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Post by Kimby on Aug 16, 2019 13:29:35 GMT
I really dislike the recent trend for network newscasts to show images that are vertical instead of horizontal with the outer two-thirds of the screen looking like the same image only smeared with Vaseline. Couldn’t they get a horizontal photo, or perhaps PAN the vertical image, if they want to fill the screen? I’d rather they “letterbox” the image with black on both sides than put all that smeary distraction up there to confuse my poor eyes.
Perhaps they are using more footage shot by amateurs on cell phones, who don’t think about a TV screen being “landscape” rather than “portrait” mode...
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 16, 2019 14:23:56 GMT
They clearly do not want to fill the screen or they would. But I particularly detest the blurred sides of the images, which are just the same images, only blurred.
I suggest the we forbid people from holding their phones vertically when they are recording something or else we might have to start buying vertical video screens soon, then the entire movie and television industry will change to the same format.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 16, 2019 15:08:31 GMT
They clearly do not want to fill the screen or they would. But I particularly detest the blurred sides of the images, which are just the same images, only blurred. I would rather they used a tasteful wallpaper, perhaps miniaturized repeated copies of their corporate logo, to fill the sides of the screen, so my eyes can rest on the video image instead of compulsively flicking back and forth to see if what is hidden by the blurriness is really the same image or more of the image that they aren’t letting me see.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 16, 2019 17:55:26 GMT
Perhaps they are using more footage shot by amateurs on cell phones, who don’t think about a TV screen being “landscape” rather than “portrait” mode... Not just the tv screen -- humans see things in landscape mode! You would thing that the first time a person took a picture on a phone then posted it on facebook, that the person would then say "Oh, that looks like shit with the skinny image and stupid black borders. I must correct my method!" Apparently not.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 21, 2019 14:17:38 GMT
I can't stand television commercials that show fake working conditions. There is a sardine commercial at the moment that shows a sardine factory with the workers chatting and laughing as they carefully (and slowly) lay the sardines in the tins. Bullshit!
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 21, 2019 14:19:45 GMT
humans see things in landscape mode! Maybe in the future, human eyes will migrate to be on top of each other, the same way a flounder's eyes move to the top side of its flat life.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 21, 2019 15:52:53 GMT
I fear you may be right, Kerouac -- and the de rigueur ducklip pout will become permanent along with it. television commercials that show fake working conditions I don't know about in France, but in the 80s and 90s US television showed lots of heartily clean-cut men in tailored flannels and jeans, often with rakishly tilted hard hats, male-bonding on the job.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 26, 2019 16:13:35 GMT
Why are people suddenly being stricken with “a pit in the stomach”? Proper usage is a (feeling of dread, or a chill or whatever) IN the pit of their stomach!
Get with it, people!
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 26, 2019 16:37:47 GMT
All hope for proper language has fallen with the shortcuts of social media.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 26, 2019 20:52:00 GMT
If pet peeves include cat pee i have a case. One of my cat eats the electrical cables (nip at them ?). The other one pees on it. Team work makes it that the electrical cabinet disengages No more TV no more I ternet and good to buy another cable. .
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 26, 2019 23:22:06 GMT
Why are people suddenly being stricken with “a pit in the stomach”? Proper usage is a (feeling of dread, or a chill or whatever) IN the pit of their stomach! Get with it, people! Kerouac's answer of social media is one reason, but people make "pit in the stomach" mistakes because they don't READ. Instead they pick up bits of drivel here and there from people as happily ignorant as they are and blithely repeat whatever they think they heard, whether or not it makes sense.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 27, 2019 1:18:23 GMT
I think the three of us are well on our way to becoming curmudgeons.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 27, 2019 3:00:37 GMT
You ain't seen nothing yet!
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Post by rikita on Aug 27, 2019 10:31:28 GMT
i wonder though if there are studies about the actual amount of reading over time - i suppose people read less than 20-30-40 years ago - but 100 years ago? and i would guess they definitely read more than 300 years ago ... so, i suppose a lot of things that are common to say now, might be also from mistakes they made back then because they heard things wrongly and never read them?
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Post by Kimby on Aug 27, 2019 15:13:00 GMT
And then there are the people who read a lot but don’t get to talk much, with other readers anyway. You hear the most interesting pronunciations of words in their vast but mostly mental vocabulary.
