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Post by sparklymouse on May 29, 2010 20:05:25 GMT -5
Often in Mary Anne's chapter 2s she announces that she and Richard are big carnivores or "enthusiastic meat eaters." She's trying to tell the difference between them and the Shafers, but really? She makes it sound like they have a meat locker in their basement.
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Post by sillybillygoogoo on Jun 30, 2015 10:47:11 GMT -5
How they favor some of their charges over others. Compare when they get a call to sit for Charlotte to when they get a call for Jenny P.!
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Post by Honeybee on Jul 2, 2015 19:24:23 GMT -5
How they favor some of their charges over others. Compare when they get a call to sit for Charlotte to when they get a call for Jenny P.! Yeah, any time Jenny P. was mention, they make those gagging sound. Cause, they can't stand her.
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Post by wenonah4th on Jul 3, 2015 6:28:53 GMT -5
Karen's phrasing of "very beautiful" is annoying.
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Post by mallorypike on Dec 9, 2015 18:13:04 GMT -5
A lot of things annoy me about the BSC!
- Kristy and her Looks and "harrumph" later on
- Mary Anne and her passive-aggressiveness
- Stacey and her obsession with New York
- Dawn and her obsession with California
- Kristy's love for Karen and Andrew and Emily and David Michael especially Karen
- Claudia's spelling
- Mallory's whining
- Jessi's skin color pointed out way too many times
- whenever the BSC groans and gags every time there's a sitting job for Jenny P.
- whenever the BSC constantly points out Jackie's "walking disaster"
- Ben Brewer and Morbidda Destiny enough said
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Dec 9, 2015 21:00:51 GMT -5
The first thing that jumped at me was Claudia and her spelling. Honestly, I liked her better before the flanderization set in.
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Post by Enigma on Dec 10, 2015 0:32:19 GMT -5
How giggling over cute boys and clothes/makeup is seen as mature, but dressing in jeans and playing sports is immature. This is my biggest pet peeve about the series. I think it's horrible that Kristy is considered immature because she isn't interested in fashion. What a horrible message to send to the readers - you can only be cool if you're fashionable and wear tons of make-up. It really drives me crazy. I know it shouldn't, but it does. I agree. Kristy showed remarkable organizational skills and a "take-charge" personality throughout all the books. However, you'd think the other girls would resent her for being too bossy so they picked on her "lack of fashion sense". Personally, I liked Mary Anne the best for showing the most common sense, what "real maturity" is.
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Post by andrew on Oct 1, 2016 9:30:10 GMT -5
My biggest thing is probably that they tend to bash television, especially television shows that were made before their time.
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Post by sparklymouse on Oct 1, 2016 13:39:23 GMT -5
^All they watched were shows made before their time! And, like, Derek Masters' stuff, haha.
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Oct 8, 2016 19:19:03 GMT -5
They never watched shows that were on TV during their time. There was a lot of mentions of I Love Lucy.
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Post by andrew on Oct 24, 2016 14:41:21 GMT -5
It's also pretty annoying that Kristy makes fun of the school cafeteria food so much when she knows no one else really likes her doing so and Mary Anne particularly dislikes it. You can eat something else and so can, probably, the others, no point in getting it and complaining about it.
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Post by Sideshowjazz1 on Mar 10, 2017 2:24:50 GMT -5
Thing that comes to mind is that the girls acted like they were SO much better than everyone else. They bashed Cokie Mason for thinking she was better than everyone else, but they were just as bad, if not worse. And I hated the way the older girls acted in "Claudia, Queen Of The Seventh Grade", I mean, Stacey remarks that she thinks Mark is cute, and then says "Tell him to call me when he's in eighth grade." She's basically saying that twelve-year-olds are babies. I'm gonna say it - twelve-year-olds are usually more mature than thirteen-year-olds. I certainly was.
I will say this - Mallory and Jessi were never the worst offenders. Another book where the girls really annoyed me was "Mary Anne's Makeover". What right did the girls have to shun her and say snarky things just because she went out, got some new clothes and a cute haircut? Just because they said it wasn't "her" earlier? And then they're mean because she's always with Logan, when it was because the stuff they said drove her away. And what did Jessi and Mallory do? Stay out of it. Good for them!
Kristy actually annoys me most of all. Maybe it's because she's sort of an older version of Karen in a lot of ways, and we all know how annoying Karen is. Kristy has some of the same reasons, plus she acts like she has a right to boss the other girls around. Is she their friend or their dictator?
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Post by booklover85 on Mar 13, 2017 15:03:00 GMT -5
The fact that the girls always butts into their clients lives always bugs me. As well as them becoming a full blown cult by the end of the series. Or the fact that they can't do anything or make new friends if they don't ask permission from their fellow BSC-ers.
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Post by Natasha on Apr 2, 2017 9:22:11 GMT -5
The thing that bugged me most about them-they aren't allowed to have friends outside the BSC who were different! aka Ashley W!
Such a clique they were.
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Post by mallorypike on Apr 2, 2017 19:57:11 GMT -5
There are a LOT of things that annoys me about the girls, but two major things are that the BSC as a whole is a total clique and nobody is allowed to make friends outside their club and that the BSC are very, like, self-centered and snobby. I mean, they think they're perfect and better than everyone else and yet they hate Cokie Mason for being the self-centered and snobby one when THEY'RE doing the same thing!
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