The continuing saga of mean sister unfolded with the witty replies of Heidi and Nico:
10/27/2004 2:56:03 PM heidi (www) said:
Well mannered...hmmm typically speaking when introduced to another person, you would say hi, nice to meet you and shake hands, not just sit in a chair and continue to watch T.V..
10/27/2004 3:20:59 PM nico (www) said:
Gotta go with Heidi here. Cultured includes being polite and kind to the people you don't like, as well as to the people you do. I think what the blog that's quoted above meant to say is that it's pretentious for one person to assume that the world revolves around her or him. And there are always two sides to a story. It is pretentious to take sides if you've heard only one.As for other comments: this is clearly cliche, but those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Specifically, it's
prententious to criticize the grammar of others unless you use the language perfectly. Have I used the word "pretentious" enough?To which I replied:
10/27/2004 6:44:37 PM Liarbyrd (www) said:
The point is that neither of you, Heidi and Nico, are upset that you hurt your sister's feelings and made her cry. All you can fixate on is some offense in the distant past and and continue to exact revenge despite the fact that both of you are grown women. And then use Jenny's friend's behaviour as justification for the continued torment of Jenny. Grown women don't make their sister cry for shits and giggles: spoiled brats do.Yes, I AM very prententious. I don't try to deny it. But I do string together a coherent sentence and I think grammatically I'm all that, barring the odd typo. BTW, I wasn't critizing grammar, it was content. CONTENT. You know, content, what fills up an empty void with substance.
Meanwhile, Jenny called to tell me that I'm her hero. Cool. Good feelings all around.
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
I'm Jenny's Hero
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Bet Trish is glad she has self-important-promoting friends like these... I can't believe how bad this has gotten though. Surely we can act like adults, move on, and forget about it.
I still stand by my comment that Jenny is cultured and well-mannered. Any American who knows more about England than a native there is gonna have my vote. And when is Jenny rude? I thought that was my job.
Grammar. Well, I shouldn't really make a comment, but being a native Englishwoman (see above) all I can say is we had the language first and Americans have never used it properly, so why start trying now?
JUSTIFICATION
Try as I may, I cannot think of good justification to reduce someone to tears. Let alone one's sibling. In adulthood no less. It takes a tangible lack of self-control to engage in petty, sophomoric behaviour in adulthood.
In grade school we behave this way. Biting comments, subtle nuances, cutting innuendo. We do so because we have no yet learned tact and carriage with decorum. Furthermore, the appalling actions of Jenny’s sisters against her show that they have not yet learned to behave in the basic social unit of family. It is, after all, what sets us above the rest of the animal kingdom.
They have not yet learned respect. They have not yet learned compassion. Most certainly they have not learned the virtues of support and self-sacrifice. As such, and since they chose to behave this way – I have no choice but to sentence them to remedial humanity. Each and everyday until they learn to act as compassionate people – not feral, familial beasts. The metrics of their progress in Remedial Humanity can be determined in simple, then sincere apologies.
If they don’t learn, then they are condemned to live out their lives as beasts. Beasts of fleeting, shallow beauty and nothing more. Perhaps they should also be spayed. It would be a shame if their behaviour were allowed to pass down to another cruel, misguided generation.
If the sisters wish to respond to this post – they are welcome to do so. I expect any response to be double-spaced and printed in HB pencil in their notebooks. Penmanship, of course, counts.
--Verve
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