Shoot the Wall (A.K.A. The Rant Thread)

[T.o.b.y]

Even on Sherlock sometimes -- I mean, who the heck paid for that wedding?  (And why didn't they at least pretend that it was somewhere near London?  Did whoever footed the wedding bill also pay for everyone's hotel room?)

 

Oh, weddings can be insane. A young woman at work is getting married this month and neither she nor her husband earn much money, but compared to what they are preparing for, John and Mary's wedding looks positively modest. I have no idea how they are paying for it. Parents? Grandparents? Savings? Loan?

 

I have this theory that Mary has money. I mean, John won't get that rich as a GP, so his apparent change in circumstances must be due to the lady. An assassin could earn quite a lot, couldn't she? Wonder what she told him where her fortune came from. Maybe she said she inherited it. 

 

 

Why are the people in movies mostly rich? Be it comedy, romance, thriller or teen film about serious issues like bullying - anything that's not taking place in another time or universe seems to happen among the well-to-do who live in huge, perfectly furnished and tastefully decorated clean houses, wear stylish, expensive clothes and have impeccable hair and make-up (not to mention flawless skin and bodies). I'm kind of sick of all that...

 

The other side of opinion, there are a lot of movies that are not like that,

Quite a lot pop into my head:

Slumdog Millionaire

The Piano

Water

Up In The Air

About Schmitz

The Fault Is In Our Stars

City of Joy

Children of Heaven

The Chorus/Les Choristes

Hunger Games

Labor Day

Maria Full of Grace

The Perfect Storm

For sitcom, Malcolm In The Middle XD

 

 

The Fault in Our Stars was lovely, but those people seemed pretty well off to me... And those kids were extremely beautiful. Not that I mind much in this particular instance. If you're going to make a film where teenagers die of cancer, you might as well minimize any other kinds of misery in it.

[J.P.]

Even on Sherlock sometimes -- I mean, who the heck paid for that wedding?  (And why didn't they at least pretend that it was somewhere near London?  Did whoever footed the wedding bill also pay for everyone's hotel room?)

The venue owner owed Sherlock something. It was him who planned the whole thing, remember? He may even talked Mycroft to use his superpower. :D

 

Of course, if you make a movie about some desolate reality, it would look desolate. But sometimes things look a bit desolate when it is a happy/normal reality. Also happy people have wrinkles and bad hair days. The only detail from this category that bothers me about the show is the I-don't-shave scene when Mary in her bed and PJ-s is clearly wearing makeup.

[Shadow Dweller]

Someone please explain to this baffled person about why some people appear to only capable to think in one direction and become confused when the circumstances differ slightly from what they had experienced at the past. Even after explained in (very) layman's terms - paper & pencil analogies they still cannot catch the basic principles of the system. I begin to suspect laziness and resistance to learn by using the lame excuse of 'I am technologically-illiterate'.

[J.P.]

Let someone else explain it. Maybe it's just a difference in thinking structure. Happens a lot.

[Carol the Dabbler]

J.P. has a good idea, certainly worth a try.  Different people understand things in different ways.  Like I usually think in analogies, and when I'm trying to make sure I understand somebody's explanation, I'll often rephrase it as an analogy and ask if that's what they mean -- but sometimes they'll say no, it isn't that at all, because they think I'm saying the thing IS the analogy.  (If that makes any sense?)  My point is, it would probably be easier for that somebody to have the conversation with someone who does not think in analogies!

 

But on the other hand, Shadow has a point.  Some people are convinced that they are incapable of understanding math or computers or whatever, and even if you explain using very basic everyday sorts of terms, they simply refuse to understand.  This is presumably similar to some people being unable to understand what a foreign-looking person is saying, even if the foreign person is fluently speaking the local language.  I've heard of Americans in Japan running into that problem -- even if they're speaking Japanese well enough to be understood perfectly well, some Japanese people will just say "Sorry, I don't speak English."  I assume that some Americans are the same way.

 

[J.P.]

Well, it can get even worse - the thing with language. At least it can happen to me :D

 

Long time ago, before cellphones and before I managed to get my own line phone at my flat-shared apartment, I was calling my parents from a phone booth in Mannheim, Germany. I saw a man outside, obviously waiting for me to finish. In the dark he looked quite southern, I assumed he was Turkish, as many Turkish people were living in the area.

As I stepped out, he asked me something I didn't understood. "Sorry?" I asked, and he repeated the sentence - asking me in POLISH, if I just had phoned Poland, as he have heard me talking Polish on the phone (I talked quite loud). I was so fixated on him being Turkish, that when he didn't speak German to me I wasn't able to recognize my own mother tongue.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Good heavens, J.P. -- don't tell me you're human!  :P

[J.P.]

Nop-pe.

