I still like Philly better than HoCo, though.

[corknut]

Doug: "Speaking of forging things, Maddie, how would you like to make some money after school?"

The table tents at my school's dining halls are filled with typos and grammar mistakes. Today, I spotted the best one I've seen so far:

"Spitfire Grill is a compelling tale about a town struggling to survive, and the heroin that saves it."

UNH is promoting drug use, everybody!

Speaking of dining halls, I had these really good Asian noodles for dinner. They were good, at least, until I found an ant crawling around in them. Why does life do this to me.

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[century-fox.livejournal.com]

What's HoCo?

HAHAHAHA that is a beautiful typo. XD

And GAH that sucks about the noodles. :( It's so frustrating when stuff like that happens.

[banerry.livejournal.com]

Holloway Commons, the building that has the biggest dining hall on campus. I go to Philly (Philbrook) which is smaller and cooler. I KNOW ALL THE CAMPUS ABBREVIATIONS; AM I COOL YET?

I just... lol'd. XD In the middle of the dining hall. I kind of want to take a red pen in there someday and just go to town.

Seriously. DX I was so grossed out.

... AND YOU USE THAT ICON WITH ME ON PURPOSE, DON'T YOU. :P

[century-fox.livejournal.com]

Oh, word...I thought you were referring to Philly as in the city. XD

GAH can I come visit you and bring a red pen with me, too? The crazy editor in me would have a compulsive need to correct all the mistakes.

YES. YES I DO. XD

[banerry.livejournal.com]

OH. XD That would explain it.

We can just go around and mark up all the table tent ads. IT WOULD BE EPIC.

I KNEW IT.

[fire-lord-azula.livejournal.com]

That's one of the reasons the word "hero" should be used for both males and females.

Also, an ant in the noodles?  YUCK.  I once found several strands of long blonde hair on one slice of pizza.

[banerry.livejournal.com]

I AGREE. Though apparently some places (like my sister's old middle school) are now using the word "shero" for females because of the heroin/heroine thing. It's pretty much the dumbest thing ever.

asdjfk ewwwww.

[fire-lord-azula.livejournal.com]

Oh, come ON.  Must we feminize everything?  And it sounds so dumb, like you said.  :\  A female hero is... a female hero.  If gender must be declared, what's wrong with saying "female hero"?  Words like "huntress", "murderess", "authoress", and the like just annoy me.  There's nothing inherently masculine about the words themselves, so what's the point?

YES.  The pizza was returned, as was our money.  I never wanted anything of theirs again, even though the Italian sausage was supposedly very good ( and expensive ).

[banerry.livejournal.com]

Pfft, same. Even like... "policewoman" and stuff are kind of "eh" to me; if I were in law enforcement I'd call myself a policeman even though I'm a girl. I used to get into clashes over this with one of my teachers in high school; she wanted me to use the word "humankind" in my papers instead of mankind, and I wouldn't do it because I thought it sounded too clunky. :P

Was it a chain, or just a local place?

[fire-lord-azula.livejournal.com]

SAME HERE.  I'd use "policeman", "mailman", or the like in reference to myself, too.  When I had a paper route, I had to consciously pause before calling myself "paper boy", even though that's what I technically was.  I used "carrier", instead.  ( "Paper girl" sounds stupid.  No one says that.  No one.  Because it sounds stupid. )  People already think I have gender issues, so I didn't need more of that by calling myself a "boy" of any sort.  But I'm telling you now that I was a paper boy, LOL.  ...She seriously didn't want you using "mankind"?  But... that's what it's called.  I can see why "humankind" would look clunky.  "Human" still has the word "man" in it, so she wasn't accomplishing much of anything.  Our species as a whole is called "man".  "Woman" also has the word "man" in it.  I never did understand people's aversion to "man/mankind".

A local place in Henderson, Nevada.  They'd been in business 25+ years, I think.  Of course, the woman who made the pizza with her long blonde hair was stunned, but she did return the money.

[banerry.livejournal.com]

... People think you have gender issues? Why? Because you have short hair and like to wear pants? That's kind of ridiculous. She crossed it out every time I used it, and replaced it with "humankind". And then I'd just... not change it. She kind of hated me by the end of the year. XD

I'd feel kind of embarrassed for her. XD She should wear a hairnet or something!

[fire-lord-azula.livejournal.com]

Well, there's a little more to it than short hair and pants.  My clothes are distinctly masculine.  You know how button-down shirts have buttons on one side for men, and the other for women?  I only wear shirts where the buttons are on the "men's side".  I drive a beefy truck ( yeah, stereotypes, but it feeds into the "gender issues" thing -- yes, even in 2009 ).  There really is nothing "feminine" about my presentation.  I've been called "sir", "buddy", and "young man" numerous times, usually by the elderly.  So maybe I do have some real gender "issues"... as long as it doesn't escalate into harassment ( which it has in the past ), I don't care if people think that of me.  I just don't want myself or my family to be harassed because of it, you know?  That's when I start caring about people's perceptions.  Are you KIDDING?  She edited your work?  NOT COOL.  I thought teachers weren't allowed to do stuff like that.  Your wording wasn't WRONG.  She was forcing her personal beliefs onto you.  Wow, I think I would've talked to the principal about that.  That's really not within a teacher's right to do.

