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Post by arkadi on Jun 11, 2016 7:03:28 GMT
Progress is measured by the amount of cow you can eat in one go. Every cow is an individual cow if you are hungry enough Every beefsteak is a symphony Every cow's a waterfall |
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Post by fwip on Jun 11, 2016 14:30:05 GMT
I love how Eggers is being called by his first name but Parley is still going by her last.
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Jun 11, 2016 16:16:03 GMT
I love how Eggers is being called by his first name but Parley is still going by her last. Parley may still be self-conscious that her first name is George, and as her mentor and a teacher James has to maintain a professional demeanor while he is alone with her on training missions for weeks at a time. |
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Post by Refugee on Jun 11, 2016 19:12:34 GMT
Is Parley going to grow a beard now?
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I admit, I think Parley and Smitty are in for a rough time. Parley's strength is supernatural, and still developing.
I have a sense that Jones was a good companion for Egg, because she's indestructible. Smitty, however, is not.
Parley may become something of a loner.
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Post by csj on Jun 12, 2016 0:13:21 GMT
Awesome pics. Great size. Look thick. Solid. Tight. Keep us all posted on your continued progress with any new progress pics or vid clips. Show us what you got parley. Wanna see how freakn’ huge, solid, thick and tight you can get.
Thanks for the motivation.
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Post by Refugee on Jun 12, 2016 6:03:07 GMT
Show us what you got parley. Wanna see how freakn’ huge, solid, thick and tight you can get. Do you think Smitty wants his girlfriend to be huge, solid, thick, and tight? Um, "tight" in the sense you mean here? |
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Post by Refugee on Jun 12, 2016 8:29:56 GMT
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Post by csj on Jun 12, 2016 8:42:49 GMT
Show us what you got parley. Wanna see how freakn’ huge, solid, thick and tight you can get. Do you think Smitty wants his girlfriend to be huge, solid, thick, and tight? Um, "tight" in the sense you mean here? in the memetic sense an oldie but a goodie |
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Post by Refugee on Jun 12, 2016 10:17:52 GMT
Do you think Smitty wants his girlfriend to be huge, solid, thick, and tight? Um, "tight" in the sense you mean here? in the memetic sense an oldie but a goodie Yes, but is that what Smitty wants from Parley? (And granted, I did not know that particular meme. Still, I got the correct sense. Question stands, though.) |
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Post by snipertom on Jun 12, 2016 12:12:01 GMT
in the memetic sense an oldie but a goodie Yes, but is that what Smitty wants from Parley? (And granted, I did not know that particular meme. Still, I got the correct sense. Question stands, though.) I think that is the crux of the joke. |
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Post by Refugee on Jun 12, 2016 12:41:08 GMT
Yes, but is that what Smitty wants from Parley? (And granted, I did not know that particular meme. Still, I got the correct sense. Question stands, though.) I think that is the crux of the joke. Is it a joke? Does Smitty think it's a joke? I'll ask directly: How much of a man does he want his girlfriend to be? |
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Post by snipertom on Jun 12, 2016 13:15:21 GMT
I think that is the crux of the joke. Is it a joke? Does Smitty think it's a joke? I'll ask directly: How much of a man does he want his girlfriend to be? Maybe he's bi? Maybe he's not particularly threatened by masculine women? I know many men who are more feminine than their female partners and they seem quite happy and to ahve been quite happy for many years. Furthermore, it's a hell of an assumption to draw a direct connection between physical or mental strength === masculinity. |
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Post by KMar on Jun 12, 2016 13:34:55 GMT
Smitty is already shorter and less athletic than Parley and has no problem dating her, so I'd extrapolate guess he is totally okay with whatever the Court protector training entails. We also don't know if Court training regimen will make Parley look like an extreme case like a East German olympic shot putter / weight lifter, or an ordinary human female that goes to gym regularly: Court protector training is probably etheric / mad science than just boring regular chemical doping, its effects are probably whatever the narrative requires. (Supergirl doesn't exactly look like Superman...)
And even with the full East German olympic athlete / Belgian Blue route, I'd bet Parley might freak out more than Smitty.
