After more than 27,000 comments, significant customer backlash, and a startling drop in the company's stock price, we can finally step back and discern several lessons from Hastings' communications faux pas.
And if it works for the boomers, today's neets need only wait a few decades before they look back and discern in their present difficulties what was actually a glorious era of generous benefits, character-building job applications and the tremendous comradeship of living in the big society.
Their motto (and name of their new compilation), We Make Colourful Music Because We Dance In The Dark, speaks to clubbers who want dank back rooms and discerning house music instead of pill-boshing bass drops on their nights out.
Well 2010 is the Year of France in Russia and the Year of Russia in France, so each country is giving the other a cultural back slap and discerning nod of approval.
I walked back and finally discerned the small "Homestay" sign that marked my house.
In South Dakota, where Senator Tim Johnson, a Democrat, is up for re-election next year, Vice President Dick Cheney was on a talk radio program last week urging "discerning Democrats" to back the tax cut.
In some ways, Ms. Touby was, if not an artist, then a visionary, discerning early on, back when it looked as if job listings would begin and end with a boundless, endlessly searchable site like Monster.com, that people would inevitably be drawn to the comfort of the local or the niche in the infinite universe of the Internet: in other words, community.
The city has always been the paradox of the industry, a great cafe town where an otherwise discerning audience happily throws back watery shots of ashy swill.
Assumptions are bandied around like sparklers at a death party, like the one that says everything she did was motivated by class hate – as if these people can magically hop back in time and discern her real, hidden motives.
The task of sifting through Lubitz's back story, trying to discern the causes of his actions, is almost as complex as the forensic combing of the crash site.
