Topic: WCDT 2071-75 (Dec. 5-9, 2011) (Read 122041 times)

Method of Madness · « **Reply #300 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 08:12 »

I don't know what they're getting all mopey about, it's fun getting into trouble!

TinPenguin · « **Reply #301 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 08:15 »

In the last panel of 2073, they are outside Padma's place, but in 2074 they seem to be in Marten's bedroom. Either that or they share very similar taste in bedding and decor. I wonder how they found the patience to go all the way back to his place.

Maybe Padma has a roommate or something.

jwhouk · « **Reply #302 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 08:19 »

That is, indeed, Padma's place. Marten's room would have a deactivated Pintsize in it.

lepetitfromage · « **Reply #303 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 08:26 »

Quote from: Loki on 08 Dec 2011, 07:10

Indeed, the only other two that come to my mind are Svens thoughts while drunkenly making out with Rita-whats-her-name and the one with Hanners where she has all kind of thoughts at the counter of CoD, then Dora asks her what she is thinking about and Hanners is like "Uh, nothing."

Yes! 1276, my favorite QC strip to date

Throg · « **Reply #304 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 08:59 »

@pwhodges / Carl-E: thank youuuuuuuu.

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #305 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 09:47 »

I've heard of at least one open relationship in which the partners allowed each other to have sex with other people but not to spoon them.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #306 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 09:49 »

Makes sense...sort of?

TinPenguin · « **Reply #307 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 09:51 »

Quote from: jwhouk on 08 Dec 2011, 08:19

That is, indeed, Padma's place. Marten's room would have a deactivated Pintsize in it.

I find it hard to believe Padma would have the exact same duvet, sheets, bed, carpet, wallpaper, shape of room...

Torlek · « **Reply #308 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 09:56 »

Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 08 Dec 2011, 09:47

I've heard of at least one open relationship in which the partners allowed each other to have sex with other people but not to spoon them.

I can actually see it being a valid concern. Spooning is a very intimate activity, you've pretty much got maximum bodily contact. I mean, yeah, if they've just had sex it may not seem like much but depending on position there may not be a lot of contact during the sex. One could also postulate about the possessive/protective appearance of the outside spoon. There's a big difference between having sex and making love.

Carl-E · « **Reply #309 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 09:58 »

Who knows how much walking was done between yesterday's kiss and the ensuing activities... besides, they live fairly close by.

And Padma's room may be trashed from packing...

Quote from: Torlek on 08 Dec 2011, 09:56

There's a big difference between having sex and making love.

I have difficulty with this viewpoint. Always have. But I'm old(er).

Just found my first grey chest hairs.

Damn.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #310 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 10:10 »

I wouldn't say there's a difference between having sex and making love so much as I'd say that having sex is the general group, and making love is one of many subgroups.

Carl-E · « **Reply #311 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 10:15 »

I think you have that backwards - sex is a subgroup of making love.

I know, I know, so many people divorce the two (pun intended). But this has always been my point of view - it's extremely hard for me to even think about sex with someone I don't find attractive in a myriad of other ways - IOW, someone I love. This is one of those greek terms for love that breaks it up into subcategories - eros, I think. Maybe not.

YMMV, and like I said, I'm old(er) than you. [/GOM]

Method of Madness · « **Reply #312 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 10:39 »

I think you can love someone without having sex with them, and have sex with someone without loving them. So maybe they're different groups that overlap. [CYM] Then again, I'm still not convinced love exists. [/CYM*]

*cynical young man

Throg · « **Reply #313 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 10:52 »

There's no universal standard: both can exist at the same time.

People who can't have sex with another person without having some emotional connection (e.g., Marten).
People who have sex and have no emotional connection; or even actively avoid the emotional connection (e.g., Sven).
People who love other people without having sex (e.g., in extremis, Hannelore).

And people who move along one side of the spectrum to the other, e.g., Faye. And now, arguably, Padma, although that remains to be seen.

Then there are the characters who are figuring out what they want (Dora, arguably), want what they can't have (Tai), tranny furries (Pintsize), etc etc.

