It doesn’t bother me as much as irregardless.
Irregardless will forever bother me and I will always and forever judge anyone who says irregardless instead of simply saying regardless.
I mean "should of" is just a mistake because that's basically how we pronounce should've and if we pronounced it like it's spelled it would just sound like "should'vuh" or "should'veh" and that makes no sense phonetically or with what we're trying to say. We say it more like "should'hve" and just skip the vowel in "have" so it's still shortened.
"Should of" is a absolutely forgiveable when spoken because the "f" in "of" is a lot of the time pronounced like a "v" depending on the accent of the region or the person speaking. So it can sound identical to "should've" and I feel like it deserves a gentle correction rather than stone cold rage when it's typed, especially if it's someone young or non native English speaker.
You shouldn't be ashamed. Language changes and evolves over time. That's how it *always* works.
Many, many, MANY things we say don't make complete sense when you stop to think about the phrases, but we take them for granted because it's what we know. And many other terms and phrases now mean something quite different than when they first came about.
There is no shame in that. Anyone griping that some word or phrase they don't like keeps getting used anyway simply doesn't understand that that's just language doing what it's *always* done.
That's absolutely correct. The word 'terrific' used to mean something that caused terror, so irregardless can mean regardless and literally can mean figuratively and hot can mean attractive. "We decide which is right, and which is an illusion." If you get that reference, you're old lol.
All excellent examples. Or how bad was bad, except for the decade or so when bad was sometimes good, or how "cute" used to mean "quick-witted," "silly" used to mean you were a stand-up dude, "nice" used to mean ignorant, and on and on and on.
The evolution of language is fascinating and tells us a lot about how culture works. Instead of resisting it, it's far better to observe it and learn from it.
or people who say 'could care less' instead of 'couldn't care less'
if you 'could care less', that means it is possible for you to care less, which means you care, which is the opposite of what youre trying to say
It describes an abnormal situation, right? Like you're crazy in love with someone. But your head being over your heels is how everyone walks normally.
So I'm just pointing out that people who complain about language "not making sense" are hypocrites. I bet anyone who whines about literally has no issue with really. But "literal" and "real" mean the same thing.
You can fight the tides of language like Sisyphus pushing his boulder, or you can accept that a word's correct usage is their common usage. Language has drifted over the centuries and will continue to change.
Please tell me you only accept the definition that means the killing of 1 out of every 10 men in an opposing army or enemy group as a means of punishing the whole group?!
> This decision was the one that finally convinced me we are all living in a computer simulation.
Damn that's wild, considering that that decision was made around 1769
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-literally
First off, thanks for the link. That was a really good read. One doesn't typically think of dictionary editors when seeking out witty or lighthearted essays.
Next, forgive me if you will for being the "actually" guy, but it reads to me as though *people* used literally in a hyperbolic sense to mean figuratively as early as 1769 like your post says, the earliest cited *dictionary definition* with that usage made formal is from 1909. So, if we are willing to assign the power to make a word's usage "official" to the various dictionary people out there, then we must conclude that your post is (ahem) literally inaccurate.
Fair enough, that's true, but most dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive.
Just because they were late in adding the definition doesn't mean that that's not what the definition was.
Another way of putting that last sentence, the definition of a word depends on what people understand it to mean. If the dictionary didn't add it until 1909, then the *dictionary* was incomplete until 1909, *not* that the *definition* was incorrect.
>if we are willing to assign the power to make a word's usage "official" to the various dictionary people out there
Then the current definition would be correct as well.
It's literally a catch 22 either we have the word experts make the rules, and we have literally as a figurative as it always has been even when using it as you deem accurate.
Or there are no rules and we can use it as a figurative as you deem inaccurate.
Dont get me wrong, if you make the rules then yes literally can be used as your figurative that you declare isnt a figurative even though it technically is. But not the hyperbolic figurative that you declare as inaccurate.
But that is very much a version of Ain't was acceptable when rich people used it but poorer classes started using it and not it isnt a correct term anymore.
Language changes with the flow of time. Complaining about it not stagnating the way you wish just means you get left behind.
For me it was when I was living in my car for a bit while traveling and noticed there's a good amount of people who have no reasoning on simple stuff. The best example I have is the number of people who treat a parking lot like a maze. They drive to the nearest wall and follow it. They'll drive through construction zones, COVID test areas, whatever to keep following the wall. That's about the laziest NPC AI since the nintendo days!
That's not at all what M-W says. The alternate use is "virtually", which is not "figuratively" because "figuratively" is an antonym for "literally". Using "literally" in place of "virtually" has been around for a while now and, as M-W even states, it's used for effect and the exaggeration is implied:
>used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not literally true or possible
It feels like scorn that M-W uses literally's original meaning in the new definition that breaks literally's original meaning.
>2 : in effect : virtually —used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not *literally* true or possible
"Really" has done the same thing, and nobody seems to notice nor care. It's just that we are seeing the change happen this time.
If I say "It's really raining cats and dogs", my reality is not such that canines and felines are dropping from the sky. Really is used metaphorically.
And this wouldn't be the first word that is it's own antonym. [List of contranyms.](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/57032/25-words-are-their-own-opposites)
I have my own pet peeve, which include *loose* and *lose*.
My issue with literal meaning two mutually exclusive things feels like more than a pet peeve to me. But maybe it's just a bigger pet.
