"After you've finished doing what you're doing, could you not begin doing something else?"
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married life, marriage, old married couple, married couple, relationship, relatiohships, snide comment, snide comments, belittle, belittling, unhappy marriage, unhappy relationship, long term relationship, busy, housework, being busy, lazy, laziness, quiet time, downtime, rest, gender stereotype, gendered work, chores, chore, busybody, busybodies, bicker, bickers, bickering, active, active lifestyle, couch potato"Sorry, Chief, but of course I didn't mean 'bimbo' in the pejorative sense."
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bimbo, bimbos, excuse, excuses, harassment, glass ceiling, glass ceilings, singled out, women in the workplace, belittle, belittling, comment, comments, sexist, human resources, hr department, h.r. department, pejorative, apology, apologies, formal apology, formal apologies, weak excuse, weak excuses, no offense, no offence"Are you going bowling or is that Prada?"
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bowling, bowling bag, ten-pin bowling, tenpin bowling, bag, bags, handbag, hand bag, handbags, purse, purses, fashion, designer, designers, designer bag, designer bags, fashion faux pas, fashions, fashionable, fashionista, insult, insulting, snide comment, snide comments, relationship, relationships, bad relationship, long-term relationships, marriage, marriages, failing marriage, unhappy marriage, old married couple, belittle, belittling, designer label, designer labels"Let's have a heart-to-heart talk—one huge, powerful grownup to one tiny, nothing kid."
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heart to heart, having a heart to heart, heart-to-heart, son, sons, kid, kids, child, childhood, parent, parents, parenting, parenthood, father, fathers, dad, dads, toddler, toddler, belittle, belittled, belittling, condescend, condescending, disparage, disparaging, power, powerful, powerful man, powerful men, grownup, grownups, grown-up, grown-ups, rude, unpleasant, bad parent, bad parents, bad parenting, business man, business mean, business people, business person, businessman, businessmen, businessperson, business executive, business executives"I try neither to encourage nor to discourage Pookie."
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encourage, encouraging, encourages, discourage, discouraging, discourages, indifference, indifferent, indifferent relationship, relationships, relationship, marriage, marriages, married couple, unhappy marriage, unhappy marriages, disparaging relationship, disparages, disparaging, belittle, belittling"Mother's ninety-one and still depreciating."
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mom, moms, mum, mums, mother, mothers, motherhood, parent, parents, parenting, parenthood, child, children, kid, kids, childhood, dad, dads, father, fathers, fatherhood, son, sons, depreciate, depreciating, depreciation, belittle, belittling, belittled, family, families, old age, old people, old lady, old woman"I will have the senior-executive businessman's lunch, and Hooper here will have the junior-executive businessman's lunch."
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business men, business man, business people, business person, businessmen, businessman, businessperson, business executive, business executives, senior executive, senior executives, junior executive, junior executives, hierarchy, hierarchies, hierarchical structure, office hierarchy, business hierarchy, eating out, dining out, overshadow, overshadowing, overshadowed, belittle, belittled, belittling, insult, insulting, order, ordering, restaurant, privilege, privileged"You've always stuck to the prix fixe in life."
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prix fixe, set menu, set menus, fixed-price, fixed price, fixed-priced menu, fixed-price menus, unadventurous, frugal, penny-pinching, price conscience, thrifty, cautious, prudent, circumspect, marriage, marriages, relationship, relationships, unhappy marriage, belittle, belittling, belittled, denegrate, disparage, disparaging comment, disparaging comments, bad relationship, bad relationships, resentment, resentful, resent"I could do that."
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modern art, modern artist, clown, clowns, circus clown, circus clowns, balloon dog, balloon dogs, balloon animal, balloon animals, circus performer, circus performers, i could do that, belittle, belittling, abstract art, jealous, jealousy, pop culture, popular culture, art gallery, art galleries, the art market, art market"Go ahead, Albertson. Ask Toby for a raise. It'll be cute."
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dog, dogs, pet, pets, pet dog, pet dogs, cute dog, cute dogs, manager, managers, boss, bosses, executive, executives, business executive, business executives, business manager, business manager, raise, raises, pay rise, pay rises, pay-rise, pay-rises, hierarchy, office hierarchy, office hierarchies, hierarchies, management, patronise, patronising, patronize, patronizing, belittle, belittling, tease, teasing, disappointment, false hope, false hopes"I didn't mean your day wasn't hard, too."
