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Title: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Gyrre on 15 Feb 2020, 22:50
1) I am not a market researcher for, nor am I employed in any capacity by Post/General Mills/Kellogg's/etc. #NotSponsored
2) There's flippin' Sour Patch Kids and Cold Stone Creamery cereal now.
3) As an actually serious suggestion, I'd like to see some variations done on the cherry cordial. Blackberry and raspberry sound like they'd be amazing done as such.

Anyways, I wonder when Nelson will promote Roko?


EDIT: legal disclaimer added.  point 3 added
EDIT 2: text color change, typo fix, and ammending previous edit list to include the thing I forgot.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Tova on 16 Feb 2020, 00:04
Childhood obesity is reaching a point of public health crisis and presumably only exacerbating the issues facing the US healthcare system. But let's by all means have a discussion of breakfast cereals aimed at children consisting of roughly 50% sugar.  :psyduck:
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: BenRG on 16 Feb 2020, 00:42
As a type-2 diabetic, finding a breakfast cereal that is not essentially toxic for me is a struggle and I have to actually travel several miles to find a retailer that sells low(er) sugar options.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: cesium133 on 16 Feb 2020, 06:24
I’m not diabetic, but I can’t stand having sugary food for breakfast. I always end up feeling like crap by 11 AM.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Gyrre on 16 Feb 2020, 07:33
Childhood obesity is reaching a point of public health crisis and presumably only exacerbating the issues facing the US healthcare system. But let's by all means have a discussion of breakfast cereals aimed at children consisting of roughly 50% sugar.  :psyduck:

The poll was an exercise in absurdism.

Both sides of my family have several type II diabetics and my maternal side (grandmother, great aunt) also has type I diabetics. I've thankfully manage to avoid developing hypoglycemia so far, but it's a struggle.
[Get your A1C checked at your next physical.]


EDIT: I do a lot of my own cooking and try to limit my junk food intake, so that helps. As does walking around for ~6 to 8 hours of my four 10 hour shifts. The winter sugary food cravings are annoying, though.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: cybersmurf on 16 Feb 2020, 07:39
Cliché says: in the US everything contains sugar. Or even more than usual.

Like a decade ago I was visiting the US, and I was surprised how much sweeter things are, and I even threw away a bottle of something because it was nothing but sweet.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Gyrre on 16 Feb 2020, 09:06
Cliché says: in the US everything contains sugar. Or even more than usual.

Like a decade ago I was visiting the US, and I was surprised how much sweeter things are, and I even threw away a bottle of something because it was nothing but sweet.
That's largely impart due to the high-fructose corn syrup so many companies use. Which happens to be one of the major driving forces behind the obesity issue Tova mentioned (along with what is essentially class warfare and other factors, but there's a DISCUSS for that). The unnecessary addition of artificial sweeteners to products that already contain HFCS or sugar already (yes that happens) probably doesnct help either.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: hedgie on 16 Feb 2020, 13:01
I’m not diabetic, but I can’t stand having sugary food for breakfast. I always end up feeling like crap by 11 AM.

I think that the only reason I'm *not* diabetic is that I don't like sugar, nor unmitigated sweet in general.  My preferred fruits even are somewhat tart.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Dngrsone on 16 Feb 2020, 13:42
there are so many ice cream shakes with cereals in them now, that the option is kind of moot.

Not a fan of sugary things, personally.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Gyrre on 16 Feb 2020, 15:24
there are so many ice cream shakes with cereals in them now, that the option is kind of moot.

Not a fan of sugary things, personally.
Oh.

I don't eat out much, so I didn't know that.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: shanejayell on 16 Feb 2020, 20:03
Comics up.

