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What does we're cutting straws mean?
What does we're cutting straws mean?
Hey man, we're cutting straws instead of the switching to the main topic.
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Maybe you mean splitting hairs
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@JRaff Yeah, exactly, thank you
We were making unnecessary distinctions between things when the differences between them were so small they were not important
We were making unnecessary distinctions between things when the differences between them were so small they were not important
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