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shadowkat1. Twitter : "Yes, I know everyone is upset about Spiderman no longer being part of the MCU, but the Amazon Rain Forest is burning! Get your priorities straight, people!"
or...
Facebook: "If you can't get upset about an Amazon rain forest burning, just imagine it's an ancient Cathedral that you last visited in your twenties."
Me: More trees, less buildings and people.
2. The Real Reason the Sound of Your Own Voice Makes You Cringe.
Well, it makes me cringe. It may not make you cringe.
Most of us have shuddered on hearing the sound of our own voice. In fact, not liking the sound of your own voice is so common that there’s a term for it: voice confrontation.
But why is voice confrontation so frequent, while barely a thought is given to the voices of others?
A common explanation often found in popular media is that because we normally hear our own voice while talking, we receive both sound transferred to our ears externally by air conduction and sound transferred internally through our bones. This bone conduction of sound delivers rich low frequencies that are not included in air-conducted vocal sound. So when you hear your recorded voice without these frequencies, it sounds higher – and different. Basically, the reasoning is that because our recorded voice does not sound how we expect it to, we don’t like it.
Dr Silke Paulmann, a psychologist at the University of Essex, says, “I would speculate that the fact that we sound more high-pitched than what we think we should leads us to cringe as it doesn’t meet our internal expectations; our voice plays a massive role in forming our identity and I guess no one likes to realise that you’re not really who you think you are.”
Indeed, a realisation that we sound more like Mickey Mouse than we care to can lead to disappointment.
Yet some studies have shown that this might only be a partial explanation.
For example, a 2013 study asked participants to rate the attractiveness of different recorded voice samples. When their own voice was secretly mixed in with these samples, participants gave significantly higher ratings to their voice when they did not recognise it as their own.
What’s more, a complete explanation can be found in a series of early studies published years before the plenitude of reports offering the sound frequency and expectancy explanation.
Through their experiments, the late psychologists Phil Holzemann and Clyde Rousey concluded in 1966 that voice confrontation arises not only from a difference in expected frequency, but also a striking revelation that occurs upon the realisation of all that your voice conveys. Not only does it sound different than you expect; through what are called “extra-linguistic cues”, it reveals aspects of your personality that you can only fully perceive upon hearing it from a recording. These include aspects such as your anxiety level, indecision, sadness, anger, and so on.
To quote them, “The disruption and defensive experience are a response to a sudden confrontation with expressive qualities in the voice which the subject had not intended to express and which, until that moment, [s]he was not aware [s]he had expressed.”
As an aside -- I keep wanting to read this article that Firefox teases to me in it's Rec's but before I can click on it, I'm kicked out for some reason and can't find it again. (I was kicked out this round, because ever since Optimum upgraded my modium, the default setting is Optimum Wifi and not my home WIFI and it askes for Optimum Password -- but I want my home one. Highly annoying. So I lose the internet until I click over.)
3. This keeps popping up in my news feed... 400 Hundred Years After Africans Were First Brought to Virginia, Most Americans Don't Know The Full Story of Slavery
This is part of the NY Times Pultizer Prize Winning 1619 Project -- 1619 is when the first slave ship hit American shores...and a horrific history began. It's interactive and it is a series. And possibly one of the most ambitious pieces of journalism on race relations in print.
Sometime in 1619, a Portuguese slave ship, the São João Bautista, traveled across the Atlantic Ocean with a hull filled with human cargo: captive Africans from Angola, in southwestern Africa. The men, women and children, most likely from the kingdoms of Ndongo and Kongo, endured the horrific journey, bound for a life of enslavement in Mexico. Almost half the captives had died by the time the ship was seized by two English pirate ships; the remaining Africans were taken to Point Comfort, a port near Jamestown, the capital of the English colony of Virginia, which the Virginia Company of London had established 12 years earlier. The colonist John Rolfe wrote to Sir Edwin Sandys, of the Virginia Company, that in August 1619, a “Dutch man of war” arrived in the colony and “brought not anything but 20 and odd Negroes, which the governor and cape merchant bought for victuals.” The Africans were most likely put to work in the tobacco fields that had recently been established in the area.