Oh Beeeeeps..... :(
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Blackjoker on 16 Feb 2020, 20:39
Yeah...I see this and honestly I kind of feel like Roko needs to take charge more often if only because beeps seems incompetent and the little pink anthropc is either too busy or unwilling to step in.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: St.Clair on 16 Feb 2020, 22:11
There is a power and/or competence near-vacuum here that has desperately needed filling for some time.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: BenRG on 16 Feb 2020, 23:09
Yeah, that's Beepatrice alright. She's the comedically inept one who never quite seems to be organised enough, mentally or emotionally, to know what her real priorities are. When she does know them, she's so intimidated by them that she just waits for them to go away! Fortunately, I've never had a boss like her although I have had bosses who want me to do something and have to have it explained to them that they haven't provided the resources to do so.

For me, this is made worse by how cutely helpless Beeps can get. So, you know that Arthur can never get mad at her. His instinct is probably identical to mine: To hug her, tell her to sit down in a quiet room with her eyes closed and then handle the stuff myself.

I just wonder how long this organisation has been unregistered or something because Beepatrice is frightened to confront the regulatory paperwork! That is something I can empathise with, working as I do in the care industry!
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Baz_Yat on 17 Feb 2020, 02:09
The comic's not showing up for me...
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: BenRG on 17 Feb 2020, 02:11
Yeah, the front-page image link looks like it's broken. Go via the archive page or follow this link (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4201).
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Tova on 17 Feb 2020, 03:31
I guess Beeps must have been thrown into her current position rather than seeking it out? She avoids managerial work but is more than happy to perform tasks like go out to buy stationary. I can only assume that some position swapping will come sooner or later.

Childhood obesity is reaching a point of public health crisis and presumably only exacerbating the issues facing the US healthcare system. But let's by all means have a discussion of breakfast cereals aimed at children consisting of roughly 50% sugar.  :psyduck:

The poll was an exercise in absurdism.

Fair enough. Sorry if I came across as cranky at you. I'm definitely cranky at the companies that produce this stuff masquerading as breakfast cereal. Among other such companies. I did work in the US for a couple of months at one time, and one of my enduring memories was how you had to go out of you way to find decent bread not stuffed with sugar. It drove me crazy.

As a type-2 diabetic, finding a breakfast cereal that is not essentially toxic for me is a struggle and I have to actually travel several miles to find a retailer that sells low(er) sugar options.

That sucks. You have my sympathies.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: DSL on 17 Feb 2020, 03:45
There were times when the hardest part of my job was teaching a new boss how to be a boss (though in retrospect, "Sit over there and let me do my ****ing job" might not have been the healthiest of lessons in the long term).
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Gyrre on 17 Feb 2020, 04:22
Okay, I think it's safe to say this week's original poll went over like a lead balloon. I'm just going to replace it with the original one that popped in my head thanks to Death Battle.

EDIT: I don't know enough about Kamen Rider to be sure about adding it. Including Gridman was reaching enough.

There were times when the hardest part of my job was teaching a new boss how to be a boss (though in retrospect, "Sit over there and let me do my ****ing job" might not have been the healthiest of lessons in the long term).
That reminds me of an interesting description I've heard about a manager's job. 'It's not to know how to do every little thing, it's to know enough about the positions they supervise to be able to facilitate the jobs.' Partially paraphrased and 100% from a supervisor.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Baz_Yat on 17 Feb 2020, 05:22
Fixed now!
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: alc40 on 17 Feb 2020, 05:48
So the last 2 comics have mentioned an Arthur off-screen, but we've previously only seen Nelson (the small pink AI).  I was thinking that Melon's orange roommate must also work or volunteer at the organization, but when I went looking I found that the leader of Faye's support group was also named Arthur (https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2921).  So now I'm kind of curious which Arthur works there, or if he's someone else entirely.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Gyrre on 17 Feb 2020, 06:29
So the last 2 comics have mentioned an Arthur off-screen, but we've previously only seen Nelson (the small pink AI).  I was thinking that Melon's orange roommate must also work or volunteer at the organization, but when I went looking I found that the leader of Faye's support group was also named Arthur (https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2921).  So now I'm kind of curious which Arthur works there, or if he's someone else entirely.

Good question. Maybe Jeph meant Nelson?

