dear flat earth this is something else i
want to
talk about briefly is
and i need to include veterans too is a
use of the word um now apparently
apparently use of the word um
uh some have suggested
that when you're going uh or um
you should say moving on and i was just
thinking that
i know i do it when i'm thinking so so
when i instead of
saying uh
i should say i'm thinking but if i'm
saying i'm thinking
then i'm not actually
thinking about what i need to be
thinking so i'm thinking about saying
that i'm thinking
instead of thinking about what i want to
say next
so i'm trying to put my words into
perspective i
don't really feel like i'm moving on i'm
just trying to put my words in
perspective now what i have done what i
have done
is said um oh
i know it's a bad habit i have said i'm
having a brain fart
which is a word for so if you can re
so this is the thing so if you've lost
your train of thought
which that would be another good phrase
i've lost my train of thought instead of
um but sometimes i genu
genuinely am thinking about i don't want
to say
the wrong thing and so when people are
saying uh
or uh
that is a that is
a form of censorship
self-censorship because
uh you're afraid of offending someone
and so it's like well how how can i say
this
you know so you're thinking about like
how can i say this
without offending the sensibilities
of my audience
i can just be quiet too and like
instead of saying uh or um
which sounds like um and
and so it was so funny because i thought
well let's look up and see what that
means exactly because that's one of the
things that
when i was first on youtube everyone was
like don't say
um you say um too much
so and this was just giving my crochet
instructions
i said um with my crochet instructions
and i'm going to tell you where that
came from some of that came from
the message forms previously when i was
first on the internet 24 years ago
what was happening was there was these
people like
oh no you don't do the stitch that way
you have to do it this way
and so as time progressed i was i was
like
thinking well okay there's people who do
stitches different ways there's people
who do things different
ways and it's not one way or the highway
so i started like i was doing the
um questioning how
i was crocheting because it's like well
okay it's not an exact science and even
the earth is not an exact science it
just
isn't because time is not even perfect
it can't be it never will be
that's why they have to catch up a day
every four years to create this perfect
calendar
the calendar is perfect in the eyes of
man
the 28-day cycle is imperfect
so the earth itself is not perfect
and so if we just didn't have
the 29th day in february
every year to catch up
then february would probably be
summer now so
yeah i just had to and now when i sit
here concentrating about
not saying uh or um
it becomes a little bit easier to just
try to avoid
saying it or if i'm just thinking
i can just be quiet and think so if i'm
consciously thinking about it then
i can just
take a pause be like
pausing and pausing
thinking about what i want to say next
well that's probably pretty much all i
have to say about this topic