Yeah, I did feel embarrassed for her.  She knew the hair belonged to her, but she couldn't do much about it, or risk bad PR for the entire restaurant.  My mom wondered why the woman wasn't wearing a hairnet, too!  Really, if you have long hair, it's an unspoken prerequisite.  Even people with short hair can have stray hairs fall off into food.

[banerry.livejournal.com]

You've been harassed? That's even more ridiculous. I'm sorry! ... Why wouldn't teachers be allowed to edit work? :P If it's schoolwork, I mean.

[fire-lord-azula.livejournal.com]

Bullied, harassed, yeah.  Thanks.  <3  Once one kid started, they pretty much ganged up on me.  Girls and boys.  Because it wasn't an "incorrect" word.  "Mankind" is a perfectly legitimate term.  It's ridiculous to me that she would cross out a correct term because she didn't like it.

[banerry.livejournal.com]

What. :| Fail. Yeah, I pretty much do feel the same way. It's a personal preference thing.

[fire-lord-azula.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes!  I was their punching-bag.  Not only was I the most masculine girl in school, I was shy, wore DBZ T-shirts, and liked to draw dogs/wolves, which made me a real weirdo, let me tell you.  Yeah.  If a word isn't factually incorrect, leave it alone.  But this "shero" stuff is just LAME.  Watch it make the next edition of the dictionary, though.  :\

[banerry.livejournal.com]

... I know tons of people like that. They're all awesome. 8| "Shero" just makes me laugh. Especially since it came about because they thought "heroine" was too much like "heroin" to use in a public school setting.

[fire-lord-azula.livejournal.com]

Aw.  :D  They sound awesome to me!  I try to think I was too awesome for that school, but, 'eh.  "Shero" makes me think of "Shego" from Kim Possible, which is... yeah.  It's only one letter apart, so.  But, yeah, the origin of the word is pretty funny.  No one wants to think of a female lead as a drug!

[banerry.livejournal.com]

High school? ... Shego is awesome; I think I might like "shero" better now because of that connotation. XD

[fire-lord-azula.livejournal.com]

No, middle school.  Moving across the country at twelve-years-old is the absolute WORST thing to EVER do if you're going to attend public school.  You know no one, and kids are already in their little cliques.  If you're shy, make that 10x worse.  Better yet, Shego used to be a hero --... er, shero, or whatever.  So there you go.  Maybe it's not so bad after all...

[banerry.livejournal.com]

I'll bet. DX I'm lucky that I spent all my middle school years in the same school district. She's cooler as a villain, though. :P

[fire-lord-azula.livejournal.com]

Awfulawfulawful.  It came to the point where I had to be homeschooled.  I was literally becoming depressed and my straight-A's ( not to brag ) were suffering.  I had enemies in nearly every class, and the bus ride to/from home was unpleasant.  I was in almost constant agony for eight hours.  I dreaded going to school.  I'd say you were very lucky never to transition at that age.  Agreed.  I was just playing off the word association.  Villain!Shego > hero!Shego.

[banerry.livejournal.com]

... I don't even know what to say. D: I'm glad you had the resources for homeschooling! Villains in Kim Possible just crack me up, period. THEY HAVE VILLAIN CONVENTIONS AND THEIR OWN SUPPLY HOUSES.

[fire-lord-azula.livejournal.com]

Awww.  D:  If I made you feel bad or weird about it, I'm sorry.  It gave me social anxiety, which was formally diagnosed a few years later.  Took me years to get out of that rut.  I still have issues in social settings, but not nearly as bad anymore.  Thanks!  Believe me, I was glad, too.  I needed to get out of that destructive environment.  It was poisoning me to be with those kids.  THEY'RE SO WONDERFULLY DORKY AND SRS BSNS.  Now I want to find episodes...

[banerry.livejournal.com]

You didn't; don't worry. <3 THERE'S SOMEONE ON YOUTUBE WHO HAS THEM ALL UPLOADED.

[fire-lord-azula.livejournal.com]

Oh, good!  I wouldn't want to do that.  D:  Thanks for being supportive.  <3  ...I THINK I MIGHT FIND THIS PERSON.

[banerry.livejournal.com]

HERE YOU GO (http://www.youtube.com/user/RonBWL).

[century-fox.livejournal.com]

...that's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

[banerry.livejournal.com]

I know, right. :|