On a lighter + adjacent note i love dis tweet + these QRTs of it ^_^… literally…
In the book 4000 weeks, which is incidentally about making the best of the short life you have on earth, the author talks about convenience making things less enjoyable. You get used to websites loading ever faster and packages being delivered in only a few days and all of a sudden you can’t stand waiting in line for three minutes. The above is the exact antidote to that.
The author mentions how inconvenience is sometimes the very reason experiences enjoyable or meaningful. Think about receiving a letter from a friend versus an email. The letter is so much more exciting, even though it takes more effort - BECAUSE it takes more effort. Same as taking time out of your busy day to really pay attention to the important people in your life.
I truly hate the word “unalive.” There are so many other euphemisms that fictional Italian mobsters worked so hard to provide you with and you just ignore them.
>TV comes in on antenna >Has commercials >Cable offers TV without commercials >Cable starts airing commercials >Cable charges extra for bonus channels like HBO >Cable starts breaking up channels into a dozen extra packages with about half a dozen garbage channels for every one channel you DO want to try and convince you to buy multiple packages >People say fuck it and start pirating shit >Streaming comes out >Offers free TV with ads or no ads with a paid subscription >Subscriptions become required >Ads are shown anyway despite it being a paid service >Dozens of streaming services all have exclusive content requiring multiple subscriptions >People say fuck it and start pirating shit again
i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck
I still think that my favorite urban legend/folklore fact is that there are certain areas in New Orleans where you cannot get a taxi late at night not because it isn’t safe, but because taxi companies have had recurring problems of picking up ghosts in those areas who are not aware that they are dead and disappearing from the cab before reaching the destination and therefore stiffing the driver on the fare causing a loss for the company.
An occupational hazard of cab driving I had not previously considered
I love that the nola problem here is not “ghosts in my taxi cab,” but “ghosts are FUCKING BROKE DEAD BASTARDS & I GOT BILLS”
Horror is when ghosts get into cabs and scare drivers
Magical realism is when cab companies have to develop policies to prevent ghastly fare-theft
In a book about the tsunami in Japan in 2011, the writer talked about how there was a huge increase in reports of ghostly activity. Apparently in Japan treating ghosts rudely is basically considered the stupidest thing you could possibly do. For months after the tsunami, taxi drivers would pick up a passenger only to have them give an address in one of the devastated areas. The cab driver often looked up halfway to the destination to find their fare had disappeared. Not wanting to be impolite to the person (even if they were dead) they’d drive to the address, open the door to let them out, then drive away.
