I think it would be amusing to have a series of panels where various QC characters actually do stare right down the camera lens and tell their audience just what they think of us. :-DReadership in general or just the forumoids? Opinion(s) might vary widely.
I think it would be amusing to have a series of panels where various QC characters actually do stare right down the camera lens and tell their audience just what they think of us. :-D
I hope so!I think it would be amusing to have a series of panels where various QC characters actually do stare right down the camera lens and tell their audience just what they think of us. :-D
I often wonder if House of Cards will trigger a comeback for the soliloquy.
Ugh, I've been in Dora's position. Not with a coffee roaster, but having to train people who take instructions too literally.
Not fun in the slightest.
Is that insulation hanging from the ceiling over the roaster?
...wait, wasn't Dora meant to do this months ago QC-time?
It just took that long for Dora to clear out the Spider Zone (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2467)
Ugh, I've been in Dora's position. Not with a coffee roaster, but having to train people who take instructions too literally.
Not fun in the slightest.
I wouldn't say that Hanners takes everything literally, it's just that one of the manifestations of her OCD is compulsive counting. She had previously been using her compulsion in order to make money, but outside of drumming, I don't know how much counting she is doing. If she has been avoiding it, this may prove to be a bit of a difficulty.
Is that insulation hanging from the ceiling over the roaster?I wondered what that pink stuff was too. I also wonder what a fucked-up coffee bean looks like. I had to google to find out what unroasted beans even look like; I really have no idea about roasting coffee. I was impressed to see, when I googled, that Jeph's drawing of the roasting machine seems pretty accurate.
Does Hanners have a twin-brother we don't know about yet?
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Old Dutch commercial about salted peanuts, sadly in Dutch and without subtitles.(click to show/hide)
On April 1 the human characters will be robots and the robot characters will be human. Nobody in-comic will comment on it.
Is that insulation hanging from the ceiling over the roaster?
I'd like to know that as well.
I will refrain from asking Google to show me "fucked up coffee beans".
I was referring more to people I had worked with before than Hanners taking things literally.Ugh, I've been in Dora's position. Not with a coffee roaster, but having to train people who take instructions too literally.
Not fun in the slightest.
I wouldn't say that Hanners takes everything literally, it's just that one of the manifestations of her OCD is compulsive counting. She had previously been using her compulsion in order to make money, but outside of drumming, I don't know how much counting she is doing. If she has been avoiding it, this may prove to be a bit of a difficulty.
While eonjoyin Hanners discomfort something struck me: The complete lack of ambition amongst people in the QC-verse. Outside of Dora, a succesful Businesswoman, the only one who seemed to accomplish anything, Angus, was shipped of to Mandyville. While in my 20s I wasn't surrounded by the most dynamic of people, they mostly had worthwhile goals and were striving towards them. Allowing those still in college a pass, the rest are absolutley pathetic. Fun, adorablem, enetertaining, but pathetic. they will end up in their 40s, still working minimum wage, sharing shitty flats/apartments and not having a clue what happened.
, does it matter? Not everyone follows the same measure of what success means. To me success is having a life you enjoy with people you like being with. Not all of buy into the bullshit idea that money equals success.
, does it matter? Not everyone follows the same measure of what success means. To me success is having a life you enjoy with people you like being with. Not all of buy into the bullshit idea that money equals success.
But most of them aren't particularly happy.
Faye's job is dodgy as hell and her boss sucks.
Marten does not want to be a librarian.
Penelope wants to work in publishing, but is doing nothing about it.
Will is a bar man, but does nothing about being a published poet.
I don't see earning enough cash to get by while working in an unfulfilling job and not doing anythong about getting a fulfilling job as particularly happinees affirming. Surrounded yourself with similar people mey help you get by, but you still are going to wonder what the hell happened when you are 40, in a dead end job, lice in a shared home with nothing, no accomplishments, no family, no job, to show for it.
, does it matter? Not everyone follows the same measure of what success means. To me success is having a life you enjoy with people you like being with. Not all of buy into the bullshit idea that money equals success.I don't see earning enough cash to get by while working in an unfulfilling job and not doing anythong about getting a fulfilling job as particularly happinees affirming. Surrounded yourself with similar people mey help you get by, but you still are going to wonder what the hell happened when you are 40, in a dead end job, lice in a shared home with nothing, no accomplishments, no family, no job, to show for it.
While eonjoyin Hanners discomfort something struck me: The complete lack of ambition amongst people in the QC-verse. Outside of Dora, a succesful Businesswoman, the only one who seemed to accomplish anything, Angus, was shipped of to Mandyville. While in my 20s I wasn't surrounded by the most dynamic of people, they mostly had worthwhile goals and were striving towards them. Allowing those still in college a pass, the rest are absolutley pathetic. Fun, adorablem, enetertaining, but pathetic. they will end up in their 40s, still working minimum wage, sharing shitty flats/apartments and not having a clue what happened.
If they are happy, does it matter? Not everyone follows the same measure of what success means. To me success is having a life you enjoy with people you like being with. Not all of buy into the bullshit idea that money equals success.
I always thought happiness was success.