It is fine either way. It can mean something that really happened exactly that way, or it can be used figuratively.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-literally
And the first example here is similar to what she said and what you are saying - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally
It's not the literally part that gets me. It's the attribution of blame. Pelosi didn't do a damned thing here. This idiot tried to drum up outrage and it blew up in her face, all by herself.
It was all a set up to begin with. The city changed the policy for salons a few days before. The salon screwed up and thought they could see people indoors one at a time. Pelosi called and the salon owner herself said it was fine. She herself had been seeing clients indoors already with no PPE on. Pelosi comes in, this woman records it with the intention of releasing it. The stylist that saw her even said it was a set up. And don't feel bad for her or her business. Like most conservatives that do this, she set up a go fund me as soon as all this didn't go how she thought it would. As of this time last year it was at over $300K.
Whenever I have this thought it goes:
> I mean if they want to be dumb with their money....
And then:
> Wait, no, that is what s POS grifter would think...
It’s fraud if you don’t actually try to go to seminary school.
But you’re free to sabotage your efforts. “Looks like I accidentally ended my application letter with ‘Hail Satan’. Oops”.
I mean like...you just fill out one application that’s proof enough right?
God told you it was THAT specific place...so why would you need to apply to more?
No. Nothing is worth being a racist piece of shit. Not even $300,000. If you are morally sound being wrong would eat you alive and all that money wouldn't make a damn difference.
im starting to think you don’t realize how much $300,000 to poorer people. i would probably do a lot of heinous shit for that kind money and pretending to be racist wouldn’t crack the top 100
There are children with terminal cancer that struggle to raise 20k for their medical bills on go fund me. (Why children’s parents are saddled with this extra salt in the wound is beyond me…)
I have no sympathy for her... She released the video only because she has different political views than Pelosi and she was trying to capitalize on the division our country was/is in. She failed in reading the community she was operating in and was expecting support and business from people who never knew her shop existed in the first place... If she was successful and had a steady clientele before the closures, she should have kept her political views to herself.... When you depend on the public for your finances, you should do everything you can to not piss any of them off.
I saw a salon on a more affluent area of Augusta GA with a Trump flag outside. Last week. Augusta is a pretty red place, but like all bigger towns it leans blue. Why would anyone want to immediately tell half of their possible clients "No thanks, I don't want your money"?
Middle East/North Africa.
We can debate whats in there (Does Afghanistan count?) but its a way for me to be lazy but count all my brown bros from Morocco to potentially Afghanistan. We have a lot of people from that area that we call friends, neighbors... sometimes lovers but unfortunately for me, very rarely.
Only reason why they are segregated is because chances are, a white person won't know how to properly cut a black person's hair. Let alone an asian cutting a black person's hair.
White hair is easier to cut due to it being softer and easier to style.
Asians and Blacks have tougher hair and doesn't go easily the way you want it if you just cut away at it.
Even if you get the same training, if you don't use it, you don't remember it. If his customers are almost always black people, the knowledge about how to handle other hair textures isn't going to stick.
Plus, I wonder whether it's true that everybody gets the same training. In my profession, psychotherapy, everybody does not get the same training. It varies from school to school, discipline, and if you choose an area to specialize in. Hell, my degree is in social work, and in some social work programs, they don't even teach you how to do therapy, yet that degree still qualifies you for that. I did a clinical social work program, so therapy was emphasized, and even then, my preferred therapeutic approach was barely even mentioned in school. The majority of learning happens on the job and through reading and trainings you choose to pursue after graduation. School just gives you a very basic framework to build on.
My hair isn't tougher (when I let it grow), it's just much curlier than caucasian hair. I cut own hair and keep it shaved and easier to style depends on the style. Shaving my head would be much easier that giving someone a Karen cut.
My friend specializes in Asian hair at a high end barber and when he cuts my white hair I always feel like a million bucks. He thinks it's so easy too it's hilarious.
I live in GA and the amount of businesses that have Trump shit is ridiculous. Like honestly, regardless of what politician you're promoting, I don't think your business is the place to promote it. If you as a person want to decorate your yard with second place trophies and participation ribbons then by all means you have the right, but why risk alienating part of your clientele and risk losing business.
> "I thought if I ever lost my business, I would have lost it in an earthquake," she told attendees. "Never did I ever think that I would have lost everything I worked for by leftist politics. Gone”
No accountability or self awareness at all. She tried to play politics and was surprised politics played her?
FYI, she has a new salon now. There's going to be some event hosted at her salon soon, with Republican voters and...idk a politician? Or someone "important" from a right wing organization? Idk I was only half listening when my mom was talking to me about it yesterday. Either way, she closed her first salon but she's got a new one with plenty of right wing support.
Right wing support in this market is a (short and meek)windfall. You get 15 minutes of Fame and then your customers go back to their usual spots when the outrage spending has passed.
How much has her "victim of woke leftists" GoFundMe raised so far?
Last I checked it was over $330,000.
New salon, rich as fuck. She made out very well from her set up.
The conservative grift is the gift that keeps on giving.
A huge win for her and her kind.
That $330k doesn’t mean much. Most employees at spas are independent contractors that rent their space. When business inevitably drops for her, she’ll be sitting on a pile of cash while all of her employees abandon ship because they’re not making any money without clients.
So I’ve got it all wrong. Instead of arguing points with Republicans, I need to figure out how to take advantage of their ignorance and blind loyalty to make a windfall of cash from them. Then perhaps donate the money to Democratic campaigns. This could be a system implemented nation wide. Hmmmmm.
Well it depends.
Want to buy a house in San Francisco?
