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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Replying to @arthur_affect @ExcelPope
It’s irony. It’s English irony. And you’re reading it in American That’s the whole point of the story. That it isn’t a gladiatorial combat. That it isn’t alpha male posturing because no one involved is an alpha male and everyone knows it It’s essentially a comedy of manners.
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Replying to @greywacke911 @ExcelPope
The JOKE is that he's DESCRIBING it as such but obviously it isn't, yes ("Gladiators had to do it in the sun, more exhausting")
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The reason I brought up the "alpha male flex" is that this is what Arthur assumes the other man is doing He can't conceive of any reason someone would just take something that belongs to him right in front of him, with no indication of any hostility beforehand
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He specifies that the man looks like an ordinary respectable businessman and "not the kind of fellow who would just take one's biscuits" The reason he has so much pent-up moral indignation is he assumes the other man is fucking with him just to be an asshole
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That's the point of the example Arthur thinks he's standing up to an asshole who is fucking with him for no reason, because he, inadvertently, *actually is* an asshole fucking with someone for no reason
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He is aware that it is a very petty thing to get upset about because it's an item he paid for from pocket change but he IS upset and he DOES feel like he's won some kind of moral victory by neither backing down nor getting provoked into yelling at the guy
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Hence the reversal - he's the asshole and the other guy is the one showing backbone/courage/restraint/maturity etc by not blowing up at him
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I am harping on this because you and your ilk are, broadly speaking, so fundamentally immune to ever seeing yourself as the asshole and so absolutely convinced that you just being a prick on the Internet all the time is some kind of badge of courage
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Replying to @arthur_affect @greywacke911
Hilarious seeing this from one of the most self-righteous tweeters on here, who’s managed to miss all of the people seriously arguing that 2+2<>4 and who is RTing everyone of his own replies, so that his followers don’t miss a single word of his wisdom.
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