My dear friend Matt just reminded me of something: Quit smoking! All you smokers out there, listen up: quit being selfish and stupid and bull-headed. Quit smoking, and you will miraculously discover that half your crabbiness will just disappear, thus half your unpleasant and selfish behavior will also disappear. Magically. You will stop offending everyone you know with the stench you carry around with you like a dark cloud. You will be able to stop cravenly seeking solitude in order to indulge your habit. You will be able to walk amongst women and men again with your head held high. If you're lucky enough to be a woman, and go into menopause, then you will get all your crabbiness back, and more, so don't worry about becoming all soft and nice.
I don't feel at all soft, or nice, but I am glad, glad, glad that I quit smoking and I will do my best to piss off all the idiots who are still smoking. I hope I piss you all off enough that any smoker who reads this will quit smoking just to spite me.
Consider this a white glove, thrown down on the ground in front of you, smokers. And yes, I'm talking to you fancy Europeans too: just because you have an ancient civilization and us Americans are just adolescents, doesn't mean you're right about everything. And you are wrong, wrong, wrong about smoking.
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- From 1700s Italy, "dilettante" originally meant "lover of the arts," but became a pejorative when professionalism took hold during the 18th century. A dilettante became a mere lover of art as opposed to one who earned a living from it. Today, the word refers to a poseur, or one pretending to be an artist. synonyms: dabbler, sciolist, dilettanteish, dilettantish, sciolistic Usage Examples “It’s better up here away from the phonies and the dilettantes. Here I can do what I want and no one comes to sneer. You’re not a sneerer, are you?” - Flowers for Algernon ‘There were no scientists in Stuart England,’ we are told, ‘and all the men we have grouped together under that heading were in their varying degrees dilettantes.’ - The Invention of Science Charles wasn’t a dilettante; he was serious about the breeding and created his own new lines of pigeons. - Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith source: https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/dilettante
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