I don't get them. I often want to buy a t-shirt but figure if I wore it on t-shirt days at work I'd be fired. I teach high school. "I don't understand stupid people, perhaps I should take one apart to see how it works." (Sadly, the ones that have dinosaur ripping somebody to pieces is ... No readily searchable.)
Yet even I get that if you insult, castigate, ridicule, humiliate, sh*t on somebody then say, "Hey, how's about you do me a solid" at best means solid sh*t dropped on you.
I learned when in stu-gov at a school that had shared governance that "shared" was important in "governance." If I stood there and screamed and wet my pants at everything I disliked--and just ignored those things that were okay, at least--I'd quickly find myself gagged, bound, hoisted and screwed. Some stu-gov officers were into that kind of bondage. Me, not so much. Yes, I could claim self-righteous moral virtue, but, you know, I wouldn't think it felt good and it wouldn't help anybody in any way that wasn't purely ideological. So at times I voted for a minor evil because I wanted to change something that the other side--faculty or admin--thought bad. I curried favor and helped with admin initiatives that I didn't need to. But in the end when I had the political capital, I dropped a load on them. Cost them millions of dollars, but kept many hundreds of grad/prof students from needing to find market-rate housing for their families 6 weeks before the end of the school year when they would be kicked out of grad/professional housing. When at least one family member was facing finals, at the least--if not comps--in a very tough housing market. I was told off by two VCs and the chancellor, but won. The VC capital improvements guy was especially abusive. I didn't talk to them--I simply played the system. I sent a letter of demands to the chancellor. Before he even saw it, protocol dictated that it get sent to way over a dozen other admin officers. Including the student newspaper. (Top dogs were upset. But years later when I needed letters of recommendation, I turned to lower-ranked administrators, by then promoted. "Hi, you may not remember me ..." was followed by a long response ... I played along, got along, and got crap done.)
TACO feels good. But when I hear or read it, I think Tico-Tico. As in the link I'd like to stay as a hyperlink but can't get it to work. https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=k6Nw0Hm_wTM Paste that, get rid of the space beween .com and /watch
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