Means your plans didn't work out for some reason.
(imagine someone trying to cross one of those suspended wooden bridges and falling through)
(imagine someone trying to cross one of those suspended wooden bridges and falling through)
"Dude I know you're trying to hook up with that chick tomorrow night, but if that should fall through call me up and we'll play some vidja games."
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This is a fallacy because it (a) assumes people can adjust personal risk to replicate an incomparable situation, and (b) it confusing risk-taking and risky behavior. "Risk-taking" is a neutral term that includes anything that increases risk in some way, such as operating a machine at a higher speed. This usually is done to get some other benefit. "Risky behavior" is foolish, feckless, or sloppy behavior that has no intrinsic utility to the person engaging in it.
This is a fallacy because it (a) assumes people can adjust personal risk to replicate an incomparable situation, and (b) it confusing risk-taking and risky behavior. "Risk-taking" is a neutral term that includes anything that increases risk in some way, such as operating a machine at a higher speed. This usually is done to get some other benefit. "Risky behavior" is foolish, feckless, or sloppy behavior that has no intrinsic utility to the person engaging in it.
An example of the curmudgeon's fallacy is the erroneous claim that safer cars make for careless drivers.
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The "friend" you go to when you have no one else to hang out with, whom you would never talk to otherwise.
Michelle: "Well, Kayla just ditched me and I don't want to stand here like an idiot. I guess I'll go talk to Janice, my fallback friend."
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"im keeping well clear mate shes fallen to the russians"
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"Man, what a Faily Tale"
"Man, what a Faily Tale"
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2. A wallet that fails at being a wallet. It is empty and is carried without purpose. Most of the time people just want to burn fallets because they serve no purpose.
3. Sean's wallet.
4. The term to describe a wallet that fails the teenage boy wallet test.
2. A wallet that fails at being a wallet. It is empty and is carried without purpose. Most of the time people just want to burn fallets because they serve no purpose.
3. Sean's wallet.
4. The term to describe a wallet that fails the teenage boy wallet test.
1. "Jeez you have no money or credit cards in your fallet. WTF."
2. "Your fallet should go up in flames becuase it is of no use to anyone. Ever."
3. "Damn Sean! Put something in your fallet already!"
4. "No money. No condoms. No license. FALLET!!!"
2. "Your fallet should go up in flames becuase it is of no use to anyone. Ever."
3. "Damn Sean! Put something in your fallet already!"
4. "No money. No condoms. No license. FALLET!!!"
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