Chat Thread: Chopsticks and teacups

[AniMajor]

Bastemhet

maenad nuri

this is my least favorite part of choreographing ... the counting of the bars.

You can do it! *thumbs up*

In other random thoughts: Anybody else hate the T.V.? It literally hurts me to have the constant noise of commercials and laugh tracks in the background. I call it "noise pollution." I end up retreating to my room before the headaches it causes get progressively worse. gonk

It only bothers me when I'm really, really tired. Otherwise, I really enjoy having it as background noise.  

[Fiddlers Green]

CuAnnan

While we're playing "chance the arm", "pics or it didn't happen". wink

'Twere I not so good at SERE, there would be picks, but alas, I was discrete enough that you will merely have my word, and that of those at the party when I left and returned, one of my friends bit my hair and she can vouche-safe for the salt content from the ocean.
Remember, photoshop can lie... Knights can't.

Edit:Well, there is sorta a pic related, see the album.  

[Calixti]

Bastemhet

In other random thoughts: Anybody else hate the T.V.? It literally hurts me to have the constant noise of commercials and laugh tracks in the background. I call it "noise pollution." I end up retreating to my room before the headaches it causes get progressively worse. gonk

I'm like that. I only turn it on to play my Gamecube or watch a DVD, any other time it's just a pain (often literally). Part of what makes visiting my family such torture, is that they keep it running constantly, even if no one's watching it. gonk  

[Fiddlers Green]

Bastemhet

In other random thoughts: Anybody else hate the T.V.? It literally hurts me to have the constant noise of commercials and laugh tracks in the background. I call it "noise pollution." I end up retreating to my room before the headaches it causes get progressively worse. gonk

I hate when people learn their social interaction from (so called) Reality-TV.
As for the actual noise, I rarely let it stay on long... altho I once was awoken by the couch-girl playing the Squid-Billies a bit too loud. confused  

[niamhybeag]

Fiddlers Green

Bastemhet

In other random thoughts: Anybody else hate the T.V.? It literally hurts me to have the constant noise of commercials and laugh tracks in the background. I call it "noise pollution." I end up retreating to my room before the headaches it causes get progressively worse. gonk

I hate when people learn their social interaction from (so called) Reality-TV.
As for the actual noise, I rarely let it stay on long... altho I once was awoken by the couch-girl playing the Squid-Billies a bit too loud. confused

The idea of anybody learning social interaction from that rubbish is just a little terrifying.  

[Fiddlers Green]

niamhybeag

The idea of anybody learning social interaction from that rubbish is just a little terrifying.

Yet it is not only possible, it is causally probable in many cases.
I look around, I wonder, why would a person react the way they did.
The answer: I saw this on an episode of "The Real World" or "Survivor". This is so like the social dynamics I see in bad TV. These people have had very limited social interaction with others outside their family and the interwebs, so they author their behaviour based off what they have seen. TV to be specific. This isn't new. "Reality TV" is new, mind you, but media influencing or reinforcing social mores is a developed sociological construct. The different restrictions on speech in movies resonated with an era when using obscenities publicly was anathema. Spike in media violence... well, people will internalize that that is the way things happen in the world and behave as they are shown. Human intimacy demonized or made taboo? Watch the host of psycho-sexual disorders flood in.
Especially in eras where the family is disintegrated, other forces shall fill the vacuum of teaching.
When both parents (assuming there are two present) are working and the child is left to learn from the programmes their sitter (if they have one) or they flip on. Schools keep the children locked down, preventing much in the way of interaction or societal development there, and families with fewer advantages often cannot afford to have their child(ren) in extra-curricular activities(assuming they are available in the area). This leads to continued isolation.
So, with the advent of the required double-income household, we have effectively sold the developmental control of the younger generation to media and the school system. Both of which (at least in the U.S.) have proven themselves untrustworthy in the extreme.

I could go on, but methinks the horse is dead now. sweatdrop  

[Calixti]

I, um, actually did learn social interaction cues from books and the internet, mostly. sweatdrop I also tend to be sort of awkward irl, probably because of a combination of that and anxiety.  

[TeaDidikai]

Hi ho hi ho...  

[Cranium Squirrel]

TeaDidikai

Hi ho hi ho...

Bring me back seven short men with picks, would you? heart  

[Recursive Paradox]

TeaDidikai

M&R might not be Barry's personal hug box... but damn it if the Rehab Chat thread isn't mine.

I think we've all used its hugboxy powers at some times.

Now all I think of is hugging Boxy. o_O  

[whiporwill-o]

today was technically my first day back to college! i had orientation today (i didn't know they give you homework gonk ). first class is in the morning!  

[Gho the Girl]

So, I sign the lease to my apartment this Friday. And I have a cold, but liberal application of hydrogen peroxide to my oral and nasal orifices have helped me cleanse and/or expel a good amount of snot. Yay.  

[patch99329]

It has snowed alot here!!

Snow day!! xD  

[rmcdra]

Gho the Girl

So, I sign the lease to my apartment this Friday. And I have a cold, but liberal application of hydrogen peroxide to my oral and nasal orifices have helped me cleanse and/or expel a good amount of snot. Yay.

Yay. I hate that congested feeling. Oh yeah I joined The Fellowship on facebook.  

[Gho the Girl]

rmcdra

Gho the Girl

So, I sign the lease to my apartment this Friday. And I have a cold, but liberal application of hydrogen peroxide to my oral and nasal orifices have helped me cleanse and/or expel a good amount of snot. Yay.

Yay. I hate that congested feeling. Oh yeah I joined The Fellowship on facebook.

I do too! But coughing up about a cup of snot over an hour period is a close tie.

Hurrah! Mayhaps I can have another merc!