when someone wakes up on the wrong side of the bed.
1. Leave them alone; or
2. Cheer them up.
You do NOT
1. Have a 'for the sake of argument' conversation with them
2. Disagree with them over something so stupid that has no bearing on how anything turns out.
3. Say 'Fine it's my fault then' as if that would appease the already annoyed person.
First of all, 'for the sake of argument' conversations are never a good thing. The fact that it's just for the sake of argument just means that you don't really disagree. You just want to bring up another possible point of view. Which is fine. Just say that. Although any discerning person could tell, the former just really really really annoys a person who's already annoyed just that much more.
Secondly, if it's just a difference in opinion, just state your opinion and be done with it. I really don't understand why people like to push their opinions on me and then in the end say that I'm the pushy one. Come on, if you're going to shove your opinion down my throat, you can expect it will come right back out in your face in extra force because my opinion's coming right out behind it, too. But if one were to just say it like it is, that it's just their opinion and yes, yours makes sense too even though I still like mine better, then nobody would be pushing their opinions down anybody's throats.
And finally, everyone knows 'fine it's my fault then' never means 'fine it's my fault'. It means 'fine since you're so cranky I'll just take the blame...u satisfied?'
Did you REALLY think that was going to end a disagreement?
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
You give the paparazzi a bad name
Those awesome cameras that are now slung over the shoulders of idiots who don't know how to use them used to be only for people who really did make a living in photography, or at least those who could really call photography their hobby.
While there's nothing really wrong in making awesome cameras available to amateurs, I've found that many of those amateurs (read: people who never really bothered with photography before this), at least the ones whom I know personally, who choose to buy these cameras become annoying idiots who suddenly think that owning that camera makes them pros.
Saturday night was supposed to be awesome. Just some friends getting together to celebrate a friend's birthday and actually socialise after a week of being cooped up in our separate rooms for study week. I'd reserved a table for 7 which obviously means there's room for 8. For some reason, everyone is hell bent on trying to get me to kiss and make up with the annoying photographer in the group. I'd had two fights with him this year alone over his persistent attempts to take hideous photographs of me with his stupid camera (ok the camera might actually be smarter than him). The last one was a month ago resulting in our not speaking to each other. If I told the birthday girl she couldn't invite him along, I'd look like the mean one. What could I do?
Well anyway, here's what happens when you have morons who don't know how to use their cameras and don't care what kind of pictures they take and then post up online:
1. Half the table (that's only because he's not speaking to me. If we were still speaking, it would be...the whole table), can't eat until their plate has been photographed.
2. You can't really talk, sneeze, make funny faces while telling your friends silly stories, look bored etc etc...because the camera vulture is circling waiting to catch you in that otherwise unnoticable instant that you look hideous.
3. There's always someone wandering around the place looking like they're some awsome photographer trying to photograph every single piece of decoration in the restaurant.
4. Group photographs have to be done several times. Once with the smart one who has a normal compact camera which gets instant results, and several more painful times where everyone has to stay in place and wait for an idiot who doesn't know how to operate his camera.
Sorry, but as awesome as those cameras are, nights out are for snapshots of those moments you know why you still remain friends with people you no longer go to school with. Not spending half an hour on a photoshoot with a clumsy idiot of a cameraman.
While there's nothing really wrong in making awesome cameras available to amateurs, I've found that many of those amateurs (read: people who never really bothered with photography before this), at least the ones whom I know personally, who choose to buy these cameras become annoying idiots who suddenly think that owning that camera makes them pros.
Saturday night was supposed to be awesome. Just some friends getting together to celebrate a friend's birthday and actually socialise after a week of being cooped up in our separate rooms for study week. I'd reserved a table for 7 which obviously means there's room for 8. For some reason, everyone is hell bent on trying to get me to kiss and make up with the annoying photographer in the group. I'd had two fights with him this year alone over his persistent attempts to take hideous photographs of me with his stupid camera (ok the camera might actually be smarter than him). The last one was a month ago resulting in our not speaking to each other. If I told the birthday girl she couldn't invite him along, I'd look like the mean one. What could I do?
Well anyway, here's what happens when you have morons who don't know how to use their cameras and don't care what kind of pictures they take and then post up online:
1. Half the table (that's only because he's not speaking to me. If we were still speaking, it would be...the whole table), can't eat until their plate has been photographed.
2. You can't really talk, sneeze, make funny faces while telling your friends silly stories, look bored etc etc...because the camera vulture is circling waiting to catch you in that otherwise unnoticable instant that you look hideous.
3. There's always someone wandering around the place looking like they're some awsome photographer trying to photograph every single piece of decoration in the restaurant.
4. Group photographs have to be done several times. Once with the smart one who has a normal compact camera which gets instant results, and several more painful times where everyone has to stay in place and wait for an idiot who doesn't know how to operate his camera.
Sorry, but as awesome as those cameras are, nights out are for snapshots of those moments you know why you still remain friends with people you no longer go to school with. Not spending half an hour on a photoshoot with a clumsy idiot of a cameraman.
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