Similarly, there is need to define some harmless practices for cord-care.
Play harmless practical jokes.
You're right that those are common in magazine publishing, but don't insult our f*cking intelligence by pretending that lifting collar bones and trimming hips is equivalent to that harmless little practice.
But big bucks aside, sports betting is a mostly harmless hobby practiced by a smallish minority: Only 17% of Americans bet on sports over the last year 7% wagered on professional sports, and 14% participated in an office pool.
Well, as Krugman writes: "talking breathlessly about how technology changes everything might seem harmless, but, in practice, it acts as a distraction from more mundane issues".
As it is, we not only do little to help those who, like Neal Bowers, really are wounded, but get ourselves in a tizzy worrying about harmless acts, standard practice, and unavoidable short trips into the common ground of language and thought.
On especially drunken nights, Pancake liked to practice harmless breaking and enterings.
Auction houses say that the bidding practice is harmless, fully disclosed and widely understood by collectors, and that it protects the seller by, among other things, preserving the drama that draws buyers to a sale.
"No matter how Adblock Plus tries to justify their form of extortion, or make it seem harmless, it is a practice that will continue to erode the value exchange that powers the free and open internet," said Dave Grimaldi, executive vice-president of public policy at industry body the Interactive Advertising Bureau.
Practice is harmless within its pages, and without Gordon Ramsay breathing down your neck, shall I dare say it's...easy?