Near Lurker · « **Reply #314 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 10:57 »

Quote from: Mr_Rose on 08 Dec 2011, 05:03

All the superposed cat demonstrates, really, is that physicists should never be allowed to name things and especially should not be allowed to borrow words that everyone else already thinks they know in order to do so.

What it demonstrates to me is that non-physicists shouldn't be allowed near thought experiments (or anything else). Then again, Ben Franklin taught us that already, didn't he?

Is it cold in here? · « **Reply #315 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 12:53 »

Quote from: Torlek on 08 Dec 2011, 09:56

There's a big difference between having sex and making love.

I once asked a partner whether she wanted to make love or fuck.

Vista · « **Reply #316 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 13:17 »

Sexual politics are fr realz complicates.

For most peeps, love be tied to physical intimacy, whether they like it er nay. Guessin ev'lutionaryologists have somet'in to be saying about that, and I'd liken to hear em, 'cuz it be frustratin. I get to bein the jealous types meself, an don't knowin' why. Hope? Shame? Idealism? Why why does sex'n sometimes matterin', sometimes no, with the love.
Love be hard to define, mostly 'cuz it isn't an emotion but behavior based on a number of emotions--and therefore a choice, and therefore tailored personal-like--but in gen'ral it's caring about another peeps's wellbein enough that ye'd sacrifice ye own. Mixed up in self-perversation: nasty combo o' the mind emotions.

Yo.

TinPenguin · « **Reply #317 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 13:31 »

Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 08 Dec 2011, 12:53

Quote from: Torlek on 08 Dec 2011, 09:56
There's a big difference between having sex and making love.
I once asked a partner whether she wanted to make love or fuck.

Fuck is a very interesting word for a variety of reasons, even in its literal sense. You can make love, you can have sex with, you can sleep together, you can even couple with someone, but fuck is a verb, with a subject and an object. Someone fucks and someone gets fucked. I think that is part of why it is so distinct from love. It takes away the the partnership and cooperation of the act and focuses on the physical process. It would almost be clinical if it weren't so crude.

Quote from: Vista on 08 Dec 2011, 13:17

For most peeps, love be tied to physical intimacy, whether they like it er nay. Guessin ev'lutionaryologists have somet'in to be saying about that, and I'd liken to hear em, 'cuz it be frustratin.

Romantic love is basically a mechanism to provide a stable environment for child-rearing. The impulsive next step, therefore, is to get busy making that child. Or at least tricking our bodies into thinking that's what we are doing, when in fact we are usually fortified with contraception.

It's also about the fact that love is emotional intimacy, so we are far more open to being physically intimate with those we are already emotionally intimate with.

jwhouk · « **Reply #318 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 14:08 »

Quote from: Carl-E on 08 Dec 2011, 09:58

<snip>
Just found my first grey chest hairs.

Damn.

"First"?

...Nah, TMI for this forum.

Carl-E · « **Reply #319 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 14:21 »

Sorry. The beard passed 50% grey a while back, but what's left on the head & the rest is still brown.

Well, was.

Sorry. Being hit by a car's messing with my sense of immortality...

Kugai · « **Reply #320 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 14:38 »

Quote from: Carl-E on 08 Dec 2011, 06:10

Quote from: jwhouk on 08 Dec 2011, 06:01
Quote from: VonKleist on 08 Dec 2011, 05:50
Quote from: jwhouk on 08 Dec 2011, 05:42
"Double, double, toil and trouble
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble..."

it is a tale told by an idiot
full of sound and fury
signifying nothing.

If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly. If th' issue of trouble
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch
With their cuddles, success: that but this talk
Might be the be-all and the end-all—here,
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
We'd jump the life to come.

(Pardon me, Will.)

My first reaction to your initial post there was "what, she's a witch now?"

But the rest is genius, no apologies necessary!

I guess the final answer to this must then be

Lay on Marten Reed, and damn'd be him that first cries, "Hold! Enough!"

jwhouk · « **Reply #321 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 14:38 »

My 'stache started turning gray about 10 years ago. Curse of my dad's side of the family. My mom's side is shortness and the receding hairline.

