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Padding also occurs every day in ordinary conversation, for instance at the end of a telephone conversation when both
parties deliberate for about five minutes on how nice it was talking to each other, when they'll speak again, whether
they'll speak again, aren't clouds nice etc. Let's try and cut this out - think how much time is wasted when we could be
talking about more interesting stuff!

Our lives are frittered away by detail....simplify, simplify - Henry Thoreau