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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 9 - Snacky, No!

« on: August 14, 2014, 03:16:19 AM »

Absolutely horrified at being spoken to by Eddy apparently, haha love the extreme closeup!

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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: Music Video - "Freedom of Choice" by Devo [1980]

« on: August 14, 2014, 03:01:18 AM »

I don't know how I came across this video, after all it was made when I was still a toddler. I quite like the New Order songs I know but yes I think they take themselves quite seriously.

I've seen them live recently actually, they still do gigs but it was clear they're fed up with playing the same old songs for thirty-odd years. Can't blame them to be honest..

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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: Music Video - "Freedom of Choice" by Devo [1980]

« on: August 13, 2014, 08:15:05 AM »

Nice masks.

I have no idea what to make of this to be honest, which makes it a typical 80's music video..

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 9 - Snacky, No!

« on: August 11, 2014, 09:49:47 AM »

Well, on page 10 of issue 1, it's the night of the breakup and she's alone in her bedroom. She's actually crying more from hurt pride and embarrassment (which will make better sense when more details about how she found the tape are revealed) than from a broken heart. But even on that page, some of her anger shows through with her writing "Cheeting asshole" with her lipstick over the photo of the two of them.

Now it's the following day, she's gotten the crying out of her system, and she's drugged up and has her best friend to back her up (not to mention ice cream), so she's more angry/annoyed than sad.

I'm surprised she didn't shove that ice cream in his face though, or chuck it into his car..

Yeah the "cheeting asshole" made me smile, because it's another great example of UK and US spelling being different: "arsehole"..

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 8 - Ice Cream Man

« on: August 10, 2014, 06:22:20 AM »

The backgrounds of the quote boxes were the default really light powder blue. Since the rest of the forum's colors have been modified to fit our radical color scheme, they stood out really bad to me.

It's a thin line between rad and bad.. 

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 9 - Snacky, No!

« on: August 10, 2014, 06:21:31 AM »

Love how Dean is just too cool to use car doors. 

Perhaps he's trying to out-cool his mate, who looks like total knob for using the car door now..

It felt very fitting for her character.

Definitely puts her down as cool-headed in the face of douchebaggery, although it's a stark contrast with page 1-10..

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 9 - Snacky, No!

« on: August 09, 2014, 03:53:13 AM »

She's dead to me now has to be the best quote in this issue so far. Veronica is showing us how arrogant she is in panel 4 too.

Also totally didn't see the pig coming, love the name as well. He's quite big judging from his size relative to the door in panel 7.

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 8 - Ice Cream Man

« on: August 09, 2014, 03:42:36 AM »

It worked last time, but you're right it can't be obvious in any way (booze helps) and one encounter immunises people. I've never tried it on a stranger though, and maybe it only worked because I don't make jokes like that very often.

I'm struggling to remember what the quote boxes used to look like now, they probably didn't bother me enough then..

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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: Movie Review - Enter the Ninja [1981]

« on: August 08, 2014, 03:41:37 AM »

I'm probably going to focus on more obscure movies, as opposed to the big ones that everyone's already seen.

Too bad this movie is not from the eighties, I'd love to see it reviewed and remember it as particularly shitty.

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Discuss Blog Entries / Re: Movie Review - Enter the Ninja [1981]

« on: August 07, 2014, 01:58:34 PM »

Django wastes no time in copping a feel on her, using his ninja molestation technique.

This might be Eddie's only chance..

I just love how the reasons for killing people in these movies are just ridiculous. War Buddy doesn't want to sell his house? I know, get a ninja to kill his mate. I think that if you offered the money he spent on Black Ninja to War Buddy he'd sell his house without any fuss..

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Discuss Anything / Re: Introductions

« on: August 05, 2014, 04:58:44 PM »

Safron is a pseudo-pseudonym. It's my middle name. My father's father's mother's birth name was Safronski or Szafranski or Safronowski, or something like that. I've been meaning to ask my grandpa about that, because I've been interested in genealogy lately. Anyway, either she or her parents legally shortened it to Safron. My parents thought it was neat and made it my middle name. I also think it's neat and made it my professional name, except I still need to get a DBA.

Cool! I don't really know about my geneaology to be honest, and I don't know what a DBA is either..

My father's mother's mother's maiden name was Van Deusen. That name entered the US from the Netherlands in the 1600s, before the US was the US. I think my family has genealogical records dating back to at least the 1300s on that lineage. It looks like the name used to be Van Deursen, and before that, Van Doorsen and Van Doersen. I've always heard Van Deusen pronounced væn'duzɛn, with the "deu" sounding like the "doo" in doodle. My mother's mother's mother's maiden name was Van Husen, and I wonder if that name had ever been spelled with an eu.

Looking at the Wikipedia article on Dutch orthography, eu would be pronounced like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-mid_front_rounded_vowel Sooo... it's like a rounded /e/ sound, I guess? Also, you and Google Translate told me the same pronunciation for rijst, but now that I'm looking at this article, WP says ij would be pronounced ɛi or ə, making rijst rhyme with taste, or rhyme with the "dust" in industry. What's the deal?

Ugh that wikipedia one is way too nasal, perhaps that's how Scandinavians pronounce it.. :p

ij would be pronounced more like ei in feisty, but make the sound further to the front of the mouth. For the r you should roll your tongue the way Scottish people do it.

To pronounce eu, try saying a while mildly pouting your lips (duck face). That results in the right sound with me, more or less. It's kinda hard to explain like this really, in this video somebody is pronouncing a collection of Dutch words with different vowel combinations. Amazing what people spend their time on isn't it? ij is covered from 5:40 onwards and eu comes right after that.

Most of the stuff you have in common with trees is pretty standard and essential to all life; genes encoding enzymes of intracellular chemistry (central carbon metabolism, biosynthesis), DNA copying and maintenance mechanisms, structural proteins, etc. It's not exactly the same but very similar, like a book written in different dialects of the same language would be very similar (but with addition and omissions, no analogy is ever complete). After all, there are only so many ways of converting sugar A into sugar B that make sense. Many of the 'older systems' have been more or less optimised during evolution, 'older' meaning the time when animals and plants started diverging, or vertebrates from invertebrates, which is quite a while ago.

The fun thing about nature is that everything is always trying to eat other things or prevent being eaten by them, including humans and He-Man. Basically, everyone has to fight for their right to party.. 

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Discuss Anything / Re: Introductions

« on: August 05, 2014, 08:01:25 AM »

I'll let Jessica speak for herself. That is, if she can ever pull herself away from drawing for long enough to post on here.

Haha it's quite clear that you do all the writing and she's drawing all the time..

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 7 - Eddie's Gotta Ask Her!

« on: August 05, 2014, 03:49:54 AM »

I do think she's attractive but I'm waiting for more of the typical 80's young female transformation to make Eddie open his eyes.

Yeah, I knew what you meant. Just giving you a hard time.

Like a true badass..

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Discuss Anything / Re: Introductions

« on: August 05, 2014, 03:49:13 AM »

So you've reached your ultimate form, so to speak.

I wouldn't pronounce Dravean any different, but Dravian does look more like an existing name. Is Safron a peusonym too?

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Discuss Comic Pages / Re: Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 8 - Ice Cream Man

« on: August 05, 2014, 03:43:30 AM »

As for the babe talk, totally digging Heather in this page.

Have you ever asked a girl if she can touch elbows behind her back? Works best on a large chested lass and if you wrap it up a bit, like Ooh my shoulder is a bit stiff, my elbows can't even touch like this anymore.

That's what Heather looks like she's doing in the first frame..