RL Anger

[Sunny]

Me: Ok, let's meet in 2 weeks for this project. That should give you time to get the addresses together for the map you need.

Other Person, after showing up 30 mins late: Here is my list of what I need!

Me: That is the same list you had before. Where are the addresses?

Other Person: Oh. I thought the person making the map would look them up for me.

(She is now calling around for addresses, bothering our receptionist, and bitching to high heaven that I am not doing it for her)

[Meg]

@Ganymede said in RL Anger:

@Meg said in RL Anger:

Basically, we all as humans suck at feeding ourselves. Too many choices.

No, no. This is wrong.

We're very good at feeding ourselves.

We're not as good in predicting what others may want.

We really shouldn't give a shit because adults should be able to obtain their own food.

But, no. We insist on partnerships and shit.

Because we're stupid.

Endut.

Idk, I live alone and eat alone often and I still sit staring for most of the night, trying to figure out what I want to eat. Before giving up and eating a few sweet hot red peppers from Trader Joe's and going to bed.

[Ganymede]

@Meg

You're a special case.

[Derp]

I should point out that he has Cystic Fibrosis, so our food choices are usually limited to what his stomach can handle and in what quantities are necessary for his continued sustenance, so letting him work the magic there just happens to be a happy side effect. Thus our 'narrowing down of the things'.

Sushi being at the far end of the order of preference for both eliminated it, leaving 2. The rest is whatever he's feeling.

[Auspice]

@Derp

'What my stomach can handle' usually narrows the field a lot on my end, too. I love spicy food in general, for example, but there's plenty of times I cannot eat it. Same goes for dairy, greasy food, etc.

Overall I, the person, am not a picky eater. The stomach contained within can be depending on how badly the various issues I have are affecting it on a given day. So it's usually the biggest dictator as to what gets eaten.

But once I give the parameters, I am happily in the realm of 'anything goes.' I love trying new food, even, which is why I often don't want to choose. Introduce me to new, plz!

[Faceless]

I don't have this issue. If we're getting take-out, "surprise me" is the go-to answer. If we're dining in, then the answer is super simple: don't be picky. I'd eat tree bark if I thought it'd do something for me. Burnt that pizza black? Hand it here. Oh no, that fight caused pepper spray to get onto my lunch? Oh well, down the hatch it goes - "hey, that's not half bad! Has some kick to it now!"

I just give her full control of where we dine and either opt to be surprised or just outright deal with what my selection is. Pickiness over food isn't really something that concerns me. I'm fortunate I guess, since it seems like a lot of folks have issues with being able to choose what they eat.

[Coin]

re: food.

My reply is usually 'tell me where you're ordering and I'll figure it out'. And usually, if I absolutely just don't want anything in the place they're ordering, I'll order something else.

Because I'm a grown fucking person and can eat different food from other people at the same table.

Fucking gasp.

[Arkandel]

Posts today that read "I'VE NEVER WATCHED A SINGLE EPISODE OF GAME OF THRONES".

... Okay? They're the same people around superbowl who post "I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO'S PLAYING".

Damn, that's not something to be proud of. You're not special because you don't follow the herd, guys. Plus it's one thing to say you don't like something and another to not be into it because it's popular.

[surreality]

@Arkandel Agreed. This is not, like, a general announcement to make.

I can see saying that in not-all-caps or something to someone who keeps trying to talk to you about it and you're like, 'er, I don't watch that and am not into it, so I dunno what you're talking about.'

I've been like that about anime series friends of mine will not stop yapping about, re: "No, I really don't know what you're referencing, 'cause I'm not watching that, y'all." but, y'know, politely and one on one an' shit.

[Tinuviel]

@Arkandel Relevant XKCD

[WTFE]

@Arkandel said in RL Anger:

Posts today that read "I'VE NEVER WATCHED A SINGLE EPISODE OF GAME OF THRONES".

... Okay? They're the same people around superbowl who post "I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO'S PLAYING".

Damn, that's not something to be proud of. You're not special because you don't follow the herd, guys. Plus it's one thing to say you don't like something and another to not be into it because it's popular.

Hello, my name is The and I have never watched an episode of Game of Thrones.

(Hi, The!)

I'd like to share my shameful story. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back when, when I first came to China, it was hard to get English reading material. Any English books you found were treasured and shared among the (vanishingly small: 7 people) expat community. You wound up reading stuff you'd never even consider before. (I read Jackie fucking Collins!)

