Grrl Power #1168 – Time to bounce
This is literally the most nervous Max has been in a really long time. When she’s in a life or death battle, there’s too much adrenaline to be nervous, and socially, she’s usually around subordinates.
I don’t know which is more impressive, Max downing the whole tumbler of 184 proof Bruichladdich, or her knocking back a schooner of what is essentially a mint and dark chocolate milkshake, and not getting brain freeze. I know most grasshoppers aren’t served frozen, but that’s what Rowan ordered. I mean, honestly, if you’re going to have a drink that’s basically desert, why not make it a milkshake anyway? Root beer? Add vanilla ice cream! Appletini? Add… uh, vanilla ice cream, I guess? Daquiri? Blend that shit until it’s basically a smoothie. I’m partial to mudslides, but only in shake form. A mudslide that’s served over ice to me tastes like a real mudslide melted, then someone put a bunch of ice in it, then that ice melted and watered it down, then they put more ice in it and served it to me. Of course, I’d be content to slurp on a peanut-butter protein shake. The alcoholic nature of drinks has never been enticing for me, but if I get a mudslide shake at the dine-in theater when I’m settling in for the latest Marvel movie, then I can pretend I’m just a little more of an adult than I actually am. It’s also slightly easier to justify the calories.
The June vote incentive is finally up! Maxima is prepping for her night out.
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As an Australian, panel six is especially amusing to me considering our nicknames often contain *more* syllables than the base name. For example, my own name is only 2 syllables but the only nicknames I have ever been known by were either 3 or 4 syllables long.
Nicknames aren’t shortened names (like Richard becomes Dick), they are usually a personal identifier (like someone really large becomes ‘Tiny’)
Heh.
Billy Connely is called “the Big Yin”. This goes back to his teens/twenties, when he and his dad {also named “William”} both worked in a shipyard.
They both frequented a pub near the yard, and they were originally nicknamed “Big Wull”{the father} and “Little Wull” {Billy}.
Eventually, as people who grow up in better conditions generally and with better food and healthcare will do, Billy became taller and generally more muscular than his father.
So the dialog in the pub would go:
“Has Connelly been in?”
“Which one?”
“Little Wull.”
“Oh – the Big Yin…”
Of course the personal identifiers can be shortened too. I was ‘Pod’ at work, cut down from ‘Tripod’, which I was called because I used crutches.
LOL G’day to another fellow Aussie…
I heard ya on that one. Thomas becomes Tommy or Thommo, have a friend named Georgina who was dubbed Bernadette after a camping night spent drinking, and a friend named Ryan who was nicknamed Forrest after he tried to prove he could run, only for our driver to start the engine and move towards the parking lot’s exit…
I thought Aussies were all nick-named ‘Bruce.’
this might have something to do with that… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ojhtq51Ya8
I guess when you have superspeed, you can maintain an omnipresent level of situational awareness while still looking like you’re a ‘normal’ Amazon with Dwarven alcohol tolerance.
It seems like superspeed would make holding a conversation more difficult, so she would probably have toned it down to more human-normal levels. And honestly, she wouldn’t need superspeed for that level of situational awareness – I feel my brother probably would have noticed that, and while he does certainly seem to think faster than a typical person, he’s still a mundane human (and, like Maxima, has military training that he took seriously, for a further boost to situational awareness).
Yeah, it’s really not that hard to discretely keep an eye on your surroundings, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve managed to avoid getting ambushed at LARPs because of my habit of counting shadows. Also, one time I was walking down the street late at night, clocked a shadow coming up behind me and freaked out a nice lady on a nighttime jog when I suddenly pivoted to the side of the sidewalk and faced her as she jogged by despite wearing headphones, apparently she was just gonna go around me since she assumed I couldn’t hear her coming, so when I suddenly jumped out of the way it startled her.
Anyway, yeah, just be aware of what’s going on in your peripheral vision, use reflective surfaces, find reasons to turn your head from time to time to expand your field of view, note all the people in the room, rotate your attention between them (mostly using your peripheral vision, of course, paying attention peripherally is tricky at first but not all that hard with a bit of practice), note odd behaviors, facial expressions, sudden movements, etc. Surprisingly easy to run that on autopilot once you do it for awhile.
