Kitchen surprises and widespread semantic stupidity on the 'Net

[wiseheart]

Do you remember when I last year tried to make pink grapefruit jam and ended up with syrup? Well, the exact opposite happened to me today. I wanted to try my hand on lemon jam and ended up with candied lemon peels. Either I've cooked those poor lemons on too high heat or I cooked them too long. The end result were very nice candied peels with almost no liquid part. Ah, well, they'll serve me well for baking.

Not much else happened today - it was way too hot, and we had to survive the chiropodist lady, too. Which meant we couldn't let the blinds down or else she wouldn't have seen properly, not even with artificial light. Gah, it was hot in the afternoon inside the flat! Not as hot as outside, of course, we 'only' had 27 degrees compared with the 35 outside, but still way too hot. This summer is murderous. My friend Evie told me that her plants are dying in the garden, no matter how much she's watering them: their leaves get literally burned in the heat. It doesn't look well for her beans, which is a shame, considering the amount of hard work she puts into the garden.

And now to semantics. I've been watching some YouTube videos analyzing the ginger whinger and his wife's latest interview on CBS and stumbled over the completely idiotic expression 'unaliving' him- or herself. For pity's sake, people being suicidal is bad enough, but crowning the problem with such ridiculous euphemisms won't make people more aware of it; or is it some kind of control? Isn't it allowed to speak about such things openly anymore? The world has gone mad indeed.

Comments

[meathiel]

Well, basically anything he says is stupid.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, I very much agree, but the expression is being used by a great many people in the comments, too. What possible purpose can such a word have? It isn't even a real word, IMO.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Oh good grief — that is the most ridiculous word — to think he went to Eton!

I saw a trailer which asked 'Are they still relevant?' My husband and I both said 'No' out loud!

And his 'Oh I feared my wife would suffer like my mother..' No, your wife is not the wife of the heir to the throne, and the actual Princess of Wales is mainly left alone by the paparazzi anyway.

Sadly his parents' marriage was not a good one — having been more or less 'arranged' by the two grandmothers, and Harry's mother was of more interest to the press because her affairs were more photogenic and a lot more interesting than her husband's one. So the moral would actually seem to be 'have a happy marriage and you will not be hounded by the press' because happy marriages are pretty boring when it comes to headlines.

Whinging 'documentaries' is the only way he can make money so doubtless they will continue to be churned out — but I bet he is getting paid less for them these days.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Small wonder — everyone but the Sussed Squad is bored to the eyeteeth with them!
But I don't think that ridiculous word originates from him; it's one of those artificial expressions generated by the press or by so-called 'experts', I suppose.

[sunshine-two.livejournal.com]

I love marmalade. Have you tried to make that?

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

'Unaliving' drives me nuts and is the quickest way to make me backbutton from a video...

I hope it cools down for you soon.

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

Every time I post even the most innocuous statement on Facebook I am riddled with self doubt, for fear I have said something politically incorrect etc. It has reached the point where I self censor myself into silence.

Free speech, where did you go?

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, do you know how long it took me to get behind the name ginger whinger? That´s lost live time, because this is a person of no interesr to me. Since I suppose the whinger must have attended university I now wonder how he has made it through the lectures...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yes, but not from citrus fruits. In Hungarian terms marmalade is every kind of preserve without little fruit pieces in it. Jam is the version with fruit pieces. So, I make marmalade from apricots and strawberries, mostly, sometimes from plums or apples, too. I tried my hand on raspberries and blueberries, too. And I made jam from oranges and pink grapefruits last year.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I wonder who comes up with these artificially constructed, totally senseless expressions.

Cooling down is in the distant future yet. We'll have 35-36°C all week. *sigh*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

When I was young, we feared to speak freely because of the system. Now it's the woke madness that kills free speech.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Apparently, with a great deal of help from certain teachers — in secondary school. He never attended university, or so I heard. If it isn't true, I'm not responsible for the misinformation. *g*