Forced labor was not uncommon — Africans and Europeans had been trading goods and people across the Mediterranean for centuries — but enslavement had not been based on race. The trans-Atlantic slave trade, which began as early as the 15th century, introduced a system of slavery that was commercialized, racialized and inherited. Enslaved people were seen not as people at all but as commodities to be bought, sold and exploited. Though people of African descent — free and enslaved — were present in North America as early as the 1500s, the sale of the “20 and odd” African people set the course for what would become slavery in the United States.
The broadside pictured above advertised a slave auction at the St. Louis Hotel in New Orleans on March 25, 1858. Eighteen people were for sale, including a family of six whose youngest child was 1. The artifact is part of the collection of The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. Its curator of American Slavery, Mary Elliott, cowrote the history of slavery below — told primarily through objects in the museum's collection.
[I got the history on it that many people in American public schools didn't for one of two reasons - 1) I went better public schools and I had an African American History Teacher for a portion of the Fifth Grade. 2) My father had gotten his Masters Degree in sociological history, specializing in African American History, and made sure my brother and I were educated in it. He also had a subscription to National Geographic, which had articles on it. Most people aren't so lucky. My friends certainly weren't.]
4. Memage
Just had a major downpour, with lightening, then it stopped. All summer long, we've had these tropical storms that last about twenty to thirty minutes then end. I'm beginning to think I'm living in a tropical depression --except with moderate temperatures.
1. Are you named after someone? No.
2. When was the last time you cried? Yesterday, when co-worker was taken away to the hospital.
3. Do you like your handwriting? Sometimes. My hands shake -- essential tremor. So I like when it is legible and my hands aren't shaking.
4. What is your favorite lunch meat? either seared tuna or poached salmon or shrimp, although I eat chicken a lot.
5. Do you have any kids? nope
6. If you were another person would you be friends with yourself? Probably.
7. Do you use sarcasm? Yes. I've been told that I have a very funny dry wit. I inherited it from my father.
8. Do you still have your tonsils? No.
9. Would you bungee jump? No. I have enough back issues, thank you.
10. What is your favorite cereal? Slow-cooked oat meal with cinnamon and cream.
11. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off? No.
12. Do you think you're strong? Yes. I have a strong personality.
13. What is your favorite ice cream? Peppermint
14. What is the first thing you notice about people? Eyes and face
15. Red or pink? Pink.
16. What is the thing you like least about yourself? Drawing a blank.
17. What color pants and shoes are you wearing right now? khaki, no shoes
18. What was the last thing you ate? chocolate mousse cup
19. What are you listening to right now? Air purifier
20. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? purple
21. Favorite smell? Citrus
22. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone? Mother
23. Favorite sport to watch? Baseball
24. Hair color real? No, it's colored, with gray sneaking through
25. Eye color? hazel
26. Do you wear contacts? Yes
7. Favorite food? Don't have one
28. Scary movies or happy endings? happy endings
29. Last movie you watched? Avengers : Endgame
30. What color shirt are you wearing? Marroon
31. Summer or winter? Summer
32. Hugs or kisses? More hugs than kisses
33. Favorite dessert? Chocolate Mousse or if done well, Creme Brulee
34. What book are you reading right now? Time Served by Julianna Keyes
35. What is on your mouse pad? I don't have a mouse pad (one at work -- beach)
36. What did you watch on t.v. last night? General Hospital
37. Favorite sound? Music
38. Rolling stones or beatles? Beatles
39. What is the farthest you have been from home? Australia
40. Do you have a special talent? Very good at analyzing things, writing stories, and art.
That was sort of boring. Hmm. Was discussing the rom-com "When Harry Met Sally" today, and as a rom-com? I didn't like it. As a character study? I like it a lot. Although at various points, I wanted to strangle Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal, and I identified with Carrie Fisher, whose sense of humor I share. I think my problem with Harry and Sally is I've met them both in life, and yes, I've wanted to strangle them at various points and hug them at others.