25 years working in a federal prison will do that to you too ;)
I often wore a pair of sunglasses with a holographic ‘smiley face’ on them when doing yard duty, the inmates thought it was just something I did to be funny, in reality the mirrored finish on the outside inside reflected on the inside just enough that I could see behind me by looking at the sides of the lenses.
Checked it every ten seconds, just like the mirrors in the car.
Yeah, back before my cataract surgery, my insane coke bottle glasses had just the right curvature on the back face of the lens to correct my vision in the reflection, too. Combine that with excellent peripheral vision, and I had about 270 degrees of visibility.
Hmm, how does this type of situational awareness clock with ADHD? Does the later help, or hurt, both, or neither?
My brother and I both have some degree of ADHD, although mine is more pronounced. We both seem to have above-average situational awareness, but his is much better than my own. His brain also seems to work at a higher “clock speed” than mine, and he also has the mentioned military training (he did offensive driving training as well – not sure if he volunteered or was voluntold for that – and was one of the guys who would drive generals and other VIP’s around when they visited the base, and excellent situational awareness is pretty much a must for something like that), so it’s hard to say if ADHD is beneficial or a detriment. My gut reaction would be that, with proper discipline/training to help avoid the hyperfixation part of ADHD (he has more of both than me), it would ultimately be more of a benefit than a hindrance… but probably not by a lot.
same as your brother,, ADHD an a military driver.. as one officer said,, “I would rather you focus on the little details, than focus on one, and get us killed.!” and, it kinda helps. since my brain is moving faster,, i noticed more while driving,, “Yes”, more than once i drove out of my way to avoid – nothing.. but that one time it all worked.. made up for it..
It can be kind of hit or miss. After passing through a small town in Oklahoma, well known for being a speed trap, I got pulled over by the local police. The officer inquired if I had been drinking. I replied that I was quite sober and asked if there was a problem as I knew I hadn’t been speeding. The officer replied that I had crossed over the centerline of the road. It probably didn’t help that I was driving a bright yellow sports car. “Sorry” I replied. “There is a ’46 Nash Airflyte about a hundred yard off the road and I was trying to get a look at it.” The officer laughed and sent me on my way.
I have ADHD myself, and I’ve never noticed it causing problems for when I’m *trying* to invoke the hypervigilance, if anything it just means I sometimes find myself doing it out of habit, but I don’t know if that’s the ADHD taking over or if it’s just because I do it so much for practice anyway.
It never really occurred to me before, but super physical speed without super brain speed could be bad. Though maybe you could learn to deal with it, like all the little habits us normies use to stay safe when driving a car. Still, if you had both, maybe you could use the super brain speed even when sitting still? That could be incredibly useful. You might carefully consider all the options in a clutch situation, and have a well-thought-out best plan ready in a fraction of a second. In situations which require a lot of thought and not necessarily a lot of knowledge, you could perform as a super-genius.
I’m basically picturing the guy with the bear with a Metal Gear Solid style exclamation point above his head as the realization settles in XD
Hmm, either the beer makes her look more maxima, or the change in light refraction bypasses the glamor.
It’s a gold color filter dude.
Haha, what if his reaction is from the lack of a gold filter? Maybe the choker’s glamor isn’t getting filtered. It was kind of hasty and buggy.
Looking through the tankard of beer just makes her look more yellow.
Patron1: Yeah, like when I look at her, that new girl, the tall stunt-woman, through this beer, she looks like that lady from that superhero unit.
Patron 2: What?! Are you out of your mind? She is way too tall for The Mighty Halo.
Patron 1: No, not that one. That big officer. Oh, what’s her name?
Patron 2: Hun? No way! She is too short for Anvil. That woman is like seven feet tall or something.
Patron 1: No! The commanding officer.
Patron 2: Isn’t that like General Faust, or something like that? And he’s a guy, and she definitely is not.
Patron 1: “No! I mean the yellow one!”
Patron 2: “Zephan’s also a shorter guy, and it’s 20XX, you can’t say that kind of thing anymore.”
