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Re: Phantom Thread
« Reply #30 on: August 22, 2018, 08:32:33 AM »
Woodcock is sympathetic. Ava is infuriating.
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« Reply #31 on: August 22, 2018, 11:17:00 AM »
Woodcock is sympathetic. Ava is infuriating.

Almost perfect.  Just reverse it.
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« Reply #32 on: August 22, 2018, 11:41:04 AM »
They're both infurating to a degree, but certainly Ava is more sympathetic.
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« Reply #33 on: August 22, 2018, 11:46:05 AM »
Woodcock is an asshole, but he's an asshole in his own home, and he's mostly pleasant as long as you follow his rules. Ava is a passive aggressive guest with bad manners.
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« Reply #34 on: August 22, 2018, 12:00:13 PM »
Everybody is an asshole if you look deep enough.
I’m always grateful when they wear it on the outside - easier to spot and deal with.

I would say that it’s become Ava's home too.
I don’t think I would call her a guest.
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« Reply #35 on: August 22, 2018, 12:10:36 PM »
If you own a home and get a flatmate for whatever reason, it's still your place, and your rules should prevail.
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« Reply #36 on: August 22, 2018, 12:32:30 PM »
If you own a home and get a flatmate for whatever reason, it's still your place, and your rules should prevail.

So I own my home and my wife doesn't (yet), so I should get to tell her what to do?  If I don't like a habit of hers, I just tell her to leave?  And I should do that with any guest that I invite into my home to live long term?  Sorry, but that's ridiculous.  Life doesn't work that way.
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« Reply #37 on: August 22, 2018, 01:09:33 PM »
If Woodcock regards her as just a flat mate even though they are in an obvious relationship then, for me at least, he is the more distasteful person.
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« Reply #38 on: August 23, 2018, 03:31:10 AM »
They don't start off by being in a romantic relationship (quite). And there are several degrees of separation between serious relationships and ownership sharing arrangements like marriage and the latest in a series of flings.
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« Reply #39 on: August 23, 2018, 05:23:58 AM »
If you own a home and get a flatmate for whatever reason, it's still your place, and your rules should prevail.

I use to think like this, now it only seems to work that way at my wife's house.

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