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Post by exdevlin on Jun 17, 2013 12:46:54 GMT
Renard looks very decidedly insincere in his responses. Perhaps Hetty enjoys his company far more than in the other direction.
What's Hetty's deal anyway? Why's she in such hate for this Adam's well-being? I figure we'll find out soon enough. I'm calling some sort of "city" version of the forest fairy.
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Post by Eisenblume on Jun 17, 2013 12:53:34 GMT
That is EEEEVUUUUUUL.
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Post by csj on Jun 17, 2013 13:06:47 GMT
Hetty speaks American English.
Clearly this is a sign of her being an inhumane monster.
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Post by CGAdam on Jun 17, 2013 13:15:26 GMT
She sounds more Welsh to me.
Means the same thing, though.
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Post by Cleo on Jun 17, 2013 13:51:09 GMT
Oh man, I really hope my offhand comment that Hetty is the world's worst saboteur and Renard is humouring her might be spot on. Adam could be miserable for other reasons but Hetty has decided that it's all her doing because she's an evil mastermind and whatnot.
I have another theory too, but I'm going to Wild Speculation that one.
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Post by bansheekitty on Jun 17, 2013 13:51:20 GMT
Oh, no! When I was a little girl, my mom didn't want me touching the insulation in our crawl space (which looked inconveniently like cotton candy), so she told me that if I touched it, I would get an itch in my skin that would never go away, and I've been terrified of the stuff ever since! Poor Adam!
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Post by snipertom on Jun 17, 2013 14:06:11 GMT
I'm guessing that Rey and his evil gf hooked up not long after Annie ran away to the forest for the summer. Rey doesn't want to seem pathetic. Unfortunately, now he has an evil girlfriend. Who he is decidedly reluctant about going on dates with.
Especially since he is quite fond of Annie, while H is rather UN-fond of Adam, whoever that is.
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Post by The Anarch on Jun 17, 2013 15:52:26 GMT
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Post by warrl on Jun 17, 2013 16:37:51 GMT
There is nothing worse than stepping on a Lego with bare feet I assure you, there are worse things to step on. |
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Post by Señor Goose on Jun 17, 2013 16:44:55 GMT
About how I feel. Just because it doesn't fit the current model doesn't mean it can't ever. After all, people have probably been electrocuting themselves on door handles for hundreds of years. They probably chalked it up to trickster gods or whatever. Also how did we decide how Hetty speaks? I've been reading her with a posh English accent. |
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Post by Corvo on Jun 17, 2013 16:49:24 GMT
There is nothing worse than stepping on a Lego with bare feet I assure you, there are worse things to step on. Oh, YES, there IS. |
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Post by wlerin on Jun 17, 2013 16:55:09 GMT
"I also put tiny amounts of sodium cyanide in his tea! Hilarious!" That is, in fact, good deed as he can survive after being poisoned with dose which would be lethal for most humans. Or does it work only for organic poisons?.. Unless he drinks tea with sugar, of course. Last I checked cyanide poisoning doesn't heal. So no, this wouldn't give him any immunity, it'd just kill him very very slowly. edit: Of course, nothing on the wiki page for cyanide poisoning matches up with what I remember (spec. that cyanide is like a permanent morphine), so I'm probably wrong. Prolonged exposure to cyanide is still not healthy. |
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Post by GK Sierra on Jun 17, 2013 17:42:11 GMT
That is, in fact, good deed as he can survive after being poisoned with dose which would be lethal for most humans. Or does it work only for organic poisons?.. Unless he drinks tea with sugar, of course. Last I checked cyanide poisoning doesn't heal. So no, this wouldn't give him any immunity, it'd just kill him very very slowly. Wlerin is right. Cyanide is unlike most other poisons in that it disrupts the Krebs Cycle, preventing the cells from properly bonding to oxygen, causing hypoxia. A fatal dose can be as low as one milligram. Unless our tea drinker has a habit of ingesting large amounts of nitrate fertilizer (next episode of "My Strange Addiction" anybody?), he is going to be dead as a doornail. |
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Post by Purgatorius on Jun 17, 2013 20:11:37 GMT
From the third page of this chapter, we see seams on Reynardine's leg joints, even when he is in wolf form.
Is that an art upgrade or a plot device?
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Post by keef on Jun 17, 2013 21:14:21 GMT
Oh man, I really hope my offhand comment that Hetty is the world's worst saboteur and Renard is humouring her might be spot on. Adam could be miserable for other reasons but Hetty has decided that it's all her doing because she's an evil mastermind and whatnot. I have another theory too, but I'm going to Wild Speculation that one. Renard is a trickster of legend, so he must be a bit bored with this upstart. He certainly does not look impressed. There might be some connection between Hetty and Surma explaining Rey's patience with her. |
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Post by madragoran on Jun 17, 2013 21:14:20 GMT
The stuff used in firefighter uniforms isn't glass, it's Nomex, kinda like Kevlar and other exotic fibers. As for biodegradable, if it's glass it's not, If it is then it's cellulose insulation. I know here in Australia that the glass stuff is still very popular as it doesn't burn Apologies as I do not know how to multiquote so drdave thanks very much for the info! download firefighter uniforms can indeed contain Nomex (tm) brand fibre which is a mixture of para and meta aramid and a small percentage antistatic fibres but also they maybe made by PBI (Polybenzimidazole) or even Viscose FR (Kevlar is the same as Nomex only the percentages of meta and para aramid are inverted). There are various types of firefighter uniforms. There is the bunker gear which is usually a multi-layered uniform (4 as far as the ones i've dissected go)and the station uniform which is single layer and then there is the close proximity aluminium laminated uniform (that's the one that looks like a space suit from a b movie). The close proximity one has various add-ons to protect areas not covered by the suit. One of them is the protective bit on the nape of the neck which is attached the helmet. I have tested a few of them and the substrate that is laminated with aluminium was a woven fabric made of glass fibre yarns so some uniforms may contain glass. Thank you for replying.  |
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Post by faythofdragons on Jun 17, 2013 22:21:08 GMT
Oh my god, this strip is adorable!
