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good *♫duh duhh, duh duhh, duh duh dah dah dah♫*

Stars when you shine, you know how I feel

Scent of the pine, you know how I feel

yeah, FREEEEDOOOM is miiine, and you know how I feel

It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me

*sings in jazz scat*

And I'm feelin'... good.

[Detachable Felix]

It's a new poll, it's a new day, it's a new week,

So let's have some nice, healthy comic discussion ♫

[downtowneddie]

And comic.

I like Faye's realization in the last panel.

[jwhouk]

"Deliberately downcycle your processor core." That's a good one.

[SomeCanadianWeirdo]

Which brings up the question of what AIs do to (relatively) safely get a buzz.

[Zebediah]

Faye, you were worse when you were drunk.

[hedgie]

Which brings up the question of what AIs do to (relatively) safely get a buzz.

I was actually a bit surprised that May wasn't taking some of Pintsize's drivers stash.

[bhtooefr]

May's been reading Silent PC Review too much.

[chaospersonified]

Comic.

I think this is a common thought when you're the sober one surrounded by drunk friends.

[Tova]

Looks like Marten, Claire and Faye will be the only ones left feelin' good tomorrow morning.

[SomeCanadianWeirdo]

You never know with Hanners.  She might have some hi tech hangover cure her friends in orbit cooked up.

[Morituri]

I used to drink to make other people more interesting. 

But when they drank too, it didn't work.  Eventually I just quit trying, which is probably for the best. 

[ysth]

I like how it ends with "stupid" and "punch", the themes of Friday's comic.

[LilBlueSky]

Soooo...  They're drinking gin and..  Gin with vodka and blue crap mixed in? (aka Windex the mixed drink)
I use to be a bartender and the bar I worked at made Windex with a gin,  vodka and blue crap instead of just vodka and blue crap. It's actually quite the yummy mixer if you don't mind the blue crap that is.

[Mr_Rose]

Jeph needs to start a microbrewery and market "Bro IPA" for realsies, yo.
Call it the "Questionable Cask" brewery or something.

[BenRG]

This is the day when Faye realises (as many a person who has gone dry at a party realises) just how dumb people act when drunk. Even intelligent people like Hannelore!

I just hope that Faye isn't going to start becoming a bit of a harpy on the subject, telling everyone that drinking just makes you look dumb. People can react to having to go dry by becoming unreasonable on the subject with others.

Oh, and is Hanners talking about Buttrocket?

[hedgie]

Soooo...  They're drinking gin and..  Gin with vodka and blue crap mixed in? (aka Windex the mixed drink)

I don't know if it'd actually work, given the ambient light levels, but tonic drinks do fluoresce blue when exposed to a black light.  Any effect would be quite subtle in that flat.

[Tova]

Soooo...  They're drinking gin and..  Gin with vodka and blue crap mixed in? (aka Windex the mixed drink)

I remember one night when I was young deciding with a friend to get drunk on something mixed with blue crap... vodka I think.

And I couldn't do it. The blue crap was just too dreadful. I suppose we could have then proceeded to get drunk on vodka, but the blue crap had sapped our moviation completely. Probably for the best.

I wasn't a fan of gin in those days, but I've come to like it. I rather like the dictum that states that the correct way to make a martini is to fill a glass with gin and then wave it in the general direction of Italy.

[Rincewind]

I love May's square drunk-bubbles.

[chaospersonified]

If by 'blue crap,' you people mean blue curacao, then I'm afraid I must disagree with all of you. The first time I blacked out was the night that I discovered a recipe for the 'sonic screwdriver,' using sprite, vodka, and blue curacao. Nothing remained the next morning, but there was a mysterious pile of vomit in the sink.

I haven't had any since, though I'm fair sure that was the vodka's fault, not the blue stuff. I liked it well enough, I just haven't felt the urge to get that drunk again.

[Kugai]

Fayepiphany

[Drunken Old Man]

If by 'blue crap,' you people mean blue curacao, then I'm afraid I must disagree with all of you. The first time I blacked out was the night that I discovered a recipe for the 'sonic screwdriver,' using sprite, vodka, and blue curacao. Nothing remained the next morning, but there was a mysterious pile of vomit in the sink.

I haven't had any since, though I'm fair sure that was the vodka's fault, not the blue stuff. I liked it well enough, I just haven't felt the urge to get that drunk again.

It WAS the blue curacao and it WASN'T the blue curacao.  Blue curacao is a liqueur, basically a lower-proof liquor with added sugar. In and of itself, fairly innocuous. Combining its orange flavor with Sprite however would very effectively mask the strong grain alcohol burn of the vodka, letting you get REAL drunk without realizing it.