I just died laughing at this post.
It should be the first. It would make her skin look more yellow if you are seeing it through something yellow and translucent.
I think seeing her through the beer makes her look closer to her real color.
It is essentally a yellow filter.
I’m thinking it’s just that she looks gold again when viewed through a golden medium. That’s enough for buddy here to just about recognise her.
I mean the beer likely makes her look golden… So VERY Maxima.
I guess the beer adds a layer of gold to the skin.
I’d imagine it’s the first one, seeing her with the yellow filter probably helps to put two and two together
Or looking at her through the golden lens of beer gives her a gold cast and he watches supers a lot.
Now THAT’S an interesting weakness. I feel like Dabbler definitely would have planned ahead for things like reflections and cameras, but maybe not refractions through different liquids.
12+ comments and no one mentioned “beer goggles”.
For shame.
I too am disappointed. besides. the beer wont turn her hair purple.
it’s not a McDonald’s and there’s no Grimace shakes to pour on her head
There were actually 5 comments prior to yours (at 6:12, 6:29, 6:31, 6:54, and 7:01, while your comment is showing up as 7:37) that referenced beer goggles. However, as comments appear to be on a delay (at least for me, so I assume for others as well), you could certainly be forgiven for thinking you were the first to mention it.
I wish things would sync up better, I didn’t see any beer goggles comments until I submitted my comment and the page refreshed. Irritating, and makes me look like an idiot.
This place is just magic like that.
The RSS feed generally seems to update before the page itself does.
I was about to…. but then I saw this.
I am reminded of one Fantastic Four filler issue when they had She Hulk covering for the Thing. A certain type of magazine wanted some “candid” pictures of She Hulk and got some with a helicopter while she was sunbathing on the roof. By the end of the issue there was discussion of consequences for them, but the magazine had made it into print. It turned out that her skin had been automatically color-corrected, so it just looked like a generic nude pictorial (aside from scrambling to deal with the downwash). Then Johnny grabbed the issue to take to his room, where he had some green sunglasses.
She was, as i recell, sunbathing topless and the paparazzi in the copter went straight to the sleazy magazine and sold his photos…
After I posted, it occurred to me that I didn’t need to rely on memory. A Google search for Fantastic Four Vol 1 275 goes to the Marvel Wiki page (so I was already going to correct “nude” to “topless”)
https://imgur.com/a/y82tz9t
Know what? I’ll just make it from his point of view for everyone.
Nicely done – having a visual of it really drives home how easy the match is with her gold skintone, choker, dark hair, and clothing style.
The fact that it works to also shows how good Dave’s ability to do the art is. He only have to allude to the visuals being a certain way, but the surrounding visuals are usable to prove it. Pretty impressive of him!
This is such a hilarious way of getting your cover blown, I love it!
LoL, beer goggles for the win.
You beat me to it, curse you!
But yeah, the yellow filter makes her look more golden, and he wants to share his sudden insight with others ASAP so he can take credit for figuring it out, and maybe get an autograph.
So – when seeing her via the beer, it gives her back a gold tint, and he realized that this is a superheroine? Hmmm…
I went back and looked. This is the guy who recognized her from somewhere, but couldn’t recall where. Comic 1162. Bottom half, below the tactics diagrams.
Lol. Beer Goggles!
Well that’s a different kind of beer goggles.
Anyone else notice that through the beer he has bags under his eyes, and his eyes are black and reptilian?
To me it looks like he’s squinting the first time.
He’s squinting, which adds some wrinkles and makes the eye narrower. And gray eyes viewed through the filter of beer look golden, making them look more inhuman. Furthermore, the curvature of the mug appears to be adding a bit of a magnification effect, making the eye look larger, which also makes them look more inhuman. I’d say this is just an ordinary guy who happened to realize she looks just like Maxima through a gold-ish filter.
Fun fact: If you look through a glass or in this case, a glass beer mug, the image is inverted. so we should see Max upside down. Try it, draw an arrow on a sheet of paper and slide it behind the glass, the arrow will go the other way.
