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WCDT 6-10 June 2011 (1941-1945) [World War II Edition]
Is it cold in here?:
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That makes sense.
Does this mean Padma is a student? First we've heard of it.
pwhodges:
I assumed from what she said that tSB is in or by a college area, so she's used to having students in (there's been no sign that CoD is like that, and this strip makes it clear that CoD is in the town centre).
Tiogyr:
--- Quote from: Platypodes on 07 Jun 2011, 02:31 ---It was a new word for me too, but googling townie stereotype brought me a number of articles from college papers about college students' perceptions of "townies" (and college-town residents' correspondingly negative perceptions of students).
The description that seemed to me to most fit the comic was from a University of Virginia student who wrote, "the term 'townie' comes with a stigma that often refers to a person who should be looked down upon, a person who is either uneducated or just too flat-out unmotivated to get their shit together, get out of town and go someplace 'real,'" and illustrates it with the image of "the freelancing unemployed 'poet' who hangs out on the mall all day thinking deep thoughts." -- http://www.thedeclaration.org/article/gownie-townie
Using this stereotype, the the phrase "townie drama" does fit a guy hanging around in a coffee shop being angsty about how his romantic woes are keeping him away from the other coffee shop where he used to spend copious amounts of time hanging around.
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Guess the coffee is making tSB more like CoD than Marten thought.
rje:
One of the places I lived a townie was only a derogatory term amongst the college students and it usually meant someone college-aged who grew up in the place the college was located but went from high-school immediately to a job (or no job) - and usually did blue-collar work, or had a McJob like fast food. The local kid who went to work at his uncle's car shop as a mechanic, for instance, right out of high school, was a townie. And you don't date the townies, for that way lies a dead-end.
Of course college kid / college boy was also derogatory, but the other way around. Equal oppourtunity dislike, naturally! (Though college kids sure could be jerks to the locals, well enough.)
It seemed to be a more East Coast thing, I never heard the term in the south or Midwest. I don't know if it means the same thing these days though.
DSL:
"Townie" can be used to refer (usually in condescending manner) to the permanent popuation of any pace with a sizable temporary population. It's used by college kids/faculty, etc. But also tourists and "summer people" in a tourist area. Corollary: The permanent residents plave a premium on being "from here."
On another note: I think Padma's approach to clue-ishness will evolve into her becoming the "perspective character" -- her role wil be to remind our self- absorbed protagonists it's not all about them. I like how she's depicted as going about her job while giving half an ear to Marten's story. Drama's all well and good, but life goes on, is what could be on Padma's T-shirt.
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