# 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:** 95
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1881 "2015-08-03T22:41:13Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Looks like Jeph is giving up the Yelling Bird strips. I won’t miss it. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1882 "2015-08-03T22:41:22Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Looks like Jeph is giving up the Yelling Bird strips. Bet you a nickel we haven’t seen the last of the little fucker. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2015, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1883 "2015-08-04T01:20:12Z")
Incidentally, my daughter’s boyfriend and I are both now referring to our (respective) dogs as “Inspector Pancakes.” Emily, you are the BEST. (They solve MYSTERIES!!!) ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1884 "2015-08-04T01:41:05Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Incidentally, my daughter’s boyfriend and I are both now referring to our (respective) dogs as “Inspector Pancakes.” Emily, you are the BEST. > > (They solve MYSTERIES!!!) [It seems important to me that you know about this.](http://comicsalliance.com/inspector-pancakes-kickstarter-childrens-book/) ---
**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:** [August 4, 2015, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1885 "2015-08-04T01:48:03Z")
Thank you. Everyone has been alerted. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2015, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1886 "2015-08-12T05:16:04Z")
Okay, this is just petty but there’s a continuity error is [today’s strip](http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3023). From the dialogue it’s clear that the second panel immediately follows the first one. But somehow Tai has magically acquired pants between the two panels. My guess is there will be a revision within a short while correcting the color in the first panel. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1887 "2015-08-12T06:32:48Z")
I don’t think so. In the first frame, Tai is getting dressed, buttoning up her shirt. In the second, they are in a different room in front of the window, and Tai now has pants on. The conversation paused. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2015, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1888 "2015-08-12T07:14:23Z")
I have a hard time accepting there was a pause in this conversation: “I’ll talk to Sven.” “Don’t do it just because of me.” “I’m not. I thought I was being strong but maybe I’m just being stubborn.” Quite frankly, if Jacques intended there to be significant pause in these lines, it’s a much bigger mistake than the one I pointed out. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2015, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1889 "2015-08-12T07:31:51Z")
How long does it take you to put on pants? I’ve never taken longer than that segment of conversation would take if the pants actually fit. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1890 "2015-08-12T07:33:59Z")
I don’t think it’s a pause, it’s just that Tai is getting dreamed while they’re talking, and it takes time to say things. Imagine the image in panel one is where they are when Dora starts talking, and the image in panel two is where they are when Tai finishes speaking. The five seconds of so it takes to say that dialogue is enough time for Tai to stand up and pull up her pants. I think the window is just a change in the camera angle. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2015, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1891 "2015-08-12T13:59:55Z")
Is there a FAQ or source for how androids work in QC-world? I know that Jeph said a few strips back that he’d created a whole working system for AI’s and warfare (that we may never see) but the companion androids that we see seems fairly nonsensical from any realistic point of view. I just roll with it for the story’s sake but reading his comment about combat AI’s made me think that he must(?) have a framework for the rest of them beyond “silly characters who also happen to be robots 'cause why not?” ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1892 "2015-08-12T18:00:20Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Bet you a nickel we haven’t seen the last of the little fucker. I imagine he’ll be back in the Christmas-New Year’s filler strips with Sweet-Tits. ---
**Author:** ![magnusblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1893 "2015-08-15T00:30:51Z")
I had seen complaints about the art going downhill before but it wasn’t until recently that it really started to hit me. Maybe Jeph’s just rushing his artwork but Dora’s face in [this comic](http://www.questionablecontent.net/comics/3025.png) just looks really sloppy/rushed. > [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > How long does it take you to put on pants? I’ve never taken longer than that segment of conversation would take if the pants actually fit. Heh. Must not be a big comic fan. [Talking is a free action](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TalkingIsAFreeAction)! ([This](http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/badcomic2.jpg) used to be the prior, if a bit egregious, example) ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1894 "2015-09-01T07:38:23Z")
Yeah, I don’t see where a [septum piercing](http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3037) is exactly the most rad life-changing decision Claire’s ever made. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2015, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1895 "2015-09-01T18:07:04Z")
True, but…gross. She’d look like livestock. On the plus side, if Claire ever ran into an owl and a pussycat who were interested in getting married, she could sell it to them as a wedding ring. For one shilling. ---
**Author:** ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1896 "2015-09-01T18:48:51Z")
Claire seems way too … nervous to get a septum piercing. I mean, she was in her 20s before she got ear piercings. Septum piercings are a bit to far in the “body-mod freaks” spectrum for me to believe she’s considering it and that this isn’t author-bleed-over. ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1897 "2015-09-01T20:00:31Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > True, but…gross. She’d look like livestock. > > On the plus side, if Claire ever ran into an owl and a pussycat who were interested in getting married, she could sell it to them as a wedding ring. For one shilling. Well, but I think it’s a little harsh to call Claire a _pig_! ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1898 "2015-09-01T22:57:32Z")
> [@yellowjacketcoder](#): > > Claire seems way too … nervous to get a septum piercing. I mean, she was in her 20s before she got ear piercings. Septum piercings are a bit to far in the “body-mod freaks” spectrum for me to believe she’s considering it and that this isn’t author-bleed-over. On the other side of things, Claire is really set up to be Jeph’s ultimate Mary Sue. He has piercings and tattoos galore - we may be seeing her undergo yet another transformation. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2015, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1899 "2015-09-02T03:36:06Z")
> [@yellowjacketcoder](#): > > Septum piercings are a bit to far in the “body-mod freaks” spectrum :dubious: If it can be hidden or removed without making you look like you’re some sort of MIB alien, it can hardly be described as ‘far into the “body mod freaks” spectrum’. Hell any facial or ear piercing more commonly described in terms of its location than its gauge hardly even counts. Now, when she starts talking about getting plugs or tunnels (… actually, in today’s strip, she kind of did, albeit something of a different kind of plug), that’d be getting deep into body modding. Now, a septum piercing is a bit more of a ‘tough guy’ look than I’d expect from her, but that’s a totally different thing. ---
**Author:** ![slitterst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@slitterst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slitterst)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967/1900 "2015-09-02T17:36:03Z")
> [@yellowjacketcoder](#): > > Claire seems way too … nervous to get a septum piercing. I mean, she was in her 20s before she got ear piercings. Septum piercings are a bit to far in the “body-mod freaks” spectrum for me to believe she’s considering it and that this isn’t author-bleed-over. To be fair to her, she was a boy for we-don’t-know-how-many of those 20 years before she got her ears pierced. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967.md?page=94) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-quite-get-todays-questionable-content-strip/535967.md?page=96)