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Post by Marnath on Jun 17, 2013 23:36:31 GMT
From the third page of this chapter, we see seams on Reynardine's leg joints, even when he is in wolf form. Is that an art upgrade or a plot device? Neither. Reynardine has always had those seams in wolf form. Example. |
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Post by nero on Jun 17, 2013 23:39:02 GMT
I'm guessing Adam is middle aged.
Maybe Hetty will notice Renard's mood and we may get to see some flashbacks with Surma.
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Post by ctso74 on Jun 18, 2013 0:25:01 GMT
"I have been placing the tiniest amounts in Adam's bedsheets... and then I watch him sleep..."
"Uhm."
"All night..."
"Okay."
"And sometimes-"
"I get it! You're evil!"
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Post by temnoc on Jun 18, 2013 3:06:39 GMT
Ruh roh. I wait to see what business it is exactly Renard has with her.
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Post by snipertom on Jun 18, 2013 5:59:28 GMT
Last I checked cyanide poisoning doesn't heal. So no, this wouldn't give him any immunity, it'd just kill him very very slowly. Wlerin is right. Cyanide is unlike most other poisons in that it disrupts the Krebs Cycle, preventing the cells from properly bonding to oxygen, causing hypoxia. A fatal dose can be as low as one milligram. Unless our tea drinker has a habit of ingesting large amounts of nitrate fertilizer (next episode of "My Strange Addiction" anybody?), he is going to be dead as a doornail. Correct. You can survive cyanide poisoning but only those cells which have regenerative properties (ie not neurons or cardiac myocytes or other such things) will regenerate. My mum had a patient who survived being cyanide poisoned by his wife; he has cyanide induced Parkinsonism from the brain damage! |
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Post by GK Sierra on Jun 18, 2013 7:25:01 GMT
Wlerin is right. Cyanide is unlike most other poisons in that it disrupts the Krebs Cycle, preventing the cells from properly bonding to oxygen, causing hypoxia. A fatal dose can be as low as one milligram. Unless our tea drinker has a habit of ingesting large amounts of nitrate fertilizer (next episode of "My Strange Addiction" anybody?), he is going to be dead as a doornail. Correct. You can survive cyanide poisoning but only those cells which have regenerative properties (ie not neurons or cardiac myocytes or other such things) will regenerate. My mum had a patient who survived being cyanide poisoned by his wife; he has cyanide induced Parkinsonism from the brain damage! Oh, that's terrible... What an absolute witch. A divorce would have been sufficient. There are still some communities in southern California that have arsenic water coming out of their pipes, despite the government agencies having the largest amount of undistributed utility development money out of any state. Nasty. |
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Post by crater on Jun 18, 2013 12:07:18 GMT
At last, the true final boss of Gunnerkrigg Court shows her face! she just had breakfast with lil'cal and chucky |
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Post by Per on Jun 18, 2013 17:50:06 GMT
Looks like a double space after "week", or a hole from removing a comma. Which shows Hetty is evil.
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Post by GK Sierra on Jun 18, 2013 17:51:57 GMT
Looks like a double space after "week", or a hole from removing a comma. Which shows Hetty is evil. Or that Tom is grammatically indecisive. |
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jun 18, 2013 18:44:30 GMT
Her evilness makes Tom indecisive.
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Post by stsasser on Jun 18, 2013 20:03:27 GMT
Oh man, I really hope my offhand comment that Hetty is the world's worst saboteur and Renard is humouring her might be spot on. Adam could be miserable for other reasons but Hetty has decided that it's all her doing because she's an evil mastermind and whatnot. If Adam sleeps in the nude, Hetty's self-appraisal is spot-on. |
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Post by Nnelg on Jun 19, 2013 16:18:36 GMT
Well, I have worked in the glass fibre industry and I can tell that modern materials do no longer itch at all. Does Gunnerkrigg Court look very modern to you?  Even if it was maintained a lot better, there's bound to be a little bit of the old kind lying around somewhere. She's probably only using a few grams of it. Bet you a red button she's also leaving LEGO bricks lying around while hiding the slippers. There is nothing worse than stepping on a Lego with bare feet, except perhaps kneeling on an Airsoft bb. What about stepping on four-sided dice (aka "caltrops")? |
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Post by The Anarch on Jun 19, 2013 17:38:11 GMT
There is nothing worse than stepping on a Lego with bare feet, except perhaps kneeling on an Airsoft bb. What about stepping on four-sided dice (aka "caltrops")? Welp, that's three of us that have mentioned d4's so far. I believe the vote passes. They are the worst. |
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