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Kate 12:38 on 2020-12-17 Permalink Reply  

• CharlesQ 14:05 on 2020-12-17 Permalink

  I thought the line “le lecteur moyen de ce reportage ne dort probablement pas sur une surface plus confortable” is very cheap like those homeless people have it so good. It’s QMI afterall, everyone knows what to expect from them.

• DeWolf 15:01 on 2020-12-17 Permalink

  I disagree, CharlesQ. The entire last paragraph is devoted to all the ways in which it is an ultimately uncomfortable experience, nothing at all like having an actual home.

• CharlesQ 17:33 on 2020-12-17 Permalink

  @DeWolf the way I read that paragraph is that he’s reassuring his readers that they weren’t too “cuddled”. Like that would be a bad thing. It’s like he’s saying to his readers: don’t worry they are as badly treated as before like his readers would be relieved reading that.

• DeWolf 18:26 on 2020-12-17 Permalink

  Different ways of interpreting it, I guess. For me it was a clin d’oeil to the bungalow-dwellers but not necessarily written in bad faith by the author.

• Kate 22:20 on 2020-12-17 Permalink

  Mostly I found it surprising they were bunking two people in together. I suppose it may be necessary but even if you take temperatures that’s no guarantee there won’t be some transmission.

  Also, what’s the thing about taking bathroom doors off? It’s not a jail.

• Daniel 09:10 on 2020-12-18 Permalink

  Wow. That was an eye-opening read. I had assumed they weren’t getting room service. But I did not picture them with no privacy for the bathroom, no television, no internet, no furniture, topped off with getting roused and tossed out at 630am (with a muffin, yay?).

  Again, it’s not like I expected them to have a breakfast buffet and pay-per-view. But damn — that’s pretty bleak.

• JP 02:52 on 2020-12-19 Permalink

  I don’t get why they can’t have privacy using the bathroom….they’re human beings….