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WCDT January 3-7, 2011 (1831-1835)
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: tomart on 09 Jan 2011, 12:11 ---[Uh oh: after our loutish behavior in December <November, actually>, maybe his anger at us is coming through...]
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Jeph wouldn't compromise the comic for such low-grade revenge - and I'm sure he will have seen the improvement here in any case.
Pika_power:
--- Quote from: Olymander on 09 Jan 2011, 11:00 ---
--- Quote from: Pika_power on 08 Jan 2011, 04:22 ---Yes, perhaps 'malicious' was a bad choice of words. May I instead replace it with, "blatantly disregarding Marten's wishes"?
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I would go with just "thoughtless" or "careless" myself, or possibly "inconsiderate". I don't feel there's any active malice or thought involved, which your choices seem to imply. We might disagree on this point (active malice/thought), however.
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She knows what he doesn't want her to do. We know she knows, because she takes actions so that Marten won't know what she's doing. This is the 'blatantly (and knowingly) disregarding Marten's wishes' part. The thoughtlessness or carelessness comes in when she decides to do it at the worst possible time, instead of waiting for tomorrow.
ducktape:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 09 Jan 2011, 13:18 ---
--- Quote from: tomart on 09 Jan 2011, 12:11 ---[Uh oh: after our loutish behavior in December <November, actually>, maybe his anger at us is coming through...]
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Jeph wouldn't compromise the comic for such low-grade revenge - and I'm sure he will have seen the improvement here in any case.
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Yeah, Jeph's above such things.
--- Quote from: Pika_power on 09 Jan 2011, 14:08 ---She knows what he doesn't want her to do. We know she knows, because she takes actions so that Marten won't know what she's doing. This is the 'blatantly (and knowingly) disregarding Marten's wishes' part. The thoughtlessness or carelessness comes in when she decides to do it at the worst possible time, instead of waiting for tomorrow.
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Right. As has been already established (too lazy to find/quote), she's good at figuring out interpersonal issues, so surely she has an inkling of what the effects on her actions will be on Marten. Either she is simply disregarding that or she thinks it will help (this could be true, she's known him longer than anyone currently in the comic).
EDIT: fixed quote syntax
Zipperstuck:
Oooh, Marten can be such a wuss sometimes. He has every right to talk to his mother like that.
It's not because he's her son, that he suddenly can't want his own way of doing things anymore. Seriously, he's an adult man and she's treating him like a little kid. Mostly because he's letting her. That woman needs a cold shower.
AnAverageWriter:
--- Quote from: Zipperstuck on 09 Jan 2011, 15:09 ---That woman needs a cold shower.
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Or a close encounter with a bus.
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