Not what I'm waiting for personally, but I feel your pain. Sometimes you just end up sitting on your damn computer chair hitting refresh over and over again, the madness takes hold quickly.
Pet Peeve rants.
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BananaHands
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I have a friend Tim that constantly chomps on his fucking gum. Everyone acts like I'm such an asshole for telling him to stop chomping it. Then he leaves, then everyone else goes "MAN THAT WAS ANNOYING." OH, I'M THE ASSHOLE FOR SAYING SOMETHING!?
Two of my pet peeves in one rant.
Two of my pet peeves in one rant.
I feel your pain. The other night a friend of mine literally started scratching his nuts in front of a group of us. In public. He's a bit of a dumbass, but this was still an astonishing level of crude and dumb. I tried to let it go, thinking he would quickly stop, but NOPE. He just kept going. Finally I told him to knock it off, and I get this awkward and angry look like I'm the bad guy. Finally his wife backed me up and told him to stop as well, and that seemed to snap him out of it.
I have no small ability with words. Given sufficient time, I can generally craft prose which not only says that which I want to say, but also says it the way I desire it said.
That said, what skill I possess seems unplanned and clumsy when compared with the graceful manner in which that movie playfully, yet powerfully, dances the universal idea into your head that disparate ingredients, well-chosen and skillfully combined, can add up to so much more than the sum of those parts as to cause your startled brain to hand the phone over to your heart while saying, "My mistake, this must be for you."
My peeve? That so many people who see this movie only see the story, not the message. It's too important to miss, but so many people Just. Don't. Get it.
--Patrick
I hate when people try having conversations with me through phone texting. Look, if you want to converse with me, chat with me through a means more comfortable, like in person or even chatting on Skype or something. I have a friend who keeps doing this. Not only are they the type that tries to have a conversation with me, but he's also the ridiculously excitable type who will send three, four, sometimes five or six texts at a time.
Just... own it. Do eet.
I am guilty of this. I'm a phone addict, and I text like a motherfucker, almost all day. That said, I do have friends like you who find it really annoying/difficult, so I try to Skype or whatnot with them.
On behalf of all of us compulsive texters, though, my sincere apologies for the difficulties we cause.
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My feeling on Ratatouille is this: Yes, everything you all are saying is absolutely correct. It has that message. That's wonderful, and it's an okay watch. But... so does, like every single "rise of the artist" film ever made. They all say that same message. It's not very new, and Ratatouille has very little character growth on top of that. Remy is already at the top of his cooking game when he starts. He's already good at almost everything. Even the kid grows little. He's still a crappy chef who gets basically demoted to waiter by the end. The critic has the most growth, I guess, but that message about evocation as the thrill of art is old. There's always some curmudgeon who's eyes are opened or reopened. None of that is bad in and of itself, but it does make the movie only a solid middle-of-the-pack to me.
"a little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."
which is to say, I try not to get down on a movie for being fun but following a formula, not everything has to be deep as the oceans or chart a new course. The movie does the correct job of describing its message in a family friendly format and is a safe bet like all disney movies. I expect no more nor less from Disney.
Possibly because you've seen a similar story before. It's trite, a trope, and old news. I agree.
My comments earlier are just that Ratatouille invests so much of its energy in the sending of its message. Its message is fuguelike in its presentation, where it is demonstrated several different ways on many different levels by multiple characters, culminating in a naked, explicit revelation by one of the principal characters just in case you weren't able to pick up on the hints.
--Patrick
I feel like Ratatouille is a movie aimed at foodies, and with them it is going to resonate a lot more. I certainly liked it for that reason. I also think it's ok to make a movie aimed at a specific group. The late Roger Ebert wrote that a movie made for everyone is made for no one, and that's what makes Ratatouille special to me.
It's possible I may have posted this before, but strangers touching my car to leave advertisements on my windshield that I didn't ask for.
-That mini heart-attack moment when I see paper on my windshield and think I may have gotten a parking ticket does not leave me with a good emotional connotation with whatever it is you're advertising.
-I now have an extra piece of trash to keep track of and move to a trash/recycling can because if I just toss it away from the car, suddenly I'M the littering criminal. For this piece of paper I never wanted and never agreed to take.
-My windshield is my personal property, not a public bulletin board. I shouldn't be in the wrong for not wanting people messing with it who don't have official business doing so (officer leaving a ticket, someone bumped into me and left a note, ect.)
