Any pseudo-historical setting is going to be a kind of a caricature. But definitely, when it comes to cultures that are vastly different to our own, it can become something akin to cultural insensitivity through ignorance. Which is less bad when you're at a table with your friends, rather than on a freely accessible internet thing.
It's heatwave and snake season here in Australia. So this is a message to my local snake community:
You guys have the outside groundy bit. Stay out of my goddamn window.
One of my favourite things to do, when I'm feeling super depressed, is to go back through my 'best' posts and laugh at how hilarious I am, or read logs I've participated in and realise that I am an okay writer after all.
Not to stroke my own ego, I wanted to open up this idea for people to post excerpts from logs, quotes from posts on this board, or other quotes that made you think, made you happy, or simply made you remember.
@ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
A friend of mine posed the following retort:
The true metric is not with the person who used the cart, but the person who sees the cart in the parking lot. Who left the cart there? Why did they not return it? These are pointless questions: the real question is whether you will return it for them.
That sounds an awful lot like taking responsibility for being the change you want to see in the world.
And that sounds an awful lot like work. Work I'm not being paid for, but doing for the betterment of my community.
And that sounds an awful lot like SOCIALISM!
@too-old-for-this said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@tinuviel No argument, but I still want to know. I'll put in the call to Guinness World Records.
I don't think I'm authoritarian enough for their interests.
@too-old-for-this said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@tinuviel When you end up in the hospital physically bleeding and with burst testes from arguing philosophical points here, I want to know.
That would be a better outcome when compared to many of the 'discussions' here.
@greenflashlight Well from an outcome-focused viewpoint, there's no difference between arguing philosophical ideas here and slamming my genitals in a car door. 
@darren said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@packrat said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
So regarding shopping carts, does the USA not have the thing where the carts have a chain and lock to each other, meaning you can only remove one from the stack by putting in a coin, that is then released when the cart is returned and chained back up again?
Here leaving a cart (or shopping trolley to use local parlance) rolling around the car park means you are leaving a £1 coin in it and so people rarely do such things.
Aldi is the only place I know of that does this. It costs much less though-- 25 cents, which works out to about 18p-- probably because most Americans hate the $1 coins and refuse to use them.
It's probably just that you're more likely to have a quarter in your pocket than a dollar coin. It's less about the expense itself and more about the idea of not wanting to waste money needlessly.
@cassite said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@cassite said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
if I'm well enough to push that cart around the store, I'm well enough to push it the ten-to-fifteen feet from my car to the return.
"If I can do it, so can you" is ableist shit.
I agree, but that's also not what I said there, or in the rest of the posts you skimmed.
That's absolutely how it came across. And I don't think it's a weird out-of-nowhere interpretation of your words, either.
@cassite said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
if I'm well enough to push that cart around the store, I'm well enough to push it the ten-to-fifteen feet from my car to the return.
"If I can do it, so can you" is ableist shit.
Judging other people based on what you think they should be able to do is ableist shit.
Whether it's not what you intended to say or not, it's what you said.
@cassite said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@cassite The person making the judgement is the asshole. Especially when they're judging the fish for its ability to climb a tree.
Oh good lord. No. This is not remotely what I said. Dogpile, away, though.
Two people disagreeing with you isn't a dogpile. It's two people disagreeing with you.
@cassite said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Not that I want to appear callous, or worse like a boomer, but in the case of the worker who's job it is to collect the carts... that's their job.
That's like pissing on the wall because the janitor will clean it up for you. It's their job to clean the bathroom.
No, not even remotely. We're talking about a lack of ability, not a lack of decency.
@cassite The person making the judgement is the asshole. Especially when they're judging the fish for its ability to climb a tree.
Not that I want to appear callous, or worse like a boomer, but in the case of the worker who's job it is to collect the carts... that's their job. That's what they're there for. Jobs can be hard, of course, but that is their job. They're there to accomplish a task that others are unable or unwilling to do so.
It all comes down to the idea that one is assuming malice, or at least apathy, rather than a genuine issue when it comes to the behaviour of strangers. So empathy does go both ways, to a point.
I suppose this is what happens when one tries to use memes to describe a complex philosophical idea.
@aria said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@tek said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Imposter syndrome can eat my whole ass
Imposter syndrome is probably into that.
Yeah, but everyone secretly knows imposter syndrome is bad at it. And it won't be long until someone finally points out that imposter syndrome shouldn't actually be here, this is a place for professional and actual analinguists.
@auspice said in RL things I love:
@tinuviel said in RL things I love:
@auspice said in RL things I love:
I hate snow. I hate it so much. 26F in Austin is just wrong.
Trade you. It's 97 here.
Gladly.
I like it hot.
@auspice said in RL things I love:
I hate snow. I hate it so much. 26F in Austin is just wrong.
Trade you. It's 97 here.