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[Baphomet]

Johnny, please.

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Oh hai, Mark.

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[NilsO]

Do you guys think QC will ever be funny again?

Funny ? Whats that ? Anyone needs that ? Can one eat it ?

@Binks: I guess nobody is forcing you to read QC. If you do not like it, please find another comic that is hilarious all the time. As someone said, "It is Jeph's show, we are just here for the ride".

As for myself, it is the combination of serious real life issues, strong personalities, development of storylines (Ok, perhaps a bit slow at times), and occasional hilarity that make me like the series. A bit of sci-fi technology also helps, happily it is not overused.

[cesariojpn]

Boy, Marten's standards must've dropped hard if he thought Delilah was "cute."

[Barmymoo]

I thought she was cute. There is no official hierarchy of cuteness - just because she isn't your type doesn't mean she isn't anyone else's.

[NilsO]

I thought she was cute. There is no official hierarchy of cuteness - just because she isn't your type doesn't mean she isn't anyone else's.

We tend to like or dislike fictional characters, based on how they are portrayed, and our own preferences. As for Delilah, she was not my type, but I did not exactly dislike her or think she was ugly.

• Positive: Direct, honest
• Negative: Usage of other drugs than alcohol, practices one-night stands (just my opinion, not necessarily universally negative).

[Thrillho]

Boy, Marten's standards must've dropped hard if he thought Delilah was "cute."

...Okay I'm going to stop coming into the comic forum again.

[cesariojpn]

Boy, Marten's standards must've dropped hard if he thought Delilah was "cute."

...Okay I'm going to stop coming into the comic forum again.

[StevenC]

Oh Marten... The title of todays comic says it all for me: "Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah"

I was kinda hoping Delilah's story would have helped him to not take everything so seriously all the time so that he would stop feeling sorry for himself and maybe go out from time to time, have fun and possibly meet someone interesting but alas... Marten will be Marten.

It made him realize he's not interested in the casual thing. That's something, no?

[Skewbrow]

Boy, Marten's standards must've dropped hard if he thought Delilah was "cute."

Any chance of you not restating this opinion at least once a week any time soon?

[Detachable Felix]

+1 to Skewbrow

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[Thrudd]

+ 2.71828182845904523536028747135266249775724709369995 for cesariojpn 

Sent from an MRC Banana  by an apathetic diabetic octogenarian with a penchant for sloth using Q-codes through an outdated assembler

[themacnut]

Clearly Marten's doesn't enjoy night stands, or at least the mornings after. As for Jeph celebrating Valentine's Day, remember he announced not long ago that his own marriage was ending. I wouldn't feel like celebrating VD either under those circumstances.

[Thrillho]

Boy, Marten's standards must've dropped hard if he thought Delilah was "cute."

...Okay I'm going to stop coming into the comic forum again.

[freeman]

Anywhere it can be licked off of.

I hear that causes terrible risk of yeast infection.

[LittleKing]

It made him realize he's not interested in the casual thing. That's something, no?

Fair point!

[Neko_Ali]

I dunno... I'm not getting so much whining here as Marten trying to sort out his feelings on the whole hook up. This is apparently the first time he's done something like this, and it clearly isn't what he was expecting it to be.

[CrowFairy]

Yeah, that's how I feel. He's allowed to feel unsatisfied and unfulfilled by the experience. Not everyone's into casual sex, and it's not really our place to judge him for that, is it?

[Pilchard123]

I wouldn't feel like celebrating VD either under those circumstances.

I wouldn't feel like celebrating VD under any circumstances.

[Schmorgluck]

Anywhere it can be licked off of.

I hear that causes terrible risk of yeast infection.

Hence the need to be thorough with the licking. 

But you're right, honey is safer. Yogurt too.

[Barmymoo]

Not sure honey is safer - yeast thrives on sugar. Natural yoghurt is ok, but nothing with sugar in it (even fruit sugars).