Something like that doesn't happen to humans. :D

[T.o.b.y]

Is it normal for a grown woman to feel really hurt when she reads a negative review of a film of book that she really liked? I go out of my way to avoid that sort of article, yet once in a while, I stumble on them in spite of all caution and get the disturbing impression that everything I like is bad, low-brow, politically incorrect or, the worst accusation of all, anti-feminist. I am not anti-feminist! Am I? Oh my god, am I?

 

*Sigh*... I know why I hardly ever read anything about Sherlock outside of this forum or blogs run by dedicated nutcases. I don't even want to know what people in general have to say about that. I just know it's anti-feminist too.

[Shadow Dweller]

I cannot shift the responsibility to explain to another because those people always search for me as the foremost 'expert' in that area (ha!).

 

I am not usually think in analogies but more like a swarm of separate components that sometimes connect with each others depends on what in necessary and not always in the same way. I've had tried analogies using terminologies and concepts from 'their world' and the rote learning ways because I am aware that these people doesn't think like me and used to rote leaning in childhood but still these people keep whining about the same problems even after several times being explained to them and even making sure that they managed to repeat the steps successfully. *sigh* Is there more ways to learn out there (not Kinesthetics because this is a lazy bunch who barely rose from their comfy chairs)? Tried combination of visual and auditory with limited success. It is almost like they have the memory of gnats (haha!).

[SherlockedCAMPer]

My thought:  Have them do cross-crawls (while looking up to their left they alternate right hand to left knee and left hand to right knee for a few seconds), then explain it one last time.  The information should go into their long term memory.  Make it clear that it is the last time to explain it as well.  Have them repeat it back and also teach it to a co-worker.  If they don't have it after that, let them know that they aren't going to be spoon fed like an infant.

[Shadow Dweller]

Did you mean by forcing them to concentrate and cementing the whole thing in their minds as 'unique' experience? Will try it, thank, CAMPer. ^^

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Did you mean by forcing them to concentrate and cementing the whole thing in their minds as 'unique' experience? Will try it, thank, CAMPer. ^^

 

Yep.  You're welcome.

[Shadow Dweller]

When a very bad thing happen because your warning had been disregarded by a bumbling idiot all because the fool feel that he know better despite already proven many times that what you've said will eventually become reality.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Hopefully he'll learn from the experience.  This time.

 

[Shadow Dweller]

... Unlikely. This kind of thing already happened many times at the past. Way too arrogant in his believe that 'I am older than you therefore I know better'. Too bad that age is not necessarily equal with wisdom and ability to learn from experience and that I get that from personal experience on both ends of the stick.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Then I guess you just have to think of him as a force of nature, something beyond your control, and learn to work around him somehow.  :(

 

Either that or borrow J.P.'s banging-head-against-the-wall emotie.

 

[Shadow Dweller]

 

We just received report that it already begin. Now we have to pick up the pieces and trying to restore some resemblance of order.

[Carol the Dabbler]

When a very bad thing happen because your warning had been disregarded by a bumbling idiot all because the fool feel that he know better despite already proven many times that what you've said will eventually become reality.

 

We just received report that it already begin. Now we have to pick up the pieces and trying to restore some resemblance of order.

 

Don't suppose there's any way to make him pick up the pieces?  That way, he might remember.

[Shadow Dweller]

Oh he will remember alright, only to repeat next time with a different case. It is always when feelings and emotions allowed in the driving seat then bad judgements follow.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

That moment you're caught in a back-up because of a crash and have no way to exit to help get around it and people are driving on the shoulder (and even the edge of the grassy ditch) next to you when they shouldn't be.  I felt sorry for the tow truck driver trying to get by about 45 minutes into that mess.  I spent about an hour going 2.5 miles (4 km), that normally takes about 2 minutes.

[Van Buren Supernova]

I come here to rant about frustating stupidity at work then decide it's not worth my precious time here, so just say sorry if I only post meaningless one-liner today.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

That time your son updated a game on his computer when he gets to his dad and 3 hours later it was installing after downloading then 3.5 hours later (aka Now) it's still installing the last 2%.

[Shadow Dweller]

When you become the target of jealousy from someone just because you are a female too. I couldn't care less about her 'achievements' in neatness and aesthetic 'organisation'. If it hinder our long-term objectives then don't blame me for proposing a better arrangement. I do try to accommodate everyone's point of view and wishes but I do not pander to stupid, queen bee-esque behaviour.

[Carol the Dabbler]

That time your son updated a game on his computer when he gets to his dad and 3 hours later it was installing after downloading then 3.5 hours later (aka Now) it's still installing the last 2%.

 

A husband of mine (whose name I shall not mention) does that sort of thing.  He'll start a download before leaving for work in the morning, meaning that our internet service is so slow I might as well not even try to use it that day.      I have recommended that he start downloads at bedtime instead.