- Sandra: How can you possibly be that perverted all the time?!
- Larisa: I’m just a natural!
- Sandra: You say that like it’s a good thing!
- Sandra: Teach me your ways, demon girl! I want to make Cloud blush like an embarrassed tomato!
- The Devil: As you can see, ladies, our future senior manager is making very good progress!
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Why are they all knocking?
On the other note, she is the best succubus as Sandra already noticed…
@ Trimutius:
Knock on wood
Knock, Knock, Knocking on.. Hell’s… table?
Also, damn, two scandalized screams and now Sandra just wanna be like her… she’s SO good at her future life career.. or maybe it’s called death career?
Don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing that the Devil’s impressed by your work.
Is Sandra really that innocent?
@ Megabyite:
See, I thought it was this at first, then I read that Germans have a custom of knocking on tables in leiu of applauding at board meetings. Still, I like the irony of evil spirits knocking on wood for luck as well.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-history-behind-Germans-knocking-on-a-table-after-a-business-meeting
@ MidoriLuna: Our debate group actually does this during someone’s speech if they very much agree with a statement the person made.
@ MidoriLuna:
Nice.
Anyone else frequently use “view source” on Quora because they block normal browsing?
Larisa is really a heaven-sent future employee. No, wait, let me re-phrase that…
CoyoteBR wrote:
She is incarnation of the hellish employee of all times…
@ oledakaajel:
remember when the killer wanted to kill a virgin and Sandras reply was ” depends on your definitionof virgin…” ? i told you Sandra was going to be thinking after all that ” how big is …” talk . the loud protest was Sandra protesting her own thoughts .
Bob wrote:
Nah… I blame censorship laws… (Sandra is aware of 4th wall things, so it would make sense for her to enforce laws of our world)
@ Trimutius:
knock on wood~
Dammit, Sandra…. >_<
@ Trimutius:
It’s a European thing, it’s a form of clapping.
oledakaajel wrote:
I forsee a rewarding, passionate sex life for Cloud and Sandra.
I know from experience that the people that criticize your perversion the most are the ones that are the most jealous.
I predict lots of Phoenix Down usage in Clouds future.
TvTropesgotmehooked wrote:
No, because I use the Noscript addon and I never enabled scripts on quora. I’ve had to recently stop allowing WIkia.com to run scripts because they added something that made viewing their pages problematic. (I tend to be paranoid and allow scripts to run only when it appears to be needed and I think it’s the risk.)
@ Trimutius:
Knocking on the table in meetings etc. is a version of applause, in Germany.
I think Novil didn’t have this in mind this isn’t an international thing when he made the script. 😀
I find it rather dis-heartening that Sandra would want to emulate Larisa’s behavior. Also, I thought that the succubus thing was outside the regular story.
@ Mortar:
Well, it’s not that out of character for Sandra to want to mercilessly tease Cloud.
Hmmm, who is Luna talking to so animatedly on the way out? Has she been swayed?! I hope we can find out the answers next time on Dragon Ball Z!
I love the Devil references. Just makes this so much fun!
Knocking on wood used to be a thing in the US as well, back in the 18th century. From what I understand knocking on wood was the way to show agreement in political settings while hissing was used to show disagreement.
@ Trimutius:
its a type of aplause, most commonly used in school or university, because it allows you to aplause but still have a hand free to take notes 😉
AustinDR wrote:
Considering that Larisa has contracted her immortal soul to Satan’s employ (as an employee, not simply a damned soul), definitely a good thing. Even better since she sold her soul to save Sandra’s life from God. (Literally.)
@ Formedras:
See this story arc as reference.
Oh my, they’re all looking forward working for her in the future and have very high expectations!!!
I am not that fond of succubi with such little wings…. though that may just be the blue dragon speaking out of me…
@ All-Purpose Guru:
Not everywhere in Europe, I assure you.
@ Paeris Kiran:
They probably shifted them small to fit through the office door and in the chairs.
I’m really damned tired of Larissa. She is so predictable and boring and I really can’ understand why she succeeds with corrupting everyone that easily. Do they really have that weak of a will?
Not only that, she’s gonna be joining the company sooner than most given her ailment, so she kinda HAS to progress quickly
@ ServantofNorthia:
You forget one vital thing. They’re all hormones teenagers. So yes, yes they are that easily corruptible
Formedras wrote:
What story arc? All I remember is a raccoon and a flashy thing from that time period. It was a long hiatus…
Moatl wrote:
Not just in Germany, especially as a form of academic applause (e.g. in a response to a presentation at university or a scientific congress) it is customary in many countries, though I don’t know specifically about USA.
Lucio Cruz wrote:
I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed that. She’s looking a lot more cheerful than we’ve seen her in the past! and maybe it isn’t ‘swayed’ so much as ‘expanding her horizons’….
All-Purpose Guru wrote:
They are twelve years old.
How much of a sex life are they going to have?
@ Trimutius:
In German speaking countries knocking on the table is a form of applause.
@ MidoriLuna:
Many countries do it in lieu of clapping, like India, for example.
Jack wrote:
That’s not how hormones work.
Three female managers? Are they the Furies?
@ Moatl:
Knocking on the table instead of applause is not a UK thing either. I thought they were playing Whist.
But why should it be translated from German practice? Americans never translate anything for other cultures, I’m frequently baffled by things in films. It took me 30 years to find out why giving your credit card to someone to go shopping works in the USA, because they don’t have signatures or chip and pin so literally anyone can use someone else’s card. I assumed they were forging each others’ signatures, because that’s what you’d have to do in the UK.
@ Owen Smith:
We also use a completely broken number-based id called social security to do basically everything; its a simple 9 digit number you’re basically stuck with at birth, and it’s pretty easily guessable. But don’t talk to us about a more secure id system because FREEDOM.
@ Trimutius:
Because Novil is german and in germany we sometimes knock instead of applauding
@ Dunathon:
We czechs use it as “so shall it be” charm not to spoil good development by expressing hope aloud.
@ Moatl:
We all learned something because of it.
Another day, another probably worthless thing lodged in my brain.
I don’t think that Novil didn’t know that clapping on the desk is unusual in the US, but he just wanted to hint that hell is more like Germany… 😉