I'd heard the cigarette version before. Blows my American mind.

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.

Are you interested in setec astronomy?

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 :(

Ugh, that title.

I don't think I've ever heard someone refer to it as "ness". I think I'd be confused -- what does the Loch Ness Monster have to do with gaming? -- until they clarified.

We all have caturday!

Perfection.

From the thumbnail, I thought there was a bench there. Something about the planter, I think.

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?