Depends a lot on the focal length of the glass vs its proximity to the observing eye. I don’t have any tumblers of the right style on hand, but I think the image actually would remain not only upright but non-mirrored when held near the eye as depicted here.
Camera lens are the same way, they add a second one to re-invert it. plus a glass of water wouldn’t allow you to see across the room, like trying to see through a magnifier across the room, it get blurry as hell. The shape of the glass and clearness of the liquid has a lot to do with that. Beer? Not so much. The glass/mug has to be clear of any design as well, and lets face it, no one has seen very clear pictures of Max close up, so this guy is just being wishful. Granted he’s right, but still, there’s a look-a-likes everywhere! There’s no way he could think it’s magic, and makeup would rub off onto her clothes, so again he’s being hopeful.
I believe most of the details of their powers are still classified, so the public likely doesn’t know that Maxima is just always golden, or that makeup and the like won’t stick to her skin. Dude may just be thinking she can transform like Colossus, and this is her civilian form (they already “know” transforming supers are a thing – Dabbler claimed her true succubus form was actually a “battle form” she could turn into).
As for the lens thing, a closer look shows that the glass he’s looking through is flat on the two ends he’s looking through, not curved, so there’s no magnification effect – the eye looking a bit wider is probably just artistic license. If there were lenses involved, such that the image would be flipped, keep in mind he’d functionally be looking through two lenses, so no inversion would be in play. That would also explain him being able to actually see her – as Scarsdale notes, with magnification of this sort you can’t really see far at all (I just tested with my water bottle, and while it will magnify a paper held right up to it, as soon as you move the paper away it becomes completely illegible).
I think that’s just squinting.
That would explain why he looks so similar to George Bush
Also, to make the eye stand out so the squinting is easier to see the lines are black, which is an art choice but by standing out it’s open to further interpretation. It gets the point across easier.
Beer Goggles.
So … an oversized Beer Monocle rather than Beer Goggles on this occasion.
In vino veritas as the romans used to say. Well truth in beer in this case.
Okay, Max manages ‘cute mode’ when she has whipped cream on her nose.
“Want to get out of here?” words every man wants to hear, but a sentence I can’t imagine Max having said since puberty.
All that being said, she is (quasi) recognized and developing her exit strategy. I refuse to believe that Dabbler didn’t stick a tracker on her and by now has the bar wired for sound and video. Cue the CO’s exit being covered by the a distraction composed to scantily clad girls ‘just showing up’ in 3, 2, 1…
I’m sure Max has said those words multiple times. Like when she was rescuing prisoners various places.
She just hasn’t said those words in this sort of context.
All five of Harem
ARC HQ
Oktoberfest infiltration failed commander, we don’t how but multiple attendees spotted us right of the bat and we were even wearing real lederhosen.
Cancel Operation Beer&Boobs immediately! But keep the lederhosen.
NOTE: Sprague De Camp had a fantasy novel and in the Norse worlds used beer foam for True Sight to dispel Loki’s illusions.
It was a collaboration between cdCamp and Fletcher Pratt, as i recall. The original title of the novella was “The Roaring Trumpet” {i think} which was later combined with one ot two other novellas as a “fixup” novel, under the title “The Incompleat Enchanter”.
And it wasn’t Loki’s illusions – it was a giant’s illusions – the giant had stoeln Mjo;nir and hidden it under a glamour in his hall.
Harold Shea {the “Enchanter” of the title} got elbowed in the side of the head in the crowd, and a tear in his eye allowed him to see through the glamour, so he flicked mead in his eye so that the burning of the alcohol would cause his eyes to water…
Sorry for the infodump – i have what wfe Kate calls a “magpie mind” {back in the mid-eighties my girlfriend and i were not allowed to play Trivial Pursuit as a team}and the oddest things tend to trigger a data storm…
{I think Loki was actually more-or-less a Good Guy on that story}
Could the with the beer be an alien in disguise along with the one he tapped on the shoulder?!?
You know, it didn’t even occur to me that some alien tourists could be hanging out at this bar in disguise. As could X and Chymmi.
Or maybe they’re a couple of Deus’ employees?!?
