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WCDT: 2882-2886 (26-30 January 2015)
ReindeerFlotilla:
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--- Quote from: shrike1978 on 26 Jan 2015, 14:16 ---Headcannon accepted. Headcannon accepted so hard.
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Are you Faye's dad?
While we're on the subject, can we agree to stab out the eyes of anyone who ever again uses a portmanteau to describe a couple, be it real or fictional? It's a really obnoxious thing. As one of the X-Idol contestants inevitably dubbed Jedward put it, 'Is it really so hard to say "ohn and"?'
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After deep consideration, I've come to the conclusion...
Nope. Not gonna happen.
Bendal:
--- Quote from: jheartney on 26 Jan 2015, 23:18 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 26 Jan 2015, 22:13 ---Marten offers to stay by her bedside and asks a question that makes it clear that he understands her recovery is contingent on more than the mere physical recovery from this one incident.
Commenters decide that he isn't her friend and has no idea what alcoholism is.
I don't understand this place sometimes.
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Actually, I'm thinking that Marten is "hoping" Faye will be OK and he wants the doctor to reassure him. I'd like to think that he's bright enough to realize you don't pass out in your own drunken vomit, slug one of your friends, and become totally unresponsive and will 'just be ok' once you sober up. If he didn't know before that Faye has a drinking problem, he'd better know it now.
If Marten understood 1. that Faye is an alcoholic and 2. what alcoholism is, he wouldn't be pestering medical staff to answer if Faye would be OK. He'd know that they have no control over it, and that recovery necessarily has to start with Faye herself.
Put another way, Marten obviously thinks Faye's issues are all or mostly medical. They aren't. As he's going to find out in the coming days.
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cesariojpn:
--- Quote from: jheartney on 26 Jan 2015, 21:32 ---The real problem is Marten obviously doesn't get what alcoholism is, and so all his decent impulses are just going to turn him into an enabler.
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Given his "meh" attitude with his mom drunk at the bar during the wedding arc and his own little 'touchy feely' drunk fest with Faye that ended up her punching him cold, I don't think he's had anything dealing with rampant alcoholism in QC.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: jheartney on 26 Jan 2015, 23:18 ---If Marten understood 1. that Faye is an alcoholic and 2. what alcoholism is, he wouldn't be pestering medical staff to answer if Faye would be OK. He'd know that they have no control over it, and that recovery necessarily has to start with Faye herself.
Put another way, Marten obviously thinks Faye's issues are all or mostly medical. They aren't. As he's going to find out in the coming days.
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I suspect that the nice young lady doctor will at least partly educate Marten on the subject whilst getting more information on the patient's background and history with alcohol. It will be interesting to see if Marten accepts what she tells him or chooses the route of denial (a comprehensible but dangerous response to being told that someone you love is an addict).
NilsO:
--- Quote from: Jedit on 27 Jan 2015, 00:23 ---While we're on the subject, can we agree to stab out the eyes of anyone who ever again uses a portmanteau to describe a couple, be it real or fictional? It's a really obnoxious thing. As one of the X-Idol contestants inevitably dubbed Jedward put it, 'Is it really so hard to say "ohn and"?'
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I disagree. 'Claireten' is a good shorthand for "Claire and Marten' when addressing them as a couple (but of course not as individuals). The ship allegory (S/S Claireten is ready to sail) is also cute, just don't overdo it.
Some portmanteaus may give bad vibes, and should be avoided. The (now shipwrecked) S/S Mardor sounds too similar to 'Mordor'.
Now, I should watch my eyes. Jedit may want to stab them.
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