# I don't quite get today's "Questionable Content" strip **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-strips\ **Created:** [April 13, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967 "2010-04-13T17:48:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 109
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2162 "2017-05-26T14:19:41Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > If Melon didn’t have a butt, what exactly was she sitting on while talking to Claire, I wonder? The big cushion smooshed under her is performing the temporary function. With a detachable modular bottom, upon removal the android may lose independent upright stability and mobility (from the missing myomer glutes) but the rest of the body would not be structurally compromised, and more importantly there is no wound to heal (and no blood loss or risk of infection), so a protective cushion in the glutes’ place means you can put weight on it to sit upright until they are replaced. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2163 "2017-05-26T15:07:41Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > And how come she doesn’t have toes? I wonder if the same is true of Momo and May. Momo’s old chassis, sure. May, probably. Momo’s current chassis is too human looking - probably all she’s lacking are genitals and possibly nipples. (But I wouldn’t lay money on the latter.) ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2164 "2017-06-02T00:07:10Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > No argument. But I’m predicting we get some arc with her and Brother Metal-hand (Cliff? Clyde?). And they already put the hooks in between her and the A-List Squad with Hanners. > > I’m not happy about my own prediction. Guys, I’m sorry. I didn’t want it to be like this ☹ ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2165 "2017-06-21T15:41:30Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > What do you suppose the next big QC conflict will be? Or the next big romantic pairing? Oooo, asked and answered with [today’s](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3508) strip, as it looks like Claire will get the full Padma story from Renee. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2166 "2017-06-21T16:06:05Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Oooo, asked and answered with [today’s](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3508) strip, as it looks like Claire will get the full Padma story from Renee. The story where Padma treated Martin like shit, then ignored him for over a week, then finally called and asked “Hey, I’m leaving tomorrow, want to see each other one last time?” and he replied No, people said _he_ was the asshole? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2167 "2017-06-21T16:20:26Z")
Hell, granted QC-Verse time is all sorts of distorted but “dated before me” would be months before meeting Claire and certainly months more before Marten & Claire became a thing since she had her whole internship in there. The way it’s phrased makes it sound as though Padma happened a week prior. But, that aside, I agree that Marten doesn’t have anything to feel bad about. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2168 "2017-06-21T16:53:43Z")
Maybe Marten’s uncomfortable at the idea of a stinker like Renee dishing the dirt on one of his exes to his current squeeze. I know I would be. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2169 "2017-06-21T16:55:21Z")
Claire IS aware of Marten-Dora, right? (Darten?) That was one of the longest relationships in the entire strip. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2170 "2017-06-21T17:30:21Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Claire IS aware of Marten-Dora, right? (Darten?) That was one of the longest relationships in the entire strip. Yes. Claire (whose father cheated on her mother) assumed that Dora cheated on Marten with Tai, and got very upset with the latter. “I don’t take orders from homewreckers!” Claire is also aware of Marten and Faye’s early-stage relationship. Pintsize: “TL;DR: They wanted to bang, but didn’t.” ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2171 "2017-06-21T17:43:37Z")
It was also covered in [this strip.](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3290) That’s a good point **Ike**. Renee is ridiculously loyal to her friends, so the story she tells will have an extremely pro-Padma slant. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2172 "2017-06-21T19:43:31Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > The story where Padma treated Martin like shit, then ignored him for over a week, then finally called and asked “Hey, I’m leaving tomorrow, want to see each other one last time?” and he replied No, people said _he_ was the asshole? > [@Jophiel](#): > > I agree that Marten doesn’t have anything to feel bad about. I also agree. Marten has nothing to apologize for over his relationship with Padma. I was surprised when Jacques had other characters giving Marten grief over the quite understandable way he acted. Apparently, Marten is supposed to be a doormat and it’s unreasonable for him to stand up for himself. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2173 "2017-06-21T19:51:18Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Hell, granted QC-Verse time is all sorts of distorted but “dated before me” would be months before meeting Claire and certainly months more before Marten & Claire became a thing since she had her whole internship in there. Actually, the timeline is the series is surprisingly consistent. I used to be one of the obsessive people who helped keep track of it on the QC Wiki. You could pinpoint events down to specific days and there were hardly ever contradictions. But as I said, you have to be obsessive. Casual readers will miss this because Jacques will spend twenty-five strips following the events of a single day and then, without any acknowledgement of time passing, skip ahead a month in the next strip. So casual readers will sometimes feel like an event happened weeks ago when it was really only an hour ago in the strip’s timeline and conversely, sometimes events that were separated by weeks in the story’s timeline seem to happen one right after the other. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2174 "2017-06-21T20:15:36Z")
I just went back and re-read the Padma stuff, and while neither Marten nor Padma handled the situation particularly well, on the standards of relationship douchebaggery, I’d say it rates a 2 out of 10 on the scale. 3 at most. On the other, dishing the dirt to your girlfriend about a past relationship? I’d say that’s about a 7. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2175 "2017-06-21T20:58:31Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > I just went back and re-read the Padma stuff, and while neither Marten nor Padma handled the situation particularly well, on the standards of relationship douchebaggery, I’d say it rates a 2 out of 10 on the scale. 3 at most. > > On the other, dishing the dirt to your girlfriend about a past relationship? I’d say that’s about a 7. Sounds about right for the way Renee was depicted back during the Padma story line, but she’s been portrayed as much more sympathetic once Brun showed up. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2176 "2017-06-21T21:15:12Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Sounds about right for the way Renee was depicted back during the Padma story line, but she’s been portrayed as much more sympathetic once Brun showed up. Except for her [immediate assumption](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3232) that Clinton, who had been nothing but kind and helpful to Brun, must have been [a creep trying to take advantage of her.](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3243) ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2177 "2017-06-21T21:49:06Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Except for her [immediate assumption](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3232) that Clinton, who had been nothing but kind and helpful to Brun, must have been [a creep trying to take advantage of her.](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3243) Ah, so we have Clinton to thank for Renee becoming more reasonable. Who’d have guessed? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2178 "2017-06-22T00:01:07Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > I just went back and re-read the Padma stuff, and while neither Marten nor Padma handled the situation particularly well, on the standards of relationship douchebaggery, I’d say it rates a 2 out of 10 on the scale. 3 at most. > > On the other, dishing the dirt to your girlfriend about a past relationship? I’d say that’s about a 7. Well, yeah. Renee is an asshole. She’s meaner than early Faye. She was so bad that Angus’s friends celebrated when they broke up. She treats Brun like a baby, verbally abuses guys like Clinton who try to be nice to her just because she’s scared, and sexually harasses her coworkers because she might be intrested in them. What gets me is Claire’s reaction. That face suggests she’s mad at Marten, thinking he lied to her. And Marten made it quite clear that he wants to get away, so she’s clearly assuming that Marten is trying to keep her from finding out. And then there’s just the pettiness of needing details about past relationships, especially gossipy ones. Everything we’ve seen from Marten and Claire makes it seem they have a pretty healthy, mature, and honest relationship. So Claire’s reaction seems out of place. I’m personally far more interested in Clinton and Elliot and Brun. And that’s saying something. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2179 "2017-12-19T19:43:58Z")
So I think that current Hannelore is my _favorite_ Hannelore. [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3636](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3636) [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3637](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3637) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2180 "2017-12-19T19:49:09Z")
Oh, yeah. Hanners hates her mother’s treatment of other people and I can definitely see the way Mrs. Worthington-Cartwright-whatever is treating Taffy…er, Tilly…as a bargaining chip with Tilly’s dad making Hanners furious, especially since her mother has made HER complicit by “assigning” Tilly to her. Also: “She has the Voice!” “The Weirding Way!” may be the best offhand literary reference I’ve seen in this strip yet… ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/2181 "2017-12-19T20:21:07Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Also: “She has the Voice!” “The Weirding Way!” may be the best offhand literary reference I’ve seen in this strip yet… I’ll admit that I don’t get it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967.md?page=108) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967.md?page=110)