Detention, Saturday

[chosehumanity]

"Hey," Mitchell called, once the handwavey detention announcement had gone out and everyone had had time to gather up by the Danger Shop. "I'm Mitchell. Some of you might've met me." He grinned. "You're here because for whatever reason, the school has chosen to recognise your trespasses. That doesn't mean it has to be horrible, just unpleasant."

Another slight grin, with only a hint of apology.

"So today, we're going to be preparing for a tea party," he continued, "Although I'd like it if you'd all go light on the tea. I'm more of a coffee person."

He shouldn't be allowed free range of children.

"Just enter through there and get your finest," he said, waving at the doorway, "And I'll see you on the other end."

Liir Thropp
Arthur Pendragon
Dinah Lance
Jack Priest
Effy Stonem
Kate Gregson
Francine Peters
Jonothon Starsmore
Azula

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Re: Talk to 80s Guy

[furnaceface]

//I've been introduced to what they figure passes as music nowadays,// Jono noted, with a bit of a woeful twinge as he mourned the death of MTV.

He was never going to get over it, no.

//It's like everybody stopped bloody caring, and then decided to play whatever they figured would get the screaming thirteen-year-olds to line up at their concerts, instead.//

Re: Talk to 80s Guy

[chosehumanity]

"I miss the days where you could buy a record, and really hear the misery and the artistry," Gilbert sighed. It was a deep, deep sigh of woe. "What've we got these days? Michael Buble?"

Re: Talk to 80s Guy

[furnaceface]

//New Kids on the sodding Block,// Jono tossed in, mostly because he'd never heard of this Michal Buble guy. //It's a bloody crime, is what it is.//

Re: Talk to 80s Guy

[chosehumanity]

"Totally unbelievable," Gilbert agreed. "Pigs and crap music, mate. That's all there is in this decade."

Re: Talk to 80s Guy

[furnaceface]

//I want the 90's back,// Jono whined decided, giving his head a shake. //At least it hadn't gone all to shite yet, then. And it had the added bonus of being fresh out of the 80s. It wasn't quite gone, yet.//

Re: Talk to 80s Guy

[chosehumanity]

"Please. The 90s were the watered-down piss of the 80s," Gilbert grumbled. "I'll let you know, I'm glad I wasn't alive for that shite."

Re: Talk to 80s Guy

[furnaceface]

Jono was going to just kind of give this guy a look, now.

//It shows, mate.//

Re: Talk to 80s Guy

[chosehumanity]

"Worst thing is the clubs," Gilbert continued, undaunted, "Playing early 90s music and passing it off like the best of the 80s. Who are they trying to kid?"

Re: Talk to 80s Guy

[furnaceface]

Relax, Jono. Deep, calming br- wait, no, nevermind.

Jonothon pinched the bridge of his nose and squeezed his eyes shut for a moment.

//Haven't been to many of those in this decade. Did enough clubbing back in the 90's, when we knew what music was what, mate.//

Re: Talk to 80s Guy

[chosehumanity]

"The 90s are were all music went to die," Gilbert argued, in as much as you could take that low, slooow tone as anything approaching an argument. "All the good musicians actually had died by then. I met a couple."

Re: Talk to 80s Guy

[furnaceface]

//I'm sure yer did.// Jono was now pretty certain that about 300% of what came out of this guy's mouth was total bollocks, yes. //And which ones would those be, then?//

Re: Talk to 80s Guy

[chosehumanity]

"I met Curtis," Gilbert said, after a very, very long period of deliberation, "Shortly after I died." Flick.

Re: Talk to 80s Guy

[furnaceface]

Wait, wot?

//Yer dead?// Jono, turn your brain back on. The staring in skeptical disbelief thing isn't a good look on you.

Re: Talk to 80s Guy

[chosehumanity]

"Since 1985, dead and proud," Gilbert agreed. The skeptical disbelief happened, sometimes. Eh. "Five years before good music ended."

Re: Talk to 80s Guy

[furnaceface]

Right, then. Danger Shop. Crazy dead guy. This was not some sort of revelation, really. It wasn't like Jono hadn't heard about these things before.

//I suppose given that bit of information, it makes sense why yer so bloody cynical.//

Re: Talk to 80s Guy

[chosehumanity]

"I'm cynical because the world is dead or dying," Gilbert said, with a shrug on his voice. "Personally, I'm fairly happy with my place in the world. Well, if Mitchell didn't think he was being funny by simulating me, anyway."

Re: Talk to 80s Guy

[furnaceface]

//I'm carrying on a conversation with a simulation of a dead man.// And yet, there he was, continuing the conversation. Gold star, Jonothon. //So, what, yer here because Mitchell in there thinks yer a good means of torturing the students? He base yer off somebody he knows?//

Re: Talk to 80s Guy

[chosehumanity]

"Hell is other people," said Gilbert, who apparently felt that was both very profound and all he needed to say on the subject. "But someone had to liven up all the bourgeois crap around here."

Re: Talk to 80s Guy

[furnaceface]

//... Yer really like that word, don't you?//

Yes, Jono. 'bourgeois' and every other word that allowed this guy to sound like a pretentious twat.

Re: Talk to 80s Guy

[chosehumanity]

"What other word would you use to help define one role in the inequal power relationships between the rich who own everything and the lower class?"

Yes, Jono. He was a pretentious twat.

Re: Talk to 80s Guy

[furnaceface]

//Arseholes comes to mind,// Jono noted, dryly.

But really, he wasn't applying it to the bourgeois.