Containment Random Thoughts & Questions

  • Want to keep track of this thread?
    Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
    Create account
Thetan said:
The best way to answer your question is to let Chris himself answer it in his own words. These emails were sent to me (as Rebeckah) shortly after the big gal pal reveal. I don't remember the exact dates (and I'm too damn tired and lazy right now to look them up).

View attachment 21100 View attachment 21101
Click to expand...
Only in Chris' magical fairytale land is the position of class president one with so much power and high requirements that it will actually be the solution to his problems of paid friends 10 years after the fact.
 
Hellblazer said:
Also, this thread will never be locked. Its sole purpose is to act as a repository for random stuff that would clutter up other threads and derail them. You don't remove a filter because it gets some crap stuck in it- that's what it is for.
Click to expand...

that post was part of another thread....
 
Stud2Stud said:
Only in Chris' magical fairytale land is the position of class president one with so much power and high requirements that it will actually be the solution to his problems of paid friends 10 years after the fact.
Click to expand...

I bet that woman doesn't even remember that she was the class president. Chris has some weird uncanny memory for stuff that happened at high school.
 
Tsukiko said:
I bet that woman doesn't even remember that she was the class president. Chris has some weird uncanny memory for stuff that happened at high school.
Click to expand...
Not only that, he also puts a lot of emphasis on things that really aren't that big a deal. Granted, being a class president might be quite a big thing in school, but afterwards it's not like people will be completely blown away by the fact. Here it's the sole defining characteristic to decide whether or not she's gonna be able to mediate between the gal-pals-turned-trolls and Chris.
 
Stud2Stud said:
Not only that, he also puts a lot of emphasis on things that really aren't that big a deal. Granted, being a class president might be quite a big thing in school, but afterwards it's not like people will be completely blown away by the fact. Here it's the sole defining characteristic to decide whether or not she's gonna be able to mediate between the gal-pals-turned-trolls and Chris.
Click to expand...
Chris is stuck in high school, he just assumes every one else is equally obsessed with it. That's why he sees it as getting his friends back, instead of reconnecting with friends he hasn't seen in over fifteen years. I'm fairly certain he thinks they haven't changed at all since then, and if he could just get them to listen they'd be his galpals again
 
Tsukiko said:
I bet that woman doesn't even remember that she was the class president. Chris has some weird uncanny memory for stuff that happened at high school.
Click to expand...

Suppose he had phrased it: "Ashley was well respected. For example, she was elected class-president. It seems quite possible that Tiffany et al. still hold her in high regard. Maybe if she talked to them on my behalf it would help."

A little naive and optimistic, but not an epic fail.

Chris incoherent way of speaking and writing makes slightly silly ideas seem a whole lot dumber.
 
timtommy said:
Suppose he had phrased it: "Ashley was well respected. For example, she was elected class-president. It seems quite possible that Tiffany et al. still hold her in high regard. Maybe if she talked to them on my behalf it would help."

A little naive and optimistic, but not an epic fail.

Chris incoherent way of speaking and writing makes slightly silly ideas seem a whole lot dumber.
Click to expand...
Don't get me wrong, I see where you're coming from, but that seems a bit like a stretch. He doesn't say, imply or even insinuate that she might still have some sort of respect. He outright says "She was class president, thus she is able to talk to people."
If you have to add in the extra layers of throught he *might* have put in but didn't express like the example above, I feel you are way too benevolent towards the gap of what Chris thinks and what he says.
 
Chris Chandler waited. The light on his PS3 blinked and sparked out of the air. There were trolls in his house. He didn't see them, but had expected them now for years. His threats to Clyde Cash were not listenend to and now it was too late. Far too late for now, anyway. Chris was mayor of CWCville for fourteen years. When he was young he watched Sonic the Hedgehog and he said to Bob "I want to zap to the extreme daddy."
Bob said "No! You will BE KILL BY TROLLS"
There was a time when he believed him. Then as he got oldered he stopped. But now in the bedroom of 14 Branchland Court he knew there were trolls.
"This is Sonichu" the radio crackered. "You must fight the trolls!"
So Chris gotted his PSEye and blew up the wall.
"HE GOING TO KILL US" said the trolls
"I will shoot at him" said BILLY MAYS and he fired the homo missiles. Chris screamed impotently at him and tried to blew him up. But then the ceiling fell and they were trapped and not able to kill.
"No! I must kill the trolls" he shouted
The radio said "No, Chris. You are the trolls"
And then Chris was a tomgirl.
From 1d4chan
 
To avoid going too far off-topic in one of the catie-date threads:

drmccoy said:
Chris has zero experience outside his room. Even a dumbass can recognize certain things. Chris has absorbed all of his knowledge from shit TV and other shit media. So he thinks that's how people act. They don't.
Click to expand...
And then, Chris is completely dumbfounded when they don't. And insists they have to behave like what he sees on TV, instead of figuring "Hey, maybe this is what real people behave like." and acting accordingly...
Sweet and Savoury said:
The high school papers show that Chrissy didn't learn anything much at school and that no one bothered to correct him.

