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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Replying to @arthur_affect @ExcelPope
That’s .... not what he’s doing. He’s not saying he’s a badass. You’ve badly misread it. It’s undermining the narrative of him as badass by showing you his passivity. Darling you have missed the joke
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Replying to @greywacke911 @ExcelPope
It's ironic but not in the sense you mean He is describing it as an act of great courage and moral fiber that he neither just lets the guy have the whole packet of biscuits nor actually stands up and confronts the guy He's describing passive-aggressiveness as strength
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And he's right, in a twisted sense, because acting like everything is completely normal when someone is deliberately provoking you is indeed very difficult, if not as hard as fighting to the death in the arena
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Again, that's the joke It's a very petty issue that shouldn't matter at all, and yet this is in fact a story about how it feels like a moral victory to keep your composure when someone is doing something incredibly rude right in front of you
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It's just that he completely switched who the rude one was and who was the one trying to keep the peace while not actually backing down and abandoning his dignity
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If you don't see how the surreality of someone praising themselves for their civility and restraint while actually being the incredibly rude dominance flexer applies to these Internet fights... Think about it some more
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