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Brun and Renee

Brun, Renee and Elliott

Brun and Elliott

Faye and Bubbles

Faye, Bubbles and Corpse Witch

Faye, Bubbles and Detective Lavender

More Claire and Clinton shenanigans

More Claire and Marten shenanigans

More Claire, Clinton and Marten shenanigans

A change of pace - Dora and Tai!

A change of pace - Emily and Clinton!

A change of pace - Veronica and Jim (with obligatory input from Sam)

Pintsize week! With a cast of AnthroPC's!!

Grape Ape Dishwashing

None of the above

ALL of the above - with Spathe Pizza, Ham and Waffles

[JimC]

"You have to be nice, until it's time to be not nice, and then you have to be nice again."

Film company stuff again. The most important time to be nice is when, for example, you are physically assisting someone to leave the building. Because if you are nice, however socially compromised the ejectee may be, at least some of his/her companions may support or at least not oppose you.  If you are nasty then the situation may deteriorate further. This is an ideal of course, but the nearer its approached the better for everyone.

[BenRG]

"Making friends is confusing."
-- Harp00nGrrrl

Preach it, sistah! Preach it!

Social anxieties aside, I'm strongly expecting, at some point, Brun to openly and explicitly compare Elliott to large plush toy.

I'm pretty sure that Jeph is working us towards an Elliot/Brun date simply because that would be funny and cute in lots of ways. The guy who doesn't feel confident enough to date and the woman who literally doesn't understand the whole social dance involved. It would probably work as a great platform to satirise the entire process!

[jwhouk]

"You have to be nice, until it's time to be not nice, and then you have to be nice again."

Film company stuff again. The most important time to be nice is when, for example, you are physically assisting someone to leave the building. Because if you are nice, however socially compromised the ejectee may be, at least some of his/her companions may support or at least not oppose you.  If you are nasty then the situation may deteriorate further. This is an ideal of course, but the nearer its approached the better for everyone.

Note the words used were "not nice". Not "nasty."

That mantra, as trite as it may be (after being a quote by Patrick Swayze), is actually the truth behind how CO's deal with incidents in jails and other correctional settings.

[Is it cold in here?]

Well trained ones in well run institutions, do you mean?

http://www.laweekly.com/arts/when-a-cartoonist-landed-in-la-county-jail-she-drew-what-she-saw-using-only-a-golf-pencil-5315346

https://books.google.com/books?id=SYhEGAz-SZwC&pg=PT44&lpg=PT44&dq=%22grown+and+wipes+away+all+your+self-esteem%22&source=bl&ots=zkf479QhRl&sig=1lY58SXOirnz-8pn_O86-wZ_-3c&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiOrMvpz8XPAhWM7oMKHb9nDvUQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22grown%20and%20wipes%20away%20all%20your%20self-esteem%22&f=false

[Gyrre]

Damn. He must be really shy.

Either that or it's his shyness + Brun's stare (ᓀ_ᓂ), and he's trying not to hut her feelings.

[dna_level_c]

I'm talking, of course, about Robot Hand. 

This would be a good time to use the dermal covering.

[brasca]

Damn. He must be really shy.

Either that or it's his shyness + Brun's stare (ᓀ_ᓂ), and he's trying not to hut her feelings.

I think it's the stare.  He had a crush on Padma too, but didn't get this flustered about it. 

[Case]

I don't see a difference between a dead human body and a dead body of any other animal. Dead is dead, a corpse is a corpse, meat is meat.

I'm fairly certain that a quite a few bio-chemists and cooks will disagree with you on that. Especially when it comes to arthropods.

I meant philosophically, not physically.

In some respects I'd agree with you - in sofar as I would not attribute any innate properties to human flesh that makes it "holier" than that of animals. But when you take into account that we are a highly social, cooperative species with a "theory of mind" (the ability to mentally "take the other's place" and use that in order to have a limited ability of predicting others future reactions to our actions), there are other aspects:

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Imagine somebody you love being dead - and imagine someone else treating their flesh with disrespect, or even "desecrating" it (or eating it). My personal reaction is an immediate, visceral rage. I'm pretty sure I would attack that person almost instantly.