His paper on WW2 read like something a 6th grader would write both in grammar and over all argument structure, seriously if any other grade 12 student wrote that they'd have got an F but somehow Chrissy got a passing grade.

I think this is part of what causes his low IQ, he's never been forced to actually think things through. The brain is like any other body part, it needs to be used to grow.
Click to expand...
That's something I wondered about myself. Chris slept through classes when he wasn't reading goosebumps and handed in pretty terrible papers when he had an assignment. Why did the teachers let him coast through this easily? Why did they allow him to nod off and read shitty novels for children?

I only see two possibilities, either his teachers didn't give a fuck at all or Borb were involved. I could easily see Bob or Barb making angry phonecalls after their son got shit for sleeping in class or something. Then again, maybe the teachers were happy Chris' disregard of the current lesson at least meant there weren't any stupid remarks, questions or the likes and the class could proceed without interruption.

And on the other hand, his behaviour more than likely meant the other people in his class weren't that fond of him, I'd guess. It's one thing to get bad grades for half-assing it, but Chris got passing grades while pretty much doing nothing when others more then likely had to bust their ass to get decent grades. Sure, Chris is the "Special kid" in class, but in the long run it could lead to some people being iritated, I think.
 
Stud2Stud said:
Then again, maybe the teachers were happy Chris' disregard of the current lesson at least meant there weren't any stupid remarks, questions or the likes and the class could proceed without interruption.
Click to expand...

I think that's the most likely explanation, they where just glad he wasn't involved and didn't want to prod the difficult special needs student into activity as it wouldn't have any positive impact on him or the other students so let him derp his way through his school days.
 
Stud2Stud said:
That's something I wondered about myself. Chris slept through classes when he wasn't reading goosebumps and handed in pretty terrible papers when he had an assignment. Why did the teachers let him coast through this easily? Why did they allow him to nod off and read shitty novels for children?

I only see two possibilities, either his teachers didn't give a fuck at all or Borb were involved. I could easily see Bob or Barb making angry phonecalls after their son got shit for sleeping in class or something. Then again, maybe the teachers were happy Chris' disregard of the current lesson at least meant there weren't any stupid remarks, questions or the likes and the class could proceed without interruption.

And on the other hand, his behaviour more than likely meant the other people in his class weren't that fond of him, I'd guess. It's one thing to get bad grades for half-assing it, but Chris got passing grades while pretty much doing nothing when others more then likely had to bust their ass to get decent grades. Sure, Chris is the "Special kid" in class, but in the long run it could lead to some people being iritated, I think.
Click to expand...

Meh, we might be overthinking that one. I don't know how often he slept in class. It may have happened from time to time. But a lot of high-school kids sleep in class. I have a vivid memory of looking around a particularly boring English class and counting 10 out of 28 students were asleep. As for Goosebumps, that comes from the "week with CWC" project. There is a picture of him reading Goosebumps in coping class, but the text explicitly explains that he was given free time in the class to read the book.

I think there are three main reasons for him being "academically successful"

1. It was high-school, and high-school is easy. Yes, his work is shoddy, but trust me, a lot of high schoolers work is shoddy. And if he handed the work in on time and followed the basic directions of the assignment he would be ahead of a decent chunk of the class.

2. His course selection was probably pretty easy. He took some special ed classes like coping, and his other electives seemed to be on the easy end.

3. He obviously suffers from a mental "disability". That probably gave him the benefit of the doubt and bumped up his mark. A lot of teachers in high-school reward effort. If you talk to Chris, you probably realize that he has to put in a little more effort for a given output. It seems perfectly normal that he would be cut a little slack.
 
Yeah, I really don't take the "sleeping in class" accusation seriously. That is, I think Chris has gotten caught sleeping in class before, just like every other high school student has. I don't think we have reason to believe it was a regular thing. (I mean, it might've been. We just have no evidence for that.)
 
Why hasn't Chris drawn GodBear in the comics at all? For a significant moment of his life, it sure didn't get wielded like an autistic mace like the rest of his childhood.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom