Some Stuff I Love And Don't Love.
Some Stuff I Love Unconditionally:
1. Lukewarm coffees with two sugars.
2. The smell of my current hair conditioner (Schwarzkopf Extra Care Hair Repair Liquid Silk® Gloss Conditioner For Brittle, Dull Hair. I don't think I necessarily have brittle, dull hair - it was just the best value conditioner I could find.)
3. Specific friends and family.
4. The four-minute instrumental at the end of the Derek And The Dominos version of Layla. Fifteen years ago I would sit on the carpet beside the record player listening to that on repeat. Which involved moving the arm of the record player back to the right spot in the vinyl every time the song finished.
Something I Don't Love (...as as aside, my high school French teacher [who may have later been sacked for embezzlement] once told me that his young daughter [who was raised bilingually], when asked if she would like some beans would say [in English] ‘No, I don’t love beans’. It’s cute if you imagine it said by the Yoplait Petit Miam French girl.) Anyway... Something I Don't Love:
1. People who ask “How X is it…?” where X is an adjective stating something obvious or a comparative opinion of the speaker. For example, I have been asked numerous times today, “Man, how hot is it?” Do I look like some sort of listening and speaking thermometer? It’s 41 degrees Celsius in the shade, but I’m fairly sure they don’t actually want their question answered - they don’t mean “How hot is it?”, they mean “it is hot.” Likewise, someone just asked “How good is it that Y Z A B C?” where Y Z A B C is something that I don’t care about at all. I don’t know… moderately good? Not very good? Doubleplusungood? Where does ‘completely insignificant’ fall on the scale-of-good? The latter form of “How X is it…?” isn’t even a rhetorical question, it’s a way of stating an opinion as a question in the hope of some sort of validation or approval from others.
(Something that *is* loveable is that in the 16th and 17th centuries, there was actually a rhetorical question mark. It was the same as a normal question mark, only vertically flipped.
How cool is that؟*)
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*Actually, I think it's so cool that it requires an interrobang. What is an interrobang, I don't hear you ask? Well, you remember when your annoying English teacher told you to stop ending your sentences like this!!!??? Because it doesn't give your questions any more impact, it just makes you look illiterate????!!!! Well an interrobang does the same thing, only in a single character.
How cool is that‽
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1. Lukewarm coffees with two sugars.
2. The smell of my current hair conditioner (Schwarzkopf Extra Care Hair Repair Liquid Silk® Gloss Conditioner For Brittle, Dull Hair. I don't think I necessarily have brittle, dull hair - it was just the best value conditioner I could find.)
3. Specific friends and family.
4. The four-minute instrumental at the end of the Derek And The Dominos version of Layla. Fifteen years ago I would sit on the carpet beside the record player listening to that on repeat. Which involved moving the arm of the record player back to the right spot in the vinyl every time the song finished.
Something I Don't Love (...as as aside, my high school French teacher [who may have later been sacked for embezzlement] once told me that his young daughter [who was raised bilingually], when asked if she would like some beans would say [in English] ‘No, I don’t love beans’. It’s cute if you imagine it said by the Yoplait Petit Miam French girl.) Anyway... Something I Don't Love:
1. People who ask “How X is it…?” where X is an adjective stating something obvious or a comparative opinion of the speaker. For example, I have been asked numerous times today, “Man, how hot is it?” Do I look like some sort of listening and speaking thermometer? It’s 41 degrees Celsius in the shade, but I’m fairly sure they don’t actually want their question answered - they don’t mean “How hot is it?”, they mean “it is hot.” Likewise, someone just asked “How good is it that Y Z A B C?” where Y Z A B C is something that I don’t care about at all. I don’t know… moderately good? Not very good? Doubleplusungood? Where does ‘completely insignificant’ fall on the scale-of-good? The latter form of “How X is it…?” isn’t even a rhetorical question, it’s a way of stating an opinion as a question in the hope of some sort of validation or approval from others.
(Something that *is* loveable is that in the 16th and 17th centuries, there was actually a rhetorical question mark. It was the same as a normal question mark, only vertically flipped.
How cool is that؟*)
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*Actually, I think it's so cool that it requires an interrobang. What is an interrobang, I don't hear you ask? Well, you remember when your annoying English teacher told you to stop ending your sentences like this!!!??? Because it doesn't give your questions any more impact, it just makes you look illiterate????!!!! Well an interrobang does the same thing, only in a single character.
How cool is that‽
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