I think that's because I view their flesh as belonging to them - in the sense of ownership - so while the mind and soul I loved may be gone, I would not tolerate disrespect or hostility shown towards what once was their most intimate belongings. Like I would not tolerate disrespect shown to belongings that my loved ones once held dear - even more so, in fact. Disrespect shown to their flesh is disrespect shown to the person I loved.
While not everybody might share that view, most functional human beings have enough "theory of mind" to predict my hostile reaction - and hence they would be very cautious.

There's lots of speculation around the taboo against human cannibalism - there are some very good medical reasons against consuming our own dead, the most dangerous one being that it's an excellent way to contract prion-related diseases similar to Alzheimers. Members of your own species have the same immune-system vulnerabilities that you do - whatever nasty shit they have swimming around in their bodies is highly likely to be dangerous to you, too - whereas the number of diseases that are able to jump species are limited.
 

[sitnspin]

I have been to enough funerals in my time to not see the body as anything special. Once brain activity ceases, the person I love no longer exists. When I look at a corpse at a viewing, I don't get the emotive response that I am looking at the person, I just see an inanimate object.


You might be misunderstanding my position. My position isn't that human meat is okay to eat because other species meat is. My position is that it is all gross.  Not immoral, in my opinion, just gross.

[USS Martenclaire]

I've punched through a window before, albeit a pretty thin pane.

I put my hand through a window once. I was in pane afterwards.

[TheEvilDog]

I've punched through a window before, albeit a pretty thin pane.

I put my hand through a window once. I was in pane afterwards.

I was pushed through an old window when I was 19. 37 stitches across my arm, shoulder and back and two days in hospital, though I do know how lucky I could have been considering it was a leadlight. There's no joke there...

[sitnspin]

I've punched through a window before, albeit a pretty thin pane.

I put my hand through a window once. I was in pane afterwards.

I was pushed through an old window when I was 19. 37 stitches across my arm, shoulder and back and two days in hospital, though I do know how lucky I could have been considering it was a leadlight. There's no joke there...

My hand wasn't in the best shape, either. Glass isn't something to toy with. Wasn't the first or last time I had stitches.

[jwhouk]

It is never a good thing to go through glass.

[TheEvilDog]

Never mind Emily! Someone better tell Snake that the Patriots are back and in Northampton!

[Perfectly Reasonable]

She's singing a Sami folk song. In my head canon, anyway. The Sami people are the indigenous inhabitants of Lappland and cool with reindeer.

[celticgeek]

I think that she is Santa Claus's daughter.

[SubaruStephen]

She's singing a Sami folk song....

Nah, she's a fan of Metal Gear Solid 2

[Penquin47]

I want to boop a reindeer's nose...

[brasca]

Would Jangles' first name be Bo? 

[Kugai]

My question is is where the FRAK did she get a REINDEER in NORTHAMPTON???!!!!!

And yes Hanners, Emily will be jealous.

[BenRG]

Not for the first time, I find myself wondering just who Fairy Girl might actually be! Maybe she's an actress advertising the local Dysknee Store (not to be confused with the Disney Store for copyright reasons)? Maybe she's an advanced synthetic who has been tasked with bring cheer into people's lives?

Meanwhile, Hannelore just keeps getting cuter in every strip. It's actually getting to be a problem for me. What do I do if I'm struck by a sudden need to hug my screen?

[TinPenguin]

I imagined 2003 Jeph trying to draw a reindeer and it made me giggle.

[brasca]

Not for the first time, I find myself wondering just who Fairy Girl might actually be! Maybe she's an actress advertising the local Dysknee Store (not to be confused with the Disney Store for copyright reasons)? Maybe she's an advanced synthetic who has been tasked with bring cheer into people's lives?

Meanwhile, Hannelore just keeps getting cuter in every strip. It's actually getting to be a problem for me. What do I do if I'm struck by a sudden need to hug my screen?

Maybe she was Pizza Girl and once Faye was terminated from Coffee of Doom she changed forms and is now Emily's obsessive illusion. 

