"The Things We Choose to Care About"

In which Rosianna thinks too much and probably makes too much tea.
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The episode of TWW mentioned is "Posse Comitatus", the finale of the third series. It's a tearjerker!

My choice to care about that woman caring probably says a lot, too... probably not good things. The fact that I'm horribly pretentious is not new information though.

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[newenglandchick95]

Let's not jump to judge the woman annoyed by the line too quickly or too much. We don't know her situation. Yes, it's ridiculous to be annoyed about having to wait a few minutes in a line at a grocery store, but none of us are perfect and she could have been having a horrible day, or late, or whatever. Let's get off our high horses, because none of us are actually righteous enough to never let stupid things bother us. when was the last time a video took too long to buffer and you were annoyed?

[missxrojas]

@newenglandchick95 As I said in the video, she might have been having a bad day.

[TheZstar33]

but we don't get to choose the people we care about, do we?

[missxrojas]

@TheZstar33 I don't know. I wonder.

[TennantJunkie1993]

David Tennant likes The West Wing. It's his favorite show.

[missxrojas]

@TennantJunkie1993 I always knew he and I were meant for one another.

[Gnoxxic]

It is a tragedy that we have two supermarkets right next to each other, but not for that reason.

[ThatBookGirl]

Norbert Elias. I'm writing an essay about this. It's too bad I can't reference youtube videos as reliable sources.

[VeryEvilPettingZoo]

(cont)

From your descirption of that show (which I saw, but years ago), I would assume that the president's use of that expression, and the despair in his voice, were showing his reaction to the absurd contrast between the moral gravity of deciding to assassinate/execute a foriegn leader versus the legal triviality of the geographic location where that would take place.

Again, from the whole context of your video, it seems you that understood perfectly well. This was a "just in case" comment.

[VeryEvilPettingZoo]

Apologies if I'm playing Master Of The Obvious here, but I don't know whether "the things we choose to care about" is idiomatic to American English. From your description, I think you understood.

When someone says "the things you have to do..." ("... for your kids", "... to get a license", "... to get elected", etc.), it's highlighting, usually with a sense of irritation or exasperation, some necessity that seems irrelevant, excessive, or ridiculous.

[InfiniteBox]

@NewEnglandCivitas I thought she was saying "swings and roundabouts" but I might be wrong.

[NewEnglandCivitas]

Does anyone know the apparent reference Rosianna is making at the end of this video with her whispered "Swing and repeat." ?

I really do think that Rosianna and Hank and John Green and certain others are a sort of higher order of person that have the ability to catalyze/make others better, brighter, more compassionate. I'm not sure if there should be a name for it, and maybe there is.

[Celtise]

I'm glad that this video keeps popping back up in my subscription page.

[theflorgeormix]

emotionalism...its almost a class thing...not everyone is lucky enough to go to college, expand their brain and look at the bigger picture, just appreciate the fact that you have the frame of mind to look bigger

[dannyjam]

Rosianna you should know better, she kept saying ridiculous because there was a Bogart in Tesco!!!!

[madalenafa]

when I heard you talking about the woman in the supermarket queue after reading the title of the video I was almost sure you we're gonna talk about david foster wallace's speech at that graduation in stanford, because he makes really a similar point, about being able 'educate' your choices, to 'educate' your behaviour. Also sooo agree with what you were saying about doing English at Uni and going from seeing the world as this artificially construction and realising that well, it's what it is..