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Nov. 19th, 2015 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotThings I like about PastPerfect V: Not opening fields as windows that have to be x'd out to save the record. It's a lot easier to navigate between, say, the People fields of different records this way.
Things I hate about PastPerfect V: THE LAG IS SO MUCH WORSE. I click on a field, type, realize I'm not in edit mode, click edit, oops the first field on the page is now full of irrelevant letters. I swear it's worse in V than IV. Or maybe it's just the networking slowing it down? Maybe I'm unfair.
I have to rant, which I normally don't do while at work, but it's so frustrating. I'm pretty sure this dress (click on the broken image to see it in the zoom screen) has come up on the Regency FB group before, and just as before, I and another person suggested caution in taking the provenance too seriously ... and just as before, the response - from the same people who usually pull this crap - is, "Well, people had their clothes made individually" (NO, REALLY?!) "so it could be just eccentricity! Anyway, we have barely any extant garments and fashion plates are 'stylized' so how does anybody know what's true or not."
WHYYYYYYY do people do this to me, I don't understand. It's not like I just make vague assertions. I give plenty of specifics. I can back up anything I say, if you just ask for my reasoning instead of broadly implying that there's no evidence to study fashion history. I don't appeal to my authority and expect people to trust me based on my degree or book, but because I give a clear and logical explanation of my stance. It's like there are a couple of people who are really determined to get pissed off at the idea that some people have studied a particular subject more than others. It's not even like they feel personally slighted, as far as I can tell - they just hate anybody suggesting that anybody else could be wrong, even if "anybody else" is nameless Christie's workers or family members who donated a particular item.
I already know not to let this get under my skin, but it does, it just does.
Things I hate about PastPerfect V: THE LAG IS SO MUCH WORSE. I click on a field, type, realize I'm not in edit mode, click edit, oops the first field on the page is now full of irrelevant letters. I swear it's worse in V than IV. Or maybe it's just the networking slowing it down? Maybe I'm unfair.
I have to rant, which I normally don't do while at work, but it's so frustrating. I'm pretty sure this dress (click on the broken image to see it in the zoom screen) has come up on the Regency FB group before, and just as before, I and another person suggested caution in taking the provenance too seriously ... and just as before, the response - from the same people who usually pull this crap - is, "Well, people had their clothes made individually" (NO, REALLY?!) "so it could be just eccentricity! Anyway, we have barely any extant garments and fashion plates are 'stylized' so how does anybody know what's true or not."
WHYYYYYYY do people do this to me, I don't understand. It's not like I just make vague assertions. I give plenty of specifics. I can back up anything I say, if you just ask for my reasoning instead of broadly implying that there's no evidence to study fashion history. I don't appeal to my authority and expect people to trust me based on my degree or book, but because I give a clear and logical explanation of my stance. It's like there are a couple of people who are really determined to get pissed off at the idea that some people have studied a particular subject more than others. It's not even like they feel personally slighted, as far as I can tell - they just hate anybody suggesting that anybody else could be wrong, even if "anybody else" is nameless Christie's workers or family members who donated a particular item.
I already know not to let this get under my skin, but it does, it just does.
