He’s nothing but a low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous perverted worm! Hanging’s too good for him. Burning’s too good for him! He should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!
Lumino
It’s not nice to talk about Danny like that. D:
Marisa Mockery
And then the comments take a perfectly serious scene and make me laugh XD
Dante
Please, please, PLEASE tell me that’s a quote from Heavy Metal.
lejwocky
*Cheap Trick song starts*
Dante
You win everything in my eyes now. I never expected someone after all these years to not only reference Heavy Metal, but also reference my favorite bit from the movie. *high five*
Roborat
Yup, always thought that song was the best part of the movie.
lejwocky
*high five*
Felix
I guess I’m the only one who though the best bit was the whole movie altogether? :'(
Arkadi
STERRRNN!!! XDXDXDXDXDXD
Justin
Thanks Hanover…
Goodbye…
*pulls lever*
angelinacopperscale
Lol, somebody’s been looking at my status *cough* lejwocky *cough* 🙂
That said, one hopes that Amazi-girl’s dad isn’t also her Kryptonite. And one also hopes he leaves this scene in an ambulance. If not a body-bag 🙂
angelinacopperscale
“Except maybe the preschool prostitution ring….”
I put a link to this scene in my Facebook status yesterday regarding a different topic.
And upon reflection, either an ambulance or a body bag would cause problems for Amber I’d rather she she not have to face. One hopes she’ll be quicker to realize this than I was 🙁
Tarnagh
It’s because of all those times he sold dope disguised as a nun, isn’t it? Thanks so much for the Heavy Metal reference… I’m going to be giggling over that the rest of the day. 😀
Using the old/classic definition for decimate, instead of the modern and equally accepted one. I can respect that.
Lord Ellion
Modern/equally accepted… no… no I believe you are mistaking misuse as valid definition. Meaning is derived from the roots of a word. And there are several better ways to say destroy; annihilate; obliterate; ruin; wreck; annul; nullify; eradicate; exterminate..
All would mean 100% dealt with. XP
Taking that word back! Deci means 10.
AdInfinitumSpero
Sorry Lord Ellion, but I think you’re mistaken here. Word roots do lead to word meaning, but meaning is derived from the language users collective understanding, generally speaking. As much as I enjoy being a pedantic nerd about word roots and origins, as the language evolves so must we with it. If you were to take all words to their original meanings you’d be speaking an entirely different language. Language is communication.
Oh, look, the Cybermen have decided to join in with the Blaine-hate!
DELETE! DELETE! DELETE! DELETE!
They know Blaine can’t be upgraded, because he’s so terrible, so deleting him is the only option.
Keroshino
And thus Daleks and Cybermen joined forces to rid humanity of the scourge that is Blaine!
Doctor_Who
I’LL STOP YOU NO MATTER WHAT THE CO-oh wait, Blaine? Carry on.
Dalek Warrior
(I had to go fix my Gravatar since I accidentally put in the email for the wrong account. I think it slightly undermines my point when my Gravatar is a photo of the Doctor in a silly sweater, although at least it wasn’t the total non-sequitur that my Gravtar of Steven Wilson in a bubble bath would have been.)
Keroshino
Your voice processor must be malfunctioning…you don’t sound at all like your Dalek brethren!!!
Commander Clash
Nah, that’s too kind. I’d want him to suffer. Also avoids the murder charge. Besides, what cop is going to believe a girl dressed up like a superhero beat the crap out of you?
N0083rP00F
… For some odd reason I read decimate as Decaffeinate…. Lots of water is available and I do detect a full head of steam approaching critical levels.
The impending beating, however, is probably just what Blaine wants. His threats to Amber include mostly financial douchebaggery. Blaine wanting to “see where his money was going” probably had a reason behind it, maybe a justifiable exit to paying child support? Either way, he seems to be much more competent in understanding and following the law than his daughter, and is likely to use the law as a weapon against her. His conversation with his daughter seemed to have the sole purpose of provoking her to make a bad decision, and if Blaine gets assaulted in a public place, Amber gets jail time. Add the fact that he can potentially discover his daughter is practicing vigilantism, and that problem gets amplified by several magnitudes of bad.
D
This raises something I’m already wondering- does Blaine recognize his daughter? Will he?
t
Arkadi
He might, if she lost her mask. Otherwise, she’s protected by the laws of superheroics.
