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WCDT Strips 3271-3275* (25-29 July 2016)

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BenRG:
The title of the comic, 'Smartassarole', has got me thinking. Is Jeph telling us that Brun likes to slip in the occasional deliberate snark and then straight-facedly claim that it is just her 'thing' of telling it the way she sees it? That might be an interesting character wrinkle if that's the case. If nothing else, Brun does seem to have some of the traits of a particuarly obnoxious teenager, right up to speaking with her mouth full of food (probably because doing so is 'more efficient')!

Just in case anyone is wondering, no this isn't Brun hate. I'm just trying to analyse the character. Jeph's characters generally tend to have enormous character flaws aside from any mental or emotional disorders (the romantic foils in particular) so it wouldn't be unprecendented for Brun to have a ones of her own. In Brun's case, it seems that she can just be a bit of an asshole sometimes.


--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 26 Jul 2016, 00:29 ---I've always thought of casserole as a Midwestern thing.  It never really was a thing for me growing up... "casserole" to me just meant "that thing you microwave leftovers in."
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Casseroles are a common dish worldwide; there are British versions too, made of chopped meat and vegetables stewed together with herbs and spices and eaten best with suet dumplings. Damn... now I'm hungry!  :-P

swapna:
Re: Yesterday's comic: Yah, Claire has learnt nothing- didn't we just talk about pushing people, especially Clinton, into decisions? But ha-ha it's Claire so it's cute. And of course,  se is right; the one who had to undergo character development is Clinton (not that he didn't dearly need it, but so did Claire).

Today's: This isn't just Brun being quirky, I think. By now she has to do it on purpose, maybe because Renee annoys her; she would be annoying me too, but again, passive aggressive bullshit just doesn't go over well with me. She could have just stayed at the motel if Renee's is so bad.

oddtail:
We don't know Brun and Renee's relationship, so it's possible that they are both comfortable with this kind of interaction. Maybe Renee doesn't really care, and Brun seems to always say whatever is on her mind. Renee possibly is used to it and wouldn't expect anything else.

But seriously? Being served food and calling it "dog vomit" is uncalled for. In fact, I'll go ahead and say it's a very, very dickish thing to say. "I'm just saying" has to be the lamest excuse for being insulting, too.

And I personally value honesty, even sometimes at the expense of being polite. I am not beyond criticising food that just doesn't taste/look that great, and even meals I enjoy, I point the flaws of, some of the time. I can veer into somewhat impolite territory with that, too.

But I would still not say unappetizing food "looks like dog vomit". There's being honest, and there's being rude. These overlap, but they are not the same thing, and confusing the two is not helpful for anyone.

Keep in mind, I don't think Brun is evil for saying what she said or anything. But I still think what she says is wrong (again, barring the possibility that it's just how she and Renee talk - some people casually insult their close friends as a weird show of affection that I don't claim to understand). It's insulting, it's thoughtless and it's pointless. It seems that for Brun, politeness and manners is something that happens to other people. Judging by what I've seen so far, she is unaware to an extent that a lot of what she says is improper and often very rude.

But being unaware that something is not OK does *not* make it automatically OK.

EDIT: I think Brun might be completely missing the point, saying "Probably tastes fine, I'll still eat it". If a guest described my cooking as "looking like dog vomit" and followed up with "I'll still eat it", I probably would not (because I'm big on hospitality and such), but I *would* be very tempted to take away their plate and being all "who said you still GET to eat my food? Buy your own damn food". I mean, seriously. Being offered food and snarking about it seems like a terribly rude thing to me.

MrNumbers:
I just want to say in the third panel it looks like Renee has a giant left ear to me.

Near Lurker:

--- Quote from: BenRG on 26 Jul 2016, 01:42 ---Casseroles are a common dish worldwide; there are British versions too, made of chopped meat and vegetables stewed together with herbs and spices and eaten best with suet dumplings. Damn... now I'm hungry!  :-P

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Well... clearly not in Ireland.  And the dishes they're being served look supremely unappetizing to me... is that what a casserole is?  I always thought it adhered (preferably with a binder other than cheese), rather than sitting on the plate like an overcooked stirfry...

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