it because he wore Freddy Kreuger style gloves.
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Odd. I think I've only ever seen glasses pushed up by the bridge of the nose in both manga and anime.
I present to you Exhibit A (https://www.google.com/search?q=pushing+glasses+up+manga+anime&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=890&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMI2c-h_ej5yAIVA8k-Ch2t3wOr).
The majority are by the bridge.
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Odd. I think I've only ever seen glasses pushed up by the bridge of the nose in both manga and anime.
I present to you Exhibit A (https://www.google.com/search?q=pushing+glasses+up+manga+anime&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=890&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMI2c-h_ej5yAIVA8k-Ch2t3wOr).
The majority are by the bridge.
Interestingly, the majority of adjustments by edge or arm hinge are female characters. This wouldn't be the first example I've seen of rigid gender bars on character behaviour/appearance.
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Looking at the
great internet time-wasting abyss TV Tropes (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AdjustingYourGlasses), there's also a far greater number of examples for the bridge than the side.
There's also some reasoning on there on why it might be that female characters are more likely to use the hinges or arms - that they are being careful to take particular care with their eyewear, which may or may not be quite as prevalent in their male counterparts.
This is only a theory, however, and I'm not going to state anything concretely lest I be wrong.
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This is interesting filler
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Looking at the great internet time-wasting abyss TV Tropes (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AdjustingYourGlasses), there's also a far greater number of examples for the bridge than the side.
From that article (I very carefully avoided the yawning abyss clicking on any further links):
Bonus points if you wear glasses and were trying all of these methods as you read them.
Bonus bonus points if you put a pair on just to do that.
There should have been bonus bonus bonus points for trying the methods without having any glasses at all to hand. :meh:
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Bonus points if you wear glasses and were trying all of these methods as you read them.
Bonus bonus points if you put a pair on just to do that.
There should have been bonus bonus bonus points for trying the methods without having any glasses at all to hand. :meh:
*pokes self in eye*
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Amazingly, I didn't poke myself in the eye, but I do have that strange sensation of pressure across the bridge of my nose that I normally experience only after I've taken off sunglasses I've had on for awhile.
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Not how I wanted to start out my day, but now I'm consumed by the concept of "Anime dicks".
Anime Dick, Private Eye.
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Anime Eye, Private Dick
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Anime, the Dick-eyed Private. (It's a Japan Self-Defense Force comedy!)
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I like snarky Marten. Isn't this backsliding for the Pugnacious Peach, though? It's been a long time since she hit him.
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It seems Faye is destined to be violent for as long as is required for cheap laughs. :evil:
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...I push my glasses up by the bottom of one lens.
And come on, Marten, what were you expecting there?
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To be fair, it totally proves his point.
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Let us hope Bubbles does not do the same.
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...I push my glasses up by the bottom of one lens.
And come on, Marten, what were you expecting there?
As a friend to many violent ladies, that's the joke. You make the comment about them being violent, and then they hit you, and it is what makes it funny; Jeph stole this comic from my high school lunch table
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...I push my glasses up by the bottom of one lens.
And come on, Marten, what were you expecting there?
As a friend to many violent ladies, that's the joke. You make the comment about them being violent, and then they hit you, and it is what makes it funny; Jeph stole this comic from my high school lunch table
As as somewhat violent lady myself, I know. (The only person I'm ever violent toward is my older brother. I don't even raise my voice at students. But this conversation has played itself out many times!)
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What if Bubbles can rocket punch?
(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/338/b/a/alisa__s_rocket_punch_by_jokerjester_campos-d4i5cf5.gif)
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Nasty thug Faye is never far from the surface.
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When did Faye start strangling her victims as sacrifices?
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It's funny because Faye couldn't take a playful criticism far more mild than the genuinely malicious ones she gives out and reacted with physical violence.
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At the risk of taking a joke too seriously, that's a difference of habit between North America and Japan. In N.A., when our glasses are sliding down our noses, we tend to push them back up by the bridge, while the Japanese tend to push them back up by the side.
I adjust my reading glasses using both hands, one on each ear-piece. I don't know what that means; my technique is not included in this useful guide (http://www.mybubbleteatime.com/2014/01/how-do-you-push-up-your-glasses.html), but then I am not Japanese, much less an anime character.
I like snarky Marten. Isn't this backsliding for the Pugnacious Peach, though? It's been a long time since she hit him.
It's rather a throw-back to the early days of the comic, and "comedic violence".
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It's funny because Faye couldn't take a playful criticism far more mild than the genuinely malicious ones she gives out and reacted with physical violence.
Maybe I'm tired and am taking you more seriously than you intended, but fucking come on. I've been in two or three relationships with this kind of dynamic, and there's as much play in the punch as there is in the comment. It's the punchline, both of them know this, and yeah, it's painful, but it's not malicious. There's no intent to do damage, and both sides know this.
Nasty thug Faye is never far from the surface.
I'd point to what I just said, but this feels like more of a ridiculous exaggeration for comical effect. This is more over the top, and I can believe it is silly for silliness' sake.
