Why Does the Besmocked Trader with Head in Hands Signify Economic Collapse

[alcibiades_mystery]

I'm so sick of this cheap synecdoche of the besmocked Wall Street or London or Tokyo or Frankfurt or Paris Trader rubbing his face or head with both hands. It signifies "market meltdown" and "bad economy," or whatever. And it's really starting to piss me off. It's just fucking lazy. It's like the stock footage of some white lab coated and begoggled lab person squeezing a chemical into some plastic tube or other that has come to signify "Scientific Research."

And the media wonders why people have a hard time connecting the problems in the markets with their everyday economic lives? It's because of your stupid cliched tropes, you assholes!

[2speak]

1. Ahh, somebody is upset.......

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. Raaarubbedy Oooodipdubbedy! Harrummmmphubbedy!

:-)

[arcadian]

3. I hate that too.

Most simps can only understand their world defined with pictographs.

[2speak]

4. They are called photgraphs.

Pictographs was the simps way of labeling it.

[arcadian]

5. Picto, picto=picture, graph, graph=writing.

If you are using "photographs" to tell a story then they can be called pictographs as well. :eyes:

[2speak]

6. Photographs are not pictographs.

A pictogram (also spelled pictogramme) or pictograph is a symbol representing a concept, object, activity, place or event by illustration. Pictography is a form of writing in which ideas are transmitted through drawing. It is a basis of cuneiform and, to some extent, hieroglyphic writing, which uses drawings also as phonetic letters or determinative rhymes. Pictographs use a symbol or key to represent numbers.

Early written symbols were based on pictograms (pictures which resemble what they signify) and ideograms (symbols which represent ideas). They were used by the ancient Chinese culture since around 5000 BC and began to develop into logographic writing systems around 2000 BC. Pictograms are still in use as the main medium of written communication in some non-literate cultures in Africa, The Americas, and Oceania. Pictograms are often used as simple symbols by most contemporary cultures.

Pictograms can often transcend languages in that they can communicate to speakers of a number of tongues and language families equally effectively, even if the languages are cultures are completely different. This is why that road signs and similar pictographic material is often applied as a global standard expected to be understood by nearly all.

[arcadian]

7. If you are using photographs to illustrate a point then they damn sure are.

The word "pictograph" means writing with pictures. Photographs are pictures. Pictographs come in many forms.

[2speak]

9. Making up your own definitons for words are we?

[arcadian]

11. Is a photograph a picture?

If you are using photographs to tell a story then then can be considered pictographs.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pictograph
1. A picture representing a word or idea; a hieroglyph.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/photograph
photograph
Noun
a picture made by the chemical action of light on sensitive film


By the way, you shouldn't try to pass off wikipedia material as your own, next time, cite it and link to it. :hi:

[2speak]

12. Did I claim to be the author? No I did not. You didn't read the

definition either did you. A hieroglyph is drawn or painted.

I'm done discussing this with you. I have made my point. It's not others who are simpletons.

[arcadian]

14. Well, you didn't post a link and you didn't reference wikipedia in your post.

So that means you passed it off as your own. The "hieroglyph" part of the definition is an addendum, you know "such as" a hieroglyph.

[arcadian]

13. delete

[riverdeep]

8. Because we're expected to relate to them.

Why do the issues of labor never make the news unless it's a strike mid-town that will block traffic? That's the only time you hear about anything labor-related, and even then, it's from the POV of the elite.

On a more practical matter, it's an easy get. The media offices are often nearby the trading zones, send a camera crew, and just wait. Instead of sending a camera crew to a shuttered factory, I suppose. Maybe there's also some schadenfreude involved in seeing total pricks lose their life savings on national TV.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. And that has changed from the early labor movement how?