EDIT: typo fix and time for bed.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Rincewind on 17 Feb 2020, 15:09
How is "the kid" going to do the paperwork while Beep's getting pens if he doesn't have a pen?  :psyduck:

Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: BenRG on 17 Feb 2020, 15:37
Beepatrice doesn't know either! She's making this up as she goes along! Stress and embarrassment doing their dark work!
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Gyrre on 17 Feb 2020, 17:40
I guess Beeps must have been thrown into her current position rather than seeking it out? She avoids managerial work but is more than happy to perform tasks like go out to buy stationary. I can only assume that some position swapping will come sooner or later.

Childhood obesity is reaching a point of public health crisis and presumably only exacerbating the issues facing the US healthcare system. But let's by all means have a discussion of breakfast cereals aimed at children consisting of roughly 50% sugar.  :psyduck:

The poll was an exercise in absurdism.

Fair enough. Sorry if I came across as cranky at you. I'm definitely cranky at the companies that produce this stuff masquerading as breakfast cereal. Among other such companies. I did work in the US for a couple of months at one time, and one of my enduring memories was how you had to go out of you way to find decent bread not stuffed with sugar. It drove me crazy.

As a type-2 diabetic, finding a breakfast cereal that is not essentially toxic for me is a struggle and I have to actually travel several miles to find a retailer that sells low(er) sugar options.

That sucks. You have my sympathies.

I figured the 'vegetable based cereal' option was clue enough to it being absurdist. Perhaps I should have included 'pop based on vegetables' to drive the point home.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: shanejayell on 17 Feb 2020, 18:14
New comics up.

*Elliot bridal carries her down*

Renee: MUST NOT BE JEALOUS.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Gyrre on 17 Feb 2020, 20:47
If Brun is a goblin, what class does she play?
I suppose Guild Merchant for her 5E background.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Scarlet Manuka on 17 Feb 2020, 23:09
It looks like Brun's injury is still bothering her, given that she's got an ice pack on it, so she really shouldn't be trying to help move stuff.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: BenRG on 17 Feb 2020, 23:16
One of the things that I like about Brun as a character is that the things that normally occur in the back of someone's head occur out in the foreground for her. She'll even enunciate them aloud. Such as the conflict between the understanding of one's social responsibilities and the very human temptation to be lazy. Fortunately, Renee is so long used to it that she's not offended (even if she can be annoyed)!

I suspect that Elliot doesn't know why he wants to carry Brun down the stairs, only that he does. Renee does and I'm increasingly wondering if she'll try to deal with her own romantic issues by trying to 'help out' Elliot with Brun. Nothing good can come of that!

Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Wingy on 18 Feb 2020, 04:53
*Elliot bridal carries her down*
I expect it would be easier on everyone if Elliot just assisted Brun down the stairs.  But she'd still have to hang onto Elliot, which might tweak Renee a bit...
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: BenRG on 18 Feb 2020, 06:43
Not a spoiler as far as I can tell, Just Jeph doing what he felt he must do:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERBb0YlW4AEGnfj?format=png&name=900x900)

I doubt that there is any kind of plot involved with this picture but I can't help but wonder what kind of story could surround this. Roko taking Beepatrice and Winslow clubbing? Winslow realising that there are many a female-presenting synthetic out there who, when dancing, catch his eye?
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Zebediah on 18 Feb 2020, 10:13
Or maybe it's Winslow realizing that he has about as much skill at dancing as Marten (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2052).
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: shanejayell on 18 Feb 2020, 19:17
Eliot actually managed a witty comeback! *lol*
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Case on 18 Feb 2020, 20:00
Ze BURN!
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: St.Clair on 18 Feb 2020, 22:03
I doubt that there is any kind of plot involved with this picture but I can't help but wonder what kind of story could surround this. Roko taking Beepatrice and Winslow clubbing? Winslow realising that there are many a female-presenting synthetic out there who, when dancing, catch his eye?

