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Post by BakFu on Jun 16, 2019 21:11:44 GMT
Minor gripes amplified to eleven in my OCD brain, heard them BOTH today (uttered by professional broadcasters) so I had to vent.
“A whole nother”: please stop with this, there is no English word “nother”, not in the context it’s commonly misused in at least .
“Verse” when versus is intended. No, please stop.
Honourable mention: “solar plex”, usually identified as a target by fighting commentators, I wonder if they mean solar plexus?... I will stop now, but is it wrong to hold public speakers to a higher standard when it comes to the stewardship of the language they are speaking? 🙂
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Post by IamAres on Jun 17, 2019 2:10:42 GMT
Minor gripes amplified to eleven in my OCD brain, heard them BOTH today (uttered by professional broadcasters) so I had to vent. “A whole nother”: please stop with this, there is no English word “nother”, not in the context it’s commonly misused in at least . “Verse” when versus is intended. No, please stop. Honourable mention: “solar plex”, usually identified as a target by fighting commentators, I wonder if they mean solar plexus?... I will stop now, but is it wrong to hold public speakers to a higher standard when it comes to the stewardship of the language they are speaking? 🙂 No, I get that, but in my case it bothers me far more in print than when spoken. I feel like anybody, even professionals, can misspeak, but when something is in print, someone has made a conscious decision to send it out like that. I'm a freelance copy editor, and that's one of the reasons it suits me - instead of having to pretend I don't see things that are done improperly, I get paid to make them right. I do agree with there being a higher standard for speaking when it's your job, though. Especially for things like, if you're a boxing commentator, you should definitely know it's the solar plexUS. |
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Post by Severla on Jun 17, 2019 3:37:38 GMT
Oh, man. This reminds me of when radio ads were hyping up Manny vs Floyd for that while. "IT'S GONNA BE A NO-HOLDS-BARRED EXTRAVAGANZA!!" Bruh, it's a fucking boxing match. HOLDS WILL BE BARRED. YOUR CHOICE OF LINGO IS SHIT! Use 'its gonna be a slug-fest!' or some shit in that instance! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2019 14:11:20 GMT
This is all reminding me of a few years ago when the movie adaptation of some teen book (I think "The 5th Wave") was coming out. In the trailer, the protagonist is narrating about her everyday routine and how it's about to be shaken up by aliens. Right before that revelation, though, she says something like, "Little did I know, that was going to be the last normal day."
One of my coworkers and I had the same thought: Wouldn't the day before the alien invasion be the last normal day?
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Post by OrochiGeese on Jun 19, 2019 3:27:03 GMT
Oh, man. This reminds me of when radio ads were hyping up Manny vs Floyd for that while. "IT'S GONNA BE A NO-HOLDS-BARRED EXTRAVAGANZA!!" Bruh, it's a fucking boxing match. HOLDS WILL BE BARRED. YOUR CHOICE OF LINGO IS SHIT! Use 'its gonna be a slug-fest!' or some shit in that instance!  I'm laughing so hard at how big a fail that hype line was. |
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Post by IamAres on Jun 20, 2019 1:36:54 GMT
Oh, man. This reminds me of when radio ads were hyping up Manny vs Floyd for that while. "IT'S GONNA BE A NO-HOLDS-BARRED EXTRAVAGANZA!!" Bruh, it's a fucking boxing match. HOLDS WILL BE BARRED. YOUR CHOICE OF LINGO IS SHIT! Use 'its gonna be a slug-fest!' or some shit in that instance! I'm laughing so hard at how big a fail that hype line was. It's an ALL-HOLDS-BARRED EXTRAVANGANZA!!!! |
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Post by OrochiGeese on Jun 20, 2019 2:43:28 GMT
And if you pay a little extra for the show, they'll create even more holds just so they can bar them as well for your viewing pleasure! 😁
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Post by BakFu on Jul 12, 2019 16:48:53 GMT
I am an admitted cynic, these days to get a laugh, but in the past it was bad. It’s an easy thing to get caught up in, to start things spinning, toss it into a crowd, and watch the chaos ensue. It took me a long time to break that horribly isolating and negative habit, to take myself less seriously, and to begin to think OBJECTIVELY and CRITICALLY instead of reactively. It’s liberating and far more enjoyable to be free of that hair trigger anger and tendency to zoom in on perceived deficiencies, but it takes a lot of work and conscious effort, even now.
Because I’ve made my way through it (mostly) I understand how easy it can be to act that way, more so now that we can hide behind pseudonyms and rarely ever have face to face encounters with those we criticize, but my god, is it just me, or are comments/user reviews/critical reviews cynical at a defcon 5 level these days? Is anyone happy with ANYTHING anymore? I checked out a review for the new lion king, full disclosure, in my opinion this film is a shameless nostalgia cash in by one of the worst offenders of said crime, Disney, but wow, the comments! The reviews were too good, they weren’t good enough, the CG looked like shit, the VO actors were bad, etc. The review itself was less about the film than it was about perceived deficiencies.
