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Agreed. It's reflexive to treat this as another example of George Carlin's "euphemisms"[0] but I just heard the phrase "pig butchering" for the first time and w
by lelandfe 2y ago
Agreed. It's reflexive to treat this as another example of George Carlin's "euphemisms"[0] but I just heard the phrase "pig butchering" for the first time and was unable to intuit anything about it.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvISFZ7bQcE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvISFZ7bQcE
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