Sometimes – if it's a joke amongst friends, or if there's a bouncer in the way – it's hilarious, but in general It's not a nice thing to hear, because it implies that a) your death is imminent, and b) the Scouser will take so much personal gratification from your death, that he or she will be moved to do a jig on the patch of earth and grass that marks your final resting place.
Therein lay sedentary bliss: the instant gratification of food, so much easier to attain than that elusive post-exercise high.
A story that hopefully begins to show, for those with access to power and privilege, lessons taken from not seeing yourself are so much more important than the tacit gratification of being seen as the default.
Explore the real reason you want to make a purchase; perhaps you can experience the same feeling of gratification without spending so much money.
"There is so much that goes into people wanting immediate gratification and immediate results," Rudolph said.
This enables our concept of "spot-rewarding" – instant gratification rewards – to be so much more ubiquitous.
There is, in his account, little indication of the search for individual gratification that seems to drive so much of contemporary family life.
In Dancer he impersonated the much documented and highly mythologised Rudolf Nureyev, weaving imagined accounts of fictitious characters into a fabric of documentary truth which portrayed a man who went from near-starvation in wartime Russia to an excess of fame and self-gratification in New York, Paris and London: "I dance so much - too much - in order not to think of home".
The critic Ruth Graham reignited that contretemps this summer in an essay in Slate, arguing that there is something embarrassing and diminishing about adults reading Y.A. books, the enjoyment of which has so much to do with, in her words, "escapism, instant gratification, and nostalgia".
We expect so much of you, far too much, in this age of entitlement and instant gratification.
