18th May 2004, 8:19 PM
You're right about that, and that's a part of me I'm trying to kill off by starvation.
Now, all I'm trying to say is if the other person says they don't want to talk about it any more, it's polite to go with their wishes and just drop it. You know, there's an entire expression created specifically for situations like this, where one person doesn't get what the other person said, but the other person doesn't really care about it anyway afterall and just wants to end the conversation. It's the infamous "never mind".
So, never mind!
Now, all I'm trying to say is if the other person says they don't want to talk about it any more, it's polite to go with their wishes and just drop it. You know, there's an entire expression created specifically for situations like this, where one person doesn't get what the other person said, but the other person doesn't really care about it anyway afterall and just wants to end the conversation. It's the infamous "never mind".
So, never mind!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)