Oh you're an adult? Really? I had no idea by the way you speak...

You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is. Red Haircrow

I have a real issue with people who assert their opinions about all manner of topics with disrespect, derision, patronizing, and foul language. To use words that are laced with those characteristics is to send the message that you aren't totally secure in what you are saying you believe. Haircrow has absolutely nailed it with today's quote. In fact, even though I went "on and on" about how wonderful and vital words are yesterday, the best way to hold our ground on our opinions is to - wait for it - say not much at all. *GASP* Why not just live out what you believe about XYZ? And when you do feel a need to talk about it why resort to using disrespectful tones and language? I just don't see the need. We are adults, let's act like ones! And to get back to the point of today's quote - if you are so secure in your opinions, beliefs, etc then why do you get so hot-headed and disrespectful? No really, why? Think through that. Be logical and reasonable even within yourself. Could it be that you harbor doubts? Could it be that you are unsure of your facts? Or is is that you are just a mean and disrespectful person? I'm being for real here. Want to prove to *me* that you stand firmly on and by your opinions and beliefs? The quit talking and act like it.

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Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

A dime a dozen

"It's said that in the year 1796, the first U.S. dimes were produced for circulation. Hence, it would make sense for this phrase to originate sometime after." Read more here . Today the phrase carries the meaning that something is cheap or without value if it can be lumped in with other similar or exactly-like things. It's more of an insult than anything.

Life according to van Gogh...sort of

There are two ways of thinking about painting, how not to do it and how to do it; how to do it -- with much drawing and little color; how not to do it -- with much color and little drawing. Vincent van Gogh in a l etter to Theo van Gogh, April 1882 Life is a little bit like today's quote from van Gogh. Some of us live life focusing on the drawing - the details - and have very little color. Others of us go for the color and forsake, to a degree, the drawing - the details. Unlike painting, according to van Gogh, one is not wrong over the other but somewhere in between the two would be the best I would think. If you look at some of van Gogh's paintings I feel like you can see where he might have struggled between the "how to do it" and the " how not to do it" (as he admittedly loved color so much but knew he had to focus more on the drawing) and that seems to be reflected in his life as well. In the end he wasn't able to find the ...

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