My biggest difficulty with the rom-com though was that view that men and women (who are heterosexual) cannot have a platonic friendship. This is not true. Yes, they can. I have a lot of platonic male friends and have had platonic male friends throughout my life. They are easier at times than women -- who are insanely competitive and judgemental. Male friends don't compete with you or not in the same way or judge in the same way. It's a different dynamic.
So, I'm the rare person on the planet who was not crazy about the film. I didn't hate it. I just didn't love it either. I like odd rom-com's, I admit this.
My fav's are?
* Gross Point Blank (it's a second chance at romance between two high school sweethearts who reunite at their high school reunion. One small catch, the hero is now a freelance hitman who has been assigned to kill the heroine's father.)
* Must Love Dogs -- two middleaged people meet on an online dating site. The heroine borrows a friend's dog to meet the guy. It has a hilarious bit in the middle about condoms.
* Noises Off -- okay I think of it as a romantic comedy.
* His Girl Friday -- also, a weird choice, I know
* How to Steal a Million -- Audrey Hepburn attempts to steal her grandfather's forgery from a museum, Peter O'Toole who has been hired to uncover the forgery helps her do it.
* Pretty in Pink - mainly for the soundtrack
* Philadelphia Story -- Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Magaret O'Brien
* You've Got Mail -- Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan do The Little Shop Around the Corner
* Mr & Mrs Smith -- Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt play husband and wife, rival spies who try to kill each other.
I'm sure there's more, I just can't think of them at the moment.
or...
Facebook: "If you can't get upset about an Amazon rain forest burning, just imagine it's an ancient Cathedral that you last visited in your twenties."
Me: More trees, less buildings and people.
2. The Real Reason the Sound of Your Own Voice Makes You Cringe.
Well, it makes me cringe. It may not make you cringe.
Most of us have shuddered on hearing the sound of our own voice. In fact, not liking the sound of your own voice is so common that there’s a term for it: voice confrontation.
But why is voice confrontation so frequent, while barely a thought is given to the voices of others?
A common explanation often found in popular media is that because we normally hear our own voice while talking, we receive both sound transferred to our ears externally by air conduction and sound transferred internally through our bones. This bone conduction of sound delivers rich low frequencies that are not included in air-conducted vocal sound. So when you hear your recorded voice without these frequencies, it sounds higher – and different. Basically, the reasoning is that because our recorded voice does not sound how we expect it to, we don’t like it.
Dr Silke Paulmann, a psychologist at the University of Essex, says, “I would speculate that the fact that we sound more high-pitched than what we think we should leads us to cringe as it doesn’t meet our internal expectations; our voice plays a massive role in forming our identity and I guess no one likes to realise that you’re not really who you think you are.”
Indeed, a realisation that we sound more like Mickey Mouse than we care to can lead to disappointment.
Yet some studies have shown that this might only be a partial explanation.
For example, a 2013 study asked participants to rate the attractiveness of different recorded voice samples. When their own voice was secretly mixed in with these samples, participants gave significantly higher ratings to their voice when they did not recognise it as their own.
What’s more, a complete explanation can be found in a series of early studies published years before the plenitude of reports offering the sound frequency and expectancy explanation.
Through their experiments, the late psychologists Phil Holzemann and Clyde Rousey concluded in 1966 that voice confrontation arises not only from a difference in expected frequency, but also a striking revelation that occurs upon the realisation of all that your voice conveys. Not only does it sound different than you expect; through what are called “extra-linguistic cues”, it reveals aspects of your personality that you can only fully perceive upon hearing it from a recording. These include aspects such as your anxiety level, indecision, sadness, anger, and so on.
To quote them, “The disruption and defensive experience are a response to a sudden confrontation with expressive qualities in the voice which the subject had not intended to express and which, until that moment, [s]he was not aware [s]he had expressed.”
As an aside -- I keep wanting to read this article that Firefox teases to me in it's Rec's but before I can click on it, I'm kicked out for some reason and can't find it again. (I was kicked out this round, because ever since Optimum upgraded my modium, the default setting is Optimum Wifi and not my home WIFI and it askes for Optimum Password -- but I want my home one. Highly annoying. So I lose the internet until I click over.)