[cesariojpn]

Boy, Marten's standards must've dropped hard if he thought Delilah was "cute."

Any chance of you not restating this opinion at least once a week any time soon?

You were expecting me to make a Yeti joke?

[Barmymoo]

Can you just stop commenting on Delilah's physical appearance? It's already been discussed to death and it's starting to get tedious (I don't just mean you - anyone who feels the need to dissect whether or not body hair is attractive should take this warning to heart).

[Schmorgluck]

Not sure honey is safer - yeast thrives on sugar.

Honey has antifungal properties. Non-heated honey, anyway. Cheap honey-based products should be avoided, as they've often been heated.

[DSL]

I see the pig-mud-rasslin' matches have started.

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You both get all muddy and the pig likes it.

[Barmymoo]

Interesting! I shall stick to using pharmaceutical cream, but it's good to know

[Sidhekin]

... as opposed to mud or honey?

[Is it cold in here?]

Marten and Faye are so close that it's almost like talking to himself. He can think out loud around her.

[Barmymoo]

Specifically as a thrush treatment.

[Method of Madness]

Thrush?

[Barmymoo]

Um, what would you call it? Vaginal yeast infection? It's pretty grim anyway. Yes - yeast infection is the phrase that was used that triggered the whole conversation!

[Method of Madness]

Oh. I honestly didn't know what that was referring to.

[Kugai]

*Gibbsmacks Marten*

[pwhodges]

Thrush is a common fungal (yeast) infection that can affect many parts of the body - mouth, vagina, penis, oesophagus, nails...

[jwhouk]

"Cute" is a term that, in my experience, is used when you don't want to admit that you had more attraction to someone than would be considered (in your mind, at least) "acceptable."

[Method of Madness]

Really? Cute to me seems like a term that can mean a LOT of things.

[cesariojpn]

Really? Cute to me seems like a term that can mean a LOT of things.

I don't quite see Delilah as being shrewd or clever in the context Marten is I think is trying to tell Faye. How can you be either one of those things in a one-night stand? Maybe he meant acute?

[Zebediah]

"Cute" is a term that, in my experience, is used when you don't want to admit that you had more attraction to someone than would be considered (in your mind, at least) "acceptable."

Well, that's different from the way most people use the word.

Can we all just accept that Marten found Delilah attractive, and that attractiveness is purely in the eye of the beholder?

[Mr_Rose]

Yeah, in pretty sure I've never used "cute" that way.
But then I give nary a fig leaf for what strangers think is "appropriate" most days, so… 

[rschill]

"Cute" is a term that, in my experience, is used when you don't want to admit that you had more attraction to someone than would be considered (in your mind, at least) "acceptable."

Well, that's different from the way most people use the word.

Can we all just accept that Marten found Delilah attractive, and that attractiveness is purely in the eye of the beholder?

If we accept that attractiveness is purely in the eye of the beholder, then how are we supposed to make people feel uncomfortable with their bodies or their preferences?  If we accept that people are attracted in innumerable ways to innumerable attributes, then how can we create a hierarchy of attractiveness to be packaged and sold to insecure people?  How can we hold people to impossible and sometimes contradictory standards both in personal appearance and the appearance of their partner/s? 

[Mr_Rose]

"Cute" is a term that, in my experience, is used when you don't want to admit that you had more attraction to someone than would be considered (in your mind, at least) "acceptable."

Well, that's different from the way most people use the word.

Can we all just accept that Marten found Delilah attractive, and that attractiveness is purely in the eye of the beholder?

If we accept that attractiveness is purely in the eye of the beholder, then how are we supposed to make people feel uncomfortable with their bodies or their preferences?  If we accept that people are attracted in innumerable ways to innumerable attributes, then how can we create a hierarchy of attractiveness to be packaged and sold to insecure people?  How can we hold people to impossible and sometimes contradictory standards both in personal appearance and the appearance of their partner/s? 

Tell them they aren't wearing enough hats.

