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[trinityvixen]

In order to facillitate my DVD addiction, I need to find a certain website. Hence, I look to my friends for help.

Is there a website people use to check on various editions of DVD releases to pick the best one? 'Cause I am friggin' sick of the thirteen different releases for movies--each one more ultimate than the last! Anyone?

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Can I just say, pet peeve here, as someone who is able to walk and read at the same time (without being annoying or getting in the way or tripping myself up), I really fucking hate people who go out of their way to fuck with me when I'm trying to read?

No, I'm being totally serious here. I can read and rely on my peripheral vision to guide me along and twice in the past two weeks someone (two different someones) have felt the need to throw an arm out in my way. In both cases, it wasn't because they especially needed to talk to me or get my attention: it was just to be obnoxious. Because they either assumed that I'd see them and look up (their motive being to disturb my reading) or that I wouldn't and would, I dunno, flail about or trip and fall (that being their motive). Either way? That is goddamned rude. I don't bother anyone when I walk and read. I walk around people more often than I do through them, and I'm frequently the first person to notice the other (I've had more people just wander into me than I've wandered into others while reading).

Why is this okay to do? Why does fucking with someone who is clearly enjoying something they're reading enough to multitask seem like a cool or funny thing to do? Am I in grade school? Are people going to put "KICK ME" signs on my back when they go by? Or pants me? These are fucking adults here, and they see no reason not to purposefully disturb my reading for no other reason than because they can and because I might fall on my goddamned nose or something.

GRRRRAAAAAAGH

Comments

[fairest.livejournal.com]

That happened to me just today! I was walking along listening to headphones and someone decided to stick his arm out and snap his fingers in my face. I hate that at the best of times--this guy, I just wanted to bite. What is *with* people? GRR.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Ah, but what about the people walking behind you? I don't know at what pace you walk when you're reading, but I've found readers walk significantly slower than non-readers in the morning crush, and I've had to dodge around many.

Perhaps these people think you're about to walk out into the street without looking...?

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Next they'll be insulting your music selection. ... Oh, wait. That's happened to trakkie.

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

I've been living in the city for a looong time now, and I've always been amazed at how many New Yorkers are proud of being assholes. Sure, there are plenty of dickwads everywhere -- put a Bostonian behind a wheel and you'll see reverse evolution in action, for example -- but only in New York are people so unabashedly open about their asswiperdom. I think it explains Ed Koch as well as anything.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

While walking to the library yesterday to return Jethrien's books, I walked past to guys giving out "Vote for me!" flyers for one of the local politicians. They offer me one, I say "No thanks." As I'm walking away, I hear a nasal, mocking tone, "No thanks! No thanks!" Apparently these guys never made it out of junior high, either...

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

I often rely on The Digital Bits for DVD news, and TV Shows on DVD.

Speaking of which, you should grab the new Fantastic Four DVD if you're interested in owning it. It does have both the theatrical and extended editions, and it seems like they've simply re-inserted all the deleted scenes, which would include that one you mentioned (they can also be viewed individually). Plus, the free movie cash ($8.50) means you're spending around half-price for it, since we're definitely going to see the sequel. It's on sale for $16.99 at Best Buy this week.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

That's exactly how I feel. The people doing it are like nice and all, but they just feel the need to interrupt for no other reason that to interrupt. It's not like they don't see me doing this every day when I get back from lunch (this happened in the lab). Grrrrr.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I walk pretty fast, actually, with or without book (slower with, but still faster than most people on the street with me). Up in our area, where I do most of the book-reading-while-walking, it's never as crushed together as it is downtown (I wouldn't do it on the street in, say, your neck of the woods).

And both times this happened, it was indoors, so I was only in danger of walking into the arms that were suddenly, unnecessarily thrown in my path. I remain firm in my belief that people are assholes.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I think this isn't just a New York thing--I think the compressed density of humanity we find in New York just exposes us to more assholes on a given day. It's like this book I was reading--are there more cannibals today verus older days--and the answer is probably not, we just know more about the recent ones.

Not that I'm saying the asshole to human-fucking being is like the cannibal to normal person ratio, but that's the best illustration I had.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Sigh. Why must immaturity be given such free reign?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

That seems like a worthy purchase. I might just have to pick one up. Except I have no idea when I'd be free to do that. How long does the sale last?

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

Through Saturday, I think. My local shop only had one left on the shelf when I grabbed it yesterday. If you don't make it you can always borrow mine. No one will mock you for not owning this particular movie :)

I would have suggested watching it last night but there was the IHOP goose chase and you were working and I wanted to watch Rear Window instead.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

No big. I'll see about maybe ordering it online and then going to pick it up for next week or something. Lock in the deal that way and still get the ticket.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

The phrase, "human-fucking being" brings to my mind images of a Star Trek-esque energy being having sex with a human.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Yes, that is dickish. If they ever start yanking the book out of your words, I think violence would be justified.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's where my mind went too.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

When my brother was visiting, he and his wife were commenting on how many pregnant women they saw in one day. And it's true--in New York you see more pregnant women. And more blind people and more wheelchairs and more everything because you see so many damn people everyday. (That could be a study. How many different people do I actually see each day? I'd guess somewhere near a thousand.)

But I also think NYers are proud to be assholes. I always thought of New Yorkers as like creampuffs--crispy on the outside and soft and gooey on the inside. But then, I have a whole theory about this, and work has officially ended, so I think I'll stop typing.

[musetoself.livejournal.com]

Urgh! I am angry just reading this! I want to come up with all kinds of theories about why the assholes behave this way, but I'm kind of stuck. What do you think?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that would cause all restraint to break free. And I'd get away with the murder, too. Gotta be justifiable homicide. Gotta be.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

The idea of a city full of creampuffs is oddly disturbing.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

See, people who appreciate books get why this is so aggravating.

My only theory for why they do this is: people enjoy being assholes. Becausing pissing on someone is some guarantee against getting pissed on yourself, I suppose.

[droidguy1119.livejournal.com]

Of course, I know the answer to your question.

The answer is www.dvdcompare.net. Be sure to uncheck the boxes for all the other region DVDs when you don't want to know how good other countries tend to get it...which is pretty much way better, always.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yeah I know--anyone BUT region 1 gets awesome stuff. It's like a rule. Encourage me to move to Australia, why don't you?

But thanks! I figured you or darkling1 would know.

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

No, no, no. The official line is "Well officer. I was reading my book, minding my own business when this man tried to assault me. That's when I close my hard cover book and slammed it, spine first, into his ribs. How was I suppose to know they would break." That's self defense ^_^

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Good point. It's a good thing for this guy that he's a nice guy, a, and that we were inside where the threat of violence on this part would be less believable, b. Or else that might just have happened...

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

These are fucking adults here
All respect -- no they're not! Tripping a reader is puerile.

Hmm, I thought I was the only one who went around reading while walking down city streets and the like... yay! Not the freak!

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

I think the compressed density of humanity we find in New York just exposes us to more assholes on a given day.

While I think this is part of it, I'd wager that the compressed conditions and infinite population density here actually create more pricks.

I mean, I know I'm much more likely to start hacking apart random strangers when I'm trying to get on a crowded rush hour train than at any other time of my life...

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

SIgh, LJ ate my comment. Basically, I said that I definitely read all the time while walking (that's why I'm GOOD at doing so without pissing off others). And I was reading a really engrossing book both times, hence my irritation was all the greater. It happened AGAIN today, and I just snapped at the guy (who happens to be a friend, for fuck's sake). I tend to smile when I'm RIGHTEOUSLY pissed, so he probably thought I was mock-angry. If he does it again, I might just BITE him like my roommate was suggesting.