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Marigold's OOPS!

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The entire internet is mad at me!

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Only one thing to do: Cat GIFs? LOTS of Cat GIFs.

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Here, Marten! Open it and see! Tee hee!

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Oh, hey, Emily invited you too!

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Yeah, what'd you think it was, a love letter?

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OH MY GOD YOU ARE PRECIOUS (Sh-shut up! Shut it all the way up!)

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Party at Emily Azuma's parent's lake house! (And Cristi's handwriting!)

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You should invite all your friends, too! There's plenty of room!

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A thousand people would probably be too many. (How big is your parents' lake house?)

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Faye with the watiress outfit - "Hey, Buttass, what's up?"

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Emily the intern is throwing a party, wanna come?

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Dora: Am I invited? Marten: Oh yeah, def- (Tai: AAH! AAAAH!)

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Tai: One of my interns is throwing a party. Wanna come?

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Marigold walks by. (DAT A$$)

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Angus gets caught "peeking"

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GIBBS-SMACK!

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What was that? NOTHING!

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Total Members Voted: 43

[ponderch3rry]

boob-tube

That's an article of clothing? I thought "boob-tube" meant television.

Probably an alternate to 'tube top', which is, quite literally, a boob tube 

Hahaha yes, also known as a tube top! Everything is more crass in Australia 

Also, a nice slang here for the television set is the "idiot box" 

[ponderch3rry]

To be honest, I was more disturbed by the fact that Angus was perving on his housemate than by Faye smacking him. I've lived with many housemates of the opposite sex and thinking that they ever perved on my big arse whilst I was wearing shorts kind of creeps me out, heh.

With the whole domestic violence thing, my partner and I wrestle about sometimes and we'll give each other a punch on the shoulder from time-to-time, though always in a playful manner. I think it's important that violence against men is not treated lightly (equality of the sexes and all that) but I think we can hardly call what happened in this strip "domestic violence". If she had slapped him across the face or something, then maybe, but I certainly wouldn't say that a little flick in the ear is serious enough to bring up such a heavy discussion.

[Method of Madness]

I'd hardly call what he did "perving". Seems a but strong of a word.

[ponderch3rry]

I'd hardly call what he did "perving". Seems a but strong of a word.

I think that's exactly what he did, unless you're implying that he was just admiring the colour of her shorts?

perv  (pɜːv)
 
— n
1.    a pervert
2.    ( Austral ) an erotic glance or look

I also reject that it's a strong word to use in a situation such as this. I think it's a word purely to describe what he was doing and don't think it was derogatory in any way.

How would you describe what's occurring in the second panel?

[Omega Entity]

Also, a nice slang here for the television set is the "idiot box" 

Yep, you hear that one here in the States too 

As for a better term, I'd probably call it ogling, or simply 'admiring the view'. Perving, and also leering, at least over here, carries a negative connotation, and to say that Angus if is 'perving' on Marigold, reads to me that he wants to make a pass at her or bang her.

[Tova]

As for a better term, I'd probably call it ogling, or simply 'admiring the view'.

"Perving" is a perfectly good term for those things. It wouldn't imply any more than that in Australia IMO.

Then again, we throw around words like "bugger" as well, so meh.

[ponderch3rry]

Also, a nice slang here for the television set is the "idiot box" 

Yep, you hear that one here in the States too 

Ah, I see! So it's just boob tube that's a bit odd when one refers to a piece of clothing in the USA, good to know

As for a better term, I'd probably call it ogling, or simply 'admiring the view'.

"Perving" is a perfectly good term for those things. It wouldn't imply any more than that in Australia IMO.

Must be an Australian thing, eh? We say someone is perving on another person when they're checking them out. Like Tova says, it implies no further connotations than that.

Confusion = Sorted! 

[Overkillengine]

DNR, perhaps a dive through previous WCDTs might yield the answers you're looking for, as far as how far discussions have gone in the past, and might give a bit of a sense of closure to said discussion if you read what's come before? As I've said, I'm pretty new here, so I wouldn't personally know where to begin. But some of the veterans of the site might be able to give you an approximate timeframe for which to begin your search.

http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,22409.0.html for example.

Good grief, there's barely anyone in that thread that's posting in here anymore! 

My, how things have changed...

Well, I and I assume other have lurked since well before then.

The amount of bile/strife/RAAAAAAGE that cropped up over things that should not be taken as seriously as they were really discouraged participation though.


And to add to burger related discussion: Deer burger is great, though usually you need some animal fat added from another meat type to keep it from being too dry.

[Method of Madness]

Buffalo burgers = wonderful.

Re: "perving", if the word shares a definition with "pervert", I don't see how there's no negative connotation, but it's really just semantics at this point.

[Tova]

Well, the word "bugger" isn't exactly polite if you look at its meaning, but it is such a mild curse in Australia that it was the centre-piece of a particularly well-known advertisement.

Slang isn't necessarily logical.

[techkid]

Well, the word "bugger" isn't exactly polite if you look at its meaning, but it is such a mild curse in Australia that it was the centre-piece of a particularly well-known advertisement.

Slang isn't necessarily logical.

True. When we say "bugger the thing" when, for example, your phone slips out of your hand (but doesn't break), it's just to say that something was "unexpected, a little annoying, but not actually bad". It's not to say that we want to sodomise it or anything (when you actually look at the uses of the word "bugger")...

Well, for the normal folk of us here, anyway.

[jmucchiello]

True. When we say "Fuck" when, for example, your phone slips out of your hand (but doesn't break), it's just to say that something was "unexpected, a little annoying, but not actually bad". It's not to say that we want to fornicate with it or anything

True. When we say "Damn It" when, for example, your phone slips out of your hand (but doesn't break), it's just to say that something was "unexpected, a little annoying, but not actually bad". It's not to say that we want the phone tossed into Hell where it can suffer for all eternity or anything

So are Fuck and Bugger equivalent in their "acceptability" in your example usage? I doubt it. As someone above said, Slang is not logical.

Oh, and many gourmet burgers are a mix of ground beef and ground pork.

[techkid]

Whatever floats your boat, jmucchiello .

Seriously, though, one mans' mild curse is another mans' swearing is another mans' fucking punctuation, damn it. There really aren't that many rules to the English language that two different people can agree upon (except maybe using L3375P33K and "txt shrthnd" being made into criminal offences or something).

[DSL]

One of my favorite jokes to tell (in the right company) concerns a soldier back in the barracks after an afternoon pass to town, describing to his buddies how he got on the bus, went to town, met a girl, had a milkshake with her, went to her apartment and convinced her to disrobe. The account is lengthy and the gerund form of the f-bomb is liberally interspersed throughout as a mild intensifier. The teller pauses at the cliffhanger moment and his buddies anxiously ask: "And? And? What did you do then?"
And the answer is: "What do you f***in' think we did, you f***in' jerks? We had sexual intercourse."

It's in Asimov's first joke book. He ruins it by explaining it.