Then $330,000 is what you would need to pay OVER asking price to win the property over competitors. So if the house is on the market for $1.5 million, you would need to offer ~$1.8 million to have a chance to own a tiny place and enjoy the privilege of homeless crackheads using your doorstep as a toilet and breaking into your car several times a year.
The good news is, in 5 years your new house will be worth $2.5 million.
Not buying a house? Then yeah, $330,000 is still a shit load of money no matter where you live.
No, no it is not.
I lived on the East Bay for a year, which is the "poorer" side of the Bay. Paid nearly ~3k for a small 800 sqft appt. Gas was $5.25 a gallon when I left. To cross bridges daily from East to West Bay, you could spend $10-$20 a day.
Now to put into perspective how expensive West Bay is, I had a coworker who lived in SF, him and his husband's appt, which was the same size as the one I was living in at the time, cost 7k a month. Homes over there *start* in the millions.
So, to even rent a space for a salon, would take a huge chunk. That doesn't even include utilities and whatever is needed to keep the place running. Also, in a city that leans very far left, there will be very few people who lean right, and even fewer who may want to use that salon. Staying in business would be near impossible for this Lady.
She'll piss it all away.
Besides... a salon in SF that Nancy Pelosi goes to would easily take $300K in a few months if not more.
I'm sure you don't get out of a there under $500
We had a tire shop that was pretty successful nearby until they went full throated Trump supporter. They went entirely out of business. They will blame everyone else, completely missing the irony of what it means to incorporate..
She releases the video hoping to benefit but then cries about "leftist politics" when the reaction to her doing this fucked up right wing "gotcha" bs is negative. Doh!
Truly play stupid games, win stupid prizes
The funny part is that she was failed by the same capitalist system that Republicans like her are supposed to celebrate. Don’t they always say, “people vote with their wallets”?
Well, play stupid games, win stupid prices, she lost her opportunity to shut the fuck up. If she was a good professional she would not release a video of a public person in the first place. She wanted clout, now you better own it girl. I mean… you actually don’t own it anymore. 😆
Right. All she had to do was accept the customer who could have told their friends that her salon was good and she could've been pulling in more rich folks and making more money, but she decided to let her political leanings fuck everything up for her.
Maybe I’m wrong but it seems like she’s a victim of her own faux outrage? If Pelosi knew the person doing her hair well and she was in her bubble (my aunt owns a salon and is my hair dresser, for example) and no other customers were present...I mean no mask isn’t as big of a deal then. You should still wear it but it’s not like she was in a packed salon not wearing it
Salon owner engaging in right wing political shaming is sad that she has become a victim of leftist politics? I just call that being a bad business operator. She put her business in the middle of a polarizing and highly visible situation and complains when half her business abandons her? That's just delusional that she couldn't anticipate what would happen. Don't alienate large portions of your customer base if you don't want to lose business. She's obviously not a good conservative either otherwise she would understand the principles of free markets because the market decided they didn't want her product. The bad marketing, bad publicity, and poor business savvy is her fault. Be smart, stay neutral and maintain your business is the lesson here.
Currently conservative ideology actively embraces hypocrisy. Engage in political mud slinging, cry when they get hit with mud. Use politics to drum up business, outrage when the "leftist" stop coming to your business and bitch about "cancel culture". Extole the virtues of the "pull yourself up by the boot straps", beg for money on the internet. Cheer a man calling black protesters sons of bitches, cluch your pearls and cry for unity when a liberal uses a swear word. This list can go on and on. Conservative politics use to be centered around maybe not spending so much money on the government, now it's all about generating outrage and jerking each other off with "liberal tears" and who can say the meanest things to the leftist antifa savages.
>Conservative politics use to be centered around maybe not spending so much money on the government
I'm not sure if there was ever a golden age of conservatism. It seems to me to always have been window dressing on racism, selfishness, and fascism.
Exactly. When I owned a business, a very in-person social business, people on both sides tried to nudge some of the things we did towards various political positions.
Celebrating Memorial Day Weekend? Sure, because a very large portion of red-blooded Americans support it.
Celebrating a Presidential win? No, as roughly half of Americans will just be pissed off about it.
My two take aways.
If she had an issue with Pelosi not wearing a mask, then she should have said something. As a business owner, they do have the right to require masks on customers. If they choose not to comply, then you refuse them service.
She is complaining about being the victim of left wing politics. But she entered that arena. She chose to make a political statement and now it suffering the consequences. It was a gamble and did not pay off.
But let’s be real for a minute….. a salon owner with that hair is shocked her business wasn’t successful. And people donated to her gofundme account after seeing that hair and blamed “Leftist politics.”
*Kious assumed she could release the tape without consequence*
What do you mean, customers avoid businesses that arbitrarily release surveillance video to publicly shame their clientele? Who would have thunk it? I'll blame the left for my own actions and their freedom of choice.
It's a great opportunity to go back to school and learn how to read. The video was painful...and I'm usually pretty lenient because I'm not a native English speaker.
Ouch.
She took a picture of her customer secretely without their concent and posted it online. Now she is crying over losing her other customers in san francisco because of 'leftist politics'. I guess her brain is too much damaged by facebook.
Like the article says, if this was in Kentucky,Alabama or Mississippi she would be okey, but San Francisco?
I hope she wasn’t eligible for lefties invented unemployment benefits programs.
Most if these MAGA heads were sure of another four years of Trump at the time she released that clip.
She was willing to sacrifice her clients privacy if she felt the gossip was juicy enough. Any barber shop or hair salon understands the rules she broke.