I don't see earning enough cash to get by while working in an unfulfilling job and not doing anythong about getting a fulfilling job as particularly happinees affirming. Surrounded yourself with similar people mey help you get by, but you still are going to wonder what the hell happened when you are 40, in a dead end job, lice in a shared home with nothing, no accomplishments, no family, no job, to show for it.
But most of them aren't particularly happy.
Faye's job is dodgy as hell and her boss sucks.
Marten does not want to be a librarian.
Penelope wants to work in publishing, but is doing nothing about it.
Will is a bar man, but does nothing about being a published poet.
or a pack of brats.I just realized I've now been in Wisconsin for too long, because what my mind read that as is probably not what you meant. :clairedoge:
Penelope wants to work in publishing, but is doing nothing about it.
Do we know that?
Hannelore’s big fear in the basement (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZw7lWd1btQ)
Penelope wants to work in publishing, but is doing nothing about it.
Do we know that?
Here's the strip where Pennelope talks about it:
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1649
In the end "life goals" and "accomplishments" are meaningless, the same fate awaits us all. What matters is if you enjoyed the journey. All the money, so-called success, and legacies in the world count for nothing. Enjoy what time you have. And don't judge other people for how they choose to live thier lives if they aren't hurting anyone.
While eonjoyin Hanners discomfort something struck me: The complete lack of ambition amongst people in the QC-verse. Outside of Dora, a succesful Businesswoman, the only one who seemed to accomplish anything, Angus, was shipped of to Mandyville. While in my 20s I wasn't surrounded by the most dynamic of people, they mostly had worthwhile goals and were striving towards them. Allowing those still in college a pass, the rest are absolutley pathetic. Fun, adorablem, enetertaining, but pathetic. they will end up in their 40s, still working minimum wage, sharing shitty flats/apartments and not having a clue what happened.
Wait, is this the first time we've seen Claire with an off the neck updo? I don't think I'm a fan.Her first appearance (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2203) looks pretty much like an off-the-neck updo (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2204)?
My point is, decrying someone's lack of accomplishments or direction is stupid if that person is satisfied and happy. Yes, for some people having a goal and pursuing it is a source of happiness and fulfillment, and more power to them, but it's not true for everyone. The goals and accomplishments themselves are meaningless, which isn't to say they don't have an effect. The destination of the journey is the same for everyone.In the end "life goals" and "accomplishments" are meaningless, the same fate awaits us all. What matters is if you enjoyed the journey. All the money, so-called success, and legacies in the world count for nothing. Enjoy what time you have. And don't judge other people for how they choose to live thier lives if they aren't hurting anyone.
The goal is the destination of the journey, and thus is far from meaningless when it fundamentally affects where the journey takes you.
Of course the journey is what counts, but that doesn't preclude setting goals.
Her first appearance (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2203) looks pretty much like an off-the-neck updo (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2204)?
She was also sporting it back in the (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2796) late (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2797) 2700s (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2798). (or is that just a ponytail?)
I think the main difference is that she's somehow figured out how to tame that jagged floof that usually hangs out over her right eye.
To be fair, I am a nihilist. Among other things.
I guess I was provoked into replying because saying that goals and accomplishments are meaningless because we all die in the end is disturbingly nihilistic.
Later that day, after sending several long emails further dissecting the "prank," Claire returns home with a jar labeled "Wolf Urine," walks up to Pintsize, sets it on the couch beside him (while maintaining eye contact throughout), and walks away without a word.
To be fair, I am a nihilist. Among other things.
The nihilists didn't soil the rug, Wu did, he worked for Jackie Treehorn. The nihilists had the marmet. Besides, I'm housebroken.To be fair, I am a nihilist. Among other things.
Stay away from my rug. It really ties the room together.
Would I be wrong in saying that it feels like Marten's apartment, at least when Faye isn't around, is now her territory - and possibly the first time she's really had something she could treat as "her territory"?
It's the Shame Orb! Or more likely just a strange-looking fixture.
I'm a bit too young for "duck and cover" drills but a couple of my sisters remember doing them in the early primary grades. It was a simpler time, when people actually thought a nuclear war was survivable.
I'm a bit too young for "duck and cover" drills but a couple of my sisters remember doing them in the early primary grades. It was a simpler time, when people actually thought a nuclear war was survivable.
I was told they taught kids to duck and cover on the offchance their bodies wouldn't vapourize and they would be identifiable.
I was told they taught kids to duck and cover on the offchance their bodies wouldn't vapourize and they would be identifiable.
I was told they taught kids to duck and cover on the offchance their bodies wouldn't vapourize and they would be identifiable.
The Wikipedia article seems to suggest it was reasonable advice (and under the circumstances, the best advice) derived from the experiences of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors.
But it was probably only applicable to Hiroshima-sized bombs, and not a great deal of use given how quickly hydrogen bombs, 100 times more powerful, were developed.
Duck and Cover - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_and_cover (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_and_cover)
Isn't Hanners about two generations too young to be familiar with that? Or is it still a phrase sometimes used in that part of the world?
For education on that matter, I suggest the film "Threads".