Apparently they're just referencing an anime OP (opening credits sequence).


re: today's comic - wow, that takes me back.  (I had a similar social circle during my school days.)
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: BenRG on 18 Feb 2020, 23:06
Yeah, now Elliot and Renee have finally openly told each other how they feel, they are able to settle into the 'Best Friends' behavioural track. That includes the implicit right and duty to be a wisecracking annoyance sometimes. I find myself wondering how Brun will react to this!

FWIW, I still think that Brun is more aware of how annoying she can be than she lets on and gets a degree of enjoyment in saying something baldly embarrassing, knowing that people will make excuses for her.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: snubnose on 19 Feb 2020, 00:18
Isnt it a good thing to get a cinammon roll status revoked ?
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: DaiJB on 19 Feb 2020, 00:42
wait, was Elliot...a jock???

Wouldn't be that surprised - big strong guys who are good at sport often get an automatic "in" with the jock crowd, even if they aren't seeking it - though I doubt Elliot would ever be obnoxious about it!

FWIW, I still think that Brun is more aware of how annoying she can be than she lets on and gets a degree of enjoyment in saying something baldly embarrassing, knowing that people will make excuses for her.

I'm sure Brun is well aware of how annoying she can be, but I don't think she gets enjoyment out of it.
I suspect it's the nature of her condition that, though she knows and understands the fact of her behaviour being annoying, that knowledge has little effect on her.
She is like someone colour-blind, grabbing clothes from the closet (hey, they're all grey, after all) and wearing something comfortable that just happens to jarringly clash, simply because colour means nothing to them. It may annoy the hell out of colour-sighted friends, but that annoyance is irrelevant from the colour-blind person's perspective.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Stoon on 19 Feb 2020, 19:36
Is high school in the US really as hellish as the US media says it is?

I was one of the nerdy kids with no friends in high school, yet I was never bullied.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: ihaveavoice on 19 Feb 2020, 20:28
Is high school in the US really as hellish as the US media says it is?

I was one of the nerdy kids with no friends in high school, yet I was never bullied.

I think it's highly location and time specific, and down to a whole lot of other factors affecting the ~culture in your school? My school was kind of too packed with kids to have one "in crowd" we could all point to, which probably helped. It was only made to contain like 2400 kids or something, and there were like 3600 of us one year. I was a nerdy kid with a bunch of equally nerdy friends who never got bullied for that or saw it happen to others. That doesn't mean that there for sure weren't any bullies around, just that it wasn't a big enough part of the culture that we all saw and were aware of it. Actually, the only years in school in which I remember seeing bullying take place were in ELEMENTARY school.* Little like 8-10 year olds who would take apart bikes in the evenings and thought they were tough. From the reactions of fellow Americans I've mentioned that to, that wasn't necessarily normal, lol. The little jerks never targeted me despite me being a ~quiet kid in a gifted program, but I remember hating them for how mean they were to other kids. I guess I was that girl who was weird in the like, "pat her on the head and make sure she knows the recess bell rang in the middle of her reading" way. I was their weirdo, lol

* Edit: also middle school with its social rumors-based bullying. Some real Mean Girls shit went down in middle school.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: shanejayell on 19 Feb 2020, 20:28
I was a introvert. Not bullied, but it wasn't fun.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: sitnspin on 19 Feb 2020, 20:45
I was the lone Native kid in school. I was also queer, mentally ill, and accused the star quarterback of rape. So yeah, high school was quite brutal for me. It was also a small town, which likely made a difference. My case isn't exactly typical.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: BenRG on 19 Feb 2020, 23:25
The path of least resistance may be safer for you but it has a tendency to also be the more damaging. That aside, we are reminded that even someone of Elliot's physical size and ability can be bullied and intimidated by peer pressure into passive compliance.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Cornelius on 20 Feb 2020, 01:29
Is high school in the US really as hellish as the US media says it is?

I was one of the nerdy kids with no friends in high school, yet I was never bullied.

