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Yvonmukluk posted:I've not really got much of an idea of what a Yorkshire accent sounds like in my head, so I've kind of just projecting my own regional accent onto the characters. Clearly somebody needs to round up some precocious Yorkshire children and get them to read the comic for us so we can grasp it for ourselves. By the magic of Youtube, precocious Yorkshire children can be had on demand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB3ieNhEsDY ... That sounded less creepy in my head. Yvonmukluk posted:And I vaguely remember Safeway. I'm old.  Not that old. Safeway only went out of business in 2004/2005. My littler brother probably remembers Safeways and he's only fourteen.
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Leroy Dennui posted:This is what I'm thinking too - her whimsy may have developed as a defense mechanism, and was influenced by Ryan's earthy wisdom. This would suggest that Shelley's entire adult life has been defined by the damage caused by her best friend's suicide. That's, uh, that's a little depressing.
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Saoshyant posted:Friendship has boundaries. I think I like Amy's way of putting it better:  Yvonmukluk posted:I wonder-since Ryan never finished school, how'd he get certified as a teacher? I imagine you need to have finished secondary school for that (I know he was at the Open University in SGR, but still). I wonder if Knotty helped him get his job? Who knows, maybe that's why he became a teacher in the first place. Maybe this is working up to filling in that blank? It'd be a natural segue.
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Ditocoaf posted:This has inspired me to reread all the Bad Machinery-era "Bobbins" he's done in one big chunk. Which reminded me how freaking sad the situation with Tims' daughter is. That sort of unresolved childhood catastrophe could mess a kid up for life. There's no way Scout doesn't suspect that the explosion was her fault, which will only make Tim's decision (to accept the blame and leave the family) feel even worse. Oh, right that's why Tim is now a bearded woodsman. I was really confused for a second there.
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Riley is not a spectacular human being, in fairness. Noooooooooooot certain Shelley'd make a better mother. Though thinking about it, I can't remember any specific interactions between her and her daughter.
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howe_sam posted:It's not like Death held up his end of the bargain. Yeah, if I sacrificed my life for some dumb nerd and he managed to get himself killed right after, I think I'd just be like "gently caress it" too.
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If this is literally Lottie and Shauna IN SPACE I don't know if it's even possible to get that hype.
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Not mine.  My mother wouldn't have it in the house. We got this stuff that was made I think primarily from alcohol and citric acid instead.
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Holy poo poo that third panel  That has got to be the most perfect panel Allison has ever produced
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Linton He's always been my least favourite Scary Go Boy, but I think I might enjoy this arc.
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ahahahahaha Jack and Sonny's expressions in panel 7. That's a "well good for you mate but we are never going to stop taking the piss out of you for this" look if ever I saw one.
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Who are these people who like Desmond so much and how do we kill them?
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Oh dear God I'm conflicted. I mean, on the one hand it's Desmond Fishman, but on the other hand it's Desmond Fishman and Claire Little. You know?
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Leospeare posted:His stuff is locked in a locker and he needs the wristband to open it. I imagine it has a key attached or something like that. Yep. Is this not how public pools work in other countries?
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What is even with those ridiculous burgers they have to hold together with skewers, anyway? Who decided that was a good idea?
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Have Jack and Mildred had much one-on-one interaction before? I'm quite liking how buddy-buddy they are.
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Lottie's never exactly been the most reasonable or diplomatic member of the mystery crew.
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Linton mate, I don't think Claire has ever been anything other than intense. I think she came out of the womb wearing an expression that could bore through walls.
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Dabir posted:Right, right, but... he doesn't. He never does. Ever. One might argue that being Desmond Fishman is punishment enough.
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Isn't he broke now? I have to admit, I don't bother paying much attention to the mythology of Desmond.
