(ʘ‿ʘ✿) “what you say ‘bout me”

1) OP made a post that seemed interactive but then

2) Did NOT want anyone to actually engage

I remember tumblr at the time. It wouldn’t have changed OP’s post so lmao big L for OP making it weird

But best of all:

Most people didn’t realize there WAS a response until this fuckin UFO went by.

People commonly defend this practise with "But the audience isn't meant to understand!" or "It's inconsequential!", neither of which actually address a) their assumption that the [ideal Anglo] audience wouldn't understand, or, perhaps most crucially in the context of CCs, b) that this is a failure of accessibility. A hearing person who speaks that "foreign" language will know exactly what's being said. A deaf or HoH person – the people CCs are primarily intended for – who speaks or reads that language should therefore have the exact same opportunity to understand. It very much feels to me like an assumption that we deaf and HoH people couldn't possibly understand any language but English, so there's no point in getting those languages transcribed for us. I hope it goes without saying how profoundly audist that sentiment is.

There is also, I think, a profound misunderstanding or ignorance of Deaf culture at play. Which is to say, CCs in English-language media are written with not only the assumption that the audience will be native English speakers, but that all d/Deaf and HoH people speak English as their first language, so all other languages are as supposedly foreign to them as they are for hearing people. But sign languages are their own distinct language. BSL, ASL, ISL, AusLan, NZSL etc ≠ English (and are indeed different from one another), LIS ≠ Italian, JSL ≠ Japanese, and so on. So, if you follow the captioners' logic to its natural extreme, all non-signed dialogue is "foreign" to many d/Deaf and HoH people and should therefore be labelled [speaks foreign language] / [speaks English] / [speaks own language] / etc. – which is, obviously, a terrible idea that perfectly highlights all the biases implicit in closed captioning.

light thats not how the book works

MICROSOFT TEAMS

The kind of situations where weight would be a major consideration in the UK are very specific. You could care if you were packing your own gear and hiking spontaneously to an off-grid “wild camping” site; keeping weight down is important, because you are personally schlepping it there and back again. incidentally, though, that makes it the silliest possible situations to be needing a camping fan (why are you hiking off-grid in an amber-warning for heat?!?)

Conversely, in the kind of situations where you need it, weight isn’t a consideration - you brought the car. But, conversely, you’re sort of stuck with the weather, because you’re usually camping to keep costs down while doing (activity). A good deal of UK camping in the summer, where you have to grit your teeth and try to improve the situation because it can’t be helped, are family-type camping/glamping in summer holidays, where you ALWAYS take the car. To be quite honest, your tent is usually next to the car. Carrying is minimally involved.

Yuzen visiting kimono “Waviness” Creator: Hisashi Inaki