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bread/toast

apple slices and peanut butter

other raw fruit

cheese (brick, slice, or shredded)

sandwich

leftovers

cookies

chips

just a glass of water or juice

rhubarb stalk

half a tortilla

candy/icecream

other

Sven, drink more spathe ham

[Gyrre]

I'm not weird, you're weird.
Please don't judge me. I only do some of these. Mostly the cheese.

EDIT: typo correction. Poll made during bout of insomnia.

[notStanley]

apple slices with peanut butter AND cheddar!

[Scarlet Manuka]

I think Pintsize is just joking here. But anything is possible!

[DaiJB]

I'm not weird, you're weird.
Please don't judge me. I only do some of these. Mostly the cheese.

EDIT: typo correction. Poll made during bout of insomnia.

Cheese? At night? Okay then - but...brrr...for me, that would be Nightmare City... 
(Maybe that might explain the insomnia?!) 

Anyway, I have to justify putting "other" :-
Marten strikes me as a sleep-like-a-log type, only awake at night if someone wakes him. Can't remember specifically, but I think I recall at least one of his middle-of-the-night conversations requiring coffee...

[Farideh]

Marten strikes me as a 'half a tortilla' man, with some toast on the side.

And yeah, I think Pintsize is joking with the 'my wife' comment, but since this is QC we cannot discount anything. Remember what happened with the Roombas!

[Gnabberwocky]

I put him down for a glass of juice, because we've seen it before.

I still haven't adjusted to humanoid Pintsize. I'm glad he's more at home in the new body, but he just feels like a different character now that he has eyebrows.

[Gyrre]

I'm not weird, you're weird.
Please don't judge me. I only do some of these. Mostly the cheese.

EDIT: typo correction. Poll made during bout of insomnia.

Cheese? At night? Okay then - but...brrr...for me, that would be Nightmare City... 
(Maybe that might explain the insomnia?!) 

Anyway, I have to justify putting "other" :-
Marten strikes me as a sleep-like-a-log type, only awake at night if someone wakes him. Can't remember specifically, but I think I recall at least one of his middle-of-the-night conversations requiring coffee...

I've heard of it and seen it joked about in various media before, but I've never experienced it myself. Is that actually a real thing?

[Cornelius]

"Because," said Scrooge, "a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"

The belief that some foods lead to nightmares goes back quite a while. As I've heard it, what actually happens is that problems with digestion disturb your sleep, making it more likely for you to remember your dreams, but do not influence what you're talking. Though, the human body and brain are strange things, so I wouldn't rule it out entirely.

[snubnose]

Wait, so now I'm confused, is Willow's drone possibly also AI/conscious?

No its not, its 100% controlled over a remote.

[BenRG]

So.... Really, the only significant thing to happen in the last two weeks is Pintsize meeting Droney. Was that the actual story here and the thing to which we should have been paying attention? Am I really missing the point and, now, it is the background events, not the foreground events that are the point and the foreground evens are just decoration?

[_Islanio]

I remember a strip where they discuss if pizza was better the following day.
BenRG, I think the plot was just a deeper look at Willow's personality, and how she interacts with people she'd just met. And Pintsize is just... being Pintsize, I guess.

[shanejayell]

"But you just met!"
"We AI can operate a thousands times faster than human thought."

[Wizard Flight]

Did anyone else try to find AI Romance Hospital on WebToon?

[Farideh]

Nope, but I sense a Netflix original in the making

Comic's up!

Maybe, Iris, but we both know that the world is full of avatars of ignorance.

[_Islanio]

She's definetely into her. smh

[shanejayell]

Oooh, ouch...

[St.Clair]

She's definetely into her. smh

Iris isn't into anyone, certainly not Willow.
Baka.

[Gyrre]

"But you just met!"
"We AI can operate a thousands times faster than human thought."

Feh!

The number of times I've mistaken for a bot program online begs to differ.

EDIT: Typo correction

[traroth]

Tsundere Iris...

[BarGamer]

Could someone with more notes or free time provide an archive link for Iris and Willow's first meeting?

[Farideh]

AFAIK, we never saw Iris and Willow meet. What we do have is Willow describing how she became friends with Iris.

[traroth]

Iris' bitterness makes me feel sorry for her...

[Raptorofwar]

OH NO IRIS BABY.

[Mogster]

A bit late, but...

Pintsize: Keep my drone's name out of your ****in' mouth!!

[DreDotJs]

Yeah, dragging someone into your dorm room doesn't tend to give folks the wrong idea at all...

Poor Iris. I wonder if she's such a tsundere because she picked up on this but didn't quite want to believe it. Poor bby.

[Wingy]

Iris' bitterness makes me feel sorry for her...

Don't worry, Iris likes feeling sorry for herself and lashing out at others for her internal angst.  I've run into too many humanoids that do the exact same.  There's even a 50-50 chance Iris does some kind of AI-equivalent to getting sloshed/stoned/etc. as self-medication of her ...  discontinuities.

[hedgie]

Yeah, dragging someone into your dorm room doesn't tend to give folks the wrong idea at all...

I dunno.  I've ended up in some strange ones, with nothing untoward having happened.

[Roborat]

Don't think I have ever run across a Tsundere AI before.

[Gyrre]

So.... Really, the only significant thing to happen in the last two weeks is Pintsize meeting Droney. Was that the actual story here and the thing to which we should have been paying attention? Am I really missing the point and, now, it is the background events, not the foreground events that are the point and the foreground evens are just decoration?

