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  • HelenEvaHelenEva Shipmate
    Anselmina wrote: »
    Nasty things do sometimes seem to happen to the people who beat up or menace 'his' child characters!

    I'm not sure Mr Murdstone ever copped it half enough though. If indeed at all. I'm rather miffed with Dickens for that.
  • I suppose Dickens is so busy arranging for the utter downfall of HEEP that he doesn't have enough energy to properly squash Murdstone.

    Of course Mr. Micawber saves the day. I rather like the fact that his "something will turn up" philosophy is pretty much vindicated!
  • HelenEvaHelenEva Shipmate
    @TurquoiseTastic these are all excellent things. But the utter failure of Dickens to arrange for Mr Murdstone to be trampled by a rampaging elephant/drowned in a cesspit/eaten by a tribe of cannibals is most distressing.
  • He doesn't say that doesn't happen so I think we ought to assume that it does, but that the degree of his suffering was so horrible that it was unfit for publication in a respectable Victorian journal.
  • HelenEvaHelenEva Shipmate
    He doesn't say that doesn't happen so I think we ought to assume that it does, but that the degree of his suffering was so horrible that it was unfit for publication in a respectable Victorian journal.

    Thank you - I am much reassured. It all makes sense now.
  • BelisariusBelisarius Admin Emeritus
    The Tale of Griselda.
  • LydaLyda Shipmate
    "Three Little Bears": Someone should have slapped cuffs on the tow-headed little burglar and vandal. :angry:
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
    The witch in Hansel and Gretel. Hungry or not, the pair had no right to eat the gingerbread tiles off the witch's house without first asking permission. No wonder the witch wanted to roast them both in her oven. But what happened? Wicked little Gretel pushed the poor witch into her own oven. Talk about undeserved fate!
  • DafydDafyd Shipmate
    edited March 29
    The bad guy ecoterrorists in just about anything that has bad guy ecoterrorists. For instance in Aquaman (the film) the bad guy from Atlantis wants to start a war with the surface to stop the surface people polluting the oceans. What is Aquaman doing to stop the surface people polluting the oceans? Nodding whenever anyone from Atlantis brings it up to acknowledge they have a point.
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    I always felt a bit sorry for the Elf guy in Hellboy 2 - another case where humans had broken their side of the bargain with magical beings.
  • finelinefineline Kerygmania Host, 8th Day Host
    Gwendoline Lacey, in Enid Blyton's Malory Towers books. Okay, I know she has lots of unpleasant traits, but one thing she gets consistently mocked for, throughout the series, is her hesitance to step into the freezing cold seawater in Cornwall. She (very sensibly, I've always thought) gets in slowly, dipping her toes in, and squealing a little with the shock of the cold, while the other girls just jump in effortlessly and start to swim. I was thinking of her yesterday, when I went swimming in the sea, and everyone went in slowly, even those with years of experience. It is advised to go in slowly, to get acclimatised to it. So I did think poor Gwen was unfairly judged for that - it was used as a way of indicating her spoilt, self-indulgent character.

    I can think of plenty of other characters in Enid Blyton books - but this is the one that sprang to mind. Oh, though now another one springs to mind that I felt strongly about as a kid: my favourite character in the Secret Seven books was Jack's sister Susie, the one that no one liked, and they wouldn't let her join the Secret Seven. Possibly if I reread these books as an adult, I might see their perspective, but as a little kid, I found the Secret Seven kids somewhat self-righteous and snobby, and I was rooting for Susie!
  • Belisarius wrote: »
    The non-prodigal son.

    The people who showed up late to the vineyard for work and got the same pay. ...

    ...And those wise virgins: selfish bitches

    Yes, the Non-Prodigal Son has gotten a lot of sympathy here over the years.

    I once started a Hell Thread titled "Jesus's Worst Parables" and the vineyard one was Exhibit A (though a surprising number of people defended it). I also mentioned the Wise and Foolish Virgins, but simply because I found the title unintentionally funny (bringing up an image of the Foolish Virgins giggling nonstop and banging their heads on things).

    Just imagine how much fun I, a union rep and 'shop steward', have had in preaching on the labourers in the vineyard? I have tied myself in logical, theological and syndicalist knots in trying to come up with a sermon that satisfies me, my congregation and (hopefully) God!

    (For reference, God is NOT a member of my union.)
  • BelisariusBelisarius Admin Emeritus
    edited March 31
    Don Pasquale got a raw deal. Sure, he may have been foolish in general, but rich 70-year-old men have been marrying younger women all throughout history; most women back then would have jumped at the chance and then try made the best of it.

    ETA: Assuming that they had a choice in the matter anyway; Don Pasquale was well within his rights to disinherit his nephew for refusing an arranged marriage.
  • BelisariusBelisarius Admin Emeritus
    Just imagine how much fun I, a union rep and 'shop steward', have had in preaching on the labourers in the vineyard? I have tied myself in logical, theological and syndicalist knots in trying to come up with a sermon that satisfies me, my congregation and (hopefully) God!

    One explanation I remember from here is that the early laborers represent the Pre-Christian covenants (though elsewhere that explanation is specifically denied).
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