Oh, I am still going to be busy with other things, but this week if I vote, I speak. Last week due to time pressures, I missed a lot of commenting. Tried to also help out some dust votes, so those did not get any thing said on them, but this week I think if I run across any again I may just say screw it and sound like a robot and mention it to the ones I raise up, but a few of the people I mentioned it to did not like me doing that, and one called me a vote police, (I muted that person), so still not sure how I am going to handle it, cause I don't want the voter to feel bad about giving a vote, and I don't want to sound like a Judge,Jury, and executioner of their voting habits. So I just have to play it by ear. (I wonder where that phrase originated)?
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Oh, okay. I ran across one of the posts you were trying to tell people about the dust threshold. If I remember right, their reactions were more to them self-upvoting, which wasn't your point. Oh, well. What can you do? If people don't want to listen, or misunderstand, there's only so much time you can spend explaining yourself.
Play it by ear? Or judge, jury and executioner? Play it by ear is actually related to music, which makes sense. Being able to play based on what you hear rather than by notes. I looked up the origination. Looks like it was first used in 1839 in a newspaper comparing two women (not sure what they were doing, but apparently something to do with music), while the wider use of it didn't come into play (literally and figuratively) until maybe the 1930s, in another newspaper talking about the Brooklyn Dodgers, whom the writer thought 'played by ear' as opposed to, I guess, playing with a plan. :)
Leave it Brooklyn to do things differently. I wonder how many times that bridge has been sold.