start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

"here's something i wrote abt xxx in yyy: url"
"here's a thing* i wrote abt xxx in yyy: url" *(or piece or article or essay or feature or whatever)
^^^all more or less fine

"here's me on xxx in yyy: url"
getting annoying

"me on xxx in yyy: url"
teeth-gnashingly bad

"I wrote a thing. [shortened url with no context]"

"My bit on Topic. [url]"

when a biopic is made and people focus heavily on whether the actor has been made to look sufficiently identical to the real person, as though it were a lookalike contest rather than a film

That "dun-dun-dun-DUUN" Insta-story superzoom noise can fuck off.

People who take selfies or videos in cars.

extra anger for people who use the selfie in a car as their profile pic.

“in international news, america america america america america”

every single time

America is to the world as Trump is to America

everyone is sick of trump/america.

i'm giving them a few more weeks

People who forward emails/meeting invites to people who were already on the initial email/meeting invite.

People who get really into CrossFit and/or weightlifting and then suddenly start *exclusively* posting workout vids and pics to instagram (taken by their trainer or new workout bud I guess??) like I’m not going to unfollow.

(ok I’m not going to unfollow because friendz, and also I kinda did/do this re: kid pics so I am also terrible and ok with being unfollowed because of that, but still gaaahhh!)

yes! or just endless stats or maps of their run route & time etc
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I need a stat counter posted on fb of all the pasta I eat. Maybe that will hold me accountable.

haha I’d look forward to seeing a daily pasta counter instastory tbh

omg route tracker pics on social media = technology for technology’s sake + pride

people who bring up a subject, then curtly tell you they "don'tw ant to discuss it anymore" when you actually take them up on talking about it

my family does that all the time. "hey isn't <insert neo-nazi here> fantastic?" (one probing question later) "hurr durr i don't want to talk about politics"

I must have mentioned this before. It's almost a given.

But the dependence people put on their GPS systems drives me up a fucking wall. My kid's karate studio moved to a bigger location. Before the first class on Saturday, a few of the parents harangued the instructor because their GPS told them to turn 100 yards too late. "And then it tried to get me to go all the way through Boyle Park!" One parent was slightly upset because they arrived 20 minutes late, thanks to the GPS. I remember her proclaiming at her first class at the old place, "It told me to get on the interstate!"

I'm just an old country boy from the sticks who learned to drive on a manual transmission and instinctively learned to know where I was going before I left the fucking house. The new address of the dojo has been emailed and plastered on flyers and drilled into our heads. How did no one think, Huh, wonder where this place might be? I'll look it up on Google Maps/Apple Maps/Bing Maps/OpenStreetMap/Mapquest/Delorme USA.

How do you just hop into the driver's seat and just go, "OK, Computer. Tell us where we'll go today!" Wheee.

i hate that too!

worst road trip of my life was my friend offering to drive to a resort for a work function - she said she knew where it was etc. and then learning halfway there that she had no CLUE where it was but that she’d “figure it out” and there was no cell service for google maps or anything while we’re flying down the i-5 ... all the while I’m like you’re the DRIVER surely it’s your job to work this out before you get in the cockadoodie car you guileless twit ... or at least ask a passenger to navigate & help figure out the route ahead of time. Stressful AF! thumbs down to all of that nonsense

Sunny's got a good story about being on a work trip in New Jersey for a week. She and this older co-worker had taken the wrong turn in the rental and decided to head back the other way via the George Washington Bridge.

They're driving around upper Manhattan, and her co-worker peers over the steering way up to the sky and wonders aloud, "OK, so where are we now?"

^^ That's probably an argument for GPS, but then she wouldn't have that story.

hahaha omg

I was embarrassed that I had to use a sort-of GPS when we went back to my hometown (Canberra) on a road trip a couple years back. I thought I still knew how to get around everywhere but it'd been 20 years so I figured I'd navigate to help B drive, using GMaps's road GPS guide thing.

"turn left ahead? WTF? ITS A ROUNDABOUT WITH 6 EXITS WHICH ONE IS 'LEFT' FFS ARGH". My memory of where to go just ABANDONED ME in the face of the crazy map blue line.

...tbf though if you have ever seen Canberras roads anyone would fail.

hah fuck yeah that’d make anyone cry

at least if you miss a turn you'll get another go at it in 5 minutes

dying

Hahahaha I have been in a car with someone where that did happen! Bloody roundabouts.

Just like I can't remember anyone's phone number anymore - including my own - feel like GPS removes that memory part of the brain too.

ringtones

happy belated birthday

the birthday wasnt belated fyi the birthday was bang on time

i judge ppl on their use of 'belated' possibly more than anything else

actually, no: use of 'ect'. Then 'belated', then 'begs the question'. That's the golden hierarchy.

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Was watching the new Sabrina show on Netflix and in the second episode they pronounce the word "Samhain" as it is written and not as it is actually pronounced. Now, I concede that most Americans -- maybe most English-speakers -- don't know how it's pronounced, but this is a show about Satan-worshipping witches, and THEY sure know how it's pronounced. So as a writer, YOU had better know, too, or just avoid the word.

Well now I'm just waiting for someone to tell me that there's a Polish pronunciation of Danzig that sounds nothing like the way I say it.

its not even that simple im afraid liz

im not sure youd ever (well, that ive ever anyway) hear 'samhain' said

the feast is the een part, the night before, which is oíche shamhain which of course we all know is pronounced eehahowin

So as a writer, YOU had better know, too, or just avoid the word.

surely the error is on the actors and director, not Aguirre-Sacasa

unless you want him to type all dialogue phonetically?

an american witch would absolutely just mispronounce it tbf

american wiccans = almost unmatched in pretension, they probably learn those words like american sportscasters who overdo latino athlete names

plus i feel like the devil would hold his disciples to a fairly high standard on this stuff

yeah thats probably a thing, private schools being almost solely under his remit

Gotta be a well-defined line between "getting it right" and "Peggy Hill pronouncing 'México'."

"i don't spend this kind of money for you to bring home a D- in celtic, no iphone and no netflix until you can pronounce 'bothántaíocht.'"

Just putting this out there, but what if the writers and the actors all knew how the word should be pronounced but decided that most of their audience wouldn't understand the word correctly pronounced so they pronounced it like it looks so the audience would recognise what word they kept saying?

Also because winding up message board posters is a key function of serial fantasy drama.

xp tbf you wanna explain to a mexican why her name is pronounced margaret

liz im rather afraid to again report that it's not quite that simple. if you were to task a pupil with same the onus would be on you to specify the dialect upon which grading is to occur

we're not wound up nv this is scholarly discussion

whichever one that cereal-peddling leprechaun speaks

correct title is president higgins fyi

films set in ancient greece or rome or wherever where everyone is instead speaking english

(xp) lol

lately i've been irrationally angry about podcasts, even the "good" ones
why so many
why do they sound like that
who has the time