On Captions

Closed Captioning symbol (Wikipedia)

Listening to hearing people who complain about "captions" on movies and TV shows, you might be better off switching to subtitles - which are for meant for dialogues.

Closed Captions is not that - it's meant to try and relay more information that just text, or dialogue. It attempts to try and fill in more "details" about the sounds occurring in the scene.

Complaining about them existing or being switched on, is ableist at the least. It makes you look and sound like an asshole.

Misheard

Y'know, for the longest time while I was growing up, I thought I was hearing "Crab RACCOON."

Communications Etiquette

Communications Etiquette (as I understand it):

 

1. Phone - Need to talk NOW [usually].

2. Texting / Messaging - Within the hour.

3. E-mail - Within the day.

4. Snail Mail - Weeks to months.

5. Pigeon Post - Seriously?

6. Telegram - Nobody uses these anymore, stop.

7. Smoke Signals - Alright, you're just mocking me now.

The Bad Old Days

 

When someone says they want "to bring the old ways back"; that's your warning. They have nothing new to offer. Now is not the time to be complacent, or scared.

We must SPEAK UP against the entitled few who deem themselves qualified to dictate to the common people what is right and wrong. They are scared of becoming extinct, so they create artificial conditions & lament their gilded place in society as insufficient, then enact legislation to ensure their survival. It doesn't have to be this way.