Pet Peeve rants.
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Fig, you don't know how many times I've dug my fingers into my palms reading about scientific advances in biology and health in mainstream news.
I was just arguing with a friend (not the brightest) about why she should get flu vaccinations. Long story short: she saw a video on Youtube of a girl that claims to have to walk backwards (I shit you not) because of taking a flu shot : http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/desiree-jennings-dystonia-hoax.
Anyway, she's convinced that one in a million (hundreds of million) chances to get some weird side-effects justify not taking the vaccine (she'd rather deal with the flu). See that's thinking on an individual level. Vaccination works at a population level. Because she and many other people refuse vaccination, they have longer periods of being contagious. Influenza is an amazing display of how evolution works. It's genome goes though antigenic shifts, antigenic drift, and has a high mutation rate. Really, the only true way for seasonal flu vaccines to be extremely effective is if almost everyone is vaccinated. Unvaccinated people pose a huge risk for immune compromised people, infants, and elderly.
My friend still doesn't believe me; she thinks because I work in pharma that I'm in on some sort of huge conspiracy to keep people sick. If that were the case, I want my sweet, sweet conspiracy money. She's an idiot. And she's not alone. I don't know where people get off thinking experts and medical professionals are wrong, but mainstream media and celebrities are to be trusted. The sad thing is, this line of thinking then extends to other viruses, which is why there's a recent increase in measles, mumps, polio, and whooping cough (pertussis).
Does this friend live in Florida... I LOVE the "I don't wanna see anything from the freak" feature on facebook, I can go look when my wife starts really laughing at something she posts, but don't have to put up with the bs that she posts hourly.
I have my Vaccination booklet up to date with all my shots. I really dont understand why people would hesitate to take em. The chances of having some kind of reaction are so minimal I might as well get hit by lightning.
They would rather kids have very real odds of getting Polio, I suppose. I can't stand "truthiness" logic. It's the same kind of mentality that drives people to play the lottery. Humans are horrible at rationalizing the odds of somethings.
Zappit
Staff member
At least the lottery won't cripple/kill you.
It's crazy how such irrational fears towards vaccines is becoming mainstream. This originated from one discredited study from a doctor proven to be a fraud. Yet, even knowing that, some of those believers still insist the study had some truth to it.
(Most) Everyone knows pro wrestling is fake. Everyone knows that silhouette Loch Ness Monster photo is fake. Yet very real things backed up by mountains of data - vaccines, the moon landing - THESE are things people doubt!?,
I feel like if you buy a lottery ticket, you should be forced to take a remedial math class, or struck by lightning.
My neighbor tried telling me their 2 month old got whooping cough from the vaccine (their pediatrician told them it was bronchiolitis, btw, and RSV has been going around). I pointed out that their older child had a respiratory infection before the baby got sick. Also, the older child likely picked it up at the doctor's office during the baby's appointment since you cannot get whooping cough from the vaccine. I got a sarcastic, "Well, that would be the logical answer" in return. 
How havent you strangled that woman?I got a sarcastic, "Well, that would be the logical answer" in return.
Zappit
Staff member
Interestingly enough, strangling is one of @WasabiPoptart's other Pet Peeves.
*trying to sound like Austin Powers* She was a man, baby!
I generally like him and his wife. Newer parents sometimes think stupid things when their kids are sick. I know I did when my son was a baby. Plus this guy is usually a rational, intelligent person, so I chalked it up to lack of sleep (a 2 month old and a nearly 2 year old who are sick at the same time means mom & dad are up all hours of the night and he had to work too).
I know right?!? Strangling is so uncouth. I'm not a mafioso. lol
Especially when chloroform gets you the same silence with no killing, amirite?
Yes, exactly.
The reason those words are reviled as much as they are today is because of the people who used them. These words were associated with those lower-class people, and therefore anyone who used those words was considered to be no better than those lower-class people. "Vulgar" means "tasteless (lacking taste)," "common/ordinary," or "crass," as it referred to the plebes themselves, so it is not so much a synonym for "bad" as it would be for "undesireable."
--Patrick
On our microwave all you have to do is push "1" for 1 minute ,"2" for 2 minutes, etc. Once it's going you can add time by just pushing the number for the time you want to add. We use the defrost function alot, all you have to do is type in the weight for the item and hit start and it goes to defrosting. It's a GE.
We got an inverter microwave just to combat this. When you set it for 5:00 at 50% power, you get 50% power for 5 minutes, not 5 minutes of cycling 100% power half the time and 0% the other half. I really enjoy the "reheat" option that merely warms your food back up instead of doing nothing to half of it and turning the other half into lava.
--Patrick
How with some series Netflix will have random episodes missing. Why? I am all ready paying you to watch this service, why limit me as a viewer? Its fucking irksome dammit!
Not to go all, "I studied Latin for three years" on you, but I studied Latin for three years, and this isn't exactly accurate; it's sort of the end of the evolution of that word. Vulgus was 'common people' and 'vulgate' was the 'language of the common people/colloquial language' - the Latin that the commoners used day-to-day. The Bible was translate into Vulgate for instance, to make it more accessible.
Vulgar meant common, it came to mean crass, or foul, but this was an action of the English in the 15th century, not the Latin contemporaries of the 'vulgus' - for whom there were other insults.[DOUBLEPOST=1386001561,1386001468][/DOUBLEPOST]
This is like twice in a month a professional has legitimised my layman's vexation at something. Er, viz., my vulgar vexation
Please do! I studied Latin for 0 years, but I studied Latin(esque) languages for 9(ish) years, which enables me to make some pretty educated guesses.
And if I do not know when/how I am wrong, however will I learn? Learning to accept that I am wrong more often than I would like took a looooong time (and I'm not all the way there), but the rewards are fantastic.
--Patrick
Being wrong is actually pretty neat, if you let it be. Learning is fun. Now to go back to past Leigh and tell him...
Negative reviews on the internet where the reviewer seems to be writing with the vocabulary of a Victorian era aristocrat (i.e. overuse of words like "simply" and "obviously").
Cajungal
Staff member
Learn your students' names. It matters. If you mispronounce their name every day, they notice. The youngest sibling now mispronounces his last name and corrects his parents about it. That should not happen. Learn your students' names. Sound it the fuck out. IT SOUNDS EXACTLY HOW IT LOOKS! We're teachers, for God's sake.
Teachers who are so sure of names were a pet peeve of mine. We had a fellow in my high school whose name was Roberto. It was pronounced very 'anglicised' if you will, no rolling of the R, no emphasis on the middle syllable. It was 'rober-TO'. But we had a teacher in one of our classes, who, despite Roberto's protestations, affected a hispanic accent and called him ro-BER-TO with a slight rolled R at the of BER... I realise this is hard to describe. Anyway, the point is:
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Obviously you do not not under the natural and correct way to simply dispose of a given piece of rubbish with high criticism.
"...facebook, twitter, and remember to subscribe!" SHUT UP, EVERY CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE
Every video ends this way. It is particularly annoying that the last 30 seconds of video are taken up by them asking for your subscription when you've subscribed. If there was some way you could disable that...
Also, turning off annotations in YouTube settings does not actually keep them off. Mother fucking...
Every video ends this way. It is particularly annoying that the last 30 seconds of video are taken up by them asking for your subscription when you've subscribed. If there was some way you could disable that...
Also, turning off annotations in YouTube settings does not actually keep them off. Mother fucking...
"If you don't share this, it shows you're ashamed to show your support for [God/gay rights/abortion/anti-abortion/puppies/muffins/feeding the hungry/pick your cause] publicly."
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Two days ago I couldn't help myself and blurted out, in counter to the word 'natural', "Arsenic is natural!"
