I was a bit late to the party, as I originally had BANK RECEIPT (which totally fit!) instead of BANK BALANCE.
If you and your family members are all sitting around nude at the dinner table, treat it as a totally normal thing instead of saying how nice it is that you're all nude together.
I had this one character, Willard Schmidt, a woodshop teacher who was trying to do stand-up, but he was totally humourless, so instead of jokes he'd tell these horror stories, like, 'We were in the woodshop and one of my students was goofing around and his arm got cut off!' There was always a silence, while people realised that there wasn't actually a joke in there".
Of course this totally backfired, because instead of an asylum lunatic, everyone assumed he was taking the piss out of Chairman Mao.
Like Coventry, Rotterdam was nearly totally rebuilt, and instead of the leaning old buildings and quaint backstreets you'll see in many other Dutch cities, Rotterdam became a modernist, brutalist, industrial utopia with people from all over the world (and a whole lot of drugs) moving through its waters.
"He described a totally different situation in all aspects but instead of accepting that, they went on with 15 new interviews".
If so, it's a shame he feels he can't explain that instead of totally reversing himself and offering multiple apologies.
In other words, we have to live with them and astutely engage/disengage with/from them strategically, instead of totally rejecting them.
It almost invariably means being dismissed by arrogant investors who show up a half hour late, totally unprepared and then instead of saying "no" give you non-committal rejections like "we invest at later stage companies".
Instead of totally eliminating sweets from your meal plan, allow yourself to enjoy one of your favorite low-calorie treats once a week.