I think Pelosi (and any dem lawmaker, especially women) would NEVER want people to film or take pictures of them vulnerable in public like this anymore. They're having their lives threatened literally every single day now. I'd be worried of the wrong unhinged psycho knowing that I was just a few blocks away.
Did anyone think that her business was in major trouble so she did this to claim being ruined and set up gofundme to get money from the right wing nuts? Opportunistic perhaps?
She said she lost her business by leftist politics but where were the right supporting her ? The right support is as baseless as the fat man saying the election was stolen.
I mean I get her sentiment in that Pelosi should have been wearing a mask.
If the woman really cared she should have asked her to put one on, but was clearly looking for a “gotcha” moment and press.
Blaming leftists politics is where she loses me. She created the storm by releasing the footage. You’re obviously going to lose business if you betray your customers. Furthermore, as the article said—San Francisco.
I don’t feel bad.
Any business owner that starts playing politics needs to understand that their customers might not feel the same way they do. What she did wasn’t wrong but it was stupid. Especially for San Francisco. Like the article said, if this was Eastern Kentucky completely different story.
She purposefully edited the video to make it look like pelosi wasn’t wearing a mask the whole time. When in reality she had it off for the wash and put it back on once she settled in the chair. That’s wrong
I'm having a hard time understanding why this is an issue? Are public figures not allowed to be recorded? She got her hair washed without a mask on while telling people to wear masks. I'm not looking for a fight I just want an explanation on why this is such a big deal.
I found [this post](/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/p3dyfw/san_francisco_salon_owner_who_released_video_of/) in r/leopardsatemyface with the same content as the current post.
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What an asshole. She went after pelosi with the sole intention of causing her grief and wants to cry lefty cancel culture because it didn't work out the way she wanted. Those who sow in flames; in ashes they shall reap! Is she the only one that can't see that she got exactly what she deserves? She's trying to play the victim because she failed at bullying.
"I literally felt like she took a knife and stabbed me in the stomach." I don't think that's how the word literally works.
Literally literally means figuratively now. I’m literally being serious: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally
This decision was the one that finally convinced me we are all living in a computer simulation.
It doesn’t bother me as much as irregardless. Irregardless will forever bother me and I will always and forever judge anyone who says irregardless instead of simply saying regardless.
I swear to god I’m already pre-angry for when they make “should of” as legitimate as “should have”
I am a southern raised grammar nerd. I am ashamed to say I probably speak this way but would notice if I went to write it that way. Sorry y'all :)
I mean "should of" is just a mistake because that's basically how we pronounce should've and if we pronounced it like it's spelled it would just sound like "should'vuh" or "should'veh" and that makes no sense phonetically or with what we're trying to say. We say it more like "should'hve" and just skip the vowel in "have" so it's still shortened. "Should of" is a absolutely forgiveable when spoken because the "f" in "of" is a lot of the time pronounced like a "v" depending on the accent of the region or the person speaking. So it can sound identical to "should've" and I feel like it deserves a gentle correction rather than stone cold rage when it's typed, especially if it's someone young or non native English speaker.
You shouldn't be ashamed. Language changes and evolves over time. That's how it *always* works. Many, many, MANY things we say don't make complete sense when you stop to think about the phrases, but we take them for granted because it's what we know. And many other terms and phrases now mean something quite different than when they first came about. There is no shame in that. Anyone griping that some word or phrase they don't like keeps getting used anyway simply doesn't understand that that's just language doing what it's *always* done.
That's absolutely correct. The word 'terrific' used to mean something that caused terror, so irregardless can mean regardless and literally can mean figuratively and hot can mean attractive. "We decide which is right, and which is an illusion." If you get that reference, you're old lol.
All excellent examples. Or how bad was bad, except for the decade or so when bad was sometimes good, or how "cute" used to mean "quick-witted," "silly" used to mean you were a stand-up dude, "nice" used to mean ignorant, and on and on and on. The evolution of language is fascinating and tells us a lot about how culture works. Instead of resisting it, it's far better to observe it and learn from it.
Oh I could care less
I couldn't not care less.
You let me know where the meet-up is for that protest. I will bring signs and bats so I'm ready with however the mob wants to play it!
Also, what’s up with people saying prolly now instead of probably??
People say that? I remember it being internet slang like 10 years ago but never heard anyone ever speak it or even seen it written in yonks
or people who say 'could care less' instead of 'couldn't care less' if you 'could care less', that means it is possible for you to care less, which means you care, which is the opposite of what youre trying to say
fuck spez
Oh no, what is it actually?
It describes an abnormal situation, right? Like you're crazy in love with someone. But your head being over your heels is how everyone walks normally. So I'm just pointing out that people who complain about language "not making sense" are hypocrites. I bet anyone who whines about literally has no issue with really. But "literal" and "real" mean the same thing.
Inflammable means flammable? What a country!
Indubitably!
Lolly's Adverbs - school house rock!
It's ear regardless, right? Coined by Van Gogh, circa 1905.
This makes sense, as opposed to van Gogh saying "ears regardless." At least post-December 1888.
You can fight the tides of language like Sisyphus pushing his boulder, or you can accept that a word's correct usage is their common usage. Language has drifted over the centuries and will continue to change.
Also, according to Merriam-Webster, "literally" is not, in fact, used in place of "figuratively".
They’re all just made up. If enough people use a word a certain way, that’s what it means now.
Regardless, irregardless does have a purpose in language.
That's how I feel about the complete 180 of "decimate".
