I feel like men internalize a compliment to an extreme degree. So, if someone says "Hey, you have nice legs." they'll wear shorts when it's 45 degrees out, or wear the same hat for 10 years, because someone complimented it once. Is this just me?
@RickiTarr I guess I'll go with Pulp Fiction? I don't exactly hate it, but I don't like it. I think the out of order cuts are confusing for confusions sake. I don't think the plot actually makes much sense. And I didn't find the characters relatable.
Someone asked me about my favorite film directors, and I've realized the list is way too white, hetero, and male!
So, if you have a suggestion about movies directed by, women, people of color, lgbtq+, please let me know. Suggestions of a good movie or two that represents their work well, would also be appreciated, thanks!
I used to work at a restaurant that served these really good fresh baked chocolate chip cookies. They were made pretty regularly, so you'd never get a cookie that was more than an hour or two old. Despite this someone would inevitably ask for some fresh out of the oven. The problem with this was twofold:
They took nearly 15 minutes to bake, way longer than anyone was willing to wait.
If you know anything about baking soft chewy cookies, when they come out of the oven they are basically just molten goo, we had to wait 10 minutes before we were even allowed to take them off the pan.
So, we'd always tell people these things, and at least a couple times a week, someone would demand we do it anyway, and call the manager when we handed them a hot bag of cookie goo 15 minutes later. The restaurant eventually got rid of those cookies for something that was pre-made that tasted like Dollar Store cookies.
I thought about this a lot during the height of the Covid Pandemic, and every time a politician disagrees with a scientist about climate change. Anyway, welcome to Dollar Store Planet.
@RickiTarr Now I am thinking about how the problem might be that people don't trust experts EVEN WHEN THEY SHOULD. I mean, I don't trust economic "experts" because it's a bullshit field. But a plumber? A chef? A teacher? A doctor? A mechanic? Hell to the yes.
I love the Dollar Store Planet metaphor. Says it all really.
@quadrivial@RickiTarr Writing as an economist (or as I prefer to say "dismal scientist"), a huge part of the field is "go and work for a government and produce justifications for what they're going to do anyway". This does not help the reputation of the field, but does pay a lot.