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WCDT 26-30 April 2021 (4511-4515)
SpanielBear:
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--- Quote from: flondrix on 28 Apr 2021, 00:48 ---It's a rather glaring omission that Marten and Claire are not on Tai's list.
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Either she actually doesn't care about having Marten at her wedding, or she hasn't thought deeply enough about it to register that she should invite Marten etc. Either of those possibilities is a bit concerning, though in different ways.
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Weren’t the core gang already invited when the wedding was declared? So this exercise is about who else to include?
Fuzzlepuzzle:
Weddings take a lot of effort and energy to plan, and Dora might be feeling like Tai's not been pulling her weight on the "not-fun" stuff. Dora's been putting a lot of effort and energy into planning this particular unfun part, like making sure her guests will have compatible people sitting with them, so that no one's left as the awkward person out who doesn't know anyone and who no one will approach.
I think Tai does have people she wants to invite, like Marten and probably Claire, but she just assumes Dora will remember to invite them herself. She's pushing the labor of remembering everyone off on Dora. And Dora probably knows that Tai's "whatever you want" is actually conditional, even if she doesn't realize it -- if Marten wasn't invited, she'd probably be upset. So now Dora has to decide who's on the invite list not just for herself, but for Tai as well, and hope she doesn't miss anyone who Tai wanted invited but didn't think to mention because she assumed Dora would invite them.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 28 Apr 2021, 00:47 ---
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 27 Apr 2021, 23:43 ---[1] Practically all mustard has chunks of seed in it. Who is this stuff even for?
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*raises hand* depending on what it's for and my mood, I like mustard with mustard seeds in it.
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It's 'cracked seed' like cracked wheat bread. The seeds aren't ground up very well, if at all. It would utterly fail the grind test we do for the yellow mustard at work. Like a 12 or a 14 on the grind test[1] if it even registered below a 20 on the low end[2].
[1]target is 2.5 at the lowest to pass.
[2] The 'low end' refers to how ground down the seeds are. Finely ground seeds are on the high end, at .25 to 1. The higher the number, the lower the grind.
EDIT: looks like I spaced on specifying 'below a 20' when I typed this. BTW 20 is the lowest grind on our equipment.
awkwardness:
We haven't delved into Tai's past much, perhaps there's a good reason why she hasn't had family visit and why she has no outside friends- bad fallout over her sexuality? recluse in high school?
Other than her former coworkers and Marten, she hasn't hung out with anyone else so maybe she just doesn't need a big circle of people to tell her that she's beautiful and take a lot of picture for social media?
Also: not cool, Dora! You're becoming bridezilla there...
Annemoon:
--- Quote from: Fuzzlepuzzle on 28 Apr 2021, 01:32 ---Weddings take a lot of effort and energy to plan, and Dora might be feeling like Tai's not been pulling her weight on the "not-fun" stuff. Dora's been putting a lot of effort and energy into planning this particular unfun part, like making sure her guests will have compatible people sitting with them, so that no one's left as the awkward person out who doesn't know anyone and who no one will approach.
I think Tai does have people she wants to invite, like Marten and probably Claire, but she just assumes Dora will remember to invite them herself. She's pushing the labor of remembering everyone off on Dora. And Dora probably knows that Tai's "whatever you want" is actually conditional, even if she doesn't realize it -- if Marten wasn't invited, she'd probably be upset. So now Dora has to decide who's on the invite list not just for herself, but for Tai as well, and hope she doesn't miss anyone who Tai wanted invited but didn't think to mention because she assumed Dora would invite them.
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Exactly what I would want to mention. Tai is effectively putting the whole responsibility and effort of the complete task onto Dora.
It's a similar principle as with house chores, if you're both doing them, but one person has to check when every task is needed, remind the other person to do it,
that person is not only getting the stuff of doing the task but also the mental effort of holding the responsibility.
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