Might as well say that a dollar bill or a pound coin are "what you choose them to be". Now try going out with a piece of lavatory paper or a pebble, BrendanB, and see how much change you'll get if you offer it for a chocci-bar in the Five-and-dime or the corner shop.

One gives a shit becoz if one HumptiDumptifies the language, communication breaks down -- indeed, doesn't even start. You know that perfectly well. Devil's advocates are mostly the most boring of peeps.

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