[Tova]

The reason I couldn't stand the blue curacao is because it is sickly sweet.

The idea of ADDING SPRITE to it makes me feel ill.

[Drunken Old Man]

The reason I couldn't stand the blue curacao is because it is sickly sweet.

The idea of ADDING SPRITE to it makes me feel ill.

Agreed.  I get tired of sweet drinks very quickly myself.


{Edit: fixed quote brackets - Felix}

[improvnerd]

there was a mysterious pile of vomit in the sink.

Did you dust it for fingerprints?

[Method of Madness]

I'm pretty sure Jeph didn't mean Windex the mixed drink. I also think he was joking.

[ZoeB]

When I look at Momo... I see too much of myself. I've never seen the fun in being even mildly intoxicated.

This comic  (Faye, Hanners) pretty much expresses how I feel. Yet I don't want to spoil it for others by remarking on how harmful downcycling one's processor core is. Just encourage people not to do it in excess. If they do though, their life, their choice.

Just don't do it while operating dangerous machinery. Cars. Tanks. Destroyers. Bubbles' chassis. Then it's no longer just their life.

[Tova]

I had assumed that he was just kidding about the Windex drink, but it turns out that it is a thing after all. No, I do not get out a whole lot, thanks for asking. For the benefit of those of you who have sensibly decided to stay indoors while others are poisoning themselves with dreadful concoctions^*, here are the results of my research. Everyone else can just skip ahead to the next scintillating post.

A Windex "martini"^** always involves vokda (you wouldn't want anything you can taste over the revolting sweetness, I suppose), triple sec (maybe not always?), and of course blue curacao. Sometimes instead of blue curacao, a blue coloured vokda is added instead ("UV® blue raspberry vodka", whatever on earth that is). Sometimes lime juice is added. It's basically rocket fuel, sugar, and wheeeeeeee blue colouring. Funny that blue colouring is usually used as a warning to indicate that something shouldn't be drunk (e.g. actual windex). Lots of soft drinks are blue these days as well. Makes me wonder whether the makers of the original blue stuff they add to poisons are contemplating changing its colour to something else.

^* The older I get, the more I realise that if I am going to poison myself, it may as well be with something decent. This confers the additional bonus that it's too expensive to do too often.
^** Still prefer my definition of a martini (see previous post)

[Method of Madness]

Oh, I don't doubt that Windex is a drink, just that Jeph was referring to that instead of actual Windex

[Tova]

Oh, I don't doubt that Windex is a drink, just that Jeph was referring to that instead of actual Windex

Yes. I didn't mean to infer that you might have doubted it was a drink. I had initially assumed he was referring to actual windex as well, but in my case only because I had no idea there was an actual drink called windex. It was your post that alerted me to the contrary.

[Method of Madness]

Heh, I didn't know for sure that it was one, but I wouldn't have been surprised (and am not surprised now that I know).

[Is it cold in here?]

Won't it be confusing if Faye and Bubbles independently go to the matchmaking service and wind up paired with each other?

[BenRG]

I wonder if Faye had ever expected to be the one to say that...? Especially to Hanners!

Well, at least we now know the effect of alcohol on Hannelore - Blabbermouth. She doesn't become touchy-feely though, which probably tells you just how strong her phobias are that they can spear even through the dulling effect of hard liquor!

[hedgie]

Okay, Hanners is, as always, adorable.  And this isn't the first time we have seen her heavily intoxicated.  Recall back to the night when Faye and Sven first slept  together, and Hanners had put away a fair amount of booze.  Faye even commented on the number of martinis she had consumed *after* they had left the bar.  I'm actually rather annoyed that her character seems to be regressing.  She went from being able to hug people close to her, assuming that she had time to prepare for it, to what almost seems like a caricature.  I think that one of the main reasons that I have identified with her is that with my OCD and "no touching" rule, I went from being the guy who flailed and nearly fell off a barstool when sober, and almost sent my drink all over the place when a friend kissed me for spotting her a drink when she had no cash[1] to being able to handle physical contact if I expect it.

[1] There was a minimum on credit cards there, and she was just having one, on account of it being her lunch break.

[BenRG]

I'm actually rather annoyed that her character seems to be regressing.

It might be that Jeph wants to keep that as a distinct character quirk. In-universe, I wonder if she has found a nice little safe zone of 'no touch unless I psych myself up' that doesn't require effort or risk for her to live in it.

