Fun Fact #45: 3-D Films Terrify Me

I can watch almost any film and read any sort of book without getting scared, I'll get disturbed if something is really horrific but usually not scared. Though there are exceptions, I'm totally terrified by 3-D films. I assume that my fear started after some traumatic viewing experience when I was an overly imaginative child, an experience so traumatic that it was entirely wiped from my memory. Either that, or I'm just a baby when it come to images leaping at me from the screen.I've only seen a few 3-D films and they were all at amusement parks (i.e. Honey, I Shrunk the Audience at Disneyland). I never even thought that they'd come to theaters since that seemed to have gone out of style in the '50s, so imagine my horror when I discovered that 3-D films have made a comeback. In fact, I was almost dragged to see the horrible looking (due both the the story and 3-D images) Journey to the Center of the Earth. Luckily, I managed to get out of the viewing but I can only assume that had I seen it my entire experience would've made up of me cowering in terror.

But perhaps I would've gone with my other coping mechanism, which involves me refusing to put on the stupid glasses they give you. I might have occasionally put them on for a minute, but they would've been torn off the minute something came flying toward me. Oh, and viewing a 3-D image without the glasses means that the film is weirdly colored and distorted.

If you've been privileged enough to never have seen a 3-D film, then you'll have to trust me that even a cute rabbit hopping towards you becomes horrific in 3-D.

Fun Fact #5: It's "ridiculous"....

I hate when people spell "ridiculous" incorrectly, especially when it's in in the form of "rediculous". I've seen it more times than I can count in the past few days, both in supposed "professional" documents and random places online. It's become my newest spelling pet peeve. My favorite use of "rediculous" had to be when someone was complaining about their hatred of improper spelling and punctuation.

My hatred of the word "rediculous" led me to Google it to make sure it wasn't some weird internet trend. And that search led me to one of the most random websites ever: http://wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html

It's actually a pretty useful website, but reading it shows you how obsessed some people are with language. The very first entry covers one of my favorite mistakes:
When you turn 360 degrees you’ve completed a circle and are back where you started. So if you want to describe a position that’s diametrically opposed to another, the expression you want is not “360 degrees away” but “180 degrees away.”

I make stupid grammar and spelling mistakes too, but today was just espcially brutal in regards to the sheer amount of mistakes that I saw.