start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

Ha ha when I have dinner with the in-laws I always have to have a phone ready to investigate the Russian news site stories they present as fact

Do people who get their news from RT realize it's a Russian propaganda site and just not care or do they have no idea?

they probably think Rotten Tomatoes expanded into news

Tbrr, some of my loved ones take Rotten Tomatoes user reviews as written gospel, so it's not much of a stretch.

Apparently there is a trend (I don't know how much of a trend it really is) of parents who bring babies on flights giving out "apology" notes/gifts to their seat neighbors? FUUUUUUUUUCK that shit. But also fuck those people for their passive-aggressive excessive niceness and/or excessive self-deprecation. It's a baby. It's what adults start out as. Sometimes they need to go places, even by airplanes. This has been happening since there were commercial flights.

Apparently there is a trend (I don't know how much of a trend it really is)

Words to live by.

I thought it was bullshit when I first read about it, but a guy just suggested it in a facebook parent group (although maybe he just read about it in the same article, IDK).

I'm willing to give parents a pass who have little babies that cry and scream on a flight, but once they get to toddler age or order, they gotta lock that shit down.

toddlers being renowned for their compliant nature...

It doesn't sound worse than when neighbors stick I'M HAVING A LOUD PARTY THIS SATURDAY notes in others' mailboxes.

But yeah, there better be a gift attached to that note, not just some fancy pompamoose calligraphy.

It doesn't sound worse than when neighbors stick I'M HAVING A LOUD PARTY THIS SATURDAY notes in others' mailboxes.

wish more neighbours did this

I'm willing to give parents a pass who have little babies that cry and scream on a flight, but once they get to toddler age or order, they gotta lock that shit down.

― Moodles, Sunday, 25 February 2018 19:58 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No

Don't bring babies

Babies don't need to fly

Babies got by without flying for millions of years

and vaccines! oh wait

First time I took my then-baby from China to the UK (for my sister's wedding) we got stuck in a landing formation for about an hour just as he needed milk, and the crew wouldn't let us stand up to make milk for him as the seatbelt lights were on and he was screaming like he's never screamed before, the whole plane were glaring at us and we'd been up for 36 hours and had just made the mistake of accepting free cocktails. Sure it wasn't nice for anyone there, but would wager we did worst out of it.

I'm sure we have a thread for the argument but I'm not sure it's a comparison exercise that the other passengers had in mind

Lol we rarely take our toddler out in public but when we do I don’t give a flying fuck whether some meat bag is annoyed

No

Don't bring babies

Babies don't need to fly

Babies got by without flying for millions of years

― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Sunday, February 25, 2018 5:09 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so did whiny adults

However, I hate the twee parents who hand out sorry-for-my-kid goodie bags almost as much as the complainers

When I punch a whiney adult their dad normally isn't around tbf

IA thread making people IA news @11

My parents took me on a plane when I was two years old and it was such a bad idea that I didn't fly for another twenty years.

did they honor your return ticket after so long?

the return trip was the bad experience

No one wants to go home from Disneyland.

it was disney world! good guess

this is irrational nerd shit but modern books that use Wade-Giles instead of Pinyin for transliterating Chinese really wind me up

i’m planning a taiwan trip and that exact thing is shitting me to tears atm

instead of writing “kaohsiung” or “gāoxióng” or “ㄍㄠ ㄒㄩㄥˊ” i’ve taken to writing characters literally all the time because they’re the only universal/transportable standard that exists

Pinyin just feels cleaner and easier to read and i don't know why anybody would persist with the other systems

in taiwan it’s political (even though technically they should have been using pinyin for a decade now, and not bopomofo which is still in alllll the children’s books)

i assumed politics came in somewhere

yeah, you can time the historical split by which standards differ across the strait (prc putonghua is basically the same as roc guoyu, but prc enforced e.g. simplified characters after chiang kai-shek had already fled)

sorry ia chums, this is niche

niche ia's are the best ia's

well, worst

my chinese language ia list would stretch for miles but nobody would care

e.g. that one kid who’s been studying for nine weeks and is all “look i can write!!! witness my genius” and then completely disregards proper stroke order

btw nv i’m super curious about how wade-giles came up in your morning

Wade-giles is still used quite a bit in restaurant names and menus in north america which is weird

Los angeles is pretty good about using pinyin but the problem with that is most people don’t know how to pronounce it so they still end up butchering it

I try to keep up but we have our own problems in japanese that take priority; e.g., hepburn, revised hepburn, nihon-shiki and kunrei-shiki. It’s less of a mess than the romanization of chinese though

xp

i'm reading a translation of the Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian and it uses Wade-Giles despite being published in 1994

(this is not work-related, shhhhhh)

wow, sounds like a slog

no it's great i love old history books

this ebook i bought has a ragged right margin.

(there's an option in calibre that'll do this for you, i guess i didn't click it when i installed it on the new laptop)

ragged right 4 lyfe. it's not about the destination it's about the journey.

the state of formating and proofreading in ebooks is pretty shocking, even in the ones i pay actual money for

this one has 64 pages of TOC. and 250 pages of notes. each page or the text with one or more notes on it has it's own page for those notes. and each page of notes has it's own entry in the toc...

(new penguin classics translation of les miserables - 2 quid from amazon, but i've put it through calibre which probably hasn't helped. also, it was 1500 pages of text to start with. tonight i'm going to pull it apart and make it 5 separate books, one for each volume, which i'd already started doing with the gutenberg version)

> ragged right 4 lyfe.

books don't do this, why should ebooks?

turned up starving for a pathology test, the queue was so long i had to leave. fasted for nothing.

someone could have said “oh hey, bit busy, just letting you know this could go on for fucking hours”

but no

Being in that netherworld outside of your residence - like walking the dog or starting to drive away - where you're still connected to your wifi but are far enough away that it doesn't actually work so you have to shut the wifi off manually to get shit to work.