Double-dog dare anyone to call 902-420-6969.
Someone hasn't seen the new pinned post by The Shame Orb. :lol:
Double-dog dare anyone to call 902-420-6969.
It appears to be an unassigned number.
I disagree with this. You can be satisfied and happy simply because you choose to be ignorant about things (your own future, society, national and global issues, etc.). On an temporary individual level it's pretty cool, but it's just inherently shallow. It's how I spent my early 20s and, looking back, it was just a waste of life. We're not animals, we need to do more than just be satisfied with a somewhat pleasing present; that is simply not a life worth living.My point is, decrying someone's lack of accomplishments or direction is stupid if that person is satisfied and happy. Yes, for some people having a goal and pursuing it is a source of happiness and fulfillment, and more power to them, but it's not true for everyone. The goals and accomplishments themselves are meaningless, which isn't to say they don't have an effect. The destination of the journey is the same for everyone.In the end "life goals" and "accomplishments" are meaningless, the same fate awaits us all. What matters is if you enjoyed the journey. All the money, so-called success, and legacies in the world count for nothing. Enjoy what time you have. And don't judge other people for how they choose to live thier lives if they aren't hurting anyone.
The goal is the destination of the journey, and thus is far from meaningless when it fundamentally affects where the journey takes you.
Of course the journey is what counts, but that doesn't preclude setting goals.
I was told they taught kids to duck and cover on the offchance their bodies wouldn't vapourize and they would be identifiable.
The Wikipedia article seems to suggest it was reasonable advice (and under the circumstances, the best advice) derived from the experiences of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors.
But it was probably only applicable to Hiroshima-sized bombs, and not a great deal of use given how quickly hydrogen bombs, 100 times more powerful, were developed.
I disagree with this. You can be satisfied and happy simply because you choose to be ignorant about things (your own future, society, national and global issues, etc.). On an temporary individual level it's pretty cool, but it's just inherently shallow. It's how I spent my early 20s and, looking back, it was just a waste of life. We're not animals, we need to do more than just be satisfied with a somewhat pleasing present; that is simply not a life worth living.
(nihilist from the other side of the philosophical coin here)
... insisting that it's all 'canon-compliant'!
Isn't Hanners about two generations too young to be familiar with that?
We don't need to do anything. We are under no obligation to do anything. We are animals. What makes life worth living is a decision made by the person living it. It is not my, or anyone else's, place to tell someone else how to find satisfaction and fulfillment in life as long as they are not harming others to do so.
We don't need to do anything. We are under no obligation to do anything. We are animals. What makes life worth living is a decision made by the person living it. It is not my, or anyone else's, place to tell someone else how to find satisfaction and fulfillment in life as long as they are not harming others to do so.
But the comfortable middle-class lifestyle *is* harming others. Sure, if you live like an animal - independent, in a place where you have no direct negative impact on anything beyond your immediate circumstance - then feel free to do so. But the average life in a civilised city is dependent on the sacrifice of others; you can derive happiness and satisfaction in it, sure, but it doesn't make it less irresponsible and shallow. Life demands resources, and those resources are quickly depleting; making those resources count is our duty as people with access to education, power, and information.
While eonjoyin Hanners discomfort something struck me: ...
Isn't Hanners about two generations too young to be familiar with that? Or is it still a phrase sometimes used in that part of the world?I admit that I'm somewhat older than Hanners, but I've certainly heard of "duck and cover", despite growing up in China and Australia. I think it's a pretty well known meme in popular culture.
An friend of mine told me about certain beers made in Belgium where micro-organisms and cobwebs up the rafters of old buildings are held to improve the flavour. Perhaps spider-droppings in the beans are the secret of CoD's great coffee...
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An friend of mine told me about certain beers made in Belgium where micro-organisms and cobwebs up the rafters of old buildings are held to improve the flavour. Perhaps spider-droppings in the beans are the secret of CoD's great coffee...
An friend of mine told me about certain beers made in Belgium where micro-organisms and cobwebs up the rafters of old buildings where it is brewed are held to improve the flavour. Perhaps spider-droppings in the beans are the secret of CoD's great coffee...It's An old English tradition (http://www.exclassics.com/skelton/skel027.htm)
making those resources count is our duty as people with access to education, power, and information.
You can't forget Engagement, Ohio.(click to show/hide)
All right, if we're going this route, then: Lizard Lick, North Carolina (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_Lick,_North_Carolina).
I have a friend who grew up in a trailer park there. He is a genuine Lizard Licker.
An friend of mine told me about certain beers made in Belgium where micro-organisms and cobwebs up the rafters of old buildings where it is brewed are held to improve the flavour. Perhaps spider-droppings in the beans are the secret of CoD's great coffee...
Or Fucking, Austria (https://www.google.de/maps/place/5121+Fucking,+%C3%96sterreich/@48.0244062,12.8268624,12.5z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4775d4854dbcba19:0x802456ee60b72a17) ...
It's not an unreasonable name, considering that there actually is a town in Ontario named Moose Factory.I lived in, and went to college for a couple of years in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
That wacky Jeph.