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Fatigue fatigue
Much like the suffix "gate", which was added to anything vaguely smelling of scandal, "fatigue" is being added to the things we're are tiring of, ad nauseam ... I can understand survey-fatigue: "While there is nothing wrong with this level of determination to deliver better customer experiences, it
is this continuous need for feedback that toes the fine line of tipping the respondents towards survey-fatigue."
There is also bestself-fatigue, as described by author Maggie Warrell. "Are you exhausted by self-help books, 'empowering' rhetoric, and the ever-spewing fountain of self-improvement palaver belched forth by our culture, much of it aimed like a nuclear missile at women? Then you may have bestself-fatigue."
But the best is this condition, spotted in a New York Times story ... "When cats have to stick their faces into deep bowls and their whiskers rub up against the sides, the experience can be stressful, prompting them to paw the food on to the floor, fight with other cats or grow apprehensive at mealtime," ... this, dear readers, is known as whisker-fatigue.
Gloating letter to ed