I happened upon a dusty, beaten-up copy of A Game of Thrones in a bookstore. I was somewhat of a fantasy fan (usually more SF than fantasy, but fantasy was up there) so I gleefully grabbed it, paid the ENORMOUS amount of money being asked (about a quarter of my monthly salary!) and scurried home.

I couldn't stand it.

I couldn't finish it.

The book was such a tedious slog that, despite being so starved for reading material I was reading Jackie fucking Collins, I couldn't finish it. Hell, I could barely begin it. I actually read the first Harry Potter book all the way through (although just barely) and couldn't stomach the first quarter of A Game of Thrones. I threw it out, not even putting it on the reshare circuit, because I wanted to make sure the book was destroyed.

So given this antipathy to the source material, and given how difficult and time-consuming it is for me to acquire up-to-date North American television episodes (read: not impossible, but a serious pain in the ass) there has never even once been a slight temptation for me to look at Game of Thrones.

Thank you for listening.

[Ganymede]

@Arkandel said in RL Anger:

Posts today that read "I'VE NEVER WATCHED A SINGLE EPISODE OF GAME OF THRONES".

... Okay? They're the same people around superbowl who post "I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO'S PLAYING".

It depends on context, with all things.

I've never watched a single episode of Game of Thrones. I'm nether proud nor ashamed of it. It is a statement of fact.

Now, if I said that I've never watched a single episode and I'm proud of it because people that do watch it are tremendous douchebags, then, sure I'm a dickhead.

Same with people who trump around their ignorance about the Super Bowl, as if this makes them somehow morally superior. (I know people like this.)

To me, that's like folks decrying single-payer universal health care without knowing a damn thing about it. Being ignorant is fine, but using it like a sword is like giving a child a gun.

[Catsmeow]

I'm horrible when it comes to food. It's because I don't actually like food. I know, it's shocking. So to me unless I have a craving for something; it's all the same. So I really cannot decide.

I am, however, fully up front about this.

Me: So I have to tell you. I will be decisive about everything but food.
Friend: What?
Me: Never make me decide what to eat.
Friend: Haha, because you are a girl?
Me: No. Because I just don't like food

<Blank stare>

However, people learn not to ask me. On the flip side, I agree with whatever they suggest and rarely veto.

[Thenomain]

@Arkandel said in RL Anger:

Posts today that read "I'VE NEVER WATCHED A SINGLE EPISODE OF GAME OF THRONES".

... Okay? They're the same people around superbowl who post "I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO'S PLAYING".

Damn, that's not something to be proud of. You're not special because you don't follow the herd, guys. Plus it's one thing to say you don't like something and another to not be into it because it's popular.

Conversely: "Oh my god you don't watch game-or-sports?!"

No, you inconsiderate twerp, I don't watch Game Of Goreporn or Sports-Ball Extreme. Why, in this modern era, are you pushing your social agenda on me like this when I didn't brag about how I don't do these things and didn't push my social agenda on you?

That said, JRR Tolkien wins so hard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAAp_luluo0

[Catsmeow]

@Thenomain

I liked the books too much and have not watched the Game of Thrones. I'm worried it will ruin my brain movies of them. I know that probably doesn't make sense.

Sportsball - I don't watch it. I don't mind it. I'll watch hockey and now soccer because I realized what soccer players look like and apparently I'm okay in my superficialness.

[Auspice]

@Catsmeow said in RL Anger:

I liked the books too much and have not watched the Game of Thrones. I'm worried it will ruin my brain movies of them. I know that probably doesn't make sense.

I watched through most of season 2, but the changes to some of the characters from the books bothered me too much. So I stick to the books. And that's what I tell people when they ask why I don't watch the show. I tried. I prefer the books. I'm good.

[Thenomain]

This is a mild peeve of mine, but very mild: I have never had problems separating the book version from the TV show version from the movie version from the comic version of something.

[Ghost]

@Thenomain Well, when it comes to Game of Thrones, pretty soon here all of the detail will be from the TV series and the book series will contain all of the lesser information.

[Auspice]

@Thenomain said in RL Anger:

This is a mild peeve of mine, but very mild: I have never had problems separating the book version from the TV show version from the movie version from the comic version of something.

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. In the case of GoT, I couldn't.

[Thenomain]

@Ghost

I'm not saying anyone who minds the difference are bad people, but I get a little tired listening to the complaints. Different medium means content must be approached differently. I approach them the way I approach different directors with plays or covers of music. It's going to be different. How did they interpret it?

I can sense a rabbit hole of going about how people who don't like the interpretation are okay people, and they are, but this being the peeve thread and me stressing how minor the peeve is to me, I'm going to prematurely shrug one shoulder and nod.