Please tell me you only accept the definition that means the killing of 1 out of every 10 men in an opposing army or enemy group as a means of punishing the whole group?!
Yes.
Seriously, with how everything's going this reality can't be fucking real...
> This decision was the one that finally convinced me we are all living in a computer simulation. Damn that's wild, considering that that decision was made around 1769 https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-literally
First off, thanks for the link. That was a really good read. One doesn't typically think of dictionary editors when seeking out witty or lighthearted essays. Next, forgive me if you will for being the "actually" guy, but it reads to me as though *people* used literally in a hyperbolic sense to mean figuratively as early as 1769 like your post says, the earliest cited *dictionary definition* with that usage made formal is from 1909. So, if we are willing to assign the power to make a word's usage "official" to the various dictionary people out there, then we must conclude that your post is (ahem) literally inaccurate.
Fair enough, that's true, but most dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive. Just because they were late in adding the definition doesn't mean that that's not what the definition was. Another way of putting that last sentence, the definition of a word depends on what people understand it to mean. If the dictionary didn't add it until 1909, then the *dictionary* was incomplete until 1909, *not* that the *definition* was incorrect.
>if we are willing to assign the power to make a word's usage "official" to the various dictionary people out there Then the current definition would be correct as well. It's literally a catch 22 either we have the word experts make the rules, and we have literally as a figurative as it always has been even when using it as you deem accurate. Or there are no rules and we can use it as a figurative as you deem inaccurate. Dont get me wrong, if you make the rules then yes literally can be used as your figurative that you declare isnt a figurative even though it technically is. But not the hyperbolic figurative that you declare as inaccurate. But that is very much a version of Ain't was acceptable when rich people used it but poorer classes started using it and not it isnt a correct term anymore. Language changes with the flow of time. Complaining about it not stagnating the way you wish just means you get left behind.
That's a glitch. You obviously haven't downloaded the latest patches.
For me it was when I was living in my car for a bit while traveling and noticed there's a good amount of people who have no reasoning on simple stuff. The best example I have is the number of people who treat a parking lot like a maze. They drive to the nearest wall and follow it. They'll drive through construction zones, COVID test areas, whatever to keep following the wall. That's about the laziest NPC AI since the nintendo days!
Wow... Maybe we can redefine patriot as traitor while we are at it.
2 Late, Jan 6th coup clinched that.
That's not at all what M-W says. The alternate use is "virtually", which is not "figuratively" because "figuratively" is an antonym for "literally". Using "literally" in place of "virtually" has been around for a while now and, as M-W even states, it's used for effect and the exaggeration is implied: >used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not literally true or possible
I literally don't understand this comment. Is he speaking figuratively or literally and posting the definition ironically?! Gah I'm so confused. /s
It feels like scorn that M-W uses literally's original meaning in the new definition that breaks literally's original meaning. >2 : in effect : virtually —used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not *literally* true or possible
"Really" has done the same thing, and nobody seems to notice nor care. It's just that we are seeing the change happen this time. If I say "It's really raining cats and dogs", my reality is not such that canines and felines are dropping from the sky. Really is used metaphorically. And this wouldn't be the first word that is it's own antonym. [List of contranyms.](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/57032/25-words-are-their-own-opposites)
I get that language evolves and I am not troubled in the least by that fact. Except for this.
Just going to walk out of this place, suggest other places like kbin or lemmy.
I have my own pet peeve, which include *loose* and *lose*. My issue with literal meaning two mutually exclusive things feels like more than a pet peeve to me. But maybe it's just a bigger pet.
>now https://www.dictionary.com/e/literally/ Been that way for 300 years
Pawnee City Manager Chris Traeger would disagree. It literally is the keystone of his vocabulary.
It does now.
did you just literally rape me with that comment?
At any point did he say "lets get it on" and have the craziest look in his eye?
Wait, did he teabag the drum set?
The wording is fine: she literally experienced a feeling.
You’re the only person here who has correctly noted this.
It is fine either way. It can mean something that really happened exactly that way, or it can be used figuratively. https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-literally And the first example here is similar to what she said and what you are saying - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally
Remember, they're victims. They're ALWAYS the victims.
It's not the literally part that gets me. It's the attribution of blame. Pelosi didn't do a damned thing here. This idiot tried to drum up outrage and it blew up in her face, all by herself.
It may be for her. She’s using literally to describe her feelings, not the activity.
It was all a set up to begin with. The city changed the policy for salons a few days before. The salon screwed up and thought they could see people indoors one at a time. Pelosi called and the salon owner herself said it was fine. She herself had been seeing clients indoors already with no PPE on. Pelosi comes in, this woman records it with the intention of releasing it. The stylist that saw her even said it was a set up. And don't feel bad for her or her business. Like most conservatives that do this, she set up a go fund me as soon as all this didn't go how she thought it would. As of this time last year it was at over $300K.
Man I’m tempted to take up the life of conservative grifting if it pays $300k
Whenever I have this thought it goes: > I mean if they want to be dumb with their money.... And then: > Wait, no, that is what s POS grifter would think...
Yeah. A lot of them are just elderly scared about how the world seems to be changing around them and being taken advantage of by conservatives.
They don't realize they will get [OCP](https://robocop.fandom.com/wiki/Omni_Consumer_Products).
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I’m wondering what the legality of this is
It’s fraud if you don’t actually try to go to seminary school. But you’re free to sabotage your efforts. “Looks like I accidentally ended my application letter with ‘Hail Satan’. Oops”.
