I had to look up the recipe to figure out the slur you were alluding to…yikes. I don’t blame you for not repeating the name here.
I had to look up the recipe to figure out the slur you were alluding to…yikes. I don’t blame you for not repeating the name here.
I’ve usually heard “right of way” used in terms of sense 3 of the dictionary. I’ve never heard it used to refer to the ability to make a road – that just makes me think you have a skilled construction crew on speed dial.
I had the opposite experience. Once I started working full time after college, I felt like I had SO MUCH FREE TIME!
I did have a part-time job during college, though. That might have skewed things for me.
I wanted to like the game, but one game where the other players adopted the ‘backstabbing’ style ruined it for me.
I was sad when AOL started sending demo CDs instead of the floppy disks :(
We all have caturday!
Yeah, that’s fair, especially in software work.
I see what you’re getting at – hinting at a sense of serenity?
The phrase still annoys me for some reason.
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Fair point, but something about the tautology of the phrase has always grated on me :\
You just reminded me of this
Those who champion “brutal honesty” are more interested in the brutality than the honest
I use this, and I struggle a little to disengage when the person I ask interprets it as “help me figure out how to solve this” when they don’t actually have the “short answer”.
life isn’t fair
It’s not as pithy, but I think “Just because you didn’t get your way, doesn’t mean it’s unfair” would be a better sentiment for adults to tell children.
Or “I don’t fucking care what happened, I just don’t want to hear you whine about it”. Hardly an acceptable way to talk to children, but I think it’s what adults in my life meant when I was a child.
“it is what it is”
If it weren’t what it is, well, it wouldn’t be anything at all, would it?
I came here to ask the same thing!
Interesting metaphor. I’ve never really gotten that idea – I’ve never seen the connection demonstrated between the “big stuff” and seemingly innocuous things like ‘main’ vs. ‘master’.
Also, a lot of this feels misplaced. IMO, the root problem is one of attitude where the minorities are viewed as less-human, not deserving of equal treatment or equal rights. Change will happen as those attitudes shift. I haven’t seen a connection demonstrated between those attitudes and…well, pretty much any terminology issue that’s come up in recent memory.
Yeah, I can’t really explain it. Seems kinda silly, doesn’t it?
just another way of staying ignorant and insensitive to those events.
I don’t really see how that follows. Would you mind elaborating?
I’d heard the cigarette version before. Blows my American mind.