a b c Mohr, Melissa (May 11, 2013). "The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from". Salon. Archived from the original on June 7, 2013 . Retrieved June 3, 2013. Carey, Stan (April 27, 2015). "OMFG! Sweary Abbreviations FTFW!". Slate . Retrieved February 15, 2021.

Marshall, Colin (February 11, 2014). "The Very First Written Use of the F Word in English (1528)". openculture. Archived from the original on March 1, 2014 . Retrieved February 25, 2014. Sarah Knight: Well you have basically summed up the premise of all four of my books right there. I couldn’t agree more with everything you’ve said. And some of it I’m really good at, and some of it I’m not as good at. I also like to remind people that this is an ongoing process for me too. Sarah Knight: Yeah. I find that guilt is often used as a motivator and that’s not how I like to live my life. It’s certainly not how my husband and I interact as a couple. He doesn’t make me do things I don’t want to do, and I don’t make him do things he doesn’t want to do. It doesn’t surprise me that that’s what other people’s friends, family, partners, bosses, coworkers do to them. It’s certainly been done to me by other people. Then, as we grow older and enter middle age, something else begins to change. Our energy levels drop. Our identities solidify. We know who we are and we no longer have a desire to change what now seems inevitable in our lives. Bines, Ari (October 23, 2019). "FCUK By French Connection Is Coming & It's BOLD AF". Bustle . Retrieved February 24, 2021.Our most radical changes in perspective often happen at the tail end of our worst moments. It’s only when we feel intense pain that we’re willing to look at our values and question why they seem to be failing us. We need some sort of existential crisis to take an objective look at how we’ve been deriving meaning in our life, and then consider changing course. Accepting the bland and mundane truths of life: truths such as “Your actions actually don’t matter that much in the grand scheme of things” and “The vast majority of your life will be boring and not noteworthy, and that’s okay.” Our culture today is obsessively focused on unrealistically positive expectations: Be happier. Be healthier. Be the best, better than the rest. Be smarter, faster, richer, sexier, more popular, more productive, more envied, and more admired. Be perfect and amazing and crap out twelve-karat-gold nuggets before breakfast each morning while kissing your selfie-ready spouse and two and a half kids goodbye. Then fly your helicopter to your wonderfully fulfilling job, where you spend your days doing incredibly meaningful work that’s likely to save the planet one day.

But something about those two magic words make someone feel heard even when you’re a million miles away. Agree that there's an implied "even." If # given=0, then it makes equal sense to say you don't give 1, pi, -16, or a million. Expressing it as a positive quantity (ignoring the implied "even") is what creates the humor value, but I'm not getting the logic. Eric Hoffer once wrote: “A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.” This is narcissism, pure and simple. You feel as though your problems deserve to be treated differently, that your problems have some unique math to them that doesn’t obey the laws of the physical universe.a b c Kroonen, Guus (2013). Etymological dictionary of Proto-Germanic. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-18340-7. OCLC 851754510. Hot mic: Tom Carper drops F-bomb in Postal Service hearing. Politico. August 21, 2020". Politico. August 21, 2020. Archived from the original on August 24, 2020 . Retrieved August 28, 2020. Să nu-ți faci probleme pentru evenimentele care se petrec oricum, indiferent că vrei sau nu vrei. Nu poți controla totul. Unele lucruri (cele mai multe) nu sînt în puterea ta, altele (foarte puține) sînt. De pildă, modul de a judeca lucrurile care nu sînt în puterea ta. Sigur, Epictet și Seneca au spus asta cu mult timp în urmă, dar nu strică s-o repeți. Repetitio mater studiorum est...