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Chris -- 2018-04-11
In an effort to passify those who think men are portrayed in advertising as over sexed, neanderthal morons, JWT has announced it will cease …
It cost more, but the producers were now desperate to just finish the movie at all cost, and passifying the director’s whims to finish the film became a priority.
This baby doll does look like a real baby but her skin feels like a soft rubber doll. The passifier is NOT magnetic but is a very tight fit
Before long, the universities will replace final oral exams with oral passifiers.
Passify has several legitimate meanings where something is rendered passive. And often a part of pacifying is rendering belligerents inactive, which is pretty close to passive. So it’s no wonder these two have gotten mixed up.
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Hopefully parents who use a pacifier (we did, I confess) are not aiming to raise completely passive kids.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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This one has been entered before in simbling form as passivist and passified. May or may not be related: ska punk band The Passive Fists.
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