Let’s see if g00gle even allows me to post this… It’s been well over a year since I last bought anything off Scamazon (the last time was December 2020), and I don’t miss it one bit. I’ve been on a tight budget recently, so I’ve had to limit my spending a lot, but for those things I needed to buy online, I never even bothered to look on Scamazon, except occasionally for reviews, and then I’d buy it elsewhere (usually eBay). When my radiator broke down in the middle of a cold snap, I ordinarily would have gone straight to Scamazon, but this time I ordered it from Curry’s and it arrived the next morning with no delivery charge! Maybe it would have been cheaper on Scamazon, I don’t know. But I’m glad I didn’t even look.
It’s been two months since I got Covid and I still have anosmia. I still believe I had omicron, given the speed that we all came down with it, and all but one of us only got mild symptoms, but I seem to be one of the rare ones who got the loss of sense of smell. It has its good points and bad points. Bathroom odours aren’t a problem for me anymore, but I also can’t tell if my food is burning (our oven has gone haywire, and I now have to cook pizza at gas 1), or if someone left the gas on, or if someone has sprayed air freshener in case of exposing my budgie when I take him down to give him a shower, or even if something is on actual fire. I also can’t tell anymore if I smell. It’s not really ideal. I wonder if I’ll ever get it back. I can smell things if they’re really strong, or if I hold something right next to my nose, but that’s it.
Two words that nearly everyone pronounces wrong are “inherent” and “clandestine”. The first is pronounced in-HERE-unt and the second clan-DES-tin. It’s a rare treat when people get it right. Everyone also doesn’t know that “enormity” actually means “wicked act, crime”. It doesn’t mean “enormousness”. Everyone gets this wrong, so the wrong definition is being accepted as correct, but I shall never give in! “Enormousness” is already a word, why do you need another? “Disinterested” is also not the same as “uninterested”. The former means you have no involvement or stakes in the situation, whereas the second means you’re just not bothered. So for instance, you would want a disinterested party arbitrating a dispute.
You know how the 12s on Youtube always feel the need to post those “If you’re reading this, know that you’re beautiful and special!” comments? Like, does anyone actually feel comforted by them? It seems very shallow and fake-positivity to me. You don’t me, you don’t know I even exist, but I’m supposed to take your generic words to heart and feel warmed by them? Sure, their heart is in the right place, but really? Does it make any difference? Kitboga started doing it too, and I’m thinking, “Dude, you don’t know me, how can you know if I matter or not?” Because the truth is, I don’t (or at least, I won’t once I’ve completely finished the GS translations, heh, and I’m almost there). I appreciate he’s trying to be nice, but it kinda rings hollow, you know? But if it lifts one person out of a bad mood, it’s worth it, I guess.