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 27, 2019 16:11:37 GMT
If pet peeves include cat pee i have a case. One of my cat eats the electrical cables (nip at them ?). The other one pees on it. Team work makes it that the electrical cabinet disengages No more TV no more I ternet and good to buy another cable. . I think they've identified why they're not being fed and fussed over according to THEIR timetable.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 27, 2019 17:05:56 GMT
And they know what is important to humans.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 28, 2019 18:46:17 GMT
We are just a week away from children returning to school and the television is flooded with commercials for shampoos to kill lice.
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Post by rikita on Aug 28, 2019 19:53:57 GMT
being stuck on a bus in traffic jam and realizing that had i gotten off the bus a station earlier and just walked the rest of the way, i'd be home already (or wherever i need to be - especially when i need to be there at a specific time).
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 28, 2019 20:31:50 GMT
This year we have a New Yorker cartoon wall calender. The first day of every week is always Sunday, whereas all the calendars we've had before have Sunday as the last day of the week. It may seem silly but its causing all sorts of confusion. We mark appointments, birthdays, holidays etc on the calendar but keep getting the days wrong. All month we thought that we were going on holiday on Sunday.. glancing at the calendar...we go on SATURDAY!
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 28, 2019 22:03:04 GMT
Ha ha ha ~ It's a US calendar, all of which start on Sunday. Even after all these years I get confused by Mexican calendars because they start on Monday.
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Post by rikita on Aug 28, 2019 22:48:36 GMT
here, the week starts on monday, too, and when i see soemthing on a US calendar, it confuses me a bit ...
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Post by bjd on Aug 29, 2019 5:32:06 GMT
Ha ha ha ~ It's a US calendar, all of which start on Sunday. Even after all these years I get confused by Mexican calendars because they start on Monday. Shouldn't US calendars end on Sundays? The 7th day of rest for all those Christians who have such influence that presidents have to go to church, or at least pretend to do so.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 29, 2019 6:47:43 GMT
I remember all of the paper flight schedules at work where the days were numbered. If a flight operated on 1-3-6-7 or 2-4-6 you immediately knew which days of the week were meant.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 29, 2019 7:49:34 GMT
I've had Australian calendars and Finnish ones too...they all had Monday as the first day of the week. The USA writes the dates inside out too...month before date whereas we put date before month. It's only confusing before 13th of each month really...We recognise the date 9/11 without difficulty for obvious reasons, but altho the media named the London bombings '7/7' most UK citizens see that as 7th July, not July 7th. Does it really matter?
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Post by rikita on Aug 29, 2019 11:46:59 GMT
Ha ha ha ~ It's a US calendar, all of which start on Sunday. Even after all these years I get confused by Mexican calendars because they start on Monday. Shouldn't US calendars end on Sundays? The 7th day of rest for all those Christians who have such influence that presidents have to go to church, or at least pretend to do so. except the actual seventh day is saturday - celebrating sunday has to do with it being the day Christ rose from the dead, the day after sabbath. so, i suppose in that way having sunday as the first day of the week makes sense - though on the other hand, since saturday and sunday are referred to as weekend, and because i am used to it, i think having monday as first day of the week makes more sense ...
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 29, 2019 14:51:12 GMT
I don't think it's a matter of what makes sense anymore, Rikita, but more of what each country is used to.
Until Cheery posted about the New Yorker calendar accidentally causing confusion, I had never thought about the day sequence before, only thinking that Mexico was somehow being wrong headed in not starting from Sunday. And lest anyone think I'm being too US-centric in saying that, let me hasten to add that most Mexican calendars include the saints' days on them, making them by default sort of religious.
Now I'm curious as to why US calendars all start with Sunday and am going to look it up. My guess, without yet having looked, is that it's one of those things that go back to the very beginning of the country and very likely something brought from England back in the old country -- something similar to "deuce" still being used for a playing card, whereas the UK has moved on to calling that card a two.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 29, 2019 15:13:02 GMT
It was when I went to Japan that I finally saw a valid reason for those who want to put the month in front of the day.
In Japan, clocks display date and time as follows: 2019-08-29-18:30:57
That is a logical progression in descending order.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 29, 2019 15:17:41 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Aug 29, 2019 16:47:48 GMT
I remember all of the paper flight schedules at work where the days were numbered. If a flight operated on 1-3-6-7 or 2-4-6 you immediately knew which days of the week were meant. Unless you don’t know if 1 is Sunday or Monday. Which is it?
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