3. This keeps popping up in my news feed... 400 Hundred Years After Africans Were First Brought to Virginia, Most Americans Don't Know The Full Story of Slavery
This is part of the NY Times Pultizer Prize Winning 1619 Project -- 1619 is when the first slave ship hit American shores...and a horrific history began. It's interactive and it is a series. And possibly one of the most ambitious pieces of journalism on race relations in print.
Sometime in 1619, a Portuguese slave ship, the São João Bautista, traveled across the Atlantic Ocean with a hull filled with human cargo: captive Africans from Angola, in southwestern Africa. The men, women and children, most likely from the kingdoms of Ndongo and Kongo, endured the horrific journey, bound for a life of enslavement in Mexico. Almost half the captives had died by the time the ship was seized by two English pirate ships; the remaining Africans were taken to Point Comfort, a port near Jamestown, the capital of the English colony of Virginia, which the Virginia Company of London had established 12 years earlier. The colonist John Rolfe wrote to Sir Edwin Sandys, of the Virginia Company, that in August 1619, a “Dutch man of war” arrived in the colony and “brought not anything but 20 and odd Negroes, which the governor and cape merchant bought for victuals.” The Africans were most likely put to work in the tobacco fields that had recently been established in the area.
Forced labor was not uncommon — Africans and Europeans had been trading goods and people across the Mediterranean for centuries — but enslavement had not been based on race. The trans-Atlantic slave trade, which began as early as the 15th century, introduced a system of slavery that was commercialized, racialized and inherited. Enslaved people were seen not as people at all but as commodities to be bought, sold and exploited. Though people of African descent — free and enslaved — were present in North America as early as the 1500s, the sale of the “20 and odd” African people set the course for what would become slavery in the United States.
The broadside pictured above advertised a slave auction at the St. Louis Hotel in New Orleans on March 25, 1858. Eighteen people were for sale, including a family of six whose youngest child was 1. The artifact is part of the collection of The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. Its curator of American Slavery, Mary Elliott, cowrote the history of slavery below — told primarily through objects in the museum's collection.
[I got the history on it that many people in American public schools didn't for one of two reasons - 1) I went better public schools and I had an African American History Teacher for a portion of the Fifth Grade. 2) My father had gotten his Masters Degree in sociological history, specializing in African American History, and made sure my brother and I were educated in it. He also had a subscription to National Geographic, which had articles on it. Most people aren't so lucky. My friends certainly weren't.]
4. Memage
Just had a major downpour, with lightening, then it stopped. All summer long, we've had these tropical storms that last about twenty to thirty minutes then end. I'm beginning to think I'm living in a tropical depression --except with moderate temperatures.
1. Are you named after someone? No.
2. When was the last time you cried? Yesterday, when co-worker was taken away to the hospital.
3. Do you like your handwriting? Sometimes. My hands shake -- essential tremor. So I like when it is legible and my hands aren't shaking.
4. What is your favorite lunch meat? either seared tuna or poached salmon or shrimp, although I eat chicken a lot.
5. Do you have any kids? nope
6. If you were another person would you be friends with yourself? Probably.
7. Do you use sarcasm? Yes. I've been told that I have a very funny dry wit. I inherited it from my father.
8. Do you still have your tonsils? No.
9. Would you bungee jump? No. I have enough back issues, thank you.
10. What is your favorite cereal? Slow-cooked oat meal with cinnamon and cream.
11. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off? No.