Or he is just a normal guy who thought he recognized Maxima even beforehand and now is sure if who she really is.
I can so relate to being more nervous in a social setting than in combat. In combat you have your skills, training, and generally a set of rule, protocols and defined guides and objectives you can rely on to know what to do in an instant. In a social setting, not so much. Sure there are laws which define definite no-no, but the rest is vague unwritten rules or norms your just expected to subconsciously know by default.
Seconding.
I’m autistic, and the one of the places I feel most comfortable is in martial arts sparring.
As you said: You know the rules, everyone’s alleigance is crystal clear, and you want to let your mind go on autopilot.
I always had trouble with social situations, and I’m still not all that good at them. But years ago, I discovered Miss Manners’ Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior, and it was a revelation: There actually were game rules for that social stuff, and rational explanations for them, including how using them could serve your own aims! And on top of that, the explanations were often hilariously funny . . .
Serious question from an autistic person:
Would you recommend it to an autistic person?
I’m not the person you asked, but yes. Yes, I would definitely recommend it to autistic people.
It’s an investment of time and effort, but it’s accurate and actually does help understand what’s going on in the heads of normal people.
Lots of parts most people find funny. It can be a real effort for the non-neurotypical to see the humor, but the alternative is rage or ridicule, so, seriously…. try not to take it too seriously. :-/
Yeah, that makes just as much sense as it sounds like it makes. Sorry.
Between your description and skimming a preview, it sounds like good satire – humorous while still being constructive.
But wouldn’t Harper seen through beer look golden/yellow anyway? Because beer has that color?
Yes. But what’s happening here is that the color shift is allowing him to bypass the fact that his Maxima recognition filter is focused on the color of her skin. He’s now realizing she has the same facial shape as Maxima. He may have already realized she’s tall like Maxima and has a build like Maxima.
All that’s left is Maxima’s hair color.
Accusation: “You’re Maxima of ARC!”
Rebuttal: Like I haven’t heard that lame pickup attempt before. Go refill your goggles and DO NOT try again.
Heh, perfect response.
I’d like to know what made the dude decide to look _through_ his beer in the first place. I’m thinking he had his suspicions and raised the beer up to add a layer of color to what he was looking at. I can’t speak for others, but I didn’t look at random chicks through a mug of beer, at least not before closing.
I think he thought she was familiar earlier but couldn’t place it (wasn’t there someone a couple pages ago asking where he knew her from or something?), and then when he took a swig of his beer while looking in her direction he caught a glimpse that made him take a second, better look. Notice how in one panel he has his face covered by the mug while he takes a drink, in the next he squints at her, and THEN he lifts the mug up to look through it.
Panel four: he was simply having a drink with his eyes open, just happened to be looking intently at the hot babe with the dork through the bottom of the glass and something twigged
As they say, “Cleavage is like the Sun: You can stare at it longer without injury if you’re wearing sunglasses.” I suppose a drink serves the same purpose.
You’re insufficiently weird if you’ve never done something simply because you could :P
Ok, but it no one going to comment on how cute Max looks with the cream on her nose and her face scrunched up?
Of course she does. And several jokes that would get someone ashed if they said it out load. It’s Max!
Heh…
First time in history that beer goggles were more accurate
Yeah, needed at the least a new hair style to change it up more, like the vote incentive one, or curls, or something.
Glasses like Clark Kent?
Something that changes the face shape like that.
Clubs may not be her thing, tho with darker settings and flashing lights that may have been better. :)
It is amazing what cos players/actors can do nowadays with a bit of tape, but dunno if any would stick to her, or even be strong enough for her to use.
A hat?
Does she have a pair of Clark Kent glasses from Astra’s world? I think she might, but I’d have to dig out my Kindle to see for sure.
Also, Clubbing is totally her thing. She used to prefer a good ole’Louisville Slugger, but these days, they break too easily, so she has to make do with a custom turned solid bar of titanium alloy.
But the line drives she can do off that titanium alloy rod break the solar system’s escape velocity. …As well as anything or any one, not Achilles, in their way.
Imagine your immortal and indestructible and someone gives you a punch with sufficient force to launch you into interstellar space. Yikes!