D
Sorry, kiddo hit the wrong button. No idea how, only 9 months old and already manipulating my computer like a pro… ah, anyways:
That said, while your concerns may be justified, controlling finances is a huge part of abuse. It’s a major control and is a good way to trap the person. It would NOT surprise me if part of how Blaine kept Amber and her mother in the relationship was with money. Blaine thinks that child support should mean he has control of Amber, well Blaine just thinks he should have control of Amber and will use anything to justify it, and he is desperately trying to reassert control over his daughter. Problem is, child support means nothing of the sort. Parents who have no rights at all to even see their children still have to pay support until someone else adopts the children.
Also, I really don’t think child support works like that. I know quite a few single parents with abusive/manipulative exes, and have never heard of one successfully arguing about WHAT the support has to go to so long as it’s going to the child’s well-being. Any complaints wouldn’t be “I don’t want my money going towards that!”, it’d have to be “They aren’t taking proper care of our child” (ex. if the custodial parent only gives the child junk food, the other parent can’t say “I want my money to only go towards health food”, but has to file a complaint that the custodial parent is neglecting the child’s health). What, exactly, is he going to tell the courts? That the support he’s required to pay to cover her tuition is covering the tuition and a good college (and I believe a state university, so if she’s in-state it’s FAR cheaper than a private one)? That she has a good-quality laptop, now a necessity in college, especially for computer science students, which Amber seems to be? And that’s assuming it IS expensive, it doesn’t appear to be a tablet PC and nowadays regular laptops are comparatively fairly cheap, and Amber sounds like she knows how to upgrade a cheap laptop which can be a lot cheaper than buying one with all the works. The money isn’t going towards drugs, her mother isn’t spending it on herself, the money is going to things that legitimately benefit Amber, the non-custodial parent has fairly minimal control about how child support is spent as long as it’s not being spent wildly inappropriately, which it’s not. I have absolutely no idea what his plan legally is. If he went to a judge with the information he saw, that his child support is being used the way it’s SUPPOSED to be used and he doesn’t like that, he’d be laughed out of court.
The biggest thing is that I don’t think the money is the big issue for him. The control is the big issue. His actions are not those of someone who just wants out of paying child support (or alimoney or whatever else). He is an abusive man, his primary interest in Amber is to be able to control her. He’s angry about child support because he’s used to having people be financially dependent on him meaning he can easily control them and now he can’t. He’s trying to use the money to assert control, not trying to assert control because he resents having to pay the money.
Because of this, it changes how things’ll go down if she does attack him enough to do serious damage. He already hasn’t pressed charges for the earlier assault, even though there were several witnesses who seemed (initially) sympathetic to him. I doubt he really wants Amber to go to jail- he’ll have even less access to or control over her. It could be years before he could try again. It’s unlikely anything he does will sway it so he can have custody, short of arranging to have her mother killed (even if her mother appoints someone else to get custody of Amber in her will, it’s not uncommon for courts to try to put children with the other parent, even if the other parent is abusive, I know a few people who are trying to make plans to avoid this happening and it’s not easy). Even if he proves Amber is a danger and can’t be at college and has to be under house arrest, this will occur at her MOTHER’s home. Maybe he wouldn’t have to pay child support anymore (Amber’s likely over 18, I don’t know how the law works), but I don’t think the money is the issue- the control is. Putting Amber back with her mother may take him further from being able to control either of them.
No, I think it’s more likely that he’d use it as a guilt chip and blackmail. “I know you did it, I can prove it, you’ll be kicked out of college and sent to jail, your life ruined, but if you do as I say I won’t.”
Sylvia
In my parent’s divorce, my father had to pay $x amount of child support until we turned 18, then $y amount (where y=cost of attending the nearest state university) as long as we were in undergrad college. The lawyer said that was standard.
In a friend’s parents’ divorce, though, his father had to pay child support until he stopped going to college.
A different friend’s father has to pay child support until she graduates high school, even though she turned 18 at the beginning of the school year.
So it seems entirely reasonable to me that Blaine has to pay child support while Amber is a freshman in college. We don’t know the terms of their divorce yet but hopefully “abuser” weighed against him in the decree.
Two things: I’m not sure he WILL recognize her. The rain is plastering down her hair and making it darker, her voice is different, she IS wearing a mask. He’s not as clueless as Danny, but I’m not sure if he will recognize her.
Second thing: if Blaine is really beaten up by a girl, I’m not sure he WOULD report it to ANYONE. It might be too humiliating to admit, after his “weak” comments about Amber’s mother and Amber. He doesn’t strike me as the type to relish reporting being beaten up by anybody of the “weaker” sex.
Honestly, I am not surprised at all that Blaine fails to recognize this figure as his own daughter. He never saw any kind of potential in her at all.
