Ter's video summary #6 (Things that seems vulgar to her)

Ter's new video is about things that seems vulgar to her. If those things were wiped out of existence, she would be happier than if those still existed.

Previously on...

When you start watching an episode of a show and there is a recap of what was happening is like treating you like an idiot. You, as the consumer, have a responsibility to know what was happening and if you forget it, it is your job to watch it again or search for a summary that tells you what was happening. And this is because giving you a "previously on" is doing all the work for you like you aren't capable of it, and you actually are. Also, usually, on those "previously on" they tell you specific things of certain old episodes and they end spoiling you what this new episode is about before you watch it.

Pictures with flash

Another vulgar thing is pictures with flash, because although it solves the problem it was designed to solve, it creates new ones. When you take a picture with flash, the two most possible outcomes are: Everyone now has red eyes on the picture, or, most of the people closed their eyes when the picture was taken. And this can be solved simply by someone turning on their cellphone's lantern so everyone is comfortable with the intensity of the permanent light, and you can figure out how to point it out so no one has red eyes on the pic.

Menus with pictures

There are people that say menus with pictures are super important because that's how you know what your food is going to look like, but if a menu is well-done, the job it's suppose to do is to paint with words how your food is going to look like. Also, pictures on menus usually are made of everything but food. It goes from plastic, glue, to drawings, or sometimes, something photoshopped.

Go up (or down) to the city

We often say "I'm going up (or down) to [insert name of the city]". But how can you go up or down if you are walking on a sphere that is always moving? A good answer would be "we say we are going up when we are going to the north and down when we go to the south", but that isn't true at all, there are times the same person uses the two variables of the phrases when they are talking about the same city! So, we can normalize this phrase when we have an agreement about how to use it.

Having the automatic first capital letter on WhatsApp

The last thing that Ter sees as vulgar is having the first capital letter on WhatsApp. If you write everything on your text correctly (spelling and grammar), it isn't a problem, but people that take their time to write perfect on WhatsApp are only a few. Having the first capital letter and then writing incorrectly is like wanting to be something you're not. Most of us write with abbreviations and misspelled words deliberately, and we need to make a compromise with it and start writing with initial lowercase so we can successfully and coherently complete our mission.

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Hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I did writing it!