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CATS!

Cats.

CATS??

KITTTEHS!

Meh.

Cat GIFs!

Hellspawn of EVIL! EVIL, do you HEAR ME??

Dogs. Such Poll.

Waffles and Pancakes.

SPATHE HAM!!!!!!

MOAR PINTSIZE!!!!

YELLING BIRD STRIPS!

[LittleKing]

I know this post has already been adressed, but...

Sex isn't just sex

It can be just sex and there's nothing wrong with that, who are you to judge?

it's emotions, drives, needs, desires, and more besides. I'd even go so far as to say that sex is a sacred experience for humans because of all the intangibles that go into it. Trust, attraction, creation, vulnerability, and more that I don't even have names for.

Sure. But some times all you want is to have a good, hard fuck.


Also, what's wrong with being a slut? If someone enjoys having sex with multiple partners/random hook-ups (which is the typical definition of slut, btw, so nothing to do with what Marigold and Dale did) does that automatically make them a horrible person? As long as they're safe and use protection then more power to them. People really need to learn to be less judgmental and mind their own business.

[Karilyn]

It just so happens that I'm not into anal, but if I were the lubricant would be obvious, wouldn't it? (although I've been told too much lubricant can be harmful in anal - FYI)

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Literally *all* advice regarding lube and anal I've ever heard boils down to this:
Take waaay too much lube. Then take some more.

So I'd be curious what you are referring to.

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I've found that the excessive amounts of lube are a bi-product of people being impatient in sex.  Lube is a substitute for going slow, like you should actually do with anal sex.

How slow should you go?  SAFETY SNAIL SLOW!


Source: http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/buttsex/

I know for me and basically every anal sex partner I've been with, we all have a strong preference for minimal (and sometimes even no lube, depending on the amount of precum being produced that night) anally.  Like, maybe a dime sized amount of lube.

But at the same time, it's worth mentioning that me and every anal sex partner I've had has considered it acceptable for it to take 3-5 minutes from first anal contact to first complete anal penetration.  SAFETY SNAIL SLOW.  And we spend the time kissing and touching each other, and being intimate.  Then by the time you've completed the first complete anal penetration, you've started to significantly lube the anus with precum.  And as long as you continue slow for a little while longer, eventually it'll become fully lubricated from precum where you really don't even have to go slow anymore if you don't want.

And that feels a lot better than some sloppy wet overlubed anus.  Plus precum is, in my opinion, the highest quality lubricant that feels the best inside of me.  I haven't encountered an artificial lube that has yet to meet the same quality standard.

Not that slow isn't almost universally better for the receiving partner, whether you're talking anal or vaginal sex.  It's one of the reasons I like anal sex, because it's easier to convince a partner to take it slow for anal sex than it is to convince them to go slow for vaginal sex.  (it's also the reason I prefer uncircumcised partners when possible, as they self-lubricate their penis far more successfully than circumcised people do, and for some reason I can't explain, almost unanimously thrust slower and more controlled.  I haven't figured out yet why circumcised people seem to thrust frantically, and have to fight consciously to slow down to a more sensual pace.  Not that this can't be worked around with circumcised partners, it just takes a more conscientious partner)

[Loki]

(regular user hat)
I think it'd be best if we just let the  matter of "slut or not" drop.
(/)

[jwhouk]

Cats?

CATS!    12 (18.2%)
Cats.    5 (7.6%)
CATS????    1 (1.5%)
KITTTEHS!    14 (21.2%) <== Did May cheat on this?
Meh.    4 (6.1%)
Cat GIFs!    5 (7.6%)
Hellspawn of EVIL! EVIL, do you HEAR ME????    5 (7.6%)
Dogs.    8 (12.1%)
Waffles and Pancakes.    3 (4.5%)
SPATHE HAM!!!!!!    3 (4.5%)
MOAR PINTSIZE!!!!    2 (3%)
YELLING BIRD STRIPS!    4 (6.1%)

Total Members Voted: 66

[jwhouk]

Only point I'd like to make: this wasn't their first "date".

[rschill]

(regular user hat)
I think it'd be best if we just let the  matter of "slut or not" drop.
(/)

I agree very much in the context of the comic. 

It might be interesting to explore the phenomenon of people getting and/or using that label and how the policing of other people's sexual lives affects individuals and society.  I care enough to participate in a thread on it, but not enough to actually start a new thread though. 

[Zwammy]

Is it possible to make a copy of an AnthroPC's mind and load it into another chassis, so that I too can have a Momo who will talk sense into me when I'm feeling needlessly down on myself?

I'm wondering what ever came of Momo's old chassis. Did Pintsize spirit it away to do terrible things to it? Or did Winslow like his previous transfer so much he decided to see how the other half lived?

[mustang6172]

People really need to learn to be less judgmental and mind their own business.

"Everyone belongs to everyone else."
-Aldous Huxley

[Rghfrgl]

Puns.

Yesssssss.

[Schmorgluck]

Haha, good show Claire.

