You keep on using the expression "dumpster fire." I feel compelled to redirect you, because there are far better and far more accurate metaphors.
In practice, dumpster fires are very tiny fish. To start with, they're the canonical example of "self contained" by their very nature -- five sides are made of steel, which doesn't burn under most circumstances. 99.999% of the time, the fire department comes along, dumps a bunch of water into the dumpster, pokes around to make sure the fire is well and truly out, and then heads back to the station. I've not heard of a dumpster fire occupying more than ten minutes of an engine company's time in something approximating forever. And while I've been toned out to many house fires, I've never been toned out to a dumpster fire. Seriously, a car fire takes more time -- and I've been toned out to those.
Maybe "all encompassing shit storm", "slow motion train wreck", "runaway hazmat incident" or something like that?
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You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Date: 2017-11-03 07:19 am (UTC)In practice, dumpster fires are very tiny fish. To start with, they're the canonical example of "self contained" by their very nature -- five sides are made of steel, which doesn't burn under most circumstances. 99.999% of the time, the fire department comes along, dumps a bunch of water into the dumpster, pokes around to make sure the fire is well and truly out, and then heads back to the station. I've not heard of a dumpster fire occupying more than ten minutes of an engine company's time in something approximating forever. And while I've been toned out to many house fires, I've never been toned out to a dumpster fire. Seriously, a car fire takes more time -- and I've been toned out to those.
Maybe "all encompassing shit storm", "slow motion train wreck", "runaway hazmat incident" or something like that?