If you're missing a truly idiotic take on Orwell, and would like it topped off with a quote from an awful Douglas Adams book (and I say that as a huge Hitchhiker's fan), that the tweeter can't even be bothered to get close to right then, man, is this the thread for you.https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1290034984871321600 …
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Replying to @ExcelPope
The idea that the biscuit anecdote is an alpha male flex and not about simmering English frustration is....bizarre
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Replying to @greywacke911 @ExcelPope
Arthur literally compares himself and the other man in this story to Roman gladiators dueling in the Coliseum
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The point of his simmering frustration is he thinks the other man is brazenly fucking with him for no reason he can see, and he views himself as rising to the challenge and not letting himself get intimidated That's what the "simmering frustration" is about
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That's the joke, that he's describing sharing a packet of biscuits with another guy in total silence as a great battle Biting into it deliberately and slowly so the other guy can see him doing it "When I eat a biscuit, it stays eaten"
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That's why Adams' telling of it is so funny and the various Internet copies of the story are generally not, because it's not just about him fuming with rage, it's all told in this ironic tone where he's talking up what a badass he's being, refusing to back down, holding the line
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This doesn't actually matter but being accused of not understanding the "Englishness" of a story you apparently don't remember the details of is very annoying
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