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animals, animal, cows, cow, bull, bulls, bull fighting, bull fighter, bull fighters, bull fight, bull fights, hard day, hard day at work, hard day at the office, relationships, relationship woes, relationship issues, competition, competitive, its not a competition, belittle, belittling, belittles, comparing, bad relationship, bad relationships, gender stereotype, one-upmanship, lack of sympathy, unsympathetic"You're a latitude-and-longitude person, which will be helpful to you, I'm sure, in 1992."
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date, dates, dating, bad date, bad dates, dating disaster, dating disasters, small talk, small-talk, map, maps, latitude, longitude, coordinates, coordinate, geographical coordinates, geographical coordinate system, gps, sat nav, technology, obsolete knowledge, obsolete skill, obsolete skills, obsolete technology, belittle, belittling, snide comment, snide comments, snipes, snipe"The gods are antic tonight."
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god, gods, sacrifice, sacrifices, sacrificing, volcano, volcanoes, volcanic, jack-in-the-box, god, gods, antic, antics, jack-in-the-boxes, cruel, cruelty, sense of humor, senses of humor, sense of humour, senses of humour, mock, mocks, mocking, belittle, belittles, belittling, inscrutable, intention, intentions, divine intentions, divining intentions, motivation, motivations, religion, religions, disaster, disasters, natural disaster, natural disasters"I may be a nobody, Lawler, but I'm a big nobody."
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quit, quitting, insult, insults, insulted, belittle, belittling, hierarchy, hierarchies, office hierarchy, office hierarchies, executive, executives, business executive, business executives, manager, nobody, nobodies, managers, business manager, determined, determination, business managers, boss, bosses, self belief, self-belief, deluded, delusion, delusions"It's your job to dream of things that never were and ask 'why not' and it's my job to tell you."
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executives, executive, business executives, business executive, business executives, manager, managers, boss, bosses, business manager, business managers, boss, bosses, management style, managements styles, idea, ideas, idea person, idea people, hierarchy, hierarchies, office hierarchy, office hierarchies, patronise, patronize, patronising, patronizing, belittle, belittling"…And just what do you think you're going to do with your silly death ray once you've finished it?!"
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death ray, death rays, inventor, inventors, inventing, invention, inventions, belittle, belittles, belittling, nag, nags, nagging, wife, wives, couple, couples, husband, husbands, diminish, diminishes, demean, demeans, demeaning, take over the world, takes over the world, finish, finishes, finishing, mock, mocks, mocking, doubt, doubts, doubter, doubters, unsupportive, supervillain, supervillains, support"Still, you've got to admire them for trying."
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alien, aliens, extra terrestrial, extra terrestrials, extraterrestrials, extraterrestrial, martian, martians, mock, mocking, laugh, laughing, space technologies, space technology, probe, probes, space probe, space probes, satellite, satellites, astrophysics, astrophysicist, astrophysicists, cosmologist, cosmologists, cosmology, space engineering, space engineers, space engineer, superior, superior technology, superior technologies, belittle, belittling"Hey! You forgot your stupid little ideas printed in bold type."
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offices, office work, office worker, office workers, office politics, office bully, office bullies, office bullying, presentation, presentations, meeting, meetings, business meeting, business meetings, board meeting, board meetings, corporate culture, self important, self importance, self-important, self-importance, type, type face, type faces, insult, insults, insulting, insulted, pester, pestering, take down, take-down, belittle, belittling, patronise, patronising, patronize, patronizing"I'd remind you not to fly too close to the sun, but no one's ever accused you of aiming too high, have they?"
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icarus, daedalus, myth, myths, mythology, greek myth, greek myths, greek mythology, classicist, classicists, classics, ancient greece, aim high, aiming high, disappointment, disappointments, disappointing son, disappointed father, disappointed fathers, disappointed parents, disappointed parents, snide remark, snide remarks, put down, belittle, belittled, belittling, parent, parentsBreaking down cardboard
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cardboard box, cardboard boxes, recycle, recycling, recycled, breaking down, break down, belittle, belittling, belittled, insult, insulting, insults, garbage, trash, rubbish, junk, puns, pun, play on words, wordplay"You're enjoying this, aren't you – hammering away at my credibility."
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relationship, relationships, marriage, marriages, bad relationship, bad relationships, relationship difficulties, marital difficulties, argument, arguments, arguing, argues, argued, belittle, belittling, belittled, credibility, lack of credibility, passing the buck, passing the blame, shifting the blame