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Post by Refugee on Jun 12, 2016 13:51:19 GMT
Is it a joke? Does Smitty think it's a joke? I'll ask directly: How much of a man does he want his girlfriend to be? Maybe he's bi? Maybe he's not particularly threatened by masculine women? I know many men who are more feminine than their female partners and they seem quite happy and to ahve been quite happy for many years. Furthermore, it's a hell of an assumption to draw a direct connection between physical or mental strength === masculinity. George's father, a psychic, thought she'd be male when he filled out the birth certificate in advance. He got date, time, weight, length, and so forth correct, but was apparently wrong on the sex. Perhaps he was more right than his child's external anatomy suggested. And no, it's not a "hell of an assumption" at all. Human males do indeed tend to be larger and stronger than females. Individual cases may differ, but that's the way to bet. Even at the far end of the bell curve, the biggest strongest males will be more so than the biggest strongest females. As to the pejorative "threatened", since when did it get to be wrong for men to like their women to be feminine, and women to like their men to be masculine? Very strange, that. (As to intelligence, my understanding is that males go to further extremes than females at both ends. Their bell curve is wider. The smartest males are smarter than the smartest females--but the dumbest males are dumber than dumb females. Depending, of course, on how exactly you define "smart", and barring actual organic defect. But I make no claim as to intelligence in the Smitty/George case. Smitty's manner seems a bit more studious and considered than George's, but as to raw intelligence, who knows? I certainly don't.) === That said, perhaps Smitty is in the minority you mention, which is in essence my question: in the long run, how comfortable will he be with the new, improved George? They might still be friends and colleagues, without being romantic partners. It goes the other way, too. Will George be able to respect and love a man she can crush so easily? Good on them if they can make this work--but if so, they're very much an edge case. (And given the nature of things at the Court, it might well be that their etheric connection predominates over the physical.) |
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Post by Refugee on Jun 12, 2016 13:56:34 GMT
Smitty is already shorter and less athletic than Parley and has no problem dating her, He manages well, but we don't know that he "has no problem" with the situation. We've often seen him more than a little uncomfortable with her rough-housing. We also don't know if Court training regimen will make Parley look like an extreme case like a East German olympic shot putter / weight lifter, or an ordinary human female that goes to gym regularly: Court protector training is probably etheric / mad science than just boring regular chemical doping, its effects are probably whatever the narrative requires. Quite possibly so. We haven't seen her without the cloak, yet, but what little we have seen doesn't show her to be freakishly large. And even with the full East German olympic athlete / Belgian Blue route, I'd bet Parley might freak out more than Smitty. Very much so, yes, as I noted above. |
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Post by hellohello on Jun 13, 2016 5:09:37 GMT
Smitty is already shorter and less athletic than Parley and has no problem dating her, He manages well, but we don't know that he "has no problem" with the situation. We've often seen him more than a little uncomfortable with her rough-housing. Back before he knew she liked him and didn't know why she did it, yeah, but since they've been dating we've seen him be totally into watching her spar with Robot so... Plus there was the Smitty totally okay with this situation panel. He appears to support muscle Parley. As to the pejorative "threatened", since when did it get to be wrong for men to like their women to be feminine, and women to like their men to be masculine? Very strange, that. Wrong? Nope. But nor is it the one true way for a relationship to be. And the definitions of feminine/masculine are widely debated/varied so someone could think they fit that paradigm when you would disagree. Will George be able to respect and love a man she can crush so easily? I honestly don't get the mindset that could ask this. A woman could only respect and love a man because he can crush her? Do you also look askance at relationships where the woman works and the man stays home? |
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Post by snipertom on Jun 13, 2016 9:21:08 GMT
Maybe he's bi? Maybe he's not particularly threatened by masculine women? I know many men who are more feminine than their female partners and they seem quite happy and to ahve been quite happy for many years. Furthermore, it's a hell of an assumption to draw a direct connection between physical or mental strength === masculinity. George's father, a psychic, thought she'd be male when he filled out the birth certificate in advance. He got date, time, weight, length, and so forth correct, but was apparently wrong on the sex. Perhaps he was more right than his child's external anatomy suggested. And no, it's not a "hell of an assumption" at all. Human males do indeed tend to be larger and stronger than females. Individual cases may differ, but that's the way to bet. Even at the far end of the bell curve, the biggest strongest males will be more so than the biggest strongest females. As to the pejorative "threatened", since when did it get to be wrong for men to like their women to be feminine, and women to like their men to be masculine? Very strange, that. (As to intelligence, my understanding is that males go to further extremes than females at both ends. Their bell curve is wider. The smartest males are smarter than the smartest females--but the dumbest males are dumber than dumb females. Depending, of course, on how exactly you define "smart", and barring actual organic defect. But I make no claim as to intelligence in the Smitty/George case. Smitty's manner seems a bit more studious and considered than George's, but as to raw intelligence, who knows? I certainly don't.) === That said, perhaps Smitty is in the minority you mention, which is in essence my question: in the long run, how comfortable will he be with the new, improved George? They might still be friends and colleagues, without being romantic partners. It goes the other way, too. Will George be able to respect and love a man she can crush so easily? Good on them if they can make this work--but if so, they're very much an edge case. (And given the nature of things at the Court, it might well be that their etheric connection predominates over the physical.) There is absolutely zero scientific evidence about gender and intelligence being a thing, FYI. And the idea that manly man has to go with girly girl or the universe will fall apart in an endless crisis of masculinity or femininity is just so backwards and 50s that I honestly don't know where to start picking apart your assumptions. But you certainly seem to have quite limited life experience if you have never seen a girly man with a manly girl. Because I know quite a few, and they are very happy. And I have seen quite a few manly men with girly girls get divorced. So there's that. Gender expression has nothing to do with the quality of one's relationship unless you have some hangup and everything we've seen about Parley and Smitty has shown that they DO NOT have the hangups that you seem to intimate that you have. Personally, if I were to date a woman who was taller, stronger and more masculine than me, I wouldn't give two shits as long as we loved each other and had a healthy relationship. Maybe priorities change once you leave adolescence emotionally  |
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Post by kajorma on Jun 13, 2016 14:24:03 GMT
There is absolutely zero scientific evidence about gender and intelligence being a thing, FYI. And the idea that manly man has to go with girly girl or the universe will fall apart in an endless crisis of masculinity or femininity is just so backwards and 50s that I honestly don't know where to start picking apart your assumptions. But you certainly seem to have quite limited life experience if you have never seen a girly man with a manly girl. Because I know quite a few, and they are very happy. And I have seen quite a few manly men with girly girls get divorced. So there's that. Gender expression has nothing to do with the quality of one's relationship unless you have some hangup and everything we've seen about Parley and Smitty has shown that they DO NOT have the hangups that you seem to intimate that you have. Personally, if I were to date a woman who was taller, stronger and more masculine than me, I wouldn't give two shits as long as we loved each other and had a healthy relationship. Maybe priorities change once you leave adolescence emotionally Seems like there's a lot of anger toward this position, but I want to point out: Parley herself was thinking along the same lines. She was worried that Smitty would no longer find her attractive. (That's the only way I can read that last panel) Personally, I think she looks hot as hell, but it's definitely a matter of taste. EDIT: Nope. I was talking about "Too much", and so my comment will make very little sense in this context. Nothing to see here folds, move along. |
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