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{{ | {{def|Deal fatigue|/diːl fəˈtiːɡ/|n|[[File:Nerf.gif|450px|thumb|center|A young attorney experiencing [[deal fatigue]] yesterday.]]}}The point at which an activity’s intrinsic [[tedium]] becomes so intolerable that it dawns on participants that the [[I'm not going to die in a ditch about it|ditch in which they have been stubbornly insisting they will die]] is really just a rut on the side of an ugly hill leading nowhere in particular, doesn’t look an especially comfortable place even to lie down in, let alone bid a final adieu to this fragile existence, and that there is more fun to be had threatening to die in ''other'' ditches, on other hills, on other days, by passing up the opportunity to ''actually'' die, today, in ''this'' one. This revelatory moment happens spontaneously for all concerned participants, and often at about the same time. Usually on a Friday in the middle of the afternoon. | ||
[[File:Nerf.gif|450px|thumb|center|A young attorney experiencing [[deal fatigue]] yesterday.]] | |||
}}The point at which an activity’s intrinsic [[tedium]] becomes | |||
This revelatory moment happens spontaneously for all concerned participants, and often at about the same time. Usually on a Friday in the middle of the afternoon. | |||
Commercial [[Transaction|transactions]] ''all'' have a “point of [[deal fatigue]]” — it is more or less linear — at which point everyone goes sod it, forgets about typos, gives preposterous [[indemnities]] and just signs the damn [[contract]]. | Commercial [[Transaction|transactions]] ''all'' have a “point of [[deal fatigue]]” — it is more or less linear — at which point everyone goes sod it, forgets about typos, gives preposterous [[indemnities]] and just signs the damn [[contract]]. | ||