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but only those few who understand what the heck it means
I confess I am one of the many who doesn't understand what it is, Father Steve.
A "rhinotomy" is defined as an "Incision into the nose" so I assume a "rhinectomy" is the removal of the nasal passage [in the same sense that an "appendectomy" is the removal of the appendix].
If a "facial" is a treatment which improves the appearance of the face, then I presume an "anti-facial" is a treament which disfigures the face.
On this basis, an "anti-facial rhinectomy" would seem to be an operation which disfigures the shape of the nose, presumably by removing the nasal passage.
Anyone who survived an "antifacial-rhinectomy" would have to breath exclusively through the mouth, like a 'mouth-breather', a slang term for a person as stupid as a goldfish or other mouth-breather.
Very clever, Vernon.
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> I am one ... who doesn't understand what it is
'cutting off your nose to spite your face', but can’t think of a single word for that.
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Obstructionist is one word.
But a term that I often use is "box-checker." This is someone who does EXACTLY what has been enumerated for him to do and not one iota more - even if failing to do this action will obviously cause irreparable harm to the final project. I did not coin this term.
Another term I use (which so far as I know I did initiate) is "technician's syndrome" to describe a person who knows some little pissant piece of 'knowledge', but lords it over people who are generally much smarter than he is - mainly because he has protection by authority and not because he knows all that much. It's a very common failing among semi-competent and incompetent technicians. Most of the really competent ones don't have any need to play this sort of game. Think that character Jimmy Fallon plays on SNL, "The Company Computer Guy."
It's not meant to be exclusive to technicians, but to people who think at about the level of a very poor technician trying to fabricate any excuse to continue playing solitaire instead of doing what he got hired to do.
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Perhaps this would be a good application of "prescriptivist".
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In Québec, when somebody reacts like Team Leader B did, somebody will invariably say (with rolling eyes):
"Bang, bang. T'est mort sinon j'joue pu" (slang meaning Bang, bang. You're dead or I'm not playing anymore.)
It means the person is immature and everybody knows it - like those little kids playing "cowboys" or "war" and one of the kids is really immature and refuses to play unless everybody follows his rules.
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"Bang, bang", you see, is French for "Bang, bang."
Here endeth today's French lesson.
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Take your pick, awm, and welcome aBoard:
Projection:
Attributing one's thoughts or impulses to another person. In common use, this is limited to unacceptable or undesirable impulses. Examples: (1) a man, unable to accept that he has competitive or hostile feelings about an acquaintance, says, “He doesn’t like me.” (2) a woman, denying to herself that she has sexual feelings about a co-worker, accuses him, without basis, of flirt and described him as a “wolf.”
This defense mechanism is commonly over utilized by the paranoid.
A broader definition of projection includes certain operations that allow for empathy and understanding of others. Recognition that another person is lonely or sad may be based not upon having seen other examples of loneliness or sadness and learning the outward manifestations but upon having experienced the feelings and recognizing automatically that another person’s situation would evoke them. [projective identification]
Projective Identification:
As in projection, the individual deals with emotional conflict or internal or external stressors by falsely attributing to another his or her own unacceptable feelings, impulses, or thoughts. Unlike simple projection, the individual does not fully disavow what is projected. Instead, the individual remains aware of his or her own affects or impulses but mis-attributes them as justifiable reactions to the other person. Not infrequently, the individual induces the very feelings in others that were first mistakenly believed to be there, making it difficult to clarify who did what to whom first. http://www.coldbacon.com/defenses.html(This site is a bit...unseriously written; the def.'s are none the less valid.)
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Jackie, this is an eye-opener. Mind if I quote you over in the alcoholism/paranoia thread?
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