[Rant] Minor Rant III: For a Few Hollers More

Omg that's horrible! What's wrong with people?

Is she going to be ok?
I don't know right now. I'm sure eventually, but I spent last evening helping to feed, shower, and dress her because she could only lift her left arm, which isn't her dominant. I remembered today is going to be a slow day at work, so I'm calling in once my manager is awake so I can help get her to the doctor and whatever else she'll need.

The problem with DC is the people. In NYC, most people using mass transit live there, so while they aren't any more caring or nice than in DC, they do get the way things go and there's a more organic flow to subway travel. But in DC, it's a convergence between DC, Maryland, and Virginia, and everybody making a trip into, out of, or through thinks they're the most important person in the world (especially if they're from our MD county). So this is not the first time someone's hurt her during her commute. It's not even the first time someone's hurt her while exiting the shuttle.

I wish everyone who's ever hurt her could feel exactly what they've made her feel. Not just the immediate physical pain, but the fear, stress, and recurring pain that lasts weeks beyond the initial incident, the expense of missing work and doctors appointments and prescription drugs. Just a wave of all those people suffering the consequences of actions they care so little about that they don't even remember.

But since this is real life, the best I can do is insist she find a new job that doesn't require her going into DC anymore.
 
I don't know right now. I'm sure eventually, but I spent last evening helping to feed, shower, and dress her because she could only lift her left arm, which isn't her dominant. I remembered today is going to be a slow day at work, so I'm calling in once my manager is awake so I can help get her to the doctor and whatever else she'll need.

The problem with DC is the people. In NYC, most people using mass transit live there, so while they aren't any more caring or nice than in DC, they do get the way things go and there's a more organic flow to subway travel. But in DC, it's a convergence between DC, Maryland, and Virginia, and everybody making a trip into, out of, or through thinks they're the most important person in the world (especially if they're from our MD county). So this is not the first time someone's hurt her during her commute. It's not even the first time someone's hurt her while exiting the shuttle.

I wish everyone who's ever hurt her could feel exactly what they've made her feel. Not just the immediate physical pain, but the fear, stress, and recurring pain that lasts weeks beyond the initial incident, the expense of missing work and doctors appointments and prescription drugs. Just a wave of all those people suffering the consequences of actions they care so little about that they don't even remember.

But since this is real life, the best I can do is insist she find a new job that doesn't require her going into DC anymore.
For what it's worth, I'm thinking evil thoughts about the bitch that hurt your wife. Like "get run over by the DC shuttle" type things.
 
I don't know right now. I'm sure eventually, but I spent last evening helping to feed, shower, and dress her because she could only lift her left arm, which isn't her dominant. I remembered today is going to be a slow day at work, so I'm calling in once my manager is awake so I can help get her to the doctor and whatever else she'll need.

The problem with DC is the people. In NYC, most people using mass transit live there, so while they aren't any more caring or nice than in DC, they do get the way things go and there's a more organic flow to subway travel. But in DC, it's a convergence between DC, Maryland, and Virginia, and everybody making a trip into, out of, or through thinks they're the most important person in the world (especially if they're from our MD county). So this is not the first time someone's hurt her during her commute. It's not even the first time someone's hurt her while exiting the shuttle.

I wish everyone who's ever hurt her could feel exactly what they've made her feel. Not just the immediate physical pain, but the fear, stress, and recurring pain that lasts weeks beyond the initial incident, the expense of missing work and doctors appointments and prescription drugs. Just a wave of all those people suffering the consequences of actions they care so little about that they don't even remember.

But since this is real life, the best I can do is insist she find a new job that doesn't require her going into DC anymore.
I hope that she's feeling well soon. I'm shocked that someone would do that. Its good that you can be there today.

I understand you wishing you could pass it on to those people who hurt her! So many people are so thoughtless like that and never understand the effects of what they've done. It's been years and I still get mad sometimes at the dude I feel is responsible for my arm injury. He was so drunk that I doubt he remembers being on the plane, much less how he behaved. I have often wished that he could "enjoy" my arm for a while.
 
This is what I want on my tombstone
I was originally gonna say "the pone tony" but wasn't sure how many other people (besides you) remembered.

@Emrys Just take a closer look at his tagline in the post above mine. Your answer is right there.

--Patrick
 
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Client: Your translation was terrible! It looked like a machine translation! We're slashing your fee!

Me: Show me a translation program that can produce the quality of translation we delivered, and not only will I agree to give you a 100% discount on this case, I will personally pay you one million dollars for the translation software.

Ok I didn't actually say that to the client, but I wanted to.
 

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How do these clients judge the quality of your translations? It would seem they can't speak English or they'd do it in house.
 

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How do these clients judge the quality of your translations? It would seem they can't speak English or they'd do it in house.
If I understand it correctly, they judge the quality according to how likely they think they can bully their way into not paying as much.
 
How do these clients judge the quality of your translations? It would seem they can't speak English or they'd do it in house.
It varies.

For some of them, they have people with the expertise and the English ability to do the translation internally, but they don't have the time and/or they're willing to pay for someone else to do it. Therefore, if we hand back a substandard translation, then they can spot problems pretty easily. What happens next depends on how nice the client is; the nicer ones will edit our translation and send it back to us, so that we can learn from it and hopefully do better next time, while the not-so-nice ones will throw a hissy fit.

For others, they have the expertise in a given field, but not the English ability. Sometimes they really will spot errors in our translation because they know the field better than we do. For example, video game translations often involve some pretty specialized knowledge; a person who isn't a gamer might not know what DPS means, and might use that term incorrectly or awkwardly. ("This character would DPS better than others in the tier" instead of "This character has higher DPS than others in the tier")

There are other clients who are the opposite, they have the English ability but not the professional expertise. For example, they might not be lawyers, but they need a legal contract translated from Chinese into English. In such cases, they might not be able to spot errors in the legal terminology or concepts, but if we have any ungrammatical English then they'll spot it pretty easily. Alternatively, they might be able to spot translation errors because they can see the English doesn't make sense, even if they're not familiar with the legal domain. For instance, if they see a sentence beginning with "Party A and Party A shall collaborate on this project..." then they'll know something's wrong, and that one of those parties should probably be Party B.

Finally, there are clients who have neither the English ability nor the specialized knowledge to pick out errors in our translation. Sometimes these clients only come back with feedback when the translation doesn't work as well as they wanted, for example we had a client complain to us because the contract we translated was rejected by the opposing lawyer for being too hard to understand.

However, all four of the above categories assume the client is behaving reasonably. We also get unreasonable clients from all four categories, who try to complain about our translations for a variety of reasons (bad English, incorrect translations, etc) when they are in fact talking out of their ass. Either their English ability is bad and they try to turn our correct English into incorrect English, or they pick out non-existent mistranslations, or some combination of the two.
 
Speaking of the second phenomenon, I just got a translator who translated "2D card-based RPG" into "binary stuck card RPG game". Yeah, that's gonna piss off the client.
 
I'm imagining trying to translate one of our large reports and I'm so very glad we have professional help!!

Also, my old boss was a very nice person, but he was a google translator. He'd translate from French, do a bunch of edits in English, then google translate it all back and fail to see why that was scary.
 
I'm imagining trying to translate one of our large reports and I'm so very glad we have professional help!!

Also, my old boss was a very nice person, but he was a google translator. He'd translate from French, do a bunch of edits in English, then google translate it all back and fail to see why that was scary.
Like bhamv3, I'm a professional translator (unlike him, I'm government). I have had to deal with an atrocity like this once. Fortunately, I was able to talk to our client who had a STERN talking-to with the offending party. I'm told it was epic. I wish I could have been there. I love working with the CAF.:)
 
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I don't know right now. I'm sure eventually, but I spent last evening helping to feed, shower, and dress her because she could only lift her left arm, which isn't her dominant. I remembered today is going to be a slow day at work, so I'm calling in once my manager is awake so I can help get her to the doctor and whatever else she'll need.

The problem with DC is the people. In NYC, most people using mass transit live there, so while they aren't any more caring or nice than in DC, they do get the way things go and there's a more organic flow to subway travel. But in DC, it's a convergence between DC, Maryland, and Virginia, and everybody making a trip into, out of, or through thinks they're the most important person in the world (especially if they're from our MD county). So this is not the first time someone's hurt her during her commute. It's not even the first time someone's hurt her while exiting the shuttle.

I wish everyone who's ever hurt her could feel exactly what they've made her feel. Not just the immediate physical pain, but the fear, stress, and recurring pain that lasts weeks beyond the initial incident, the expense of missing work and doctors appointments and prescription drugs. Just a wave of all those people suffering the consequences of actions they care so little about that they don't even remember.

But since this is real life, the best I can do is insist she find a new job that doesn't require her going into DC anymore.
How is your wife doing?
 
How is your wife doing?
Thank you for asking :). Not great, but hopefully getting better. The doctor we went to kept us waiting a while, had her do X-rays, then came back into the room and said, "Welp, we'll see you in two weeks." Didn't give any info until I prodded, and I don't think he would've given her any painkillers either.

