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Urban Dictionary, November 26: Tragedeigh

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(Pronounced: tragedy) When parents overcomplicate the spellings of names in order for their child's name to sound ✨u n I q U E✨. That's a tragedeigh. These aren't to be mistaken for names from other languages, though. Some examples include Londynn (London), Crimzynn (Crimson), Ashleigh (Ashley), and Myrrandah (Miranda).

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Why people are choosing to quit social media - BBC Ideas

QUESTIONS:
1. What social networks are mentioned in the video?
2. Explain term 'a social media death'.
3. What prof. Egan means by 'the addicteveness' of social media?
4. What does a man on the street compare the people on the bus to?
5. Why James doesn't like to use the term 'social media'?

DISCUS IN PAIRS, ASK FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS!!!
1. What social networks do you usually use, how often, are you an active or passive user?
2. Your opinion: pros and cons of having social networks in our lives?
3. Have you followed any celebrities/influencers/live event on social networks?
4. Do you have friends on social networks that you have never met in real life? Would you like to meet them?
5. Would you agree that social networks can serve as a true and authentic display of our lives? Or is it just a pretence?

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Audio antisocisal.wav Rupen G Kalsi, writer: I'm not sure that other people on the tube would be happy, but I look at other people more. I like to observe, have a look at what someone's wearing, imagine what sort of person they would be be. Just try and live in the moment a bit more. Prof Gabriel Egan, De Montfort University: That's right. No Facebook, no Twitter. No Instagram, no WhatsApp. Rupen: What triggered it was a break up. I think when something like that happens, you need to just let someone die a social media death, and just remove them from your life. And then I realised that actually they weren't that useful to me anyway. So I just went the whole hog and didn't bother using them again anymore. Prof Egan: The point about social media is the addictiveness. Nobody really wants to spend hours and hours every day updating their status and seeing what other people think about them. Nobody consciously wants to do that. But those behaviours are themselves addictive behaviours. Once you're trapped in that loop, it's very hard to break out. It's not that we want to go back to some idyllic past - an eden before the machines existed. It's that we need to take control of these machines and use them for their proper ends. TEXT ON SCREEN: 36% of the UK population is not active on social media [source: We are Social] Vox pops: The bad thing is that you think people's lives are much more fun than your own life. When I'm the bus, I just see people like zombies and I'm like, "Alright, it's a sunny day. There is something to see - not only your phone." You know? Dr Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute: I like to be present when I share something about myself with someone, so I can get their feedback and either stop right there or tell them the story behind it, or give context. Sometimes I might withhold a certain opinion rather than being rapid fire, because maybe it requires a bit of nuance. And maybe the best thing is not for me to just shoot my mouth off online because some headline made me angry. The thing is, the world is real, whether we want to believe it or not. And it's really important for us to have a sense of where we are in that world. James Williams, University of Oxford: I don't like to use the term social media, at the end of the day, because it implies that it's designed to promote social behaviours, when usually it's designed to promote the amount of attention that we're giving it. In order to grab our attention - because there's so much competition - design has to appeal to the lower parts of us, to the kind of non-rational, automatic, impulsive parts of us. And so this is why we get things like clickbait, like sensationalism - things that appeal to our outrage. And there's a whole industry of consultants, of psychologists who are helping designers really punch the right buttons in our brains so that we do keep coming back for more and we do stay hooked on the products. You know at the end of the day, they're advertising systems - not really social platforms. TEXT ON SCREEN: 63% of the global population is not active on social media - 4.8 billion people [source: We are Social] Rupen: Some of them take social media breaks quite a lot anyway, so it's not like I'm doing something that's particularly divergent, but they think it's a good thing. I think they realise, we all realise that we look at means too much. We use Instagram too much. It's just whether we realise that and do something about it. There are things that give us, you know, instant pleasure and they're like the more gluttonous things like food and sex and stuff like that. And they give us a really high spike of pleasure. But the things that are the most worthwhile are the things that you spend a lot of time on. So playing the piano is not pleasant to begin with. But you get a much more steady wave of satisfaction. So it does matter because the pleasures that are sometimes the most time-consuming or the ones that take the most work, can be the ones that are the most fulfilling. Those are the pleasures that self-actualizing, that help you realise a part of yourself that you didn't have. Vox pop: I'm on it probably every day, just to be nosy! I'm sure I could live without it. We did before didn't we?