Doctor_Who
Amber switched to this voice right in the middle of a phone conversation with him, though.
Apparently he can’t put 2 and 2 together.
Bill
She switched to this voice, all right … and said three words over a cellular phone. Blaine is not Liam Neeson and needs to hear someone say more than “Good luck” in order to make a voice identification.
Reynard-Miri
I’ve dealt with that kind of person before. They’re not nearly as intelligent as they think they are.
djkaiba
My guess is he probably thinks that one of her friends grabbed the phone from her, said “I’ll be there” (suggesting the friend was coming instead), and now this friend is there in her place to deal with him since, as someone else said, he doesn’t think much of her.
451 thoughts on “Misconception”
Dorsilus
OH SHIT IT’S ABOUT TO HAPPEN
EvilPenguin
kick his ass Amber
PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE kick his ass
Sageress
DECIMATE HIM
lejwocky
He’s nothing but a low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous perverted worm! Hanging’s too good for him. Burning’s too good for him! He should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!
Lumino
It’s not nice to talk about Danny like that. D:
Marisa Mockery
And then the comments take a perfectly serious scene and make me laugh XD
Dante
Please, please, PLEASE tell me that’s a quote from Heavy Metal.
lejwocky
*Cheap Trick song starts*
Dante
You win everything in my eyes now. I never expected someone after all these years to not only reference Heavy Metal, but also reference my favorite bit from the movie. *high five*
Roborat
Yup, always thought that song was the best part of the movie.
lejwocky
*high five*
Felix
I guess I’m the only one who though the best bit was the whole movie altogether? :'(
Arkadi
STERRRNN!!! XDXDXDXDXDXD
Justin
Thanks Hanover…
Goodbye…
*pulls lever*
angelinacopperscale
Lol, somebody’s been looking at my status *cough* lejwocky *cough* 🙂
That said, one hopes that Amazi-girl’s dad isn’t also her Kryptonite. And one also hopes he leaves this scene in an ambulance. If not a body-bag 🙂
angelinacopperscale
“Except maybe the preschool prostitution ring….”
I put a link to this scene in my Facebook status yesterday regarding a different topic.
And upon reflection, either an ambulance or a body bag would cause problems for Amber I’d rather she she not have to face. One hopes she’ll be quicker to realize this than I was 🙁
Tarnagh
It’s because of all those times he sold dope disguised as a nun, isn’t it? Thanks so much for the Heavy Metal reference… I’m going to be giggling over that the rest of the day. 😀
Plasma Mongoose
Yes AG, remove 10% of his body, ideally the whole genital region plus his colon.
Doctor_Who
His head would be more efficient.
Plasma Mongoose
Efficient maybe but fun? not as much as my suggestion.
kelticat
Still say that girls came up with castration.
flamelordkay
If I had to guess I’d say it got started by men wanting to make sure their male servants aren’t doing anything inappropriate with their woman/women.
kelticat
I like to think it started when girls removed parts from a rapist.
Kintrex
I thought it was invented by GOD.
kelticat
“I think there’s a whole thread in the comments tonight specifically about cutting off Blaine’s dick.” as posted by Mr Willis.
Arkadi
Hey, count me in. As long as we don’t have to ritually cook it and eat it later or something like that.
Ehrlich
Using the old/classic definition for decimate, instead of the modern and equally accepted one. I can respect that.
Lord Ellion
Modern/equally accepted… no… no I believe you are mistaking misuse as valid definition. Meaning is derived from the roots of a word. And there are several better ways to say destroy; annihilate; obliterate; ruin; wreck; annul; nullify; eradicate; exterminate..
All would mean 100% dealt with. XP
Taking that word back! Deci means 10.
AdInfinitumSpero
Sorry Lord Ellion, but I think you’re mistaken here. Word roots do lead to word meaning, but meaning is derived from the language users collective understanding, generally speaking. As much as I enjoy being a pedantic nerd about word roots and origins, as the language evolves so must we with it. If you were to take all words to their original meanings you’d be speaking an entirely different language. Language is communication.
Aeron
“She took away his weapon… both of them.”
Sabby
NICE! “Sin City” references always for the win!
halcyon1234
“Amazi-Girl Performs a Sex (removal)”
KingMabel
Eradicate him!
Keroshino
EXTERMINATE! Him.
Opus the Poet
With a Dalek!
Dalek Warrior
You rang?
Wait, I mean…EXTERMINIEREN!
