People who don't know what a [BLANK] is for...

[Papuasblya]

who the hell goes to the mall to have a breakup talk

[Alice Macher]

New York, so nobody will notice.

[showler]

You're missing "by text message" for classiness.

[Papuasblya]

You're missing "by text message" for classiness.

Dude, what else does "We Need To Talk" ever mean?

[showler]

It doesn't count unless you do the whole breakup by text message, though.

[Papuasblya]

It doesn't count unless you do the whole breakup by text message, though.

Oh I hear a story waiting to be told.

[Alice Macher]

That was how Penny broke up with Rich, the first time.

[Papuasblya]

That was how Penny broke up with Rich, the first time.

You can break up with someone before sleeping with them? I learn something new everyday.

[Alice Macher]

You can break up with someone before sleeping with them? I learn something new everyday.

Even more twisted would be to break up with someone while sleeping with them. Specifically, doing so after you've climaxed but before your partner has. No jury would convict your partner over what happened next, though.

[Kamino Neko]

...

You're evil.

Do you give lessons?

[Corneel]

In a park, feeding the ducks. Preferable while wearing long overcoats.

[Alice Macher]

...

You're evil.

Do you give lessons?

I must confess that I stole that idea from the Questionable Content forum, where I lurked once until my sanity could bear no more. There was a thread way back titled "Worst things to say during sex," inspired by a strip where Marten and...I think Dora and Faye?...have a friendly competition to see who can come up with just such a thing (Marten's was "Happy birthday, Grandma!", prompting a coffeeshop customer to say in horror that sex was ruined for him forever.) So yeah, on the forum thread someone came up with that unfathomingly horrible thing I just posted, prompting someone else to issue an open warning to any future boyfriends: "If you do that to me, I will cut you." Pacifist though I am, I loled hard.

[Tropylium]

I must confess that I stole that idea from the Questionable Content forum, where I lurked once until my sanity could bear no more. There was a thread way back titled "Worst things to say during sex,"

Dammit, now I'm having flashbacks… (Still I think nobody quite topped Marten there.)

(And it suddendly occurs to me how very very much more orderly this place is than the QC forums… or for that matter, some of the other similar webcomic forums I've poked my nose in. I wonder if it's an issue of moderation or demographics.)

[Freemage]

I must confess that I stole that idea from the Questionable Content forum, where I lurked once until my sanity could bear no more. There was a thread way back titled "Worst things to say during sex,"

Dammit, now I'm having flashbacks… (Still I think nobody quite topped Marten there.)

(And it suddendly occurs to me how very very much more orderly this place is than the QC forums… or for that matter, some of the other similar webcomic forums I've poked my nose in. I wonder if it's an issue of moderation or demographics.)

#1: No "General Interest" forum. While those can be interesting, they're also, as Shortpacked! told us, where you learn that the people who like the comic you like also believe/support something you find reprehensible. I know of at least one forum that nearly imploded because of the revelation that the owner/operator was a xenophobic, racist, torture-loving neoconservative gay diaperfur. (Do not attempt to wrap your brain around that entire clause. It cannot be done.)

#2: Firm-and-fair moderation. T. sometimes lets stuff slide (especially if a heated discussion turns ugly overnight), but eventually, he WILL step in and chide posters who get out of hand. At the same time, if you're not a complete asshat, he also gives you a warning. This serves to both support a civil environment, and makes it less likely that you'll end up with someone who is so bitter about getting banned that they come back with five different handles in order to stir up trouble.

[sentora]

You can break up with someone before sleeping with them? I learn something new everyday.

Even more twisted would be to break up with someone while sleeping with them. Specifically, doing so after you've climaxed but before your partner has. No jury would convict your partner over what happened next, though.

I've known people who've done that, and worse. I'm talking leaving them handcuffed to the bed even.