Fishin' in the stream of consciousness (all-purpose, no topic chat thread)

was that badly google translated or something?

 

Spoiler: Explanation

It's a giant freaking palindrome

 

So I finally saw Moana and I gotta say I relate to Maui's desire to be loved by literally all of humanity.

 

I kept thinking about this. So I found a cinema that offers these assistive devices and gave them a call. (It was a Regal Cinemas location, if that matters.)

Once connected with a theater employee, I confirmed that the location did indeed offer those devices, then I told the guy I had a few questions. I explained I have an autistic friend who has trouble understanding speech when there's a lot of other noise. I asked if it would be okay for my friend to ask for one of those devices, even though the site says they're for Deaf or hard of hearing customers. He said absolutely! He seemed very enthusiastic about this. Like genuinely happy that I'd asked and glad to be able to give me this information.

I told him I was also wondering about policies for when a customer requests the assistive device. Would an employee ask why my friend needed the device? The guy said no. He sounded pretty damn firm about that. I'm not sure if there is an actual policy, and I didn't feel like pressing the guy about that. But I got the feeling that if an employee were to attempt to vet a customer's disability status, the management might not be at all amused.

I thanked him very much and we said goodbye.

It may vary by theater, but I don't think it's generally considered best practice to pry about a customer's disability.

 

Some more assistive device info: every theater in my area offers them, though the cheaper ones are more likely to have the kind that is basically a box on a flexible pole you stick in a cup holder (which works just fine too, the glasses are just nicer). There are a few special events that occasionally won't have captioning (i think film companies have to provide a special file to the theater so everything syncs up?) but I know specifically Fandango will list whether a movie has closed captioning available when you're looking up showtimes on their website. 3d showings may or may not have captions available, but ime just about every regular showing does.

When you ask for the device (typically at guest services although if there's no one there I'll grab someone from concessions) make sure to ask for closed captioning - I asked for an "assistive device" once in those words because I didn't know what it was called and got handed a headset for descriptive audio. You also probably want to get to the theater a few minutes early, because sometimes there's only one person on shift who either can set up the captioning or has the authority to, and it takes a few minutes to get set up regardless. I've been asking for captioning for like two years now, and the absolute worst experience I've had is my local theater wanting to take down my full name and address every time, which is time-consuming but not that bad. (I'm pretty sure asking about disability status puts theaters at risk for an ADA discrimination suit and they're not about to open themselves up to that.)

 

One of the problems with trying to update/improve my resume is falling down the black hole of infinite articles on how to make a good resume.

On the plus side, I finally found one that gives advice on how to come up with numbers for those of us who don't get to read the number crunching. If I were a hiring manager, I'd certainly want to hear the numbers of what "fast-paced" means, given how subjective it is otherwise...

 

okay, so we all know that the alt right is trying to establish "degenerate" or "degeneracy" as a slur for trans people. something just occurred to me: don't they realize that this would get reclaimed and could backfire on them?

 

Bird of the hour: crows

I saw a crow harassing a squirrel last week but i was playing Sports and had to stop paying attention to birbs

 

british slang is hilarious

"so we're all, like, mates then?"

i know she means "friends" but it sounds instead as if she's asking if the doctor made them into a big polypile

 

I mean my favourite part of british/american slang issues are the words 'rubber' and 'fanny'

 

As a young'un I went on a trip to England with a group and we were briefed on the dangers of the word fanny. Unfortunately, they neglected to warn us about the word 'pants', leading to a hilarious moment when one girl unwittingly asked if she needed to wear pants on the ropes course.

I don't think I'll ever forget that poor young man's expression.

Eta: if I'm remembering right, his response was a slow, not-sure-if-serious, "that's up to you?"

 

I bit into a water chestnut ( :/ ) and it tasted distinctly of #2 pencil ( :( )

 

D:

water chestnuts are disgusting styrofoam hell pellets that make me want to commit unspeakable atrocities even when they taste NORMAL

 

If I drown them in a tasty sauce they have a satisfying cronch but yeah the flavor itself it does nothing.

 

They're hit and miss for me, if they're PERFECT they have excellent cronch and sauce drowns out the mediocre taste

These were very miss. I don't even know what you were aiming for miss.

 

the cronch is what gets me, i can't handle the texture at ALL

slides u both all my water chestnuts

 

Sometimes they cronch wrong though. Almost always they cronch wrong but like .5% are cronch heaven

 

Spoiler: Defecation snark

I can't even get the shit out of myself, I'm having some fiber-heavy juice and watching cat videos

 

Unsure whether to rate that witnessed or winner