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Clerks II · 2006 — Capítulo 1 de 16 · 2'13" · C1

Coworkers Argue Over Wheelchair Blogger, Explained: take issue with

One guy is only half-listening at the counter — the hash browns are running out — while the other is deep in a message board war with a stranger in a wheelchair. What sounds like a petty online feud is really an argument about who deserves sympathy: "I can't help it," he says.

Qué pasa

Mooby's, mid-shift. Someone at the counter calls for two Egga-Mooby Muffins and notes the hash browns are almost gone. The other is hunched over a screen, trading posts with a man in a wheelchair who blogs about never walking again. It ends with Anne Frank, Helen Keller and an insult.

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Expresión de la escena

jackass

a stupid or annoying person

Someone at the counter brags about fighting a 'jackass' on a blog message board, sounding scornful and hooked on the argument.

Some jackass parked across two spaces and then waved at me.

También en esta escena

  • flame someone

    to insult someone online

  • prey on someone's sympathies

    to exploit people's sympathy

  • embittered

    made bitter and resentful

  • crippy-boy

    an offensive slur for a disabled person

  • point out the irony

    to name the contradiction in the situation

Todo lo marcado en esta escena

31 notas en 46 frases

Expresión · A2almost out of something

nearly having none left

I need two Egga-Mooby Muffins, and we're almost out of hash browns.
Jerga · B1no life

no social life or interests — Casual mockery among friends; avoid in formal contexts.

On how he's got too much free time and no life.
Expresión · B1can't help it

unable to stop oneself

I can't help it. The guy pisses me off.
Sonidocan't help it

In fast speech, the t in 'can't' can almost disappear before 'help it'.

I can't help it. The guy pisses me off.
Jerga · B1pisses me off

really annoys me — Fine with friends, too crude for work.

I can't help it. The guy pisses me off.
Expresión · C1a long diatribe about something

long angry speeches or posts

It's this fuck in a wheelchair that's always preying on everyone's sympathies, writing these long diatribes about how he'll never walk again and how walkers should appreciate the blessings of their functioning legs.
Gramática · B2It's this fuck in a wheelchair that's

cleft sentence: The cleft frame puts the person, not the action, at the center of the accusation.

It's this fuck in a wheelchair that's always preying on everyone's sympathies, writing these long diatribes about how he'll never walk again and how walkers should appreciate the blessings of their functioning legs.
Expresión · B2pour out one's heart

confiding deeply

That diatribe, as you call it, sounds like some poor crippled guy pouring out his heart and feelings.
Expresión · B2something, as you call it

using the other person's label with distance

That diatribe, as you call it, sounds like some poor crippled guy pouring out his heart and feelings.
Expresión · C1guilt someone into doing something

make me do it through guilt

Trying to guilt me into walking around more because he's all gimped out?
Jerga · C1gimped out

disabled (offensive slang) — An offensive slur; never use it.

Trying to guilt me into walking around more because he's all gimped out?
Jerga · C1mind-fuck

manipulative mind game (vulgar) — Vulgar and aggressive; avoid entirely.

What kind of mind-fuck is that shit?
Expresión · B2get into it with someone

start arguing with someone

So I've been getting into it with him, throwing it back in his stupid crippy-boy face about how I love to just sit around and how I'd rather drive to the end of the block than walk.
Expresión · B2throw something back in someone's face

fling an accusation back at someone

So I've been getting into it with him, throwing it back in his stupid crippy-boy face about how I love to just sit around and how I'd rather drive to the end of the block than walk.
Jerga · B2freak

weirdo; creep — An insult in a fight, not for polite use.

You fuckin' freak.
Expresión · B2reach out to someone

try to connect with someone

There's a crippled guy who found a way to reach out to a world he feels isolated from, and you somehow found a way to take issue with him.
Expresión · B2feel isolated from something

feel cut off from something

There's a crippled guy who found a way to reach out to a world he feels isolated from, and you somehow found a way to take issue with him.
Expresión · C1take issue with someone/something

object to or criticize

There's a crippled guy who found a way to reach out to a world he feels isolated from, and you somehow found a way to take issue with him.
Gramática · B2a world he feels isolated from

relative clause: The clause after 'world' describes the world; 'from' stays at the end.

There's a crippled guy who found a way to reach out to a world he feels isolated from, and you somehow found a way to take issue with him.
Sonidoreach out to

Let 'reach out to' run together, with the t in 'out' kept light.

