Okay, I promise I’ll get it together to post a more, well, *meaty* discussion here in a bit, but I just have to get this one off my chest.<\/p>\n
Listening to the radio with a casual ear this morning I heard one of those obnoxious “Play our game and win fabulous prizes” type ads that are so popular with the lottery folks.<\/p>\n
It ended with “If you don’t play, you can’t win!”<\/p>\n
To which I, without even thinking about it, replied:<\/p>\n
“Yeah, and if you don’t play you can’t lose!”<\/p>\n
Taking “you can’t lose” as a synonym for “you’ll win!” makes those ads a good deal less toxic in my opinion.<\/p>\n
The game is rigged, the house always wins. Don’t play, you can’t lose!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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