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Frogs in Boiling Water
09.19.06 (4:01 pm)   [edit]
To explain Incrementalism, Political Scientists like to use the imagery of boiling a frog in water. If a frog is placed in a pot of water and that pot is heated slowly over time, the frog slowly heats and dies. If a frog is placed in a pot of boiling water, the frog immediately leaps out. Basically, it is easier for people to accept incrementally the loss of their political freedoms, where as a sudden loss would be met with an uproar.

What the f**k does this have to do with me being dumped yesterday? Well, I was told that my would-be and I were like two frogs placed in a pot of water set to boil slowly. Just like the gradual heating of the water, things between us slowly heated, with neither of us realizing that we would eventually burn and die. He realized before I did that the pot was boiling and decided to jump out of the pot leaving me in the pot to die. He claims that in his poorly conceived email he was screaming at me from the side of the pot to get out while I still could. Well, that was very generous of him. Asshat.

Why is he an asshat? Well, there is no guarantee that the water was going to boil over and kill us, nor that either one of us couldn't survive or even use a little heat. Frankly, I hate the entire analogy. I AM NOT A F**KING FROG!!
 


posted by: aesav23 (reply)
post date: 09.19.06 (2:23 pm)

No, you aren't a frog, but he is. And, you gotta "kiss" a lot of frogs before you find the prince. Chalk him up as one more serving of frog legs!! :o)
~ae



posted by: dangerkitty (reply)
post date: 09.19.06 (2:51 pm)

Reply to: aesav23
And he really does have springly little frog legs. ;o)



posted by: Joolie (reply)
post date: 09.20.06 (6:57 am)

Was he French?

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