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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @greywacke911 @ExcelPope

      Arthur literally compares himself and the other man in this story to Roman gladiators dueling in the Coliseum

      1 reply 2 retweets 47 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @greywacke911 @ExcelPope

      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

      1 reply 2 retweets 42 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @greywacke911 @ExcelPope

      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"

      3 replies 2 retweets 47 likes
    4. greywacke‏ @greywacke911 5 Aug 2020
      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.

      5 replies 1 retweet 22 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
      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")

      2 replies 2 retweets 50 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @greywacke911 @ExcelPope

      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

      1 reply 2 retweets 42 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @greywacke911 @ExcelPope

      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

      1 reply 2 retweets 47 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @greywacke911 @ExcelPope

      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

      2 replies 2 retweets 53 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @greywacke911 @ExcelPope

      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

      1 reply 2 retweets 36 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @greywacke911 @ExcelPope

      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

      1 reply 2 retweets 39 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @greywacke911 @ExcelPope

      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

      4:42 AM - 5 Aug 2020
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      6 replies 2 retweets 104 likes
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        2. Andrew R‏ @ExcelPope 5 Aug 2020
          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.

          1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 5 Aug 2020
          Replying to @ExcelPope @greywacke911

          Yeah it is isn't Have you checked under the newspaper for your biscuits yet

          0 replies 2 retweets 11 likes
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        1. greywacke‏ @greywacke911 5 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @ExcelPope

          Tuts In fact I will go further, double tut

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        2. Andrew Hickey Finally Dropped his Halloween Name‏ @HickeyWriter 5 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @greywacke911 @ExcelPope

          As an English person, I'm very happy to say that your reading of this very simple, easily comprehended, anecdote, is not somehow being totally deformed by you being an American.

          1 reply 0 retweets 53 likes
        3. Andrew Hickey Finally Dropped his Halloween Name‏ @HickeyWriter 5 Aug 2020
          Replying to @HickeyWriter @arthur_affect and

          Despite what many other English people in this thread (and many, many, insufferable people here generally) like to think, there is no such thing as a "uniquely English" sense of irony that's untranslatable.

          6 replies 2 retweets 79 likes
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        1. Barny Skinner‏ @barnyskinner 5 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @greywacke911

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