There's a crippled guy who found a way to reach out to a world he feels isolated from, and you somehow found a way to take issue with him.
Expresión · B1take someone's side

support one person in a dispute

Sure, take his side.
Expresión · B2feel the need to do something

think one must do something

Have you become so embittered that you now feel the need to attack the handicapped?
Gramática · B2so embittered that

so...that clause: The 'so...that' frame turns the adjective into a cause and the attack into its result.

Have you become so embittered that you now feel the need to attack the handicapped?
Gramática · B2It's not like he's

negative comparison: The frame denies an exaggerated comparison before the speaker has to defend it.

It's not like he's Anne Frank or something.
Jerga · B1chick

woman (dated, casual) — Casual and often sexist; avoid it.

Yeah, Anne Frank, the chick that was all...
Expresión · C1knock some smarts into someone

make someone understand by force

...till the miracle worker showed up and knocked some smarts into her.
Expresión · B2deaf, dumb and blind

unable to hear, speak, or see

She was deaf, dumb and blind.
Expresión · B1hide from someone

stay hidden from the Nazis

Anne Frank's the little Jewish girl who hid from the Nazis in a secret room with her family.
Gramática · B1don't you

tag question: The tag is not a real question; it sharpens the accusation into a knowing jab.

You always got to be right, don't you?
Sonidodon't you

In casual speech, 'don't you' often blurs into one quick unit; keep 'you' light.

You always got to be right, don't you?
Jerga · B2douche bag

a contemptible person (vulgar) — Vulgar insult; never in polite company.

You Nazi douche bag.

Coworkers Argue Over Wheelchair Blogger, explicado

What's really going on

The fight isn't really about hash browns, and it isn't really about a blogger either. One person hears a disabled stranger describing his isolation and reads it as emotional blackmail: "Trying to guilt me into walking around more because he's all gimped out?" The other reads the same posts as courage — "a crippled guy who found a way to reach out to a world he feels isolated from" — and turns the argument into a verdict on character: "Have you become so embittered that you now feel the need to attack the handicapped?" Neither is arguing about facts; they're arguing about what a person is allowed to feel. The Anne Frank mix-up is the punchline: the speaker who waves the blogger away with "It's not like he's Anne Frank" can't tell a diarist from Helen Keller. "You always got to be right, don't you?" is answered only with another insult.

Theme

Dark humorA message-board feud, a disability used as ammo and a Helen Keller/Anne Frank mix-up: the scene plays a cruel argument for laughs.
GuiltThe whole quarrel turns on being made to feel something — one line accuses the blogger of trying to "guilt me into walking around more."

Escucha con atención

  • can't help it — In fast speech, the t in 'can't' can almost disappear before 'help it'.
  • reach out to — Let 'reach out to' run together, with the t in 'out' kept light.
  • don't you — In casual speech, 'don't you' often blurs into one quick unit; keep 'you' light.
I can't help it. The guy pisses me off.

He can't stop himself from posting: the blogger irritates him that much. "Can't help it" means he has no control over the reaction.

There's a crippled guy who found a way to reach out to a world he feels isolated from, and you somehow found a way to take issue with him.

A defence of the blogger: he is using the internet to connect with people, and the other man has managed to find fault with even that.

Have you become so embittered that you now feel the need to attack the handicapped?

A direct accusation: your resentment has soured into picking on someone with a disability. "Embittered" means bitter, full of grievance.

It's not like he's Anne Frank or something.

A dismissive comparison meant to shrink the blogger's suffering: being in a wheelchair is not like hiding from the Nazis. It backfires — the speaker has the wrong person.

You always got to be right, don't you?

The argument ends not on the topic but on character: an accusation of needing to win every exchange.

Preguntas sobre esta escena

Why does the argument turn into an Anne Frank mix-up?

One line compares the blogger to Anne Frank to play down his situation. Asked who she was, the same speaker describes someone "deaf, dumb and blind," which is Helen Keller, not Anne Frank, and gets corrected twice.

What does "crippy-boy" mean here?

It is an insult aimed at a person in a wheelchair. It comes right after the flat statement "The guy's in a wheelchair," so the speaker is doubling down on the word rather than backing off.

Does the blogger actually ask anyone to feel guilty?

The scene only gives one side: "Trying to guilt me into walking around more because he's all gimped out?" The blogger's own words are never quoted, so the guilt charge stays an accusation.

Why does he keep posting if the blogger annoys him so much?

He gives the reason himself: "I can't help it. The guy pisses me off." The irritation is what keeps him at the message board — he is not claiming the argument is reasonable.

Does anyone win this argument?

Nobody concedes. It ends with "You always got to be right, don't you?" followed by an insult, so the lines show a dead end rather than a resolution.

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