irony

A lot of people use the word irony incorrectly. This is a running joke between friends of mine. I think it all started when I was watching a baseball game and some announcer was like:

Well it's ironic that the manager here would bring in a left handed pitcher to face a right handed batter

or something wrong like that.

There's really nothing ironic about that. Baseball managers make decisions all of the time, and most of it is based on what the they think is a good decision for the team. If your left handed pitcher is a good choice for the time, why NOT put him in?

People do this shit ALL THE TIME, and it's all WRONG (by shit I mean use ironic incorrectly, not change pitchers). For some reason, sportscasters are the worst transgressors. I don't bother fixing it anymore. since every time I bring up the fact that someone is using the word incorrectly, I get a long winded explanation on how some example of happenstance or bad luck really is true irony, followed by a long winded argument that I get tired of in about 3 minutes.

And then there's these guys that think that it doesn't matter, and since people use the word incorrectly all the time then I should just accept it. From Wikipedia:

Descriptivists generally discount such self-proclaimed language authorities in favor of studying how individuals currently use the word.

Descriptivists can also suck my dick. People use the word incorrectly. If everyone started to say that 2+2 =5 would that make it correct? Of course not. But if I was a descriptivist I'd probably spend all my life trying to prove that, under certain conditions, 2+2 did equal 5. Also if I was a descriptivist, I would probably kill myself.

Maybe I should lighten up though, no one likes a guy with a holier than thou attitude. Imagine if you had a guy around the office that corrected people whenever they used a preposition to end a sentence. Oh wait...

At least I'm not the only one.

The reason I bring this up is that I just got on my lunch break, and while procrastinating by looking around for something awesome to pass the time I come upon this. From TFA:

Do it F***ing Now.

Don't wait. Don’t procrastinate. The winners in this world are not the ones who find the greatest excuses to put off doing what they know will make them more money. The winners are the ones that prioritize and seize the day.

As a result I had to watch that 7 minute video with Alec Baldwin, read all the articles he linked to, and write an entire blog post.