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ok that's hyperbole, not worse than The Aviator or Shutter Island for sure, but it did bother me

National holidays are disruptive and annoying. Everyone out on the streets in their stupid cars, sucking up all the oxygen when they should be at work or school. Holiday hours when I wanna buy liquor at 10pm. Mail not coming on time because we just gotta have Christmus and NYE so close together. Just give people more pto, you cheap bastids.

psychopathic epic isn't my favorite scorsese mode either but i think his willingness to give the devil his due as glamorously as possible comes precisely from committed faith in the opposite; reminds me of nabokov saying that his "pretty beastly" characters are "like the mournful monsters of a cathedral facade-- demons placed there merely to show they have been booted out"

National holidays are disruptive and annoying. Everyone out on the streets in their stupid cars, sucking up all the oxygen when they should be at work or school. Holiday hours when I wanna buy liquor at 10pm. Mail not coming on time because we just gotta have Christmus and NYE so close together. Just give people more pto, you cheap bastids.

― Cousin Slappy, Saturday, February 2, 2019 1:44 AM (fifteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

100% otfm

Gilda Radner is way overrated.

Gilda wasn't so much funny as she was beloved. Her characters all skewed adorable.

The use of any font other than Times New Roman is an affectation

man i love me some serifs but even i think that's going a little far

i do still miss the days when all fonts were monospaced though

The use of any font other than Times New Roman is an affectation

You're gonna need to provide context. Use for what? Submitting a manuscript to an editor? I use Georgia when I want serifs, and Arial when I don't. And screenplays are always in Courier New.

take a boring opinion, add some judging, get controversy

My controp is loving typefaces that are out of fashion (Palatino, Goudy, Optima).

I also don't use the word "font" to mean "typeface" but that's a losing battle

I should clarify: when submitting a manuscript to an editor or to anyone else who will most likely change the font anyway

TNR is neutral, readable, and classic. I get that people don't want to use it for resumes because it's basic or whatever, but I think that's silly

and cosign on the monospacing

Ugh YMP Rachel cusk’s books are set in Optima and it makes me not want to read them, defend Optima

Optima, with its sculptural variation in line weight, is the cuddliest of the sans serifs. The most humanist of the sans serifs, IMO. And one of the most readable when used for body text.

No one wants to read an entire novel set in Arial (I think/hope?).

Of course I am pretty much always going to go with a serif as a text face. Sans serifs are mainly display faces, for me. But if you are going to use a sans serif for body text, Optima is one of the more readable choices.

last year i started using some writing software that defaulted to palatino for some reason. can't imagine i've thought of using it since 1994, but it seems fine, so i let it be.

Every font that isn’t comic sans is pretentious

I can’t take writing seriously if if’s in anything else

Word has been defaulting to Calibri for me lately for some reason and I HATE IT LIKE POISON

Garamond is a nice less used alternative to Times New Roman

here for garamond and goudy support

I was listening to a podcast about a case in which a district attorney and a couple of judges were attacked, and some dark part of me felt that, if it's your 9-5 job to lock people in cases for years, sometimes for their whole life, maybe a little blowback should be expected and almost feels like fair play.

That said I do not condone violence ever JUST FOR THE RECORD

cases=cages

They most definitely expect it because it's a thing that happens. But the threat isn't highlighted in most media in order to discourage people from copying that kind of behavior. Powerful targets of crime are protected, while the rest of us are fodder for the wolves.

prob not really controversial but downhill skiing/snowboarding as a leisure activity should be considered a dumb wasteful indulgence and worthy of ridicule. it's dangerous, frivolous, and expensive - all that dumb technical gear, lift tickets, cost of meals at a ski resort, the work required to maintain and patrol a ski mountain, lodging if you aren't a local. what a waste. there are other ways to get outside in the winter that are cheaper, safer, and more enjoyable.