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Why people are choosing to quit social media - BBC Ideas

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Audio antisocisal.wav Rupen G Kalsi, writer: I'm not sure that other people on the tube would be happy, but I look at other people more. I like to observe, have a look at what someone's wearing, imagine what sort of person they would be be. Just try and live in the moment a bit more.

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Why do we binge-watch (and is it actually good for us)? - BBC Ideas

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Why do we binge-watch (and is it actually good for us)? - BBC Ideas

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Why do we binge-watch (and is it actually good for us)? - BBC Ideas

Questions:
Do you binge-watch? (How often, what's your personal record, what was it, etc.)
What are the pros and cons of binge-watching?
Can we learn something from binge-watching?
How to stop binge-watching TV?

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SCOTT BRYAN, TV critic and broadcaster: I can easily watch an entire series in a single day. DR HAMIRA RIAZ, Psychotherapist: Two days. BRIAN LOBEL, Creator of interactive art show BINGE: Ten hours of television a day, and I didn't even like it. WHY DO WE BINGE WATCH? HALF OF US HAVE BINGE-WATCHED 8 HOURS OF A TV SHOW IN ONE GO. 80% HAVE SACRIFICED SLEEP. ONE IN FIVE BRITISH WORKERS ADMIT TO... [coughing sound] SCOTT: Binging started by accident. Netflix had realised that loads of people were gravitating towards watching shows in bulk, be that shows that you've seen before - Friends, Seinfeld, Law & Order, ER. That's the surprise about it - it's led by the consumer. The way that Netflix tries to nudge you to watch more, it's very subtle little tricks. They work out very quickly when a show launches, which thumbnail is working. Why? Also, getting to the very end of an episode and immediately the credits, they minimalize it right to the corner of the screen straight away and automatically load the next episode. That's how you sometimes get sucked into watching a show for three hours without even noticing. BRIAN: I have found that people are deeply embarrassed by how much they watch TV. Deeply embarrassed to not be productive and take time off and say, "Actually, I watched six hours of television today because I needed to not look at five different tabs on a work computer, I just needed to..." We also binge to be part of the public conversation. NEARLY 1/4 OF US HAVE LIED ABOUT WATCHING A SERIES BECAUSE OTHER PEOPLE WERE TALKING ABOUT IT. "Yeah, I love Fleabag!" So I think there is an anxiety about being caught up about this content, which is forcing people to binge more also. HAMIRA: When we can identify with a character it leads to the release of the love hormone oxytocin. It creates a bond. "We have had such a wonderful morning." HAMIRA: A series like Big Little Lies, which allows you to look at the same event through the eyes of very different characters, you're bound to be able to find a character that you can relate to and go on the journey with. "If you ever touch my little girl like that again, you're gonna be in big trouble." SO ARE THERE BENEFITS TO BINGE-WATCHING? HAMIRA: If we're making time to watch a series end-to-end, we are potentially creating hours of space to work with our emotions, our relationships. THERE WAS A 41% LEAP IN THE NUMBER OF COUPLES SEEKING COUNSELLING AFTER LOVE ISLAND 2019 BEGAN AIRING. BRIAN: I have probably watched television with over 700 people, and so I've experienced a lot of people having big emotions. "No-one's fun anymore. Whatever happened to fun!" BRIAN: The episode Splat! of Sex and the City, which is the one where Kristen Johnston falls out of a window causes people a lot of emotions because it's an episode about moving on from something. "I wanna go to Paris." HAMIRA: Our brains don't discriminate between real activation and activation due to imagined events. BINGE-WATCHING IS NOT JUST ABOUT RELAXING...WHAT WE WATCH CAN HAVE AN EFFECT ON OUR NERVOUS SYSTEM. HAMIRA: Binge-watching means that you're activating yourself to a high degree for much longer periods of time. That's going to take longer for you to come down from that. HAMIRA: Episode four of Game of Thrones where Missandei is beheaded - a much beloved character, it's a very graphic death - will have triggered the sympathetic nervous system. It wouldn't be conducive to a good night's sleep. VIDEO ON DEMAND IS CHANGING THE WAY STORIES ARE TOLD... ...SERIES ARE DESIGNED WITH BINGEING IN MIND. SCOTT: What makes Netflix stand out so well is the fact that they're able to really experiment with the number of characters, the number of story arcs. Netflix knows that you're never going to watch a show midway through, you're never going to start in the middle, you're always going to start from the very beginning. So that's why you've got Orange Is the New Black, which has a cast of about 40. So you're able to have that level of depth over an eight hour series, than what you would normally do if it was separated into eight 60-minute chunks shoved on a linear broadcast channel. BRIAN: Binging is a word that has very negative connotations to it, right? Binging is to shovel yourself. We don't say, "I binged a book." But the reality is that some of the greatest writers of our generation are writing television. I would be the last person to say stop binge-watching.