It sucks getting old. [/GOM]

pwhodges · « **Reply #322 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 15:06 »

The composer Bartók's hair was entirely white by the age of 30.

ilikefishfood · « **Reply #323 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 16:45 »

Hey Throg, thanks for the welcome

Quote from: Torlek on 08 Dec 2011, 09:56

One could also postulate about the possessive/protective appearance of the outside spoon.

Yes, yes! That's defiintely something to do with it! There's this whole protective aspect to the spoon...as though the spooner is literally wrapping themselves around the spoonee and keeping them safe.

Of course...it can also be pretty erotic too *cough*

lepetitfromage · « **Reply #324 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 16:46 »

comic!! this one is seriously early....Jeph is giving us extra time to freak out.

akronnick · « **Reply #325 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 16:52 »

I never knew it was possible to jump for joy without actually moving!

ilikefishfood · « **Reply #326 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 16:53 »

Quote from: lepetitfromage on 08 Dec 2011, 16:46

comic!! this one is seriously early....Jeph is giving us extra time to freak out.

It's working! I'm freaked! I'm freaked! And kinda giddy!

Kugai · « **Reply #327 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 17:05 »

Gee, do you think Marten's happy about that?

amandathehunter · « **Reply #328 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 17:07 »

maybe a touch?

haha. this reminds me of a lot of guys i've dated. They don't act very excited about ANYTHING.

jwhouk · « **Reply #329 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 17:12 »

...

I was going to change the poll to ask about the Moment Of The Week, but I think we just had it.

FunkyTuba · « **Reply #330 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 17:17 »

I wanna know who the guy in the Third Place spot on the podium is

EcoReck · « **Reply #331 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 17:21 »

Ugh. All this is going to do is make it so much harder for Marten when she leaves.

jwhouk · « **Reply #332 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 17:23 »

Quote from: FunkyTuba on 08 Dec 2011, 17:17

I wanna know who the guy in the Third Place spot on the podium is

Guy on the right is a Brazilian, while the guy on the left is German (and no, it's not Eliot.)

Quote from: EcoReck on 08 Dec 2011, 17:21

Ugh. All this is going to do is make it so much harder for Marten when she leaves.

That won't be for another, oh, year or so RT...

Random832 · « **Reply #333 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 17:27 »

My suspension of disbelief fails on QCverse humanity not having already been to Mars.

Jam · « **Reply #334 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 17:31 »

I'm happy for Marten, hope he gets to enjoy it awhile before drama starts up... Or starts to worry about said drama.

Vista · « **Reply #335 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 17:38 »

I like Padma.

Of all the characters in QC, I feel like she resembles people I've known the most.

So...she'd better start suspending some of my disbelief soon, or else I will be sad when/if she's gone.

Near Lurker · « **Reply #336 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 17:52 »

In Marten's shoes, I'm pretty sure I'd have nudged her to go, since A: relapses can come quite quickly with the elderly, and emergency travel can be hard to arrange, and B: keeping it going for a matter of weeks is just going to make it worse when she leaves. Of course, that'd probably make him look like a lech...

Also, is he getting a Grammy from Mrs. Bianchi?

suzername · « **Reply #337 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 18:30 »

Oh god, can the Padma mush please stop? This will probably end just like the last relationship: goes into relationship not knowing what he's going into, he's happy for a bit, crazy things happen, they break up. At least Dora had some depth.

Akima · « **Reply #338 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 18:31 »

Wow! Lunch-break comic! And a very clever comic at that. Is it bad that the middle panels made me think?:

1) In what sport could three such weedy-looking guys win Olympic medals? I'd say table-tennis, except that if Marten won gold, the silver and bronze winners would almost certainly be Chinese...

2) Does self-conscious "indie" musician Marten really covet a Grammy? Weren't they discredited when Milli Vanilli won one? Perhaps Marten wants a Grammy ironically...

iduguphergrave · « **Reply #339 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 18:54 »

Quote from: Near Lurker on 08 Dec 2011, 17:52

In Marten's shoes, I'm pretty sure I'd have nudged her to go, since A: relapses can come quite quickly with the elderly, and emergency travel can be hard to arrange, and B: keeping it going for a matter of weeks is just going to make it worse when she leaves. Of course, that'd probably make him look like a lech...

