Isaac and ipj are discussing Casino Royale:
Isaac: That was a good scene.
ipj: It was bad.
Isaac: Why can't you say I think it was bad.
ipj: Why can't you say I think it was good.
Isaac: Fine. I think it was a good scene.
ipj: Well it wasn't!
I'm pretty sure people have started dropping the . off the end of vs, as I did in the title of this post. This confuses me. Does vs no longer stand for versus? And also, no one says versus anymore; now we're supposed to say the letters v and s.* As in Brown vee-ess the Board of Education or Godzilla vee-ess Mothra. Could someone explain that to me. It doesn't shorten anything. It's certainly not easier to say. Is it some new politically correct thing where opposing sides are no longer considered opponents but mutually working towards the betterment of mankind with just differing opinions? What? Exactly. And if we have to say vee-ess does that mean we should start saying ampersand whenever there's a & sign? Like Ben ampersand Jerry's? Because I'm not going to do that. Though for the sake of consistency in ridiculousness I might try to convince everyone else to.
It's time to get rid of my nearly four year old gym shoes. These things hurt my feet. But I can deal with that; I've been dealing with it for months. And if you know me you'll know that a little thing like pain isn't enough of an impetus to overcome my laziness and distaste for shopping and hence spending money. The real problem now is that they smell. Stanky smell. I don't think they ever fully recovered from the wet soggy mess they became after that rainstorm a few weeks ago. This is a real problem for me since, as many of you know, I hate wearing shoes. I take them off as much as possible. But now I'm embarrassed by the smell. I might have to do a quick fix with some baking soda until I get some new shoes. Of course, there's the possibility that I'll allow the quick fix to turn into a long term solution. The alternative is to refuse to wear shoes at all. I mean, I grew up walking barefoot on gravel, how much worse can the streets of New York be?
*Please note: these perceptions pretty much come from high school experiences, nearly 10 years ago. I have no idea what anyone does anymore.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
opinion vs fact
6 comments:
Thanks for explaining the smell that's be following you recently. j/k.
I agree w/ the & thing. I would hate to say "Law ampersand Order:SVU" or "H ampersand M" Seeing how we are now a text message and an e-mail culture, I think many people don't know that & mean ampersand.
I have never heard anyone say "vee-ess." Ampersand if I did, it would be their face "vee-ess" my fist.
Or something like that.
In other words: why are you basing this on high school? Are you getting all excited about your 10 YEAR REUNION??????
Go buy some new shoes, you dork. And put baking soda in them from the get-go. Or forget the new shoes and buy this instead.
tarak pointed out to me that it's more common for someone to just say "vee." This sounds right...but still stupid.
I think I am familiar with just "vee" in place of versus, but that has gotten confusing now that the text message culture has started shortening everything and I frequently find myself actually saying- out loud- "yeah, I'm vee excited!" or "vee interesting." Because "very" just takes too long to say. Now that I have just divulged this, I give you all permission to stop talking to me.
laurenj--I am vee disappointed in you, young ma'am.
You fucker, punish some other part of your body, not your poor feet. Foot pain is not the good kind of pain.
I concur with Ida re: vee-ess, I've never heard that. And as for annotating it vs vs. vs., you are a grammar freak like I am and I think we need to keep that damn ..
I think (with my established law experience and all) that just saying vee might've come from lawyers spouting precedent cases, like "the People v. OJ Simposon" and shit. Ha ha my word to verify this comment is "widey" kind of like "spidey."
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