Monday, 7 October 2024

[dreadedcandiru2]

The one where April is naughty and bad because she points out a physical defect in an adult.

Synopsis: We find ourselves watching April not having the least bloody clue what she's doing to irritate an Elly clone named Vi. Mirth ensues.

Summary: We know little of why this woman is inserted in the classroom setting. All we get to see is a pre-

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[dreadedcandiru2]

We take a break from Liz being utterly baffled by the evil conspiracy to block her from getting her way all the time, treating people like toys and trick her into admitting that jealousy and anger come from within to showing us why Little Lindy was a poor fit for a classroom. We start off with both sides of her being overly blunt:

[chocolate_frapp]

I'm just relieved none of the kids said the really offensive N word.

[dreadedcandiru2]

Watch Lynn pitch a fit because people point something that never occurred to her out. If she cannot imagine it, neither should anyone else.

[aprilp_katje]

I had the same thought.

[dreadedcandiru2]

Of course, April is not the first Patterson to confuse how normal people react to her bullshit with persecution. Let's remind ourselves of how being treated like he's the boring ordinary person he is:

[jjamele]

1. A child would say "nose," not "nose hair."

2. Detention is generally not served on the day of the offense so that the parents can be notified and the offense can be explained thoroughly and arrangements for late pickup- or explanation of lateness- can be made. Lynn seems to think that elementary school has loco parentis laws.

3. Teachers don't say things like "your child has a lot of potential" anymore, because most parents (maybe not the Pattersons) recognize that phrase as brown-nosing nonsense. There's no reason to believe that a kid goofing off in class has "potential" to be anything but an adult lacking in education. And taken at face value, the message is vile nonsense that no teacher should EVER send- "I don't mind goof-offs when I know they are idiots going nowhere anyway, but your kid could actually achieve something so this is important to fix."

[dreadedcandiru2]

1) Nobody sane can be triggered by the word nose.

2) Lynn spent twenty five years in a fantasy capsule. She doesn't know this.

3) Hardacre is mouthing what Lynn wanted teachers to say about her. She doesn't give a damn about genuinely struggling students, she just wants a free pass to do an impersonation of an in-growing hair.

[jjamele]

I'm proud to say that I've never used the phrase "your child has potential" when discussing a kid whose main attribute is that he misbehaves. Nor do I ever suggest that he "needs to be challenged more" or is "bored because he's so far ahead of the rest of the class" or any of that other crap I'm sure Lynn wanted to be fed and which the Pattersons are basically being fed here- "I don't care about the other kids in the class, but your special snowflake has Hidden BrillianceTM that is just dying to reveal itself if I could just find the right environment for it to flourishTM I have more let me check my collection of Miracle Teachers Movie Scripts....."

[dreadedcandiru2]

As by way of contrast, I'd like to remind you of how germaphobic loudmouth Howie Mandel handled "kid too bloody stupid to understand the vanity of his elders" in the kiddie cartoon Bobby's World. When Bobby triggered his maiden aunt, none of the fucking idiot adults wanted to see it as an innocent mistake because Mandel is Canadian and cannot communicate well with children.

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[dreadedcandiru2]

Lynn's Comments:

Today's Little Lindy Show:

I had a Sunday school teacher who had so many hairs on her chin that I couldn’t concentrate on anything else. I kept thinking, “Why doesn’t she shave them off?” I thought she looked like a character in one of Len Norris’ cartoons! I was already paying serious attention to comic art when I was in elementary school.

is brought to you by over-focus on a non-issue that's not Lynn's business.

[howtheduck]

This is a curious comment. The character does not appear to have chin hairs and the comic strip was about nose hair. And then Len Norris? I have not been able to find any Len Norris comic strips featuring chin hair. For example, in the crowd scene in this comic strip, you would expect at least one.

[aprilp_katje]

I can't help but think of the strip where Elly keeps twiddling a chin hair, and Liz yells at her to just pluck it out.

[dreadedcandiru2]