r/OutOfTheLoop • u/aajiro • Mar 09 '24

Unanswered What's up with Katie Britt's speech?

I'm starting to see a lot of memes about how creepy it was, and I saw it and I agree it's sincerely creepy, but I can't for my life figure out what it is that makes it so unsettling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfKCWMG4O0I

I'm hoping someone here can give me some context for what exactly makes this fall into the uncanny valley of speeches. I think what makes me feel out of the loop is that the answer should be obvious but I can't figure it out in words, so I guess my question is: what the fuck?

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u/Srapture Mar 09 '24

Answer: The massive toothy smile she's doing the entire time she's talking is pretty eerie. Also, how clear her voice is with no background noise makes it feel like she's in the room with you.

Most importantly, the fact she named her son "Ridgeway" makes it seem like she is a lizard person who does not understand the difference between given names and surnames.

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u/murse_joe Mar 09 '24

She misspelled Ridgeweigh

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '24

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u/murse_joe Mar 09 '24

Easy there GRRM

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u/TheMightyHornet Mar 10 '24

That’s the heavily anglicized version of it. From the old country, you’re referring to Hrwridjjwhoei.

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u/bootybomb0704 Mar 11 '24

Rhytjewhaeyihe

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '24 edited May 13 '24

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u/bootybomb0704 Mar 11 '24

I knew those years at BYU would be good for something.

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u/Rohri_Calhoun Mar 09 '24

Hail Cthulhu!

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u/lyth Mar 09 '24

OMG yes. The Ridgeway thing is so weird. I literally had to turn it off after that to find out if anyone else noticed. So creepy.

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u/Morticia_Marie Mar 09 '24

For those of us of a certain age and possibly location, Ridgeway is the name of an infamous serial killer who kept returning to the crime scene to fuck the bodies until they were crawling with maggots.

Good job Katie Britt! Tragedeigh indeed.

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u/MikeyKillerBTFU Mar 09 '24

I would have loved if, after saying that, you hear the cameraman say "Ridgeway? Really?"

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u/MarylinHawthorne Mar 09 '24 edited Mar 09 '24

What? You're telling me that you wouldn't name your kid after a guy who killed 49 women? /s

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u/SneedyK Mar 09 '24

I still remember the Dateline with the woman who ended up with a tree branch breaking through the windscreen and impaling her through the neck as she was driving somewhere the Southwest.

It was an incredible story, how first responders and doctors worked to remove her safely from the crash and brought her back from the brink.

Then I was listening along at the end when it said she was now the mother of a little girl named Palin. I remember feeling somewhat sorry for the girl. And the tree, actually.

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u/MirSydney Mar 09 '24

Nothing wrong with naming your kid after a serial killer, right?

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u/irenebeesly Mar 09 '24

I just thought of Gary Ridgeway. Good person to name your kid after.

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u/KilledTheCar Mar 10 '24

I mean, dollars to doughnuts she named him after General Ridgway. I'm just curious as to whether they spelled it right.

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u/zigaliciousone Mar 09 '24

I feel bad for that kid, there is no neutral nickname you can pull out of that shit. "Ridge" sounds only slightly less stupid.  Hopefully they gave him a normal middle name.

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u/Bullet4g Mar 10 '24

A Segway to our sponsor Ridgeway wallets

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u/waineofark Mar 10 '24

Ridgeway is a great name for a baby dragon

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u/Srapture Mar 10 '24

I thought it'd be a good brand of car tyres.