![]() Speak, you’ll be more coherent and clear. ![]() Something, pause for a moment to gather your thoughts. ![]() □ At the beginning of your answer to a question. Reason for their behaviour or the unspoken challenge they face. Double the power by continuing toīe silent, encouraging them to go deeper and reveal more - perhaps the true □ After the other person’s initial response. Person know you’re interested in their answer and makes sure they have time When to be silent? A few seconds of silence can boost your communication: But how are you deliberately using silence to bring yourself closer to others and learn more? When we think about communicating better, we often focus on improving our speaking. The most valuable thought, revelation or connection often comes from the moments you say nothing. But if you’re claiming it’s basically a documentary, then you should examine it as such and not just base your verdict on “yeah, teenage girls are such bitches” or “teenagers are so random, nothing they do makes any sense!” And if your reply to that is “you’re not meant to take it seriously”? So you’re going to defend it on the basis that it’s packed with jokes? This should be good.Silence is one of the most powerful and underused tools of communication. If you think the show is actually funny, fine. Meanwhile, why did the boarders even show up dressed to party at a party held by their arch-enemy at her own home? Why has Ja’mie been allowed to take a black teenager away from his family to live at her place? Why hasn’t someone taken Ja’mie aside and said “you know, you’re coming off as a bit of a bitch”? Why haven’t the teachers noticed that Ja’mie a): is the biggest bully in the schoolyard, b): abuses her detention powers like mad c): never seems to go to any class that doesn’t involve her singing terribly or dancing horribly and d): seems to have some kind of deep-seated sexual issues considering the number of times she’s started taking her gear off in public? For example, last week’s party: did anyone else think for something with a three episode build up what we saw was extremely watered down and fake, especially for 17-18 year olds? Didn’t we just get three minutes of Ja’mie talking about dick pics? Would they really jump into the pool in their party gear? Wouldn’t they have to have been drinking to make looking like shit for the rest of the night seem like a good idea? Only if you watch the show for more than a minute it’s clear the show itself is completely unrealistic on every level. Were they still saying that after he tried to make it look like a special needs student had taken a shit on the floor of a classroom? Ask your friends.īut with Ja’mie, that seems to be the only basis on which anyone is defending it: “teenage girls are just like that!”. Back during Summer Heights High people were claiming that Mr G was spot on as far as high school drama teachers go. ![]() There’s always been a strong element of “it’s funny because it’s true, even if it’s not actually funny” in Lilley’s fanbase. Oh sure, she has elements that real teenage girls have, but even if she was a “real teenage girl” and not a forty year old man in a dress, the show he’s created around her only shows an extremely limited range of her behaviours.Ĭ’mon: would a real teenage girl be a bitch to everyone all the time? Would she be so consistently vapid that she would say half the things Ja’mie said about suicide this week? Would she be so totally unaware that teen boys are, you know, somewhat interested in having sex with their girlfriends when she spent half of an earlier episode talking about how boys are really into tits? How is this like a documentary? Ja’mie is not like a real teenage girl. It’s important to realise that they’re full of shit. The portrait he paints of what it’s like to be a girl growing up in this impossible, contradictory world is disarmingly honest Ja’mie: Private School Girl is terrifyingly akin to watching a documentary. Teen girls fabricate relationships where little more than friendship exists? So… like everyone else then? Chris Lilley thinks that treating a bitchy cartoon character’s superficial heartbreak as a serious matter is something people would like to watch? Now you’re talking. Week four of Ja’mie: Private School Girl, and what have we learnt? Seriously, what have we learnt? Private schools create monsters? Well no, as Ja’mie’s sister seems kind of un-monstrous – as do a bunch of Ja’mie’s fellow students – and they all go to a private school.
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