Not necessarily US. Though I'll admit high school was better than elementary. At least there was no beating or strangling involved there. And less teachers going along with it. Still, there were a couple of right bastards in there, and stereotypically, it's the local soccer hero that was one of the worst bullies. Mind, for some reason or other, the guys actually playing on a national level were kind of ok.

The largest incident in my high school career happened after I bested said soccer hero the single time we had a wrestling class.

Things oddly quietened some time later, after we had hockey.  Somehow, the image of me coming at them all bloodied with a half splintered stick stuck.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Marco on 20 Feb 2020, 05:45
Dammit, Jeph. I didn't want to talk about it too...
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: JoeCovenant on 20 Feb 2020, 07:09
I say Brun re-appear in the strip and thought.. Ah, cool!

But these last few strips have just felt... I dunno... filler...?
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: BenRG on 20 Feb 2020, 07:24
I think that Jeph is trying to flesh out the three characters a bit. After all, there is every prospect that they're going to almost totally supplant Marten, Hannelore and Claire as main characters.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: JoeCovenant on 20 Feb 2020, 08:24
I think that Jeph is trying to flesh out the three characters a bit. After all, there is every prospect that they're going to almost totally supplant Marten, Hannelore and Claire as main characters.

Oooo I hope not.

I'd far rather ANY of the usual suspects as the focus than those three.
(AI aside, of course... I've oddly been enjoying the 'bots stories far more in recent months...)
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Theta9 on 20 Feb 2020, 09:36
Is high school in the US really as hellish as the US media says it is?

Yes. Or at least, in the mid-to-late '80s it was. Matt Groening had it exactly right when he called high school "The Second-Deepest Pit of Hell" and junior high (aka middle school) "The Deepest Pit of Hell".
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: sitnspin on 20 Feb 2020, 11:20
I don't know what it was like in the 80's, but the  early aughts were shit.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Theta9 on 20 Feb 2020, 11:51
I don't know what it was like in the 80's, but the  early aughts were shit.
I very much doubt the situation has changed since I was a kid in school.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: sitnspin on 20 Feb 2020, 12:16
These days with the ubiquity of cellphones and social media, I imagine it is a lot worse. Kids can't even go home and get away from it anymore.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Tova on 20 Feb 2020, 12:50
After all, there is every prospect that they're going to almost totally supplant Marten, Hannelore and Claire as main characters.

Who?
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Penquin47 on 20 Feb 2020, 15:42
Not necessarily US. Though I'll admit high school was better than elementary. At least there was no beating or strangling involved there. And less teachers going along with it. Still, there were a couple of right bastards in there, and stereotypically, it's the local soccer hero that was one of the worst bullies. Mind, for some reason or other, the guys actually playing on a national level were kind of ok.

The guys playing on a national level knew they were hot stuff and didn't have to be bullies to prop themselves up.  Also, the extra training at that level left them with less leftover energy to be bullies.

I got bullied in middle school, but by high school that was pretty well gone.  It helps that I moved between 8th grade and 9th, and again between 10th and 11th, so with my introversion and social anxiety, it was really easy to just be a ghost.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Torlek on 20 Feb 2020, 17:27
I think that Jeph is trying to flesh out the three characters a bit. After all, there is every prospect that they're going to almost totally supplant Marten, Hannelore and Claire as main characters.

No, the main characters are already Rocco, Winslow and May with guest appearances by Bubs and her weird human girlfriend.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Gyrre on 20 Feb 2020, 17:32
wait, was Elliot...a jock???

Wouldn't be that surprised - big strong guys who are good at sport often get an automatic "in" with the jock crowd, even if they aren't seeking it - though I doubt Elliot would ever be obnoxious about it!

FWIW, I still think that Brun is more aware of how annoying she can be than she lets on and gets a degree of enjoyment in saying something baldly embarrassing, knowing that people will make excuses for her.