Goddammit I was happy until your post made me realize that if Padma's grandmother just happened to kick the bucket while she's delaying going to LA, she'd probably blame herself and/or Marten (who would certainly blame himself for her misfortune). God I hope Jeph isn't quite that sadistic.*

*it's gonna happen now isn't it

AnAverageWriter · « **Reply #340 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 19:12 »

Quote from: suzername on 08 Dec 2011, 18:30

Oh god, can the Padma mush please stop?

No.

ducktape · « **Reply #341 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 19:15 »

Quote from: Akima on 08 Dec 2011, 18:31

1) In what sport could three such weedy-looking guys win Olympic medals? I'd say table-tennis, except that if Marten won gold, the silver and bronze winners would almost certainly be Chinese...

Maybe bowling is an olympic sport in the QCverse?

FunkyTuba · « **Reply #342 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 19:16 »

Quote from: jwhouk on 08 Dec 2011, 17:23

(and no, it's not Eliot.)

Why not? It seems to make sense, and it would make the third place guy an interesting thing to think of IMPLICATIONS for

Near Lurker · « **Reply #343 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 19:25 »

Quote from: ducktape on 08 Dec 2011, 19:15

Maybe bowling is an olympic sport in the QCverse?

Ever seen a bowling league? I'm guessing track or cycling.

ducktape · « **Reply #344 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 19:40 »

Quote from: FunkyTuba on 08 Dec 2011, 19:16

Quote from: jwhouk on 08 Dec 2011, 17:23
(and no, it's not Eliot.)

Why not? It seems to make sense, and it would make the third place guy an interesting thing to think of IMPLICATIONS for

Hair colors don't match.

Carl-E · « **Reply #345 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 19:45 »

Quote from: iduguphergrave on 08 Dec 2011, 18:54

Quote from: Near Lurker on 08 Dec 2011, 17:52
In Marten's shoes, I'm pretty sure I'd have nudged her to go, since A: relapses can come quite quickly with the elderly, and emergency travel can be hard to arrange, and B: keeping it going for a matter of weeks is just going to make it worse when she leaves. Of course, that'd probably make him look like a lech...

Goddammit I was happy until your post made me realize that if Padma's grandmother just happened to kick the bucket while she's delaying going to LA, she'd probably blame herself and/or Marten (who would certainly blame himself for her misfortune). God I hope Jeph isn't quite that sadistic.*

*it's gonna happen now isn't it

No, not now that you've said it. Don't you know how this place works yet?

jwhouk · « **Reply #346 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 19:46 »

So what do you think when you look to the stars?
Ooh, they're pretty!    - 16 (15%)
WAY TOO MANY TO COUNT AUUGHGHGHGHGHLh    - 4 (3.7%)
I can never remember where Lyra is.    - 8 (7.5%)
Now, how many light years was it to Procyon again?    - 4 (3.7%)
Gee, it's dark out tonight.    - 4 (3.7%)
I see someone else.    - 4 (3.7%)
Why did NASA have to cancel the Shuttle program?    - 27 (25.2%)
Hi, Dad!    - 3 (2.8%)
Waffles would taste good about now.    - 5 (4.7%)
Watson, you idiot, someone stole our tent!    - 32 (29.9%)

Total Voters: 107

Time to do MOTW.

Torlek · « **Reply #347 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 19:50 »

Quote from: amandathehunter on 08 Dec 2011, 17:07

maybe a touch?

haha. this reminds me of a lot of guys i've dated. They don't act very excited about ANYTHING.

Given the circumstances Marten might shortly be showing his excitement in ways.

jwhouk · « **Reply #348 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 19:55 »

The vaunted MOMENT OF THE WEEK poll is now upon us.

Carl-E · « **Reply #349 on:** 08 Dec 2011, 20:00 »

"C'mere" is off to a flying start.

Got my vote!

THESE FORUMS NOW CLOSED (read only)

Poll

Yes, it is here: What was the MOMENT OF THE WEEK?

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