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I'd be curious to know if Millennials even know what "cursive" writing is. It was also known as "script" when I went to school.

I believe it's gone the way of....the typewriter, the dial phone (we didn't call them "rotary phones," the mimeograph machine, the key punch.....

I have a pet peeve----but I'm peeved at myself for this:

I can't seem to help somebody with computer-related things----without having to demonstrate how to do something physically, rather than verbally. I envy those folks in help centers/centres who are able to give verbal instructions without having to demonstrate how to do it physically.

Yes, I wondered this too. I have a nephew with a young child of school age - I'll ask him about it.

I regularly did this when I worked on a PC helpdesk - probably helped by an over-active and very visual internal dialog.
I just find it easy to talk through the steps as they unfold mentally and actually, it's easier than demonstrating physically because there's always an urge to impatiently step in and do it myself.

SMiLes my FRiEnD, Thanks; THere is LiGHT And DarK; DaY And NiGHT;
And Yes TWiLiGHT of Balance; True, Hehe, Not everyone Gets Metaphors;

True, Not Everyone Has the Ability to Visually Think; Not Everyone in A 'Room'
Is A Great Pattern Thinker; And True, Not Everyone is A Great Verbal Thinker Either

As i For One Did not Speak Until age 4; Yet Well before then at Age 3, i Used my Senses,
my Feelings, And Yes A Synergy of Both to Understand i am a Leaf that Feeds my Tree that

Falls to Soils to Feed Forest Whole Souls to Life Again in What is Green And Colorful in Life....

Do Leaves Seek Attention; Other Than Sunshine,

No, Yet They Surely Get Attention
From Humans Anyway With SMiLes...

Not Everyone Understands Now That
Leaves Are Fed off Sunshine to Green...

Not Everyone Notices Now Leaves Decay to Bring Life...

And Not Every Human Realizes Now THere Are Some Human
Light Houses Who Generate Light only to Give, Share, Care,
And Heal; Inhaling Peace Exhaling LoVE iN JoY oF LiGHT

For All With Least Harm With few to no Exceptions;

It's True, There Are Some Light Houses
too 'Big' For Some Humans to See...

i Find that Beyond Sad;

Yet it is the Condition;

i Surely Spent 66 Months As Basically
A BLacK Hole Sun And 33 Months off That Here too;

So, i Surely Understand The Dark of Life, True too...

In the Case of Human Light Houses, DarK Muse only
Brings More LiGHT to Shine All Around; i Expect to find
DarK Muse Here; i Find it And Transform it into LiGHT

This Way i Never
Become

a

BLacK Hole
Human Again

As a Best Place
For A Human Light House
To Enhance Generating Their
Own Light is in the DarK; Surely
if this place runs out of DarK, i Will

Find Another SuiTable Place Next to
Transform DarK inTo LiGHT With SMiLEs...

There Are Plenty of Autistic Folks in the
Audience Who Don't Write Here and Listen And Understand
Instead; Yes, It's True, There Are Also Some Folks Here Who Do Their
Damndest to Run Anyone Who Is Different Than them Off 'THeir Island'...

i'm Not Surprised Some Others Don't Wanna Come Here and Deal With that...
Or They Visit Once to Write, And Never Come Back; Watched it Happen over

and over again...

When i See
That Behavior
i Bring it to the
Attention of the Person(s) Who Does it...

i Work Off Any Potential Pet Peeves into Free Verse Poetry With SMiLes...

And Then the Negativity Disappears From Any Potential of Living in my Soul...

Honestly, it's A Great Way to Regulate Emotions and Integrate Senses As a Real Philosophy

Of Life in Joy of 'Real

Time' Now

Caring and
Healing ACTioN..

Hmm - apparently as long as pen can be put to paper and deliver something legible, there's no real push to teach cursive.
That's a shame.

Millennials were all born before 2000 & are roughly between 20-40 now. I imagine that most of us were taught cursive. Gen Z is the generation being left behind in this regard.

^you certainly have a point

Yesterday I read a post by someone claiming they were antisocial when they were really asocial. I cannot stand it when people think they're the same thing.

To me, there is something almost poetic about cursive writing, especially when the penmanship is impeccable and it becomes calligraphy.

But when what passes for modern poetry is a shame -- all rambling freeverse with no rhyme, no metre, and absolutely no meaning -- how can calligraphy retain (or even recover) its former glory?

Here's some The Sims pet peeves of mine (The Sims 2, to be precise):-

When parents keep dancing together with the children

When the social worker comes unexpectedly when kids and toddlers get too hot or too cold in Seasons and take them away forever

That you can't kill children or toddlers

That my Sims can't get drunk because the game has to be "family friendly" (preschool friendly, more like)

That even with the moveobjects cheat on the game still won't let you build exactly how you'd like it

That cool things happening are so rare in the game that you have to get your Sim to repetitively do the same activity for days (or Sim years) for it to happen, if at all. I mean the game can get boring, I need something exciting!

When two of your Sims keep fighting and you don't know why, as no matter what you do to make them be friends they still keep attacking each other

When you forget to buy a burglar alarm and a burglar comes in the night, and by the time you woke your Sim up and got them to the phone to ring the police the burglar has gone

When a tree gets struck by lightning causing a fire but it doesn't count as an emergency under the fire brigade so they fine you for calling them

When you get your Sim to feed their hungry toddler but the action suddenly vanishes and they don't do it, then another Sim comes along and puts the brat in the bath instead (drown it!! ! )

Loading screens

The way the game doesn't work on Windows 10 no matter what you do (I had to reinstall Windows 7 back on to my laptop just so I can play the Sims 2 and all its expansion packs again)

That teenage Sims come home from school at 1pm

When Sims bring a friend home from work or school, so you have loads of Sims everywhere in your house, getting in the way and distracting your Sim family from doing what they need to do

That it takes Sims like 4 Sim hours to eat Chinese food

When kids put their homework somewhere where you can't find it, so you assume they didn't get any homework that day, then their grades start slipping. Also that the social worker takes your kids away if they don't do their homework

That all toy kitchens, even mods, are all easy bake ovens, instead of actual cool toy kitchens the kids can play with

That the toys in the toy boxes are the same 4 toys that the kids just wave about in the air making really annoying noises

That it takes forever to teach a toddler how to walk

When you have loads of different Sims in your phone book but none of them have phones (because they're all in the Sim bin) so you can't call them. Why are they available in the phone book then?

That you can't get toddlers to have a pacifier even though the option is there in create-a-Sim and you have all the expansion packs

Absolutely, fully agree. Calligraphy was the word at the back of my head that failed to surface.
But now it seems handwriting as a thing of joy and beauty is reduced to little more than scratches on paper.

And as related to poetry?
Well that's definitely a peeve - rap, in any form and performed by any gesticulating, posing, so-called musician.
It's anti-poetry.

When people lie or try to deceive others.

Sorry for the derail, OP --

I'm just curious Fnord. What's your favourite metre in poetry, and who are your favourite poets?
It would be interesting to hear your analyses some time, using any critical tradition.


Pet peeve - Guilt money

Dried cornflakes sticking to the bowl when I've omitted to put it in the washing up basin. They're an absolute pig to remove.

You just fill the bowl with water and wait , thats it

Those stupid parents that believe that their children are so adorable that all people love having them around running and shouting in public places, when in reality most people hate having those noisy undisciplined brats around.

People that use the car horn when it’s unnecessary.
Guests that are clueless when it’s time to leave.