Yes I am compiling a Blog about the great pandemic of 2020 and how my country stupidly shut down the economy. We will have opinions, political and cultural highlights, my personal experience, social media details, even TV reviews since I watch so much TV while in my home jail. We shall, as always, end with a smile.
MAJOR POLITICAL EVENTS OF THE WEEK
(another update)
Woodward of Woodward and Bernstein is baaaaaack!
MAJOR CULTURE EVENTS OF THE WEEK
(one more update)
Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
EDITORIAL
(My opinion for my descendants)
Internet Posting Pet Peeves
I must declare right now that when it comes to Internet posting crimes that I am as guilty of various and sundry as most people. But since I've made a vow to change my ways as the pandemic of 2020 had me online a lot and I learned a lot I am mending my ways and am on to my own annoyances..
Now on to MY pet peeves.
Abbreviations.
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Now I know in this social media world all
sorts of abbreviations crop up to avoid hitting the keys. Everyone knows LAUGHING OUT LOUD is LOL. BTW is BY THE WAY. There are others, of course, but too damn
often posters on all kinds of forums make their own. I, of course, am often too stupid to know
what LULZ means (that's supposed to be LOL in the plural….did anybody else know
that?)
Here's the solution…..spell out the whole
thing that you know you will be mentioning a lot in a post, spell it out just
once. Example, you are talking about the
American Civil Liberties Union….write it out once and in parenthesis after, put
the abbreviation you intend to use for the rest of your post…(ACLU). Now the ACLU is fairly well known for its
abbreviation, as is the FBI or CIA and perhaps is not a good example but I
think it makes the point.
Inappropriate commentary
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Next peeve….why do people enter into a
thread and tell everybody currently engages in posting/debating the post
subject, and put it down? What do they
get out of it?
For example, every Sunday I participate in
a forum on the Sunday political talk shows, been doing so for almost 20 years
now. Suddenly somebody enters the thread
(on a very popular political web site) and writes a long spiel about they hate
the Sunday political talk shows, how they all lie, how he or she is too damn
intelligent….on and on and on and on.
Why does somebody do that? Is it to make everyone not as smart as this
commenter to feel waaaaay stupider than he or she who hates those shows? Why not just, here's a thought, just pass the
thread on by. Find a thread that makes
you happy rather than making everyone around you think you are a jerk on the
current thread with a subject you so hate?
It doesn't matter the subject of the
thread….motorcycles, swimming, a TV show…if the thread title plainly states a
subject you dislike….pass it on by for God's sake. Don't join the thread and tell the posters
not bothering a soul how you hate the subject of the thread thereby implicating
that everyone participating in such a thread must be a moron.
There are reasonable exceptions to the
above, of course. Perhaps you have a reason
why you don't like the posted subject matter that is worthy of sharing. As in "I always liked that show until
they removed Joe Blow from the lead"…or some logic that brings debate to
the matter.
But just to say you hate it?
It makes you look inconsiderate and without
any kind of life.
Formatting
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Watch the formatting of your words. I use all caps quite a bit but to my defense
I use them in the same way I would use when speaking the subject as I raise my
voice to make my point. All caps are a
way of expressing one's self when sound is not available. But use sparingly.
Watch repeating commentary. Study a little bit of HTML. Hell I am 70 years old and I know enough to
get by. HTML, btw, is the abbreviation
for programming on the Internet.
How text is formatted is quite important on
social media. Maybe dotting I's and
crossing t's don't matter with oral communication, but such as how the text looks
matters quite a bit on social media.
And don't, please don't, keep all your
words together in one big blob.
Paragraphs are your friend.
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Yes I am a fly and yes I also Blog. I tend to wander around among the politicians and hear their conversation. Because I am a fly beneficial to humanity, I share that which I hear.
Summon to meeting with Jarrett and other politicos regarding Pelosi hair incident.
First, as I fly around the Obama mansion
where they hold these meetings, I can tell when a meeting is called in that
they wake me up with all the people suddenly showing up out of nowhere. They have these meetings in a special room so
I also attend.
It seems the human Speaker of the House,
named Pelosy or something and know that I'm a little confused about these human
titles. What the hell is a Speaker of
the House and don't all humans speak in the house?
But this Pelosy woman attends a lot of
these meetings so I assume she's some kind of important human politician.
As this humble fly is to understand, the
Pelosy woman got her hair done in some kind of human hair store even though
they are all supposed to be shut down in the San Francisco area. Humans sure do have a lot of hair, proving it
is much more efficient to be a fly. They
even have to go some kind of store to have their hair done.
It would seem that many in America got
angry over the fact that Pelosy could get her hair done with the hair store
open just for her. Further, she didn't
wear that mask thing that humans are wearing nowadays. If they made this fly wear a mask, I'd say no
loudly. But then I'm not a speaker.
So here's what I heard.
VALJAR: "Okay, be aware," said
the Valerie human. "Because of this
Pelosy nonsense, we've got to drop that bit about Trump and him calling the
soldiers buried in France 'idiots' and 'losers' TODAY."
Valjar leaned back and took a puff of a
cigarette thing, something else humans aren't supposed to do. As a fly, I had no idea what the thing was
about the President and the soldiers.
"We're not supposed to release that
until mid-October," the human I know as Camela, supposed to be running for
VP , said rather loudly.
"We have to get it out there now to
take the heat off of Pelosy," Valerie said.
"If she hadn't demanded an apology
from the salon owner we wouldn't be in this mess," the human I know as
Dona with a last name like a country….Brazil I think.
Valjar flipped ashes into the ash tray,
almost putting some on me had I not flown away quickly enough.
"Whatever the case, we've got the
Atlantic ready to put it out there.
We've got Jennifer Griffin on Fox who will back it up. We've got CNN and MSNBC ready to be all over
it. And most important, we've got all
the networks vowing not to mention the Pelosy story on the Sunday political
shows."
With this Valjar leaned back, took one last
drag on the cigarette thing and stubbed it out.
She stood up as if to leave and all the other attendees followed, as
they always do. Even I, the fly, know to
fly out of the room lest I be captured within.
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