I guess I just wonder if there’s a capacity for anyone to just ENJOY things anymore without a cynical lens, will anything ever meet anyone’s expectations again, or is everything just fodder for social media posts and a glut of wanna be and actual entertainment media reviewers cynicism? I am all for opinion, even the ones I don’t like, but it seems people are more interested in discussing what they dislike about things than their impressions of the the actual product (I.e. “I hate Pizza Overlord’s pizza because I sat in gum that was on my chair and the pizza was so I burnt my mouth. One star out of ten”).
I’m going to go hug a tree now. 🙂🌳❤️
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Post by Dawnbr3ak3r on Jul 12, 2019 19:18:11 GMT
I stopped reading entertainment reviews years ago. I'm happier for having done so.
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Post by BakFu on Jul 12, 2019 23:00:39 GMT
I stopped reading entertainment reviews years ago. I'm happier for having done so. I don’t even look at game reviews, I might check a score or two, but I’ve had too much shit totally ruined by reviews. I’m not on social media at all, and I avoid comments like the plague! I just wandered over comments because my wife is interested in seeing the lion king... |
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Post by IamAres on Jul 12, 2019 23:06:50 GMT
Yeah Bak, I see that a lot. Everywhere. Everything sucks for some reason - it's too much like something, it's too different from something, it's too mainstream, it's too low budget. It doesn't sound enough like the old stuff. It sounds too much like the old stuff. It's too easy. It's too hard.
I think a lot of it comes from people trying to sound smart, sound like they're "thinking critically" and not "buying the hype." But it doesn't actually take any more intelligence to dislike something than to like it, especially when it's a knee-jerk reaction or - better yet - something you didn't actually watch/play/listen to/etc.
I mean, I get it to a point. I decided one time that a band was "overrated" about 90% because I'd been waiting to know enough about something to be able to say something like that. I was also 12 and grew out of it. But it seems like a lot of people never do.
And most people don't seem to realize anymore that you can just not like something and move on - it doesn't mean it's a festering pile of flaming shit, or that people who do like it are blithering moronic sheep. It's just, like, actually okay to just like or dislike something.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2019 12:41:22 GMT
I don't think I'm antisocial but I do get tired of people's shit sometimes.
I was walking home from work just now, listening to music and basically minding my own business when some asshole driving by yelled the F slur at me, completely out of nowhere.
Not what I was wanting to use my 100th post on but it's just, WTF man? As if the preceding shift hadn't been physically and mentally draining enough.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2019 7:44:05 GMT
I hate that comedy is basically dead now because everyone has to tip toe around not offending people. The comedy movies we do have now all feel very forced and cringy.
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Post by BakFu on Jul 20, 2019 12:14:19 GMT
I don't think I'm antisocial but I do get tired of people's shit sometimes. I was walking home from work just now, listening to music and basically minding my own business when some asshole driving by yelled the F slur at me, completely out of nowhere. Not what I was wanting to use my 100th post on but it's just, WTF man? As if the preceding shift hadn't been physically and mentally draining enough. I can’t believe that someone had the nerve to randomly call you a Falcons fan! 😡 In all seriousness, it doesn’t make you antisocial to be upset that some insecure loser in the security of a vehicle (I can’t help but see a truck for some reason) decided to dilute the shitty day (shitty life?) he was having by trying to pull you into the shit pool he’d been wading in all day as well. Don’t let the thoughtless actions of one random, faceless coward who is lashing out at people he doesn’t know because his daddy preferred getting drunk and passing out watching Dog the Bounty Hunter to spending time with the charming individual you got to meet. Turn up your music, enjoy walking AWAY from work towards home after a tough shift, and enjoy knowing that this wonderful person has to wake up each day and see his miserable, insecure, bigoted, angry face staring back at him in the mirror every morning! 🙂 |
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Post by BakFu on Jul 20, 2019 12:32:36 GMT
I hate that comedy is basically dead now because everyone has to tip toe around not offending people. The comedy movies we do have now all feel very forced and cringy. Yeah, Bill Burr has funny commentary on your point all of the time in his podcast. He often points out people laugh until the act gets to a topic that they don’t like, they get offended and he then expounds on how ridiculous it is that they came to a comedy show expecting NOT to be offended. He has a lot of examples of the bullshit comics go through nowadays and the challenges therein. The movie thing is really bad, and “forced” is a perfect descriptor. I get a lot of hate from coworkers, but Will Farell, Kevin Hart, super popular “comedic” actors such as those two are in the dictionary next to “forced comedy”. You will NEVER see anything like Something About Mary or Bad Santa ( the first one, the sequel was unnecessary and very forced) again as mainstream theatrical releases. The hair thin margin of entertainment media consumers that make up super sensitive audiences and the production companies that fear them have almost destroyed comedy. I caught the old Wesley Snipes Sly Stallone film Demolition Man in January, and maaan, our world is really starting to look like the bullshit they portrayed there. Scary stuff! |
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