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WCDT 4201-4205 (17th - 21st, February 2020)
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: DaiJB on 19 Feb 2020, 00:42 ---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.
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As a gadfly on the spectrum, I can say that it varies from day to day, stuation by situation for myself.
Some folks very much deserve to be annoyed. Especially if they're causing problems.
EDIT:
--- 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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Location location location
Though, middle school was more hellish for me. The little bastards at mine were bad enough that we had 4 suicides in 3 years.
EDIT: High school became a lot easier for me after I pushed open the locker despite having two assholes trying to shove me into it.
BenRG:
FWIW, some modern cars' fronts do look like laughing faces (VWs and almost everything from the Far East are particularly like this). So, yeah, I can see one of them triggering Brun's "Stop laughing at me!" automatic reaction. We also know that she's quite capable of overdoing physical reactions, given the harpoon!
DaiJB:
"contemptuous headlights" :laugh:
Must have been a Volvo...
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: DaiJB on 20 Feb 2020, 23:14 ---"contemptuous headlights" :laugh:
Must have been a Volvo...
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Or a Mercedes.
Case:
--- Quote from: Cornelius on 20 Feb 2020, 01:29 ---
--- 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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Not necessarily US. Though I'll admit high school was better than elementary. At least there was no beating or strangling involved there. And less teachers going along with it. Still, there were a couple of right bastards in there, and stereotypically, it's the local soccer hero that was one of the worst bullies. Mind, for some reason or other, the guys actually playing on a national level were kind of ok.
The largest incident in my high school career happened after I bested said soccer hero the single time we had a wrestling class.
Things oddly quietened some time later, after we had hockey. Somehow, the image of me coming at them all bloodied with a half splintered stick stuck.
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Oshit elementary school ... I was a late bloomer, and lightest boy in my elementary school class except for that poor bastard I. Without I. subbing as 'the easier target', or my elder cousins' protection, things would have been very bad for me. I worked out from the age of sixteen onward, and made sure everybody knew that judging my physical strength based on my skinny frame was ... a mistake.
Also, school-type made a huge difference back then - things were relatively civilised in the Gymnasium I attended, but the schoolyards of the neighbouring Realschule and Hauptschule were a different Universe altogether. I recall one of my cousins (who attended Hauptschule) cleaning up after a fight and advising me "Forget movies - you always throw the first punch". The German school system was also effectively segregated at the time - the few non-native Germans attending Gymnasium all had European heritage (our equivalent of 'white' - though, effectively, the only true German equivalent to 'white' is 'Western-Germany born Bio-German'. Even German-heritage Germans born in the states of the former GDR complain about exclusion).
Migrant kids were sent to Hauptschule, no matter their aptitude - and that was so normal that it took me over a decade past graduation to even notice.
Mind you, that was 80s provincial Germany. Dunno how things are today.
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