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2022-05-25

by shaenon on May 25, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Phantomwise
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  1. Moe Lane
    May 25, 2022, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    This is the exact opposite of cruel, unusual, or punishment.

    • Rockphed
      May 25, 2022, 12:36 am | # | Reply

      I will give you “cruel”, but I think having to sit through an adult conversation is both an effective punishment and highly unusual. That’s pavane is going to be given the chance for growth and self reflection in a safe environment does not lessen that her rampage is over.

    • Aname
      May 25, 2022, 3:00 am | # | Reply

      Pavane is a coffee drinker. Tea is a cruel and unusual punishment for her.
      The excess caffeine could possibly explain her irritability though,
      too much of a buzz.

      • paulagee66
        May 25, 2022, 5:27 am | # | Reply

        oooooooooooooh

    • VickiC
      May 25, 2022, 10:38 am | # | Reply

      There’s no punishment more cruel and unusual than having your mother say “I told you so”. … OK, it’s not really unusual – it existed as long as there have been mothers and teenage kids. 🙂

    • Shen Hibiki
      May 25, 2022, 9:31 pm | # | Reply

      Cruel for a coffee drinker to be captive and forced to have tea~
      Unusual… the whole situation.
      Punishment… it IS time out, and her mom was right…

      I think it checks all the boxes. Just ’cause she needs it doesn’t mean it’s not a punishment XD

  2. woozy
    May 25, 2022, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    So… does she *really* not understand?

    • Candace
      May 25, 2022, 1:32 am | # | Reply

      With age comes wisdom. Apparently Pavane hasn’t achieved enough age to have acquired wisdom yet.

      • David B Huber
        May 25, 2022, 5:27 pm | # | Reply

        Wisdom: The age between folly and senility when you’re too tired to talk more than listen. 😉

      • D. Walker
        May 25, 2022, 6:21 pm | # | Reply

        Despite the saying, wisdom does not come with age – it comes with experience and a willingness to learn from your mistakes.

        Plenty of old people out there with the wisdom of a goldfish because they either have been sheltered their entire lives, or they’ve refused to grow when challenged.

  3. Pcj70
    May 25, 2022, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    She may hive a point, No teenager likes being told they’re resembling their parents, or have their ride taken away. Besides she’s a coffee girl!

    Although, really, yeah this isn’t that extreme, they haven’t even mentioned a grounding, curfew, or even curtailing Internet access!

    • Candace
      May 25, 2022, 1:30 am | # | Reply

      Well, she’s been locked up, and not in her “room”.

    • Aname
      May 25, 2022, 3:04 am | # | Reply

      You’ve been a naughty girl Pavane. Go to your Moustachio and think about what you’ve done.
      Oh, and no Nintendo Switch Bee Simulator for you either.

    • PotatoEngineer
      May 25, 2022, 12:51 pm | # | Reply

      That, unfortunately, reminds me that I need to look into the deep magic of extreme router configuration. I have a wee little one who’s going to eventually need some internet-curtailing, and it would be nice to not curtail my own internet. Time for MAC-address-specific whitelists… (“You can do your schoolwork, but no MyTikGram for you!”)

    • Bobski
      May 27, 2022, 9:39 am | # | Reply

      “hive” a point?? Was that just a typo, or a clever pun? 🙂

  4. ebonysable
    May 25, 2022, 4:25 am | # | Reply

    Ah, an ironic punishment!

    • Shadowmehr
      May 25, 2022, 1:08 pm | # | Reply

      Mustachioe is more copper and steel than iron, with copious amounts of water, tea, and popcorn.

  5. Aname
    May 25, 2022, 5:19 am | # | Reply

    So, if bees could play with Nintendo Switches, would Bee Simulator be like The Sims to them?

  6. Robert Nowall
    May 25, 2022, 6:16 am | # | Reply

    Complaints about cruel and unusual punishment? They’re on Pavane’s flying saucer, not the U. S. S. Constitution.

    • Moe Lane
      May 25, 2022, 7:15 am | # | Reply

      Hopefully Pavane will be gently reminded how she ignored a broadly similar appeal to American law when it came to remanding the mass murderer who ate Pennsylvania to the proper authorities. What goes around comes around.

  7. The Reluctant Pedant
    May 25, 2022, 7:49 am | # | Reply

    Ouch! That “you people” is a major red flag. To quote Dangerous Beans, “you think for many rats, but you don’t think *of* them.”

    • Robert Nowall
      May 25, 2022, 9:20 am | # | Reply

      Pavane said she wanted the best. But “you people” was in with the rest. A claim that she loves them, but she’s really above them. It’s more like they’re under arrest.

      • Candace
        May 26, 2022, 2:43 am | # | Reply

        Nice!

  8. Barbara K
    May 25, 2022, 10:01 am | # | Reply

    The way this conversation’s going, Pavanne may soon develop a more mature perspective, and start drawing comb in his empty popcorn tins.

    This story arc has been a delightful counterpoint to our beekeeping throughout the past month as we retrieved and re-hived three swarms. Since these wayward girlies all came from the same hive, two would be daughter-swarms with new, untried young Queenlings, like Pavanne.

    After being captured, each swarm had to be placed a minimum of 30 miles away for at least a week […only a brief trip towards Lovetron…about 250 miles of bees-in-our-car] before it could be successfully persuaded to resume housekeeping in our bee yard. We didn’t initially get the Queen in one batch, which became rather irritable until we schlorped up Her Highness and her retinue, and rushed up to reunite the swarm.

    • PotatoEngineer
      May 25, 2022, 12:53 pm | # | Reply

      “bees” … “rather irritable”

      I can’t imagine anything that could have possibly gone wrong.

    • Robert Nowall
      May 25, 2022, 9:54 pm | # | Reply

      Gee…the last month I had a bee infestation at my home. The guy just sprayed and sealed up the place where they got in. This was as a result of some palms that grew out of hand…and was followed closely by a rat infestation. I got hit by it all.

      • Candace
        May 26, 2022, 2:42 am | # | Reply

        Yikes!

        • Robert Nowall
          May 26, 2022, 5:41 am | # | Reply

          Well, the rats all ran off, apparently.

  9. JSStryker
    May 25, 2022, 11:56 am | # | Reply

    Tea always makes things more civilized…

  10. Robert Nowall
    May 25, 2022, 1:24 pm | # | Reply

    Pavane has at last been confined. Her plans are now falling behind. Her charges revolted, so a grill has been bolted. So much for the bee mastermind.

    • Candace
      May 26, 2022, 2:43 am | # | Reply

      You’re on a roll today!

  11. F. Frankie Frankenstein (@DaFrankiestein)
    May 25, 2022, 7:16 pm | # | Reply

    Hah! Well so much for Vague Benevolence. Whenever it boils down to ‘why won’t you idiots let me do whats BEST for you’ it’s never a good sign. It makes sense though- these were all decisions made totally separate from the people she was supposed to be trying to help.

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