12. Do you think you're strong? Yes. I have a strong personality.
13. What is your favorite ice cream? Peppermint
14. What is the first thing you notice about people? Eyes and face
15. Red or pink? Pink.
16. What is the thing you like least about yourself? Drawing a blank.
17. What color pants and shoes are you wearing right now? khaki, no shoes
18. What was the last thing you ate? chocolate mousse cup
19. What are you listening to right now? Air purifier
20. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? purple
21. Favorite smell? Citrus
22. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone? Mother
23. Favorite sport to watch? Baseball
24. Hair color real? No, it's colored, with gray sneaking through
25. Eye color? hazel
26. Do you wear contacts? Yes
7. Favorite food? Don't have one
28. Scary movies or happy endings? happy endings
29. Last movie you watched? Avengers : Endgame
30. What color shirt are you wearing? Marroon
31. Summer or winter? Summer
32. Hugs or kisses? More hugs than kisses
33. Favorite dessert? Chocolate Mousse or if done well, Creme Brulee
34. What book are you reading right now? Time Served by Julianna Keyes
35. What is on your mouse pad? I don't have a mouse pad (one at work -- beach)
36. What did you watch on t.v. last night? General Hospital
37. Favorite sound? Music
38. Rolling stones or beatles? Beatles
39. What is the farthest you have been from home? Australia
40. Do you have a special talent? Very good at analyzing things, writing stories, and art.
That was sort of boring. Hmm. Was discussing the rom-com "When Harry Met Sally" today, and as a rom-com? I didn't like it. As a character study? I like it a lot. Although at various points, I wanted to strangle Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal, and I identified with Carrie Fisher, whose sense of humor I share. I think my problem with Harry and Sally is I've met them both in life, and yes, I've wanted to strangle them at various points and hug them at others.
My biggest difficulty with the rom-com though was that view that men and women (who are heterosexual) cannot have a platonic friendship. This is not true. Yes, they can. I have a lot of platonic male friends and have had platonic male friends throughout my life. They are easier at times than women -- who are insanely competitive and judgemental. Male friends don't compete with you or not in the same way or judge in the same way. It's a different dynamic.
So, I'm the rare person on the planet who was not crazy about the film. I didn't hate it. I just didn't love it either. I like odd rom-com's, I admit this.
My fav's are?
* Gross Point Blank (it's a second chance at romance between two high school sweethearts who reunite at their high school reunion. One small catch, the hero is now a freelance hitman who has been assigned to kill the heroine's father.)
* Must Love Dogs -- two middleaged people meet on an online dating site. The heroine borrows a friend's dog to meet the guy. It has a hilarious bit in the middle about condoms.
* Noises Off -- okay I think of it as a romantic comedy.
* His Girl Friday -- also, a weird choice, I know
* How to Steal a Million -- Audrey Hepburn attempts to steal her grandfather's forgery from a museum, Peter O'Toole who has been hired to uncover the forgery helps her do it.
* Pretty in Pink - mainly for the soundtrack
* Philadelphia Story -- Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Magaret O'Brien
* You've Got Mail -- Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan do The Little Shop Around the Corner
* Mr & Mrs Smith -- Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt play husband and wife, rival spies who try to kill each other.
I'm sure there's more, I just can't think of them at the moment.
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Date: 2019-08-23 02:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-08-23 02:39 am (UTC)Interesting regarding going to school with John Cusack. Did you ever meet a guy named, I think, John Davies? He was the eldest son of my parents best friends in Chicago. And he also apparently went to school with Cusack and hung out with him and Nicholas Coppla (before he became Nicholas Cage). He used to go with Nick and watch movies at Nick's grandfather's house in California. This was before Cusack and Cage became movie stars -- way back in the early 1980s, when Cusack had a tiny part in Sixteen Candles.
Davies was tall, blond, and very good looking. Better looking than Cusack, but alas never got the screen career.
I liked Bridesmaids, although it was a bit crude for me. I prefer dry witty banter. I did however love the Amy Schumer rom-com with Bill Hadler entitled Train-Wreck. That worked and surprised me.
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Date: 2019-08-23 02:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-08-23 02:42 am (UTC)My voice just sounds really odd. Not high pitched. Just like a child's. So, I'm with on this -- I'm not sure mine sounds high pitched either. It just sounds better inside my head or when I speak, but recorded -- eek. I can't listen to it.
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Date: 2019-08-24 10:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-08-23 10:37 am (UTC)My favorite rom-com is THE PROPOSAL. Betty White steals the show.
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Date: 2019-08-24 09:37 am (UTC)