[Method of Madness]

So it's a book...but where's the face?

[Valdís]

I am including BOTH genders. Penis or vagina, there's no solid justification.

Ah, yes. Good ol' fractal wrongness.

[rschill]

I am including BOTH genders. Penis or vagina, there's no solid justification.

Ah, yes. Good ol' fractal wrongness.

I'm so embarrassed that that slipped by me.   Neural tunneling takes time I guess. 

[Jazzmaster]

What is this about "first date"? They have met often. They know each other well. What makes a "date" so special? What if they had had sex without ever "dating"? Would that have been worse?

idunno man.  The few official "dates" I've had felt like a bunch of contrived nonsense.  "Hurr let's go to a public place and talk about stuff and hold hands".

Fuck that, honestly.  I don't really "date", I just get to know people.  And then after a while, I might decide I really like one of those people and do something about it.

Of course, there can be fun dates.  Or you can have fun dating.  In the general sense, however, "dating" was never quite my thing.  What many might consider dates, I see as simply hanging out.  Dates to me feel like they have a certain frame, and pressure to escalate physically and at a certain pace, rather than merely going with the flow and enjoying the moment.

[mustang6172]

Why has no one posted this yet?

[Is it cold in here?]

Good old Claire, and Faye needs a Grumpy Cat t-shirt.

[Emoroffle]

Gosh darn it she is adorable!

[Method of Madness]

So it's a book...but where's the face?

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooh. Just looked at it again and...oh.

[Schmorgluck]

Ah? I assumed you were kidding...

[Method of Madness]

Nope! I didn't really give it much thought before, but I'm glad I got to solve it before someone told me what it was. Partly because it's too much of a stretch to work as a pun.

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Facebook and Faye's book/Fazebook are not pronounced the same, nor are they really close enough honestly. That's a criticism of Claire, not of Jeph.

[Schmorgluck]

Well, a French songwriter named Boby Lapointe once said that good puns are unfunny, it's bad puns that elicit laughter.

[Method of Madness]

That makes no sense. Good as in...an actual pun? If a pun makes you laugh, it is a good pun. If it doesn't, it is a bad pun.

[Is it cold in here?]

The success of a pun is in the oy of the beholder.

[Method of Madness]

My god, what have I pun?

[cpflux]

"First Date" seems like a silly framework and set of standards [...].

I agree with that. I find the idea of having to begin a relationship by formally going on dates (often with expectations attached to what has to happen at the Xth date) a little ridiculous. Looking at QC and other popular culture coming from the US, this seems to be much more a thing there than in Germany - although I will immediately admit that pop culture does of course not necessarily portray reality very accurately. I have never "dated" anyone by that definition. Sure, I sometimes go out to dinner with my boyfriend for celebrations or because we feel like it, but that was always after we were already together. I suppose we also went out to dinner or cinema or something when we were still just friends, but that weren't dates either, just stuff we did together as friends. Same thing with my first boyfriend.
But then, I was friends with both my boyfriends before being in a relationship with them (in one case a seven-year friendship, in the other about 6 months), so I guess it's not the same thing as when you're still getting to know each other while already in romantic pursuit. Maybe in that situation the formalised setting of dates makes it easier?

I just started dating my first girlfriend about a week and a half ago (Hey, maybe I should start writing advice columns and sharing them on Faye's Book!), and it sort of started out that way. I think she was burned in the couple of relationships she had before me. So she set the line at 3 dates - 3 dates, and I'd be allowed to kiss her. This being my first girlfriend, and after a long spell being single, I decided to acquiesce to her demands out of an abundance of fear and hard-wired genetic imperative - though, mostly, because she's a great person.

So two days later I call her up and talk to her for a bit. Out of the blue, she coyly says that she'd be willing to treat a movie we'd seen together the week before (Frozen, 'coz musicals appeal to the Music Man). And then texts me a day later saying that she'd "surprise" me on our Friday date. We go on our date, she looks pretty in a dress, blah blah blah, it's a first date. And it hasn't gone up in flames at all. She goes to get her coat, and as she does, she says something in a kind of Kermit-the-Frog-y voice, which is apparently enough to turn me into a drooling buffoon. I go up to her, kiss her (Frickin' first kisses, man, how do THEY work?!)... and then she tells me that she was going to say that she was dropping that whole 3 date thing before I planted one on her.

tl;dr I wrote a story and wasted your time, unless you didn't read it, which in that case means that it isn't tl;dr; Also, lol, Facebook joeks.


Warning - while you were typing 4 new replies have been posted. You may wish to get off your soapbox and stop telling everyone that you're dating a pretty girl.

[Method of Madness]

Dating pretty girls is fun.

[Neko_Ali]

Oh Claire, never change. I actually laughed a good couple of minute solid over that one.

[hedgie]

It's things like this that half make me think that Claire is Clinton's younger sister rather than the older one.

[Method of Madness]

Posted for Claireface.

