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@pimoore Like the Americans say … Drank the cool-aid or something. Don’t know what that means. 🤣

@ridwan It's a reference to the Jim Jones cult mass murder/suicide in Guyana in 1987. I wish people wouldn't use it; seems like a mis-appropriation of a tragedy. Not criticizing you here, btw.

@ridwan it’s an overused saying that originated from a very loose interpretation of the facts around a cult and massacre

@petebrown Probably a typo, but it was 1978. I remember it well, because I had just started my first year of college. I could not get my mind around it, not then, not now. That’s a good point about not using that metaphor, which I do myself and will now endeavor to stop and to remind others.

@ridwan sorry, didn’t mean to pile on. I think @petebrown replied around the same time I did.

@jean D'oh! Yeah, totally a typo.

@jean @petebrown I wasn’t aware of the story behind that metaphor, but I’m going to stop using it going forward.

@pimoore @jean @petebrown Woah! I have heard of that cult from a podcast episode. Did not know about this at all.

@patrickT No prob at all! Now I know. Wow! It's upsetting right!