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Post by stormy on Oct 30, 2011 17:38:17 GMT
This isn't just a teenager thing. I know from experience you do NOT MIX TWO DIFFERENT GROUPS OF FRIENDS. It does not go well. They are not already the same group of friends for good reasons, usually. Being adults does not obligate anyone to get along... Then you're stuck trying to explain to both groups that the other group are great once you get to know them... There is a HUGE difference between mixing the two groups of friends (which I agree, sometimes just should not happen) and ignoring/denying an aquaintance/friendship altogether. Having people you know and respect not get along (or even actively dislike each other) is far better than degrading both a friend and yourself by not acknowledging them. That doesn't mean you don't invite them all to the same party. There is a middle ground. Here is an 'adult' version of the scenerio here. Say you were out to eat with your work friends, and your buddy with the Amazingly Bad Sailor Mouth (we all have one) walked by and waves. It would be pretty rude not to pretend you don't see or know her. Any reasonable adult is going to wave and say hi. That doesn't mean you need to invite her to sit down and go three-shades-of-amazing-potty-mouth in front of your supervisor. I wouldn't expect Parley to want to hang around socially with Annie and Kat. 3 or 4 years is a pretty big gap during those years, and honestly, Annie and Kat would probably prefer their own friends as well. Parley is being a bit of a jerk by not being more friendly, but mostly, I think that is a residual effect of the HUGE jerk she's being to Smitty. Smitty is her bf. I don't care your age, if you are so ashamed of your significant other that you have to hide them from the other people in your life, you don't need to be with him/her. Because you are degrading them. I'm not saying they need to break up, or that George is a bad kid. I'm just saying ... someone needs to call Parley on this so that she can face up to how she's acting, and hopefully the couple can resolve the issue. However, knowing Smitty's personality, its probably gonna be Annie or Kat who forces the issue, not Smit. : (
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Post by TBeholder on Oct 30, 2011 18:06:56 GMT
Still. Genderfluidity in Gunnerkrigg FTW. Wow. Fanficspeak evolves... Now that you attracted attention to it, i'm curious as to what the autoreplace will be. They're at that late-teens ( ), full-of-themselves stage where they think that being a couple years older than the younger teens makes them kings and queens of the world; I know it all and my taste (in music, books, etc) is superior to yours and I am relaxed and chill~ and totally a veteran of life. Nothing can surprise ME. ...the latter, obviously, being perceived as a challenge. That is fantastic. Also, theory: Jan IS Jones. Just sayin'. Which doesn't prevent her from still being the opposite-sex clone cyborg Antony from future. But you're right, this will be on wild guess menu until we see them together or get a definitive answer (oh, come on! as if!).
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nomibear
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Post by nomibear on Oct 30, 2011 18:10:50 GMT
And I'm just not digging Parley's friends at all. They're at that late-teens ( ), full-of-themselves stage where they think that being a couple years older than the younger teens makes them kings and queens of the world; I know it all and my taste (in music, books, etc) is superior to yours and I am relaxed and chill~ and totally a veteran of life. Nothing can surprise ME.Ehh. So, basically, you dislike them for acting like typical teenagers? Because, really, teenagers typically do that. It's easy to scoff looking back, but at that age? Every single year above is a significant achievement because that's the stage when they're becoming physically mature, they know they're maturing, people acknowledge they're maturing, but there are still not acknowledge as adult. Every little rung up the ladder is one step closer to not being dismissed as a kid anymore, so its not surprising that they try to put as much distance from "kid-ness" by putting on pretensions of "greater maturity" than the "younger" no matter how small the gap. Until I changed my job recently due to financial needs, I was a high school teacher--and this is exactly how the lot of them acted. Even the shyest and/or most bullied kid had his or her moment of "Heh, wow, I'm the older and wiser one!" when mingling with the ones from lower year levels. As someone mentioned before, sometimes that attitude does not stem from any actual malice. Sometimes teenagers like like to think of themselves as more mature than they were a year ago because they want to stop being dismissed as "just a kid," and the importance of than need just inflates the need to do so. As Tom has said more than once about Annie during her lapses, "She's just a stupid kid"--but, hey, so were we as much as we may not want to remember. I mean, really, isn't this just a bit too harsh and judgmental from all of two pages of interaction? That's, what, a few minutes in real time? Wouldn't be fair if I judged you, or anyone else for that matter, from from a few minutes of not-so-great behavior now, wouldn't it? And they're not being malicious or anything - they're just a couple of dudes teasing their friend. It may not be the best behavior, but I sure as hell do stuff like this (which I usually get slapped for at some point in time). I think I like them - or at least, I like them a whole lot better than a couple of other characters.
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