Cosign

it's the golfing of mountains

lol otm

golfing possibly worse on the wasted resources/ecological destruction front

they're both such a to do

Skiing is the only justification for human bodies to continue to exist imo, truly the greatest pleasure in the world and I hope that I die while doing it

what about snowboarding

I hope that I die while doing it

dare to aspire to such hallowed company
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I was listening to a podcast about a case in which a district attorney and a couple of judges were attacked, and some dark part of me felt that, if it's your 9-5 job to lock people in cases for years, sometimes for their whole life, maybe a little blowback should be expected and almost feels like fair play.

― calumy (rip van wanko)

i'm on board with restorative justice but that's not how we get there

and yeah DAs have to take a lot of steps to protect themselves

I learned to ski this year. It was fun.

I've never done downhill, it does seem like it'd have to be crazy fun/thrilling. Was hiking on trail last year that overlaps some of the Telluride runs, and my heart got racing just imagining flying down the mountain at high speeds with these skinny lil sleds strapped to each foot.

You can die playing golf too, of course

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_White_(footballer,_born_1937)

it's definitely a pain in the ass but skiing is really grebt

Rollercoasters = Dud

I've never been on a rollercoaster

Are there any rollercoasters in Those Isles, they don’t seem suitable for the culture there

sledding on the other hand is a pure joy. we’ve had the same flexible flyer sleds in my family for almost 50 years and now my boys ride them. just bring them to the local hill and it is easy and fun, we’re back in the house in a couple hours without having spent anything

xp. yes, we have rollercoasters. i grew up a couple of miles from a theme park

I have enjoyed snowboarding but prefer skiing

I actually used to instruct at small but enjoyable hills in Ontario

This past Christmas, I skied for two days at Whistler-- only my fourth or fifth time doing actual big-ticket skiing. I had the best run of my life, skiing with my brother down Symphony Bowl through perfect powder into some untouched glades. The experience was so beautiful and moving that I actually started crying while approaching the lift.

I have been teaching my boyfriend to ski also, but we stupidly set his DIN settings too high on his skies, and he twisted his ski and it didn't pop off as it should've, and he suffered an ACL injury-- this was on his third run. We had bought him new boots for the trip, plus the cost of flights out there? Big bummer. Still, while we were sitting there under the chair, waiting for the ski patrol to come and take him to the clinic, he said 'this is still the most fun I've had ever, I feel like I'm in a Coors Light commercial'

Skiing is ridiculously expensive and unless you're going to be one of those people who lives by a mountain and does only hike-up backcountry, it takes time and dedication to have a transcendent experience, but when it does happen, it really makes me feel like it's the only reason bodies and money and gravity and winter exist

I've never been on a rollercoaster

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver)

me neither

I'm too afraid to ski, but now that I live in Quebec and not Illinois, its non-frivolity is clearer. Golf is an atrocity.

prob not really controversial but downhill skiing/snowboarding as a leisure activity should be considered a dumb wasteful indulgence and worthy of ridicule. it's dangerous, frivolous, and expensive - all that dumb technical gear, lift tickets, cost of meals at a ski resort, the work required to maintain and patrol a ski mountain, lodging if you aren't a local. what a waste. there are other ways to get outside in the winter that are cheaper, safer, and more enjoyable.

Actually that’s not really a counterpoint

Eh, Michael Schumacher still elicits my pity.

Skiing is ridiculously expensive and unless you're going to be one of those people who lives by a mountain and does only hike-up backcountry, it takes time and dedication to have a transcendent experience, but when it does happen, it really makes me feel like it's the only reason bodies and money and gravity and winter exist

otm

i used to feel that way, someone who made multiple trips every winter to vermont, a few major trips to california and nevada, had all the snowboarding gear chasing a perfect run but it came to a point after i had seen life-altering injuries happen to family, suffered a concussion myself, and added up the cash both sides of my family have cumulatively spent on this dumb sport and i think i have had enough. the last few times i've gone the greatest emotion i felt was relief at the end of a run having made it down without breaking a limb or worse.