The Complaining and Bitching Thread

What poetry are you trying to read?

Also realize that poetry is like the longest distance from point A to point B.

Similarly: people still paint despite everyone having a camera in their pocket everywhere they go.

It's often not about the destination but about the journey. Otherwise the poet would just come out and say, "I'm sad because my dog died." That's journalism, not poetry. It's information, not a shared experience or an evocation.

 

Don't you have some sportsball game to watch on TV?

You know, to watch some overpaid men play a child's game that entails taking a ball and putting it somewhere before the other team does? You know, watch them keep track of how many times certain players do certain things ad absurdum?

You know, so you can get all excited and cheer when the team you arbitrarily support gets more *air quotes* points *air quotes*?

Yeah, you must have time for that.


Also, relevant:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fraSdN-PG8

 

You must really hate novels. They're so fucking long, amiright?

50,000+ words...sometimes over 100,000 words? Just tell me what fucking happened in the lame story already! (It's not even true!)

 

In high school, girls like you would eat me for breakfast.

I'd secretly take my revenge on them in heroic couplets.

 

Same impact.

 

On the contrary, I would bet that Mr. Guru has read a great deal of shitty poetry in his line of work.

 

GERD sucks. I haven't had a flare-up this bad in ages. Thought I had it back under control after a bad day earlier this week, and woke up at 4am in terrible pain and unable to go back to sleep. No antacids other than baking soda in the house, but that's not strong enough to work today. I guess I need another round of proton pump inhibitors. I'm so glad those things are OTC now.

 

Stupid YouTube comments on videos demonstrating martial arts techniques....

First, these videos are demonstrations, which are often contrived for—oh, I don't know—demonstrative purposes.

Second, the people with these stupid comments often don't look at the big picture, and reveal a lack of understanding regarding the techniques. Comments like "This is stupid! What about the guy's free right hand...and your unprotected face?!" don't take into account at least a few things:

1) No technique is absolutely free from threats, and they usually therefore rely on speed, precision, misdirection, and surprise to handle resistance and avoid counterstrikes.​

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2) You should never assume that a technique will always work; that's why you have variations and other techniques entirely, depending on situations and outcomes.​

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3) Your free right hand may be completely useless to you when your left wrist shoots excruciating, agonizing pain and is at risk of breakage if you don't submit to the control of your opponent.​