Yikes. Unless you could bend the laws of physics or do something supernatural, you might be drifting for billions of years before you came near anything to affect your course at all. And if that thing was a star… being inside a star would be even worse, I guess, because from there it seems even less likely to escape or be discovered/rescued. (Well, maybe. At what point does technology allow the exploration of the insides of stars, at the granularity where they would actually find a human-sized being?)
I guess this would be the ultimate threat to a being of that sort. Anything you do to them on Earth, they will eventually get out of. Maybe it takes them a hundred years to work free, no biggie. But pop out to some random place a million light-years from the nearest star, shove them out the airlock and warp home, and hoo-boy they’re really up a creek.
Maybe an immortal should fear this more than a mortal fears death.
Like in The Old Guard, they fear captivity over all else.
Achilles may be indestructible, immortal,and able to better use his muscle mass compared to normies, but he still has a mind and without something to do he will go insane.
Actually, it appears he has some sort of mental invulnerability, too. He doesn’t seem to even be subject to boredom or being annoyed, from what I’ve seen.
Glasses should be enough, specifically some thick plastic frames. They’d disguise her features *just* enough that people wouldn’t be likely to put it together, even when looking through a beer.
Going for the full “Clark Kent is far too much of a hopeless dork to be Superman” probably wouldn’t work with Max. She’d have to go full Velma, and I don’t think she could pull that off.
Perhaps a mumu.
please, someone draw Max as Velma! (or the reverse)
Nah, the point is to cover enough of the face that simply putting a yellow tint won’t be enough to recognize her, thick rimmed glasses are enough for anybody who isn’t already familiar with her. Like, those domino masks that Robin and whatnot wear aren’t really meant to actually fool anybody who knows you, the point is to fool the people who *aren’t* especially familiar with your face, and you really can’t get sufficiently familiar with a face from some interviews and pictures, as pictures don’t show the face moving, and in interviews she’s controlling her facial expressions. Thick rimmed glasses would effectively be a domino mask, covers just enough of the face that it isn’t recognizable to anyone who has only a passing familiarity.
Now, a super fan who hot high res clips of the interviews and zoomed in real close to study her face? Sure, they might be able to see through it, but they probably also saw Max’s face on twenty other attractive women that week, because if you’re looking for a specific face, chances are you’re gonna find it everywhere you look.
The point is to reduce the chances of randos recognizing her from the news or whatever, glasses are enough, she doesn’t even need to sell anyone on them being real since the point isn’t to create doubt or a consistent cover identity, and fake glasses as a fashion statement have been a thing for a few years at least.
I don’t know if anyone made a ‘what if’ postulation along these lines already, but what are the odds of this guy getting lucky and being used as an organic vibrator then showing up tomorrow as a staff medic trainee or part of a ‘learn how to treat supers’ seminar at Arc-SWAT ?
Hah, the magical glamour choker defeated by literal beer goggles
Aww, Maxi looked so cute in the first panel, having ‘normal people’ fun, and Douche Canoe has to go and spoil it because BJ Honeycut (short for ‘Big Jaw’ not some kind of job) managed to keep her company
This guy is just drunk enough to make a connection like that, beer is Kinda the right color sure, but to most men in a bar, any good looking 6′ gal will look like Max. And Dabs did warn her that it wouldn’t take someone long to figure it out. Just as likely: “Hey pal, that lady is Max in disguise!” “We know, now shut up or she’s going to leave! Aw damn… Dumbass!”
There’s a new question that seems to have gone by the wayside: is Rowan a Girl Drink Drunk?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C4TGGtPzBU
Kids in the Hall is comedy gold.
So, is “guy with beer” just an overly observant civilian, or is he a supervillain that Max has fought?
He isn’t running for his life (or Kevin) (or a pile of sand), so he’s unlikely to have fought Max
I mean, honestly, if you’re going to have a drink that’s basically desert,
I mean, honestly, if you’re going to have a drink that’s basically *dessert,
English lesson: How to tell Desert and Dessert apart:
Dessert has two s, because you always want seconds.
I’m glad I did a search on “desert” in the comments before posting essentially the same thing.
