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The word CONTINUE is more "lettery", because the word KEEP means CONTINUE, but has only four letters; CONTINUE has three syllables; KEEP has one.
by but for April 21, 2021
Get the letterymug. Extricating certain words, thoughts, beliefs, and expectations from one's brain and replacing them with other words, thoughts, beliefs, and/or expectations by writing them, reading them, recording them, playing them back, thinking about them and practicing them.
Reading numerous self-help books I realized that my beliefs and expectations were injected into me in various ways by different people since I was a child. Gradually, I realized that I could replace the negative words, thoughts, beliefs, and expectations with correct and better ones. I call that process self-brainwashing.
by but for May 7, 2018
Get the self-brainwashingmug. After a neighbor heard me tell my Mother that he, a cigarette smoker, was addicted to nicotine, thus a "nicotine addict", got him to realize what he was really doing—drugging himself.
by but for May 12, 2018
Get the nicotine addictmug. The fact that flight rhymes with fight may be why the term "fight or flight" is used. As clever and useful as it is, it is not factual. Thus,"fight or run away" might be a better way to express that unique state.
by but for February 5, 2018
Get the fight or run awaymug. The nonviolent, respectful, tolerant different opinions about the various different sexual preferences,
The sex war is the nonviolent and covert war between individuals who have different sexual preferences, and it is slowly intensifying.
by but for October 20, 2022
Get the sex warmug. Headwear, clothing, and footwear designed, produced, marketed and sold primarily in retail store chains which are intended to make the wearer appear less powerful and preferably powerless.
The "flat cap" exemplifies "powerless attire," garment which make the wearer look powerless. Though or perhaps because flat caps have been worn for centuries, so very few individuals realize how it really affects the appearance of the individual who wears one, the way others treat him, his identity and his self-concept. The history of the flat cap is very telling. It began to be worn in Northern England after a 1571 Act of Parliament decreed that on Sundays and holidays, all males over 6 years of age, except for the nobility and "persons of degree", were to wear woollen caps on pain of a fine of three farthings (3/4 penny) per day. The flat cap became firmly entrenched as a recognized mark of a non-noble subject, such as a burgher, tradesman, or apprentice. Police or military officer's caps have the elevation in the front and make the individuals who wear them look powerful.
by but for October 11, 2017
Get the Powerless Attiremug. Usernames, passwords, and personal identification numbers (PIN) impossibilitate anyone who does not know them from entering a website or completing a financial transaction at an automatic teller machint (ATM).
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, at the New Year's Celebration held each year in Times Square, being surrounded by massive numbers of people made it one-hundred percent impossible for anyone from advancing.
The addictive chemicals in cigarettes make it close to impossible for smokers to stop smoking.
Drivers Licenses make it almost impossible for someone to drive without having obtained a driver's license.
Locks make it mostly impossible for anyone to enter without opening the lock with its key.
Male as well as female condoms make it as impossible as possible for a sperm to not enter the vagina.
Prisons make it close to impossible for any prisoner to escape.
Reserve parachutes make it virtually impossible for someone to continue free falling and die on impact because their main parachute did not open and they did not have a reserve parachute, or as unlikely as it seems to be, if the reserve parachute also failed to open. But there is usually no way to prevent unexpected things from happening.
The sex drive is so powerful, it impossibilitates a species' self-extinction.
Structural or electronic blocks impossibilitate certain things from taking place. But some of those what could be called—structural or electronic impossibilitators" do not always succeed.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, at the New Year's Celebration held each year in Times Square, being surrounded by massive numbers of people made it one-hundred percent impossible for anyone from advancing.
The addictive chemicals in cigarettes make it close to impossible for smokers to stop smoking.
Drivers Licenses make it almost impossible for someone to drive without having obtained a driver's license.
Locks make it mostly impossible for anyone to enter without opening the lock with its key.
Male as well as female condoms make it as impossible as possible for a sperm to not enter the vagina.
Prisons make it close to impossible for any prisoner to escape.
Reserve parachutes make it virtually impossible for someone to continue free falling and die on impact because their main parachute did not open and they did not have a reserve parachute, or as unlikely as it seems to be, if the reserve parachute also failed to open. But there is usually no way to prevent unexpected things from happening.
The sex drive is so powerful, it impossibilitates a species' self-extinction.
Structural or electronic blocks impossibilitate certain things from taking place. But some of those what could be called—structural or electronic impossibilitators" do not always succeed.
by but for April 3, 2022
Get the impossibilitatemug.