[Welu]

Even if progress is made, there's still a comfort zone people can default to and sometimes they don't feel the need to push past it. That Hanners is in a safe space where people are aware of her issues and she knows they won't be offended if she doesn't want physical touch is a very secure place to be in for her. It's not necessarily regression to choose there's no need to go the extra mile at that moment, especially if you know you won't be judged for it.

[Kugai]

And there goes Hanners overthinking things again

Chill out Hanners, have a Rum and Coke

[Tova]

Or maybe just a sparkling water.

[wlewisiii]

Oh, I don't doubt that Windex is a drink, just that Jeph was referring to that instead of actual Windex

Yes. I didn't mean to infer that you might have doubted it was a drink. I had initially assumed he was referring to actual windex as well, but in my case only because I had no idea there was an actual drink called windex. It was your post that alerted me to the contrary.

According to the Googles...

1 oz vodka
2 oz UV® blue raspberry vodka
6 oz lemon-lime soda

I'll take a Manhattan instead.

[Method of Madness]

Ehh, I'm not crazy about vermouth. Good whiskey doesn't need anything added.

Re: Today's comic - easily the most I've ever liked May. Adorable.

[electromgneticDstroyosaur]

Remember how Marten freaked out when Faye lifted a coffee mug to her face the morning after her hospital visit?  Yeah, I had a similar freakout for just a second in tonight's comic.

[Method of Madness]

Because of the can? Yeah, makes sense.

[Perfectly Reasonable]

Dang. I never knew May could blush...

[Tova]

I'm just as happy to simply wave my whisky towards Italy as I am my gin. Happier, even.

[Ravenswing]

When I look at Momo... I see too much of myself. I've never seen the fun in being even mildly intoxicated.

Hell yeah.  I decided back in high school that I wasn't the least bit interested in (a) spending money I didn't have to (b) drink something that tasted awful, and (c) risk all the fallout I'd get from that, so that I would (d) feel awful the next day -- quite exclusive of the (e) high probability that when wasted I'd have done or said something I'd have bitterly regretted doing -- just because (f) most everyone else was doing it, for (g) benefits no one could particularly articulate to me, beyond that (h) most everyone else was doing it.

Back in college days, a friend had an apartment across from the university, and one semester she had pretty much weekly drunken bashes after chorus rehearsal.  Completely fried, she decided that she wanted to see the roof of her apartment building, and not liking the sound of that, I followed her and another guy up.  She started dancing drunkenly on the parapet, five stories up ... and started to topple over.  Pinwheeling.  Other guy was blitzed and giggling, no use. 

Now it happens I'm an acrophobe.  Quite a severe one.  I can barely climb a two story ladder.  I certainly can't climb a tree higher than that.  You will not get me within 10' of the edge of a roof.  Unquestionably the bravest thing I ever did was force myself to the edge and pull her back, and it felt like it took me an eternity, step by step, to get there.  (Probably didn't hurt that I had a huge crush on her, and that helped blow through the paralytic terror.)

That was 35 years ago now.  She had a career, got married, had three daughters.  The youngest started college this fall; the middle daughter was married this past spring.  She's had a long life, and we're still friends.  And she would've been dead on the pavement decades ago if I'd been drinking too. 

[Ravenswing]

But as far as tonight's footnote goes ... man, May doesn't have to watch grainy bits on a smartphone.  I bet the QC universe's version of LiveLeak or DailyMotion would have footage galore.

[BenRG]

So, that's a little something to add to May's character index card - Is a fangirl of Hank the Dismemberer. Also "can't lie plausibly no matter how hard she tries". Oddly enough, she has a personality somewhat like a teenage girl so I'm wondering how mature she is in AI terms.

Am I the only one who thinks that Corpse Witch desperately needs to hire a script writer to come up with 'stage names' for her fighters?

[Zebediah]

Just noticed May is still wearing her name tag from work, weird. Seems like something she'd ditch fast after clocking out, that's what I do...

She may just leave it on there so that she doesn't forget where it is. Think about it - she doesn't sweat, so she doesn't necessarily need a clean shirt every day. So she probably just takes that one off, nametag and all, when she gets home and puts it back on the next day when she's getting ready for work.

[Method of Madness]

I'm just as happy to simply wave my whisky towards Italy as I am my gin. Happier, even.

I've never actually had a proper martini. Gin and tonics are so good I see no need to mix gin with anything else.

[Kugai]

Swoosh Cola, the drink that refreshes the parts other Cola's can't reach.

[aliensporebomb]

OMG.  May with a fangirl crush on a radical illegal fighting robot guy named Hank the Dismemberer makes here 'dere' in a way I've never seen here - that blush!  Usually just super 'Tsun tsun'.  Yay!

I can see it now "Do you want to meet him?"  LOL.