[Schmorgluck]

That makes no sense. Good as in...an actual pun? If a pun makes you laugh, it is a good pun. If it doesn't, it is a bad pun.

I think his point was that approximative puns tend to be funnier per se for being both daring and silly. Without further elements, like proper timing, context and delivery, exact puns tend to fall flat for being clever and nothing else.

[Method of Madness]

I know that was his point, but I was saying his point is wrong. Sure, timing/context/delivery help any joke and are necessary for any joke. But if the approximate pun isn't close enough then it doesn't work...at least for me.

[NilsO]

[Is it cold in here?]

There is actually a fayesbook.com, home to a rather strange blog.

[Delator]

No, Faye. First you hit her in the head with your book. Then you kick her out of the store.

[Shjade]

Posted for Claireface.

<Jokedogfacehere>

That is the creepiest face that ever faced. Jeebis.

[Method of Madness]

Probably just mid-yawn.

[Akima]

I admire Claire's pun. A pun is like serving a really big dinner; if it doesn't make them groan, you're doing it wrong.

That is the creepiest face that ever faced. Jeebis.

Wow! Such humour! Very pun! So rimshot!

[pwhodges]

Note a recently added possibility:

Wow! Such humour! Very pun! So rimshot!

[K1dmor]

 

[WAYF]

GROOOOOOOAAAAN.


I like to imagine that Claire was waiting a very long time for Faye to be reading a book just so that she could do that.

[DSL]

That makes no sense. Good as in...an actual pun? If a pun makes you laugh, it is a good pun. If it doesn't, it is a bad pun.

No no no no no. The best  puns are the worst ones. See IICIH's remark about the oy of the beholder, above. Also ...

WAITAMINUTEWAITAMINUTEWAITAMINUTE ... how the HELL would a little slip of a thing like Claire get a book away from the Pugnacious Peach without severe corporeal damage?

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(Gabby, offpanel: "It's the audacity!")

[Schwungrad]

The best puns are when the recipient thinks "wait, that doesn't make sense... or does it... no... oooooh, it's a pun!" - and you can read this whole thought process in their face. The best ones take 5-10 seconds

[Zebediah]

Posted for Claireface.

I laughed more at this than I did at today's comic. 

[Loki]

Guys. I just realized. Claire is at CoD. Where either Marten's or Dale's escapades might be discussed.

If this was a David Willis comic, I would expect immediate drama.

[Schmorgluck]

I like to imagine that Claire was waiting a very long time for Faye to be reading a book just so that she could do that.

Heh, we punsters tend to do that now and then.

Which reminds me of an anecdote about François-Georges Mareschal, Marquis of Bièvres. He was a staple of the court of Louis XV, famous for his puns and bons mots (he even wrote the article on puns in an addendum to the Encyclopedia).
It is said that one day, Louis XV himself asked him to make a wordplay. "About what, sire?" he asked. The king answered "About me." The marquis said "Sire! You're no subject!"
Given how fickle and ferocious Louis XV's court was, you can bet anything that the marquis had that one up his sleeve, just in case.


I used to find Claire a bit bland as a character, but I've groaned to like her.

[ankhtahr]

Guys. I just realized. Claire is at CoD. Where either Marten's or Dale's escapades might be discussed.

If this was a David Willis comic, I would expect immediate drama.

If this was a David Willis comic, you should always expect immediate drama. Otherwise it'll hit you in the moment you least expect it.

[techkid]

No, Faye. First you hit her in the head with your book. Then you kick her out of the store.

I'm surprised Claire is not posted on the wall right now.

[jwhouk]

...


Why is there a shark tank over there? And what's with the guy with the boat and the water skis?

[ZoeB]

Re Marigold and Dale - they weren't having sex. They were making love.
Compare and contrast with Marten and what's her name. That was good healthy sex. But totally different.

Mixed marriages are problematic, but can work. Protestant and Catholic for example. Horde and Alliance for another.
DOH! Wait a sec, there's a melanin difference too. For the hard of thinking, that never entered my mind until I re-read my post. I hope to goodness that in a world of AIs and spacestations that such puerile stupidity has gone the way of examining goat entrails to determine tomorrow's weather.

I fell in love with the love of my life on the first date. Actually at a party. We slept together - on the floor, snuggled, before leaving together in the morning. That was 34 years ago. Quite a lot like Dale and Marigold. We got engaged a few weeks later, waited a year because to get married immediately would have been insane, and after that year we wed.

Things can happen. Breakups. But right now, I see them being permanently together as the most likely outcome. It can happen when two inexperienced and naive people are just right for each other. Sometimes it just happens that way.

Today is our 33rd wedding anniversary.

[Zebediah]

No need to worry about the melanin difference. Marigold and Dale are surrounded by people who clearly don't give a damn about it. Not to mention that Jeph has portrayed a few such relationships before without ever mentioning the difference in skin color, so I doubt anyone will bring it up. Also the percentage of the US population (even in RL as opposed to QC) who do care about such things has declined noticably in my lifetime.

Happy Anniversary!