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Dealing With Idiots | Friday | Period 4 (Session 6)
Whether his students chose to ascribe the warily pleased look on Edmund Blackadder's face to Baldrick's absence, the black rose pinned jauntily to his lapel, or the fact that there was once again a television at the front of the room, it was undeniable that he was in what passed for a good mood.
"Today we move on to the second sort of fool," he said. "The idiot you don't have to deal with directly. Now on the face of it, you're probably saying to yourself, Edmund, that sounds wonderful, only you're using your own name in place of mine. If you're using my name, get out, because I've checked the roster and none of you are named Edmund, so you're either dim or creepy.
Now, as I was saying - it sounds wonderful, but the truth of the matter is, you still have to deal with their idiocy, and unlike Baldrick, you can't reach them to smack them around the ears. They may not be living in your homes, but they're everywhere you look: overpaid, overhyped, overexposed and overblown. The public figure: royalty, politicians, ninety percent of novelists, and, of course--" He made a face as if there were some smells that even a rose in one's lapel couldn't overpower. "--actors."
"Your century has managed to add a new twist: dimwits who don't even have those minor claims to the world's attention, followed hour upon hour around their homes, neighborhoods, or workplaces, perhaps in a game of who do the judges hate least, perhaps for no other reason than the entertainment value of shoving a bunch of weirdos into a house together and watching them get plastered and fornicate in the hot tub."
He pointed to the television. "Actually, there is a certain entertainment value in that, which is why we're going to be watching Real Housewives of Silver Spring Spend The Weekend At The Jersey Shore In The Big Brother House today. Feel free to shout insults, but don't throw anything at the screen that's hard enough to break it. Despite what Baldrick chooses to believe, no one's actually inside there, and I'd have to pay the equipment fee."
So saying, he lowered the lights and found himself a seat near the back of the room, propping his feet on the desk in front of him to enjoy the stupidity with the rest of the class.
"Today we move on to the second sort of fool," he said. "The idiot you don't have to deal with directly. Now on the face of it, you're probably saying to yourself, Edmund, that sounds wonderful, only you're using your own name in place of mine. If you're using my name, get out, because I've checked the roster and none of you are named Edmund, so you're either dim or creepy.
Now, as I was saying - it sounds wonderful, but the truth of the matter is, you still have to deal with their idiocy, and unlike Baldrick, you can't reach them to smack them around the ears. They may not be living in your homes, but they're everywhere you look: overpaid, overhyped, overexposed and overblown. The public figure: royalty, politicians, ninety percent of novelists, and, of course--" He made a face as if there were some smells that even a rose in one's lapel couldn't overpower. "--actors."
"Your century has managed to add a new twist: dimwits who don't even have those minor claims to the world's attention, followed hour upon hour around their homes, neighborhoods, or workplaces, perhaps in a game of who do the judges hate least, perhaps for no other reason than the entertainment value of shoving a bunch of weirdos into a house together and watching them get plastered and fornicate in the hot tub."
He pointed to the television. "Actually, there is a certain entertainment value in that, which is why we're going to be watching Real Housewives of Silver Spring Spend The Weekend At The Jersey Shore In The Big Brother House today. Feel free to shout insults, but don't throw anything at the screen that's hard enough to break it. Despite what Baldrick chooses to believe, no one's actually inside there, and I'd have to pay the equipment fee."
So saying, he lowered the lights and found himself a seat near the back of the room, propping his feet on the desk in front of him to enjoy the stupidity with the rest of the class.
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Brought, not bought; he stole it from the Teachers Lounge. Still, it's there, in one of those metal tin things with the regular, caramel and cheesy flavours.
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As soon as things started getting insane, he started calling out insults because, damn, these people deserved it.
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