-That mini heart-attack moment when I see paper on my windshield and think I may have gotten a parking ticket does not leave me with a good emotional connotation with whatever it is you're advertising.
-I now have an extra piece of trash to keep track of and move to a trash/recycling can because if I just toss it away from the car, suddenly I'M the littering criminal. For this piece of paper I never wanted and never agreed to take.
-My windshield is my personal property, not a public bulletin board. I shouldn't be in the wrong for not wanting people messing with it who don't have official business doing so (officer leaving a ticket, someone bumped into me and left a note, ect.)
I remember stuffing leaflets of a nature organisation in letter boxes. Fun part was they literally said: "Those mail boxes with stickers on them saying "no unaddressed commercial mail please" or "no advertisements please", be sure to do those! They may be people who care about the environment, so they're our core audience!"
Crappy job, but sort of fun as long as the weather was good.
Crappy job, but sort of fun as long as the weather was good.
Strangely enough, I checked through the laws in our area semi-recently regarding adverts hung on door-knobs; and apparently the home-owner/renter cannot do anything to prevent those advertisements from being hung on their doors unless they're able to put up a gate, and even then the gate has to be kept locked at all times. Gods forbid we impede the efforts of the corporations to make money, eh?
They must be getting paid by Hanes. Until now, I never knew of anyone that had itchy tags. Like Hanes says in there commercials about why they silk screen the tag on the neck of the shirt now. Which looks really trashy if you are wearing a t-shirt with out anything over it now.
I don't really mind in shirts - just a minor annoyance.
However, tags in underwear, now those can be so incredibly uncomfortable I'd prefer going commando if I could get away with it sometimes.
Patently false drama/message on Facebook and the like.
For example, there's currently a story going around (among Belgians) about an old historical building being demolished shortly in Antwerp, to make way for a new hotel. Of course, it's all the fault of those Big Bad Evil Neo-Liberals running the city these days (even though such decisions, if true, would've been taken by the previous, socialist city council...But anyway).
Now, if they really were tearing down this building, it'd be quite a loss. However, it's only recently been granted a subsidy to be completely renovated and redecorated in the original style. Nobody seems to care, though - I've seen a petition with several thousand signatories asking to "stop" the demolition, people calling for a march on city hall, "humorous" songs,...and because of the fantastic quality of print journalism in this day and age, it's already on the website of at least 3 national papers. It's been pointed out in every Facebook group, in the comments of every article on it, eevrywhere, that it's not true, but nothing happens - everyone just goes along with it because, apparently, it's just too much darn fun to piss on the right wing for our left-leaning media to stop and think or check facts. Honestly, this drives me UP THE WALL. STOP IT. Check your facts! Read for yourself, do'nt just repost! GAH!
For example, there's currently a story going around (among Belgians) about an old historical building being demolished shortly in Antwerp, to make way for a new hotel. Of course, it's all the fault of those Big Bad Evil Neo-Liberals running the city these days (even though such decisions, if true, would've been taken by the previous, socialist city council...But anyway).
Now, if they really were tearing down this building, it'd be quite a loss. However, it's only recently been granted a subsidy to be completely renovated and redecorated in the original style. Nobody seems to care, though - I've seen a petition with several thousand signatories asking to "stop" the demolition, people calling for a march on city hall, "humorous" songs,...and because of the fantastic quality of print journalism in this day and age, it's already on the website of at least 3 national papers. It's been pointed out in every Facebook group, in the comments of every article on it, eevrywhere, that it's not true, but nothing happens - everyone just goes along with it because, apparently, it's just too much darn fun to piss on the right wing for our left-leaning media to stop and think or check facts. Honestly, this drives me UP THE WALL. STOP IT. Check your facts! Read for yourself, do'nt just repost! GAH!
figmentPez
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A pet peeve of mine is bad reporting of health news/studies. I just saw an article claiming that eating vegetarian is healthier because vegetarians had a lower BMI. Aside from the fact that the BMI is a load of bullshit when it comes to measuring health, it's pretty damn obvious where the flaw in their research lies. They compared vegetarians to all people who eat meat freely. Vegetarians are on a restricted diet, quite a few people on meat are on a virtually unrestricted diet. They would have done better to compare vegetarians to people who eat meat, but still have to restrict certain foods, like the gluten intolerant, people with other severe allergies, or who otherwise have difficulty eating whatever suits them. Any time you broadly restrict what can be eaten, and end up forcing someone to eat a smaller variety of food, especially if that requires them to think about what they eat, and often cook themselves instead of just living on fast food, then you're going to have people weigh less.
