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WCDT strips 3861-3865 (29th October to 2nd November 2018)
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Tova on 29 Oct 2018, 17:33 ---Some of you don't have siblings, I take it.
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That does seem to be the case.
Carl-E:
I have three younger brothers.
We didn't stop at insults... no one ever had to be hospitalized, but we came awfully close a few times.
Oh, and when I heard "dickbat" I didn't think of the kind of bat with wings. More baseball or cricket...
Now, on to today - more entitled misunderstandings from the Augustus clan re: Brun's past. Doesn't test well, never tested for a learning disability, brushes it off as "don't like doctors".
Really makes me wonder more about her past. Think Claire'll draw out any revelations? Or just more raisin bread discussion in the forum?
:-D
Milayna:
I'm actually kind of the opposite of Brun in this regard. I'm not great at remembering specific facts - when was the Magna Carta signed? 1200-something? - but I'm good at remembering the general idea of things - The Magna Carta was signed, and it limited the King's power.
I always did great on tests with very little effort. In a multiple choice question, if you're asking me when William the Conqueror invaded England, and one of the choices is 1066, I'll get that right, I'll recognize seeing that date. (while trying to wikipedia this, it took a few minutes, because I thought it was 1266). If it's an essay, I can say "in the early part of the millenium..." and then go on to talk about "the battles" and their lasting effects on England.
I see the "general idea" of things. I see facts, I read about facts, I see how they fit into the picture I have of the thing they're relative to, then I forget the specific facts but remember the impact, and when I see more facts, I can fit them into the picture while forgetting their specifics. When given a choice, I can usually recognize the specifics I've seen, but I can't remember them without prompting.
My major weakness was always length and citations, they'd want like a dozen pages of essay, and I could make the point in a page or two. And the citations...again, I remember the general idea of things; I'd always be writing that, and then I'd have to try to find a quote I could shove in their like a giant dildo that didn't interrupt the flow of what I was saying. The best that you could say of most of my citations was that they were pointless.
Anyway, for me, opposite of Brun; the facts aren't in my head, I could get the idea to go on the paper just fine, but then it needed far more to actually pass.
Edit: Well I'll be damned. I quizzed myself: when was the Magna Carta signed? My guess was 1214, and Wikipedia says 1215. I'm not usually that close.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: chris73 on 29 Oct 2018, 16:16 ---This strip is not making Claire come across well, like if I hadn't read any of her backstory she'd come across (to me anyway) as quite entitled and a bit selfish
I mean you can study in a bakery or coffee shop but to expect those places of business to be quiet just so you can study in peace is a little much, if its that big a deal she could go to a public library or something?
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That's the classic Western World double standard at work.
BenRG:
This was a very strange strip in many ways. I can see where Jeph is going with it: Claire is basically saying that she has no idea what she would do with herself outside the specific context of working in a library in some way. However, the presentation is very awkward and he seems instead to prefer focussing on Claire's social awkwardness and the fact that Brun (level headed as she is) doesn't take offence at something Claire says that Claire clearly thinks is offensive, based on her sudden back-pedalling.
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 29 Oct 2018, 17:15 ---Or, you know, a certain college library where she used to work. That might be a workable solution.
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QC's Smif Library is a den of vice and debauchery, according to both Claire and Tai. There is far too much chance that there is going to be a spontaneous house party going down or Tai having a loud conversation with someone that only exists thanks to some hallucinogen that she has taken. Even if that doesn't happen, Marten is likely going to be there and how is Claire supposed to concentrate with such a distraction as that? :wink:
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