Robin
Oh, look, the Cybermen have decided to join in with the Blaine-hate!
DELETE! DELETE! DELETE! DELETE!
They know Blaine can’t be upgraded, because he’s so terrible, so deleting him is the only option.
Keroshino
And thus Daleks and Cybermen joined forces to rid humanity of the scourge that is Blaine!
Doctor_Who
I’LL STOP YOU NO MATTER WHAT THE CO-oh wait, Blaine? Carry on.
Dalek Warrior
(I had to go fix my Gravatar since I accidentally put in the email for the wrong account. I think it slightly undermines my point when my Gravatar is a photo of the Doctor in a silly sweater, although at least it wasn’t the total non-sequitur that my Gravtar of Steven Wilson in a bubble bath would have been.)
Keroshino
Your voice processor must be malfunctioning…you don’t sound at all like your Dalek brethren!!!
Commander Clash
Nah, that’s too kind. I’d want him to suffer. Also avoids the murder charge. Besides, what cop is going to believe a girl dressed up like a superhero beat the crap out of you?
N0083rP00F
… For some odd reason I read decimate as Decaffeinate…. Lots of water is available and I do detect a full head of steam approaching critical levels.
The Master
THAT’S MY LINE! D:
Aisling
FINISH HIM!
Zephindabius
The impending beating, however, is probably just what Blaine wants. His threats to Amber include mostly financial douchebaggery. Blaine wanting to “see where his money was going” probably had a reason behind it, maybe a justifiable exit to paying child support? Either way, he seems to be much more competent in understanding and following the law than his daughter, and is likely to use the law as a weapon against her. His conversation with his daughter seemed to have the sole purpose of provoking her to make a bad decision, and if Blaine gets assaulted in a public place, Amber gets jail time. Add the fact that he can potentially discover his daughter is practicing vigilantism, and that problem gets amplified by several magnitudes of bad.
D
This raises something I’m already wondering- does Blaine recognize his daughter? Will he?
t
Arkadi
He might, if she lost her mask. Otherwise, she’s protected by the laws of superheroics.
D
Sorry, kiddo hit the wrong button. No idea how, only 9 months old and already manipulating my computer like a pro… ah, anyways:
That said, while your concerns may be justified, controlling finances is a huge part of abuse. It’s a major control and is a good way to trap the person. It would NOT surprise me if part of how Blaine kept Amber and her mother in the relationship was with money. Blaine thinks that child support should mean he has control of Amber, well Blaine just thinks he should have control of Amber and will use anything to justify it, and he is desperately trying to reassert control over his daughter. Problem is, child support means nothing of the sort. Parents who have no rights at all to even see their children still have to pay support until someone else adopts the children.
Also, I really don’t think child support works like that. I know quite a few single parents with abusive/manipulative exes, and have never heard of one successfully arguing about WHAT the support has to go to so long as it’s going to the child’s well-being. Any complaints wouldn’t be “I don’t want my money going towards that!”, it’d have to be “They aren’t taking proper care of our child” (ex. if the custodial parent only gives the child junk food, the other parent can’t say “I want my money to only go towards health food”, but has to file a complaint that the custodial parent is neglecting the child’s health). What, exactly, is he going to tell the courts? That the support he’s required to pay to cover her tuition is covering the tuition and a good college (and I believe a state university, so if she’s in-state it’s FAR cheaper than a private one)? That she has a good-quality laptop, now a necessity in college, especially for computer science students, which Amber seems to be? And that’s assuming it IS expensive, it doesn’t appear to be a tablet PC and nowadays regular laptops are comparatively fairly cheap, and Amber sounds like she knows how to upgrade a cheap laptop which can be a lot cheaper than buying one with all the works. The money isn’t going towards drugs, her mother isn’t spending it on herself, the money is going to things that legitimately benefit Amber, the non-custodial parent has fairly minimal control about how child support is spent as long as it’s not being spent wildly inappropriately, which it’s not. I have absolutely no idea what his plan legally is. If he went to a judge with the information he saw, that his child support is being used the way it’s SUPPOSED to be used and he doesn’t like that, he’d be laughed out of court.
The biggest thing is that I don’t think the money is the big issue for him. The control is the big issue. His actions are not those of someone who just wants out of paying child support (or alimoney or whatever else). He is an abusive man, his primary interest in Amber is to be able to control her. He’s angry about child support because he’s used to having people be financially dependent on him meaning he can easily control them and now he can’t. He’s trying to use the money to assert control, not trying to assert control because he resents having to pay the money.
