RL Peeves

junipersky

My husband is #2 and I have been working lately to break him of that habit by interrupting and going, “I know this, please move on.” (His field is communications/journalism so explaining to the uninformed is literally all he does!)

I would like to get to the point where he assumes I know everything and then I can ask specifically what I don’t know.

Aria

I am HARDCORE #2 here and yes, it’s largely from fear of being misunderstood or unclear. The fact that I went to school for English and work in (financial/technical) communications, so I both enjoy words and am paid to use lots of them, does not help.

But I know that about myself, so I try to confine it to things I think people sincerely don’t know or that I think I’ve explained badly and thus need repeating, again, and maybe one more time for good measure, just to be sure, because I’m probably rambling…

Not, like, staring someone in the face and explaining what they just said.

Basically I think that I’m the blathering idiot in the conversation, not the other way around. I have far more patience for people who seem to be doing the same than people who seem to be doing the opposite.

GF

@Pavel said in RL Peeves:

Whatever the fuck Cenk Uygur does in the above example.

I think I would describe it as, “No, honey, you did good, but let me show you how it’s done.”

Testament

Is it a peeve if I’m really happy that my birthday present from my fiance was a literal sword, but at the same time, my sandal caught on tree root while walking around at the ren faire I got said sword at and likely tore a muscle in my calf?

Would that be a net zero peeve? Because I can’t tell.

hellfrog

@Testament swords are the best presents! and knives!

I’m sorry about your calf, though.

GF

Why do I read the comments on videos talking about She-Hulk: Attorney At Law? I really have no one but myself to blame for how I’m feeling right now.

Solstice

@hellfrog

In moderation. ALL THINGS IN MODERATION.

I was a teenaged geeklet when Fellowship of the Rings came out. My mother for some reason decided that she was going to be the coolest parent ever and get me replica of Aragorn’s ‘Strider’ sword. I was over the moon. I loved the hell out of it and ran around all over the back yard with it, pretending I was a cool ranger. Shut up, it’s a really cool replica.

Things escalated quickly. My mother latches onto themed gifts. Because that sword was a hit, well…

I now have Strider’s Sword, a Bowie Knife, a Kukri that my grandfather received as a gift when he was an ambassador, a survival knife with flint, a machete, a dagger…

It all sits in my closet. Whenever I move, I dread the ‘I’m carrying so many knives’ car ride and try my damnedest to obey all traffic laws. To this day I dread Christmas, as there seems to be about a solid 45% chance that my amount of cutlery will continue to grow.

I will say that the one time I thought I had a home invader, it was very reassuring to flip the lights on, roll out of bed, and break out THE MACHETE AND THE KUKRI.

… it was just the apartment settling, but damn it, I was so ready.

Testament

@Solstice If you’re going to fight someone in a contained area such as an apartment, smaller blades work better. So I highly approve of the Kukri, as it’s one of my favorite small blades. Because it was literally designed for decapitation. And the fact that, traditionally, soldiers who carried that knife were terrifying.

Another fun fact, most sailors or pirates on sailing vessels didn’t carry cutlasses or other swords, most generally carried hand axes, as they doubled as weapons and as tools. Much easier to fight when being boarded and in the ship’s lower decks.

Arkandel

@Solstice I have little experience burglarizing places but I think it’s fair to say if I engaged in nocturnal activities of this sort then running into a kukri-and-machette combo would make me reconsider my life’s choices in an awful hurry.

Solstice

@Testament

Please don’t tell my mother that axes exist.

Jumpscare

Do you ever just dream up an entire novel series? And then get sad that it doesn’t exist?

Even worse, I woke up just before reading the final chapter, so I have no idea how it ends. Did the main character accidentally release hell on earth during her quest to find her missing sister and escape back to earth? Was the demon actually going to return her sister? Why did the demon say that all will be revealed at an art show in the middle of nowhere? What was the significance of that one artist’s missing portfolio?

I had 20 pages to go, and now I’ll never know.

Arkandel

@Jumpscare said in RL Peeves:

I had 20 pages to go, and now I’ll never know.

Write it down! And then you just have to fill up a measly 20 pages to finish it up.

Jumpscare

@Arkandel said in RL Peeves:

@Jumpscare said in RL Peeves:

I had 20 pages to go, and now I’ll never know.

Write it down! And then you just have to fill up a measly 20 pages to finish it up.

If only! I’m not as good a writer as my subconscious. I have no idea what it was planning.

Aria

Apparently, I lack an entrepreneurial mindset.

“We invented all-new chips made from 100% fruit as a snackable alternative to high fat, heavily processed snacks and are bringing them to market in the United States next year. As an added bonus, we uncovered a way to render our waste into a grummy, fruit flavored sheet packaged as individual rolls.”

“…So you learned how to use a dehydrator and invented fruit rollups. Cool, cool.”

‘“It’s like Amazon, but for books!”
“Dude, Amazon WAS for books.”
“Yeah, but I mean like Kindle Unlimited, where you can borrow things and return them!”
“…That’s a library, bro. They already exist. And also they are free.”’.

If I have to listen to one more “entrepreneur” blather on for an entire hour about their personal journey as an “industry disrupter”, I am going to fucking cut someone.

stare

Arkandel

<mansplains how these are ACSHUALLY valid examples of industry disruption>

<@Aria smacks him on the head with a wet fish>

Ow!

GF

Garfield Eats.

Aria

@Arkandel I mean, fruit rollups are awesome. If someone has made them organic and also somehow not horrible for you, that’s cool. I’m down. But they’re not a “snack industry disruptor” and they need to calm the fuck down.

SpaceKhomeini

@GF

You too have witnessed this horror.

This guy is just openly a shameless huckster. It’s kind of refreshing to me if I look at it a certain way.

GF

@SpaceKhomeini Yeah, any time discussions of entrepreneurs come up, my brain immediately goes to Nathan Masri.

Snackness

If any of y’all are in college and your professors get after you for not reading?

Those fuckers don’t read either.

ETA: Okay I talked to the particular person I was mad at on the phone and she’s actually a really sweet old lady so I feel bad that I called her a fucker on here, but she still didn’t read.