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{{a|plainenglish|[[File:Shit hits fan.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Some ordure coinciding with a desk mounted air conditioning system, yesterday.]]}}Unless you are a [[Fish principle|Fishite]] you really don’t need this (you don’t need it if you ''are'' a Fishite either, come to think of it): there are any number of impassioned essays on this topic on [[LinkedIn]] from modernisers who are tearing their hair out about what seems so obvious — so apologies if this seems cursory.
{{a|plainenglish|{{image|Shit fan|jpg|[[When the shit hits the fan|Some ordure coinciding with a desk mounted air conditioning]] system, yesterday.}}}}Unless you are a [[Fish principle|Fishite]] you really don’t need this (you don’t need it if you ''are'' a Fishite either, come to think of it): there are any number of impassioned essays on this topic on [[LinkedIn]] from modernisers who are tearing their hair out about what seems so obvious — so apologies if this seems cursory.


*Everyone’s busy. No-one has time for deep textual analysis. We are submerged to the throat in text. There is far more than anyone can expect to read. If you want yours read, keep it to the point. (A cynic would say, of course, a negotiating lawyer ''doesn’t'' necessarily want hers read: if her harried counterpart misses her clever liability-allocating constructions, so much the better.)
*Everyone’s busy. No-one has time for deep textual analysis. We are submerged to the throat in text. There is far more than anyone can expect to read. If you want yours read, keep it to the point. (A cynic would say, of course, a negotiating lawyer ''doesn’t'' necessarily want hers read: if her harried counterpart misses her clever liability-allocating constructions, so much the better.)