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Post by Hermedy on Jan 9, 2013 20:22:26 GMT -5
All we said was true. We didn't finish the story, but that doesn't make the part we told untrue. Now we're getting somewhere. Picture this. With a voice like Daffy Duck's, an obnoxious girl from Kansas tells a little kid the Harry Potter story. She ends it at the part when Voldemort avada kedavras Harry. Did she tell an untruth? Technically, no. If she's comfortable getting off on that technicality, fine. But I think most people would agree that she should be ashamed of herself for the harmful and misleading liberties she took with her storytelling. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2013 20:23:06 GMT -5
But if one was reading that story, then the little kid asked 'then what happened', one would continue. Nobody asked for the story to continue.
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Post by Hermedy on Jan 9, 2013 20:25:11 GMT -5
If that's the way it happened, then Pen is a dumb little kid who deserves to be crying over the death of Harry Potter.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2013 20:28:05 GMT -5
Also your example is flawed. We ended the story at a happy point that Pen enjoyed. It would be like turning off Old Yeller before he dies.
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Post by Hermedy on Jan 9, 2013 20:35:15 GMT -5
Whether you use Harry Potter or Old Yeller as an example, you're doing the kid a disservice by cutting the story short. He should know the full story, or else when he goes to discuss it with his friends in the playground, they'll make fun of him for misunderstanding the ending.
The bottom line here is that the storyteller was being intentionally misleading, because she's a salsa-stirrer (which I respect and sometimes enjoy).
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Post by Skelly Craig on Jan 9, 2013 20:37:15 GMT -5
First I thought this thread was stupid, now I'm really enjoying it. #justsoyoukno
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2013 20:41:39 GMT -5
Well I'm glad that you would always tell me the full story, whether its about people who asked you out or what TV shows you are watching.
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Post by Hermedy on Jan 9, 2013 20:44:54 GMT -5
or what TV shows you are watching. *wallows in the mud of shame* |
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Post by penne on Jan 9, 2013 20:48:35 GMT -5
*sigh*... How did it end?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2013 20:49:19 GMT -5
He found out the guy was asking him out on a date, so he said no.
See, unsatisfying for all parties involved.
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Post by penne on Jan 9, 2013 21:08:07 GMT -5
Especially for the guy. He just wanted to have a good time, Trag.
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Post by Charles Vane on Jan 15, 2013 2:06:01 GMT -5
Okay, as I understood the story, Mulan and the guy actually went on several dates that turned into a lasting relationship and soon they will be married in Vermont or one of the many other states were gay marriage has now been legalized. That's just my recollection. I wasn't trying to stir salsa.
And whatever he says about stirrers, he is the biggest. I don't mean that in a gay euphemism way.
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Post by Charles Vane on Jan 15, 2013 2:07:10 GMT -5
And I am offended you called me out because it took until like the middle of page 2 for me to remember that this even happened and I did in fact start it. I'm a friend, I enjoy chatting about your life, get over it.
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Post by Charles Vane on Jan 15, 2013 2:08:11 GMT -5
Also, potato you I'm not Daffy Duck.  |
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Post by penne on Jan 15, 2013 9:40:41 GMT -5
S4L
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