This is why I am loving roller-derby. It’s so positive and constructive, with none of that bullshit.
Even though in martial arts guys ought to know that if they aren’t teaching, they shouldn’t criticise. Especially if they don’t have the qualifications. The general divide I have noticed is that men want to tell you what you are doing wrong to correct you, women want to show you how to do it right.
I’m not a fan of spotty hotel wifi.
Roller Derby as a martial art?
It has been described as a rolling brawl, so why not? I wouldn’t want to take on a league player. Especially not when there’s a whole pack.
What are sold as blackout curtains, often are not heavy enough. You might try a quilt or thick blanket instead of curtains. You might need to use several, and attach them to the wall above and to the sides of the window, rather than a curtain rod. It might not look great, but get enough thick fabric together and it will keep the light out.
Sorry, I don’t have a suggestion for sounds, though, because I find earplugs very uncomfortable.
How about a white noise generator? There are a lot of them available on, say, Amazon.
I’ve got air filters. One can get pretty loud. I usually keep it at a low setting so it isn’t uncomfortably loud. But if I turned it to the high setting, I don’t think it would mask louder and/or shakier noises.
Tipping? Pay your wait staff a livable wage fer crissakes, Canada.
THANK YOU.
This is one of my pet peeves. The customer winds up paying for the whole amount anyhow – why not just include it in the price and spare the customer the extra math?
If gratuities truly were gratuit and not an obligation, they would make sense. But as they are, no. And creating a class of jobs which pay less than minimum wage just makes a mockery of minimum wage.
Checks to see if image is safe. (“view image info” in Firefox) Gets blasted with pain/animation.
Is it so much to ask that browsers either (a) stop enabling gifs or (b) start enabling users to safely check whether images are safe?
Neighbors growling their cars again.
I really dislike that. And the mufflers/tailpipes that are deliberately noisy. How is that remotely useful? Sound doesn’t just appear from nowhere; it must be causing some decrease in mileage.
Guessing they believe that mileage is inversely proportional to metaphorical inchage.
If it doesn’t seriously annoy you*, it’s really a bit funny. The reduction in sound is largely caused by back pressure in the exhaust. Reducing back pressure in theory improves fuel consumption and power. But that implies re-mapping the injection system and possibly changing things like inlet valve lift and timing, none of which these people do. The result can be explosions in the cat.
It’s like coal rollers. Annoying and [word deleted at request of @MarjaE] as they are, they are also damaging their engines every time they do it.
How some of them reacted when the 911 went from air cooled to liquid cooled and an immediate 16% improvement in miles per gallon was interesting. It was like Porsche had been trampling on crosses and announcing that apple pie was toxic.
*It annoys me but fortunately all our current neighbours are sensible people.
Can you not use eugenicist slurs? I believe that Carrie Buck was classified as a “m****” when she was sterilized, but the supreme rubberstamps classified her as an “i******” when they wrote their opinion supporting forced sterilization.
I think, if I may say so, you are being oversensitive. Eugenics is a discredited pseudo-science from around a hundred years ago and I really don’t think that in 2017 anybody takes the word other than to be how the OED defines it - an informal description of a stupid person. As a matter of fact I had no idea of the connection to eugenics - I assumed it was simply a derivation of the Gk. moros - foolish. The OED does not suggest that it is in any way an improper word.
I’m usually the first person to be correct about language and especially to tell people who are not professionally qualified to stop using psychiatric terminology for people who haven’t been diagnosed, and where they don’t understand the term anyway. But I think this one is a dead letter. Would you prefer “idiot” which means almost exactly the same but is more classist in Greek?
You can refer this one to the moderators if you like.
I’m routinely beaten and/or endangered. And until abled people start respecting disabled people, considering our various accessibility needs, and considering our various safety needs, I’m still going to be routinely beaten and endangered, I’m probably going to be hit again by a car again, and I’m likely to be killed. But right now I can’t even find studies asking about how atypical sensory processing affects safety needs.
If your survival depended on other people changing their attitudes and their safety standards, you’d be hyper-sensitive to their attitudes and their preferred insults.
And even if you’re unaware of that “m****,” “i******,” and “i****,” were classifications in forced sterilization campaigns, you can’t really avoid that they are insults against intellectually and/or neurologically-disabled people.
Let me assure you, a lot of people don’t consider mine. If I got uptight about “ablist language” I could point to so many adverse examples of the use of the word “deaf” I could probably write a (long and tedious) book. But I’m not going to. Literally the only benefit of my condition is I get out of jury service. The disadvantages affect me every day. Except when responding to posts like yours, I choose not to let it get to me.
I’ve just deleted a whole lot of stuff I wrote about this because it was degenerating into a rant, but I’m just going to say that your attempt to find a way to blame someone you considered to be fully able isn’t appreciated. You’re just doubling down on your attempt to turn this into a debate about forced sterilisation, because you can’t answer my point that the meaning of a word has changed.
You are running the risk that, for instance, it will be impossible to express any negative opinion of Trump, Boris Johnson or Erdogan because to do so might imply a mental deficiency. Taken to the extreme, we should never describe someone as being unfit for office because that would indicate a lack of capacity.
I’m not trying to blame you. I’m trying to get rid of the slurs, and get rid of the attitudes that endanger us both.
I’m in bad shape, with a nasty migraine, after getting hit by more @#$%^ turn signals. @#$% turn signals. Can people stop using dangerous weapons and calling them safety signals?