I'm sure Brun is well aware of how annoying she can be, but I don't think she gets enjoyment out of it.
I suspect it's the nature of her condition that, though she knows and understands the fact of her behaviour being annoying, that knowledge has little effect on her.
She is like someone colour-blind, grabbing clothes from the closet (hey, they're all grey, after all) and wearing something comfortable that just happens to jarringly clash, simply because colour means nothing to them. It may annoy the hell out of colour-sighted friends, but that annoyance is irrelevant from the colour-blind person's perspective.
As a gadfly on the spectrum, I can say that it varies from day to day, stuation by situation for myself.
Some folks very much deserve to be annoyed. Especially if they're causing problems.


EDIT:
Is high school in the US really as hellish as the US media says it is?

I was one of the nerdy kids with no friends in high school, yet I was never bullied.
Location location location

Though, middle school was more hellish for me. The little bastards at mine were bad enough that we had 4 suicides in 3 years.

EDIT: High school became a lot easier for me after I pushed open the locker despite having two assholes trying to shove me into it.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: BenRG on 20 Feb 2020, 23:12
FWIW, some modern cars' fronts do look like laughing faces (VWs and almost everything from the Far East are particularly like this). So, yeah, I can see one of them triggering Brun's "Stop laughing at me!" automatic reaction. We also know that she's quite capable of overdoing physical reactions, given the harpoon!
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: DaiJB on 20 Feb 2020, 23:14
"contemptuous headlights"  :laugh:

Must have been a Volvo...
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Gyrre on 20 Feb 2020, 23:20
"contemptuous headlights"  :laugh:

Must have been a Volvo...
Or a Mercedes.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Case on 21 Feb 2020, 00:58
Is high school in the US really as hellish as the US media says it is?

I was one of the nerdy kids with no friends in high school, yet I was never bullied.

Not necessarily US. Though I'll admit high school was better than elementary. At least there was no beating or strangling involved there. And less teachers going along with it. Still, there were a couple of right bastards in there, and stereotypically, it's the local soccer hero that was one of the worst bullies. Mind, for some reason or other, the guys actually playing on a national level were kind of ok.

The largest incident in my high school career happened after I bested said soccer hero the single time we had a wrestling class.

Things oddly quietened some time later, after we had hockey.  Somehow, the image of me coming at them all bloodied with a half splintered stick stuck.

Oshit elementary school ... I was a late bloomer, and lightest boy in my elementary school class except for that poor bastard I. Without I. subbing as 'the easier target', or my elder cousins' protection, things would have been very bad for me. I worked out from the age of sixteen onward, and made sure everybody knew that judging my physical strength based on my skinny frame was ... a mistake.

Also, school-type made a huge difference back then - things were relatively civilised in the Gymnasium I attended, but the schoolyards of the neighbouring Realschule and Hauptschule were a different Universe altogether. I recall one of my cousins (who attended Hauptschule) cleaning up after a fight and advising me "Forget movies - you always throw the first punch". The German school system was also effectively segregated at the time - the few non-native Germans attending Gymnasium all had European heritage (our equivalent of 'white' - though, effectively, the only true German equivalent to 'white' is 'Western-Germany born Bio-German'. Even German-heritage Germans born in the states of the former GDR complain about exclusion).

Migrant kids were sent to Hauptschule, no matter their aptitude - and that was so normal that it took me over a decade past graduation to even notice.

Mind you, that was 80s provincial Germany. Dunno how things are today.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Case on 21 Feb 2020, 01:17
"contemptuous headlights"  :laugh:

Must have been a Volvo...
Or a Mercedes.

Nah, BMW.

Though there's a German proverb according to which Benzes come with built-in right-of-way.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: BenRG on 21 Feb 2020, 01:19
In the UK, the apparent assumption is that commercial vans in the 2000-3000kg weight class come with an automatic exclusion from all the rules of the road so long as they are painted white.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: JoeCovenant on 21 Feb 2020, 01:51
In the UK, the apparent assumption is that commercial vans in the 2000-3000kg weight class come with an automatic exclusion from all the rules of the road so long as they are painted white.

