@surreality said in Course Corrections:
I'd sum it up as something like 'they all want to be the lead from Da Vinci's Demons', though I'm not sure how many people have watched it. (It definitely went to those kinds of places, and often aspired to be clever-er-er-er-er-er than that, even.)
Me, me, me! I watched it!
I just did a rewatch of How to Talk to Girls at Parties and am genuinely surprised at how much I liked it the second time around.
The moment you come up with the pefect RP ship portmanteau, even if it's literally years too late:
Phyggy.
Discovering Dua Lupa's music: Awesome.
Discovering Dua Lupa is an anti-semite: Not so awesome.
Don't mind me, I'll be in the corner over here figuring out where she falls on my Death of the Author scale.
@Apos, I could use some clarification on +firstimpression. I'm assuming that when you receive a +firstimpression from someone, the information you're getting is entirely for OOC giggles, since there's no way to know someone's internal narrative.
I mean, my PC is hardly going to say complimentary things about say, Victus...but I'd still like to do one and imagine both his player and I would get a lol out of it.
Could you clarify how we're supposed to process it?
@cassite
She goes on to accuse Israelis of being "fake Jews". And that the Israeli government "created" Hamas.
I wish I had something constructive to add, but instead all I can offer is encouragement. This looks like an incredibly cool setting and I'm looking forward to when it gets going.
@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
ETA: And I'd probably support the argument that corrupt people in positions of authority, or supporters of said corrupt people, are "fake X-religion." It is difficult to have a nuanced argument on Instagram.
This a complicated idea. Being Jewish is about more than just being part of a religion, it's also an ethnic identity. And there's a huge anti-Zionist sentiment that insists that Jews, especially Ashkenazi, are European colonialists, which completely erases our identities and origins. So when someone accuses Israelis of being "Fake-Jews" it's an undercurrent of something more than just religion, it's an attempt to invalidate our goal to de-colonize.
I work for a life insurance brokerage firm that used to have an enormous office that took up the entire floor of the building we used to be in. It was large enough to have separate wings connected via a large lobby, and you had to go through at least one door if not two in order to get from one to the other. This meant our sales people could blast loud music, talk loudly, and engage in the rowdiness that apparently serves as the formula for success.
However, we have since moved to a much smaller office as most of our workforce has gone to telecommuting, and now the sales people who do come in now have to share their space with others. You'd think they'd dial down the loud voices, the yelling, the loud music, but no. There's one particular manager who comes in once a week that I outright want to muzzle - it's like he learned how to project his voice and then just never learned to turn it off.
I am extremely sensitive to sound. It can often make me feel like something is pressing down on me, or cause me physical pain. Our new office has two different sound systems, one on each side, and since I sit in the middle, I pick up the music from both sides. I am constantly turning the music down on both - I don't shut it off, but I turn it down.
But mostly I want to throttle the entitlement out of the guys on the sales floor.
Wednesday night I had to put Rock to sleep due to neurological complications from his Cushing's Disease. I've been carrying around his collar everywhere I go and every time my house settles I think it's him moving around. In the morning I keep thinking about how I have to give him his meds and fill his bowls...and then I realize I don't. I'm devastated.
Regardless of the debates happening in the Politics section, can we agree that Eden Alene is FIRE?
BillyBinges is my new favorite for reaction videos. He is deeply uncomfortable whenever people kiss on screen and every time it happens, he remarks "They kiss like two -nouns- -verbing-". He also really enjoys providing prompts to his viewers.
Has anyone else watched Trese on Netflix? Supernatural noir on the streets of Manila. Really good stuff, beautiful animation, great voice casting.
At the last possible moment, the man who was going to re-home his 2 year old silken windhound to me changed his mind and decided to keep her.
I was prepared to drive 12 hours each way by myself to go get her. I had a hotel room booked to stay overnight and collect her the next morning. I had a spay booked for the end of the month (at reduced cost for below standard income, which are super hard to get due to demand), an ID tag already engraved, and a custom collar ordered from Etsy.
Fortunately I got all of my money back for what was spent, and cancelled before charges could be placed for what wasn't.
I'm so angry. This man is 70 years old. His wife left him, he has cancer, he's unable to run his ranch by himself. The dog is 2 years old, with a life expectancy of about 16 years. Nevermind my own anger and anxiety, what's going to happen to that dog when he finally can't take care of her anymore? And he already had three older dogs he intended to keep.
I am just...ugh. I feel like this is what I get for giving myself permission to get excited.
@greenflashlight Long distance. I would have ended up road tripping to collect her.
Interestingly (ironically?) one of the dogs being offered is her sister littermate.
Fuck you, Legends of Tomorrow. You know what you did.
(Vague to avoid spoilers.)
Last night was some fierce tv. Game of Thrones? YAAAAS. Penny Dreadful? YAAAAAS. (But also nooooooo.)
My dog is awesome. I mean, I'm sure that everyone loves their dog and thinks their dog is awesome, but damn, my dog is awesome.
Everybody hug your dog today, okay?
Also, last night I got my Burr Shot First tee shirt in the mail and I am wearing it at work right now.
People who hit "reply" instead of "reply all" in an e-mail and end up telling me something they need to be telling the person I am referring to them.
Like, is it that hard to read the metadata of the e-mail that is right there in front of you?
Fuck.
I have this problem with my landlord. Whenever I email him and cc the roommates, he only replies to me, which leaves them in the dark. PITA.