[Method of Madness]

[Mr_Rose]

Definitely not enough hats.

[JRDelirio]

Geez, what a fascinating bunch of intertwined conversations!

Marten and Faye are so close that it's almost like talking to himself. He can think out loud around her.

Y'know what, I would find that interpretation of it entirely plausible.  Or he initially intended to give a short-answer just-the-facts and change the subject version but then could not stop himself from going on about it.  We have seen something like it happen to other characters (Sven).

We already had reason to believe that the zipless hookup is not Marten's thing.  When Faye and Dora had their moment of "oh, we did not really mean for you to take our advice", instead of their cavalier "that would be boring" the thoughtful answer would have been "but one way to figure out what you want is to go out there and test the available options, not just try to work it out all in your head". 
Well, now he has tested an option and found this was not it -- check.  Some of us would even say, "check... now, next option".   But Marten being Marten, that's not how he wishes to see himself; Cossette confronted him with how he himself did not pay attention to the personal connection, and that bothers him.

[Binks]

Do you guys think QC will ever be funny again?

Funny ? Whats that ? Anyone needs that ? Can one eat it ?

@Binks: I guess nobody is forcing you to read QC. If you do not like it, please find another comic that is hilarious all the time. As someone said, "It is Jeph's show, we are just here for the ride".

As for myself, it is the combination of serious real life issues, strong personalities, development of storylines (Ok, perhaps a bit slow at times), and occasional hilarity that make me like the series. A bit of sci-fi technology also helps, happily it is not overused.

It's really hard to just stop reading something that you've loved for years. You've been with it for so long and you used to love it so much so you keep reading out of hope that it will get better. I don't want to just give up on it like that and it would help if the "humor" wasn't so sitcom-y. I get that there are serious times but you can be funny while being serious! Most of the strips nowadays have almost no dialogue and just show expressions or extremely lazy writing for the sake of the serious moments. It just really sucks seeing something you used to admire so much go to shit.

[Binks]

"Cute" is a term that, in my experience, is used when you don't want to admit that you had more attraction to someone than would be considered (in your mind, at least) "acceptable."

Well, that's different from the way most people use the word.

Can we all just accept that Marten found Delilah attractive, and that attractiveness is purely in the eye of the beholder?

If we accept that attractiveness is purely in the eye of the beholder, then how are we supposed to make people feel uncomfortable with their bodies or their preferences?  If we accept that people are attracted in innumerable ways to innumerable attributes, then how can we create a hierarchy of attractiveness to be packaged and sold to insecure people?  How can we hold people to impossible and sometimes contradictory standards both in personal appearance and the appearance of their partner/s?

We wouldn't be able to do any of that stuff. Also, Tumblr wouldn't exist.

[Nuclear_Nipple_Tester]

It's really hard to just stop reading something that you've loved for years. You've been with it for so long and you used to love it so much so you keep reading out of hope that it will get better. I don't want to just give up on it like that and it would help if the "humor" was so sitcom-y. I get that there are serious times but you can be funny while being serious! Most of the strips nowadays have almost no dialogue and just show expressions or extremely lazy writing for the sake of the serious moments. It just really sucks seeing something you used to admire so much go to shit.

[citation needed]

[Binks]

I obviously need to emphasize that, that was my opinion.

[Redball]

You've expressed your opinion about the comic more than once. We hear that. But it appears most of the people who read the WCDT thread may not agree and aren't interested in engaging with you about your opinion.

[Nuclear_Nipple_Tester]

If the comic bothers you so deeply now,  stop reading.   No one is forcing you to come here.   

I have stopped reading comics that ceased to entertain.    "aint no big thing, yo."   People change, tastes change.    However,   it seems the vast majority here enjoy the comic.... and do no seem interested in discussing your dissenting opinion. 

"Don't feed the trolls" seems to apply here -- I'm not replying to this conversational subplot any further.

[zmeiat_joro]

I wonder what Marten thinks about Bohemian Like You by The Dandy Warhols.