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Heroism as defined by members of the QC Cast:

Marten RIPPING OFF HIS SHIRT to try to save Emily!
Faye actually giving a customer a COMPLIMENT!
Dora ditching the Leather Pants!
Sven not trying to pick up a woman!
Steve NOT EATING CEREAL!
Pintsize tossing bricks at someone attacking his friends!
Pizza Girl getting your Pepperoni with extra cheese to you in less than 30 minutes!
Hannelore performing first aid while SOBER!
May refusing to backhand some racist idiot into the middle of next week!
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Author Topic: WCDT: 2731-2735 (23-27 June 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread  (Read 38904 times)

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Is that really affection though? You're warm and it seems you haven't tried to eat them yet, so they don't bite you. It kinda reminds me of falconry. It's not so much that your raptor likes you as it's handler. You're just a stable source of food and shelter and even that's a bit above a snake's intellectual level.

Well, cats and dogs show affection because you feed them and don't beat them and provide them with shelter.
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True, but dogs and cats are slightly more affectionate and intelligent than the average snake. Affection is a little complex an emotion for say, a snake. A dog will nuzzle you happily to be close to you. A snake will curl up with you because you're warm and they're chilly.
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Marten's been decisive before, usually when a friend was in danger.
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And when he was deciding whether to get lunch before or after getting a haircut. Or when deciding to go to the store to buy soup.
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True, but dogs and cats are slightly more affectionate and intelligent than the average snake. Affection is a little complex an emotion for say, a snake. A dog will nuzzle you happily to be close to you. A snake will curl up with you because you're warm and they're chilly.

I've seen way too many dogs getting happy for all reasons imaginable... So I stopped taking their happiness all too seriously when I compare "affection levels" between pets.
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So the real question is, who are they going to run into while hiking now that Marten has no shirt??

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So the real question is, who are they going to run into while hiking now that Marten has no shirt??

Steve.
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So the real question is, who are they going to run into while hiking now that Marten has no shirt??
Considering Marten now has no shirt, is with Emily, and Tai has shipped Marten and Emily in the past, I'm going to guess Tai.

Then again, he's also with Sam, so that guess is likely full of shit.
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My god, it would be incredible. Just for that, I'm doing my next radio show entirely in his voice  :mrgreen:
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What is appropriate first aid for poisonous snake bites?

"If someone is bitten by a poisonous snake, the bitten area should be immobilized and the victim transported to a hospital as quickly as possible. The bitten area should be washed with soap and water. A wide constriction bandage (tourniquet) may be applied two to four inches upstream of the bitten area (if on an extremity) so long as the pressure is not too tight (one or two fingers should be able to slide under the band). Overly tight tourniquets should never be used as these can block arterial blood flow to the affected area and worsen tissue damage."


Found this here - I imagine there are differences in opinion about this, but there ya go.
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What is appropriate first aid for poisonous snake bites?

"If someone is bitten by a poisonous snake, the bitten area should be immobilized and the victim transported to a hospital as quickly as possible. The bitten area should be washed with soap and water. A wide constriction bandage (tourniquet) may be applied two to four inches upstream of the bitten area (if on an extremity) so long as the pressure is not too tight (one or two fingers should be able to slide under the band). Overly tight tourniquets should never be used as these can block arterial blood flow to the affected area and worsen tissue damage."

Found this here - I imagine there are differences in opinion about this, but there ya go.

Around here they tell people to not use tourniquet. It makes sense since non-trained people have a good chance to cause more damage than help this way.
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Boy Scout learnin' was to immobilize the bitten limb as well. First aid training was changing all the time, but if I remember correctly the currently they're taught to avoid using tourniquets at all.
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Unnecessary facepalm for really mild and not all that inappropriate teasing.
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This is M. T. Reed we are talking about here.
But it could have been much worse. It could have been the TEH shirt.
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Unnecessary facepalm for really mild and not all that inappropriate teasing.
Bro.

Ironic?   Or maybe a "this is silly" facepalm?    There are many shades of face-palm-ery... the Epic Picard Double Face-Palm being the apex of "really? what the FUCK?!"-ness.
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Yes, I'd interpreted it as an "I'm kinda embarrassed" facepalm.
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So is Emily teasing Marten as a way of teasing Sam, or teasing Sam as a way of teasing Marten, or is she too oblivious to be doing either deliberately?
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So the real question is, who are they going to run into while hiking now that Marten has no shirt??

Mosquitoes. Who will be quite hungry - and carrying West Nile virus.

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This is M. T. Reed we are talking about here.
But it could have been much worse. It could have been the TEH shirt.
T.??  Is that canon?

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I can't tell if Emily is making a move or really just messing with Sam to the best of her ability
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I imagine Jeph evilly twisting a fake mustache as most of the readers experience this same feeling.

I can't tell if Emily is making a move or really just messing with Sam to the best of her ability
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I can't tell if Emily is making a move or really just messing with Sam to the best of her ability
I'm pretty sure Emily is winding Sam up. Emily totally 'blivved out* when Tai suggested she sleep with Marten.

*I just invented that term, I think, but I hereby place it in the public domain.
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I'm pretty sure Emily is winding Sam up.
I'm all for the theory she is just speaking her mind, not really noticing whats going on. AGAIN.
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I have a feeling that Emily is essentially asexual, but that's not canon so who knows? Certainly I don't think there's the faintest possibility of her and Marten getting together.
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I can see it.

