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Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Thu January 19, 2023 7:54 am
by Jorge
Right, so what's different about mid? I can tell you what bothers me about it. It's a tossed-off, one-syllable, three-letter tool for quick and easy dismissal, and it's especially ubiquitous right now. Have you noticed how 90% of the time it's used it's not accompanied by any type of elaboration? It's a conversation killer. It doesn't tell you anything about why the utterer found the work lacking, or even if they engaged with it at all. It says nothing, in the most obnoxious way. So yeah it's annoying especially if you value conversations about the art
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Thu January 19, 2023 8:04 am
by Jorge
I guess, as usual, it's not the word itself but the way it's used. "Mid" is more or less a synonym for "mediocre," but you don't really see many people using "mediocre" as a one-word review
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Thu January 19, 2023 8:04 am
by Ello Sailor
Oh no, not the one-syllable dismissal!
Ello Sailor wrote:Didn't Dunkirk do quite well? What's your beef with the Dunk, Jorge?
Jorge wrote:My beef is that it sucks!
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Thu January 19, 2023 8:05 am
by Ello Sailor
Idiot.
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Thu January 19, 2023 8:06 am
by Jorge
See, that's funny. And I had already written a post about Dunkirk
here
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Thu January 19, 2023 8:07 am
by Ello Sailor
Do you ask people who use the word "mid" where you can find their full review?
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Thu January 19, 2023 8:09 am
by Jorge
That's exactly what I'm saying though, that is their full review
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Thu January 19, 2023 8:11 am
by Jorge
Why are you being weird and aggressive about this
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Thu January 19, 2023 8:15 am
by Ello Sailor
Jorge wrote:That's exactly what I'm saying though, that is their full review
How do you know? Maybe their full review is buried somewhere on a Pearl Jam message board.
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Thu January 19, 2023 8:20 am
by Jorge
Yeah maybe
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Thu January 19, 2023 10:09 am
by Higgs
Probably says a lot about my personal media consumption but today is the first time I've ever heard the term 'mid' used in any way that wasn't either related to cricket or meant specifically the mid-point of something.

Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Thu January 19, 2023 12:00 pm
by JuanHamm
Jorge knows more about all of the things he hates than anyone else on the board.
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Thu January 19, 2023 12:02 pm
by Jorge
It's called being terminally online
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Thu January 19, 2023 1:59 pm
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.
There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.
There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.
There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.
O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Thu January 19, 2023 2:07 pm
by Jorge
Which Key and Peele skit?
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Thu January 19, 2023 2:46 pm
by The Argonaut
I'm pretty sure that bringing up Key & Peele skits could be used as evidence that one is, in fact, old and out of touch
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Thu January 19, 2023 2:53 pm
by tree_
"Old and out of touch" is preferable, considering with whom the disconnect is occurring in this scenario
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Thu January 19, 2023 2:57 pm
by The Argonaut
I side with the youths. Children are the future
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Thu January 19, 2023 2:59 pm
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.
There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.
There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.
There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.
O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Thu January 19, 2023 3:00 pm
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.
There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.
There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.
There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.
O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.