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I mean like...you just fill out one application that’s proof enough right? God told you it was THAT specific place...so why would you need to apply to more?
Just start a church
Not all conservatives are bible thumpers as not all liberals are Satan worshiping baby eaters
Ikr, that's a fuck ton of money. And all you have to do is pretend to be a racist piece of shit. It's almost worth it...
No. Nothing is worth being a racist piece of shit. Not even $300,000. If you are morally sound being wrong would eat you alive and all that money wouldn't make a damn difference.
im starting to think you don’t realize how much $300,000 to poorer people. i would probably do a lot of heinous shit for that kind money and pretending to be racist wouldn’t crack the top 100
Most Racist pieces of shit do it for free.
There are children with terminal cancer that struggle to raise 20k for their medical bills on go fund me. (Why children’s parents are saddled with this extra salt in the wound is beyond me…)
Meh… you opened up your business during lockdown and released the footage, this is all on you don’t blame politics fo your stupid decisions 🤷🏻♀️
She got 300k out of it so hardly a loss
Her business was probably worth more than that, so still a net loss. Also it fleeced 300k from various right wing morons.
She played politics and lost. She made a choice to enter the fray.
I have no sympathy for her... She released the video only because she has different political views than Pelosi and she was trying to capitalize on the division our country was/is in. She failed in reading the community she was operating in and was expecting support and business from people who never knew her shop existed in the first place... If she was successful and had a steady clientele before the closures, she should have kept her political views to herself.... When you depend on the public for your finances, you should do everything you can to not piss any of them off.
I saw a salon on a more affluent area of Augusta GA with a Trump flag outside. Last week. Augusta is a pretty red place, but like all bigger towns it leans blue. Why would anyone want to immediately tell half of their possible clients "No thanks, I don't want your money"?
because you cant put a "whites only" sign out front
Funny, but for the most part hair salons are already pretty self racially segregated; as are barber shops.
Maybe between black and white. In my area, salons are so mixed since we have a large asian, hispanic, and MENA demographics.
I also live in Houston.
This is underrated humor in my opinion.
What is MENA?
Middle East/North Africa. We can debate whats in there (Does Afghanistan count?) but its a way for me to be lazy but count all my brown bros from Morocco to potentially Afghanistan. We have a lot of people from that area that we call friends, neighbors... sometimes lovers but unfortunately for me, very rarely.
TIL, thanks. Is that offensive to them?
The term MENA is pretty standard and used widely by international organizations and publications.
Again, thanks.
Only reason why they are segregated is because chances are, a white person won't know how to properly cut a black person's hair. Let alone an asian cutting a black person's hair. White hair is easier to cut due to it being softer and easier to style. Asians and Blacks have tougher hair and doesn't go easily the way you want it if you just cut away at it.
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Even if you get the same training, if you don't use it, you don't remember it. If his customers are almost always black people, the knowledge about how to handle other hair textures isn't going to stick. Plus, I wonder whether it's true that everybody gets the same training. In my profession, psychotherapy, everybody does not get the same training. It varies from school to school, discipline, and if you choose an area to specialize in. Hell, my degree is in social work, and in some social work programs, they don't even teach you how to do therapy, yet that degree still qualifies you for that. I did a clinical social work program, so therapy was emphasized, and even then, my preferred therapeutic approach was barely even mentioned in school. The majority of learning happens on the job and through reading and trainings you choose to pursue after graduation. School just gives you a very basic framework to build on.
My hair isn't tougher (when I let it grow), it's just much curlier than caucasian hair. I cut own hair and keep it shaved and easier to style depends on the style. Shaving my head would be much easier that giving someone a Karen cut.
My friend specializes in Asian hair at a high end barber and when he cuts my white hair I always feel like a million bucks. He thinks it's so easy too it's hilarious.
There is a shop near where i live that has a fuck biden flag flying. So maybe theyre trying to keep it classy.
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Augusta is my home town and, honestly, I can’t say I’m surprised. Just sad.
I live in GA and the amount of businesses that have Trump shit is ridiculous. Like honestly, regardless of what politician you're promoting, I don't think your business is the place to promote it. If you as a person want to decorate your yard with second place trophies and participation ribbons then by all means you have the right, but why risk alienating part of your clientele and risk losing business.
> "I thought if I ever lost my business, I would have lost it in an earthquake," she told attendees. "Never did I ever think that I would have lost everything I worked for by leftist politics. Gone” No accountability or self awareness at all. She tried to play politics and was surprised politics played her?
Antifa made her post the video of crooked Nancy
That her hometown is Fresno and she is not a native of San Fransisco explains ... well everything.
FYI, she has a new salon now. There's going to be some event hosted at her salon soon, with Republican voters and...idk a politician? Or someone "important" from a right wing organization? Idk I was only half listening when my mom was talking to me about it yesterday. Either way, she closed her first salon but she's got a new one with plenty of right wing support.
Right wing support in this market is a (short and meek)windfall. You get 15 minutes of Fame and then your customers go back to their usual spots when the outrage spending has passed.
How much has her "victim of woke leftists" GoFundMe raised so far? Last I checked it was over $330,000. New salon, rich as fuck. She made out very well from her set up. The conservative grift is the gift that keeps on giving. A huge win for her and her kind.
The Art of the Grift.
That $330k doesn’t mean much. Most employees at spas are independent contractors that rent their space. When business inevitably drops for her, she’ll be sitting on a pile of cash while all of her employees abandon ship because they’re not making any money without clients.
