You Know What Grinds My Gears? - Things that personally piss you off

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Not a major one, but I get a little annoyed with the phrase "liminal spaces" these days. Mostly because I have no idea what the fuck that means but even when I actually look up explanations... they explain fuck all. Like I even watched an entire Nostalgia Nerd video about the concept... and by the end still had no idea what a "liminal space" even IS... just that apparently people are known to react to them.
 
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Not a major one, but I get a little annoyed with the phrase "liminal spaces" these days. Mostly because I have no idea what the fuck that means but even when I actually look up explanations... they explain fuck all. Like I even watched an entire Nostalgia Nerd video about the concept... and by the end still had no idea what a "liminal space" even IS... just that apparently people are known to react to them.
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Liminal means an intermediate between two states, conditions, or regions. A liminal space is an area designed primarily to be traversed rather than inhabited, and is usually on the way from one inhabited or useful space to another. It's a transitional area, like an airport concourse, or a long corridor, or something else that people use but don't inhabit. It's a bit flexible, because places can become liminal at different times of day, or when their purpose changes.

The term became popular because of people noticing how weird an empty shopping mall feels (a shopping mall, being designed almost entirely as a space that you move through to get to other spaces within it, is the ur-example of a liminal space). Then the backrooms came along and boosted it into the stratosphere.
 
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Liminal means an intermediate between two states, conditions, or regions. A liminal space is an area designed primarily to be traversed rather than inhabited, and is usually on the way from one inhabited or useful space to another. It's a transitional area, like an airport concourse, or a long corridor, or something else that people use but don't inhabit. It's a bit flexible, because places can become liminal at different times of day, or when their purpose changes.

The term became popular because of people noticing how weird an empty shopping mall feels (a shopping mall, being designed almost entirely as a space that you move through to get to other spaces within it, is the ur-example of a liminal space). Then the backrooms came along and boosted it into the stratosphere.
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So its basically just a fancy word for a hallway or something.

Gah, I hate the internet's tendency to make up terminology for mundane concepts just to make them sound like something special.

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Actually while I'm ranting, lately I've come to distrust anyone who says they have "science" backing them. Usually its either A) absolute bullshit or else B) people identifying a real thing but coming to retarded conclusions about it.

For example, I was once sleeping over at my sister's house. She had these sort of indoor christmas lights in the room I inhabit and I requested she make them blue (they were on red). She immediately goes on about how I won't be able to sleep because apparently some science article she heard of said that blue keeps people awake because something something and this is why people have trouble sleeping in front of computer monitors.

Which.... both her and I had slept with monitors on before, and I would think the color matters more because ITS A BRIGHT LIGHT and not because blue has some magical spectrum nonsense. Indeed whenever I turn monitors to a darker color, they don't prevent me from sleeping at all.

Now, my own logic was far simpler--Blue is a calming color, while red is the color of demon eyes.

But I was too sleepy to argue and my sister is one of those people who will stubbornly insist on something no matter how much you debunk it--she'd basically be the prosecutor in an Ace Attorney game--so I just slept with red lights on. Actually, I think we compromised and she made them orange... which actually DID give me a bit of the "bright lights" problem we were trying to avoid.

This is just one of many times I've heard "science" used to justify something completely retarded. Chances are too it probably wasn't a real study but just something she learned from a clickbait article.

(And if you're wondering why I don't just sleep in complete darkness, its because... well, imagine if I have to wake up in the middle of the night to answer the call of nature, and maybe I'm in a hurry. The last thing I want is to be banging around on shit I can't see and having to feel my way out the room).

... Aaaand connecting all this to the above, I've noticed that "science" tends to invent bullshit terms for what are really standard concepts. The example I imagine Kiwi will be most familiar with is "gender expression." Which is just a fancy way of saying that girls like to dress like girls and boys like to dress like boys, but they pretend its some major big-brain thing that nobody has ever noticed before.
 
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So its basically just a fancy word for a hallway or something.

Gah, I hate the internet's tendency to make up terminology for mundane concepts just to make them sound like something special.

......

Actually while I'm ranting, lately I've come to distrust anyone who says they have "science" backing them. Usually its either A) absolute bullshit or else B) people identifying a real thing but coming to retarded conclusions about it.

For example, I was once sleeping over at my sister's house. She had these sort of indoor christmas lights in the room I inhabit and I requested she make them blue (they were on red). She immediately goes on about how I won't be able to sleep because apparently some science article she heard of said that blue keeps people awake because something something and this is why people have trouble sleeping in front of computer monitors.

Which.... both her and I had slept with monitors on before, and I would think the color matters more because ITS A BRIGHT LIGHT and not because blue has some magical spectrum nonsense. Indeed whenever I turn monitors to a darker color, they don't prevent me from sleeping at all.

Now, my own logic was far simpler--Blue is a calming color, while red is the color of demon eyes.

But I was too sleepy to argue and my sister is one of those people who will stubbornly insist on something no matter how much you debunk it--she'd basically be the prosecutor in an Ace Attorney game--so I just slept with red lights on. Actually, I think we compromised and she made them orange... which actually DID give me a bit of the "bright lights" problem we were trying to avoid.

This is just one of many times I've heard "science" used to justify something completely retarded. Chances are too it probably wasn't a real study but just something she learned from a clickbait article.

(And if you're wondering why I don't just sleep in complete darkness, its because... well, imagine if I have to wake up in the middle of the night to answer the call of nature, and maybe I'm in a hurry. The last thing I want is to be banging around on shit I can't see and having to feel my way out the room).

... Aaaand connecting all this to the above, I've noticed that "science" tends to invent bullshit terms for what are really standard concepts. The example I imagine Kiwi will be most familiar with is "gender expression." Which is just a fancy way of saying that girls like to dress like girls and boys like to dress like boys, but they pretend its some major big-brain thing that nobody has ever noticed before.
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The reason is that the atmosphere filters out blue wavelengths when the sun is low in the sky, so when your optic nerve is being bombarded by blue light, your brain thinks it's day time and screws up your sleep cycle.
 
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