yinglung
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Post by yinglung on Nov 15, 2017 8:16:48 GMT
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drdave
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Post by drdave on Nov 15, 2017 8:33:43 GMT
Who starts their week on a Sunday? Barbaric
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Post by snowflake on Nov 15, 2017 8:36:55 GMT
Who starts their week on a Sunday? Jews. ... _________________ That said, I am curious as to why Kat uses the "week starts on Sunday" setting. |
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yinglung
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Post by yinglung on Nov 15, 2017 8:42:36 GMT
Could be that she likes enough American media (X-files, etc) that she likes to have it that way.
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Post by madjack on Nov 15, 2017 8:44:43 GMT
That said, I am curious as to why Kat uses the "week starts on Sunday" setting. The clock doesn't look like it uses a type of display that could change that. |
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Post by philman on Nov 15, 2017 8:46:14 GMT
And still in the Friends apartment. Did Kat ever get another flatmate after Annie left? Or does she get the place to herself (and maybe Paz sometimes)?
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anisky
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Post by anisky on Nov 15, 2017 9:18:04 GMT
How old is Kat? Like 15 or so, right? And she gets up at 7 am on a Saturday?! That's just... unnatural.
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Post by ST13R on Nov 15, 2017 10:10:34 GMT
And still in the Friends apartment. Did Kat ever get another flatmate after Annie left? Or does she get the place to herself (and maybe Paz sometimes)? Haha, I think I know someone who'd love to get a new flatmate :') |
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Post by speedwell on Nov 15, 2017 10:41:09 GMT
Simple, it's a clock made in China to American specifications.
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Post by rimwolf on Nov 15, 2017 11:46:38 GMT
Who starts their week on a Sunday? According to Wikipedia: Canada, United States, India, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Israel, South Africa, most of Latin America |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Nov 15, 2017 12:56:33 GMT
tried to fix that for you... ![]()  |
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Post by philman on Nov 15, 2017 13:00:40 GMT
Who starts their week on a Sunday? According to Wikipedia: Canada, United States, India, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Israel, South Africa, most of Latin America Huh. Israel I understand, as Saturday is their sabbath, but I thought the whole point of genesis was that the 7th day was the day of rest, i.e. Sunday, and so should come at the end of the week. |
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yinglung
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Post by yinglung on Nov 15, 2017 13:41:03 GMT
According to Wikipedia: Canada, United States, India, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Israel, South Africa, most of Latin America Huh. Israel I understand, as Saturday is their sabbath, but I thought the whole point of genesis was that the 7th day was the day of rest, i.e. Sunday, and so should come at the end of the week. According to christian tradition, Christ rose on the first day of the week, so they moved to celebrating Sunday as the sabbath. Keeping Sunday the first day of the week has rebirth/resurrection connotations, which would be fitting for the shift of emphasis on the meaning of the sabbath. |
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Post by fia on Nov 15, 2017 15:08:30 GMT
I dunno, my Google calendar is like Kat's clock and it starts on Sunday; I live in Mexico and the US and I have always found this annoying. Weekend activities ought to be listed together, side-by-side, not torn apart! ...
Man how weird is it though that Kat probably lives in the Friends apartment by her lonesome?
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Post by ctso74 on Nov 15, 2017 15:10:57 GMT
For obvious reasons, I got a "Groundhog Day" vibe, when I saw this. For a second, I was really excited. I doubt time travel would fit into GC, but if "Katurday" is GC's version of GD, that would be awesome.
I wonder what Kat usually eats for breakfast? Is she one of the coffee Brits?
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Post by Spoopy on Nov 15, 2017 16:15:04 GMT
It just occurred to me . . . Have we ever seen smartphones in the court? You'd think Kat would have a super cool fancy smartphone to wake up with, but when I think about it, I'm not sure I've seen anything but flip phones.
