Source : am French and have been laughing about this since I was 8yo. Recently read about the prefect response and it's now even better.
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I come from bizarre family, with an upper class father and a mother who grew up in extreme poverty, experienced wealth and now lives in poverty again after divorce.
Although most of my friends are lower middle class, two of my closest friends are homeless asylum seekers and two are doctors, one of which is a neurosurgeon. Some others are unemployed or upper middle class. One of my closest friends is so wealthy I can't even fathom it.
I don't have dozens of friends, as my writing could imply. We're talking 15 persons tops. So there's indeed a little diversity in there.
And frankly? It's exhausting and often infuriating. Switching is complicated. But hey, I won't complain. At least I have close ones. I know some people want for friendship (e.g. my gf).
Regulating capitalism = authoritarianism. What a weird take. Regulating capitalism =/= abolishing capitalism, this I can understand. But your take... wow.
Thanks for sharing, I like this one!
That's very true, yes. And non-inherent hardly means "weak" or "inefficient".
Indeed, I do think the same. What I have trouble understanding, and even with close friends, is how "no inherent meaning to existence" seems to quickly become, in some cases, "no meaning to existence". I always tend to think this slide tends to exclude another possibility. A non-inherent meaning.
Why not neither?
It's indeed the name of a band
I'm in the same bot and I couldn't have put it better!
Sir/Madam, you win the "post of the day" award!
Still a few ones..!
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Look at this image and keep it in mind. It will protect you from the next abysmally stupid take you'll hear/read.
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Hmm.. Maybe the translation affects the meaning indeed.
To clarify, McMahon was visiting a city crippled by flood and didn't find anything better to say than "so much water!". The follow up by the French official was "And there's more, you've only seen the top of it!", meaning the surface of the water (implying "beneath the surface, there's even more water, Mr. President, you'd be surprised!").
It's my understanding that the official was somehow trolling McMahon for his.. mmh.. stupid comment.
Is it better this way?