Next, let's compare people who go rock climbing to all other people, and therefore prove that rock climbing is more healthy than any other type of exercise!
Next, let's compare people who go rock climbing to all other people, and therefore prove that rock climbing is more healthy than any other type of exercise!
Cows are vegetarian...
So you're saying it's not eating vegetarian that does it, but eating vegetarians?
--Patrick
I had a sister in-law that thought eating vegetarian would make her thin. She was eating cereal just before going to bed, and not getting any exercise at all... and ballooned up about 50 pounds, while not eating meat.
But when she said how much cereal she was eating and when, I slipped and said "But that is what cows eat."
People proclaiming themselves experts on topics they then go on to prove their absolute lack of knowledge about. I'm a know-it-all myself, with a very wide but rather shallow base of knowledge. I know and accept this. I'm likely to spout off, but when an actual expert speaks, I tend to listen and try to evaluate what they're saying.
Quite hard when self-procliamed "experts" say things that are 100% complete and utter BS.
Brought on by the UN proclaiming an old local tradition racist, and proving they know much about by saying "you don't need a second Santa Claus anyway" - when Santa Claus is a friggin' Coca Colazised version of our Saint Nick! Ours predates the American version* by an easy 200 years. Shut up, if we're going to ditch one of them, it should very definitely be the one not indigenous to our own culture.
Fuck the elftist politically correct church sometime. Really.
*I'm aware it's only been popularized by Coke, and not, as often claimed, invented by them.
Quite hard when self-procliamed "experts" say things that are 100% complete and utter BS.
Brought on by the UN proclaiming an old local tradition racist, and proving they know much about by saying "you don't need a second Santa Claus anyway" - when Santa Claus is a friggin' Coca Colazised version of our Saint Nick! Ours predates the American version* by an easy 200 years. Shut up, if we're going to ditch one of them, it should very definitely be the one not indigenous to our own culture.
Fuck the elftist politically correct church sometime. Really.
*I'm aware it's only been popularized by Coke, and not, as often claimed, invented by them.
Read this as "elfist" and reconstrued the story in my head as being racist against Santa's elves...[DOUBLEPOST=1383064210,1383063760][/DOUBLEPOST]
I would expand this to just 'science reporting.' It's horrible. On so many levels. Misrepresentation, pure ignorance, jumping to conclusions, not reading the actual study, or checking its references (you'd be surprised how many published studies reference studies done by at least one of the participating scientists. This is more a peer review problem, but no reason journalists couldn't do a little background inspection and call both the scientists and their peer reviewers out... I digress).
One of my favourite examples of this was when some physicists reported some funky numbers on neutrinos that seemed to indicate a flaw in their research, because it appeared that they were moving faster than light. Rather than reporting "Scientists make math error, seek collaboration" the headlines were things like EINSTEIN WRONG?! SCIENCE MOVES OBJECTS BEYOND THE SPEED OF LIGHT and when the conclusions came back that, yes, errors were made (which the scientists knew/suspected) the headlines were EINSTEIN SAFE FROM IDIOT SCIENTISTS
I realized this weekend that I have lost my patience with "committee-led" decision making of any kind. I would rather take the worst job that the committee could dish out than to sit on the committee and listening to all the yapping and yipping.
Let's sit and plan out the Thanksgiving menu.
Nope. It's flipping Turkey and dressing and potatoes and pies. Done.
Let's decide how to spend the remaining grant money.
Nope. Just buy more of the everyday-use items and call it a day.
I think my patience for a lot of things is shot right now. Maybe I am just a grumpy ass.
Let's sit and plan out the Thanksgiving menu.
Nope. It's flipping Turkey and dressing and potatoes and pies. Done.
Let's decide how to spend the remaining grant money.
Nope. Just buy more of the everyday-use items and call it a day.
I think my patience for a lot of things is shot right now. Maybe I am just a grumpy ass.
A camel is a horse designed by committee...
Some people also refer to them as "oaths."
Actually, most of the big 7 are vulgarities, not profanities. They are vulgar, not
Swearing to God is an oath.
Swearing at God is a profanity.
--Patrick
