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WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)

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BenRG:
Yeah, now Elliot and Renee have finally openly told each other how they feel, they are able to settle into the 'Best Friends' behavioural track. That includes the implicit right and duty to be a wisecracking annoyance sometimes. I find myself wondering how Brun will react to this!

FWIW, I still think that Brun is more aware of how annoying she can be than she lets on and gets a degree of enjoyment in saying something baldly embarrassing, knowing that people will make excuses for her.

snubnose:
Isnt it a good thing to get a cinammon roll status revoked ?

DaiJB:
wait, was Elliot...a jock???

Wouldn't be that surprised - big strong guys who are good at sport often get an automatic "in" with the jock crowd, even if they aren't seeking it - though I doubt Elliot would ever be obnoxious about it!


--- Quote from: BenRG on 18 Feb 2020, 23:06 ---FWIW, I still think that Brun is more aware of how annoying she can be than she lets on and gets a degree of enjoyment in saying something baldly embarrassing, knowing that people will make excuses for her.

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I'm sure Brun is well aware of how annoying she can be, but I don't think she gets enjoyment out of it.
I suspect it's the nature of her condition that, though she knows and understands the fact of her behaviour being annoying, that knowledge has little effect on her.
She is like someone colour-blind, grabbing clothes from the closet (hey, they're all grey, after all) and wearing something comfortable that just happens to jarringly clash, simply because colour means nothing to them. It may annoy the hell out of colour-sighted friends, but that annoyance is irrelevant from the colour-blind person's perspective.

Stoon:
Is high school in the US really as hellish as the US media says it is?

I was one of the nerdy kids with no friends in high school, yet I was never bullied.

ihaveavoice:

--- Quote from: Stoon on 19 Feb 2020, 19:36 ---Is high school in the US really as hellish as the US media says it is?

I was one of the nerdy kids with no friends in high school, yet I was never bullied.

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I think it's highly location and time specific, and down to a whole lot of other factors affecting the ~culture in your school? My school was kind of too packed with kids to have one "in crowd" we could all point to, which probably helped. It was only made to contain like 2400 kids or something, and there were like 3600 of us one year. I was a nerdy kid with a bunch of equally nerdy friends who never got bullied for that or saw it happen to others. That doesn't mean that there for sure weren't any bullies around, just that it wasn't a big enough part of the culture that we all saw and were aware of it. Actually, the only years in school in which I remember seeing bullying take place were in ELEMENTARY school.* Little like 8-10 year olds who would take apart bikes in the evenings and thought they were tough. From the reactions of fellow Americans I've mentioned that to, that wasn't necessarily normal, lol. The little jerks never targeted me despite me being a ~quiet kid in a gifted program, but I remember hating them for how mean they were to other kids. I guess I was that girl who was weird in the like, "pat her on the head and make sure she knows the recess bell rang in the middle of her reading" way. I was their weirdo, lol

* Edit: also middle school with its social rumors-based bullying. Some real Mean Girls shit went down in middle school.

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