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Acceptance 

This is the stage of grief where you experience death, whether from Life, a relationship, a job, a dream, etc. The stage of acceptance is where there is no ill will toward anyone. No regrets. No sadness. No desperation. You have accepted the fact that all that has come before this moment was there to teach you something. To propel you forward. It is all good.
This is the final countdown. I hear the guitars strumming. I am in total acceptance.
Acceptance by #whileyoucan February 28, 2015

acceptable sexual harassment 

When a seemingly formidable right-wing candidate for Supreme Court Justice or a President of the United States sexually harasses women.
It became clear to me that there are some forms of acceptable sexual harassment.

Wife Acceptance Factor

A term used by guys to describe how likely their brilliant home improvement projects, social plans or geek toys will be accepted by their wives.

Note that the purist never assigns a Wife Acceptance Factor a number score, like 8.7, or a even a relative amount like "low" or "high". This is what keeps it from being the precise measurement implied by the name, and adds to the irony.

Neither does the purist ever use the abbreviation WAF, it is always sardonically drawled out in full: "Wife Acceptance Factor".

It is also never used by hen-pecked husbands, since they have no say in anything anyway.
Yeah, that SONY 60" 3D HDTV I wanted just didn't have the whole Wife Acceptance Factor thing going on.

Dude! That's at least reasonable. My wife put the kibosh on my awesome home automation plan, which anyone would agree should fly right under the Wife Acceptance Factor radar.

acceptable drunk 

the funny, quiet drunks. very nice, very drunk friends.
Dan Bragdon: No one likes me except for rachael and cecelia, but thats ok. im an acceptable drunk

socially acceptable 

generally accepted by the main stream population as normal.
"I dont talk about fisting turkeys during thanksgiving dinner, thats not socially acceptable"

Cog Acceptance 

Acceptance of many forms of Steampunk. Being open-minded and/or inclusive to the variations steampunk comes in.
Western Steampunk, Victorian steampunk, Edwardian steampunk, Steamfunk, WWI steampunk, and Eastern steampunk being welcomed at a convention are all examples of this.

Saying to someone, "that's not steampunk because it isn't brown, has no gears, (or whatever else you can think of)" is NOT cog acceptance.
Cog Acceptance by Big Airship September 15, 2013