Some said to me the other day, and this was with some surprise... "Oh, but you hate with a passion". Excuse me? Is there any other way to hate?? Isn't that why the word was invented? To circumvent the ambiguity of an otherwise potentially lukewarm word? I appreciate that there are those who are prone to using it to express rather mild manifestations of distaste.... why bother is what I want to know. Like Lynn Truss (and several others, I can't be bothered to google, but she's the one who wrote Eats, Shoots and Leaves), I subscribe to the 'use the bloody language as it's meant to be used' school of thought. I'm inherently suspicious of people who don't have at least one thing they hate viciously (yep, I refused to date this dude, with the sexiest let me stroke your back voice, because he couldn't think of a single thing he hated!!! How does one get to their forties and not find something they really, REALLY hate??), and it's a question that sometimes takes people by surprise. It left Taks wandering the streets desperate to find two other things he hated as much as bhindi...... (Gloria Estefan was disqualified....still, one solid hate is better than three iffy ones, I think)....he has stopped wandering the streets since our conversation, but still hasn't been able to better bhindi. At least you can always trust children to hate with a purity of thought... pity they occasionally evolve into listless adults.
Pigeons. Unpacking/packing. Tan lines.
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