My Wife And I Have A Little Game We Play Called "Speaking From Ignorance."

My wife and I have a little game we play called "Speaking From Ignorance."

To play Speaking From Ignorance, all you need is a phone with a voice recorder, and another person who knows considerably more or considerably less about a topic than you do. The topic can be anything: from "how to bake a quiche" to "what happens in the Peter Jackson Hobbit movies" to "who is Florence Pugh" to "how does the traveling salesman problem work." All that matters is that one of you has a firm grasp on the material, and one of you absolutely the fuck does not.

Then the person who knows about the topic turns on the recorder, and says to the person who knows barely anything: "Hey - tell me everything you think you know about [X]."

The speaker is then not allowed to ask any questions. Nor is the expert allowed to volunteer any information. The expert is allowed to pipe up with a faintly incredulous "Oh--really? Do you--do you think so?" from time to time, but for the most part, the expert's job is just to sit there and make encouraging sounds while the speaker digs their own grave.

This is never not funny.

The reason you record it is because, very often, the first thing the speaker wants to do after finishing the recording is find out how you actually make a quiche, or whatever. Then you both get to go back and listen to how wrong they were.

We have a small library now of Speaking From Ignorance recordings, and I'm going to be listening to them until I'm eighty.

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NETFLIX IS WHAT???????? :(:(:(

This is why I get hard copies of my hyperfixation media >:(

Also based fic idea

Alsoalso please post the playlist if you feel comfortable doing so 🙏🙏

just rewatched baby driver (one of my fav/comfort movies of all time that NETFLIX IS REMOVING AT THE END OF THE MONTH WTF) and now i'm writing a soldier boy x babydriver!reader fic

might be a drabble, might be longer, might be a mini series idk but nawt a full reader bc i have enough 😭😭

also making a playlist for if i was in baby driver simply bc i can and i love making playlists and i love my music taste

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1 year ago

Im so close to blocking people who don't mark spoilers. Bottom of the barrel people right there. Especially when movies are still in theaters or just came out on a streaming site OR hasn't even came out yet. Y'all know who you are.

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Hypothetically if Scott and Baby were locked in a room together, how long do you think it would take before Baby got violent or tried to knock the door down?

Like he canonically can put up with a lot of bullshit but Scott is a very specific bullshit and I get the feeling Baby would be vibing until Scott got into his regular bullshit and then it would be all downhill from there.

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on the other hand scott pilgrim scott pilgrim vs the world baby driver edgar wright miles baby driver its all fun and games until Scott gets into his dating life then its downhill from there i could see them bonding a lil over music like they both create musically and thats respectable

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starrykibber

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My toxic trait is I watch Baby Driver edits and judge them based on how likely he would be to listen to the songs they are set to.

Like he would NOT listen to that,,,,,

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edit baby driver miles baby driver some are so good like skill wise and im like holy shit but im also like theres no way he would listen to that song his ass is NOT using his space on his mp3 player

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