Those... and taxis.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Cornelius on 21 Feb 2020, 03:28
These days with the ubiquity of cellphones and social media, I imagine it is a lot worse. Kids can't even go home and get away from it anymore.
Well, we didn't have Facebook yet; but MSN groups was big around here. And they did find ways to use that against you - even if you weren't on there.  FAke accounts giving "your" "honest" opinion on everyone, and all that.

With the ubiquity, and what's worse, the reliance of some teachers on social media, it's got to be worse. On the other hand, it seems there's a bit more attention to the issue now, even if I have some serious doubts about some of the methods that are supposed to combat bullying - which to me seem to give some students a free hand and unfettered access to their victims.

One thing I do know: no child of mine will ever set foot in the high school I went to.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Cornelius on 21 Feb 2020, 03:34
"contemptuous headlights"  :laugh:

Must have been a Volvo...
Or a Mercedes.

Nah, BMW.

Though there's a German proverb according to which Benzes come with built-in right-of-way.

Don't discount Audi.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: jwhouk on 21 Feb 2020, 04:01
I don't know what it was like in the 80's, but the  early aughts were shit.

There was this added feeling that the world could end at any moment because two superpowers could lob tons of nuclear missiles at each other. Pretty much everything else was similar - except for the whole internet thing.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Wingy on 21 Feb 2020, 05:10
I don't know what it was like in the 80's, but the  early aughts were shit.
The 80's had big hair and shiny, nuclear blue eye shadow instead of dreads and no makeup.  Otherwise, it was identical because people don't change that much in a single generation.  That is, the kids were still smug little shitz still learning social skills and mostly botching it.

Unlike those of us in the computer lab, who were learning programming skills and mostly botching it, but at least we were mostly able to find jobs...   :evil: :evil: :evil:
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: cesium133 on 21 Feb 2020, 05:24
Hell is other junior high kids.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Case on 21 Feb 2020, 11:23
The 80's had big hair and shiny, nuclear blue eye shadow instead of dreads and no makeup.

OMG the hair ...  :oops:

Don't discount Audi.

https://www.autohaus24.de/audi-discount
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Gyrre on 21 Feb 2020, 19:14
Looks like it's a stomp for the TMNT.


EDIT: maybe I should have done that season one limitation across the board. I was mostly just trying to be fair to the contenders that only had one or two seasons to draw from.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Romanticide on 21 Feb 2020, 22:44
A quick wikipedia trip told me that aparently clove cigarretes are banned on the US since 2009 because a ban was put on all flavor cigarretes except for the regular ones and menthol flavored. Indonesia formally complained that it was discrimination as conveniently menthol flavor are mostly produced in the US while clove cigarretes are mostly produced outside...
Every day you learn something I suppose.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Gyrre on 22 Feb 2020, 06:13
A quick wikipedia trip told me that aparently clove cigarretes are banned on the US since 2009 because a ban was put on all flavor cigarretes except for the regular ones and menthol flavored. Indonesia formally complained that it was discrimination as conveniently menthol flavor are mostly produced in the US while clove cigarretes are mostly produced outside...
Every day you learn something I suppose.

.......okay.....
That's came from out in left field, but it does explain why I haven't encountered them in a decade.
Now the only ones on the market that don't bother my asthma are the Black & Milds. Seriously, please don't smoke upwind of building entrances.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: shanejayell on 22 Feb 2020, 07:58
Looks like it's a stomp for the TMNT.

No offense, but how do TMNT win against people who can call on GIANT ROBOTS?

"Don! Hit it with your staff!"

"WHAT."
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Mr_Rose on 22 Feb 2020, 08:47
Looks like it's a stomp for the TMNT.

No offense, but how do TMNT win against people who can call on GIANT ROBOTS?

"Don! Hit it with your brain!"