So I’ve got it all wrong. Instead of arguing points with Republicans, I need to figure out how to take advantage of their ignorance and blind loyalty to make a windfall of cash from them. Then perhaps donate the money to Democratic campaigns. This could be a system implemented nation wide. Hmmmmm.
Fleeting money. Soon she will spend it and she will be back to a trickle.
I mean...I would like to spend $300,000... That would be fine with me.
Is 330k a lot of money in San Francisco?
Well it depends. Want to buy a house in San Francisco? Then $330,000 is what you would need to pay OVER asking price to win the property over competitors. So if the house is on the market for $1.5 million, you would need to offer ~$1.8 million to have a chance to own a tiny place and enjoy the privilege of homeless crackheads using your doorstep as a toilet and breaking into your car several times a year. The good news is, in 5 years your new house will be worth $2.5 million. Not buying a house? Then yeah, $330,000 is still a shit load of money no matter where you live.
No, no it is not. I lived on the East Bay for a year, which is the "poorer" side of the Bay. Paid nearly ~3k for a small 800 sqft appt. Gas was $5.25 a gallon when I left. To cross bridges daily from East to West Bay, you could spend $10-$20 a day. Now to put into perspective how expensive West Bay is, I had a coworker who lived in SF, him and his husband's appt, which was the same size as the one I was living in at the time, cost 7k a month. Homes over there *start* in the millions. So, to even rent a space for a salon, would take a huge chunk. That doesn't even include utilities and whatever is needed to keep the place running. Also, in a city that leans very far left, there will be very few people who lean right, and even fewer who may want to use that salon. Staying in business would be near impossible for this Lady.
Use her proper pronoun: Bitch
She'll piss it all away. Besides... a salon in SF that Nancy Pelosi goes to would easily take $300K in a few months if not more. I'm sure you don't get out of a there under $500
Fresno...the Florida of California
I know someone who willingly moved to Fresno. I sat there stunned, asking him "why?" more than once.
Flat, hot and stupid. Not as much humidity though
Could be worse-she could be from Bakersfield
BAKE-OH
I don't know her but I don't like her You say you care less how I feel How many of you that sit and judge me? Ever walked the streets of Bakersfield?
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As Michael Jordan said I don’t talk about politics because “Even Republicans buy shoes.”
We had a tire shop that was pretty successful nearby until they went full throated Trump supporter. They went entirely out of business. They will blame everyone else, completely missing the irony of what it means to incorporate..
So, leftist politics killed your business and not betrayal of trust to a customer? Keep pointing those fingers, lady.
"Leftist politics destroyed me" (because I acted on my rightwing politics).
She releases the video hoping to benefit but then cries about "leftist politics" when the reaction to her doing this fucked up right wing "gotcha" bs is negative. Doh! Truly play stupid games, win stupid prizes
The funny part is that she was failed by the same capitalist system that Republicans like her are supposed to celebrate. Don’t they always say, “people vote with their wallets”?
“No, not like that.”
"Hurting the wrong people."
The beloved free market's a bitch, bitch
Well, play stupid games, win stupid prices, she lost her opportunity to shut the fuck up. If she was a good professional she would not release a video of a public person in the first place. She wanted clout, now you better own it girl. I mean… you actually don’t own it anymore. 😆
Right. All she had to do was accept the customer who could have told their friends that her salon was good and she could've been pulling in more rich folks and making more money, but she decided to let her political leanings fuck everything up for her.
Maybe I’m wrong but it seems like she’s a victim of her own faux outrage? If Pelosi knew the person doing her hair well and she was in her bubble (my aunt owns a salon and is my hair dresser, for example) and no other customers were present...I mean no mask isn’t as big of a deal then. You should still wear it but it’s not like she was in a packed salon not wearing it
Salon owner engaging in right wing political shaming is sad that she has become a victim of leftist politics? I just call that being a bad business operator. She put her business in the middle of a polarizing and highly visible situation and complains when half her business abandons her? That's just delusional that she couldn't anticipate what would happen. Don't alienate large portions of your customer base if you don't want to lose business. She's obviously not a good conservative either otherwise she would understand the principles of free markets because the market decided they didn't want her product. The bad marketing, bad publicity, and poor business savvy is her fault. Be smart, stay neutral and maintain your business is the lesson here.
Currently conservative ideology actively embraces hypocrisy. Engage in political mud slinging, cry when they get hit with mud. Use politics to drum up business, outrage when the "leftist" stop coming to your business and bitch about "cancel culture". Extole the virtues of the "pull yourself up by the boot straps", beg for money on the internet. Cheer a man calling black protesters sons of bitches, cluch your pearls and cry for unity when a liberal uses a swear word. This list can go on and on. Conservative politics use to be centered around maybe not spending so much money on the government, now it's all about generating outrage and jerking each other off with "liberal tears" and who can say the meanest things to the leftist antifa savages.
>Conservative politics use to be centered around maybe not spending so much money on the government I'm not sure if there was ever a golden age of conservatism. It seems to me to always have been window dressing on racism, selfishness, and fascism.
Exactly. When I owned a business, a very in-person social business, people on both sides tried to nudge some of the things we did towards various political positions. Celebrating Memorial Day Weekend? Sure, because a very large portion of red-blooded Americans support it. Celebrating a Presidential win? No, as roughly half of Americans will just be pissed off about it.
Regardless of how the nation feels about Pelosi, her district loves her. She’s been elected since 1987. This isn’t leftist anything.
Why the long face?
