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WCDT strips 4381-4385 (Oct 26th to Oct 30th 2020)
sitnspin:
I am not even remotely Sufi. This bitch holds a grudge like a vise.
But seriously, whether or not I forgive is wholly dependent on the specific individual and the specific offense. In this instance, nothing about this conversation would have even offended me at all and I am legit baffled by the responses on here.
Oenone:
Here’s why I think Clinton was being rude:
1. He asked Brun while she’s at her work about whether she found him attractive. Because she’s Brun she didn’t find that rude, but IMO it’s still hella sketch to ask someone at their job something like that. It’s entitled especially after she indicated she needed to get back to work.
2. He’s treating this exploratory outting as a checkbox with steps to speed through, and resolving Brun is just a step to get through, and is less about Brun or Elliot than about Clinton crossing his Ts and dotting his Is.
3. He immediately divulges what should be a personal convo between him and Brun or Brun in Elliot in public to Elliot at Elliots job, which means Elliot can’t easily process the info and can’t easily get away from Clinton. It’s not only gossipy, it doesn’t show any awareness of how awkward it might be to have full on convos about your personal life as an lgbtq person at your job.
4. He’s making himself a problem at Elliot’s job by being the kind of drunk Elliot has to get to stop drinking and encourage to go home.
DaiJB:
NOT going to get into what Clinton did/didn't do, or what was wrong/right about his behaviour.
I'm just going to say this:
Clinton shouldn't drink.
I mean, at all.
I mean teetotal.
Put bluntly, it doesn't suit him and he can't handle it.
He is obviously a lightweight physically - so that dictates that he should drink less - but he also seems to suffer from the effects of alcohol more profoundly. This is a real thing too - I've known people of roughly similar build who are wildly different in their capacity to tolerate the effects. Some can drink steadily and simply mellow out, while others turn out to be "two pot screamers" (dunno if that's just an Australian term) who become rowdy after only a couple of beers (as the name implies).
Clinton without beer: easy to talk to, though a bit AI-obsessed (better than he was!); protective of his sibling; a good friend in a pinch (e.g., the fire and its after-effects); somewhat socially awkward (more socially inexperienced, really - a bit oblivious to the social niceties, but learning.)
Clinton under influence of beer: See last two strips!! :-P Totally, blindly oblivious to the effects of his speech, but happily burbling on because of that obliviousness - all brought on by drinking.
For God's sake - if his reckoning was right, and he only had three beers - then the whole "Gotta pee gotta pee gotta pee" situation was brought on by one, single, solitary drink! No way should he drink in any steady or continuous manner - maybe the occasional toast or single celebratory drink, but that's all.
* BTW, Clinton shouldn't take his sister's advice without a grain of salt either - her relationship advice is (apparently) largely based on starry-eyed shipping in a universe of romantic fanfic :roll: I suspect Claire's social skills aren't really much more advanced than Clinton's own...
Is it cold in here?:
"Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past".
Theta9:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 31 Oct 2020, 19:30 ---"Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past".
--- End quote ---
That's kind of the idea behind "forgive but don't forget."
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