What peeves me is when they decide the colours of the season meaning you can't buy some basic item in a colour that suits you. A couple of years back, it was a bilious greeny yellow. I couldn't see it suiting anyone apart from a person with very dark skin colouring. Even then the colour was vile. I suspect a lot of the clothes ended up in recycling . I can't imagine anyone would have even bought them in the sales.
This week I read about this new "cancelling" thing. Apparently if you disagree with whatever the popular group feel is important, you get "cancelled". I'm not sure who does the cancelling or what it involves (if it's like cancelling a subscription I assume it's a set of lengthy and confrontational phone calls to a call center).
Nevertheless it seems a sad, Orwellian world where this is a real thing. Males me quite glad I have zero interest in "popular culture".
The cancel culture, safe spaces, no platforming ... I do worry about young people’s capacity to cope with and, if necessary refute, ideas they are uncomfortable about addressing. No wonder some newspapers have such an easy time poking fun at ‘snowflakes’.
What I find worrying is: "You're interested in this so you might be interested in this" All right with shopping sites - sometimes even useful. But much less so with other sites where, instead of seeing the broader picture and exposing themselves to another viewpoint, they get their ideas reinforced by assuming that all right-minded have the same view of the world.
The cancel culture, safe spaces, no platforming ... I do worry about young people’s capacity to cope with and, if necessary refute, ideas they are uncomfortable about addressing. No wonder some newspapers have such an easy time poking fun at ‘snowflakes’.
Can people who don't agree with the cancel culture cancel the people who would cancel you for not agreeing with the cancel culture?
Acorns everywhere -even in small cuttings pots! I was mystified as to where the squirrels were getting them so I got the binoculars out and eventually spotted the tree. It's full of them. It must've been a good year for acorns😐
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A couple of years back, it was a bilious greeny yellow. I couldn't see it suiting anyone apart from a person with very dark skin colouring. Even then the colour was vile. I suspect a lot of the clothes ended up in recycling . I can't imagine anyone would have even bought them in the sales.
Nevertheless it seems a sad, Orwellian world where this is a real thing. Males me quite glad I have zero interest in "popular culture".
Can people who don't agree with the cancel culture cancel the people who would cancel you for not agreeing with the cancel culture?
I was mystified as to where the squirrels were getting them so I got the binoculars out and eventually spotted the tree. It's full of them. It must've been a good year for acorns😐