Of course the family that prints every second word bold for no fucking reason is into bold outfits.
76There is a reason. The writer is trying to inject the exact tone of this conversation into the writing. If it were written plaintext, the reader could add their own emphasis to the words, and it might come out differently than the artist intended. When I’m making a more passionate point, I put a lot of words in italics—and I use a lot of M dashes. Because it paces exactly what I’m saying to make my point exactly how I want it to sound in your head.
13You're right. I don't think it's a good reason and it breaks the flow or gets ignored if used excessively, but it is a reason.
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Well Sarahs shirt is italic!
36I never thought I could actually hate a child untill my niece I helped raise went to school and this kid started bullying and being controlling of my niece, god I hated that little fucking spoilt little bitch and her terrible enabling parents, think Angelica from Rugrats but meaner, thankfully for my niece, the next year they got split into different classes and she went onto find a new victim.
But yeah, god I hated that kid so much.
33I feel this every time my daughter gets dressed and then changes her mind on her outfit for school. We do our best to enforce a positive body image in her but she worries too much about what others say.
23It's hard to not care what others say when you're forced into a pressure pot with them for hours at a time with no escape.
And the old advice of "just ignore them" does not work for all people. Sweet if it works for you, advice giver.
And it's worse yet if the teachers don't care... or partake in it.
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All my homies hate Sarah
17Making you feel bad literally affects the way you feel.
Feel cold? Well the solution to that is to just feel warm.
9Yeah I was also very put off by that. "What matters is how you feel." - "Well, like shit, Dad" would be the natural way this conversation would go. "Do you feel pretty in that outfit?" - "No I feel like shit in it". We all try to stand above it but for most of us, from 99 compliments and 1 insult, we will remember the latter. It takes one person to ruin your day.
5"Do you feel pretty in that outfit?"
"Not any more" "I'm sorry Sarah ruined that outfit for you. Do you still want to wear it outside of school?" Nothing about the one version of the conversation implies the other is unlikely. Both versions are plenty common.1
Holy crap, it's been way too long since I read The Devil's Panties. I thought I had read all of it up to <10 years ago, but I didn't even know they had kids!
2Bold isn't a compliment or an insult. It's like saying a shirt is green. Ok.
-46If you are talking about a font then bold is a neutral term.
Unsolicited comments on clothes people are wearing are almost always positive or negative, otherwise there is no reason to say anything. Maybe one exception for someone being helpful to a colorblind friend.
20Friend: "Dude! I have no strong feelings one way or the other about that knitted sweater you're wearing!"
Zapp:
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Sure, in the complete absence of tone and context.
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