Fast-forward to a week later when she's supposed to go back to work and the pain is too much, she ends up seeing her own doctor (who wasn't available the day after her accident). He didn't take new X-rays, just looked at the ones from the previous week and saw multiple issues in her neck and shoulder, and a torn muscle tendon ... somehow the other doctor missed all of that.

So now she's on the road to recovery with proper medicine and being told to wear a neckbrace when she's up, and since those changes she's starting to improve range of motion. Hopefully she'll be doing even better next week when she tries to go to work again.
 
Thank you for asking :). Not great, but hopefully getting better. The doctor we went to kept us waiting a while, had her do X-rays, then came back into the room and said, "Welp, we'll see you in two weeks." Didn't give any info until I prodded, and I don't think he would've given her any painkillers either.

Fast-forward to a week later when she's supposed to go back to work and the pain is too much, she ends up seeing her own doctor (who wasn't available the day after her accident). He didn't take new X-rays, just looked at the ones from the previous week and saw multiple issues in her neck and shoulder, and a torn muscle tendon ... somehow the other doctor missed all of that.

So now she's on the road to recovery with proper medicine and being told to wear a neckbrace when she's up, and since those changes she's starting to improve range of motion. Hopefully she'll be doing even better next week when she tries to go to work again.
In the meantime, she can just console herself by swimming in her legendaries.
 
In the meantime, she can just console herself by swimming in her legendaries.
I don't think the painkillers are helping with deck-building.

*gets golden Shaman legendary*
*gets neutral legendary*
*builds Hunter deck of hand-boosting Gadgetzan cards without any legendaries* "It's good!"

Sure it is, sweetie. Sure it is.
 
IGN: "too much pepper 7/10"
Literally inedible. Caused our throats so much irritation that one of our reviewers was hospitalized. For this reason, as a complete failure of food, we are giving this our lowest score of 8/10

*plays paid for promotion for peppereggs: the peppering*[DOUBLEPOST=1488031859,1488031802][/DOUBLEPOST]Alternative: this is the dark souls of eggs
 
On the bright side, I managed to salvage it. Brushed off as much pepper as I could and spooned out as much as I could without losing too much egg. Omelette still wound up really peppery, but not as inedible as IGN claims. :p
 
I got to Walmart and just as I got close to the accessible parking spots, a lady pulled into one. I got a spot nearby. I guess she was the parking police.

There was a family/nfant spot next to her and she waited for that family to get out of their car and was all "I see you're in the family spot. I can't wait to see your beautiful baby!" Omg. I start into the store using my cane and she jogs to catch up me and asks "Now what's your story dear?" and starts to interrogate me about my cane and if my leg is broken. When I explain, she's all you're far too young for that and then starts asking about pain. I walked away. Wtf is wrong with people?? I was so upset.

I didn't even use one of the accessible spots!!! She took the last one?!? She was interrogating my right to the pass!! It's too bad they frown on murder.
 
I got to Walmart and just as I got close to the accessible parking spots, a lady pulled into one. I got a spot nearby. I guess she was the parking police.

There was a family/nfant spot next to her and she waited for that family to get out of their car and was all "I see you're in the family spot. I can't wait to see your beautiful baby!" Omg. I start into the store using my cane and she jogs to catch up me and asks "Now what's your story dear?" and starts to interrogate me about my cane and if my leg is broken. When I explain, she's all you're far too young for that and then starts asking about pain. I walked away. Wtf is wrong with people?? I was so upset.

I didn't even use one of the accessible spots!!! She took the last one?!? She was interrogating my right to the pass!! It's too bad they frown on murder.
You must a being of pure willpower and patience, not having stuck your cane hilt-deep into her rectum.
 
I have a super important medical appointment tomorrow and it would be tough to attend from prison.

Seriously though, I freeze when people are awful to me like that. I never come up with anything nasty to say back. She likely didn't notice the part where I didn't ask her why she had a permit because it's none of my business.

I also get tired of people telling me I look too young to have arthritis or call me dear or sweetheart. Clearly, I'm old enough because here I am. It started when I was a teenager. And do I look young enough that calling me dear or sweetheart seems cool? I can't imagine.

The dear and sweetheart stuff wasn't just the lady today. It's so many people. Even the bank teller where I do my volunteer work calls me that.
 
I got to Walmart and just as I got close to the accessible parking spots, a lady pulled into one. I got a spot nearby. I guess she was the parking police.

There was a family/nfant spot next to her and she waited for that family to get out of their car and was all "I see you're in the family spot. I can't wait to see your beautiful baby!" Omg. I start into the store using my cane and she jogs to catch up me and asks "Now what's your story dear?" and starts to interrogate me about my cane and if my leg is broken.
"None of your concern. Have a good day."

If she persists, "I have half a foot. The other half got broken off in some nosy parker's ass."
 
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