Opinion of This Phrase

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Massive HP phrase, IMO

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[Murica!]

Massive HP phrase, IMO

Why's that? I don't know maybe I'm just a hopeless romantic but I would prefer to have loved and lost than not at all.

[dead0man]

Yeah, I'm not really getting the problem.....unless you just 5 minutes ago went through a break up, in which case, you'll understand soon enough.

[bagelman]

New here, what do "HP" and "FF" mean?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Very, very true.

[YaBoyNY]

Freedom phrase. If you've loved and lost it means you've atleast tried and, presumably, atleast went through some fantastic times together with your lover, even if they didn't last.

[Mr. Smith]

Massive FF

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I mean, it depends on the situation.

[Badger]

New here, what do "HP" and "FF" mean?

Horrible person and Freedom fighter. A time honored tradition around these parts as a substitute for approve/disapprove.

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New here, what do "HP" and "FF" mean?

Horrible person and Freedom fighter. A time honored tradition around these parts as a substitute for approve/disapprove.

I was always wondering this: how did those terms start out here?

[Badger]

New here, what do "HP" and "FF" mean?

Horrible person and Freedom fighter. A time honored tradition around these parts as a substitute for approve/disapprove.

I was always wondering this: how did those terms start out here?

I've been posting since 09 and lurked for a couple years prior, and the practice predates me, young paduan.

[angus]

Waltermitty, I think, was the progenitor, and BRTD was the agent of propagation, but my memory is hazy.  It was based on one of his many, many misguided preconceptions.  In this case that everyone is either a freedom fighter or a horrible person.  Most folks are, in fact, neither, and a few are both.  I swam upstream for a while, raging against the false dichotomy, for quite some time about a decade ago.  Finally I caved like everyone else.  Now it's all FF or HP.  Why not?  We're not very good at geography or math, compared to Koreans for example, so why should we worry that even our political nerds should be any good at social psychology?  There are more important battles to be waged, after all. 

Just go with it.

[muon2]

The phrase refers to the death of a best friend, in this case Tennyson's college friend A. H. Hallam at age 22, immortalized in the poem In Memoriam A. H. H. It took him 17 years to come to grips with his grief and complete the poem, and after its completion he named his son Hallam. As part of one of the great verses of Victorian English how can it not be FF?