1. The charm of misunderstood English.
2. Teenage daughter is "literally standing outside" and needs Dad to "literally arrive."
3. Beauty is not in perfection, but flaw.
4. "No, we don't use that word."
5. "You didn't have to be so mean about it."
6. "Can you give me directions?"
7. Straight talk on what's actually recyclable.
8. When shrews cross open territory.
9. Your friend with unrelatable problems.
10. "Can you stop, like stop, whatever you're doing right now?"
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My favorite is #1.
It takes me back to my one visit to Japan 20 years ago. Walked a fashionable district in Tokyo and it seemed most of the young people wore shirts with English lettering and most of the lettering made no sense. But nice look when not everyone wearing extra large.
That is to say, #1: Engrish.
B/c I’m a sap:
1. Flawed perfection. I once bought a wicker rocker that I never used(the seat, ugh)but, it belonged to an old lady who lived in my hometown who had passed away. Nostalgia is my middle name!! And I think the beautiful flowers are poppies. Mine are blooming and I picked one from its bent stem, put it in water- it opened like a plate. I’m thinking like Georgia O’Keefe: why are the canvases too small?!
2. We don’t use that word. We are all CREATED equal. Legislation will try to take this man out. It certainly will for anyone special enough to get an extra chromosome. Progressive thought: some are more equal than others.
Runner up up- the non-relatable friend. Haha. Even if there we’re such a thing as… how cool would that be?! Seriously, I mean. Seriously.
Love #2, however could not share to my relevant parent, (not on Tik-Tok.)
I really like the teacup in #3. I have a tablecloth that was my grandmother's that also has that well-loved appearance. I call things that are worn from use as being well-loved because of "The Velveteen Rabbit".
"Weeks passed, and the little Rabbit grew very old and shabby, but the Boy loved him just as much. He loved him so hard that he loved all his whiskers off, and the pink lining to his ears turned grey, and his brown spots faded."
#6.. metaphor alert.
Stop.
Mary Beth:
That’s my favorite!!!
Number 7. Hate, hate, hate that people do not understand the engineering/economics of recycling. Doesn't matter if your city accepts it, if it doesn't pay, it's going in the landfill. Stop feeling virtuous!
#5 drives me crazy.
Why is being direct considered "mean"?
I would have made my statement more direct.
#5 "Sir, you need to be a passive ninny like the rest of us."
"Better to swerve over the cliff and die than be.... MEAN."
#5 is not the best, but at least explains to me why people in Minnesota apologized to the rioters as they were destroying their city back in 2020.
I liked the last one- Gaslighting- the best. The rest were not hitting me tonight.
I also liked the recycle one because he pretty much said what many of us know by now: Nothing much actually gets recycled so why are we continuing to separate our goods into two different containers, having two different crews pick things up, and then bring them to the same facility?
Anyway, I might have liked the friend with unrelatable problems, but I could not understand her. Maybe I'm tired.
Awesome collection!
Who wouldn't love the shrews?
Tablecloth clip is fraught with significance.
Friend with unrelatable problems has marvellously expressive face.
Recyclables -- aroooo! Why don't local govts. stop with the mandatory virtue signaling?
Mother and son genuinely moving. But I wish she had also answered his question, e.g. "Retarded is a cruel way to say that some people are more mentally quick than you. You however are top of the heap in kindness which is more important and valuable."
OK. 7-10 are pretty good.
#7 is something people don't really care about. Re-cycling plastic is right up there for virtue signaling, but is as earth saving as ethanol, which means negative. Thirty years ago I tried to give away a half million obsolete empty plastic shampoo tubes. The recycler said he would take them for a fee since he couldn't recycle them. The cap was a different plastic than the tube, ergo either take the caps off or they get go to the landfill. Nothing has changed.
My top vote goes to #10
Hard not to marvel at the tight and obedient formation of the baby shrews but then it made me think of normalizing drag queen story hour...miracles of natural behavior can be taken advantage of.
Watched #6 a couple of times...I'm a sucker for funny falls and trips.
Intrigued by the shrews. "Can you give me directions?" was slapstick humorous.
#1 - I used to occasionally see random fake school shirts in NYC on foreign tourists. I love when the shirts are garbled phrases. Plus, I looked at some of her other ones, like random things to buy at Daiso. Fun.
#5 - who knew people in MN had the same attitude as those in WI? Except if that video were made in WI, they’d all be holding beers. As they should be.
I’m going with number seven because it appears to be the least non performative of the lot.
I’m going to literally go in the directiontaively opposite of performativity.
On the topic of misunderstood English, one of her examples— cheminer — is actually French. It is a verb meaning to walk or advance forward. Just sayin’.
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