I know there are other dopers who are fans of the Cracked articles that go into Godek’s insane romance advice. There’s a new article out and Godek doesn’t disappoint. Godek has to be the dumbest person to ever get a book published. The advice to go and play mini-golf in your wedding dress and tuxedo is still the most retarded thing anyone has written down in the history of the universe.
This article is proof to me that the term “creepy” has now become utterly meaningless. It’s now being used to indicate anything undesirable in a male-female romantic context. These pieces of romantic “advice” are totally idiotic, but they are not “creepy.”
I can’t read the article because my work is a jerk and Cracked is blocked. Goldurnit!
Cracked is not a purveyor of word meaning. Also, the article may be *evidence *that the definition of “creepy” is changing in a manner you find undesirable. But proof? You’re overreaching.
I said it’s proof “to me.” I can actually remember a time not that long ago where the term “creepy” had a really strong, specific emotion connected to it whenever I heard or used it - closely, but not completely, similar to “ominous,” “menacing” and “disturbing.” But now the word is diluted and become totally mild, to the point where it’s almost become a synonym for “odd”.
Saying something is “proof to you” doesn’t actually make it proof of anything. You know, I can actually remember a time not that long ago where the term “proof” had a really strong, specific emotion connected to it whenever I heard or used it - closely, but not completely, similar to “fact,” “certainty,” and “indubitability.”
I’m actually a little embarrassed to admit that I bought a book along these lines once. The laura corn 101 nights of great romance, I think it was. You were supposed to tear out the pages and open the little fold or something and reveal the thing to do that was going to make your life so much better.
I tried to get my husband to play, but he declined.
I only just started reading the list, but the two about sending multiple birthday cards seem disturbing to me. “Send her a birthday card EVERY DAY FOR A MONTH” and “Send him a birthday card for each year of his age - one-a-day for as long as it takes or ALL AT ONCE!” are indeed idiotic pieces of advice, but they also strike me as “creepy” in the “this seems like something a serial killer would do” sense.
No I am with Argent Towers, they are nothing more than stupid ideas but hardly creepy. I don’t recall any serial killers sending huge numbers of cards to anyone
Well, if someone started sending me a birthday card every day I’d think it was creepy. And I do mean “creepy” as in provoking a “chill shuddering feeling, caused by horror or repugnance.” (OED) I might have found something like that delightful when I was in elementary school, but not as an adult. That may be part of why it seems creepy – it’s the sort of thing that would only impress a child.
Awesome. I laughed so hard I scared the cat. Seanbaby is one of the few writers who can consistently make me laugh out loud. I’ve nearly hyperventilated at work trying to choke back laughter so my coworkers won’t think I’ve lost my mind.
Whether or not the suggestions are creepy in and of themselves, I think a writer who collects them into a book, as if they are good ideas, is absolutely creepy.
A suggestion to put a bag over your head, run into the room and kiss your sweetie, then run out of the room, remove the bag, and act like nothing has happened is creepy and fucking weird.