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7c Nickel posted:Honestly, this arc is kind of rubbing me the wrong way. Well, bear in mind that a running theme, or gag of... well, the entire SGR/Bobbins universe in fact, is people out-smarting themselves or just generally being brought down by hubris. Almost everyone with grand schemes has an appropriately ironic comeuppance at some point- if they didn't just get Shelly'd. So this is really just the inevitable punchline to a "hot young moderniser with plans to revolutionise the system" plotline. I'm not sure it says much about Allison beyond the fact that it's a joke he likes to keep coming back to. I don't think he's old enough to have fond memories of caning, anyway- he would have been ten when we outlawed corporal punishment in schools. Also, remember Ole Knotty isn't actually all that harsh a disciplinarian. He seemed to take a, contractual? Approach to mischief. As in, "I know you're going to break the rules, and you know you're going to break the rules, because you're kids and kids are going to be kids, and if I catch you I'll have to punish you, but if you've done your time you've done your time and I'm not going to actively go looking for skulls to break unless the school is literally on fire." This is the man who wasn't all that fussed when "Ryan" put out his eye. Leroy Dennui posted:This arc has filled me with a sense of dread since the beginning, like something really terrible and hosed up is right around the corner even though most of the conflicts so far have been resolved with relatively small collateral damage. Well, it is "Missing", so you're looking for the hole rather than the object itself  I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and guess it's "compassion". The plot seems to revolve around Darren and Blossom, both of whom are angry outsiders whose anti-social behaviour drives the people around them away. I think the moral of the story is going to be that, while these are genuinely terrible people in a lot of ways, their terrible behaviour is as much something they've been forced into as it is something they chose, and telling them they're irredeemable scum before disowning them is just aggravating the situation. Blossom is angry and abusive because her life to point was about being ostracised and abused, so why not hit back now she has the power? Darren doesn't actually want to be a criminal, he made a decent fist of going straight but now he's up poo poo creek with no support system whatsoever. In short, I think this is going to be the story of How The Wickle Family (And Society) hosed Up. e: I don't know if this ties into the Knotty/discipline subplot more than tangentially. If you wanted to try and salvage a decent moral from that you could try, "The honour system only works if the kids respect you, and they're not going to respect you if they've been locked into an adversarial relationship with adults for their entire lives up until this point," but that's "too little too late", the exact opposite of "don't give up too soon". KOGAHAZAN!! fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Jan 21, 2016 |
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team overhead smash posted:You are so middle class. Could just be American. Fangz posted:I think Shauna will be alright in the end. I think the glasses are pretty symbolically. Especially since we've been talking about class. When we first meet Shauna in SGR she looks like this:  Hair up, shorts, white t-shirt. Compare/contrast Lottie: pigtails, skirt, school jumper over t-shirt. Three years later, in Bad Machinery, Shauna looks like this:  (Big, poofy) hair down, skirt over leggings, school blazer over shirt, plus tie. Compare with the other estate girls: they're basically just young Shauna plus five years. She's gone middle class- visually, at any rate. The hair is the big one here: that style, drawn back and coming off the top of the head, is... well, it reads as extremely lower class to me, and I think it's significant that we've only ever seen it in-comic on Shauna and other council estate girls. The glasses don't show up until the Case of the Simple Soul:  I don't know if I'd call them a class marker as such, but it's another (visual) barrier between her and her younger self. This chapter, this process has been going in reverse. First she loses her glasses to Blossom, then she loses her Blazer to Darren (she's been wearing an old recently, remember?). Then, here:  She puts her hair up, in that specific style. It's striking- she looks like a completely different person. She looks like she did when she was ~8, more or less. Visually, she's a council estate girl again. Now the hair's down again and the glasses are back. Losing the swim team might be a pretty big deal for her. Look at it from a uni applications perspective: the story of Shauna Wickle, in the eyes of society, has gone from "estate girl turned star athlete and academic whiz" to "estate girl who was kicked off the swim team for violent behaviour (and has terrible grades)". Anyway Re: today's bobbins.horse: my mother got rid of my room as soon as I left for university, and it was surprising how much that hurt. 
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None of these ideas sound as good as what's on the way out. 'specially not Erin in Hell. She was never a great character and we already covered that story, thank you very much.
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It's a pretty good song, too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFM-noJhTI0 It's a shame that The Waterboys are only really remembered for The Whole of the Moon, because they've got a great catalogue.
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Can I just say that I've enjoyed Jack's journey from SHYEST DORK to SWAGGERING LYNX-SCENTED ULTRADUDE more than is entirely reasonable?
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Fangz posted:Worth noting this section is happening entirely in Charlotte's imagination. Oh, I meant his arc over the entire comic. I'm not certain how seriously we're supposed to take the unreliable narrator thing, though.
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Imagine having a giant Desmond Fishman plushy. Just sitting there in your room. Staring at you. Watching you while you sleep.
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