Comments | bsc_snark: Beware, Dawn! Part 2!

road_baby in bsc_snark

Beware, Dawn! Part 2!

Oct 18, 2015 02:02

My sleep schedule is pretty messed up again so, I decided to work on my snark some more. And lemme tell ya, it's pretty boring. It's all sitting chapters. So, I was right in my surmise that Ellen Miles writes boring books. I just imagine her and Ann at an old biddy meeting talking about how precious little kids are. And how funny, my goodness! ( Read more... )

ellen miles is boring, boring kids, snarker: road_baby, ann is an old dinosaur fart, mystery #2 beware dawn, the bsc lacks common sense, i really hate dawn, i hate dawn, i hate ann, hypocrisy

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darth_firefly October 18 2015, 13:00:29 UTC

Stoneybrook needs an adult. A serious adult. A team of adults. +looks around+ I'd volunteer, but I'd probably be stoned in the town square for being of a certain age and childless.

I'm with you on the baby thing in these books. Babies aren't always cute. Often, they are howling, drooling, germ factories. Wait, all the babies that are real babies in Stoneybrook are being taken care of by their parents, or responsible baby sitters.

Excellent snarking!

pi_beta_alpha October 18 2015, 19:59:55 UTC

"Stoneybrook needs an adult. A serious adult. A team of adults."

Oh, they did have some. But they had to kill Mimi off :( And Richard got a contact high after he married Sharon, so...

That said, Sharon (when she's not being a total ditz) is probably one of my favorite SB parents, as is Richard. They put up with some bullshit but at the end of the day they're not afraid to tell their daughter(s) when they're acting like fools. It's probably the same reason I like Carol (Dawns CA step mom).

We hear quite a bit about the baby-sitters parents and their personal lives from the sitters themselves, except Claudia's. They just make her do more school work and stuff and tell her to stop eating candy.

darth_firefly October 19 2015, 00:31:05 UTC

Wonder who'd win the Worst Parents Award.... my money is on the Ramseys - leaving three children alone for the weekend like it's a trip to the supermarket.

pi_beta_alpha October 19 2015, 01:12:58 UTC

I vote for Lisa and Watson, for spawning Karen. :P

Or possibly the Pikes.

A) Oldest child = Slave Laborer.
B) Youngest child = We Just Don't Care Anymore, So Our 5 Year Old Runs Naked Everywhere.
C) Eat whatever you want, nutrition be damned.
D) We can't be assed to raise our own kids, but off to a tennis match we go every other fecking book.
E) Our 10 year old triplets bully the living hell out of our 8 year old son, but we'll be damned if we let our responsible, 11 year old daughter buy earrings and socks.
F) I hate the Pikes.
G) We have absolutely no food in the house, so we're going to leave a 13 year old and an 11 year in charge of 7 kids between the ages of 5-10 so we can fuck off to NYC while there's a major blizzard on the way.

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shatisarockgod October 18 2015, 19:36:22 UTC

By getting in an 'Am not! Am so!' fight with a four year old.--It's still strange to see stuff like this. They write these girls as being older than their real ages and then you have stuff like this where the four year old is more mature by default. I would think even an immature 13 year old would have enough sense to not get into a hair tugging argument like the 'Am not/Am so" stuff ( ... )

pi_beta_alpha October 18 2015, 20:03:58 UTC

"Here's hoping Jenny's argument said "But this is MY house" I really wonder if some of the more "difficult" kids the club sits for ever has this discussion with their parents? "I don't like Dawn sitting for me. She's mean and bossy. She even kicked me out of Andrea's room!" Of course the Stoneybrook parents are still in la la land + can't beat having a sitter for $1.50 an hour and they probably don't care how their own kids feel about the sitters/way the sitters treat them ( ... )

shatisarockgod October 20 2015, 05:52:38 UTC

lmao! All so very true! There's no figuring out exactly what in the hell is wrong with the parents in Stoneybrook.

pi_beta_alpha October 18 2015, 20:07:57 UTC

"Except for the character being changed to be a bully, Alan was harmless. I can't imagine him trying to scare the shit out of somebody. He's more in line with putting a whoopee cushion in your chair or something like that. So yeah, Idk why she thought of Alan right off the bat"

I hate what they did to Alan Gray. He was like the Winston Egbert of the BSC, and changing him into a bully was not cool. He was a typical gross, annoying 13 year old boy who had a horrid crush on Krusty for reasons we'll never understand.

Then again, they turned Winston into a royal dot com successful prick and killed him off in SVC so...watch out, Alan, or a ghostwriter may make you fall off a balcony in a late night drunken stupor.

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andromeda331 October 19 2015, 00:02:59 UTC

Jenny says that Dawn is doing a piss poor job of changing Andrea's diaper. How does Dawn respond? By getting in an 'Am not! Am so!' fight with a four year old ( ... )

road_baby October 21 2015, 02:49:18 UTC

Omg. I love the idea of Mary Anne getting back at Dawn for being a shit that time. That was really like my most hated moment in these books. It's only surpassed by how Dawn acted when MA got her hair cut. It always manages to be Dawn, doesn't it?

Goodness, don't you know? No one is allowed to have interests that the BSC doesn't personally share! If they don't like something.=, that thing is automatically terrible and stupid and boring! Only a BSC member can decide what's acceptable and what isn't!

ladymrose October 19 2015, 03:50:32 UTC

"I prefer, "Let's Bee Friends," and there's a picture of a bee on it"

I would choo-choo-choose that one, too. ;)

Know what's weird about the Kormans? In Karen's Kittens they get a...wait for it...KITTEN. There is no mention whatsoever about Skylar being deathly afraid of cats. So, maybe we should add the Kormans to the list of Worst Parents Ever? Wait, you know what, let's just save the time and make a list of Stoneybrook Adults Who Don't Suck. It would be much shorter.

1.Richard
2.Sharon (when ahe lays off the weed)
3.Mimi

See how easy that was? There might be one or two more, but I can't be bothered to put too much thought into this right now. It's late where I am.

pi_beta_alpha October 19 2015, 12:15:18 UTC

Kristy's mom was cool until she became a Real Housewife of Stoneybrook, though.

shatisarockgod October 20 2015, 05:55:23 UTC

I'd be willing to add Aunt Cecelia to that list.

pi_beta_alpha October 21 2015, 02:12:05 UTC

I think it all went to hell when Mimi died.

I think it was in one of Claudia's books or the BSC Remember or something where Claudia has a bitchy, snotty art teacher in the 1st grade who tells her a butterfly cannot be a self portrait, and Mimi handles it with such grace and basically tells the teacher she's dumb as shit for not realizing an artist can portray themselves or their subject any damn way they want was one of my most favorite moments, ever.

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ladymrose October 19 2015, 03:53:15 UTC

Oh, and Steve Buscemi's your crush. :-D

Great snark! Dawn really deserves to have the tofu-filled shit scared out of her!

road_baby October 21 2015, 02:52:34 UTC

Yay! You win! I'll admit when I saw him in Airheads I was like 'Whoa'. And then he's such a nice guy irl I'm like 'Awww'. I admittedly have really weird taste in people I squish upon.

ladymrose October 21 2015, 05:00:48 UTC

Heheh, same here! I think my first major crush was Rick Moranis. ;)

Steve Buscemi is cool. I didn't know he used to be a fireman. It's awesome how, after 9/11, he went to his old firehouse in New York and helped dig through rubble for survivors.

Another great movie he was in was Reservoir Dogs. Though Michael Madsen is my favorite in that one. Yum. <3