But if one is going to have a drink that is a “desert”, wouldn’t that be a “dry” martini; one with less vermouth?
I don’t know; I never acquired a taste for ethanol…
closest is a Sex on the Beach, because of the amount of sand
She could say to him “Shit, someone recognised me.” and He’ll think its still about her Stunt Job!
Cultural doppelgangers? That can’t be a set up for anything.
Skrulls
How exactly is Max planning on leaving? Superhuman tolerance or not, she has had WAY too much to drink to safely drive out of here.
That spelling doesn’t seem at all like a Japanese name to me. And based on pronunciation I know for both names, I’m not sure how you’d get from that one to the Irish name.
Shio and Shioh aren’t particularly different, spelling-wise.
Shee-oh and shee-vawn.
Shiou (史桜) is actually a female Japanese name. The individual characters mean “history” and “cherry blossom”.
could also mean “wilted flower’ which will be ironic when she gets to be an old lady.
Isn’t “shioh” (しお) also the Japanese word for “salt”? I’m imagining a hilarious misunderstanding when choosing the baby’s name.
Japanese has many homonyms, but that isn’t one of them. “Shioh” would be しおう, which has a longer vowel than salt (しお). They’re close, and maybe someone might make a joke out of it, but they’re easily distinguishable by a native speaker.
Ah, okay. Thanks!
Supergirl glasses. They changed her hair color.
I was considering that the two characters were actually bouncers, had concluded that Max was up to no good with one of their regular customers, where by ‘no good’ I mean something that Dabbler would not approve of, and needed to send the lady on her way. Though she has to pay her tab first.
haha night out foiled by “beer goggles”…
I don’t think that’s what they mean when they say “beer goggles”.
Shioh can’t phonetically be a shortening for Siobhan as Siobhan is pronounced Shivan and i’m assuming Shioh is pronounced Shee oh.
Source- I’m from Ireland.
In what language is “Siobhan” pronounced as “Shivan”?!
Have you seen Irish spellings and pronounciations?
Or even worse: Welsh?
https://youtu.be/MqwJzcHAFxA
:)
In Gaelic, ‘bh’ is entirely normal, everyday orthography for the phoneme we usually write as ‘v’.
That means it’s that way in English, because English-speaking people stole the name from Gaelic-speaking people.
Gaelic spellings are the way they are because the Romans transliterated based on the shapes of the runes and not how the words were pronounced. I think this was because literate Romans did not go with the Legions to the hinterlands, so when soldiers brought back writings from foreign places the people copying them into Latin based their spelling on the shapes of the runes because they had never heard the words being spoken.
That “drink” that Rowan picked, it’s pretty much a chocolate parfait with fermented chocolate syrup added in. Hell, I’m diabetic and my sugar level went up just by looking at it! LOL. -2 point for Rowan :/
Well I can’t drink and enjoy alcohol unless it tastes really sweet, so +2 points for Rowan, cancelling out your -2! HA! :)
Same here. I like my drinks the way I like my men: tall, sweet and a little fruity. :D
I give him +2 points for ordering what he damned well likes in front of Max, despite how it might look, instead of doing the “I have to order a ‘manly’ drink to make an impression” thing.
Agreed. And as Rowan called out on the previous page he obviously has no chance standing out based on alcohol concentration or cost, so he might as well do his own thing anyways.
I agree, I’m just going by Max’s reaction. Besides, He’s leaving with her, even if it’s to end the night. Who knows, she might exchange numbers and show him who she is later. I’m sure the rumor mill will kick in even if she takes off now anyway!
I can see if now, Max heads back to base, and Ariana is waiting for her….
Though alcohol does slow down the liver’s continuous stream of glucose it dumps into your blood, so it *partially* counters the sugar content.
Still, my feet hurt just looking at the drawing of it.
I know, right? Aw damn, now I’m craving for a chocolate/mint bowl of ice cream… It’s really a pain, diabetics crave sweets like mad, ya know?
Honestly, people are too hung up on “appearing to be adult”
It’s none of people’s business what you eat, who you bang, or whatever else you do for entertainment.