The Long Road

10/02/2003 Archived Entry: "I don't like it when..."

To go along with those endless "Thank you"s, I'd like to say that I don't like it when people constantly apologize for stupid things or have to declare that they are joking.

One of my profs this term is like this. He'll make an apology for every little thing and he tries to sound so sincere. I don't know if he actually IS sincere or not but he shouldn't be cuz he's apologizing for stupid things and if he is sincere then REAL apologies have no weight since he'd probably deliver them the same way.

And to say "i'm only joking, promise" all the time!! That's hugely annoying when it's blatantly obvious that it IS a joke. I don't mind being told that a statement is only a joke when it's not so obvious that it is one or when it's a mild insult, but to declare it after everly little snide comment is so ridiculously asinine. Though, I'm certain that I could benefit from telling people more often when I'm joking since my sense of humour tends to be more...insulting and dead pan, so people take me a little more seriously than they should...which they shouldn't!

I also don't like it when someone says that reviewers shouldn't write reviews and one of the arguments is something like "if the reviewer knows so much why isn't he making the movies(or whatever)". Just because Ebert has never written/directed/acted dosen't meant that he can't tells us which movies he enjoyed or loathed and it doesn't diminish his opinions any less. The truth is, everyone has an opinion and not everyone is going to like the same thing to the same level. If someone wants to put his opinion out there about something then it's up to him to do so and if someone wants to pay the reviewer for putting his opinion out there then that's even better.