[cuban leaf]

Yeah. That drives me nuts too.

Nobody is “filming’ these events. They are recording them.

[rockrr]

I guess I’m an analog man hopelessly lost in a digital world.

The other day my idiot neighbor started to cut down a tree that straddles the fence line. Because he’s an idiot and doesn’t know what he’s doing I could see that he was going to drop the damned thing on my house.

So I tossed my phone to my daughter and asked her to film for me while I tried to intervene.

“Film?” she asked.

“Yeah, film it! Tape it!”

“Oh, you want me to record.”

*Sigh*

(I got the neighbor to aim the tree in the direction of his house instead of mine).

[DoodleBob]

These types of people aren't interested in dialogue, what is correct, or even the law...they are authoritarians who believe it is their God-given right to command me to yield to their authority. The only difference between this troglodyte...

...and Officer Cartman...

...is the bullhorn.

I will wear a mask in a store, and what the law requires. Other people's overblown sense of self-entitlement and jurisdiction is best met with mockery and ridicule. What these people really hate, is you not taking them seriously. They drop their guard, go off-script, and become the basis for very funny memes.

My standard response to fellow citizens who are compelled to tell me how I'm not following rules etc when I am, e.g. not wearing a mask in public, is to wave and say "Thanks, Karen." They hysterically try to educate me that they're not a Karen because Karen's are racist and they not a racist and I just don't care about their health and blah blah blah...as I walk away laughing.