1y ago

Most people are only half-listening

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Sertraline is an antidepressant. I've taken it. It worked fairly well for me. That said, if I told someone I was upping my dose and they said "that's art deco," I would assume they were referencing Sylvia Plath and L'Ennui via The Great Gatsby, and I would be impressed and agree.
And then I would be amused at their correct assumption that I, an LGBT white woman with depression, have familiarity with Sylvia Plath, and I would be impressed with their wit.
All that to say, you can just say anything, and sometimes you'll get lucky.
- The brain is great at creating patterns where none exist :)
  
  You got that in the can. You’re a real medicine man, ain’t ya
- If you were a character in a book, you'd be my favorite character. Please take this as a compliment.
  
  I do! Thanks!
  
  Honestly, any comparison to Sam Vimes is a compliment. Unless it's the alcoholism.
She probably agreed because that is at least a seamless way of "acknowledging" some totally incomprehensible bullshit that a stranger just told her.
Not that I see how the sertraline dosage even came up, to be fair.
- You'd be surprised what people will tell you. Although usually it's the customer and not the employee
  
  I've met so many people who start giving me intimate details of their life after a mere greeting. Like, yo! Don't you have any filters?
- Tbf, being told by a stranger that they are upping their dosage un-prompted is itself some totally incomprehensible bullshit. Too many of the people that do this will actually accept any response that isn't a direct attack on or distraction from their personal narrative.
sertraline is an antidepressant, for the curious but lazy.
- That's so art deco
  
  Art deco is an architectural style from the 1920s, for the curious but lazy.
  
  I agree.
- also known as Zoloft in the US
- Finally, a comment for my psycho profile
- It doesn't surprise me to learn that the guy at the weed shop doesn't know WTF he's talking about.
  
  Nobody at the dispensary knows anything about marijuana. You just get the same canned responses with every question.
- I overheard a budtender say that at my local dispensary too lol. Must be a marketing incentive.
  
  "budtender" is that what we call weed dealers now?
- This is how the gray goo end of the world happens. Nano tech infused weed brownies.
- I mean, he /could/ be right. He probably isn't but he could be.
  Nano technology doesn't refer exclusively to like nano robots it could also just be infused with nano particles of something.
  
  Well, there's a lot of particles that are "nano" in size. And "nano" isn't a size; nano is a unit prefix.
  Even the earth is smaller than 1 nano parsec. So the meaning is irrelevant when earth is a nano "particle" (on the parsec scale).
  Meaningless jibber jabber.
I feel like I would just agree because I would assume that person is being weird and wouldn’t want to interact any longer than necessary.
- I agree with you
  
  Ha gottem!!
Skibidi is so cromulent, brosef.
- Please don't, I'm not ready for new slang. I barely had a grasp on old slang.
  
  As an old, learning the new slang is a wonderful chance to learn words of power that will make everyone around you flinch under their force.
  Utter a "that's bussin for real," and watch those around you fall to their knees, and add a "poggers" to hear them wail and grind their teeth. Sprinkle a "skibidi" in to really drive things home.
  You're missing out on true power here.
  
  If you barely had a grasp on old slang, new slang is just a second chance to get on with the times!
  
  The kids change the slang all the time. Did you know that dope apparently no longer means cannabis? Apparently the kids think it means exclusively heroin (horse).
  
  Cromulent, adjective - Acceptable, adequate, satisfactory.
- cromulent has interestingly been around since 1996, courtesy of the Simpsons.
  
  I'd never heard the word "embiggen" until I moved to Springfield.
  
  Wasn't cromulent in Blackadder tho? And surely that was before 96? Or am I just missing the relative age of things again?
- Fleep, my noser.
Ha, what a paycheck hexadecimal!
- this enrages me for some reason
  
  Go take a bath in a duck's house, then you'll know about rage.
  
  If my paychecks started being interpreted as hexadecimal, I would be the opposite of enraged!
- I would like to appoint you my Officer of All New Expressions
  
  Another farm steward to the center line and who's the wiser? 👍
The meaning doesn't matter
If it's only idle chatter
Of a transcendental kind -
And everyone will say
As you walk your mystic way,
"If this young man expresses himself
In terms too deep for me
Then what a very singularly deep young man
This deep young man must be!"
- What does it reference?
  
  Gilbert and Sullivan. "Patience; or Bunthorne's Bride"
  It's a comic opera / musical
You Zarkin' Frood!
- How very covalent of you!
Do you suppose most may only be half or quarter-reading too?
- I agree.
Sorry, what?
- The art deco period was a period of huge drug taking because it was before drugs were so restricted.
  
  That sounds so plausible, I don't even know anymore whether or not there's sarcasm involved in this thread.
  
  I was only half-listening to that.
- Eh, it's common terminology though --- my doctor, my hairdresser, my mechanic, my lawyer. Doesn't imply a class structure IMHO.
  
  All of those examples are people you usually specifically select. "The barista" should be fine
  
  Those are all people that you do have a 1:1 relationship with. For a coffee maker, even if I liked it, you don't make an appointment with Barista Brandi.
- Would you prefer "the coffee wench"?
  
  bean-squeezer
  
  Bean Maiden, please.
  
  Yes!
  
  actually yes.
  huzzah!
  
  the chick/dude at the coffeeorium works.
- You're right. They definitely should have taken the time to type out "The individual working at the coffee shop who filled my order" to avoid triggering people who have nothing better to do than get angry at the internet.
  
  "The waitress"
can confirm, you can just say things, and nobody will ask you any questions.
It's the weirdest fucking thing ever.
- Why did you think no one would ask you a question? Also just curious, what did you have for breakfast?
  
  because i've done it before. You can just go out in public and start screaming, nobody will do anything the vast majority of time.
  I don't eat breakfast.
As a coffee enthusiast and probably a part-time barista some time in the future, I love how baristas are the most pretentious humans people can think of
- thank you fellow human. this commentary actually made me feel more connected to humanity.
  signed, a guy in portland
Considering it could be a Lana Del ray reference, aka melodramatic central, I see the through line.

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