"WHAT."
There, that’s more like it. Seriously, Donnie gets no respect for saving all their shells from like a gajillion things that are straight up immune to being hit with swords/sticks/pointy things. Or, y’know, building a goddamn tank in a goddamn sewer.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Gyrre on 22 Feb 2020, 11:42
Looks like it's a stomp for the TMNT.

No offense, but how do TMNT win against people who can call on GIANT ROBOTS?

"Don! Hit it with your brain!"

"WHAT."
There, that’s more like it. Seriously, Donnie gets no respect for saving all their shells from like a gajillion things that are straight up immune to being hit with swords/sticks/pointy things. Or, y’know, building a goddamn tank in a goddamn sewer.
Also they've literally fought and piloted mechs in at least two continuities.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: cybersmurf on 23 Feb 2020, 05:58
"contemptuous headlights"  :laugh:

Must have been a Volvo...
Or a Mercedes.

Nah, BMW.

Though there's a German proverb according to which Benzes come with built-in right-of-way.


BMW is "You have to let me pass, I drive a BMW!".


Don't discount Audi.

Oh, you mean the other Volkswagen? Given they're owned by the same people?
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Tova on 23 Feb 2020, 12:52
It’s still permissible to refer to the car as Audi, I believe.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Theta9 on 23 Feb 2020, 14:30
It’s still permissible to refer to the car as Audi, I believe.
Yup, and I still say Acura, Infiniti, and Lexus when appropriate rather than Honda, Nissan, or Toyota.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: cybersmurf on 23 Feb 2020, 21:41
You're right, but there's so much familiarity in design choices for VW and Audi. But yeah, they're still different manufacturers, technically.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Cornelius on 24 Feb 2020, 01:22
It's also a matter of (some of) the drivers who choose Audi, despite all similarities.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Case on 24 Feb 2020, 19:23
"contemptuous headlights"  :laugh:

Must have been a Volvo...
Or a Mercedes.

Nah, BMW.

Though there's a German proverb according to which Benzes come with built-in right-of-way.


BMW is "You have to let me pass, I drive a BMW!".

Nope, it stands for "Bring Mich Werkstatt"

(~ 'Bring Me Garage')
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: cybersmurf on 24 Feb 2020, 21:22
Ou, you mewn  "Bayrischer Mist-Wagen"?
"bawariwn crap car"
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Case on 25 Feb 2020, 00:11
No, I mewn

Bin Maßlos Wichtig  (~ 'I'm important beyond measure' )
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Cornelius on 25 Feb 2020, 00:26
Bucht Met Wieltjes (rubbish on wheels) is what they give it around here.

Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Case on 25 Feb 2020, 04:13
"Bei Mercedes Weggeworfen"   (~ 'thrown out by Mercedes' )

Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Thrudd on 25 Feb 2020, 12:21
Bucht Met Wieltjes (rubbish on wheels) is what they give it around here.
Have you driven a FORD   (https://www.abbreviations.com/FORD)lately?
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Cornelius on 25 Feb 2020, 13:15
Not in the past twelve years, no  :roll: I took my driving test in one. Focus was a well deserved name. Finicky car.
Title: Re: WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Post by: Gyrre on 26 Feb 2020, 02:34
Bucht Met Wieltjes (rubbish on wheels) is what they give it around here.
Have you driven a FORD   (https://www.abbreviations.com/FORD)lately?
Most uncomfortable bucket seats I've ever had the displeasure of sitting in.

The angle the sides of the seat base and back are set at are not meant for people with broad shoulders or wide hips (I've got both). They're meant for folks with narrow asses and medium or smaller shoulders. Pretty sure the Expedition [for comfort XD] was meant as an SUV to be imported overseas. The seat base could be tilted at two (2) points, and yet the damn thing still cut off the circulation in my thighs.

EDIT: And (of course) my taller coworkers would often leave the seat scooted nearly all the way back with the seat base tilted nearly all the way back-- practically laying down to drive. And then there were those damned non-removable headrests angled 45° forwards. Thankfully I don't run crew transport anymore and don't have to deal with those things anymore.