[TinPenguin]

She's singing a Sami folk song. In my head canon, anyway. The Sami people are the indigenous inhabitants of Lappland and cool with reindeer.

Well, I don't know if it was meant to be, but it pretty much is yoiking.

[St.Clair]

I have been to enough funerals in my time to not see the body as anything special. Once brain activity ceases, the person I love no longer exists. When I look at a corpse at a viewing, I don't get the emotive response that I am looking at the person, I just see an inanimate object.


You might be misunderstanding my position. My position isn't that human meat is okay to eat because other species meat is. My position is that it is all gross.  Not immoral, in my opinion, just gross.

There are entirely practical and unsentimental reasons to avoid consuming human meat.  The big one is that you have a very good chance of catching anything the deceased had.  Whatever was living in them doesn't even have to jump a species barrier; it's going straight from one human into another.

Proper preparation of the meat - hygenic handling and thorough cooking - can mitigate much of this risk, but most scenarios assume field survival conditions, where the proper tools are as unavailable as any alternate food options; not a modern, fully-stocked kitchen (such as Hannibal Lecter's).

[oddtail]

On top of that, cultural taboos about eating human meat arguably have roots in times before reliable preparation of meat to remove all parasites, pathogens etc. was possible.

Same reason meat that spoils easily or hosts difficult-to-remove parasites tends to be "unclean" in some major religions.

[St.Clair]

Yup.  Kosher dietary laws, the Shinto prohibitions against handling blood or feces, etc etc - all examples of simple, sensible rules for "the faithful" to follow, to reduce their chances of getting horribly sick in a society that hasn't come up with germ theory or food preservation yet.

[BenRG]

Someone over on the Subreddit mentioned how long it has been since last winter in-comic. It's been around 1950 strips, all told!

It's fascinating to consider all the things that have happened since then. The Dorapocalypse, the Fayepocalypse, Claire, Dora and Tai pretty much ending up as a permanent pairing, the very nature of CoD changing and the entirety of the Angus character arc...! A year is a long time, even in the fictional world. I wonder where everyone will be in Strip 5000?

[War Sparrow]

My question is is where the FRAK did she get a REINDEER in NORTHAMPTON???!!!!!

And yes Hanners, Emily will be jealous.

A nearby elk farm, or perhaps, a petting zoo.

[TheEvilDog]

My question is is where the FRAK did she get a REINDEER in NORTHAMPTON???!!!!!

And yes Hanners, Emily will be jealous.

Who knows, maybe she's going to make some poronkäristys - a little lingonberry, some mashed potatoes. Tasty!

[Method of Madness]

Dysknee

[Case]

She's singing a Sami folk song....

Nah, she's a fan of Metal Gear Solid 2

Lalelu - German lullaby interpreted by Nena ...

[Roborat]

So, is this the dramatic reveal where Hanners discovers she has a twin sister?

[Neko_Ali]

We've already seen Hanner's twin... She's unlikely to be hanging around with reindeer. Unless she was leaving the head of one in someone's bed.....

[Skewbrow]

Who knows, maybe she's going to make some poronkäristys - a little lingonberry, some mashed potatoes. Tasty!

It is, too! When stewing you also need generous amounts of pepper. Old recipes also call for beer to be used in place of water. My experience is that the hops/malt create a bit too bitter a taste to it and, uncharacteristically nowadays opt to not use beer.

Taking this moment to cherish that Finland's (Sami's actually) contribution to world cuisine is a way to cook Dasher, Dancer and the gang (not forgetting Rudolph)

Lalelu - German lullaby interpreted by Nena ...

Sorry. Nena = 99 Luftballons for me.

[hedgie]

For years, "Rette Mich" and "Ich bleib' im bett" seem to have been my life anthems.

[TheEvilDog]

Who knows, maybe she's going to make some poronkäristys - a little lingonberry, some mashed potatoes. Tasty!

It is, too! When stewing you also need generous amounts of pepper. Old recipes also call for beer to be used in place of water. My experience is that the hops/malt create a bit too bitter a taste to it and, uncharacteristically nowadays opt to not use beer.