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Here's the thing... I don't think that Marten was kidding; is he really that naive? That said, I can't exactly blame Faye for being angry; she might be genuinely afraid on some level and all Marten was able to offer (at best) was something useless or (at worst) a wisecrack at her expense.
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At the risk of taking a joke too seriously, that's a difference of habit between North America and Japan. In N.A., when our glasses are sliding down our noses, we tend to push them back up by the bridge, while the Japanese tend to push them back up by the side.
I adjust my reading glasses using both hands, one on each ear-piece. I don't know what that means; my technique is not included in this useful guide (http://www.mybubbleteatime.com/2014/01/how-do-you-push-up-your-glasses.html), but then I am not Japanese, much less an anime character.
I usually adjust my (distance) glasses by wriggling my nose in a particular way - kind of wrinkling up one side and then the other, which lifts the nosepiece back into position when it slips. Is this not usual? Am... am I the only one?
(Worth noting: I have Faye-esque bad vision. Not quite as short-sighted, going by past comics, but getting there.)
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Interesting. The average person I know would respond with a slap to Marten's response, as it's more disrespectful.
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It's the punchline
:clairedoge:
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So are people ignoring that this has pretty much always been Faye and Marten's friendship dynamic. Snark is how they communicate like 70% of the time. A light punch to the arm is just Faye's response when she's been out-snarked and doesn't have a comeback. Also consider this... Flippancy aside, Faye's probably rather nervous about going back to work and having to deal with Bubbles. Not because she's afraid that Bubbles is going to hit her, but she's afraid she's lost a friend and things will be uncomfortable. Marten was just lightening the mood with a joke at his own expense. Not unlike Pintsize's usual method of helping by giving people a target to work out their frustrations on.
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I like snarky Marten. Isn't this backsliding for the Pugnacious Peach, though? It's been a long time since she hit him.
It's rather a throw-back to the early days of the comic, and "comedic violence".
I read it as self-deprecating humor on Faye's part. This is a play-punch, not because she's mad at Marten, but because it's funny to act violent at someone right after that someone calls you violent. It has the same spirit as our mock-distress reaction to puns.
Remember, violence is also communication. And it can be light-hearted and friendly, just like any other communication. It can even be the "punch" line to a joke.
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See, I don't read it as playful because every bit of that last panel looks genuinely aggressive.
If I thought the fourth panel looked playful, I wouldn't have any problem. Faye's eyebrows are a dark 'v' shape, she's pulled into a boxer's pose, her mouth is definitely upturned, Marten is cringing pretty hard and there's no hint of a smile to his expression either.
I'd be fine if this was being played as a joke, but it really doesn't look like it. It just makes me uncomfortable.
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I just think Faye's nervous about how things are gonna go with Bubbles after what happened and she just reacted as she usually does to Marten and her friends when she gets in that state.
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I just think Faye is a bullying thug who has been enabled by her spineless friends. If any of my friends hit me they would be gone. The fact that it is Marten's housemate that hits him adds an unpleasant domestic abuse overtone.
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You have different friendships with different people and a different look on those relationships than others might. You're also one hell of a harsh judge, using words like 'spineless.'
It's a subjective point, but I wouldn't classify their relationship as abusive. The punches are brought on by people making rude comments, there's never any lasting after-effects, physically or otherwise*, and it's ultimately all in good fun. I can't think of any significant example where Marten actually held back from something because Faye would hit him.
As to the appearance in the panels, again, I'm speaking from personal experience. One of my best friends in high school, that was her response to me making cruel(ish)jokes about her, and the face she made would be angry for a few seconds. Then she'd relax, because she'd shown how she felt about me being mean. There's no lasting effect from the punch, and trust me, there's no way Faye hits harder than this girl; our senior year of high school, she gave a sophomore a black eye for using a pick-up line on her.
*italicized because I'm aware that not all abusive relationships leave visible signs.
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Wow, that's pretty absolute. I'm guessing violence must mean a whole lot more (or a whole lot different) to you than it does to me.
I guess I've worked with violence in a lot of different contexts and where it has a lot of different meanings. To someone who grew up in Savannah Georgia it's entirely reasonable that swapping a few light punches among friends is mainly just a way to communicate points (or, yes, make jokes) while avoiding wasted time, hurt feelings and escalation that would result from long drawn out sessions of passive-aggressive bitching or screaming about those points.
But violence is very different for different people. Soldiers, bar bouncers, bar brawlers, professional wrestlers, abused partners, excessively punished children, people who've acted in defense of themselves or their own -- every last one of them has a different thing that violence can mean to them. Thinking it always means the same thing no matter what, or even that the people involved in a particular violence interpret it in exactly the same way, is, IMO, not paying attention to who they are and where they're coming from.
And, just FWIW, someone who smacks me on the arm to make a joke, or to make a point if I'm saying or doing something they think is stupid or evil, is something I take a whole lot more casually and lightly than someone who YELLS about things, or wants to have long-drawn-out discussions where nothing gets resolved except that other people besides themselves are morally and irredeemably wrong. Those last behaviors -- yelling about things and blame-gaming -- are fast ways to end relationships with me because I won't stand for them as a general rule.
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Morituri, thank you, that's what I wanted to say before I got side tracked, and I think you did it better than I would have managed.