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Claire

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Tai

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[Perfectly Reasonable]

Sexist insults aren't allowed. That's not exactly a huge impost, I think. I, and I think anyone, can get by without violating this minor restriction, yet express themselves with suitable vigour.

If I may suggest an alternative - here's one containing every letter in the alphabet.

'Sir, you are an apogenous, bovaristic, coprolalial, dasypygal, excerebrose, facinorous, gnathonic, hircine, ithyphallic, jumentous, kyphotic, labrose, mephitic, napiform, oligophrenial, papuliferous, quisquilian, rebarbative, saponaceous, thersitical, unguinous, ventripotent, wlatsome, xylocephalous, yirning zoophyte'.

I pride myself on my vocabulary, and I think I understood about two words of that. My hat is off to you.
(Reaches for dictionary.)

[jwhouk]

"Where's the beef?" Was the catch-phrase from a Wendy's Hamburgers commercial in the early 1980's. 3 old ladies are inspecting a burger from a "competitor", complimenting the bun - but when they lift off the top they find this tiny hamburger patty.

That's when this old lady says the line, "Where's the beef?" Repeatedly.

[Thrudd]

*singing*
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable...

"Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table..."

Ah, there's nothing like a Monty Python reference for the two or three of you out there in the audience.

Three at least though there may be more.
Most of us learned early on "How not to be seen"

(click to show/hide)

https://www.youtube.com/embed/ifmRgQX82O4"

and for the curious here is the whole little ditty

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Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya'
'Bout the raising of the wrist.
SOCRATES, HIMSELF, WAS PERMANENTLY PISSED...

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away;
Half a crate of whiskey every day.
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: "I drink, therefore I am"
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed!
https://www.youtube.com/embed/m_WRFJwGsbY"

[Schwungrad]

Sexist insults

ithyphallic

Not sure whether it qualifies as sexist, but this definitely is a very sexualised insult .

[Kugai]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QgCfnBtF7M

[TRVA123]

BTW, I don't think anyone commented on the fact that Claire answered the call from Marten's phone.  If she'd been as pissed off with him as some people conjectured, she would have let it ring.

I don't think Claire did pick up, though.  Faye's wording feels an awful lot like a voicemail to me.

I think if Faye leaving a voicemail was significant and indicative of coming turmoil Jeph would have emphasized it more.

And who knows, maybe he will in upcoming strips, but I feel that the moment passed, if indeed it was ever a moment.


I think it is a little sad how absolutely insistent people are that Marten and Faye's friendship will torpedo any relationship either one has because of "jealousy" or because Marten and Faye will "always have unpurged love or sexual tension" or whatever.

It is possible, it just takes maturity and self knowledge.

While I could see Claire not having the relationship experience to be able to contain jealousy (although I hope we don't go this route, plotline wise, as it is very similar to the Dora plot) I absolutely do NOT see Marten and Faye ever having a sexual/romantic relationship, much less waking up one day and realizing that they have been "in love for years!"

[themacnut]

Heh, Faye's alcoholism and the need it engenders in Marten to take care of her is going to be enough of a problem for his relationship all by itself, especially if there are more incidents like tonight (which there almost certainly will be). Like I said in previous posts in this thread, I think Claire's patience will only go so far. The only thing that will preempt the inevitable confrontation is if Marten gets sick and tired of cleaning up after Faye's drunken episodes and leaves her to face the full consequences of her next tumble off the wagon. Or perhaps Faye herself, realizing Marten's continuing willingness to care for her could cause further problems in his relationship with Claire, ends up moving out to deal with her problems on her own.

[Oenone]

It is possible, it just takes maturity and self knowledge.

While I could see Claire not having the relationship experience to be able to contain jealousy (although I hope we don't go this route, plotline wise, as it is very similar to the Dora plot) I absolutely do NOT see Marten and Faye ever having a sexual/romantic relationship, much less waking up one day and realizing that they have been "in love for years!"

...maturity and self knowledge??

It's the absence of both that make me so concerned!

[94ssd]

]"I can't believe it's not butter" I get. "Where's the beef"... not so much.