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What makes us binge-watch shows like Killing Eve or Game of Thrones? And is it a problem - or could it actually be good for us?

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Sheldon sings "Good King Wenceslas" carol about Czech duke "Svatý Václav"

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Sheldon sings "Good King Wenceslas" carol about Czech duke "Svatý Václav"

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Good King Wenceslas is a Christmas Carol that tells the story of a king's journey through harsh winter weather. His intention is to bring food and firewood to a poor man he notices from the tower of his castle during the Feast of Stephen on December 26, the second day of Christmas.

It is a true story of Saint Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (c. 907-935 AD). This is the region around Prague in the Czech Republic. Stories of his giving alms to the poor have been told since this time. But it would take many more centuries before these were put into a Christmas carol.

The Legend

On a cold and snowy night, the good King Wenceslas is enjoying the Feast of Saint Stephen. He looks out over his land, illuminated by moonlight, and notices a poor man gathering firewood for his home. He asks a page if he knows who the man is. The page responds that the man lives a long distance from here, at the base of a mountain in the distance.

King Wenceslas immediately wishes to share the warmth of his own home and the food of the holiday with him. He orders the servants of his household to bring him food and firewood, that he may bring them into the poor man's home.

Thus begins the King's journey of goodwill through the wintery night with one of his servants. Off they go together, carrying a heavy load and trudging through heavy snowfall and cold wind.

The page soon tells the King, "Sire, I cannot go any further." The King tells his page to simply follow boldly in his footsteps. Legend says that as the page walks in the King's footsteps, he is pleasantly warmed.

King Wenceslas and his page reach the poor man's home, bringing him plenty of firewood and a wonderful dinner they all share together. The moral of the story being, those who bless the poor shall themselves find blessing as well.

The Carol

During his time at university in Rostock, Germany in 1582, a Finnish student named Theodoricus Petri compiled a songbook containing 74 Latin church and school songs. His intention was to preserve ancient hymns and songs of his fatherland, many already several centuries old. Jaakko Finne (or Suomalainen), headmaster of the Cathedral school in Turku, Finland, edited and published the first edition of this book of carols in Greifswald, Sweden that same year.

Piæ Cantiones - 1582

The name of this first publication was Piæ Cantiones. This collection contained many songs mostly from Finland and Sweden, but also several other European countries including France, Germany, England, and Bohemia. It has become one of Finland's greatest musical treasures as about half of the songs are believed to be of Finnish origin.

The tune to one of these songs, Tempus Adest Floridum (The time is near for flowering), is what we hear today when we listen to Good King Wenceslas. It is said that this melody dates back to the 13 th century. This tune is also used today in the Gentle Mary Laid Her Child carol.

The Lyrics

It wasn't until 1853 that English hymnwriter John Mason Neale used the story of King Wenceslas from the 10 th century, combined with the Tempus Adest Floridum melody first published in the 16 th century, to create the Good King Wenceslas carol that we enjoy today. He did this along with his music editor, Thomas Helmore. The carol first appeared in Carols for Christmas-Tide, a collection of 12 Christmas carols adapted from Piæ Cantiones.

Originally published December 13, 2020

Researched and Written by: Thomas Acreman

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Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia - Wikipedia

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“St. Wenceslas” redirects here. For the 1930 Czechoslovak film, see St. Wenceslas (film).