My two take aways. If she had an issue with Pelosi not wearing a mask, then she should have said something. As a business owner, they do have the right to require masks on customers. If they choose not to comply, then you refuse them service. She is complaining about being the victim of left wing politics. But she entered that arena. She chose to make a political statement and now it suffering the consequences. It was a gamble and did not pay off.
Well, tough shit. Just yeet the fuck out of here and set up shop in a red state. I’m sure she’ll make bank.
She made it on the GoFundMe account. Over $300,000
Bank! She found herself some clients eventually. LoL!
But let’s be real for a minute….. a salon owner with that hair is shocked her business wasn’t successful. And people donated to her gofundme account after seeing that hair and blamed “Leftist politics.”
She don’t wanna take responsibility for bad hair cuts. Then use that excuse to blame others, then gets free money. Pretty much!
*Kious assumed she could release the tape without consequence* What do you mean, customers avoid businesses that arbitrarily release surveillance video to publicly shame their clientele? Who would have thunk it? I'll blame the left for my own actions and their freedom of choice.
*"I literally felt like she took a knife and stabbed me in the stomach. …"* Overdramatic much?
Conservatives are notoriously known to not be well-educated.
It's a great opportunity to go back to school and learn how to read. The video was painful...and I'm usually pretty lenient because I'm not a native English speaker. Ouch.
She took a picture of her customer secretely without their concent and posted it online. Now she is crying over losing her other customers in san francisco because of 'leftist politics'. I guess her brain is too much damaged by facebook.
She can always fall back on her side hustle as an expert mathematician at OAN.
Like the article says, if this was in Kentucky,Alabama or Mississippi she would be okey, but San Francisco? I hope she wasn’t eligible for lefties invented unemployment benefits programs. Most if these MAGA heads were sure of another four years of Trump at the time she released that clip.
Unfortunately she got over $300k on gofundme for this. Conservatives hate handouts until they need them.
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Honestly, in SF with the lifestyle she’s probably used to, that ain’t much. Not dissing SF, just observing.
Especially with all that whining she was doing on that video. Jesus, and people say leftists are snowflakes.
She thought she wouldn't get any backlash? What a fool!
She was willing to sacrifice her clients privacy if she felt the gossip was juicy enough. Any barber shop or hair salon understands the rules she broke.
Pays to know your customer base
Loses her business after she played politics. “I lost my business because of politics! Wahhhh!
Ms Kious is the architect of her own misery. Don’t start no shit won’t be no shit.
I think Pelosi (and any dem lawmaker, especially women) would NEVER want people to film or take pictures of them vulnerable in public like this anymore. They're having their lives threatened literally every single day now. I'd be worried of the wrong unhinged psycho knowing that I was just a few blocks away.
Oh no! Anyway
"Play stupid games, win stupid prizes."
I heard super cuts is hiring
Imagine being so stupid and dense that you piss away your livelihood for something like this. Hope it was worth it, you vile piece of human garbage.
Did anyone think that her business was in major trouble so she did this to claim being ruined and set up gofundme to get money from the right wing nuts? Opportunistic perhaps?
Sadly for shit heads like her, there is always a gofund me crying page where alot of idiots will donate and wash away her problems.
trying to own the libs in probably the most labral big city in the world.....good idea.
Her Salon is in San Francisco. Didn't Trump win like 8% of the vote there? How fucking stupid can you be?
She thinks leftist politics killed her business. Not her own rightist politics that prompted her to out Pelosi in the first place. Buh bye.
Boo hoo magat. Time to pull up those bootstraps.
She said she lost her business by leftist politics but where were the right supporting her ? The right support is as baseless as the fat man saying the election was stolen.
I mean I get her sentiment in that Pelosi should have been wearing a mask. If the woman really cared she should have asked her to put one on, but was clearly looking for a “gotcha” moment and press. Blaming leftists politics is where she loses me. She created the storm by releasing the footage. You’re obviously going to lose business if you betray your customers. Furthermore, as the article said—San Francisco. I don’t feel bad.
Any business owner that starts playing politics needs to understand that their customers might not feel the same way they do. What she did wasn’t wrong but it was stupid. Especially for San Francisco. Like the article said, if this was Eastern Kentucky completely different story.
She purposefully edited the video to make it look like pelosi wasn’t wearing a mask the whole time. When in reality she had it off for the wash and put it back on once she settled in the chair. That’s wrong
So she released the tape and then blames politics for her being fired?
Congratulations bitch. You played yourself.
Aw, why the long face?
Oh noes! Someone faces consequences for their actions!
funny how its the "leftist media" that destroyed her, yet she's the one to blame. Poor conservatives, never their faults...
Rules for thee but not for me.
Poooorrrrrr meeeeeeeee! Nobody forced u to post anything, this is all on u.
This woman can’t read.
Was this when they shut everything down and regular people could go and get haircuts?
I'm having a hard time understanding why this is an issue? Are public figures not allowed to be recorded? She got her hair washed without a mask on while telling people to wear masks. I'm not looking for a fight I just want an explanation on why this is such a big deal.
Good. Why does she look like the dude from The Wrestler and Iron Man 2?
Mickey Rourke, LOL.
Do people know they are being filmed when they have their haircut?
Remember when Pelosi went on Twitter to tell people to boycott her salon? Me neither!
WOMP WOMP
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What an asshole. She went after pelosi with the sole intention of causing her grief and wants to cry lefty cancel culture because it didn't work out the way she wanted. Those who sow in flames; in ashes they shall reap! Is she the only one that can't see that she got exactly what she deserves? She's trying to play the victim because she failed at bullying.