Dealing With Idiots | Friday | Period 4 (Session 14)

[prof_of_cunning]

The raccoon ears were gone. The money was not. The class got themselves, therefore, a positively cheerful Blackadder and no sign of Baldrick at all. There was a troll shuffling in with a tv set, though, then off to Buffalo.

"Knowing that the half of you who even showed up today are likely to be wittering away about ball gowns and getting your nose hairs plucked for the evening, it didn't seem worth wasting my time on a terribly challenging class exercise." That was Edmund's way of being nice, yes.

"...You may or may not agree." That was his way of being Edmund Blackadder. "Since today's topic is Ignoring The Stupid: Harder Than It Looks, you'll be watching a full episode of the only programme I've so far discovered that's even more ridiculous than reality television, while not shouting a single word or throwing a single kernel of popcorn at the screen."

He really did provide popcorn this time.

He also provided Ann Coulter's most recent appearance on the O'Reilly Factor.

Have fun with that.

[OOC: You won't have fun with that. Trigger warning for ... it's Ann Coulter. And Bill O'Reilly. And current events in Japan. You so don't have to watch it. OCD up!]

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Chatter Before Class/Listen to the Lecture

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Witter about getting your nose hairs plucked..

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Yeah, he couldn't quite help how the mention of nosehairs had Jake reaching up to rub his nose. Thank god for not having to grow old ever.

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Rilla was soaked from her previous class. Listening to idiots blather idiotically was going to push her need to be polite to the absolute limit.

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"Anyone who makes it through without saying a single word or throwing a single object gets an automatic A for the course. "

He was serious. He had only held out until about halfway through before Baldrick was having to clean tomato juice off the television screen in the hotel suite.

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Right. Makita jammed her hat down over her eyes and ears, thinking about the ice climbing in gym class instead. And the dog sledding. It was making her homesick, but at least she wasn't paying the slightest amount of attention to the nattering on the television. Most of it didn't make sense to her anyway.

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Jonothon hadn't slept a wink last night. He was cranky. He was desperately tempted to throw something at the screen. He was sitting on his hands.

And if he happened to be swearing very loudly within the confines of his own mind, well, nobody needed to know. And the fact that there was smoke rising from his face didn't count as speaking or throwing things, right?

What the bloody hell was wrong with this woman?

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Jake was making faces at the television. No, he couldn't just block it out, he was bad at blocking things out, but man...

"Oh come on, you're making Bill O'Reilly sounds sane," he growled in the end. Whatever, it had needed to get out.

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Squall neither said a word nor threw anything. He rolled his eyes a lot, though.

Whatever.

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Karla wondered if she could get away with just putting an aural shield around the teevee. Because otherwise, she was NOT going to get an A for this class.

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Medusalith had been forced to sit through enough speeches that she could sit with her eyes pointed straight at the TV and not actually hear a word that was being said, her mental capabilities devoted entirely to daydreaming about the prom, although the idiocy was so profound it did manage to filter through to her brain at times, ruining her daydream and annoying her greatly.

But she did manage not to say or throw anything.

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Joolushko was not overly familiar with the politics of this world (nor did she particularly wish to be). Even so, it seemed incredibly obvious that the people on the screen were, well, idiots.

Unfortunately there was nothing around to throw so she'd settle for muttered comments. Some mutters were louder than others.

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Leia was skilled enough to keep her expression neutral and her mouth shut, hard as it was. This woman was awful. If she didn't know better, she'd swear she worked for the Empire.

Talk to Blackadder

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Before or after the show; no getting around the challenge by coming up to bitch to him about it.

OOC

[prof_of_cunning]

Granted, he never said people couldn't find clever ways around it like stuffing cheese in their ears or falling asleep...