I heard a guy on the tube (in the other room) say “What you have is controlled chaos”. He was talking about surfing or freestyle skiing or something like that. Skiing, I think.
Sorry, bub, you can’t have that. You can control chaos, but once you do all you have is stability.
Another can’t have; “bottomless pit”. That would of course be a tunnel.
Peace,
mangeorge
Pedantic.
Shit! I forgot what that means. I’ll be right back.
So either I’ve been insulted, or one cannot be a pedant in MPSIMS.
I shall ponder.
It wasn’t meant to be an insult.
Even though those two phrases are illogical, most people can understand what people mean when they use them. “Bottomless Pit” - “very deep hole”. “Controlled Chaos” - something that looks chaotic and probably is chaotic, but there is something or someone controlling it - ensuring it isn’t purely chaotic.
I know it wasn’t. My reply wasn’t meant to be taken seriously.
As far as “most people”, I can tell you what the nuns would say about that;
“If most people jumped off a bridge…”
Another one, recently popular in the business world, “Better that the best”. As in “With these principles we will remain better than the best.”
I cringe every time I hear or read that one.
I cringe at the majority of corporate/business speak. Another one is the over-use of impossible percentages (particularly “110%”)
My husband said this about my son’s kindergarten class. It may be an oxymoron but it was apt.