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Post by Zox Tomana on Nov 15, 2017 16:23:23 GMT
According to Wikipedia: Canada, United States, India, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Israel, South Africa, most of Latin America Huh. Israel I understand, as Saturday is their sabbath, but I thought the whole point of genesis was that the 7th day was the day of rest, i.e. Sunday, and so should come at the end of the week. But Saturday is the day of rest for Jews. It's Christian tradition to use Sunday as the day of rest. In many countries, as it is being noted, Sunday is used as the 7th day of the week, rather than Saturday. Just a variance in tradition. I could argue for Sunday as the 1st day, or Sunday as the 7th, based purely on traditional reasonings (it's the Christian sabbath, therefore countries of Christian heritage [or influence] ought to have it as day 7; Christ rose on the first day of the week, the day after the Jewish sabbath, so we should keep the Lord's Day as the 1st day of the week to match up with those events as an illustrative tool) . Sunday as day 7 does have a practical utility noted by Fia: keeps the Western weekend together on the page. That still, however, assumes Sunday as a day of rest (or a joint Saturday/Sunday rest day), rather than a singular Saturday Sabbath. |
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Post by crater on Nov 15, 2017 16:45:57 GMT
Kat DOESN'T sleep on an anti-grav mattress nor have a platoon of robot servants nor does she take "sonic showers"; contrary to popular belief
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Post by fish on Nov 15, 2017 18:51:52 GMT
Simple, it's a clock made in China to American specifications. I'm pretty sure everything in that room is Court provided.  I dunno, my Google calendar is like Kat's clock and it starts on Sunday; I live in Mexico and the US and I have always found this annoying. Weekend activities ought to be listed together, side-by-side, not torn apart! ... You can change the settings to start the week on Monday! (At leastin the app you can.) |
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Post by Fishy on Nov 15, 2017 19:31:36 GMT
What a nice looking apartment. I bet it'd be the perfect size for two really good friends assuming nothing tragic happened to force them into different living conditions.
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Post by Gotolei on Nov 15, 2017 20:16:33 GMT
It just occurred to me . . . Have we ever seen smartphones in the court? You'd think Kat would have a super cool fancy smartphone to wake up with, but when I think about it, I'm not sure I've seen anything but flip phones. Kat had a tablet back in Changes, but nothing other than that seen from what I recall. It is kind of weird, in a place where students have access to computers often enough that Kat had time/reason to teach Annie to use email, and modern-day gaming consoles and robots everywhere and whatnot, that we don't see a single phone come out in the first pages of Torn Sea ( otherwise, actually) or during downtime in Get It Together. Not even one pushed to the side on Kat's desk. Wild speculation might say it's a byproduct of the Court trying to keep the kids isolated, but basically everything else in the comic seems to say otherwise.
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Post by fish on Nov 15, 2017 21:14:29 GMT
Jones had a flip phone (notice the Shadow Men symbol), and Kat had those... two way radios? Which can text, too? But nothing resembling smartphones, yet. (Though Annie doesn't act like she's never spoken into a cellphone before.) Maybe activities at the Court are so preoccupying that phones and texting never made it into the student's culture? They see each other every day anyway. Or maybe communication with the rest of the world is discouraged somehow. Maybe the lack of smartphones, and mobile phones in general, is supposed to be something the reader catches on to. It might be brought up at a later point. Tom certainly has no trouble drawing modern looking technology. |
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Post by fish on Nov 15, 2017 21:22:04 GMT
How old is Kat? Like 15 or so, right? We need some kind of updating infographic on how old these kids are at the current point in story. Kat started year 7 at age 11, I think. Right now year 10 is winding down. So kat would be around 14/15, Annie is slightly older, if I recall correctly. These claims are tentative, I have no time fact checking right now. Though I'm pretty certain about the year they are in, simply count the summer breaks. |
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Post by pyradonis on Nov 15, 2017 21:56:44 GMT
Jones had a flip phone (notice the Shadow Men symbol), and Kat had those... two way radios? Which can text, too? But nothing resembling smartphones, yet. (Though Annie doesn't act like she's never spoken into a cellphone before.) Maybe activities at the Court are so preoccupying that phones and texting never made it into the student's culture? They see each other every day anyway. Or maybe communication with the rest of the world is discouraged somehow. Maybe the lack of smartphones, and mobile phones in general, is supposed to be something the reader catches on to. It might be brought up at a later point. Tom certainly has no trouble drawing modern looking technology. Like the lack of rats?  |
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Post by philman on Nov 16, 2017 8:55:32 GMT
It just occurred to me . . . Have we ever seen smartphones in the court? You'd think Kat would have a super cool fancy smartphone to wake up with, but when I think about it, I'm not sure I've seen anything but flip phones. Well the comic started in 2005, so 2 years before the first iPhone came out. In-universe it has only been 3-4 years since the start of the comic, and non-smart phones were still fairly common in 2009 if we are going by that timeline. Then again, Tom has snuck in more recent cultural references than that now and again, and has stated that the timeline isn't set to a specific year, and is much more loosely just based on sort-of-current-day. (Plus with Jones' flip phone, since we have no idea what she is or what she is made of there is the question as to whether her body has the capacitance to use a smart phone with her finger or not and is restricted to dumb-phones or styluses. |
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