I'll be needing that walker now
Dec. 20th, 2007 11:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blairprovenceI find it quite appalling that I can now use the phrase "back in my day" unironically in conversation. It's humbling in some way to have to explain to people what 8-track was, or mimeograph machines, or - gasp - a world without video games.
I'm not grownup, am I? I was sure I would see it coming!
But sometimes, I just have to let criticism fly, even if it makes the young whippersnappers roll their eyes - (Yes, I am talking to YOU!)
Advance apologies to anyone this actually describes, but, then, we've established that I am un-hip and out-of-touch...
I HATE webpages that have tiny, tiny text. I HATE livejournals that have eye-searing color combinations, especially lightish text on darkish backgrounds - and MOST especially not-so-lightish text on BLACK backgrounds!
So you can imagine how I feel when I get tiny, tiny text, a black background, and dark gray print.
People, I'm sure you worked very hard on your post, or your recap, or your story, etcetera. I really WANT to read it, which is why I've sought out your journal. WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME VIA MY EYEBALLS??!!!??? WHY??!!???
Seriously - BLACK text on WHITE, NAVY text on CREAM, DARK GRAY text on EGGSHELL, und so weiter, mmmkay? And all in a font that your average *cough*Hmpf*cough*-year-old can decipher without breaking out the bifocals.
(Not that I wear bifocals.)
Ahem. Thanks for letting me get that out.
Turn off that trashy music! Get a haircut! And get off my lawn!
Young people today, sheesh!
I'm not grownup, am I? I was sure I would see it coming!
But sometimes, I just have to let criticism fly, even if it makes the young whippersnappers roll their eyes - (Yes, I am talking to YOU!)
Advance apologies to anyone this actually describes, but, then, we've established that I am un-hip and out-of-touch...
I HATE webpages that have tiny, tiny text. I HATE livejournals that have eye-searing color combinations, especially lightish text on darkish backgrounds - and MOST especially not-so-lightish text on BLACK backgrounds!
So you can imagine how I feel when I get tiny, tiny text, a black background, and dark gray print.
People, I'm sure you worked very hard on your post, or your recap, or your story, etcetera. I really WANT to read it, which is why I've sought out your journal. WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME VIA MY EYEBALLS??!!!??? WHY??!!???
Seriously - BLACK text on WHITE, NAVY text on CREAM, DARK GRAY text on EGGSHELL, und so weiter, mmmkay? And all in a font that your average *cough*Hmpf*cough*-year-old can decipher without breaking out the bifocals.
(Not that I wear bifocals.)
Ahem. Thanks for letting me get that out.
Turn off that trashy music! Get a haircut! And get off my lawn!
Young people today, sheesh!
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Amen Sister!
Date: 2007-12-21 04:54 pm (UTC)Pull up your pants! and "I had to walk ten miles in the snow, uphill, to get to school!"
Sigh. Glad to hear it isn't just me. When I teach, my cultural literacy is increasingly useless. None of them knew of "Beyond the Pale" "Catywampus" "The Berlin Wall Falling" or even watch TV!
OY!
Bleh.