Taking this moment to cherish that Finland's (Sami's actually) contribution to world cuisine is a way to cook Dasher, Dancer and the gang (not forgetting Rudolph)

I've only had it a couple of times, but the way it was prepared used a very dry white wine in place of water. Worked quite well!
In fact, having some Mämmi after that over an Easter weekend made for quite a tasty experience.

[Kugai]

Maybe she's the Northampton equivalent of a White Raven

[Skewbrow]

In fact, having some Mämmi after that over an Easter weekend made for quite a tasty experience.

Since you asked so nicely...

What's a-sweetening here!?



It's MÄMMI

I am kinda hardcore fan of mämmi, so I used to cook some myself annually around Easter. But, it is a lot of work and nowadays I usually just buy it: 1) stores have added mämmi made of entirely organically grown ingredients to their selection, 2) we had the stove replaced with an induction stove since that picture was taken, and it is difficult to arrange several hours of simmering with that.

Serve with sugar + a mixture of milk/cream to your taste.

[Method of Madness]

I'd try that. Actually there's a non-zero chance I'll be in Finland this March. Not quite Easter, but close enough, yeah?

[TheEvilDog]

I am kinda hardcore fan of mämmi, so I used to cook some myself annually around Easter. But, it is a lot of work and nowadays I usually just buy it:

Yeah, from what I remember being told, its incredibly time consuming to make, so much so now that its pretty much mass produced now. Its a granular texture that throws non-Finnish people off, and it kinda tastes like dark bread mixed with treacle. It can be quite difficult to eat for the first time, especially if you don't know what its like. So several years ago, I was dating this Finnish girl and meeting her family around Easter. Her family used to like a little trick on non-Finnish people, nothing malicious, but they'd serve a bowl of mämmi and watch the reaction. They were doing this since the mother dated a German back in the 70s.

Anyway, I got a bowl of mämmi; the girlfriend had a face that screamed "Oh no, what are they doing?!" while the rest of her family were snickering. I finished the bowl and said it was quite nice and thanks for letting me try it. The look on their faces was worth the airfare alone.

[osaka]

"Yo they don't do this where I'm from can I have more? And the recipe?"

[SubaruStephen]

My mom made some mämmi as an experiment once.

It was like getting hit in the tastebuds by a baseball bat made of orange zest.

I loved it.

She's singing a Sami folk song. In my head canon, anyway. The Sami people are the indigenous inhabitants of Lappland and cool with reindeer.

Well, I don't know if it was meant to be, but it pretty much is yoiking.

Spelled "joik", but pronounced "yoik".  (Don't ask how "Y" is pronounced)

some Heavy joiking

[Kugai]

And here's me chowing down on plain ol' Spaghetti on Toast.

[Method of Madness]

...why would you put spaghetti on toast?

[Stoutfellow]

And here's me chowing down on plain ol' Spaghetti on Toast.

I hope you mean spaghetti sauce on toast.

[TheEvilDog]

...why would you put spaghetti on toast?

Because why not?

Some of my happiest memories as a kid are coming home from a football match on a Saturday and boom, spaghetti on toast.

Its cheap, quick and easy to make. Its classic comfort food.

Seriously, look up spaghetti on toast.

There's a whole world of comfort food out there, things people enjoy. You might not get it, but thats not the point, its tasty to someone else.

[cesium133]

It was one of the few school cafeteria foods that I remember that was actually delicious.

[Tova]

When I grew up, there were two types of kids. Those who ate spaghetti on toast, and those who ate baked beans on toast.

I used to fall into the former camp. But these days, my preferred lazy comfort food is the latter.

I know that the idea of taking a carb and serving it with another sounds weird, but it's one of those things you grow up with and never question until you're much older.

[Method of Madness]

I think I was surprised because he said plain ol' spaghetti on toast, so spaghetti and toast with no sauce or meat seems...unpleasant. Spaghetti and meat sauce poured onto toast you're eating with it? Sure, I get that.