Saturday, April 26, 2025

Things People Don't Really Mean

What they mean is "Look over here!  Shiny! Shiny!"

I'm just trying to start a conversation is nearly always from the lips of a person who presents only one side of an issue, in a condescending and self-righteous manner. This is true in the art and literary worlds, and I have seen it a great deal upon my return to catching up with news. People who really want to discuss something want to find out what is true.

At least she's willing to stand up to the establishment.  Right or left, a last ditch effort to evade the fact that she has no supporting evidence. 

In my whole career, I have never seen such... My side did this a couple of years ago and I want you to forget that. 

I don't see why it wasn't a deal-breaker when... Because you broke the deal three or four times before we even got there. 

 

I think this would have been a great hashtag to start here twenty years ago.


 

1 comment:

james said...

I'm trying to think if I ever heard anything like these phrases at work. The "In my career" one, sort of--for both good and bad surprises. The "conversation" one--not exactly; it was more along the lines of "somebody needs to have a conversation with X about" (usually resource use and how to use the software correctly).