Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT strips 3666 to 3670 (29th January to 2nd February 2018)
SpanielBear:
--- Quote from: ImVeryAngryItsNotButter on 30 Jan 2018, 19:39 ---I do find it a little odd that Bubbles doesn't interpret Faye's "tea and crumpets" suggestion as a glib remark. To my knowledge people in the U.S. almost never suggest that in earnest.
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Don't be so sure. Crumpets are serious business. The Boston Tea Party would have ended very differently had the redcoats not disobeyed orders and served pikelets instead.
DSL:
Tea and crumpets, which I understand to be a perfectly ordinary light meal in Jollie Olde, has a bit of an effete air in the minds of my fellow beer'n'pretzels/coffee'n'donuts 'Mericans. I'm going to say, extrapolating from that assumption, that Bubbles is using that to suggest the people who discuss her people in abstract academic terms are quite disconnected from Real Life (TM). And Faye is twitting Bubbles about her word choice, as friends will.
sitnspin:
To be fair, I had a professor at university who regularly invited us to tea and crumpets.
fayelovesbubbles:
Yup. Evie was the problem.
JRDelirio:
--- Quote from: Case on 30 Jan 2018, 19:41 ---
--- Quote from: ImVeryAngryItsNotButter on 30 Jan 2018, 19:39 ---I do find it a little odd that Bubbles doesn't interpret Faye's "tea and crumpets" suggestion as a glib remark. To my knowledge people in the U.S. almost never suggest that in earnest.
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I read it as Faye asking "Tea and Crumpets? Where did you get that from? We're in the US - nobody suggests Tea and Crumpets, not even rich people's children ..."
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Yep, got that same impression. She's teasing her as to how even if Evie is looking at Bubs from the Ivory Tower, that would be an unexpected way to think of it these days.
Evie of course is entirely oblivious to her bioprivileged frame of reference -- as is to be expected, since in that context the "privileged" position is the one assumed to be the default so it is not even noticed by those holding it.
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