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A sense of poise and rationality

I say this a lot, but in general I consider myself a rather chill individual. That said, I relish flipping out, particularly the kind that entails maintaining composure while cutting people down verbally. It’s a kind of social interaction many people don’t know how to handle, as it seems calm, yet feels very aggressive.

Today, while poking through my feeds, I found this little gem.

Some people really do have the threshold on their appallingness meter set to the wrong value, don’t they? If we are going to use up the word “appalling” on a minute variation in orthographic conventions, what kind of adjective will be left to describe the taste of fermented soy beans in methylated spirits, or the sound of a cat being electrocuted during a child’s violin lesson?

The context was the “appalling” practice of capitalizing the first letter after a colon. It’s comforting to know that some people still respect the art of sound appallingness meter calibration.

I’ll refrain from stating whose calibration I find sound.