“At this time we will be revoking your ability to work/eat/visit in our building because you refuse to show your vaxx card.” That phrase also holds out hope that the targeted person could always change their bad ways and comply. If you merely do what Saint Fauci says, then you won’t be hit with the “at this time.” Like training a dog. I hate that phrase so much and now understand why much more clearly. Thanks.
I've never caught this speech pattern, but the trends vindicate you. iSubstack is coming out with heaters this week -- you with this, Knox with the RB article, and I'm making a decent one as well. Not as funny though.
“Mistakes were made in dealing with the crisis.” the Progressive Passive voice cries!! “While some of my actions in the past have shown poor judgement.” .. . .“Errors were discovered in the financial statements.” . .
This reminds me of how every morning in high school, this negress would shout at every student to wear their ID & lanyard while also telling us not to be late, screaming "WEAR YOUR BADGE Y'ALL! ONLY THIRTY SECONDS TIL DA BELL RANGS YALL!". Very infuriating! 90% of the internet also blocked despite all of us being teenagers, it got so bad that they even figured out how to block any google search with "unblocked" in it. You WILL NOT play papas wingeria after finishing classwork. You WILL NOT go on club penguin rewritten. You WILL NOT do anything other than pointless homework. You WILL NOT use an adblocker on your shitty district-assigned chromebook
I used to be more patient and "reasonable" for these types of people until recently. I started a high paying job a few months ago, however, there was an issue I didn't know about: the owner is a woman. She kept listening to an idiot middle management type woman instead of all the qualified men with common sense and decades of experience. Killed the business her father left her in just a few months. When the owner started letting people go, she did the typical longhoused speak you discussed. Women like this will be handed a business that can run itself, and somehow they'll make sure it'll hemorrhage money.
I’m calling it now. I’m very familiar with this discourse. Longhouse (noun) was established by BAP but this is the first time Longhouse has been applied / deployed as a verb “Once, I’ve had to back down a woman in my life for trying to Longhouse a conversation”.
This will be the word that counters this style of enforcement. Women will seethe bc it cuts to the bone of their slippery, fake fairness. What used to take paragraphs to express has been distilled down into on simple effective word.
About 15 or 20 years ago in the Antipodes, when 'at this time' trickled its way down to sub-95 PAs, secretaries and HR peons, it was customarily combined with phrases of identical meaning to form an exceedingly comical yet soul-shrivelling semantic redundancy package eg:
'[Unfortunately] at this time currently at the moment [we will not be proceeding with your application]
Just resigned my longhouse job! I could tell stories about social dynamics and rules enforced, exactly like the meme with the woman in higviz vest holding a STOP sign.
Solid article, I’ve been frustrated with the internalization of the surveillance state that seems to have gynocentric undertones. Especially collectivist phrases like, “we” that zoomers use so flippantly and even addressing “chat” without the presence of a live stream. Paradoxically individualism is seen as both paramount and oppressive. Having one’s own opinion makes you either based or a fascist and the alternative is to live as if you always have mommy watching.
“At this time we will be revoking your ability to work/eat/visit in our building because you refuse to show your vaxx card.” That phrase also holds out hope that the targeted person could always change their bad ways and comply. If you merely do what Saint Fauci says, then you won’t be hit with the “at this time.” Like training a dog. I hate that phrase so much and now understand why much more clearly. Thanks.
I've never caught this speech pattern, but the trends vindicate you. iSubstack is coming out with heaters this week -- you with this, Knox with the RB article, and I'm making a decent one as well. Not as funny though.
“Mistakes were made in dealing with the crisis.” the Progressive Passive voice cries!! “While some of my actions in the past have shown poor judgement.” .. . .“Errors were discovered in the financial statements.” . .
Incorporating this into my next drop. The passive voice thing is actually really important
This reminds me of how every morning in high school, this negress would shout at every student to wear their ID & lanyard while also telling us not to be late, screaming "WEAR YOUR BADGE Y'ALL! ONLY THIRTY SECONDS TIL DA BELL RANGS YALL!". Very infuriating! 90% of the internet also blocked despite all of us being teenagers, it got so bad that they even figured out how to block any google search with "unblocked" in it. You WILL NOT play papas wingeria after finishing classwork. You WILL NOT go on club penguin rewritten. You WILL NOT do anything other than pointless homework. You WILL NOT use an adblocker on your shitty district-assigned chromebook
I used to be more patient and "reasonable" for these types of people until recently. I started a high paying job a few months ago, however, there was an issue I didn't know about: the owner is a woman. She kept listening to an idiot middle management type woman instead of all the qualified men with common sense and decades of experience. Killed the business her father left her in just a few months. When the owner started letting people go, she did the typical longhoused speak you discussed. Women like this will be handed a business that can run itself, and somehow they'll make sure it'll hemorrhage money.
You did it again, Layne. Immaculate.
Thank you!
I’m calling it now. I’m very familiar with this discourse. Longhouse (noun) was established by BAP but this is the first time Longhouse has been applied / deployed as a verb “Once, I’ve had to back down a woman in my life for trying to Longhouse a conversation”.
This will be the word that counters this style of enforcement. Women will seethe bc it cuts to the bone of their slippery, fake fairness. What used to take paragraphs to express has been distilled down into on simple effective word.
Thank you Layne (for not trying to Longhouse me).
This is very well observed
About 15 or 20 years ago in the Antipodes, when 'at this time' trickled its way down to sub-95 PAs, secretaries and HR peons, it was customarily combined with phrases of identical meaning to form an exceedingly comical yet soul-shrivelling semantic redundancy package eg:
'[Unfortunately] at this time currently at the moment [we will not be proceeding with your application]
Learn basic empathy, chud.
Great article but please don't use gay soy-Reddit 'TLDR'. Your writing is concise and needs no summary.
Just resigned my longhouse job! I could tell stories about social dynamics and rules enforced, exactly like the meme with the woman in higviz vest holding a STOP sign.
Solid article, I’ve been frustrated with the internalization of the surveillance state that seems to have gynocentric undertones. Especially collectivist phrases like, “we” that zoomers use so flippantly and even addressing “chat” without the presence of a live stream. Paradoxically individualism is seen as both paramount and oppressive. Having one’s own opinion makes you either based or a fascist and the alternative is to live as if you always have mommy watching.