Well, when I was a kid and playing games, the grown ups would always dismissively say, "In my day, we made our own entertainment." I take your point that that's true of gaming, but I'm not sure the non-gaming public at large understands that.Originally Posted by Keep
"Moronic cynicism is a kind of naïveté. It's naïveté turned inside-out. Naïveté wearing a sneer." -Momus
"I had a singular bad experience with only one member of your staff at only one of your two hundred and fifty stores over twenty years ago, and have boycotted your firm ever since as a result, wasting no opportunity to influence all persons I have ever been even vaguely acquainted with to do the same. The mere suggestion in newspaper articles of questionable/outright-bollocks accuracy this week that you and ten thousand other people across all of that firms' stores and warehouses in the country might lose their employment in the near future has me rubbing my hands together with cackling glee as I mash this vitriolic message into the comments section of the Daily Mail, my local rag, and and the ears of all within range.
That in the unlikely event this actually happens, despite multiple assurances from people actually involved in the business that it won't in fact lead to this, I still feel compelled to tell you that for your ten years of tireless effort behind the scenes doing what should be the work of several people by yourself and doing it all with a polite smile when dealing with people like myself, you and everyone you've ever worked with fully deserve to to suffer redundancy at my earliest grinning convenience."
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Seriously, there are sections of the public I would gladly pry the wisdom teeth out of with a spork.
I know a lot of friends who browse the Daily Mail comments for entertainment. I can't bring myself to it, but I can for the Guardian. I guess that makes me a comment snob!
You are missing out, the Daily Mail puts CiF to shame. Too many islands of reason/sarcastic beggars on CiF - Mail is a unadulterated stream of idiocy, prejudice, crazyness and superficiality. Fun to click on the highest rated and compare with the lowest rated and see which is the most rational.
Other thing i don't understand - people with the incredible power of knowing what something tastes like before ever trying it. I once had this power but it was lost when my tastebuds went beyond fish fingers, potato waffles and frozen peas.
I think there is a lot of taste in smell and some people's smelling power is quite strong, also some foods smell is so strong you can taste it as well. I think thats more likely the thing that is happening.
One of my lecturers, undoubtedly the best I've had so far, used to go onto the Daily Mail comment system and try to while-up interest. He'd make an account arguing the liberal or scientifically accurate side, trying to reason with these people. When he found that no-one could argue reasonably, he created an alternative account trying to argue on behalf of them culminating in him arguing...with himself! He gave up in the end after he got banned, although not because of having two accounts. Gave all of us in that lecture a good laugh.
The love for that poni show for kids,watched one episode and is hideous.
That's a very logical and plausible explanation but it's not what I'm referring to. I'm talking about the thing most people get over, when you're about 10 and you refuse to eat cheesecake because it's got cheese in it AND YOU DON'T LIKE CHEESE.
I don't understand why there's a giant sad elephant in VVVVVVV
I don't understand why grammar nazis continually make a big deal about mixing up genitive pronouns and contractions with the verb 'to be' (e.g. its/it's, their/they're, your/you're). I'm the naziest of grammarians there is, and I quite definitely know the difference, and I still make that mistake sometimes. Absent-mindedness is not the same as stupidity. Shut up.
"Moronic cynicism is a kind of naïveté. It's naïveté turned inside-out. Naïveté wearing a sneer." -Momus
Absent mindedness is worse than stupidity... it means you aren't using the most precious thing you have properly. If you're stupid, you can't help it.
Absent-mindedness, however, can be brought upon by stress, fatigue, distractedness, etc...
...now, willful ignorance, on the other hand...
More often than not, it's laziness coupled with ignorance. Honest mistakes? Fine, I'm sure many people will let you off for that because we all make them, but it's the continual butchering of language that - in my opinion - is absolutely bloody irritating.
Words are insanely powerful. One change in a sentence's punctuation can massively change its meaning. Some people don't get that, and fewer still give a damn.
I will never understand why girls friend-zone guys who want to sleep with them.
I would be a much better friend than those creepers, but all I get is "let's be more than friends". It sucks.
"Moronic cynicism is a kind of naïveté. It's naïveté turned inside-out. Naïveté wearing a sneer." -Momus
I don't understand folks from Alabama:
"Dem Mexicans are takin' all our jobs! Let's run 'em outta town!"
Next day,
"Ho shit! There ain't nobody left to pick our crops!"
Relevant.
As it goes, I'm glad you mentioned that, because it would give me a legitimate springboard to use to complain about the non-starter of a relationship and the ensuing shit-storm caused by the whole thing. But I won't, because I'm better than that...not by much, but still.
Anyhow! It's going to be the same here Nalano when we inevitably kick out all those 'thieving immigrants' and realise we have no-one in the NHS, or whatever is left of it by then. It's absurd. In fact, I just did an essay on refugees and asylum seekers and some of the stuff governments get away with is absolutely disgusting. Ironically, the US was pretty good about it before 9/11, even if it wasn't done for the right reasons (40ish years of letting Communists in to show how Capitalism is the real winner, essentially was the political thinking).
...100 years of not letting Chinese in because they're chinky and yellow and collectivist...
I grant you, our practices are quite liberal compared to UK or Aussieland or Europe in general, but I mentioned it because here in NYC we fully understand how immigrants - of the top and the bottom - are a shot in the arm to our economy, whereas there are some parts of the country (like Arizona) more than willing to destroy their economy to keep the population whiter.
Migration will always be a weird topic for so many reasons, but economically...ehhh, they're far more of a boon in most cases, as you've said. I should also point out, the essay was on post-1951 migration specifically relating to asylum seekers and refugees. Whilst there is material pre-dating that (obviously, plenty of issues during that time) the amount of research isn't great. In fact, the amount of research on the whole area is pretty pathetic. Another one of academia's strange directions I suppose.
It kind of upsets me when people whose own grandparents were immigrants have a problem with immigrants.
"Moronic cynicism is a kind of naïveté. It's naïveté turned inside-out. Naïveté wearing a sneer." -Momus
Is it me or does this friendzone crap only exist in USA & GB?
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