It's a slice of life strip. Sometimes it's solely about the mundanity of the bizarre. And the only significance to be had is in the little moments.

[_Islanio]

Was that the actual story here and the thing to which we should have been paying attention? Am I really missing the point and, now, it is the background events, not the foreground events that are the point and the foreground evens are just decoration?

That's exactly how I summarize my last two year, for the most part

[Farideh]

Fluff, fluff, fluff.

[Perfectly Reasonable]

As a result of panel 5, Iris feels more --- real to me now. She's more than a sentient version of the color 'grump'.

[DaiJB]

...And in the last panel, Claire will probably find yet another reason to be concerned about someone from Marten's circle of friends... 

[traroth]

In today's comic, Claire's face in the last panel is priceless.

[_Islanio]

Claire will probably find yet another reason to be concerned about someone from Marten's circle of friends... 

Honestly, I don't blame her,

As a result of panel 5, Iris feels more --- real to me now.

She seemed quite worried with Willow that one time she went on a walk with Clinton, so I already had that impression she just put on a grumpy face to look "not nice" to people.

[Perfectly Reasonable]

Today's glimpse at the CoD menu board brings up a couple of questions.
Why is Affogato an abomination at CoD?
A WTF is four or five times the price of a Large. How much coffee does one contain? How much espresso can Mr. Burney produce in one go?

[_Islanio]

A WTF is four or five times the price of a Large. How much coffee does one contain? How much espresso can Mr. Burney produce in one go?

Diminishing returns maybe? Probably it's maybe double the caffeine, or uses different beans, or in a fancy cup.

[BenRG]

A WTF is four or five times the price of a Large. How much coffee does one contain? How much espresso can Mr. Burney produce in one go?

Diminishing returns maybe? Probably it's maybe double the caffeine, or uses different beans, or in a fancy cup.

IIRC, Faye told Hannelore that an WTF can only be served if the customer signs and insurance waver. It is that large and that caffeine- and sugar-rich.

[hedgie]

We had a "secret menu" item like that at the first place I worked at (which was rather CoD like)[1], and probably should have had a waiver.  We called it "The Heartstopper", and it was made by placing a jug of iced espresso shots in that back part of the fridge where things iced over, and basically freeze-distilling it.  It was coffee scumble, and would instantly make one seriously knurd.  I made the mistake of giving one to one of the younger crowd because he had been pestering me long enough, culminating with "I'm Italian, I can handle it".  He was maybe able to finish half of it, and that batch hadn't even properly matured yet.

Fast forward to three days later, when his gf informed me that he hadn't slept the entire time, and also encountered *other* problems of a more intimate nature due to vascular constriction.

[1] We had some rather odd employees, particularly at nights.  Goth-ass me was somewhere in the middle when it came to normalcy, although I was one of the two odder-looking ones[2], if we're only going by appearance.
[2] One other dude on nights did look like a scary-ass skinhead with a 6" knife on his belt.[3]  Of course, once you got past the snark, he was a total pussycat who didn't hate anyone.
[3] California may have pretty strict gun laws compared to most of the US, but open-carry of sheathed blades is perfectly legal here.  And by blades, I don't just mean knives.  Swords are acceptable as well and I have done it in the past, but the filth does seem a bit jumpier these days.

[Farideh]

Now I'm kinda curious to try coffee scumble, but given the fact that I drink only 1 - 2 cups of coffee a day, it would probably kill me. What a way to go though!

[zmeiat_joro]

I thought we already knew Iris was into Willow, but Willow did not notice?

[_Islanio]

I can handle it".

A combination of words that precede dumb mistakes, some with lasting consequences.

[zmeiat_joro]

Oh, fuck, they're fine.

[snufflebottoms]

Claire will probably find yet another reason to be concerned about someone from Marten's circle of friends... 

Honestly, I don't blame her

Didn't Claire already know about Marten and Dora and Marten going with Tai from them all working at the library together and talking etc?

[shanejayell]

Tai, totally did not need to know that...

[Farideh]

Could... could they at least be NEW underpants? Technically, if I buy a pair of underwear, never take them out of their packaging, and then lend them to a bride-to-be, it still counts as 'underpants from a woman who has had children'.

If the bride uses the underwear for its intended purpose, I don't want them returned though.

[_Islanio]

If the bride uses the underwear for its intended purpose, I don't want them returned though.

Gross
...but wouldn't it defeat the whole "borrowed" stuff?

Also, if you gonna borrow something, let it be power tools.

[Gyrre]

Wait, for the fertility itself or for having to ask?

EDIT: correcting punctuation

[Farideh]

Borrowed indefinitely

[ihaveavoice]

I love Pintsize's happy little smile, like he's thinking, "I am! I am blue!"

If the "something borrowed" tradition is old enough to have been about conferring fertility originally, then the undergarment in question would have been a shift/chemise rather than underpants - women didn't wear bifurcated undergarments in the region this came from before the introduction of crotchless drawers in Victorian times. That to us would basically be a borrowed dress, which has been laundered before being lent to us, and that the lender just didn't happen to wear underwear with (which could always be the case with any clothes you've been lent, and again, laundry). IMO, doesn't really have the same modern yikes-factor as if it was underpants from some married mother in the village.

Hedgie, I want to go back in time and be your coworker. Not for the heartstopper, which might actually stop my non-coffee-drinker heart, but for the cast of characters.