... I'd worry about what Marten'd been drinking, but I can see it.
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I have a feeling that Emily is essentially asexual, but that's not canon so who knows? Certainly I don't think there's the faintest possibility of her and Marten getting together.
IMHO there is always a possibility (albeit a very small one) until either she or Marten is hooked up with someone else.
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Boy Scout learnin' was to immobilize the bitten limb as well. First aid training was changing all the time, but if I remember correctly the currently they're taught to avoid using tourniquets at all.
When I was last taught about snake bites in Australia, we were told to immobilize the limb by wrapping a bandage around the entire limb (of course this means you have to have a bandage at hand - I think the message was that you ideally should have one when you hike around where you're likely to meet snakes) tightly enough so that the limb can't move much and the poison doesn't spread, but not too tight to stop the blood flow. Also, with Australian snakes it is apparently sufficient to just wear long trousers made out of a reasonably strong fabric, since their fangs are too short to get through those (in contrast to most Asian, European or American snakes!).
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Full limb compression is the way to go for snake bites, yeah.

And sure, the snakes here have relatively short fangs, but you try wearing long trousers in an Australian summer :P
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I can't tell if Emily is making a move or really just messing with Sam to the best of her ability

Given the "Emily enjoys messing with Sam" note, I'd say the latter, but she's doing so by speaking her mind. She might well be oblivious to whatever effect these observations might have on Marten.
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And sure, the snakes here have relatively short fangs, but you try wearing long trousers in an Australian summer :P
Been there, do that. The bosses get mildly annoyed, since my job involves physical labour in the outside heat. But snakes are uncommon in the city areas, so there is that.

So is Emily teasing Marten as a way of teasing Sam, or teasing Sam as a way of teasing Marten, or is she too oblivious to be doing either deliberately?
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So is Emily teasing Marten as a way of teasing Sam, or teasing Sam as a way of teasing Marten, or is she too oblivious to be doing either deliberately?

Quote from: Jeph, right below the comic
Emily enjoys messing with Sam.
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But snakes are uncommon in the city areas, so there is that.
I do harvest work out on the grain silos every year - we have to wear long trousers, boots, helmets, and deal with the reflected heat of bigass metal silos and concrete. There are many many snakes around there. And many a snake has met its end under a heavy boot on that site.
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I have a feeling that Emily is essentially asexual, but that's not canon so who knows? Certainly I don't think there's the faintest possibility of her and Marten getting together.
Well, she certainly is weird and clueless, but not exactly asexual. But I would guess that Marten finds her just too weird.

EDIT: Found it, Emily has had a boyfriend before.

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You can have had a boyfriend and still be asexual. I'm not saying it's certain, I'm just positing that it isn't unrealistic and would fit with her character. This is the first instance of her ever expressing anything approaching an interest in someone, and she is clearly messing with Sam by doing so.
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I can't tell if Emily is making a move or really just messing with Sam to the best of her ability
I'm pretty sure Emily is winding Sam up. Emily totally 'blivved out* when Tai suggested she sleep with Marten.

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You can have had a boyfriend and still be asexual. I'm not saying it's certain, I'm just positing that it isn't unrealistic and would fit with her character. This is the first instance of her ever expressing anything approaching an interest in someone, and she is clearly messing with Sam by doing so.

For those that don't know it, Girls With Slingshots (occasionally) visits the issues that come up (or don't :P ) between one character and her asexual girlfriend.
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I've debated making an account on this forum for a long time, but I decided today would be the day because a) Emily is my favorite character, 2) I want Marten to find someone SO BAD, and d) I could definitely ship them. In fact, I do a little bit already.

And also, while it's true that Emily may be a bit naive when it comes to frickle-fracking, that doesn't mean she don't want some, knowmsayin'? She knows a cute butt when she sees one.
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I was thinking of GWS when I made that post :)

Hello, new person! Emily is one of my favourites too. Be wary of shipping though, the rules are pretty strict against it here (the line between speculation based on the comic and shipping is tricky to locate so err on the side of caution).
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First of all: Welcome to the forums.

Keep in mind however that explicit shipping of characters is frowned upon here. Slight hinting in that direction is sometimes tolerated if the coupling seems likely to happen in universe, so speculation about what might develop (if it isn't explicit) from current comics isn't a problem most of the time.

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I was thinking of GWS when I made that post :)

Hello, new person! Emily is one of my favourites too. Be wary of shipping though, the rules are pretty strict against it here (the line between speculation based on the comic and shipping is tricky to locate so err on the side of caution).

First of all: Welcome to the forums.

Keep in mind however that explicit shipping of characters is frowned upon here. Slight hinting in that direction is sometimes tolerated if the coupling seems likely to happen in universe, so speculation about what might develop (if it isn't explicit) from current comics isn't a problem most of the time.

Now: enjoy your stay in this crazy place.

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I think Emily is messing with Sam - I don't think Emily is asexual, though. The fact that she thinks about butts being cute, has had at least one boyfriend, and talked with Marten and Claire about kissing seems an indicator that she has spent time thinking about sexual topics. I was under the impression Asexual meant you weren't interested in sexual activity, so that doesn't seem to fit. And yes, I suppose having a boyfriend and kissing don't necessarily mean sex is involved, but thinking about cute butts would likely lead to a sexual thought or two. Overall, Emily seems like she'd have more of a problem finding someone who doesn't mind her odd ways of thinking than not being interested in sex. Maybe Clinton?

Aside from all that, she makes me think of Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter in some ways.
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Either my eyesight is not what it used to be, or I may be dumber than yesterday (or both), but I can't read Marten's t-shirt.
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