“I have always tried to be involved in articulating a sensible solution to this"

[breathedout]

breathedout: for the half hour I’ve been sitting at the [airport] gate, no matter what has been playing on the tv, the closed captioning just scrolls through the sentence:
breathedout: “I have always tried to be involved in articulating a sensible solution to this, this chain to a number of folks”
breathedout: over and over again
breathedout: right now it’s playing over video of someone frosting a cake
greywash: ahahahahhahahahahaha oh dear
breathedout: now it’s advertising a documentary about richard nixon
breathedout: now it’s narrating schoolchildren making sculptures out of water bottles, and so on
breathedout: even though I know it’s nonsense, my brain keeps looking at it & trying to make meaning by connecting it to the image
breathedout: now it’s pretending to be the story mark zuckerberg’s sister is telling a reporter about the pranks she & mark used to play on their mom
greywash: wowwwww

Comments

[eccentric_hat]

Well, I'm glad someone is that dedicated to articulating a sensible solution to this chain to a number of folks. Someone's gotta do it.

[rydra_wong]

This is found art.

[oulfis]

Huh, what a coincidence! I've always tried to be involved in articulating a sensible solution to this chain-- to a number of folks!

[tellitslant]

I kind of want this to be a ficathon prompt now.

[pennypaperbrain]

I used to do live subtitles for a living. With live subtitlers that wouldn't have happened, but I guess a machine got stuck.

What happens when you have real people on the job is that someone sets their shortforms (acronyms that expand when you type them into the software, e.g. typing 'pcon' will automatically expand to 'press conference') for a serious documentary and then forgets to change them for the football report. Resulting in three minutes of 'Liverpool FEMALE CIRCUMCISION vs Manchester United', for the edification of the nation's deaf and second-language viewers.

[teaforlupin]

I'm SCREAMING

[chestnut_pod]

Oh my god (😂).

[teaforlupin]

This is outstanding