Because of this, it changes how things’ll go down if she does attack him enough to do serious damage. He already hasn’t pressed charges for the earlier assault, even though there were several witnesses who seemed (initially) sympathetic to him. I doubt he really wants Amber to go to jail- he’ll have even less access to or control over her. It could be years before he could try again. It’s unlikely anything he does will sway it so he can have custody, short of arranging to have her mother killed (even if her mother appoints someone else to get custody of Amber in her will, it’s not uncommon for courts to try to put children with the other parent, even if the other parent is abusive, I know a few people who are trying to make plans to avoid this happening and it’s not easy). Even if he proves Amber is a danger and can’t be at college and has to be under house arrest, this will occur at her MOTHER’s home. Maybe he wouldn’t have to pay child support anymore (Amber’s likely over 18, I don’t know how the law works), but I don’t think the money is the issue- the control is. Putting Amber back with her mother may take him further from being able to control either of them.
No, I think it’s more likely that he’d use it as a guilt chip and blackmail. “I know you did it, I can prove it, you’ll be kicked out of college and sent to jail, your life ruined, but if you do as I say I won’t.”
Sylvia
In my parent’s divorce, my father had to pay $x amount of child support until we turned 18, then $y amount (where y=cost of attending the nearest state university) as long as we were in undergrad college. The lawyer said that was standard.
In a friend’s parents’ divorce, though, his father had to pay child support until he stopped going to college.
A different friend’s father has to pay child support until she graduates high school, even though she turned 18 at the beginning of the school year.
So it seems entirely reasonable to me that Blaine has to pay child support while Amber is a freshman in college. We don’t know the terms of their divorce yet but hopefully “abuser” weighed against him in the decree.
Al Schroeder
Two things: I’m not sure he WILL recognize her. The rain is plastering down her hair and making it darker, her voice is different, she IS wearing a mask. He’s not as clueless as Danny, but I’m not sure if he will recognize her.
Second thing: if Blaine is really beaten up by a girl, I’m not sure he WOULD report it to ANYONE. It might be too humiliating to admit, after his “weak” comments about Amber’s mother and Amber. He doesn’t strike me as the type to relish reporting being beaten up by anybody of the “weaker” sex.
Aeron
By “his” I trust you mean both of them.
Ghola
All the this.
Danny is too stupid to live anymore.
RUTH HIM ALREADY.
xKiv
Danny trained hard to be the best at being stupid …
a4lbi
I tried to “like” your comment.
Cholma
MORTAL KOMBAT!
“Test your might”
Aizat
THIS MATCH IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE! FIGHT!
Keroshino
HEAVEN OR HELL, LET’S ROCK!!
Hoboturtle
THE WHEEL OF FATE IS TURNING! REBEL 1! ACTION!
Aizat
LIVE AND LET DIE! FIGHT!
Herohatch
Damn it Danny, use your head.
William
“No, your other head!”
Justnobody
(HIJINKS INTENSIFIES)
JebJeb
Oh good, even Blaine is an idiot. Guess Danny’s stupidity is contagious.
Jen Aside
To be fair, if DoA’s supposed to run potentially FOREVER, revealing too much not even a couple months into the first semester would be a bit fast.
T Campbell
Honestly, I am not surprised at all that Blaine fails to recognize this figure as his own daughter. He never saw any kind of potential in her at all.
Doctor_Who
Amber switched to this voice right in the middle of a phone conversation with him, though.
Apparently he can’t put 2 and 2 together.
Bill
She switched to this voice, all right … and said three words over a cellular phone. Blaine is not Liam Neeson and needs to hear someone say more than “Good luck” in order to make a voice identification.
Reynard-Miri
I’ve dealt with that kind of person before. They’re not nearly as intelligent as they think they are.
djkaiba
My guess is he probably thinks that one of her friends grabbed the phone from her, said “I’ll be there” (suggesting the friend was coming instead), and now this friend is there in her place to deal with him since, as someone else said, he doesn’t think much of her.
ninja_jesus
Does that mean “Dumbing of Age” is going to be David Willis’ Naruto?
Aizat
Do you see any Mary Sue clan?
Ghola
I do… But we’ll see if I’m right. 😛
Shh… I’ll get yelled at if I say it.
Kevin
NO! NOT THE FILLER! ANYTHING BUT THE FILLER!
Arkadi
If my opinion counts for anything, I hope Dumbing of Age doesn’t become Naruto. Neither Willis’ nor anyone’s. In any conceivable way whatsoever ó_ò
Leorale
Never assume a man does not have ninjas at his disposal.